Instead, if you whiff, it will serve as the impetus to spend extra time in the batting cage, practice your swing, and attend to the need to keep your eye on the ball.
"Markets are about surprise and expectations, and while most people expect high profitability, input-price inflation could hit margins, and the markets don't really have their eye on the ball about that, " said the analyst.
But even if the board's eye had been on the ball it is far from certain that they would have acted in time.
But now I believe that the real achievement that Condoleezza Rice has made is in getting everyone's eye on the ball and launching a process.
"The simple fact is that when it comes to the war on terror, this administration has taken its eye off the ball, " Kerry said.
The big striker has an eye for goal and an elegance on the ball at times, but at the beginning of the second half he was engaged in the rougher side of the game.
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But specifically with regard to your question, I don't think there is any question that if one had one's eye on the ball the key strategic issue in the global war on terrorism, this connection that I discussed, that Iraq lived right at that connection.
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Right now, Republicans are making it up as they go along, too frequently with an eye on the crowd, not the ball.
If you, or your advisor, or the portfolio managers your advisors select for their client, can keep your eye on that ball, it will inform your decision about the stock market and your portfolio at large.
For some reason, it seems like we took our eye off the ball and failed to focus on innovation.
And, just as important, they have an audience on the doorstep eager for rugby league, with an eye already trained for the aesthetics of running with the ball in hand.
We will long debate whether at a very important moment in our efforts to root out terrorism particularly in Afghanistan and on that border region with Pakistan, whether we took our eye off the ball.
On imposing the fine the ICO described it as a "classic case of an organisation taking its eye off the ball when it came to outsourcing".
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