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Apr 10, 2013 · For example, we can't control the postal delivery time, so it is... (out of our control). Needs to be ONE word, please. EDIT - not uncontrollable. It is also not chaotic, like "the children are out of control". EDIT2: - to further explain, in my thesis I have a number of dependencies. Most of them our company can control as we manage them.
Sep 17, 2021 · Out of their hands: used to say that one cannot control something. This can be interpreted as a defendant not being able to control something, but someone else might be able to. In this case, perhaps if the defendant were not negligent, or possessed some other authority or skill, the situation would be in their hands. Beyond their control:
Dec 22, 2017 · 3. A common term for events 'out of our control' is "force majeure", with some further examples on Wikipedia. This term is especially common in the insurance industry, where it is used as an 'escape' clause to avoid paying out on insurance claims, for natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, and in the legal industry, where a party ...
May 1, 2011 · The conjugation of irregular verbs can vary by dialect. In a very unscientific experiment, I googled "span the thread" and "he span the top", and I got a number of results using span as the past tense of spin, so it seems some people still use span as the past tense of spin, although it's rare.
I believe it is necessary in that situation. If you were to say, "He's standing right outside my window," that would make sense, as it's tangible things that are being dealt with.
Jul 10, 2018 · The idiomatic preposition phrase "out of control" can't be used predicatively, as in your example. "Make" is used here as a complex-intransitive verb ("cause to be") and it resists PPs like "out of control" as PC. Thus "It makes that out of control" is borderline at best. The adjective "difficult" is fine, though. – BillJ. Jul 10, 2018 at 17:51.
Jul 8, 2018 · Complete or overwhelming control: in France, supermarkets have less of a stranglehold on food supplies ODO. If you're still not happy with it, consider: chokehold. 1: a hold that involves strong choking pressure applied to the neck of another. 2: absolute dominance or control : had a chokehold on the city's finances M-W. throttlehold
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Mar 9, 2018 · -Out of hand -- "If you reject an offer or idea 'out of hand,' you do so without hesitation. However, this phrase has several different meanings, the oldest of them being 'out of control,' from the days when failure to keep a firm grip on the reins would result in a team of horses being 'out of hand.'
May 21, 2024 · The full sentence here is " out [of] the way!" (i) is prepositional phrase modifying the phrasal verb "get out", which means to exit or leave. , can be seen as. (ii) a noun phrase acting as an adverbial objective. (Basically, the same as (i)) (iii) the direct object of "to get out". and.
