Easy pickings for intimidation, Trump must have figured. . . .
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Rich pickings, you might think, for bird and human alike.
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And government, starved of easy pickings, would become more bullying.
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Pickings are slim: pineapples, papaya and small bunches of peanuts.
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You also have a jar of skin pickings on display.
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The sisters walked arm in arm as they surveyed their pickings.
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Thankfully, the goers of Coachella past make easy pickings for inspiration.
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There are rich pickings in other eastern counties, too (see map).
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Treating corruption as a strategic matter offers rich pickings for policy.
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As far as long-form narratives go the pickings are slim.
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The report offered rich pickings to both sides in the debate.
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Good thing, too — because the pickings were slim on Monday night.
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We should probably get used to such slim pickings at CES.
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The pickings are not as green, and the cold depresses turnout.
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Or do you pick books specifically with Brain Pickings in mind?
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"The pickings are so slim they are barely worth noting," Cramer said.
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For their part, ravens probably liked the free pickings around human encampments.
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Pickings from such places give a lean return for the labour involved.
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Slim pickings, but it'll be nice to get rid of some stuff.
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Getting around many phone's passcodes is easy pickings for the UFED too.
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Americans searching for plans on Obamacare's exchanges are finding increasingly slim pickings.
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A kid labeled as low-grit could be easy pickings for bullies.
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The alt-right would be easy pickings for a more competent demagogue.
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There were also slim pickings among canned goods, toiletries and bananas, too.
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So, with slim pickings, how do you know which is best for you?
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It was dire times and slim pickings, but I was stoked for anything.
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If you're looking for the easy pickings, a garden is easier to evict.
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Mr. Rokaya, the shepherd, was cautious in his appraisal of the day's pickings.
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"Austrian vineyards offer lean pickings for wine lovers," Ms. Sheraton wrote in 1981.
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"This time, we think the easy pickings are just more limited," he said.
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However, it also provides rich pickings for charities supported by Princes William and Harry.
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It's really slim pickings if you're in the market for a new small smartphone.
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Rich pickings for firms offering housing for asylum seekers have also provoked widespread anger.
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But when considering players below five feet and eight inches, the pickings are slim.
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The pickings for opponents have never been slimmer in modern Supreme Court confirmation battles.
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Democrats bemoan their slim pickings in 2020 even though the field is positively obese.
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If recent years have offered slim pickings, that is certainly not the case of 2016.
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You head over to your local Best Buy, and discover that pickings are somewhat slim.
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Fifteen miles away in South Los Angeles, an impoverished area, the pickings are far slimmer.
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Protein- and fiber-rich snacks can help fill in nutrition gaps when pickings are slim.
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Complicating matters, President Trump faces a wave of staff departures, with thin pickings for replacements.
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This resource-rich/time-poor aspect of modern life has provided easy pickings for cybercrooks.
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We have searched high and low for some impressive TV deals, but it's slim pickings.
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Ingredients: puréed beans, chicken stock, parmesan cheese, tortillas It was slim pickings by day five.
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"Alison told me there would be slim pickings, which I had assumed," Ms. Burns said.
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Our republic is supposed to promote the general welfare, not easy pickings for global corporations.
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Thus, the slimmer planting seasons of yesterday created the slimmer Christmas tree pickings of today.
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For a long time, network television has offered slim pickings in terms of teen-centric dramas.
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The class-ridden incompetence of British post-war industrial management offered easy pickings for left-wingers.
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The puffed-up pupfish float back to the water's surface where they're easy pickings for predators.
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Instagram could do better if it paid the right creators to weather IGTV's initial slim pickings.
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By the time latecomers like Pinterest and Blue Apron came along, the pickings had gotten slimmer.
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As a result, the ocean provides ripe pickings for photography enthusiasts, spoilt by rapidly improving technology.
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When Villanova meets Michigan here on Monday, the pro pickings are going to be much slimmer.
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Grindr pickings can drastically vary depending on which block you're on in New York, Medina noted.
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In a land of 1,903 lenders, mostly local public-sector banks or co-operatives, pickings are slim.
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With rates ultra-low and the economy becalmed, pickings from lending to Japanese companies have been thin.
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After years of slim-pickings among big men, the NBA now finds itself inundated with quality centers.
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Spring homebuyers are pounding the pavement at a furious pace, but the pickings are getting ever slimmer.
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Yet these are hardly rich pickings, especially for sovereign wealth funds, whose goal is enrich their countries.
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And again, for anyone wanting to learn anything new about the movie, this is worryingly slim pickings.
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They also commonly languish in medicine cabinets, sometimes for years, making easy pickings for someone with an addiction.
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In the past such frail leaders would have made easy pickings for a young upstart plotting a coup.
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I'm sorry that it seems to be such slim pickings this year with regards to subscription streaming catalogues.
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But, what's even more dreadful is how slim the pickings are when it comes to petite-specific alternatives.
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In California, there are 22 electric models at dealerships, but in other states the pickings are far slimmer.
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I remember, when I wasn't helping my family with the pickings, I was out running in the cornfield.
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And once it was on a relatively even altitude with its adversaries, it would be relatively easy pickings.
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Bargemusic (Friday through Sunday) Among the slim pickings in the classical schedule this week, Bargemusic offers hearty fare.
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Anyone out shopping for an entry-level home knows the prices are high and the pickings are slim.
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Vulnerable and desperate people have always been easy pickings for malign operators, and pregnant Irish women are no exception.
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RELATED: Matt K. Lewis: GOP has 'slim pickings' to fight Trump Norquist pointed out besides Trump, former Florida Gov.
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She'll have to pause, rest, recuperate; or else burn through her energy and become easy pickings for hungry beasts.
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But when it comes to solid portable speakers with Alexa built in, the pickings are actually kind of slim.
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"There just isn't that much quality — pickings are slim — but it's been like this for a while," he said.
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Here, everything from mice to snakes, McDonald's leftovers and Starbucks' scraps, can be fair pickings for these ultimate opportunists.
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" Even as they replied, "That's cool," I could almost hear them thinking: "Must be slim pickings out in Oregon.
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A blueberry farm near the Indiana border that would offer easy pickings if they were ever blighted with hunger.
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Many of them live in states that offer thin pickings to Republicans, such as California, Illinois and New York.
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"You have people from very dark websites gravitating toward these camps, and these children are easy pickings," he said.
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Some spaghetti, a small jar of sugar and a bit of cooking oil was Sanchez's pickings for the day.
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In India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, they are stuck at 40%, reflecting slim pickings and high barriers to enterprise.
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Solar eclipse glasses aren't super expensive, but the bad news is that pickings are getting slim thanks to surging demand.
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"If you're looking for Latinos or Latinas running for Congress in competitive races it's slim pickings," Morales told The Hill.
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That worries rich-world incumbents, since a hungry new arrival would mean slimmer pickings for those already at the table.
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These are rich pickings for a man who has always placed unexpected collaboration at the centre of his artistic practice.
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Both Facebook and Google, ad-tech ecosystems unto themselves, have grabbed ever more ad dollars, leaving slim pickings for rivals.
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Of course, they are big deal everywhere but out in the rice-farming villages, entertainment is gleaned from slim pickings.
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When that's happening, soon enough, the guard will fall down and you're easy pickings to become an online knockout victim.
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Dry Bridge Flea Market Anyone can set up a blanket at this market, so the pickings are hit or miss.
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The pickings are slimmer than usual this year, because Federer is out with an injury and Maria Sharapova remains suspended.
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Stock traders are so busy buying and selling public companies that they may not have noticed they have slimmer pickings.
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You'd have to wait another ten years to get away with it again, otherwise you'd have some very slim pickings.
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"It is very slim pickings in the zinc space," he said, referring to the dearth of pure-play zinc producers.
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Unfortunately, the rest of their fixtures provided slim pickings, and they eventually succumbed to the soothing finality of the drop.
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WITH HORDES of distracted tourists crowding its labyrinthine streets, Venice offers rich pickings for pickpockets, especially during the summer crush.
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However, when it comes to drug-infused edibles, it's slim pickings for British drug users in search of domestic products.
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Not since their 13 medals at Nagano in 1998 had a U.S. team left a Games with such slim pickings.
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While the prices will continue to drop through mid-July, the pickings start to get real slim later in the game.
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The camera app also lacks so many features like slow-mo/time lapse options and the filter pickings are pretty slim.
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Today, it would be indefensible — easy pickings for terrorists or Iranian missile strikes against population centers in the Jewish state's heartland.
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The majority of fabled characters have already appeared on the series, so it seemed like showrunners were working with slim pickings.
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It's likely that the three companies will keep selling displays to Huawei, though the pickings are slim for other OLED manufacturers.
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As for seeing presidents before they rose to greatness (sometimes incorporating the time they served), the pickings are a bit slimmer.
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The bye weeks are here and you may be in a league where the waiver wire pickings are a bit slim.
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A recent wave of mergers and acquisition in the global pharmaceutical industry has, however, left slim pickings for would-be dealmakers.
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They bounce around a lot (although they should all be moderate pickings for anyone who likes movies just a little bit).
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But in 2014, the Republicans won just 10 seats with a Democratic-leaning Cook P.V.I. There are far fewer easy pickings.
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China is rich pickings, journalistically, but a column of any kind needs solid reporting, a strong concept and reflective, writerly depth.
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That gives us the early pickings, [but we] will probably be launching smaller and unique products that don't exist today later.
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None of the stars, or the more prominent guests, attended the after-party, making it slim pickings for a social columnist.
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So I just sort of imagined, what could fuel me, what fantasy could I really sort of find rich pickings from?
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JAB's move may encourage others to move quickly while there are still plenty of pickings in the fragmented fast-food industry.
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Anyone out hunting for an affordable home today knows that the pickings are slim – and they are about to get slimmer.
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If anything, this just gives the Apple faithful more pickings to salivate over before they queue up for the glorious D22.
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"It's an unfortunately reality that large crowds at concerts such as this make rich pickings for career criminals," Inspector Gareth Morris said.
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"We are emerging from a situation where the recovery was almost like easy pickings," Ken Odeluga, market analyst at City Index, said.
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Though their fruit has provided income for decades, Alarico Soares De Cruz, the local headman, says the pickings are gradually growing slimmer.
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They played on the fact that I was naïve and I'd never been in trouble before; I was easy pickings for them.
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Of the four conservatives who came out against the bill last week, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson are viewed as easier pickings.
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There are apps that apply trippy effects to images, like Glitché, but when it comes video filter apps, the pickings are slim.
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That heritage is providing rich pickings today: 54% of Israel's agritech ventures are managed by someone who grew up in a kibbutz.
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However, recent years have offered slimmer pickings as yields on junk-rated debt stay low and US stocks remain near record highs.
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USA Today's Support Local does the same as the sites above, with more pickings from San Francisco and Austin than other cities.
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" Ms. Love said that because California has specifically identified the kinds of convictions that are eligible to be cleared, it's "easy pickings.
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Private-equity managers see rich pickings in Italy, notably among SMEs (for large deals, prices are as sky-high as elsewhere in Europe).
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For reference, May's Eta Aquarids meteor shower had a rate of 10 meteors per hour -- slim pickings compared to the Perseids' light show.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is an important addition to the tools that people have, but in terms of psychopharmacology, it's pretty pretty slim pickings.
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O, which proved a hit with investors who see rich pickings in oil and gas assets up for sale amid the sector's downturn.
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They have changed medicine in the past two decades and now offer rich pickings for firms making near-identical copies as patents expire.
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It's all been easy pickings for Sanders, who has hammered away at the notion that Clinton is in the pocket of special interests.
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With so much at stake, you'd think an issue that affects more than 24 million Americans would be easy pickings for campaign platforms.
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All the rabbits in the area seemed disoriented; they were easy pickings for dinner before the family went to sleep in the crater.
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The pickings are slim with a mere seven figures to work with, but boutique carmaker Koenigsegg may have just the vehicle for you.
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There are fewer photographs from the late '70s than from earlier eras; the pickings, for a learned and well-read observer, were slimmer.
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In a sense, this encyclopedic enchantment and the delight of unbidden discovery have stayed with me and become the backbone of Brain Pickings.
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China has offered Starbucks rich pickings in recent years, thanks to a burgeoning cafe culture which has helped offset saturation in the United States.
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Now, whenever I'm in an environment with white men, it's generally with my white friends, so I'm always the last pickings in that group.
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If only 25 percent of voters believe they can trust what we're telling them, Americans are ripe pickings for demagoguery and dishonesty from leaders.
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This was in 2013, by the way, when the options for fast-casual, refreshing Mexican food in this part of town were slim pickings.
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Slim pickings After months of speculation, Sony capped off a huge day of tech news with a series of announcements about the PlayStation 4.
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And at the end of the day, this country's licorice pickings are relatively slim, especially if you're not necessarily a fan of black licorice.
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Among musicals, I would call it a regrouping year, which is apparent in what seemed to me to be the slim pickings on Broadway.
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You'll notice that some of the pickings are darker in color than others, and that's during the winter when she was wearing black socks.
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The Mavericks have been easy pickings for most teams this season but turned the tables on Milwaukee on Saturday with a shocking 111-79 triumph.
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China has offered Starbucks rich pickings in recent years, thanks to a burgeoning cafe culture which has helped offset growing saturation in the United States.
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Another episode later in the season focuses on how Michigan police use licensed and legal medical-marijuana grows as easy pickings to do raids on.
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If such slim pickings and the prospect of slim returns leave investors feeling disappointed, Mr. Paulsen has a simple piece of advice: Get over it.
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They protect the animals from bears, cougars and wolves, paying attention to strays and weak or ill animals that could be easy pickings for predators.
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And while Green Bay's safeties limit things to underneath receivers and tight ends, their corners are easy pickings for a quarterback as talented as Ryan.
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Other times you have to look around you and realize the pickings are limitless, which is how you'll feel watching this week's choice for One Video.
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" Still, Bloom doesn't seem to be backing down from her original sentiment; she added: "That being said, pickings are still slim for non-sample size ladies.
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Such places, sometimes examples of a halo effect in which culturally conservative city-dwellers put off by rapid change move outward, can offer populists rich pickings.
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The miss seemed to sap the energy of Hsieh whose serves were barely clearing the net by the end, easy pickings for the now marauding Kerber.
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Germany, home to world leading manufacturers, offers rich pickings for hackers, and attacks on industrial production sites are rising, according to the government's IT Security Report.
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But if you are the least bit nutrition-conscious, it's slim pickings when it comes to deciding what to eat at the popular fast food chain.
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A big group like theirs, handing out gifts of cash to local Bedouins and camping in ostentatious luxury, was ludicrously easy pickings for a Shiite militia.
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These strategies, peddled via exchange-traded products and designed to profit from extended spells of market calm, yielded rich pickings as long as volatility stayed low.
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These strategies, peddled via exchange-traded products and designed to profit from extended spells of market calm, yielded rich pickings as long as volatility stayed low.
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Now she can go to the community garden, where the pickings are free for the taking and there are plans for henna painting and story time.
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Alternatively, Hinge calls itself "The Relationship App" and requires users to be a bit more serious with their pickings by judging off more than a few selfies.
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It can be precarious work, and a bad year can leave fields barren and grain sheds empty -- slim pickings on which to survive until the next harvest.
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The investor also shared some tips on the current earnings season, which he described as having "really slim pickings" in terms of companies with true underlying strength.
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Sadly, the pickings were slim for films that both pass the test and made their way onto Netflix this month, with very little diversity in the pool.
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And while the pickings are still slim (it launched last week with a small selection of quirky accessories and graphic tees), this place definitely has major potential.
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In Britain, comedy fans have thin pickings as broadcasters have to respect rules on impartiality, and chatty panel shows, rather than hard-hitting satire, dominate the schedules.
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Crucible will never be for me, and that's not even a big deal; it just means the beta is slim pickings for someone whose interests lie elsewhere.
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After that new companies, inspired by these rich pickings, will pile in to compete away those fat margins, bringing prices down and increasing both employment and investment.
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They figured athletes are easy pickings because they can look up their salary online, they can look at the schedule, and then they can make a calculation.
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While that should make easy pickings for UKIP, the party has been bogged down in vicious in-fighting as it struggles to define its post-Brexit identity.
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The pickings are slim and there's no app store yet, but you can also do the basics like listen to music, watch videos, and look at photos.
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In theory, there should be rich pickings in the U.S. where banks often have minimum deposit requirements and hefty overdraft fees, and where there are fewer free ATMs.
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Here, the birds find easy pickings and voraciously eat just about any part of the plants that remain — from roots to shoots, from flowers to seeds to stems.
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Lizzie Plaugic: Migos released a video for their Culture track "Deadz" this week, and boy are we lucky they did, because the potential One Video pickings were slim.
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Unlike the many expansion franchises of the 2500s that debuted in pairs, Las Vegas did not have to compete with another newbie for the scrap heap's best pickings.
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Bayley will probably return to NXT for now; she wasn't drafted by either brand and the draft call-ups have left slim pickings for the division in NXT.
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Democrats, of course, believe that there are now rich pickings to be had in delving into Trump's affairs far beyond the Russia-centric focus of the Muller investigation.
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It's likely that this particular passenger wasn't randomly chosen but consciously selected because United thought he'd be easy pickings, as a bespectacled Asian follows orders and goes quietly.
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Over the past three years, America's information ecosystem has proven easy pickings for anyone with a fistful of VPN connections and a sweatshop of kids playing World of Trollcraft.
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But pickings this year have been slim at Nannuoshan, one of six major pu'er mountains in Yunnan, where the hottest weather and lowest rainfall in decades have lowered output.
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So the cockles get stuck at the surface, where they're easier pickings for birds, which as it happens is the only place where the trematodes can complete their life cycle.
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The rich pickings of the human psyche serve as fuel—possibly of the nightmare variety—for UK artist Rachel Goodyear's latest show, Approaching the Surface, at London's Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
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Johanna Primevert, chief spokeswoman for the Paris police department, told CNN that Kardashian's celeb status -- as well as her millions of social media followers -- made her easy pickings for thieves.
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That made local birds and reptiles easy pickings for the rats that arrived on Maori canoes in the 250th century and, later, the stoats and possums that accompanied European settlers.
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Honestly, it was kind of slim pickings this week and I didn't feel like seeing who the Golden Knights' Twitter was murdering this week, so let's just go with this.
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Slumping installation costs and widespread political support have stoked investor interest in solar power, even as governments start cutting the once-rich pickings to be found through building subsidized plants.
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Tinder, Bumble and Hinge offer vast playing fields but slim pickings, so daters survive by wearing cynicism as armor, telling themselves that nothing matters and that they really don't care.
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A few days later, hundreds showed up in Washington Square Park for a pop-up poetry reading sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and the Web site Brain Pickings.
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I know that 37 is not a limitless number, and in fact the limit is very clearly defined as 37, but in comparison to the aforementioned "slim" pickings, 37 feels limitless.
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For Henckel von Donnersmarck, who was born in West Germany in 1973 and grew up in the United States, World War Two and the subsequent division of Germany provide rich pickings.
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Fitbit claims it has, combined, over 550 clock faces and apps available for both the Ionic and the Versa, but the latter's app selection is slim pickings as of this writing.
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That partly reflects changes in the way that the police deal with misbehaving youngsters, in particular the abandonment of performance targets that encouraged police to arrest children, who made easy pickings.
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Sarah Bishop-Woods, brand manager Sarah's game plan: It's slim pickings as we go into the last season of Game of Thrones, and my team is reflective of the mood: war.
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If Allen were the slightest bit aware of Bobby's aggressive flaccidness or harshness, Café Society could very well be a smart film about the slim pickings of men in women's lives.
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And since pickings are a bit slimmer than say, the middle of May, it's strategic to stick to the essentials (and stock up on those more trend-driven pieces later on).
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Mocked and manipulated because of his poverty, Jud is considered easy pickings for the the townsfolk, including Curly, who literally strolls up to the farmhand's home to entreat him toward suicide.
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Amazon Okay, so it's very slim pickings on the 'Zon, but since the online marketplace is everyone's collective first-line shopping destination, there are only a small handful of sanitizers left.
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And, just because the discounts are flying right now does not mean that pickings are slim — there's plenty to choose from in the outerwear sale section across the world wide web.
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While he has played on 10 winning U.S. Presidents Cup teams, the pickings have been slimmer in the Ryder Cup, in which he has been a member of just three triumphant teams.
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They went behind in sweltering conditions at the Samara Arena when Suarez struck a low free kick into the bottom corner that should have been easy pickings for Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev.
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They picked on the Caribbean people first because, as a community, we're not as strong as others so they thought it was going to be easy pickings to do what they did.
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Imagine how it feels to see ONO — a perfectly cromulent entry, but very common — for what feels like the millionth time, and having such slim pickings when it comes to cluing choices.
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With Snyder's and Amplify off the table, the number of potential targets large enough to make an impact on the largest food brands has been whittled from what was already slim pickings.
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In general, stocks of companies that make specifically vegan products are "slim pickings" in today's market, leaving VEGN's managers to cross-reference the available public companies with their rigid criteria, Smith wrote.
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As I began compiling my monthly round-up of new movies to Netflix that pass the Bechdel Test, I was bummed to see that the pickings were slim—even more so than usual.
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A lot of useful insights here for those intent on making charter schooling work for kids, even if the pickings are slimmer for those more inclined to theatrically celebrate or denounce school choice.
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Parker, the author of very good biographies of J. R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood, casts a wide net here, and eventually it unravels in a skein of loose ends and Housmanian magpie-pickings.
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We highly recommend ordering flower arrangements well in advance of any holidays like Valentine's Day or Mother's Day, because you will end up with slim pickings if you wait until the last minute.
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Most of India's restaurants are extremely inexpensive and a customer's average ticket is too low to justify the support, whereas other parts of Asia and even Europe are much more ripe for the pickings.
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France's PSA and China's Zotye and GAC all have outlined plans for establishing beachheads in the world's second-largest market by sales, which offers rich pickings in segments including pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers.
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Having sorted China out, Uber is able to concentrate on promising pickings in other developing markets where governments may not be quite as determined as China's was to see a local firm win out.
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It is at this time of year that encounters with cicadas are most frequent, as they can occasionally be found buzzing clumsily on the ground — easy pickings for birds, and playthings for domestic cats.
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With charisma, craft and technique — with a flick of the wrist, a turn of the head, a perfectly timed pause, an uncanny gaze — Fassbender builds a dimensional character out of the super-slim pickings.
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But when Melissa Villasenor's babbling take on Ryder's character shows up and Beck Bennett's sheriff feeds Eleven (Kate McKinnon) cold Eggo waffles, it proves that there's slim pickings for a responsible adult in this town.
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You see one profile at a time and swipe right or left depending on whether or not you're interested, with random profile-building questions thrown in at times to narrow down your pickings even more.
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Many of us have hundreds of accounts, and human nature being what it is, may use the same user id and password repeatedly, providing easy pickings for an attacker who learns one of our passwords.
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Wolfgat features a seven course seasonal tasting menu comprised of sustainable seafood, local lamb and venison and enhanced by wild herbs, seaweed from local rock pools and pickings from the garden, according to its website.
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As the easy pickings in mergers and acquisitions have been harvested, boards seem to be contemplating deals that look like variations on ones that have been tried before but failed for regulatory or other reasons.
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The self-employed might have even fewer opportunities for social mobility, as competition comes from every corner of the world and working 24 hours a day offers only slim pickings to the even most dedicated.
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And while there are various AAA holdouts in this fall's major releases — Gears of War 4 offered local split-screen, as do some modes in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare — the overall pickings are slim.
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Other chemical firms, such as BASF, another German company, are hoping for rich pickings on the assumption that regulators would eventually force a merged Bayer and Monsanto to sell off businesses worth billions of dollars.
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The Cavs seem to think this is a scratch series, easy pickings, a goddamn lemon they're pickin' off the Raps' unguarded fruit tree, and the Raptors have done nothing to dissuade them of that notion.
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For all these reasons, Phil Bland, a British meteorite expert, reckoned the pickings are better on the flat, brushless, lightly coloured deserts of Western Australia—a place where, as a bonus, the skies are mostly clear.
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They live in Ettadhamen, a northern working-class district that has become the center of Tunis' recycling circuit, but prefer to work in the nearby neighborhoods of El Menzah and Ennasr, where there are richer pickings.
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Since then it's been slim pickings for the Swedes, with a losing appearance by Magnus Norman in the 2000 final and consecutive defeats for Soederling the closest they have come to winning since Wilander's 1988 victory.
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Charcandrick West ($5,700) – A two-headed monster in Kansas City, but the pickings are so slim at RB Jeremy Hill ($5,000) – Pittsburgh very tough against the run Eddie Lacy ($4,500) – You want to trust him now?
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LONDON (Reuters) - Investment funds seeking to invest at the intersection of Europe and technology are finding rich pickings in places that some may find surprising: sprawling industrials like trains-to-turbines Siemens and engineering group ABB.
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This Shark Tank-born company has grown to be one of Instagram's favorite flower services, and not just because unique pickings like eucalyptus and white snapdragons are a breath of fresh air from the overdone red rose.
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But the pickings are richest in retail, and especially in the autumn when fake-app developers are gearing up for spending binges during sales around Thanksgiving and Christmas, says Chris Mason of Branding Brand, a tech firm.
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Despite one more rally in the ninth inning, the Yankees went on to lose, 11-7, to end a seven-game homestand in which they lost four games to teams that were supposed to be easy pickings.
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The pickings are better on Amazon, with several of her most notable movies, including "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981), "Sophie's Choice" (1982, which earned her a best actress Oscar), and "Ironweed" (1987), available free to Prime Members.
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Its lack of interest in Japan could be because of the slim pickings — most of Japan's options likely don't meet Son's criteria, which requires late stage companies that are only a few years away from going public.
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Imagine that some ancient wolves were slightly less timid around nomadic hunters and scavenged regularly from their kills and camps, and gradually evolved to become tamer and tamer, producing lots of offspring because of the relatively easy pickings.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Generic drugmakers, hoping for rich pickings from the launch of copies of GlaxoSmithKline's best-selling Advair inhaler in the United States next year, say they can win business without a race to the bottom on price.
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Toivonen scored in the 2-1 loss to Germany but otherwise it's been slim pickings for him and fellow striker Marcus Berg due to the amount of unselfish running demanded of them by coach Janne Andersson's defensive system.
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But the Trump transition team has been so short-handed and the pickings among Republican foreign policy veterans who had not criticized Mr. Trump so slim that dozens of positions are likely to remain empty for some time.
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The exhibit features an array of tattooed human skin, wax models and illustrations of various skin diseases, and a large jar of of skin pickings donated by woman living with dermatillomania, a psychological condition involving obsessive skin picking.
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But the selection of the voices providing those perspectives is also affected by the tech mentality, so let us hope the staff at Real Life choose to reach well beyond the easy pickings of tech halo businesses and academia.
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Sure, it's probably slim pickings when it comes to universally praised and generally apolitical First Lady causes that would suit Melania, but at the same time, why haven't her people even tried to quietly phase out this particular initiative?
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Those consumers are rich pickings for advertisers, with Alibaba making an estimated $11 billion in advertising revenue from mobile 2016, according to eMarketer, which is just over 40 percent of all money brands spent on mobile advertising that year.
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Locally, I have watched Prince William County — once a locality that could be counted on to sit with the GOP — become to a majority-minority county where the political pickings are ripe for the other side of the aisle.
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The person spearheading the effort — Dominic Lacroix — is a serial violator of SEC laws, says the agency, which describes him in its filing as a "recidivist securities law violator in Canada," so this one might have been easy pickings.
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Lastly, I would be willing to make a large bet that even if we did post a job for $35 an hour to do roofing in Omaha (it was 92 degrees this week), it would still be slim pickings.
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And assuming Britain leaves the customs union, it will eventually launch formal trade talks with countries outside the EU. The sheer quantity of scrutiny will severely test Parliament's capacity (as well as offering yet more rich pickings for lawyers and lobbyists).
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It has been slim pickings since and things looked bleak for Team GB when seventh-ranked Chris and Gabby Adcock, the husband-and-wife pairing seen as the nation's top medal prospect, were dumped out of the preliminary round on Saturday.
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Second will be making acquisitions (and the sheer proliferation of promising startups in the last decade dedicated to all variety of apps and other software that may have found it a challenge to scale means Corel could have rich pickings).
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Image: ScreenshotDon't assume staying at a posher hotel means you're safer though—eavesdropping hackers know that there are richer pickings at richer venues, and you'd be surprised at how far down the list of priorities wireless security sometimes is for hotels.
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There's a cluster of theme parks on the Gold Coast in Queensland, the odd miniature amusement park in regional holiday towns and the long-running Luna Park in Melbourne or Sydney, but otherwise it is slim pickings around the country.
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Ankara has invested heavily in Somalia over the past five years, with one eye on rich economic pickings should stability ever return and the other on burnishing President Tayyip Erdogan's image of Turkey as a global promoter of compassionate Islam.
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With many senators and congressmen also giving Cleveland a miss—especially those, such as Senator Mark Kirk in Illinois, and indeed Mr McCain in Arizona, who face tough re-election battles in November—the convention's organisers had thin pickings for speakers.
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The Cougars have lost 33 straight and look like easy pickings for Oregon State, which comes in equal in the loss column with Stanford and Washington and one behind USC and Colorado with a week left in the regular season.
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Apple's announcement leaves you with three options if you want to connect headphones to your iPhone 7: Right now, the pickings for all three of these options are fairly slim, because most people are still buying old-fashioned analog headphones.
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Our religious household meant that I had slim pickings for any kind of exposure to gay culture or media, and I didn't identity with what little I saw of the mainstream gay community, based mostly on TV shows like Queer as Folk.
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Extrajudicial killings, growing concerns over weak environmental safeguards, pliable courts, a sense among young, educated Bangladeshis that they will be denied opportunities unless they have the right connections, and rich pickings for extremism: breakneck growth is being asked to paper over a lot.
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There is also more supply of newly built homes, and some builders are reporting that renters are skipping the entry-level existing home, where competition is rough and the pickings are slim, and buying new construction, even though it is more expensive.
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"Home shoppers had better luck finding a home to buy in October, but slim pickings and consistently fast price gains continue to frustrate and prevent too many would-be buyers from reaching the market," said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - After riding China's demand train for nearly two decades, Asia's coal industry is looking to a future of smaller markets and slimmer pickings, as buying declines in the world's second-biggest economy and climate change concerns blunt demand.
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However, Cramer said there also could be a group of investors who bid up the stocks of pharmaceutical and health-care companies based on the belief that Sanders would be "easy pickings" for President Donald Trump in a hypothetical general election in November.
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These young people, mostly men, can be easy pickings for IS and other radicals who prey on their circumstances and conflicted identities, just as in the Barcelona attack it appears the imam of the perpetrators' hometown in the foothills of the Pyrenees did.
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There are potentially rich pickings for early movers; more than 10 blockbuster biological drugs with combined yearly sales of $60 billion are on track to see their U.S. and European patents expire over the next four years, according to Allied Market Research.
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The information included in these examples may seem like small pickings, but in the UK, law enforcement's use of hacking powers has traditionally been much more opaque than in, say, the US, where the FBI's purchase and deployment of malware has been more widely reported.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - With a total of 153 medals, including three golds, ski jumping has provided rich pickings at the Winter Olympics for Japan, and the Games in Pyeongchang will provide another chance for them to excel in front of a prime-time Asian audience.
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For now, however, given that the Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to approve the launch of a bitcoin ETF — many issuers have thrown their hats into that ring — investors who want access to the cryptocurrency through an ETF wrapper have slim pickings at best.
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B PLUS The Rough Guide to Blues Women (World Music Network) Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, and Ma Rainey all have their own fine comps; pickings are slim because women were underrecorded, and these picks don't beat the odds (Mamie Smith, "Crazy Blues"; Kate McTell Feat.
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With rich pickings still available in the aftermath of the financial crisis, that vehicle has generated a 3003 percent annualized return after accounting for fees — an impressive accomplishment given that 10-year Treasury yields traded narrowly around 2 percent for much of that period.
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"I think it's slim pickings out there," the Republican columnist and author of "Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump" told CNN's Party People podcast hosts Kevin Madden and Mary Katherine Ham in a conversation Monday.
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For entrepreneurs in the advertising space, market opportunities do and will continue to present themselves, but the structure of the market is such that the lion's share of the revenue growth will go to a small handful of incumbents, leaving relatively slim pickings for the rest.
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A deal of the expected size of Argentina's return is rare for the region, even in the most bullish of times, and getting a slice of the action will be vital for DCM bankers who have had to content themselves with slim pickings and falling primary volumes.
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Sadly, Trump may not have the capacity to process what legitimizing the first major annexation of territory in Europe since the end of the Second World War would mean for Putin: a free pass to seize additional territory -- with the three Baltic states serving as easy pickings.
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"There's something magical about chopping up the seasons into a jar," says the Australian native, who forages for ingredients everywhere from her own back garden (nasturtiums make a peppy addition to quince jelly, apparently) to the nearby Hackney Marshes (rich pickings for wild fennel pollen and dill).
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KERNEN: I CAN GIVE YOU THREE NAMES ON ONE SIDE IF YOU WANTED TO GET IN, AND PROBABLY ONLY TWO TO TALK ABOUT ON THE OTHER SIDE, SOME PEOPLE THINK, I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD CALL IT SLIM PICKINGS, BUT NOT EVERYBODY IS ENTHRALLED WITH THE POSSIBLE CHOICES.
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It's nothing to do with pizza dough or your ice cream maker, but I got through the second season of "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" on Amazon and find myself way out on the edge of the internet where the pickings are slim, almost out of television to watch.
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The satirist P. J. O'Rourke and the Emmy-winning comedian Sara Schaefer argue for that motion, while Billy Kimball, a supervising producer for "Veep," and Kurt Andersen, the host of "Studio 360," make the case that the current president provides easy and ripe pickings for the funny business.
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In November, a few days after the election, the Academy of American Poets and the online publication Brain Pickings organized an "emergency" pop-up poetry reading in Washington Square Park in New York, where hundreds of people gathered to hear 20 poets, among them Patricia Smith and Elizabeth Alexander.
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Class of Service: Economy The Bag: First-class fliers get Jaguar-branded bags, and the Parisian fashion house Cerruti is behind the ones in business, but the pickings are far from shabby for economy passengers: The airline teamed with two upscale brands, Chopard and Institut Karite, to design the kits.
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Nearly all books I read enter my life through the gateway of other books, which explains why, over the nearly 13-year span of Brain Pickings, my writing has plunged deeper and deeper into the past — this analog web only extends backward in time, for a book can only reference texts previously published.
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The combination of cash infusions from regional sports networks and the practice of buying players out of their arbitration and early free agency years has made the veteran pickings in free agency much less attractive, and taking a Steinbrennerian approach to today's free agent scene has resulted in a team that's similarly much less attractive.
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So yes, you could dine out on Prince's misdemeanours if you're so inclined, but at the end of the day it would be slim pickings in comparison to the ways in which he pushed the envelope in a gender-bending explosion of sweat and sequins – both visually in an assless onesie, and subtly in his intuitive lyrics.
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By comparison, the United States offers rich pickings at the moment thanks to hugely profitable new drugs for diseases such as cancer and hepatitis C. That disparity is an issue for investors trying to value growth outside the West, with some of the most highly rated drug stocks being those that have stepped back from emerging markets, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb.
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A lot of businesses will need to replace the ancient database technology they're usingWe don't know how many customers took Microsoft up on that offer, but needless to say, there are still a lot of companies using an ancient database that will soon need to move into more modern technology, because if they don't, they will be easy pickings for hackers.
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Many of these Democrats had bought into the idea that the president would be easy pickings for former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE and were dismayed that he wasn't faring much better against the incumbent than the other Democratic hopefuls.
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Design and engineering are two sides of the same coin when it comes to building software and hardware, and yet — unlike engineers, who can use services like GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab or many others to help manage their development process — it has traditionally been slim pickings for designers when it comes to tools to manage the iterations and collaborations that are a part of their workflow.
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Over at Brain Pickings, Maria Popova says they go a little something like this: A "fixed mindset" assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens that we can't change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence — an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.
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As The Verge's Bijan Stephen put it when "the new category" was first announced, previous attempts to diversify the Best Picture pickings haven't done much to solve anyone's problems: In 2009, then-Academy president Sid Ganis attempted to address that issue by raising the number of nominees in the Best Picture category, which backfired; as The Ringer's Sean Fennessey observed, the longer list was more diverse, but it also diluted the significance of a Best Picture nomination — and ratings for film's biggest night have continued to drop in spite of the changes.
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For the 1975 performance, the artist stood alone on a table, nude, posing like a studio model, and reading aloud from a book of her collected writings, "Cezanne, She Was A Great Painter," which includes a litany of misogynistic reactions a female artist could expect to encounter in her career: "BE PREPARED:to have your brain picked to have the pickings misunderstood to be mistreated whether your success increases or decreases if you are a woman (and things are not utterly changed)they will almost never believe you really did it(what you did do)they will patronize you humor youtry to sleep with you want you to transform themwith your energy" She then put the book down and slowly extracted a narrow strip of folded typewritten paper from her vagina, reading the text on the scroll as it emerged.
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