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The knock against Halt and Catch Fire — like the knock against The Leftovers or The Americans — is that its first season is a bit rough.
That's not a knock against Vegas; it's just basic math.
Perhaps the only knock against style is the Focals charging case.
This is just the latest knock against the already-faltering fuel.
The one knock against Kaine is that he would not energize minority turnout.
But Trump's core supporters brushed it off as yet another mainstream knock against Trump.
Moulton, in a knock against him with some Democrats, later voted for Pelosi's speakership.
" It was another not-so-subtle knock against Trump, whose administration famously embraced "alternative facts.
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)Another potential knock against the Note 10+ is simply its size.
One knock against the Niners is that their five wins all came against teams currently .
If there's a knock against the Sea to Summit Flame 15, it's definitely the price.
That's not a knock against the city — I mean it in the most complimentary way possible.
In knock against Clinton, Donald Trump retweets one of Obama's responses to Romney's 85033% comment. pic.twitter.
The one knock against him in recent years is that it's tough to find linemates for him.
That's no knock against the established comedian who's also a versatile dramatic actor and a political cartoonist.
The biggest knock against Nyko's MiniBoss controller is that it simply doesn't feel like its NES counterpart.
That normally wouldn't be a knock against a TV, but the LG OLED G6 is not cheap.
The real reason Adobe will move on from Flash, though, is the other big knock against it: obsolescence.
The big knock against Hillary, especially with some of the male audience, was 'eh, we don't like her.
The knock against Macron is that he proclaimed NATO brain dead without a serious plan to revive it.
"Good question, because not everyone has been answering this question," the mayor said in a clear knock against Warren.
The refrain is a clear knock against Sanders, whose upstart primary challenge has stunned some of Clinton's closest aides.
The old knock against Murphy was that he couldn't stay focused on a single storyline for a whole season.
"The knock against the system is people think it favors films that are more about show business," Mr. Powers said.
The biggest knock against the film is that there are too many plot currents to fully let the characters shine.
Titled "I'm With Him," Clinton's straight-to-camera ad continues her campaign's knock against Sanders' more conservative positions on guns.
He hangs his arm over the edge of his seat and his fingers knock against the boy's fingers like dice.
Bees knock against the windows, ice melts in your drink, your fellow guest embarks on a spectacular, long-overdue breakdown.
If the actual experience of the phone is good, I don't think that chip will be a knock against it.
Biden added that he cannot imagine picking someone to be vice president who supports Medicare-for-all, a knock against Sanders.
This is not a knock against park rangers but against the bureaucratic agencies that fail to realize local groups know best.
This isn't a knock against these institutions: They do a lot of rigorous work and come up with valuable policy ideas.
Depending on how long he's out, that missed will be a knock against him in the eyes of some MVP voters.
The biggest knock against him is the concern that his reliance on his speed could limit his effectiveness as he ages.
Perhaps this could be read as a knock against a neoliberal Democratic Party that took its white blue-collar support for granted.
Moulton, in a knock against him with some Democrats, later voted for Pelosi's speakership after Democrats retook the House in the midterms.
The refrain is a clear knock against Sanders, who drew a far more boisterous crowd to his rally about an hour later.
I don't mean that as a knock against N. — we talk about just wanting to get it over with and enjoy being married.
No knock against them, but it's for this reason that when designers cast unexpected models — artists, singers, friends — it's something of a relief.
Rather than an asset, Bloomberg's wealth could have been considered a knock against the former New York mayor, given that Democrats like Sen.
For years now, the well-justified knock against Android's attempts to work on new form factors is that the apps haven't kept up.
I still think that dark mode is more of a UI trend than a genuine improvement, but that's not a knock against it.
"I've been through the shit," she said, not as a knock against herself or a way to build herself up — just a simple fact.
The knock against Star Trek, rightly or wrongly, was that the cast felt very hand-picked, trying to have every color of the rainbow.
Why this matters: It's another knock against Acthar and its owner Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, which has routinely found itself in the spotlight for high drug prices.
"The knock against 3M is that they are so big it's hard for them to maintain a higher growth rate," said Morningstar analyst Joshua Aguilar.
" With regard to the "anti-anti-Trump" knock against National Review, Ponnuru allowed that Beinart "was on to something in his Atlantic criticism of conservatism generally.
The so-called "Flickergate" has been yet another knock against the Surface line, which has been targeted by Consumer Reports for showing poor reliability over the years.
"I still believe we should have done a no-fly zone," she said, in a slight knock against former President Barack Obama, whose Cabinet she served in.
She also regularly touts herself as the only Democratic candidate for president to pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class, a subtle knock against Sanders.
Ovechkin is a three-time Hart Trophy winner as the N.H.L.'s most valuable player, but his lack of playoff success is a common knock against him.
Also launching slightly before the IWD onslaught, P&G's Always brand hit on another "subtle knock" against girls' sense of self-confidence with its emoji-based short film.
"I have seen her billboard, and this is no knock against her," she said, insinuating she was unmoved by Abrams' blackness after seeing her in Facebook ads, too.
The knock against the company has always been that it was a real estate investment masquerading as a tech company (a case which FT made magisterially last year).
Probably the biggest knock against him would be questions about whether the performance of consumer products and interactive has been good the way the parks division has been.
The filter basket could stand to be larger as well, but the only significant knock against it is that it only makes one cup of coffee at a time.
Josh Harder -- $3.5 million The knock against Harder has been that he is a venture capitalist from the Bay Area who moved to the Central Valley to run against Rep.
These are surprisingly nice pieces of hardware for a first-generation product; the biggest knock against both models is that they take up a lot of space, especially the Portal Plus.
In the 60-second spot now running throughout Connecticut, Smegielski says Clinton "is the only candidate who has what it takes to take on the gun lobby," a knock against Sanders.
It's not a knock against the other QBs -- in fact, Menefee says Baker Mayfield and Lamar Jackson will also be great ... he just believes Rosen is a cut above the rest.
The biggest knock against James is that even though his teams have performed so well during the regular season, he has not found that much success once he reaches the finals.
In Alaska, we live in a town called Sitka — a seaside community of about 8,000 people where rain forests tangle up steep mountains and wooden boats knock against the rocky shoreline.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Jane Weedon, Twitch's director of business development, hinted that the marathon was knock against the Trump administration's proposal to cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Las Vegas (CNN)Pete Buttigieg turned an attack on Tuesday about his marriage into a pointed knock against President Donald Trump and hush money payments he paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
"The common knock against general-purpose smartwatches today is that they're very overwhelming, they do too much, and they cut into your battery life," Fitbit CEO James Park told The Verge this week.
The knock against Garcia is that he's only had five fights against marginal opposition outside of the 140lb division, while Thurman has spent his entire career at nothing less than a full welterweight.
That's no knock against her: Erdrich's richly layered books, dealing with subjects from rape to war to marital strife to racism, have rightly placed her in the top ranks of the literary pantheon.
This Is Us would feel far less Hallmark-y, perhaps the only knock against the NBC hit, if it recognized Jack was a great guy, even with his substance abuse problems; not "perfect," merely wonderful.
The New York Democrat also hit back at President Donald Trump's knock against her at the National Republican Congressional Dinner, where he dismissed Ocasio-Cortez as a "young bartender" in slamming the Green New Deal.
" And then in an obvious knock against Trump, who has pledged to build a large wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and deport undocumented immigrants, Miranda said, "This November the difference could not be more stark.
His Philadelphia 76ers had been knocked out of the playoffs in the second round, and the knock against him at that point was that he was not a winner like Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics.
Fitbit's reportedly having issues with the device's GPS signal and waterproofing, which would be a major knock against the watch — especially with the company's rep for activity tracking — when compared to other premium smartwatches on the market.
The only real knock against The Leftovers' final season is that its eight episodes didn't give co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta enough time to dot every I and cross every T in their sprawling post-apocalyptic saga.
He said he had only fuzzy memories of being best man at the wedding of his twin brother and fellow Wallaby Saia Faingaa in the wake of a head-knock against New Zealand's Super Rugby champions, the Canterbury Crusaders.
The boxer told The New York Times last year that an advertisement for a Cinco de Mayo fight he was promoting that featured the fighters — both of Mexican descent — charging through a concrete wall was intended as a knock against Trump.
The primary knock against the movie — that Anna Paquin as Peggy, one of Sheeran's daughters, is seen far more than heard — would seem to arise from the pages of the script Steven Zaillian took from Charles Brandt's better-named book.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's support for the bill as first lady was a constant knock against her 2016 campaign and the bill still looms large in 2020, especially if Joe Biden, the bill's author, enters the presidential race.
The standard knock against Mr. Robot in its first season was that its main philosophy, espoused by Elliot, was basically a knockoff of Fight Club — anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist in a way that seemed reactionary at best and completely misinformed at worst.
The S8+ battery has the same capacity as the Note 7's, 13.48 Wh (3,500 mAh at 3.85 V), and it's firmly glued into the device so there's no quick shortcut to pop it out for replacement, which is another knock against repairability.
However, if the Irish superstar fought at the rumored New York event it would only give him a 10-week turnaround for UFC 200, a time frame that might be a little too tight for comfort if he picked up a knock against Dos Anjos.
Rangers RH Yu Darvish (227-22, 103) Keuchel leads the majors in wins and is second in the American League in ERA, and perhaps the only knock against him is that he has not pitched beyond six innings in his three-start winning streak.
Now, there's one thing about the Blazer that should be noted: it would have been a NAFTA vehicle if Trump hadn't been elected — it's assembled in Mexico and exported to the US. If you think that should be a knock against the Blazer, don't.
John Hickenlooper used his first event on his first trip to Iowa as a Democratic presidential candidate on Friday to question how legislative experience lends itself to being president, a not-so-subtle knock against the Senate Democrats running to take on President Donald Trump.
This is no knock against the FTC; as a former FTC staff member, it is, in my biased opinion, the nation's premier civil law enforcement agency, which is why I don't want to see it turned into a patsy for watering down consumer protection.
The refrain: "IIIII'm skint / Not even a little bit, I'm talking flat on my face, geezer / Man, IIIII'm skint / Until my phone rings I'll be praying for a saving grace, fella" makes deceptively upbeat instrumentation knock against a tale of mundane struggle, of the minutiae of adult life.
"[Clinton] will build on Obamacare, not start over, break through the gridlock, not add to it, defend Planned Parenthood, not attack it, stand up to the gun lobby, not protect it, lead on foreign policy, not ignore it," the narrator adds in a not-so-subtle knock against the Vermont senator.
This is not a knock against metrics so much as it is a nod in the direction of the essential weirdness that makes and keeps this game great, and the fact that beneath all the ritual and grim tone-policing, there is something ungovernable and insane and insanely unreliable giving us these outcomes.
His beef with LeBron has been escalating ever since LeBron said the Knicks passed up draft pick Dennis Smith Jr.—LeBron said he intended it as a knock against Phil Jackson, likely as another shot at the former Knicks president for referring to his business partners with the racially coded word "posse"—but Enes didn't see it that way.
Clinton, based on audio obtained by the New York Times and sources in the room, did not mention President-elect Donald Trump in regards to the hacking, but her comments reacting to news that the United States intelligence assessment of the 2016 hacking suggests Putin was involved was seen in the room as an implicit knock against the President-elect.
The knock against "The Putin Interviews" is that it's a bit of hagiography on the part of Stone, who's the kind of reflexive old lefty who sees the U.S. as the root of almost all of the world's ills and, therefore, anyone who opposes the U.S. even mildly as a necessary evil to push back against the American-imposed darkness.
The knock against The Putin Interviews is that it's a bit of hagiography on the part of Stone, who's the kind of reflexive old lefty who sees the US as the root of almost all of the world's ills and, therefore, anyone who opposes the US even mildly as a necessary evil to push back against the American-imposed darkness.
After a long rumination punctuated by a thought experiment about thugs murdering pregnant women, some lines from Girls, and a knock against the famously hideous Gloria Steinem, Scanlon concludes: Maybe what I'm noticing is simply women who have been liberated by their worldview to be who they are, uniquely and confidently, unabashedly and apologetically, unencumbered by the politically correct constraints imposed on women of the Left, and the result is a kind of essential womanhood that, far from being oppressive, as the Left would have it, is instead, miraculous and quintessential, and, you could say, God-given.
We realize that it could be taken as a serious knock against religion. But on thinking it over, we don't feel it is particularly good or bad. It's just another form of advertising. We're not all that concerned about it.
The Falcons finished in last place in the NFC West in both of the years following Bennett's firing.Wire services. "Falcons have occupied cellar since firing Bennett in 1983". St. Petersburg Times. 24 Jan 1985 Twice named NFC Coach of the Year, Bennett was well respected as a coach, with the only knock against him being a reputation as possibly "too nice".
Ngatai unfortunately withdrew from the squad due to a failure to recover from concussion. Ngatai was replaced in the squad by Moala. Ngatai never made the field for New Zealand again, with his form crippled by injury. After sustaining the head knock against the Highlanders in May 2016, Ngatai not only missed the Steinlager series, but also remainder of the 2016 season due to ongoing concussion symptoms.
In summary this is a well built, roomy, and beautiful looking, high performance sailboat". In an owner review Tristan Nettles wrote, "all in all the PY26 is a strong and capable boat that needs 10 knots or more of breeze to really handle well. It is simple in its systems and capable of offshore passages. My biggest knock against the boat is its underpowered engine.
So the watch ran with excessive drive force for several hours, until the extra tension in the end of the spring was relieved. This made the balance wheel rotate too far in each direction, causing the impulse pin on the wheel to knock against the back of the fork horns. This caused the watch to gain time, and could break the impulse pin. In older watches this was prevented with 'stopwork'.
In 2012, Kapugedera was included to the Uthura Rudras for Sri Lanka Premier League tournament. He scored 69 runs in a match-winning knock against Basnahira Cricket Dundee, which was Rudras' first victory in SLPL. In Dhaka Premier Division 2014–15 season, he played for Victoria Sporting Club. In a match against Prime Bank Cricket Club, Kapugedera led his team for a big win with an unbeaten 161 and four wickets.
Mohammad Azam (born 23 October 1980) is an Emirati cricketer. He is a Left- hand batsman and Left-arm orthodox bowler. He made First class debut against Ireland in ICC Intercontinental Cup in 2013 He made his List A debut against Ireland in ICC World Cricket League in 2013 He made T20 debut against Ireland on 21 March 2013. On 11 August 2013 he played a match winning knock against Canada in T20.
The pagoda was first established in the Tang dynasty at the same time as the Pujiu temple, which no longer exists. The present-day pagoda dates from 1563 during the Ming dynasty. According to local legend, the designer of the pagoda hid two golden frogs somewhere inside the pagoda. It is popular for visitors to use rocks to knock against the walls in search of hollows where the frogs may be hidden.
Not long afterwards, Rooney doubled the Reds' lead and secured the win with an unstoppable shot after being played in by a Ronaldo back-heel. The Red Devils then made the short trip up to Ewood Park the following weekend to take on Blackburn Rovers. Wayne Rooney declared himself fit after having picked up a knock against Aalborg BK in midweek, and was the orchestrator of most of United's attacks, including the one that led to the opening goal.
On 13 August 2011, Ayala signed for Norwich City for a reported fee of £800,000. The deal officially went through on 16 August 2011. Ayala was handed the number 26 shirt, vacated by Steven Smith and was named in the squad for the Premier League fixture against Stoke City at Carrow Road on 21 August 2011. This was due to Zak Whitbread being rated as doubtful for the fixture after picking up a knee knock against Wigan.
Do-To-Ho Another table hockey game, called Do-To-Ho, is completely different from the other games specified here. The play figures are not fastened to bars, but are mobile on the whole playing field. In their bases, just like in the puck, there is a ball bearing, so they slide like ice skate runners over the board. Moving a play figure is done via a short, unique knock against the figure with a small stick as in billiards.
The All Blacks defeated the touring Lions 3–0 in the series. McCaw was part of the successful Tri Nations campaign (losing just one game) and Grand Slam (when victory is achieved against the four home nations) end of year tour. He missed the game against England after suffering his third serious head knock against Ireland. Despite his injury concerns, McCaw was shortlisted for the 2005 IRB International Player of the Year, which was won by All Black teammate Dan Carter.
He impressed with the ball by picking up a 5 for against Ireland, whilst also scoring a half- century. His greatest contribution came against the West Indies, where he scored a hundred on a tough pitch and also picked up 2 wickets, helping India to reach the knockout stages. In the quarterfinals, he played a vital knock against Australia, scoring another half century and picking up 2 wickets. Though he failed to score in the semi-final against Pakistan, he replied with the ball, picking up the important wickets of Asad Shafiq and the experienced Younis Khan.
Rhythm bones are typically about 12 cm to 18 cm (5" to 7") in length, but can be much longer, and they are often curved, roughly resembling miniature barrel staves. Bones can also be flat, for example by the cutting of a yardstick. They are played by holding them between one's fingers, convex surfaces facing one another, and moving one's wrist in such a way that they knock against each other. One method involves placing the bones to either side of the middle finger such that approximately two-thirds of their length extends along the palm while the remainder protrudes above the fingers on the backside of the hand.
Basseterre, looking north, the setting for Harris' Cricket Academy. Harris continued to be involved in cricket outside of the first-class arena by playing for St. Kitts - who he had joined in 1970 - until the end of the 1976 cricket season. He had played two matches for St. Kitts in 1970, scoring 24 against Montserrat at Warner Park on 10 July, and five and 54 against Nevis in the semi-final and final of the Hesketh Bell Shield. Harris played two further matches against the same sides in 1971, including a 103-knock against Monsterrat on 27 June, and scores of 11 and 29 against Nevis in July.
Somerset (2pts) beat Glamorgan (0pts) by 89 runs James Hildreth hit his second quick knock against Glamorgan in a week, taking 71 runs off 37 balls to lift Somerset Sabres to a victory at Taunton. Along with Keith Parsons making 57 off 28, they made a dent in the theory that spinners are useful in Twenty20 cricket, as experienced off-spinner Robert Croft was dispatched for 50 runs in four overs. The slow left arm bowler Dean Cosker was also taken for 45 in his four, and Somerset made a total of 212 for 3. In reply, the visitors had no one to pass 30 once Mike Powell went, Ian Blackwell taking four Glamorgan Dragons wickets for 26 runs as the Welshmen crumbled to 123 all out, Sourav Ganguly top-scoring with 35.
King plays for Jamaica in domestic cricket, debuting in first-class cricket in the 2014-15 Regional Four Day Competition, and List A cricket in the 2015-16 Regional Super50. He was selected in the 9th round of the 2017 CPL player draft by the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots. He made his Twenty20 debut for St Kitts & Nevis Patriots in the 2017 Caribbean Premier League on 5 August 2017. In June 2018, he was named in the Cricket West Indies B Team squad for the inaugural edition of the Global T20 Canada tournament. King hit 132 not out, the highest innings in CPL history, consisting of 10 fours and 11 sixes in a 72-ball knock against Barbados Tridents at Providence on 6 October 2019 as Guyana Amazon Warriors qualified for the final of the 2019 Caribbean Premier League.
In the game, two articles (preferably with similar names) are compared: one about an acknowledged serious or classical subject and the other about a popular topic or current event. Defenders of a broad inclusion criteria have held that the encyclopedia's coverage of pop culture does not impose space constraints on the coverage of more serious subjects (see "Wiki is not paper"). As Ivor Tossell noted: > That Wikipedia is chock full of useless arcana (and did you know, by the > way, that the article on "Debate" is shorter than the piece that weighs the > relative merits of the 1978 and 2003 versions of Battlestar Galactica?) > isn't a knock against it: Since it can grow infinitely, the silly articles > aren't depriving the serious ones of space. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger opined in 2020 that the reliability of the project was diminished by cognitive bias, comparing his interpretation of a positive tone on Barack Obama with a negative tone on Donald Trump.

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