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Not surprisingly, given its provenance, it badly misses the mark.
This too is a noble impulse that misses the mark.
Unfortunately, legislation put forth in Congress significantly misses the mark.
This misses the mark of the reality the country faces.
Turning this into a dry debate over policy misses the mark.
The problem is, a lot of stretch denim misses the mark.
Don't get us wrong — Ms. Scrooge still misses the mark often.
But we do know that this study completely misses the mark
But Sanders said the former secretary of State's plan misses the mark.
She explains that placing the blame on the ingredients misses the mark.
Lindsay Lohan's wax figure looks older than her and misses the mark.
But his approach sometimes misses the mark, argues our critic Jennifer Szalai.
At the same time, he misses the mark on some important points.
So the simplistic story—that the Plaza accord felled Japan—misses the mark.
However, at the same time, it misses the mark as the everyday McLaren.
To say it was a "convenience for the few" badly misses the mark.
When a mercantile feminist misses the mark, it can backfire with savvy consumers.
Pelosi also misses the mark by grandstanding the issue with her public release.
But even more importantly, the substance of Trump's comment misses the mark entirely.
Trump attacks China on trade but misses the mark What's in it for Taiwan?
In this context, the conclusion of "Électre des Bas-Fonds" misses the mark slightly.
And when it misses the mark, it does so by a pretty wide margin.
By lumping climate change in with 50 unnamed issues, Perez misses the mark entirely.
This popular concept sounds nice, but, to economists like me, it misses the mark.
Not even thirty seconds later, he takes another deep three that misses the mark.
" Google Translate really misses the mark with the word "duh" which is now "ghosts.
Looking at the alliance as a binary transaction between individual members misses the mark.
But to turn Booker into a political missile to prove hypocrisy misses the mark.
This week, the Governor submitted another revised fiscal plan that again misses the mark.
Sometimes satire misses the mark, and that's definitely what happened with UK-based retailer Joy.
The Galaxy Watch Active is gorgeous, but misses the mark in a few key areas.
While they're certainly cool and likely very comfy, I worry the interior misses the mark.
He says the criticism about giving the controversial media figure a platform misses the mark.
So while Kim K's intentions might have been good, her post completely misses the mark.
Even when it misses the mark, most recipients keep an unwanted present anyway, Finder said.
It's a nice sentiment that I agree with, but I think he misses the mark.
It's just a bad joke, built on a bad idea, and it badly misses the mark.
The piece itself misses the mark insisting the new category is racial which it is not.
The problem: the debate misses the mark and doesn't recognize the hard truths from the past.
Letters To the Editor: "The World Bank Should Champion Rights" (editorial, June 27) misses the mark.
However, she misses the mark by explaining the phenomenon in the context of gender and class.
Obama's is magnificent for the dress and elegant, but entirely misses the mark facially for me.
Where the piece really misses the mark is in a superficial treatment of anti-racism norms.
But Netflix's upcoming original film, iBoy, starring GoT's Maisie Williams, looks like it seriously misses the mark.
Where "American Crime" continues to soberly hit its target, "Shots Fired," however well intentioned, misses the mark.
But given the amount of products Google offers, it's no surprise the company occasionally misses the mark.
Beseeching responsible Republicans to resist this misses the mark, when you indicate that the party is irredeemable.
Kenya Moore has an idea of her perfect man and ex-boyfriend Matt Jordan misses the mark.
I am also young enough to understand where that traditional language misses the mark with my generation.
Ken Zimmerman Glen Ridge, N.J. Toobin misses the mark when he calls Giuliani President Trump's Roy Cohn.
But an increasingly tall stack of evidence indicates the official government estimate -- 64 deaths -- misses the mark.
But an increasingly tall stack of evidence indicates the official government estimate -- 2564 deaths -- misses the mark.
But, again, criticizing a landlord for increasing rents to the current market rate also misses the mark.
If December's employment report misses the mark, it wouldn't surprise some of the sourpusses in the bond market.
Meanwhile, the Withings Move is an admirable attempt at a $70 smartwatch, but it simply misses the mark.
"Today's announcement is an example of state intervention that misses the mark," Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI Director-General, said.
While this is certainly an understandable goal, the city's ordinance misses the mark in a number of ways.
While some have hailed Mr. Son as the Warren Buffett of technology investing, that comparison misses the mark.
Yet such criticism of Gorsuch's originalism misses the mark by treating it as simply a theory of constitutional interpretation.
Of our many interviews, one story stood out because it encapsulated how the state of emergency misses the mark.
One slightly sour note is Benjamin Reiss's too-slick "Conditioner (and Follicle)" (2016), which just barely misses the mark.
But our critic writes that the film misses the mark on many of the issues it seeks to address.
The rest of "Pandemonium" is an interesting reboot, but the Eleanor and Chidi business misses the mark ever so slightly.
"While we support transparency, today's proposal misses the mark, exceeds the Administration's legal authority and should be abandoned," Pollack said.
But this criticism misses the mark because Amazon's idea for a grocery store isn't about automation or saving on wages.
JM: Yeah, I could see it being downhill or a second big swing that falls short and misses the mark.
That's part of why I like the intro of Assassin's Creed 3 so much, and why Origins' misses the mark.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) misses the mark on its new digital media guidelines for children ages 28503-22019.
And this latest study, published in the International Journal of Obesity, found that in many cases, BMI misses the mark.
SodaStream's April Fools' partnership with Bed Bath & Beyond misses the mark and comes across as more overt advertising, Harrison said.
But Ocasio-Cortez's explanation of why she said what she said -- and why she wasn't really wrong -- misses the mark.
"While we support transparency, today's proposal misses the mark, exceeds the Administration's legal authority and should be abandoned," he said.
But to look at China as the sole force affecting the ups and downs of American workers misses the mark.
That is why, in a very real way, the ruling misses the mark when it comes to warning young people.
But as proof that such a system could defend the US against a North Korean attack, it still misses the mark.
Likewise, if you're remotely serious about tracking your runs and other outdoor activities, then the ($180) Steel HR misses the mark.
It misses the mark to such a large degree that one final reveal — no doubt intended as the final ah-ha!
They said Dodd-Frank misses the mark in some areas, and vowed to work with Hensarling without outright backing his proposal.
Letter To the Editor: Re "A Better Way to Raise Incomes" (Op-Ed, July 6): Peter D. Salins misses the mark.
I think the debate kind of misses the mark, especially if it winds up using economic anxiety to excuse racist behavior.
Telling someone with anxiety or depression to "just cheer up" completely misses the mark — and is rude and hurtful to boot.
Look no further than health expenditures and outcomes to see how the current dialogue misses the mark on our nation's health.
While we need more transparency and accountability in business, radical honesty when it comes to managing people often misses the mark.
Like many things the federal government touches, the H-28500B visa system is laudable in its goals, but it misses the mark.
Sure, sometimes Yeezy totally misses the mark or comes off like a total fucking asshole, but you can't say he's not trying.
But by relying on the reaction of many college students to Donald Trump's election to make his point, he misses the mark.
Yet the movie misses the mark when it comes to trying to put believable human beings into the middle of Kong's jungle.
The fearmongering from the fake news media and free-market zealots misses the mark on why President Trump is fighting for these tariffs.
From the limited demo I played last month, it's a game that sometimes excels at that blend, and other times misses the mark.
From the limited demo I played last month, it's a game that sometimes excels at that blend, and other times misses the mark.
Is there a piece of media that hits the sweet spot of absurdity for you—or misses the mark, by a wide margin?
Maybe she's a little bit tone-deaf and sometimes misses the mark a little bit, but [this is] not such a bad transgression.
So much of our public discourse about SNAP misses the mark because we only see one facet of the hunger crisis in America.
But the debate about which is the better approach misses the mark, given how marginal U.S. rhetoric is to the outcomes on the ground.
"This misses the mark," said Nick Bourke, a research director at the Pew Charitable Trusts, which has conducted extensive research on small-dollar lending.
The best of these comedians also recognize when that type of comedy misses the mark, it actually perpetuates the stereotypes they're trying to dismantle.
Tyler CoadyNashville To the Editor: Sarah Smarsh misses the mark in blaming the media for its alleged one-dimensional portrait of the working class.
But it misses the mark in suggesting that transitioning people with psychiatric disabilities from institutional adult homes to supported housing is a failed policy.
"There are ways to combat BDS without compromising free speech, and this bill as it currently stands plainly misses the mark," New Jersey Sen.
We don't have to dig deep to see how often male politicians' rhetoric on the policies misses the mark of actually improving those policies.
" British business groups criticized the cap, with blue-chip lobby group the CBI calling it "an example of state intervention that misses the mark.
Like the small cabins, the wedding location is designed to be romantic, but misses the mark — it takes place in a false, Disneyfied castle ruins.
Image: TechCrunchWhile Ranganathan's wife might've already explained this to him, here's why LoveBot misses the mark: Automating your messages of love them defeats their purpose.
" -Ellen Bravo, co-executive director of Family Values @ Work "I'm thrilled that we are finally talking about paid leave, but this proposal misses the mark.
Pretending that the differences between the two parties are wholly a creation of campaign dollars and senators campaigning against one another simply misses the mark.
If the data misses the mark, it could continue to pressure the long end of the curve — or the 28-year note and 230-year bond.
But while there is little doubt that we need to include more Americans in our nominating system, recent criticism of current selection methods misses the mark.
She suggested Tiny Toast, which is free of artificial colors and flavors like much of the company's cereal line, misses the mark on what customers want.
Though Dimension 404 does a good job of borrowing and not stealing, it misses the mark a bit on what made The Twilight Zone so memorable.
And while this may sound like the stuff of nightmares, A.Human is a bold attempt to make them uncomplicatedly beautiful — though it ultimately misses the mark.
The President's comments that money from the additional tariffs would allow the U.S. to buy more agricultural goods from goods from American farmers misses the mark.
However, the focus on superstar players, marquee tournaments and comparisons to traditional sports misses the mark on one of the most interesting aspects of e-sports.
Democrats and Republicans alike tend to paint embarrassing stories as one-offs that are not representative of the national party, but this characterization misses the mark.
Go deeper: Reality check: Trump misses the mark on GM auto tariffs Larry Kudlow says Trump feels betrayed by General Motors The economic message behind GM's restructuring
I feel like Tony Stark every time I unlock the phone with my eyes, but as I mentioned in my hands-on, the execution misses the mark.
And as they have been counted -- and more and more races have been called -- it's become increasingly clear that the original conventional wisdom badly misses the mark.
The show hits home for me, but I can still see why some people think it misses the mark of being strong satire about evangelicals in Trumpland.
But this analysis of the situation, which has precipitated an unparalleled humanitarian crisis and brought a nuclear-armed region to the brink of conflict, misses the mark.
Upon being asked, "And what do we say when we feel like this?" you respond with something that clearly misses the mark, and your therapist then shows disapproval.
But before you Patriots loyalists rush out to meet your bookie, it's worth noting that when it misses the mark, it does so by a pretty wide margin.
If the trailer misses the mark, though — if it's a bit drab or, even worse, it gets panned — it could significantly damage the hype around a movie's release.
The "uncanny valley" effect refers to a dip in the emotional response that happens when humans come across something that seems almost human, but just misses the mark.
Like the old description of a camel—a horse made by a committee—the destination-based cash flow tax has good components but, cobbled together, misses the mark.
But that fundamentally misses the mark in why the three more established political parties — even after building coalitions — couldn't capture the necessary voter support in the presidential race.
To assume the message behind the ad was that a husband gifts his skinny wife a Peloton bike in the hopes that she'll lose weight misses the mark.
Unfortunately, their proposed solution, The Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings (COINS) Act of 2017,  misses the mark completely and would move the country in exactly the wrong direction.
A recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report released to Congress on the environmental and resource conservation impacts of biofuel production deliberately misses the mark because of what it excludes.
When something gets close to looking human but just misses the mark—like that CGI creep in The Polar Express—it induces fear and loathing, the exact opposite of affection.
Yet while Andromeda makes some commendable attempts at humor in romancing, and the inclusion of more varying types of relationships is welcome, it misses the mark more often than not.
Her professorial-style haranguing might be a hit with coastal urbanites, but it misses the mark in Middle America, where she comes off as the ultimate caricature of Northeastern elitism.
It's really just the headline misses the mark, and sometimes that's all that matters since people don't tend to read entire articles, or even click through to the actual story.
The impact of the virus could mean the country misses the mark on its fiscal deficit target of 2.2% of GDP for this year, given its dependence on oil income.
Even if Atiyah's proof ultimately misses the mark, his solution is sure to be at the forefront of some of the world's most brilliant mathematicians for the next few years.
Spencer's Gifts is known for cheeky graphic T-shirts, among other (often very random) things — and while the mall staple sometimes misses the mark, its latest blunder is way, way off.
She is not wrong to think that what she has experienced is important and revealing, but when she projects her experience as representative of all of us, she misses the mark.
While the ultra-high market cap is promising for Elon Musk&aposs electric automaker, Tesla still misses the mark on what just about every other successful company achieves: consistently making money.
That's something that's missing in most of the United States — and, increasingly, throughout the rest of the world — which may be why our current food waste conversation sometimes misses the mark.
Unfortunately, President Trump's proposal — grossly underfunded and offering up our vital infrastructure for sale to maximize profits for his high-powered and wealthy friends — misses the mark for America's small businesses.
Applying these Seven Principles to the Shuster bill, we discovered that it misses the mark when it comes to tried and true privatization, completely failing in five of our seven principles.
Trump attacks China on trade but misses the mark Chinese media: Trump 'ignorant as a child' in foreign policy Trump's comments triggered a furious response from China's state-run Global Times newspaper.
" But the majority-voting Republican commissioners said in a statement that the argument that Zuckerberg should have been named as a defendant "misses the mark because it focuses on optics over substance.
Not once in his four-minute commentary did he mention a non-Trump threat to non-white Americans, which completely misses the mark of pointing out the root of this country's issues.
Trump's reference to the raids conducted by the FBI on the homes and offices of people like former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen misses the mark, however.
Cruise appears to be jumping off a building and attempting to land on the roof of an adjacent one, but just barely misses the mark, and slams into the side of the wall.
To suggest that NATO allies are simply trying to cheat Washington misses the mark completely on the strong bond and mutually beneficial alliance that exists across the Atlantic between the U.S. and Europe.
But a recently proposed rule from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that would roll back critical fair housing enforcement – ostensibly to ease the burdens causing the crisis – misses the mark.
Conaway won't seek reelection: report MORE (R-Utah), is to read a bill that misses the mark on the role protected national monuments and national parks play in the lives of everyday Americans.
This concept immediately rang true for myself and many other "non-Western" families I know; parents withholding things for a purpose that actually misses the mark, and becomes more hurtful in the long-term.
If the goal of the debate about how we treat migrant families at the border is to reform our immigration system, calling for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement completely misses the mark.
But while the budget shows strong support for life-saving vaccines and polio eradication, it misses the mark on funding for clean water, sanitation, and global education, which are essential to ending extreme poverty.
Economists are expecting 180,000 payrolls for June, but if there's an early warning from ADP's report Thursday that the estimate could be too high or the number misses the mark again, yields could sink lower.
You don't need a classically trained voice for "Lucky Day," Wilhelm's closing anthem, but Mr. Zera's underpowered rendition of that wild, ferocious number is one of the few points where this production misses the mark.
Gillis released a statement that same day saying he was "happy to apologize to anyone who's actually offended" by his remarks, and said he was a comedian "who pushes boundaries" and sometimes misses the mark.
Your editorial misses the mark, however, by not scrutinizing the assertion that 25 percent of the $488 million donated to the American Red Cross for Haiti relief went only to administrative costs and fund-raising.
After the publication discovered only 21% of people quoted in their articles are women, they developed a bot that analyzes pronoun usage and first names to warn journalists when their gender representation misses the mark.
To the Editor: I agree with Lara Bazelon's defense of the proposed Title IX guidelines on many counts, but the concern that black men are disproportionately accused of sexual assault on campus misses the mark.
From Dr. Haywood L. Brown, president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists A recent "smart policy" opinion piece on access to birth control misses the mark when it comes to real world application.
Yet however fertile that might be as a marketing formula, the resulting movie plays like "The Bourne Identity for Dummies," a bland wannabe with a threadbare plot that -- the ample violence notwithstanding -- mostly misses the mark.
Although there is no reason to defend the countless forms of liberal white supremacy, this misses the mark in Boyle Heights, where those directly impacted by gentrification are leading the struggle for their right to exist.
This idea, however, is based on a diagnosis that largely misses the mark and suggests a set of policy prescriptions that would be likely to have little effect on the drug prices that most Americans pay.
So, being able to have those conversations can really be growth promoting, but a therapist that misses the mark or says something insensitive or leaves a patient feeling unseen, it can really hurt for quite a long time.
"This bill misses the mark primarily because it fails to correct the features of Obamacare that drove up health care costs," Edmund F. Haislmaier, an expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation who advised Trump's transition team, wrote on Tuesday.
This seems funny in the geocontextless void of YouTube, where every event could take place anywhere as long as it's insane enough, unless it's someone driving weird, whereupon it takes place in Russia, but it misses the mark entirely.
There is so much to write about Libra, and so much which has already been written misses the mark, mostly, I think, because most pundits haven't spent much time in the developing world, which is very clearly the target market here.
"Focusing on merchant fees alone misses the mark because the product that credit-card companies sell is transactions, not services to merchants, and the competitive effects of a restraint on transactions cannot be judged by looking at merchants alone," he said.
If one is a fan of batted down passes and 2-yard runs up the gut; of the majestic follow through of a punter's leg and the flight of a field goal as it misses the mark ... well, mazel tov.
No, it's bullshit because it's a crude and wholly unfair form of punishment that basically misses the mark, affecting all of the school's current basketball players, regardless of whether they had anything to do with the supposed violations or not.
"For years, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has suffered from operational and financial inefficiencies, and while reforms are needed, H.R. 756 misses the mark and may actually exacerbate the issues facing USPS," the groups said Monday in an open letter to Congress.
He gives equal weight, in telling this narrative, to childhood play, the circus, the army, music, racial tension and the Civil Rights movement as it affected Louisville and Washington D.C. It has been said that Gilliam doesn't make "black art," but this assessment misses the mark.
"The call to refrain from engagement is misplaced, not because the issue is not serious, but because it misses the mark, punishing students and faculty at N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi over a visa decision in which they had no hand and with which they disagree," Mr. Hamilton wrote.
" The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza wrote that voters shouldn't give Clinton a pass for losing New Hampshire, arguing that despite Sanders' natural appeal in the state, "the idea that a Clinton loss here was a fait accompli or should have been expected misses the mark – by a lot.
"America is long, long overdue for smart, forward-thinking infrastructure investments, but the administration's proposal badly misses the mark and reads more like a strategy to gut clean air, water, and wildlife protections, while silencing local voices, than a serious effort to rebuild America's infrastructure," said Collin O'Mara, president of the National Wildlife Federation.
But the framing around the inclusion of intermediary liability limits in U.S. trade deals by Section 230's opponents, some policymakers, and recent reporting — including a ​New York Times article from last week that said including Section 230-like language in USMCA would "lock in tech-friendly regulations" to the benefit of "big tech" companies — misses the mark.
I think it's principled, but where I think he misses the mark or loses the script, is when a terrorist uses an iPhone, the FBI says, "We'd like to get into this iPhone to see if other acts of terror are unfolding," gets a court order and then Apple waves its middle finger in the face of the court order.
As Colombia continues to welcome the millions of Venezuelan migrants and refugees fleeing the country, the proposed $36 million cut in aid to Colombia (an 85033 percent decrease from last year's aid package) and the shift of funding away from social and economic programs that are essential for developing rural areas and toward anti-drug trafficking efforts misses the mark.
And while the Ashley Eternal hologram makes sense as a lucrative live-tour substitute (and the optics of replacing a flesh-and-blood human with a CG image is an effective kind of body horror), it fundamentally misses the mark on what actually makes a pop star "eternal," and detracts from a bigger discussion about the humanity—or lack thereof—of celebrity culture.
On Wednesday morning Zach Staggers (of the fantastic Bay Ridge punk band So So Glos) shared six amazing minutes of David Bowie impersonating a number of his peers, including Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and Bruce Springsteen (the second impression almost sounds like he's doing Bob Dylan, but it's actually T. Rex's Marc Bolan; the only one that really misses the mark is his rendition of Neil Young).
The Good Huge living world • The trademark gameplay works great even without guns • Lots of potential for future exploration in this setting The Bad Unfocused story • Unpredictable animal kingdom feels muted compared to past games • Large disparity between moment-to-moment action and endgame challenges The Bottom Line 'Far Cry Primal' is an inventive push in a fresh direction for Ubisoft's series, but it too often misses the mark.
When I played the recently released Bomber Crew this week, I was legitimately moved when—after a dramatic failure that saw my entire flight team lost to the Atlantic Ocean—the main screen was updated with a monument to my fallen soldiers: But this doesn't exist in Shadow of War as far as I can tell, and that is the first way in which is fully misses the mark.

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