Sentences with phrase «with chancy»

(In the expanding - economy sense, that it's easier to experiment with chancy new functionality if you don't, at the same time, have to compact or eliminate some existing function.

Former Bayern striker Lukas Podolski managed to break Neuer's record, with a chancy header, to make it 2 - 1, but Mario Mandzukic scored in the 77th minute to seal a 3 - 1 win for the German side.

Not exact matches

When your name is synonymous with your business ventures, you can find yourself linking your least changeable qualities to your most chancy undertakings, and that can hurt you, despite your hard work and best intentions.

In Play it as it Lays and elsewhere, Las Vegas is an apt symbol of human life — a chancy venture with no external meaning or significance.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

Assuming the constant availability of a school nurse may be particularly chancy for students with health conditions that may require an immediate response at school, such as administering a medication or knowing when to call an ambulance.

An (apparently unintentional) riff on The Searchers that's also perfectly in line with its director's previous visions of lone figures in the landscape, Jauja is finally chancier and more surprising than its minimalist aesthetic might suggest.

It is a wildly chancy gambit with little in the way of a solid throughline, but Sedgwick handles each story with such stylistic control that interest is not just renewed each time but intensified.

A chancy gambit that effortlessly melds the intimate with the epic.

Retiring without a financial plan is an enormous risk; retiring with a financial plan that hasn't been reviewed in several years is also chancy.

People have come up with some quick rules - of - thumb which I think are a little chancy: I'm all for approximations, especially when it comes to long - range forecasting where precision is impossible, but setting some percentage withdrawal rate seems just a little too simple.

But these are so chancy as to imply a critical point: that the rising flood of images in circulation dissolves whatever substance we define by linking one picture with another.

However, this is also a can't - miss opportunity to put that entire enviro - activist notion to the ultimate test, with an outright challenge to billionaire Tom Steyer to consider a far more chancy gamble than the $ 100 million he's pledged toward Senate and gubernatorial races that «attack climate - change deniers» — a gamble that either makes or totally busts the two decade - old accusation that skeptics are paid to lie and spread misinformation.