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And his preferred tool for pinning down those amazing moments?
Good language is about nailing the details, pinning down reality.
Pinning down exact numbers of microbial species is tricky, however.
Pinning down exactly how much the NFA contributed is harder.
But pinning down exactly where it happened has proved difficult.
Pinning down what's going on in the data is not easy.
Judge Ramos acknowledged the difficulty of pinning down the Legislature's motives.
Pinning down the number of manufacturing jobs is sure to get harder.
Pinning down the precise location of the event is notoriously difficult too.
So let's start with pinning down who exactly is in the middle.
It's tricky enough pinning down business leaders to work with your administration.
In a highly politically charged environment, pinning down the facts has been difficult.
But scientists have had a hard time pinning down exactly what it is.
Pinning down solid stats on the region's nascent startup scene is a budding exercise.
Worse, they pro-actively hinder the process of tracking and pinning down potential fugitives.
Pinning down how the automakers used the studies to influence public policy was difficult.
But pinning down what exactly makes someone truly a national or a stranger is tricky.
Still, pinning down voters can be hard at the fluid center of the ideological spectrum.
When even past issues are wide open, pinning down a future relationship is nigh on fanciful.
Pinning down what scenicness actually is, though, has always been a frustrating exercise for scientific types.
Pinning down the album's Christmas cookie recipe's origins turned out to be an exercise in futility.
But pinning down exactly when the cave art was painted has been a problem for decades.
A good way of pinning down that legacy is to see just how far it spread.
The Russian survivors rallied from beneath the toppled trees, pinning down the Americans behind the BMP.
That distribution method means that pinning down the people responsible for Tuesday's attack could be difficult.
But pinning down exactly where it happened, and the extent of their interbreeding, has proved difficult.
Tension is in the air today, but you're having a hard time pinning down the source.
Playing the game, I had a hard time pinning down exactly why it was working so well.
Pinning down what happened between the two is much harder to do than, say, Frankel and Radziwill's feud.
This time, the swimmer and Dancing with the Stars contestant is having trouble pinning down his dog's age.
At that point, cops arrived looked into the hotel room window and saw Zoe pinning down his girlfriend.
"Pinning down the brain states associated with the baseline of the task is a huge challenge," said Phillips.
Dorian has proven compact and unpredictable, and forecasters have had trouble pinning down exactly where it'll make landfall.
The proliferation of the videos underscores the challenge of pinning down the cause, or causes, of the outbreak.
Wiseman takes issue with the notion that pinning down a girl against her will could be described as horseplay.
Even pinning down how to approach the problem was tricky because, technically, everything has some temporal quality to it.
He's resolutely opposed to pinning down his own ideology, but he freely tells reporters about his radical process agenda.
It would center on pinning down the president's motives, which can be difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
As they approach their fourth holiday season, the two have a hard time pinning down exactly what Gefilteria is.
CP24, a television news channel, broadcast a photograph of several police officers pinning down a person near that entrance.
Not that any label, ethnic or otherwise, comes close to pinning down identities that are always, dangerously, in flux.
The number indicates the difficulty of pinning down an answer, but here are some of the most considered responses.
These "randomized control trials," similar to the ones used to develop new drugs, are a way of pinning down causation.
Authorities have had trouble pinning down how big the spill is, as it changes by the day amid strong ocean currents.
Analysts at Singapore's OCBC Bank said in a research note that pinning down market sentiment was challenging in the current environment.
Pinning down more of these possible inconsistencies is one of the main reasons Democrats have been pushing the fight for documents.
Forensic tools like those used in the Ukraine inquiry can make the difference in pinning down the truth of what happened.
Mori said organisers now would start work on pinning down venues and would present progress reports during the IOC session in Rio.
Mori said organizers would now start work on pinning down venues and would present progress reports during the IOC session in Rio.
"Making an announcement without pinning down the problem would have caused further disruption and trouble," Mitsubishi Cable President Hiroaki Murata told reporters.
But after nearly pinning down the high-flying Rams in Week 5, the Seahawks held their last two opponents to 17 total points.
"There were some moments that were true in the Wired article," Revolut's CEO said, without pinning down which of those claims were valid.
But there is a less-obvious reason as well: Economists haven't done a particularly good job of pinning down the virtues of trade.
For Owen, pinning down the origins of human consciousness could eventually help scientists answer other questions, for example defining it in other species.
Videos showing Toronto police and transit fare inspectors pinning down a black teenager have prompted an internal investigation, according to the Toronto Transit Commission.
Police noted that the investigation is "evolving" and is "less than 24 hours underway" and called for the community's help pinning down the timeline.
Staff from several organisations spent months pinning down what Educate Girls would aim to achieve, how progress would be measured and what would be repaid.
Key questions include pinning down the precise mechanism of conditioned immune responses, and working out why some individuals respond more strongly to conditioning than others.
While Indonesia can point to a victory that appeals to nationalist sentiment, pinning down the details on the divestment indicates a further fight with Freeport.
While Indonesia can point to a victory that appeals to nationalist sentiment, pinning down the details on the divesture indicates a further fight with Freeport.
Researchers said that pinning down when and how Earth's vivid geological machinations arose will do more than flesh out our understanding of our home base.
We'd had a tricky day of missed calls while she attended to other commitments before finally pinning down a time chat in the early evening.
"A well-prepared moderator can have an easier time pinning down a candidate and following up on the audience's questions," writes Gary Legum in Salon.
One moment the two men were pinning down a bewildered-looking sheep, then with a sudden slash and barely a sound, it lay slumping, dying, gone.
If getting good data is tough, pinning down why there might be a wage premium for lesbians and a penalty for gay men is even tougher.
Besides the difficulty of pinning down which hardware miners are using, its nearly impossible to tell how many individual miners are actually running on the network.
Professor Andrew Shepherd, of Leeds University, who did not participate in the study, welcomed it as pinning down the relative shares of natural and man-made influences.
And most people who are trying to conceive are already intent on pinning down their fertile days — this bracelet is just one easy way to do that.
At moments in her scholarly pursuit, she said, she's "gone way too far" and found herself practically unable to tear herself away from pinning down particular facts.
The impossibility of pinning down the boundaries of this art experience is exactly what makes Meow Wolf an exciting and challenging philosophical question for an art critic.
That said, the number of open accounts is not necessarily the same as the number of active deposit customers, so pinning down exact customer numbers is tricky.
Those warrants require as specific a location as possible, which usually means pinning down a particular locker or storage unit, rather than just a particular block or building.
And it would be a travesty if you start construction on a site that has an abandoned oil well without pinning down whether it's safe to do that.
And Stewart's background — he was an exec at Jetsetter, a luxury travel site that sold to TripAdvisor — suggests the car team is pinning down a viable business model.
Pinning down what Quakers actually believe about anything is a "very difficult question", according to Ben Pink Dandelion, who runs a Quaker studies centre at the University of Birmingham.
In the course of amassing a history of female fighters, one American fighter in particular, consistently eluded the type of pinning down that is the foundation of scholarly pursuit.
Put another way, the official said, it would take 100 analysts working eight hours a day up to 471 consecutive calendar days to even begin pinning down the details.
If you're interested at all in what goes into pinning down the author of cyber attacks such as this major DDOS system, it's more than worth the time to read.
The online group of high-profile ethereum developers, which included Taylor Monahan, founder of popular ethereum wallet MyEtherWallet, was hard at work pinning down the problem and formulating a solution.
Erle Ellis of the University of Maryland, a co-author of the study released on Thursday, said pinning down the Anthropocene would transform understanding of humanity's role on the planet.
When a candidate flip-flops as much as Clinton, pinning down their identity is like trying to take a Rorschach test with wet ink that keeps sliding around the page.
Though Mitchell plays an out-and-proud lesbian on Pretty Little Liars, she reveals in Cosmopolitan's June cover story that she doesn't subscribe to pinning down her sexuality off screen.
Stevens's comment demonstrates the difficulty many analysts have pinning down the meaning of racism and the distinction — if there is one — between being a racist and voting for a racist.
The men sprayed bullets from AK-47s in every direction, essentially pinning down law enforcement officers armed with service pistols and shotguns that failed to penetrate their adversaries' body armor.
When you have a psychosis, you get asked questions about how you'd felt the six months previously so you can start pinning down subtle signs that it might have been coming.
News Analysis MEXICO CITY — Pinning down the meaning of Joaquín Guzmán Loera — the deadly and celebrated Mexican drug trafficker known as El Chapo — is a constant battle between tragedy and farce.
Pinning down one factor that makes a volcano erupt in an effusive (lava-making) or explosive (ash-making) way is tricky, and the same volcano can behave differently at different times.
But US lawmakers have historically been reluctant to step into the fray where Facebook is concerned — perhaps because of the difficulty of pinning down how to regulate tech companies this large.
The court had great difficulty pinning down who owned the emerald or how much it was worth—or, really, any facts at all, because so many men contradicted one another under oath.
Some of the pieces she curated for this year's show are political — like Rose Freymuth-Frazier's "Divine Intervention," which features a fluffy white cat pinning down a plush Trump with its paw.
He got one box of mango JUUL pods, but is still pinning down what he will do when that runs out, and is looking into driving up to Vermont for future supplies.
He got one box of mango JUUL pods, but is still pinning down what he will do when that runs out, and is looking into driving up to Vermont for future supplies.
Butterflies encased in glass boxes are the creation of an imaginary figure called Nature Boy, a troubled adolescent who "is pinning down the beauty" in the botanical world in search of life's meaning.
Pinning down even an estimated suicide rate for US Muslims is impossible because most families choose to keep the deaths quiet, sometimes lying about how someone died for fear of being blamed or shunned.
The direction of the series is almost clinical, pinning down these awful people in their lush, overdecorated environments, watching as the shadows close in while they doom themselves to simultaneous relationship and economic ruin.
Much of the attempted verification of the dossier focused on pinning down details, such as travel dates of Trump campaign associates, stamps in passports and whether parties to purported meetings could have been present.
Pinning down precise numbers is difficult, but Britain's Department for Work and Pensions says that around 22016,215 people living in the European Union draw British pensions (this excludes Ireland, where another 135,000 are based).
The dollar hit its highest level in two years and the yen rose half a percent on Thursday as economic and political uncertainties swept through Europe and Asia, pinning down the euro and the yuan.
White House economic advisor Gary Cohn is also in the mix but he is seen as having low odds of being named, and the market is having a hard time pinning down his policy views.
Lawrence walked us through how the staff voted on the music that defined the year, the compromises they had to make, and why picking a stellar song is even harder than pinning down a killer album.
But "Distortion," at its epic length, and epoch-spanning scale, feels like his grandest attempt at pinning down the questions of mortality that—he says in the song—have plagued him since he was a child.
Many signatories to the protocol, including the United States, have been accused of improper use of phosphorus weapons, and pinning down such use is difficult because militaries often argue that they are being used on military targets.
She constructs a dynamic historical figure, then spins out a spherical world of elegant reference, anchoring the narrative in specific detail and pinning down complex swaths of history that, in less capable hands, would simply blow away.
The take-home message for parents: If you happen to drop a heavy object on the floor while the pediatrician is pinning down your baby's leg for a shot, your child will be in therapy for life.
Matt Spicer's debut feature, Ingrid Goes West, co-written by Bad Sports' David Branson Smith, sent a small ripple through the summer by pinning down exactly what it feels like to fall for an Instagram influencer's lifestyle mirage.
I've been having a hard time pinning down exactly what the movie A Simple Favor is about, but Anna Kendrick's most recent interview with PrideSource has drawn some parallels that are pretty promising for the Paul Feig film.
The fossils these arrow worms—or "chaetognaths" in scientific parlance—left behind contain visual traces of soft tissues, in addition to skeletal features, which is a valuable factor in pinning down their place in the tree of life.
Complicating the work of the Afghan forces, the Taliban have, in many areas, cut off the main highways as well as smaller roads leading to security check posts, often pinning down the Afghan forces and disrupting resupply efforts.
Faced with a spike of murders in 2015, Milwaukee residents told the paper they had trouble pinning down the reasons for the surge, aside from the usual suspects of poverty, unemployment, education, ineffective courts, policing and easy access to guns.
Without this, it is difficult to pinpoint where exactly the species fit into the evolutionary scheme of things, but more than two years on from the original discovery, Berger believes they are now on the brink of pinning down a date.
According to her, diapering a baby used to be something akin to wrestling an alligator; there were frantic limbs pinning down wriggling bodies, sharp pins being stuck into skin, and explosive consequences of not getting it right the first time.
As tensions rise between the US and Russia, among other nation states, the popularity of pinning down the locations of military assets—like the Russian naval vessel Viktor Leonov— is growing, and Twitter's the go-to destination for doing that.
Rosé is every bit as complex and sophisticated as its red and white cousins, so it's no wonder that both rosé enthusiasts and brand-new bandwagoners are turning to wine experts for help in pinning down their go-to summertime sip.
Pinning down precise details of the government's work is difficult, partly because of official secrecy and partly because big decisions—like what tariff regime will be implemented if Britain leaves the European Union without a deal—have yet to be taken by ministers.
In the first semi-final, Denmark's Wozniacki stood her ground in the face of some incredible early pressure before pinning down Karolina Pliskova with a 7-6(9) 6-3 victory that ensured Simona Halep will end the year as world number one.
And yet on shows like Mr. Robot and Westworld, which are about trying to understand the discombobulating nature of reality itself, shouldn't there be more to the story than pinning down the plot on corkboard like a butterfly, the better to examine it?
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two different teams of insurgents launched separate attacks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing a police chief and two of his officers in a rural province, and pinning down hundreds of government employees in a ministry building in the capital, officials said.
It's hard pinning down causality when you're dealing with events as messy as House races, but Abramowitz's work will worry vulnerable congressional Democrats even as a big portion of the liberal base is making Medicare-for-all into the key litmus test.
"Some of these rules, putting in maturities — actually pinning down a level of rates, might be a practical way," to manage future QE programs, said Jonathan Wright, a Johns Hopkins University professor and co-author of one of the central papers under discussion in Chicago.
His modus operandi, "surveillance-containment", required not mass vaccination but pinning down each case and vaccinating all contacts; it needed the co-operation even of villagers and schoolchildren, who learned to spot the tell-tale rash of Variola major, like buckshot embedded in the skin.
While Hammer was on Watch What Happens Live Thursday night, Andy Cohen couldn't help but ask about the steamy scene, which starts out as a physical fist fight between the men, and ends with an unexpected kiss with Hammer pinning down DiCaprio on the ground.
While American and other Western intelligence officials are sorting through intelligence strands on the bombers, pinning down exact travel to Syria through Turkey — the route one of the earlier Sri Lankan members of the Islamic State had taken — or other countries is a challenging task.
His most recent rhetorical contortions on immigration — which he has variously described as more "compassionate" and more hawkish than the president's — exemplify the difficulty of pinning down Mr. Romney's politics generally let alone of drawing straight lines between his religious identity and his relationship to this administration's agenda.
We did not even have time for one of the New York tabloids to run with a Photoshop-aided back cover and a "PJ HARVEY" headline, because local reporters were still pinning down who texted whom when, and how distressed and disappointed all parties involved were about all of it.
Especially during a time when the clothing industry in general is scrambling to adjust to the new exigencies of a fragmented marketplace, the continued decline of bricks-and-mortar retailing and the insuperable challenges of pinning down the fickle tastes of that generational behemoth called the Millennial, it is worth tuning in to the fashion frequencies transmitted from this northern industrial city.
While the protagonists in these cult classics are forced to grapple with escaping the effects of violence in their communities, Rick Famuyiwa's 1999 film The Wood, which turns 20 this week, did something a bit different; it portrayed a bond between Black men that wasn't solely based on the crime happening around them—a nuanced relationship study that Hollywood still seems to find trouble pinning down two decades after the film's release.

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