| I was reading military journals in bed at night, just to get across the technical detail we needed to know. |
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| He wanted something heightened, very stylized, and a sense of twisted kink to get across his message. |
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| Was it the quants who failed to imagine how big price distortions could get across all markets when liquidity evaporates? |
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| One of the key messages we try to get across to our readers is the importance of managing debts. |
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| I wasn't breathing fire in every scene, but I wanted to get across that he was a psychotic. |
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| The message I want to get across is that what seems like a small amount of money over here can make a huge difference over there. |
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| To be honest, it's usually too preachy, straining to get across a point, like using a chainsaw to cut a string on your jacket. |
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| Anyone who has rushed to get across a Hong Kong street in front of oncoming traffic knows that moving on two feet can be dangerous here. |
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| Now, while there were a lot of interruptions, each side did have a chance to get across their bottom line. |
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| He certainly wishes to get across the message that any side-effects problems hopefully are not unsurmountable. |
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| How had McWilliams managed to get across a roof and drop down into the yard of a loyalist wing, in broad daylight, without being seen? |
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| Sweeping shots and crazy angles seem to add to the tense, built-up vibe the movie is trying to get across. |
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| Anyhoo, what I'm trying to get across is that this mag is harder to get hold of than a jellied eel. |
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| Such reactions either blind them to what you're trying to get across, or they go away so worried that they don't function effectively for days. |
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| Through institutional communication, UNESCO should be able to get across what it exists for and what it does. |
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| I want to get across to people it is their homes that will depreciate in value if these masts go up and so it is in their interest to get involved. |
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| But I just want to get across this simple message: our wish is to see an improvement in all the aspects of the situation in the Sudan. |
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| How are contemporary service and consumer programmes made to reach a large audience and get across relevant content? |
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| Offer to call the interviewer back after you have had a chance to gather your facts and to select the main points that you want to get across. |
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| Just as popular as campaigning is the use of the media to get across a union message. |
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| It is a hard doggone thing to get across in the middle of a landslide or an earthquake or in the case of a natural disaster. |
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| The only one with a regular revenue stream seemed to be Charon's ferry service, no shortage of dead people willing to pay the required obol to get across. |
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| Two bridges connect the town to the other side. The residents have only minutes to get across those bridges to escape potential lava flows, lahars, and mudslides. |
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| The roads sometimes end at rivers and the only way to get across is by ferry. |
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| Depending on the country of origin, there are several ways to get across the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe. |
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| As the roads neared the front they became 'duckboard' tracks', the only surface by which it was possible to get across the sea of mud. |
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| A hand puppet called Harold is used to get across the message to the youngest children while older pupils learn about healthy lifestyles and the implications of drug abuse. |
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| I had to modify my way of speaking, and the way I communicate whatever it is I am trying to get across. |
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| If a bridge were built people could get across the river for the four weeks of break-up and freeze-up when the river is impassable, but where are they going to go? |
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| How many shots will it take you and your friends to get across these tricky tracks? |
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| I mean, but still, even though, a cut-down package we couldn't get across the Senate floor, after we passed it in the House, and that's unfortunate. |
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| It's so radically opposed to what my music's about, to the message of peace and joy that I try to get across in my songs. |
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| This is what we must get across to government leaders if we want social reforms. |
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| When we invited the WTO, Pascal Lamy told us afterwards that we have to get across the messages of both the cooperatives and social economy organisations. |
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| The RCMP Border Integrity Team utilized an RCMP undercover operator posing as a Pakistani deportee from Canada to meet with the suspect male and make arrangements to get across the border. |
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| Van Dyck was able to get across the luxuriousness, romance and richness of the silken clothes without occupying himself with reproducing them in detail. |
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| Since he did not want to go the long way round and the track was not very wide at that point, he thought that, if he hung on to the edges of the track, he would be able to get across. |
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| Mr. Odina Desrochers: Mr. Speaker, it is indeed difficult to get across the reality of the figures, because the federal government has not given Quebec one red cent in support of its hydroelectric development. |
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| The point I was trying to get across is that the amendment the government is making in this other bill by reducing the board of directors to a smaller component undermines democracy. |
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| It is unrealistic to think that all of the messages programmed in a training action get across to the participants and, moreover, that they get applied in the appropriate way. |
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| We must get across to the patients that many of their fears and much of what they have heard about endoprosthetic operations has nothing to do with the treatment they will receive in our clinic. |
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| If this message does not get across, if it is not reflected in everyday dealings, then we will be stuck with the unhealthy polarisation we currently have. |
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| That's the spirit I want to get across in everything I do. |
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| We need to come up with a strategy to get through this zone of uncertainties, by trying to imagine how we should tackle it and get across,» explained Sylvain Mondon. |
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| During the creation of KÀ, the actors helped me a lot to convey my ideas, to get across a character's performative or dramatic aspect to certain other artists. |
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| This is a message we now need to get across to consumers. |
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| When talking to the media and others in your community about your Lions club and Lions Clubs International, it is helpful to know what messages you want to get across. |
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| The message we need to get across is that although waterbirds might play a role in transporting the disease, there are many other potential ways of transport. |
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| Surely it is a sign that many parents have failed to get across a crucial parental message when a majority of the Canadian teenagers in a broadly based survey say that education is not important. |
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| So, while the politicians struggled to get across cohesive arguments, the North East remained very much united and on-message. |
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| Graphic designers use images and lettering to get across information and ideas and to make an impact. |
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| I hitch-hike the whole way and will need to get on a fishing boat or a ferry to get across the North Sea. |
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| I couldn't get across to the board this simple economic fact. |
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