Sentences with phrase «with anything close to»

I reject the idea that it is somehow inappropriate to acknowledge that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is not only possible but plausible if we continue with anything close to business as usual consumption of fossil fuels and the other activities that are contributing to ever - increasing GHG emissions.

While these cars are arguably more desirable, neither comes with anything close to the amount of standard equipment as the 508 RXH.

Engineers have long looked to nature for clues that will help then build robots that move with anything close to the grace that living things exhibit.

As far as I can tell, there's nothing really earth - shattering in here, and it's not being unveiled with anything close to the bells and whistles of last week's Medicaid Redesign Team report, which merited a post-vote Red Room press conference by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

I've never seen a central midfielder at Wolves with anything close to that kind of quality.

They need to beat Utah and Washington State, have Stanford lose to Cal, and beat USC to finish with anything close to a Playoff résumé.

Only Man United out of the top teams have persisted over the years with anything close to «true» wingers in a basic 4 -4-2 formation and even that is changing.

mixing melted chocolate with whipped cream MELTS the cream and I didn't end up with anything close to fluffy chocolate.

Not exact matches

HARWOOD: What do you conclude about whether the president or people close to him had anything to do with it?

«The PRPP will not do anything to help people in the private sector close the really massive gap with public - sector workers,» he says.

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

Zima is a citrusy and sweet drink, though critics on Reddit have said that the flavor is closer to «Scotch tape with lime» or «lemonade filtered through aluminum foil» than anything else.

Obviously Google competes with Facebook for digital ad dollars, and there are other social services out there — mainly Twitter — but nobody offers anything close to the size and service combination that Facebook does.

You also have to ask yourself if you're prepared to run the risk that a crash in real estate prices could leave you with a depreciated house that you own outright and can't sell for anything close to the price you paid.

«On the one hand, she didn't have to deal with anything as difficult as Ben Bernanke did, not even close,» Blinder said.

Combined with Daly's own murky vocals, the effect is engulfing, and comes as close as anything can to those brief seconds of peaceful submersion before getting pulled back out again.

Too many theological and literalistic hoops to jump through to make them jive with anything coming close to reality.

If I believed in the Great Pumpkin with such conviction that I proclaimed «I can not be anything other than convinced» to a Christian who was trying to tell me about his or her God, they would probably accuse me of being close minded.

«Properly practiced» meaning with the mind closed to anything that will make you question your faith.

I do agree that the Church does keep their cards close to their chest as they see us lot as to weak to receive the truth, to me it always have been a form of control and I wont have anything to do with it, so I don't blame you for having a pop at them.

Bill, I feel sorry for you, you being a scientist and yet unable to create anything close to a human, or a constellation system, or a brain to think really logically with is amazing to me... if you want to believe that there was a big explosion somewhere in the universe beyond this world and that is how you came to be you can keep that theory but don't tell parents what to do with there children.

Nothing, and I repeat nothing is stated in any religious work can be backed up with anything that comes close to being provable.

the second: divorcees are weak, wimpy, defeatist ingrates yeah I haven't seen anything about this, granted I've only been subscribed to matt's blog for a few months now, but the closest I've seen to that is a general message that maybe you should try just a little harder to be with the love of your life

If your choice of Till He Comes has anything to do with working this all out until he returns, considering what Daniel wrote about in the increase of knowledge as we get closer, this site you have orchestrated fits in quite well.

I don't see how being close - minded or open - minded has anything to do with it.

= > correct, see above for the closing paragraph of the book where he appeals to «with time, anything is possible»

And I sincerely hope that all of here do not want anything close to enmity with God.

When we realize that Debs was anything but an orthodox Christian, we have to say with embarrassment that his words come closer to those of Jesus than do most of our own.

We've been stuck with this dingbat in MN 6 for several years now and she has NEVER authored anything that made it even close to the floor of the House.

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

He rejected the idea that the decision to close was done in fear and said: «The decision up to now has been with a heavy heart, I don't think it's anything that most of us want to do but if you have a policy you need to adhere to that policy.»

Sorry that you have had a bad experience with the Knights but I have been a Knight for 18 years and have never seen anything close to what you allude to, not even close.

We need to turn a lot more people to the L ord and get them on their knees with a r o sary in hand for me to feel like this country is anything close to religious.

I've been paying close attention to every single food label I come in contact with and just avoid anything that sounds weird / idk what the f it is lol.

Unfortunately, I won't know anything about how close we are to our goal until Monday, when my publisher receives (and provides me with) a report!

But his position for the third will cause the most concern, Ospina seemingly in the worst possible position and failing to cover a shot from one corner of the penalty box to the post on the diagonal, the shot not even curled or that hardly struck — if anything that Ferreira - Carrasco hit it with his right leg should have caused it to travel closer to Ospina, yet he was unable to make contact.

Ridiculously stupid posts to incite arguments with absolutely no attempt to engage in anything remotely close to a logical discussion.I'm just waiting for the my dad can beat up your dad post.

We won't get a six - way tie for one wild card or anything, but the more teams who are close to a tie now, the greater the chances of having at least one tie to deal with come Oct. 2.

Sincerely, we weren't so close to winning anything until ozil and sanchez joined us... brought with them, winning mentality... now we could go a step further and break that jinx... Break that barrier... Hurt the likes of chelski and citeh....

If wenger wants to push on and make a statement to rivals he needs to find a quality attacking option that improves on Walcott ox and Campbell... Don't believe this is difficult but wenger couldn't see the problem last summer and with 10 days to window closing don't think he will do anything....

The way we got beaten yesterday was embarrassing, it wasn't even nearly good enough, wenger will prob say «it was just a friendly and doesn't really matter» and «it was a chance to try something different with some youth players» and to an extent he is right but none of the players in an Arsenal shirt were good enough and we looked very weak and if we play anything close to that in the prem, even against a bottom half team we will probably lose.

It seems that the truth here may be wenger that like so many employers in our past he has not managed to retain anything close to being a healthy rapport with monaco which could explain the reason we're left to hope and wait our turn at the back of a queue — announce lemar fgs

Until someone with proper expertise in myriad areas of sports science, football coaching, business, finance, law, PR, media, marketing, human resources etc etc has unfettered access to all board meeting minutes, records of all discussions with players, full player medical records, details of all contacts with agents, other clubs, other players, seen copies of player contracts and negotiations, understands the financial imperatives, interprets the business accounting, has reviewed the business plan, has knowledge of the employer / employee contractual relationship between Wenger and the club, has intimate insight in to the goals and objectives of the business and the club — then everyone is filling in the gaps with their own version of events and will necessarily always be a long, long way from anything close to any «truth».

No team ever won anything without a good defence.Yes of course the odd cup win contradicts this but it's no coincidence that all League winners were built on solid defensive performance first.Take Leicester City.Very good goalkeeper behind a solid back four.In front of them was Drinkwater as a holding defensive midfielder.Even up front the forwards worked hard to close down and harrie defenders.It sounds simple because it is.I think a bit of coaching might well have gone into it which is something that obviously is missing with us.

So we are no closer to finalizing the Aubamyang deal, just like Lemar in the summer, it's not anything new, what would suprise me is when we buy someone, so before Wegner focuses on Arsenal affairs he's busy having a dig at tottenham and like his biggest fan TY from AFTV he ignores the glaringly obvious faults with the team, which as most of us know is him.

I stil think this year is going to be a bit early to expect anything from Illinois, but if Lovie is the right guy to turn things around (an I do think he is) your expectations of mid-2019 sound reasonable to start to expect close games with top teams and maybe even an upset somewhere that isn't fluky, like they just flat outplay someone you don't expect and show signs of moving forward.

I've talked about MMA with many non-fans over the last 10 years and have never once heard anything remotely close to associating it with skinheads.

do nt know why are fans are so obsessed with top 4 - we are third tier in that competition - never come close to anything

«After speaking with those closest to me, I've come to realize that my health and my family's health comes before anything else.

Borussia Dortmund was the far better side on the night, having their way with Madrid's back line despite not having anything close to their preferred first squad.