We should probably get used to such slim pickings at CES.
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Slim pickings, but it'll be nice to get rid of some stuff.
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Americans searching for plans on Obamacare's exchanges are finding increasingly slim pickings.
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There were also slim pickings among canned goods, toiletries and bananas, too.
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So, with slim pickings, how do you know which is best for you?
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It was dire times and slim pickings, but I was stoked for anything.
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It's really slim pickings if you're in the market for a new small smartphone.
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Democrats bemoan their slim pickings in 2020 even though the field is positively obese.
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If recent years have offered slim pickings, that is certainly not the case of 2016.
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We have searched high and low for some impressive TV deals, but it's slim pickings.
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Ingredients: puréed beans, chicken stock, parmesan cheese, tortillas It was slim pickings by day five.
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"Alison told me there would be slim pickings, which I had assumed," Ms. Burns said.
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For a long time, network television has offered slim pickings in terms of teen-centric dramas.
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Instagram could do better if it paid the right creators to weather IGTV's initial slim pickings.
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After years of slim-pickings among big men, the NBA now finds itself inundated with quality centers.
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And again, for anyone wanting to learn anything new about the movie, this is worryingly slim pickings.
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I'm sorry that it seems to be such slim pickings this year with regards to subscription streaming catalogues.
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Bargemusic (Friday through Sunday) Among the slim pickings in the classical schedule this week, Bargemusic offers hearty fare.
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RELATED: Matt K. Lewis: GOP has 'slim pickings' to fight Trump Norquist pointed out besides Trump, former Florida Gov.
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" Even as they replied, "That's cool," I could almost hear them thinking: "Must be slim pickings out in Oregon.
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In India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, they are stuck at 40%, reflecting slim pickings and high barriers to enterprise.
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"If you're looking for Latinos or Latinas running for Congress in competitive races it's slim pickings," Morales told The Hill.
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Both Facebook and Google, ad-tech ecosystems unto themselves, have grabbed ever more ad dollars, leaving slim pickings for rivals.
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Of course, they are big deal everywhere but out in the rice-farming villages, entertainment is gleaned from slim pickings.
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You'd have to wait another ten years to get away with it again, otherwise you'd have some very slim pickings.
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"It is very slim pickings in the zinc space," he said, referring to the dearth of pure-play zinc producers.
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Unfortunately, the rest of their fixtures provided slim pickings, and they eventually succumbed to the soothing finality of the drop.
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However, when it comes to drug-infused edibles, it's slim pickings for British drug users in search of domestic products.
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Not since their 13 medals at Nagano in 1998 had a U.S. team left a Games with such slim pickings.
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The majority of fabled characters have already appeared on the series, so it seemed like showrunners were working with slim pickings.
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A recent wave of mergers and acquisition in the global pharmaceutical industry has, however, left slim pickings for would-be dealmakers.
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None of the stars, or the more prominent guests, attended the after-party, making it slim pickings for a social columnist.
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For reference, May's Eta Aquarids meteor shower had a rate of 10 meteors per hour -- slim pickings compared to the Perseids' light show.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is an important addition to the tools that people have, but in terms of psychopharmacology, it's pretty pretty slim pickings.
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This was in 2013, by the way, when the options for fast-casual, refreshing Mexican food in this part of town were slim pickings.
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Slim pickings After months of speculation, Sony capped off a huge day of tech news with a series of announcements about the PlayStation 4.
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Among musicals, I would call it a regrouping year, which is apparent in what seemed to me to be the slim pickings on Broadway.
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If such slim pickings and the prospect of slim returns leave investors feeling disappointed, Mr. Paulsen has a simple piece of advice: Get over it.
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But if you are the least bit nutrition-conscious, it's slim pickings when it comes to deciding what to eat at the popular fast food chain.
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It can be precarious work, and a bad year can leave fields barren and grain sheds empty -- slim pickings on which to survive until the next harvest.
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The investor also shared some tips on the current earnings season, which he described as having "really slim pickings" in terms of companies with true underlying strength.
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Crucible will never be for me, and that's not even a big deal; it just means the beta is slim pickings for someone whose interests lie elsewhere.
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Bayley will probably return to NXT for now; she wasn't drafted by either brand and the draft call-ups have left slim pickings for the division in NXT.
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Honestly, it was kind of slim pickings this week and I didn't feel like seeing who the Golden Knights' Twitter was murdering this week, so let's just go with this.
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Tinder, Bumble and Hinge offer vast playing fields but slim pickings, so daters survive by wearing cynicism as armor, telling themselves that nothing matters and that they really don't care.
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I know that 37 is not a limitless number, and in fact the limit is very clearly defined as 37, but in comparison to the aforementioned "slim" pickings, 37 feels limitless.
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Fitbit claims it has, combined, over 550 clock faces and apps available for both the Ionic and the Versa, but the latter's app selection is slim pickings as of this writing.
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Sarah Bishop-Woods, brand manager Sarah's game plan: It's slim pickings as we go into the last season of Game of Thrones, and my team is reflective of the mood: war.
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If Allen were the slightest bit aware of Bobby's aggressive flaccidness or harshness, Café Society could very well be a smart film about the slim pickings of men in women's lives.
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Amazon Okay, so it's very slim pickings on the 'Zon, but since the online marketplace is everyone's collective first-line shopping destination, there are only a small handful of sanitizers left.
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Imagine how it feels to see ONO — a perfectly cromulent entry, but very common — for what feels like the millionth time, and having such slim pickings when it comes to cluing choices.
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With Snyder's and Amplify off the table, the number of potential targets large enough to make an impact on the largest food brands has been whittled from what was already slim pickings.
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In general, stocks of companies that make specifically vegan products are "slim pickings" in today's market, leaving VEGN's managers to cross-reference the available public companies with their rigid criteria, Smith wrote.
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We highly recommend ordering flower arrangements well in advance of any holidays like Valentine's Day or Mother's Day, because you will end up with slim pickings if you wait until the last minute.
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With charisma, craft and technique — with a flick of the wrist, a turn of the head, a perfectly timed pause, an uncanny gaze — Fassbender builds a dimensional character out of the super-slim pickings.
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But when Melissa Villasenor's babbling take on Ryder's character shows up and Beck Bennett's sheriff feeds Eleven (Kate McKinnon) cold Eggo waffles, it proves that there's slim pickings for a responsible adult in this town.
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The self-employed might have even fewer opportunities for social mobility, as competition comes from every corner of the world and working 24 hours a day offers only slim pickings to the even most dedicated.
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Since then it's been slim pickings for the Swedes, with a losing appearance by Magnus Norman in the 2000 final and consecutive defeats for Soederling the closest they have come to winning since Wilander's 1988 victory.
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Its lack of interest in Japan could be because of the slim pickings — most of Japan's options likely don't meet Son's criteria, which requires late stage companies that are only a few years away from going public.
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Toivonen scored in the 2-1 loss to Germany but otherwise it's been slim pickings for him and fellow striker Marcus Berg due to the amount of unselfish running demanded of them by coach Janne Andersson's defensive system.
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Sure, it's probably slim pickings when it comes to universally praised and generally apolitical First Lady causes that would suit Melania, but at the same time, why haven't her people even tried to quietly phase out this particular initiative?
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Lastly, I would be willing to make a large bet that even if we did post a job for $35 an hour to do roofing in Omaha (it was 92 degrees this week), it would still be slim pickings.
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It has been slim pickings since and things looked bleak for Team GB when seventh-ranked Chris and Gabby Adcock, the husband-and-wife pairing seen as the nation's top medal prospect, were dumped out of the preliminary round on Saturday.
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There's a cluster of theme parks on the Gold Coast in Queensland, the odd miniature amusement park in regional holiday towns and the long-running Luna Park in Melbourne or Sydney, but otherwise it is slim pickings around the country.
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Our religious household meant that I had slim pickings for any kind of exposure to gay culture or media, and I didn't identity with what little I saw of the mainstream gay community, based mostly on TV shows like Queer as Folk.
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"Home shoppers had better luck finding a home to buy in October, but slim pickings and consistently fast price gains continue to frustrate and prevent too many would-be buyers from reaching the market," said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors.
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For now, however, given that the Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to approve the launch of a bitcoin ETF — many issuers have thrown their hats into that ring — investors who want access to the cryptocurrency through an ETF wrapper have slim pickings at best.
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"I think it's slim pickings out there," the Republican columnist and author of "Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump" told CNN's Party People podcast hosts Kevin Madden and Mary Katherine Ham in a conversation Monday.
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For entrepreneurs in the advertising space, market opportunities do and will continue to present themselves, but the structure of the market is such that the lion's share of the revenue growth will go to a small handful of incumbents, leaving relatively slim pickings for the rest.
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A deal of the expected size of Argentina's return is rare for the region, even in the most bullish of times, and getting a slice of the action will be vital for DCM bankers who have had to content themselves with slim pickings and falling primary volumes.
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KERNEN: I CAN GIVE YOU THREE NAMES ON ONE SIDE IF YOU WANTED TO GET IN, AND PROBABLY ONLY TWO TO TALK ABOUT ON THE OTHER SIDE, SOME PEOPLE THINK, I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD CALL IT SLIM PICKINGS, BUT NOT EVERYBODY IS ENTHRALLED WITH THE POSSIBLE CHOICES.
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So yes, you could dine out on Prince's misdemeanours if you're so inclined, but at the end of the day it would be slim pickings in comparison to the ways in which he pushed the envelope in a gender-bending explosion of sweat and sequins – both visually in an assless onesie, and subtly in his intuitive lyrics.
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Design and engineering are two sides of the same coin when it comes to building software and hardware, and yet — unlike engineers, who can use services like GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab or many others to help manage their development process — it has traditionally been slim pickings for designers when it comes to tools to manage the iterations and collaborations that are a part of their workflow.
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At the last, Silver Birch landed just in front and began to get away from Slim Pickings on the long run-in. At the elbow, Silver Birch began to labour and Slim Pickings fought back, with McKelvey finishing best. The finishing post came just in time for Silver Birch to win by three-quarters of a length, with McKelvey second by lengths. Slim Pickings finished third, fifteen lengths in front of fourth placed Philson Run.
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Puntal, Clan Royal, Gallant Approach and Dun Doire were beaten and tailed off. Ballycassidy was beginning to slow when he turned too sharply and threw his rider, while at the next fence (Valentine's) Simon came down when in second place. Slim Pickings moved into the lead at the next and by the third-last was at the head of a group of ten runners that still carried chances of winning. The long run to the second-last flight spread the pack out with Slim Pickings taking the fence just ahead of Silver Birch.
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India, Pakistan and West Africa are the primary exporters of fair trade cotton, although many countries grow fair trade cotton.Bassett, Thomas J. "Slim pickings: Fairtrade cotton in West Africa." Geoforum, 2010. 41(1): 44-55Littrell, M. A., and M. A. Dickson.
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The slim pickings here are tasty, but in no way satisfying." Salon.com's Andrew Leonard said in 2011, "I don't care how good a writer you are: If you subtract your three strongest characters from your tale, you severely undermine the basis for why readers fell under your spell in the first place. It didn't work.
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Langer scored an 80 and a century in the first test, but it was slim pickings to follow for him. Despite success in the Australian Test team, he did not get recalled to the one-day team, even after he was named as the domestic ING Cup's player of the season in 2002/03.
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Bassett (2009) Bassett, T. (2009). Slim pickings: Fairtrade cotton in West Africa. Geoforum. is able to compare prices only where Fairtrade and non- Fairtrade farmers have to sell cotton to the same monopsonistic ginneries, which pay low prices. Prices would have to be higher to compensate farmers for the increased costs of producing Fairtrade.
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Cooperatives typically average prices over the year, so they pay less than traders at some times, more at others. Bassett (2009)Bassett, T. (2009). Slim pickings: Fairtrade cotton in West Africa. Geoforum. is able to compare prices only where Fairtrade and non- Fairtrade farmers have to sell cotton to the same monopsonistic ginneries which pay low prices.
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She bombarded Japanese targets in the town of Kurabuzaki on the southern tip of the island. Early in March, Wickes--in company with other units of TF 94--made another sweep into Japan's backyard. On the lookout for Japanese shipping as they steamed through the Sea of Okhotsk, the task force found slim pickings before again shelling targets on Paramushiro on 4 March.
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Third- placed Barry Garaghty was also given a three-day ban for overuse of the whip on Slim Pickings. Davy Russell required hospital treatment after being thrown from Livingstone Bramble at Becher's Brook on the first circuit for precautionary X-rays on his shoulder and back.Grand National Shakedown & Jockey Quotes Racing Better 2007 was one of the warmest Nationals on record with temperatures at race time hitting 22 degrees Celsius.
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The company also converted the film Night of the Living Dead into 3D format. In 2009, PassmoreLab converted MGM Studios simulator ride Stargate 3000 from 2D to 3D. and with its conversion of Anthony Lucas' 1999 claymation film Slim Pickings, became the first in the industry to convert clay animation to 3D. In 2009 ABC News Nightline interviewed company founder Greg Passmore about his new science documentary "The Extreme Nature of Bats".
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The film was poorly received by critics. Jay Scott of The Globe and Mail opined that the film had been programmed by TIFF solely "to remind viewers how bad Canadian movies once were", and concluded that "you can escape the theatre, but you can't collect on the debt Seductio owes you for wasted time". John Harkness of Now wrote that publicist Daphna Kastner deserved an award for having to promote the film, and felt personally compelled to ask festival programmer Kay Armatage why the festival even programmed Chbib's films at all.John Harkness, "Cinematic slim pickings dim 1987 festival fervour".
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Lime Truck opted to go vegetarian and went behind Seabird's back to sign an exclusive deal at a pet event. The second day brought varying degrees of success for all the trucks, with their customers following them when they had to move due to the speed bump. _Truck Stop_ : The food trucks had to make their own sausages by hand at a special sausage facility, then drive back 12 miles to pick five ingredients from a basic pantry table, meaning the last truck to arrive would get slim pickings. Local Chef Ryan Lowder picked the best dish, which would earn extra $100 (doubling their seed money).
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