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"lay of the land" Definitions
  1. the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.

154 Sentences With "lay of the land"

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But for now, this is the lay of the land.
It begins well, with an excellent lay of the land.
Alex and I decided to get the lay of the land.
It really helps me sort out the lay of the land.
She's going to look at the lay of the land and decide.
Here's a big Reddit thread on the current lay of the land.
Once I was in, I got a quick lay of the land.
Good for tourists who might not know the lay of the land.
Consider this a basic lay of the land, to get you oriented.
The lay of the land today is that Clinton is running scared!
"Of course, I looked at the lay of the land," he said.
A surprising number blend Groundhog Day with the post-Iowa lay of the land.
Getting the lay of the land will be nearly impossible when the crowds arrive.
You'll start by learning about cognitive functions; getting the neurological lay of the land.
Here's the Senate lay of the land for August, as summarized by Roll Call.
The pic Chris posted is ridiculous ... check out the true lay of the land.
We have a vague lay of the land so far on American Horror Story: Cult.
They drive down brownstone-lined blocks, where Wexler gives Serhant the lay of the land.
"The first step is to assess the lay of the land," said former Michigan Gov.
You listen and you figure out the lay of the land and he did that.
That's a minor quibble, though, and you learn the lay of the land pretty quickly.
So if you're looking to relocate and live off the lay of the land, think twice.
He constantly pulls back to show the lay of the land and the architecture on it.
So did you have to talk to recent teens to get the new lay of the land?
The tour gave me the lay of the land and allowed me to meet even more people.
It's a good way to get the lay of the land before reading any of our guides.
There are so many regulatory challenges that you really need to know the lay of the land.
CheatSheet is a helpful way to learn the lay of the land and become fluent in shortcuts.
I strapped on the harness and he bent over while I surveyed the lay of the land.
The first episode of any competition is as much about getting the lay of the land as anything.
Is there an intermission?) and the lay of the land (for example, the location of the theater's restrooms).
She lived in Los Angeles before and can help the other women get the lay of the land.
"It's always really fascinating to me when they come prepared knowing the lay of the land," she says.
Can you sort of give me the lay of the land when you think about what has influence?
Once the program has the lay of the land, it divvies out labels for regions, roads, and addresses units.
This map provides a lay of the land and shows the path taken by civilians to the border crossing.
That means visiting at least a couple of these sites is necessary to get the lay of the land.
Get the lay of the land by strolling down Queen Street, filled with clothing, cookery, fudge and wine shops.
"It's the best way to get the lay of the land and see some different things," Mr. Lundstrom said.
It caused a brief delay before disembarking at Spadina station, where it continued taking in the lay of the land.
So employees are getting a peek at the lay of the land before sitting down for their annual pay review.
You've drilled a few holes to figure out the lay of the land, and you're waiting for that first bite.
He tried to give me the lay of the land, give me a perspective that I could only partially understand.
In Mexico and the Philippines, where I didn't know the lay of the land, I had to get a fixer.
That, very roughly, is the lay of the land this awards season, now that the Oscar nominations have been announced.
If the car at least knows the basic lay of the land, the thinking goes, handling real time obstacles gets easier.
They know the lay of the land, they've done it before and they'll get you where you need to go faster.
I was eager to get a lay of the land and set off to explore after checking out my tiny house.
ON THE MECHANICS REGARDING CHINA AND ANY BILATERAL DISCUSSIONS, CAN YOU GIVE US THE LAY OF THE LAND AT THIS MOMENT?
The route from the hotel to reach it is also a nice way to get a good lay of the land.
To give you a lay of the land, on the first night, I stayed in Ornos for my try at frugality.
Once you've got the lay of the land in your head, start picking apart your targeted settlement one enemy at a time.
Maps—tangible, foldable maps—are a great way to exercise your juicy brain and familiarize yourself with the lay of the land.
As they drive to school together, Madeline is already talking about the various parents and giving Jane the lay of the land.
Fire it up, move the camera around to get a lay of the land and it will measure nearby objects for you.
And what I ended up doing is ... And what was the lay of the land when you looked around at the sector?
It selected Tencent, Xiaomi, Huawei and Baidu and the experience is sure to help Google figure out the lay of the land.
"Even just a brief exam, just to get a lay of the land, and make sure that everything is okay," Dr. Knotts says.
"One good cooperator can at least give you some good lay of the land, and two can give you even more," Honig said.
"They're a great way to get your lay of the land on your first day in a new city," she told Business Insider.
"We need to counter what everybody has, see the lay of the land and see who has which careers in TV," Elba said.
He meets a girl named Kalisha who gives him the lay of the land and introduces him to the other inmates, all kids.
If you opt to cover a lot of ground fast, you'll get the lay of the land, but as a drive-by blur.
The real world can be scary and unkind place, especially if you're very little and just starting to get the lay of the land.
But new data helps us understand the basic lay of the land — and the barriers Sanders needs to surmount if he wants to win.
She had gotten the lay of the land from Tatum and N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver, but even so, she wanted to see for herself.
This low-slung, hip-exposing, functionless phenomenon became the ultimate calling card in deciding the lay of the land on the savagest of social strata.
This is about focusing your mind on the lay of the land as we all naturally do when the year is drawing to a close.
So Motherboard has gathered the most up-to-date rundown of each state's approach to help you keep informed on the lay of the land.
When slime molds are placed in a new environment, they'll spread out in every direction in a fractal pattern, assessing the lay of the land.
Because all this has been hastily constructed in the past few months, nobody seemed to know the lay of the land yet, including our shuttle driver.
To give you the quick lay of the land, I started in the private sector in Motorola, but then I went back and got my doctorate.
The cows did not get into the hospital, instead they preferred to just get the lay of the land and wait for someone to notice them.
I got to the stadium well ahead of the start time and got my lay of the land — but plenty of fans had arrived ahead of me.
The lay of the land The U.S. has been clashing with pro-Assad regime forces in recent weeks, which could be setting the U.S. up for a conflict.
But for now I want to give you the lay of the land and show you where Democrats have to fight to cobble together a 12008-seat gain.
Mentioned in many guides as the ideal way to get a quick lay of the land as well as to be pickpocketed, I thought I could beat the odds.
For example, after everyone has gone to bed, Deja enters the room where Annie and Tess are sleeping and gets the lay of the land in the Pearson household.
He was the one who took her around Jackson, Mississippi, giving her the lay of the land — trying to convince her to stay there to help with legal work.
I would look at the lay of the land for a moment and try and work out what I should be doing, then lower my finger onto the screen.
But she likely already knew the lay of the land — she had previously taught at the Washington-area elementary in 2000 when her husband was a member of Congress.
Those of us who have worked many disasters know well that local relief agencies have a far better grasp of the local operating environment and lay of the land.
But as you get the lay of the land by exploring the map, you come across a mission story playing out in front of you and decide to follow along.
Shake off the travel dust and learn the lay of the land during an aperitif boat ride along the Garonne as it flows through Bordeaux before emptying into the Atlantic.
Once they had gotten the lay of the land, measured everything out, and made sure every actor knew their lines and hit their marks, it was time to start shooting.
Most Democratic candidates oppose the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United decision, which opened the door to outside spending — but like it or not, it's the lay of the land for now.
Companies using Electric simply install its software on every corporate laptop, giving the top IT employee or the org's decision-maker a bird's-eye view of the lay of the land.
The best way to figure out where to live, according to Ang, is to couch surf for a few weeks to save money while you get your lay of the land.
Each of these departments has a "landing team" set to parachute into government agencies, get the lay of the land, begin the transition process and get Trump's 100-day plan rolling.
There was a bit of a learning curve for my first few minutes, but once you've got the initial lay of the land, it's quite easy to use on the fly.
BTW ... Toronto is one of the teams P played with during his attempt at an NBA career, so it's not like he doesn't know the lay of the land up there.
This lay of the land was gathered using CAD files provided to Apple by the individual airports, to give the user a better sense of place while wandering around the terminal.
I called Jones this week to get his views on the lay of the land, and on what political challenges Hillary Clinton will face if she beats Donald Trump this fall.
And a landmark gerrymandering lawsuit that resulted in a redrawing of the state's congressional map has changed the lay of the land for Democrats, the party women are likelier to represent.
Ahead, find a list of superstars to give you the lay of the land and save you from picking up a dud sheet mask next time you're standing in the checkout line.
The singer and her friend, Sage, were in their new house getting some video for their Instagram stories when SZA -- clearly unfamiliar with the lay of the land -- takes a nasty fall.
"We wanted to get a lay of the land and not disrupt our son and his family's life, and at the same time find a place we could afford," Mr. Peters said.
Inspired by the way insects and other creatures move around in dark or unfamiliar environments, Dupont and his colleagues developed a system capable of learning the lay of the land through touch.
Before Ramona appears, we've already seen Destiny get the lay of the land: She's done a little amateur spin around one of the poles and given a few dead-eyed lap dances.
They're designed to give you a lay of the land, not convey distance, so figuring out if it's faster to walk is a guessing game (particularly when you can't pull up Google Maps).
Besides, there are far worse things, when exploring a new place, than to get the lay of the land by tuning out of the office and tuning into the quirks of local radio.
Conversations with senior administration officials and Republicans close to the White House offer CNN this lay of the land and a reality check: No House vote on health care is expected this week.
"I mean that's part of what we're trying to figure out, what the lay of the land is in terms of the legal landscape as well," Pai said when asked about that story.
"That is really exactly what the job description was: parachuting down and being able to churn out a ton of material, not really knowing what the lay of the land was," she said.
"I am sure there will be a lot of curiosity seekers, but as I look at the lay of the land in Bedminster, we are not like New York City," Mr. Parker said.
As the Wall Street Journal notes, it probably won't be until 2020 or 2021 that the FAA implements broader rules for drones that would set out the lay of the land for delivering packages.
These radical changes have completely shifted the lay of the land in intellectual property law; companies, inventors and even the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are still feeling their way through the new laws.
"As we looked at the lay of the land, we saw there is a larger universe of workers, some of whom have sick leave benefits now, but are less than 28503 hours," he said.
"As we looked at the lay of the land, we saw there is a larger universe of workers, some of whom have sick leave benefits now, but are less than 60 hours," he said.
Flooding is a complex phenomenon that depends on many factors, including the lay of the land, development and the amount of precipitation, as well as the ability of the ground to soak up water.
As one lobbyist who shared clients with Lewandowski put it to me, companies like Whirlpool needed to know the lay of the land inside the White House: How much sway did Wilbur Ross have?
Eventually, a self-taught system like this could learn the lay-of-the-land inside a factory, and have the foresight to avoid human workers and other robots who may be in the same environment.
Mark Palm, the US-born CEO and co-founder of Samaritan Aviation (and the subject of a CNN news feature), knows the lay of the land in and around Wewak almost better than anyone else.
Now we get a lay of the land of what prison is like, and plant the seeds for Mike and Harvey working together to get him out of there before those two years are up.
The countryside we're shown is a sort of homogeneous patch of hay-bales and old blokes rocketing down hills in bathtubs, a place where flatcaps, sheepdog, and beetroot crops have the lay of the land.
The data is then used to compile reports that can be sold to pharma companies wanting to learn the lay of the land in Southeast Asia, or provided to public sector players like governments and NGOs.
Once the device has the lay of the land ( a process that can take up to four minutes — depending on size) the narrative will commence and the user is drawn into Dr. Grordbort's world and gameplay.
It's challenging to imagine attending a college we haven't seen yet, so visiting the campus — to take a tour, meet students, get the lay of the land — seems like a prerequisite to making a good decision.
The oldest speaker of the endangered Nyikina language, Loongkoonan spent her youth exploring the land with her grandparents by foot, learning about bush tucker — animals and plants eaten in the outback — and the lay of the land.
Your first pass through a world means very little; it's about getting a lay of the land, racking up checkpoints (which act as fast travel markers), and formulating ideas on what the game isn't explicitly telling you.
Falk retrieves his memories only gradually as he gets the lay of the land in Kiewarra — and learns to cope with the fact that just about 100 percent of the town's population still blames and hates him.
Doctors can use it to show to their operating room team so everyone is on the same page about what they're removing, what obstacles are in their way and the exact lay of the land, so to speak.
To get a sense of the lay of the land of the last Senate election of 2018, I reached out to Sam R. Hall, who is the executive editor of the Clarion Ledger, the largest paper in Mississippi.
So it would have been acceptable, maybe even expected, for Gallagher to have quietly settled into his congressional perch, surveying the lay of the land and deciding how he was going to spend his next 6900 years in office.
Before the test shown in the video, the four-legged bot was manually guided through the Boston Dynamics office and lab facility, during which time it recorded the lay of the land using cameras mounted on its front, side, and back.
As with the headphone jack, Firewire, and the CD drive, it feels like Apple looked at the lay of the land, saw where the future was, and decided to just go there, flipping the past off as it sped away.
"That's actually my favorite thing to do when I travel, is just go and wander around and get the lay of the land," she told CNBC Make it at the launch of Capital One's The Purpose Project in New York City.
But in a full day of meetings with the Republican National Convention crew last week, top Trump aides were more focused on getting a lay of the land than putting Trump's gold-plated touch on the festivities, according to convention staffers.
It's often valuable when you're first scouting a map to move a single soldier forward into uncharted territory and then, once you know the lay of the land ahead, position other soldiers around your scout based on what you learn.
"I decided to move down here because I developed a really strong group of people down here, friends that are sober and know the lay of the land and how to stay sober and have fun in sobriety," Robinson explained.
Lay of the land: Her speech comes as a host of red states, emboldened by a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, have passed laws banning abortion often before most women even know they're pregnant, culminating in Alabama's near-total ban.
Though designed by a medley of local and international architects, including the 2017 Pritzker Prize laureates, RCR Arquitectes, all the properties, whether terraced houses, flats or villas, must abide by aesthetic rules designed to respect the lay of the land.
Instead, the purpose of this article is to provide founders a 30,000-foot view across several dozen applicable laws in key regulatory areas, providing a "lay of the land" such that with some additional navigation and guidance, an optimal course may be charted.
Of course, these characters are by no means representative of the entire spectrum of individuals and identities you will encounter at Pride, but when navigating the specific microcosm of the gay club, it can be helpful to know the lay of the land.
"Let the festivities begin," Jenner, 22, captioned a series of snapshots from the fun outing, also sharing them to her Story — as well as a video of Stormi exploring the lay of the land, set to the tune of the Beetlejuice movie theme.
As I noted in my mission statement for this series, the goal of House Party is to first give you the lay of the land for Democrats' attempt to retake the House of Representatives, and then give you news on how that attempt is going.
"Should a pandemic or any other public health crisis occur, we would want a team of experienced professionals in place that already knows the lay of the land, and has the administration's trust," said Wendy Parmet, a professor of health policy at Northeastern University.
"Both parties from my perspective have seemed to have looked at the lay of the land and feel it's important for them to wait until after the upcoming election to see what things look like then before going on with any legislative solution," he said.
Such is the lay of the land in the company town that is Washington, where the Women's Voices Theater Festival fits in perfectly: steeped in history, consumed with politics and deeply engaged in the cultural wrestling match over the shape that the future will take.
If you aren't up for starting your own group, get the lay of the land by joining a few in areas that interest you and take notes of the things the organizers are getting right and also the things you think you could do better.
You recognize the telltale markings of fells and forests, ridgeways and rivers—and unlike other games that reward you with a generous number of go-here-next possibilities once you "unlock" a region, Breath of the Wild does nothing more than illustrate the lay of the land.
"You can call him up, and he would give you not only the current lay of the land, but also the history of every policy," said Jeff Birnbaum, president of BGR Public Relations, who has known Josten for years, back to his days as a business journalist.
It's like picking a partner for anything important – tapping into your network and doing your homework on who is interested in your space, who's actually insightful in the space and good to work with, means you'll have a lay of the land before you desperately need money.
So at the Book Review, where we cover so much else besides, I see our role as giving the lay of the land: identifying new voices and trends, checking in with old favorites, keeping up with the scholarship and tracing the continuing relevance of past masters.
As Kim Barker, the main character, Tina Fey offers a more or less straightforward take on a woman who learns to start living for herself, while Margot Robbie sparks every time she takes the screen as Tanya, a correspondent who shows Kim the lay of the land.
Cops and security are taking training courses on identifying items that are out of place ... in particular they will learn the lay of the land -- where items such as trash cans are placed -- and if a new one suddenly appears, cops will take appropriate steps to immediately investigate.
The strength and weakness of Pelosi's position is that there are a bunch of different complaints with her, some of which are contradictory while others are complementary: The basic lay of the land is that the second and third critiques of Pelosi are in considerable tension with each other.
Calling the legal lay of the land a "hot mess" when it comes to Title IX, Wendy Murphy, a professor who specializes in sexual violence law at New England School of Law, said she hoped the government would file statements in other pending Title IX cases to help clarify the law.
" Speaking at a town hall on Saturday in Queens, New York, Ocasio-Cortez said the meeting is "just to have a more open conversation with the speaker" to see "what opportunities there are and really just kind of getting the lay of the land on where things -- where we are as a caucus.
TV's "Rising" program features Chuck Rocha, senior adviser for the Sanders campaign, on the lay of the land after Iowa and in New Hampshire; Charles Lehman, staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon, on the rise of the U.S. suicide rate; and Dalhi Myers, a member of South Carolina's Richland County Council.
Living in Havana was a constant challenge of where to shop for household goods, but the worst of the "Special Period" was over by then, and once you knew the lay of the land, it only took a cellphone call to have a box of Montecristo cigars or fresh lobsters delivered to your door.
We're going to announce today that our long-term capital structure, optimal capital structure that we can now set a target given we know sort of the lay of the land and, you know, and we're setting a net zero target, meaning that we'll have an equal amount of cash and debt over time.
This is a mastermind who informs us in "The Bells" that he's served under more rulers than any living man, a man defined by caution and subtlety — but he spends absolutely no time checking the lay of the land before he starts writing tattletale messages to who knows who, and trying to pull Jon into open rebellion.
Costs range from $2140 for three laps in the Nissan to $250 for three laps in the Ferrari 488 GTB, while another $49 grabs you a high speed ride in a Chevrolet SS. That comes with a professional instructor behind the wheel, helping you get a lay of the land on a track you may not have driven on before.

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