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"chalk up" Definitions
  1. (informal) to achieve or record a success, points in a game, etc.
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It's time to chalk up another win for size inclusivity.
And it looks like you can chalk up one more.
I chalk up my own interest to its diminished drama.
It is also another win we can chalk up for Kirk.
Chalk up another one for the NHL's age of parity. 4.
But, we can probably chalk up all this gingerphobia to jealousy.
Warren will chalk up at least seven delegates, according to NBC.
Chalk up their influence to a palpable shift in the wind.
Some analysts chalk up the fighting words to an opening gambit.
Ahead, chalk up and find your next training spot or weekend getaway.
But instead, you can chalk up another first for a police robot.
Chalk up another feel-good story courtesy of Tesla's vaunted safety features.
There were house rules: He had to chalk up in the bathroom.
Gone are the days when we could chalk up homophobia to ignorance.
The Nasdaq should chalk up its biggest August percentage gain in 213 years.
You chalk up a big win to good luck rather than good work.
Chalk up several more thousand dollars for the cage and all that safety stuff.
He puts out feelers to sound China out and chalk up some petty benefits.
It's tempting to chalk up the band's growth to a run-in with royalty.
So it's unfair to chalk up all his campaign-trail flubs to his age.
Yet those differences could be small enough to chalk up to variations in manufacturing.
Should we chalk up the posts to a youthful mistake and omit the information?
Authorities chalk up those successes to elaborate preparations since the outbreak was declared last August.
So chalk up another tale of reduced reliance on targeted ads yielding unexpected business uplift.
I certainly can't chalk up years of middling results in the gym to willful ignorance.
Post-round beatdown sends Johnson packing Chalk up another casualty for the game's armchair referees.
In other circumstances, you could chalk up a killer deal or two to an inventory refresh.
It would be easy to chalk up his interest this time to encouragement from the press.
If you are keeping the "strategic competition" scores, chalk up a big one for China here.
Nonetheless, I'm going to chalk up this beautiful, absorbing, disturbing work as a win for art.
Orsino and Olivia chalk up all that monstrosity to love: An angel made them do it.
It's easy to chalk up Anthony's first performance to rust, but he didn't actually look rusty.
Audience members will chalk up those habits to just the way they talk, Ms. Marshall said.
Companies like Shell and Airbus chalk up the difficulties to the technology being in its infancy.
"Kind of have to chalk up to the basketball gods," Oubre said of the James 25-pointer.
Chalk up a win for human-centric design with this remote, as it's a joy to use.
She said in part that the court was wrong to chalk up the officer's mistakes as innocent.
It's easy to chalk up being out of touch with loved ones to a compelling work reason.
The rapid drop to this lower level is another feature we can chalk up for the bears.
Chalk up another success for Asia&aposs most durable leader and the politics of guile and ruthlessness.
During past shutdowns, contractors have been forced to chalk up this gap in pay as a loss.
Chalk up another W for Hemsworth ... who's been on a winning streak since the freakin' gene pool.
"They could chalk up the consumer weakness to weak utility spending in January and February," said Tilley.
That bubble helped Bill Clinton chalk up the best stock-market performance of the last 11 presidents.
How much can you chalk up to Belfort simply adapting to the changing circumstances of his sport?
Aghast critics chalk up his self-obsession to narcissistic personality disorder and his fictions to pathological lying.
Instead, Schiff and others seem content to chalk up the resistance as yet another ground for impeachment.
Lawmakers obviously want to chalk up a win against internet companies as more issues arise around online activity.
That bubble helped the Clinton administration chalk up the best stock market performance of the last 11 presidents.
During past shutdowns, contractors have been forced to simply chalk up this gap in pay as a loss.
And though China's internet titans have ambitions abroad, they have yet to chalk up any great successes there.
This leads founders to chalk up success to luck, but to take all the blame for any failures.
Nike did chalk up a 12 percent gain in future orders compared to 2 percent a year earlier.
While it's easy to chalk up our bad habits as "character flaws," it is possible to change them.
December's data helped exports from October through December chalk up to the first quarterly gain since late 2014.
Sanders will score at least 13, and Warren, the home state candidate, will chalk up at least seven.
If the Nasdaq rises today, it would chalk up its first three-day win streak in two months.
Chalk up deep insight as one of the benefits of this challenge — along with the money we saved.
The Dow and S&P 500 are on track to chalk up an eight straight quarter of gains.
During past shutdowns, contractors have been forced to simply chalk up this lack of pay as a loss.
However, that bubble helped the Clinton administration chalk up the best stock market performance of the last 11 presidents.
Ahead, meet some of the women who inspire us to grab our shoes, chalk up, and send our projects.
You can chalk up the international strategy so far to Lyft's "attitude of partnerships," Lokhandwala was able to say.
To an extent, we can chalk up that omission to the tendency of storytellers to focus on solitary geniuses.
While Duke made national headlines with his announcement, strategists chalk up his candidacy as "a non-entity" in Louisiana.
It's easy to chalk up Paddock's horrific actions simply to "evil," as politicians and media are inclined to do.
Chalk up his absence to his multiple interests: he produces music, D.J.s, writes short movie vignettes and plays basketball.
He tends to chalk up past Surface products, even the ones that didn't do well, as simply before their time.
Being smart means learning the lessons of Alabama and moving money in ways that will continue to chalk up wins.
Now its executives politely chalk up those efforts as experiments, and say they're ready to get into TV for real.
Are we just supposed to chalk up the gradual goodnighting of device communality as another notch in 'the price of progress'?
You could chalk up the Tamworth Distillery's immediate success to Grasse's business acumen, or his company's knack for building memorable brands.
Completing each stretch of the ascent allows you to chalk up a small physical win, which encourages you to press forward.
Spot gold rose 0.05 percent to $1,336.12 per ounce as the dollar steadied but lacked the momentum to chalk up gains.
We may as well embrace it as one of the many wedding customs we chalk up to tradition for tradition's sake.
On the daily Washington scorecard, McConnell can probably chalk up a win for the establishment -- Trump on camera, praising his caucus.
" She added, "It's easier to preserve the fantasy of total unity if you chalk up political differences to 'waves' or generations.
That helped the company chalk up a record quarter for income in the quarter to end-June of 84.2 million pounds.
After an impressive run that saw world stocks chalk up a record 15 consecutive monthly gains, it eventually became too much.
It's tempting to chalk up this anti-immigrant record to simple bigotry, but "City of Dreams" casts doubt on that conclusion.
But while Trump can seemingly chalk up two big wins over the last week, the administration still has room to run.
Has struggled to chalk up big results against players in the top 20 but did make finals in Chennai and Marrakesh.
Measles cases are climbing, with outbreaks across the country, which many health professionals chalk up to parents refusing to vaccinate their children.
If Kelvin Gastelum wins we can chalk up another victory for the undersized men who aren't drying themselves out completely before fights.
That's another milestone to chalk up — even though there's been plenty of controversy because the live-stream can't be viewed in China.
Spot gold tacked on 0.1 percent to $1,336.14 per ounce as the dollar steadied but lacked the momentum to chalk up gains.
It's easy enough to chalk up such defections to the Latter-day Saints' deep investment in conservative notions of marriage and family.
Hot Tigers chalk up another win DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers got a win and suffered a loss, all in the same game.
But while I could chalk up the hostility on the street to Italian culture, in the classroom, I was surrounded by Americans.
You might even chalk up achievement to "good luck," or you might assume that any success you have stems from other people.
Although companies often chalk up the exposures to human error, in reality it's not so easy to inadvertently make private cloud data public.
Based on its willingness and humility today to chalk up a misstep and tease a future product early, Apple seems to recognize this.
So it's, uh, a pretty big leap to chalk up her loss to astrology when there were so many other factors at play.
Still, Microsoft is more than happy to chalk up the recent success of its proprietary hardware line in part to unhappy Apple fans.
Despite being pre-race favorite to chalk up a third win in a row, Vettel finished only eighth, behind even McLaren's Fernando Alonso.
The couple and their guests all look incredibly happy, which we can partially chalk up to the fact that everyone's feet are comfy.
You could say that it's just bad luck, although 36 games seems like a pretty long stretch to chalk up to the bounces.
But the House has also signaled it is ready to take advantage of any legal wins it can chalk up in the meantime.
Futures were higher this morning, giving the Dow, S&P 217 and Nasdaq a chance to chalk up a fourth straight positive session.
Both Verma and Azar pursued ambitious plans across 2018, trying to chalk up victories for the Trump administration after the Obamacare repeal debacle.
But rather than supporting and believing her, they chalk up her stress to her pregnancy, telling her to rest, calm down, stop being hysterical.
It was easy to chalk up their fairly sexless courtship to Hannah's religious background and history as a pageant woman in the public eye.
Those like Thomas Frank who want to chalk up the success of the Tea Party to economic anxiety are missing the key variable: race.
The athletic footwear and apparel maker did chalk up a 12 percent gain in future orders compared to 2 percent advance a year earlier.
But it's not fair to chalk up Ms. Griffin's success to our culture's lust for scandal and stardom, though that's certainly part of it.
It would allow Republicans to chalk up a win before coming budget fights and debates over taxes that are also likely to prove divisive.
If some fans don't realize it, well, we can chalk up yet another victim of the NHL's long-standing inability to fix its scoring woes.
But there are some officers who exploit the benefits of deference, and chalk up even the most obvious instances of excessive force to respectable instinct.
A Moon Shaped Pool has roots in every part of Radiohead's discography, a quality you can chalk up to the age of its constituent parts.
While it is tempting to chalk up the socialist resurgence to dynamic messengers like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, the reality is a bit more complicated.
Russia's political and business leaders were quick to chalk up a summit last month between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin as a victory.
With four trading days left in 25, the S&P 20209 would need a 22.4% gain to chalk up its best yearly gain since 1997.
For some, the string of untimely deaths and scandals in President John F. Kennedy's family may seem too unlikely to chalk up as bad luck.
All that said – the major averages are all up roughly 2% for September, and are also poised to chalk up a third straight quarterly gain.
Nor is it something we can chalk up to coming climate catastrophe, necessarily—rising surface-level temperatures do not substantially affect how hot stations get, either.
" CEO Greg Glassman told the Morning Chalk Up, a CrossFit blog, that Facebook "doesn't comport with my community standards for privacy and decency, so we're out.
Chalk up some of that to inattention - but it is also the result of Social Security's complex rules and the challenge of finding good claiming help.
Although some people might chalk up the incident to a misunderstanding arrived at by assuming bad intentions, it is still very difficult to assume good intentions.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's political and business leaders were quick to chalk up last week's summit with U.S. President Donald Trump as a victory for Vladimir Putin.
Mercedes have won all seven races this season, and nine in a row in total, and are favorites to chalk up another in France on Sunday.
"This wasn't a one-time deal, and this wasn't a small issue — this wasn't something you kind of chalk up as a youthful mistake," Daniels said.
It's easy for an economist to chalk up support for rent control as idiocy that depresses the home construction that might reduce housing prices for everyone.
It would be irresponsible to chalk up these troubling confrontations — which have overtones of discrimination and intimidation — to mere clashes of political opinion without full investigation.
Here's what to expect in the week ahead: MARKETS The question for financial markets in 2018 is whether they can continue to chalk up big gains.
The low unemployment rate means that the still-depressed levels of participation in the work force are hard to chalk up to a shortage of jobs.
Naw, we the walkup gang/I come from the 6, where they chalk up lames" and later declares, "Gold grill mouth/I come from the South.
The Dow and S&P 500 are on track for a second straight positive week, while the Nasdaq should chalk up a third consecutive weekly gain.
Chalk up another win for European data protection: Microsoft has announced changes to commercial cloud contracts following privacy concerns raised by European Union data protection authorities.
We initially thought that officers would chalk up public misunderstandings to "business as normal," as criminologists who claim the Ferguson effect does not exist would argue.
She said Trudeau probably wants to "chalk up some really big wins" ahead of the 2019 election and will try to show progress in trade deals.
"Selma is definitely correct by saying that doctors don't hear you, and chalk up your symptoms to tiredness or anxiety, especially for a woman," she said.
By trading in 20 iPhone 5703's, a woman in China was able to chalk up enough money to make a down payment on her first home.
Supercell has been able to chalk up a string of gaming successes, mostly by giving top talent a greater amount of independence to develop projects, experts say.
Some people chalk up diving to cultural differences, but what's become crystal clear is that Neymar is kind of tarnishing his legacy with this blatant ass-hattery.
Most players in Sacramento chalk up the bills' failure to a flurry of last-minute activity on other measures and legislators' sense that the issue could wait.
The pictures, released by imaging company Planet Labs on January 8, show that Iran can chalk up its strike as a success even without inflicting US casualties.
Futures were higher this morning after an unusual session which saw the Dow chalk up a triple-gain while the Nasdaq was falling just over 133 percent.
But the Chili now also attracts its share of younger drinkers, something Semandiris, the fourth generation of his family to run the joint, can't chalk up to marketing.
So chalk up another tale of failed crowdfunding, and a salutary lesson that when it comes to hardware crowdfunding expecting delays (at the very least) is always wise.
With seemingly everyone jumping on the Bitcoin bandwagon these days, including institutional investors, it's hard to chalk up Bitcoin's meteoric rise solely to the behavior patterns of millennials.
A smaller notch means more screen real estate, and visually, it looks fine (to me) regardless of the size, so chalk up a small win for Android there.
Tyron says his resume ain't that impressive -- and if he wants to add "HOF" next to his name, he needs to chalk up a few more MAJOR wins.
The Devils (3-2-2) outshot the Blackhawks 28-12 through two periods but Hynes refused to chalk up his team's loss to bad bounces or bad luck.
Women who become ill are often ashamed that they don't fit this model — and family members often chalk up serious symptoms to "normal" new motherhood and sleep deprivation.
Some experts chalk up the goings-on to the do-it-yourself maker movement, which means that it is easier for older Americans to take up new activities.
In recent years however, these Mayberrys have been plagued by substantial unresolved maintenance issues, which many military renters chalk up to abject negligence from private military housing companies.
Chalk up the way the precedent around the Obama administration outpacing the current one in hiring media people being buried as being a textbook example of the latter.
Each loan will cost H&R Block an average of $2450 to $2000, according to regulatory filings — which the company will chalk up as a customer-acquisition expense.
With Thursday's gains, the major averages are all on track for a positive week, with the S&P 217 set to chalk up its fourth straight weekly gain.
But they chalk up those touchy, sometimes affectionate moments with both men and women to a politician looking to connect with people through gestures of support and comfort.
The Dow is poised to post its fourth straight monthly advance, while the S&P 803 and Nasdaq appear set to chalk up a third straight month of gains.
These stereotypes chalk up to a set of illogical proxies: Thin people have more self-control and discipline, so they're supposedly nicer to work with and they work harder.
Chalk up the positive change of attitudes, in part, to all the attention surrounding the U.S. Department of Labor's so-called fiduciary rule - set for final implementation in April.
It did shed a bit during the first few days, which I chalk up to the moss getting loosened a bit during the shipping process, but otherwise looks great.
Chalk up another win for the machines in their battles against humans — this time with six top Chinese poker players being walloped in a five-day Texas Hold'em extravaganza.
But here we are, in the year of our lord, 2018, watching the team that is the Hard Knocks-est of the Hard Knocks actually chalk up a win.
One thing that keeps coming up that would chalk up some of these inconsistencies to ignorance rather than malice or a possible hoax is just how green the women were.
A co-ordinated confidence-boosting effort by senior government officials in China pledging support for markets helped its stockmarkets chalk up their biggest single-day gains in almost three years.
The book accounts for the violations most women (and indeed Valenti herself) have been taught to put away, to chalk up as the costs of survival in a male world.
BERLIN (Reuters) - First Alitalia, then Air Berlin and now Monarch Airlines: Europe's struggling carriers are falling like dominoes and the region's biggest airlines are set to chalk up bigger profits.
He could chalk up victories, as at Bayreuth, where his performance of Wagner's "Ring" in 1976 was booed on the first night and cheered for 85 minutes on the last.
So you could chalk up this episode as one more example, with the lesson being that the American economy is dynamic and robust enough that it will probably keep chugging.
The market tends to do well in the final week of the year, which some chalk up to light trading volume with so many people off for the Christmas holiday.
European shares were set to chalk up healthy weekly gains, snapping a three-week losing streak as earnings updates continued to impress, and volatility and jitters over rising inflation eased.
He finished sixth at last month's German Grand Prix, the first time he had driven a Formula One car in the wet, to chalk up his best result so far.
Chalk up another victory for President Donald J. Trump, yet don't expect any favorable words from a party led by Democratic Socialists who are intent on sabotaging the Trump presidency.
It would be easy to chalk up the portrayal to "staying true to the story," but it has also been more than 25 years since Sapowski first penned The Witcher.
The S&P 500 has been up for eight straight days, and if it can rise today, it would chalk up its first nine-day win streak since November of 2004.
We can chalk up Bieber's look to missing one too many hair appointments, but Leto and Malone seem to have made more intentional moves — and we're not sure how to feel.
Chalk up another victory for Conor McGregor -- 'cause TMZ Sports has learned the UFC superstar will NOT be charged with a crime for allegedly driving around with a firearm in Ireland.
After supper, you chalk up the churning in your stomach to the pork chops and the burning in your eyes to the New Year's Eve party that lasted till 2 a.m.
However, the index looked to chalk up losses of 2.4 percent in March - its second straight month in the red - and has risen just 0.3 percent since the start of the year.
Several flight attendants said that following an event, there was no incident report or follow-up, and in some cases managers encouraged employees to chalk up sick feelings to having a cold.
Despite inheriting immense wealth, having grown up in a prominent family in the conservative movement, he had managed to chalk up virtually no public success in his first six decades of life.
Most observers of state politics chalk up McCrory's apparent defeat to his signing of HB2, North Carolina's notorious "bathroom bill" which contains language allowing for widespread discrimination against the state's trans community.
But these two depictions are not in contradiction: This skewed perception of Japan that causes many to nonchalantly chalk up any indiscretions or questionable content in Japanese media as funny national characteristic.
Experts chalk up the company's ascent to two trends: The rise of streetwear culture, which has exploded around the world, and the need for a trusted resale outlet with modern-day conveniences.
Some analysts chalk up Mr. Trump's flippancy to a lack of knowledge, because one thing many Palestinians and Israelis do agree on is that a one-state formula will not bring peace.
His loss of faith echoes a lot of people; he wasn't able to swallow the idea that the death of someone he loved is something to chalk up to the will of God.
But the XY crew aren't disheartened—it was an inevitable setback, one they hope to chalk up to a blip, that was bound happen when throwing parties by the seats of their pants.
She also said I should tell my girlfriend that "I love you and I want you to marry me," which I am going to chalk up to her respective three liters of beer.
Chalk up these artistic choices, in part, to performers' creative ambitions and the stubbornness to get them realized, as well as to the increasing clout of individual stars versus a scrambling music business.
There are instances when I can't summon the right word, or grow overly emotional at odd moments, common little lapses that I assume other people chalk up to fatigue or overwork or whatever else.
Many observers were surprised last year when Judge Kavanaugh's name did not appear on the original list of 21 possible Supreme Court picks—an omission some chalk up to Mr Trump's swamp-draining rhetoric.
During past shutdowns, contractors have had to simply chalk up those gaps in pay as a loss — a reality some lawmakers are seeking to change in the wake of the lengthy 35-day impasse.
On Monday, the EIA said in a monthly forecast that U.S. shale oil production in April is expected to chalk up the second-largest monthly decline on record, and the sixth straight monthly decrease.
The resolution shows how Trump, who has rapidly plowed through much of his energy agenda, may find it harder to chalk up decisive wins as the administration considers tackling tougher battles with entrenched interests.
LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Bitcoin smashed through the $5,000 barrier for the first time ever on Thursday, jumping as much as 7 percent to chalk up its biggest daily rise in over two weeks.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. shale oil production in April is expected to chalk up the second-largest monthly decline on record, and the sixth straight monthly decrease, a U.S. government forecast released on Monday showed.
But the pain those things would once have conjured is now more just a dull ache, a fact of my life, something I chalk up to experience having made the conscious choice to plough forward.
Given Drake's proximity to the island's culture by way of the large Jamaican migrant population who have made Toronto their home, it's easy to chalk up the project as being reflective of the diasporic presence.
Kanye West's The Life of Pablo is the first album to top the Billboard charts with the majority of its "sales" derived from streaming, an achievement you can chalk up to the album's unorthodox release.
In addition, no doubt the business is capital intensive given the competition, so you'd imagine that a significant amount of money is needed to offset the monthly burn rate that Swiggy and others chalk up.
Since I have fairly excellent recall for most other pop culture nostalgia from my childhood, I chalk up this complete block of all things Pee-wee Herman-related to one thing: Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
While it was natural to chalk up early reports that Disney might be interested to bankers trying to drum up business, people familiar with the company say the idea was a live one last week.
The opening of "Plot" could be any remembrance of urban life just before World War II. Families gather for dinner, kids chalk up the street to play games, "Begin the Beguine" plays on the radio.
So chalk up another win for Robert Murray, the far-right Trump confidante and chief executive of the Murray Energy Corporation, a big coal producer for which Mr. Wheeler served as an attorney and lobbyist.
To chalk up some quick "kills" in dogfights with the enemy "deep state" they fantasize about, the administration is doing damage to a key institution of U.S. international influence, which will play out over decades.
Those willing to chalk up the cash for one of the Pro models, targeted at professional videographers and photographers, will get a phone with three cameras on the back: telephoto, wide and ultra-wide lenses.
You can chalk up its failure to a number of issues, including the near-simultaneous release of more powerful consoles like the Sony PlayStation and the discomfort caused by crooking your neck to play the thing.
"The fact that you can chalk up his violence as youthful indiscretion or 'troubles' only let's [sic] me know you all have accepted abuse, violent homophobia, and sexual assault as 'growing pains,'" one Twitter user said.
Rockies claim another series with 8-103 win over Cardinals DENVER — The Colorado Rockies are proving methodically efficient when it comes to winning series, and they used a late rally to chalk up another one Sunday.
"ALS typically hits his age group – early to mid-40s through the 50s – and most guys, especially these military guys, they're just going to chalk up these symptoms as part of getting older," Lara Garey said.
Chalk up another coup for digital media hiring as the media company mitú, focused on digitally distributed content for Hispanic audiences, has managed to score the longtime entertainment executive Herb Scannell as its new chief executive.
Rubio drops out of race Many analysts, and Rubio himself, may chalk up his many losses to a smoldering anger among voters who are turning to Donald Trump and shunning every manner of traditional elected official.
Demi Lovato, "Body Say" This is the second straight year Demi Lovato's released a spicy single on July 1st, a nascent tradition I'd like to chalk up to her deep, abiding love of the Canadian people.
Congress could chalk up a quick, easy bipartisan victory for taxpayers if both the House and Senate determined to pass the Email Privacy Act as early as possible, and send it to President Trump for signature.
So, while it's been easy to chalk up Matty's antics as merely being an angry self-entitled screw up, on top of being blamed sister's death, he's been keeping quiet about his Dad's affair this entire time.
Instead, Jon views himself as unbeaten in the Octagon with a 24-0 record (instead of 23-1) -- and says he plans to chalk up another 26 victories ... starting with Anthony Smith on Saturday at UFC 235.
MSCI's 24-country emerging market stock index was positive for the first time in five days, although it was having to cling on and was about to chalk up its longest weekly losing streak since November 2016.
Read the full poll results After the high-profile failure of legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, Republicans from Capitol Hill to the White House are eager to chalk up a legislative victory in the coming months.
But unlike Bayer they were not caught out by major surplus volumes in distribution channels, which forced the Bayer division to chalk up negative Latin America sales for the quarter after taking back products from distributors' shelves.
Mercedes have now been first and second in all three practice sessions and are favorites to chalk up their eighth win of the season on Sunday, and 10th in a row stretching back to Brazil last November.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in an interview with Corriere della Sera newspaper on Thursday, looked to calm worries about the sort of losses stakeholders in lenders might have to chalk up in the creation of bad banks.
That kind of development would certainly be a blow to Branson's ego as he's also watched Musk's SpaceX rocket company chalk up numerous victories while Virgin Galactic has struggled to get its suborbital spaceflight business off the ground.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A top official of China's finance ministry has criticized the misuse of public-private partnership (PPP) programs by local authorities, saying some chalk up debt for unsuitable schemes and others apply them to purely commercial projects.
In the Leslie Jones case Yiannopoulos can chalk up two wins: his own censorship by Twitter, and the self-censorship of Jones quitting Twitter after he criticized her performance and his fans piled in to racially abuse her.
Chalk up yet another Brexit deficit: Japanese electronics firm Panasonic will be moving its European headquarters from the UK to Amsterdam in October because it's worried about the tax implications if it stays, the Nikkei Asian Review reports.
But plane crashes and fatal accident rates have declined, even as the number of flights and passengers have hit record highs, a trend industry analysts chalk up to higher safety standards, better maintenance, safer equipment and more training.
Fans who had poured in to see the Swiss master in action witnessed him fire down a 10,000th career ace and chalk up a record 85th win at Wimbledon, surpassing the benchmark he had shared with Jimmy Connors.
It'd be easy to chalk up the $4.5 billion figure to Uber's many, many scandals, but both Bloomberg and The Information's read of the finance report also points to Uber's exhaustive growth strategy, even as PR cataclysms dominated headlines.
Much of that is thanks to a (finally) good report in October this year and a blessing from a Wall Street firm, but we could potentially chalk up getting to those events to some actual things Twitter has done.
Against a backdrop of increased mergers and acquisitions in the European fund industry, amid rising costs and increased regulation, the number of funds across the region fell by 97 to chalk up the seventh consecutive year of net closures.
Scientists also don't understand why some people experience mild symptoms that they chalk up to a cold while others get a severe immune system reaction that does more damage than the virus itself and puts them in critical care.
Normally, people tend to chalk up distractions like this as a diversion tactic, but for Trump, it seems to be more that he saw all the chatter on TV and the internet about crowd size and threw a tantrum.
" Van Yahres said he thought August was the perfect time to chalk up his idea of interlaced fingers symbolizing people of different races coming together at the intersection because of the foot traffic associated with the city's "Unity Days.
Patriots partisans chalk up this imbalance to the team's vaunted toughness in the "red zone" (inside their own 20-yard line), forcing opponents to settle for mere field goals on drives where they had a good chance to score touchdowns.
Opponents and international observers are quick to chalk up AMLO's win to a wave of populism sweeping the globe — he's often compared to both Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump — but his landslide victory is far more rooted in local conditions.
Let's chalk up these kids' snarky, furiously penned essays for campus newspapers and meanspirited social media posts to the internet's mob mentality, a 20-year-old's clumsiness with rhetorical flourishes, and their deep need to be part of a clique.
Even here, she managed to dismiss her predatory behavior by turning it into a joke about being handsy—honking people's breasts or tapping somebody on their "Pikachu"—a sleight-of-hand one can only chalk up to her white, female privilege.
You hear it, and you&aposre like they can&apost be this dumb, but they are, because each time they say this, you can chalk up thousands of more people who are realizing what the Democrats really are and what they have been.
Brennan has not seen enough to call this "collusion," but he hasn't slammed the door shut Chalk up a small win for the White House, during an otherwise grueling morning: Brennan could not definitively say that he saw any evidence of collusion.
There is no easily identifiable victim, and applicants denied admission may well chalk up their rejection to the luck of the draw or the unknown factors that lead one college to turn away a prospective student and another to accept that person.
Of course, Perednia and the Federalist aren't the only ghouls out there setting up a false choice between mass death and economic failure and then declaring they're ready to chalk up hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths as the cost of doing business.
If he is able to recover in South Carolina and deliver a far more convincing performance, he will be able to chalk up fumbles in Las Vegas as rookie presidential-candidate mistakes -- and head into Super Tuesday with the wind at his back.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Roger Federer has never struggled for ways to win matches at the Australian Open but in beating John Millman to chalk up his 100th on the Melbourne hardcourts the 103-year-old Swiss found himself in uncharted territory on Friday.
Chalk up a win for vegan rights — at least in the United Kingdom, where a judge on Friday ruled that "ethical veganism" is a protected class akin to religion under law designed to shield people from discrimination in the workplace and beyond.
Observers chalk up the body's decision to approve the cash to the leadership of Ethiopia's prime minister, who — despite criticism that he has not done enough to quell deadly fighting between Ethiopia's ethnic groups — is seeking to embark the country on a new path.
Experts chalk up the exodus of families to a number of concurrent trends: "There's no doubt that a cluster of extraordinarily successful companies and the massive wealth that they've created has impacted housing prices," says Karen Harris, managing director of macro trends at Bain & Company.
But, of course when you're dealing with an artist with Travis Scott's reputation for going hard with no reservations, it's safe to chalk up ASTROWORLD as a new alternative to a place that brought him immense joy as a youth growing up in Southeast Texas.
For as many of these undelivered changes that you can chalk up to players not understanding the nuts and bolts of game development, there remains an equal number of seemingly simple, crowd-pleasing home runs Bungie could have made far earlier and yet inexplicably did not.
Still, the administration can chalk up a list of important achievements across the region, from the historic opening of relations with Cuba, to trade agreements with Colombia and Panama, to continued security support for Colombia, which contributed to a major peace breakthrough with left-wing guerrillas.
Despite an economic slowdown and dipping ticket sales, China showed how it could still be a savior for Hollywood producers in June after Universal's $160 million blockbuster "Warcraft" managed to chalk up $156 million in China in the first five days despite flopping in the United States.
Because, as a woman, I maintain a bustling control center behind my thoughts where everything said to me is parsed for evidence of impending physical threats, I can quickly chalk up your lack of kk's to a microgenerational difference, and carry on with my nerve-racking life.
The American, who embarked on a forgettable eight-match losing streak immediately after her U.S. Open triumph last September, was at her destructive best as she walloped Rus 6-2 6-0 to chalk up her first win at a major since joining the grand slam winners' club herself.
Given the haphazard structure of the episode, one could easily chalk up the relapse to yet another flashback — or, if you're really committed to the idea of the show killing someone off, go so far as to interpret the final scene as a suggestion Rue won't survive the relapse.
So after the United States women's hockey team endured a soul-crushing overtime loss to Canada at the last Olympics in Sochi, Coach Robb Stauber did not chalk up the past shortcomings to a couple of bad bounces as he prepared the team for its next Olympic campaign.
Janet and Albert Leding set a great example: after painfully early morning starts, they still manage to chalk up a list of Paris and Nicole's chores, rub off that list after doing said chores for their errant guests, and then spend time explaining how Paris and Nicole have fucked up.
Trump appeared to chalk up the loss in part to his own inexperience after House leaders pulled their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare following defections by both moderate and far-right Republican members who were unmoved by Trump's ultimatum to vote for the plan or live with the current system.
Sure, I can chalk up some of Sam's cynicism to youthful hyperbole, but at this point — Mr. Kim coupled with the imminent destruction of the Affordable Care Act, DACA kids' uncertain futures, tax "reform" that will cost us — I can't counter without sounding like someone who has lost her marbles.
Perhaps you could chalk up the app's confusion to the fact that one of those brothers, David Koch, now has his name affixed to two other destinations on the map, an auditorium (formerly the New York State Theatre) at Lincoln Center and the plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum.
Chalk up those scrapes and bruises to bad luck, or to the rent paid for catching―Sawchik noted that the Pirates were more willing to take the plunge because "Cervelli did not have a chronic injury while with the Yankees"―it doesn't matter, because the reality is both could come into play again.
Chalk up a sharp political point in support for privacy legislation with actual teeth: In today's testimony in front of the House Energy & Commerce committee, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked about the outcomes of a string of legal actions against the company — most of which he claimed not to be aware of.
It could be easy to chalk up this clamor to nostalgia: Muschietti's choice to relocate the sprawling book's first timeline from the late 1950s to 1989 caters to that impulse (the second timeline will constitute an entirely separate film "chapter" to come), and the timing of It's arrival, between seasons of its spiritual successor Stranger Things, doesn't hurt any.
So while AMC might chalk up the drop in viewers illegally watching The Walking Dead to its anti-piracy efforts, this trend suggests that the network's cash cow series is losing its cachet with intelligent, Internet-savvy users while a contemporary like Game of Thrones has seen both its ratings and piracy numbers go through the roof.
After simulating a variety of traffic scenarios, the researchers found that implementing slot-based traffic regulation systems could result in up to a two fold increase of vehicle throughput at intersections compared to traditional traffic lights and "even more dramatic reductions" in delay times, an improvement the researchers chalk up to shorter setup phases (aka yellow lights).
You can chalk up the success of the movie to the creatives behind it, especially the producer who oversees the franchise, Jerry Bruckheimer, who for years had to navigate a revolving door of directors, screenwriters, as well as numerous release date changes, and appeasing his temperamental stars to finally get the third movie in the can.
First step is getting past Juan Adams at UFC on ESPN on Saturday -- but Hardy says he can see himself upgrading opponents to guys like Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier as he continues to chalk up the Ws. As for Jones, Hardy says he has nothing but respect for the guy -- even noting that he emulates Jon's fighting style in the Octagon.
" Bradley Jr. said that the area around home plate "can chalk up a lot" and said of the infield hits: "It's one of those things where, as an offensive player, you're loving it, but as a defensive player, you're not liking it because they didn't really hit you hard, but they were able to get on base or get a little rally going.
And if Le Pen, with roughly 11 million votes (21625 percent) to Macron's 2900 percent (that would give Macron about — 220006 to 2202 million?), subtracts the one-third of Macron votes French pollsters chalk up as "anti- Le Pen ballots," another 2628 million maybe, then we're talking about La Pen at 28500 or so million and Macron at anywhere between 6900 and 2628 million.
If history is to remember one of the most audacious photo ops in American diplomacy as anything more than a stunt, the President must now produce breakthroughs from his friendship with the brutal dictator Kim Jong Un. Yet even if that progress is slow to emerge, Trump can still chalk up a valuable political win that will underscore how his foreign policy is often directed by his electoral priorities.
It's easy to chalk up some of the decline to the kind of rude comments and discomfiting gestures we're used to hearing about women in politics — the same types of concerns that deter female candidates from running later on — but experts say much of the shift has to do with how girls are taught and trained for leadership roles in high school (and how they're not trained, too).
Among their targets for graphene devices are transistors, where they reckon the nanomaterial could deliver clock speeds several orders of magnitude faster than silicon-based devices; chemical and electrical sensors, where they say it could increase sensitivity by a factor of >1,000; and novel energy generation devices — arguing graphene could tap into "kinetic and chemical green energy sources yet to be exploited by any other technology" (so chalk up another wonder claim).
In the case of businessman Donald Trump circa 2002 and 2003, chalk up his perspective on the Iraq War before it started as the following: — At first — months before it began to get any real traction in the American mindset — Trump's thought process was one of ambivalence via having not given it almost any thought before being asked about it by Stern, which was nothing more than a quick tangent in an interview focusing on 85033 other things.
They chalk up its success over the years — including as a local refuge after 9/11 and through two financial crises — to its excellent service (no one at Odeon seems to wait more than 15 to 20 minutes for anything, and that's on a bad day) and a broadly appealing menu that now includes a kale salad ("In the '80s it was kiwi," Ms. Wagenknecht said of the ingredient du hour) along with ye olde reliable oysters and soft, perfect omelets.

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