Sentences with phrase «at worst we end»

I have been at the bad end of this in the past and my kids have been bullied for it too!

At worst we end up with resistance and rebellion.

And, at worst you end up with a used spare...

As good as Alien Isolation is (and everyone should definitely buy it for that bargain price), a VR version would at best be unwise, and at worse end up with a court case brought by the victims families.

«The rate of change is at the bad end of what was identified as the range of possibilities,» he told The Age.

There's no law requiring uninsured / underinsured motorist coverage, but you certainly don't want to find yourself at the bad end of an accident caused by such a driver who has no means to pay for the damages.

Not exact matches

Potdevin joined Lululemon at the tail end of the worst year in company history.

While more than half of employees forfeited paid time off at year's end, some bright spots in the survey results hint that Americans may be in the process of reversing their bad vacation habits.

«He has always said the worst part of ETFs is that they becomes a trading vehicle that can hurt investors of any size, which contrary to the old index mutual funds, that can only be traded at the end of the day,» said Drew Voros, editor - in - chief of ETF.com.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal (first reported on by ZDNet), Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun spoke about the company's foray into the US, saying that the first smartphones might arrive as early as the end of this year, or in early 2019 at worst.

These gestures often vary in scale and cost, but one thing I have found consistent in my years of running businesses is the astonishing amount of wastefulness due to completely irrelevant or useless gifts that end up at the bottom of a wastebasket or, worse, in a white elephant gift exchange.

They only made the depression worse, an established fact that formed the basis of the world's embrace of freer trade at the end of the 1940s.

At the other end of the spectrum, if the worst case scenario is true, then the CBC was faced with the prospect of an employee being potentially charged with multiple accounts of both common and sexual assault.

«Rather than saying «I'm bad at small talk,» set yourself up for success [by planning ahead],» recommends Zack, who suggests you «plan some interesting, open - ended questions that will stimulate conversation.

At the other end of the spectrum, Manila ranked worst of the 47 cities, followed by Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, India's Mumbai, Jakarta and Brazil's Rio de Janeiro.

One last piece of advice: Hiring managers typically invite candidates to ask questions at the end of an interview, and you can downgrade your chances by either asking bad questions or no questions at all.

Peter Falvey, a managing director at Morgan Keegan, gave a light tough of analysis: «People are getting really excited, but it could end badly at some point.»

At the end of the day, all trial counsel agreed that the party offering the evidence was actually in a very bad position.

Worse, if your plan fails a discrimination test late in the year, it might have to kick back a portion of participant contributions at year - end.

So at the end of the day, the good economic news is being balanced by the bad.

«It was really more at the lower end of the performance scale, where people apparently were making bad choices to hang on to their job,» Shrewsberry said.

Energy and materials were the two worst - performing sectors this year, down 6.9 % and 8.3 %, respectively, at the end of November.

And at the end of the day, its hodgepodge of proposals will wind up shrinking the individual marketplace, which is bad news for insurance firms, hospitals, and other parts of the medical sector.

I was editing one while preparing another, and I just thought, at the end, the worst thing that could happen now is somebody gives me a really great script!

Consider: for the average middle - aged North American, it's a conflict that has been making headlines for literally our entire lives, with both sides apparently taking turns at acting badly and no end in sight.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know neither victory nor defeat.

Governors seeking re-election this year took office at the end of the worst downturn since the Great Depression.

The talk at that hearing in 2009 suggests that the SEC may not want its investigations open to public scrutiny out of fear that the regulator may end up looking sloppy at best and negligent at worst.

The bad: Total VC funding across all technology sectors was roughly 40 percent less than it was at the end of June» 08, with about $ 4 billion in funding received in the second quarter of 2009 versus $ 7 billion in Q2 2008.

«When we told people that we were going to take this careercation and start traveling with my young family, most people thought we were crazy,» he reports, «but at the end of the day, it was not that bad at all.

I think it could end very badly,» he said on January 18 at the Lone Tree Club in North Palm Beach, Florida.

The S&P 500 declined 1.4 percent to end at 2,677.67 — erasing its year - to - date gains — with industrials as the worst - performing sector.

So they reprioritize raising capital over building a valuable product or service and usually end up asking for too much money too soon which ends up in a failed fundraising attempt or a raise on bad terms for the entrepreneur,» said Hrach Simonian, a principal at Canaan Partners.

By the end of 2013 I was «worse than broke»: going into debt at an alarming rate.

Leerink's bullish Geoffrey Porges expects the big biotech, in bad need of some positive R&D developments after a string of setbacks last year, will use a priority review voucher to hustle this drug to a quick decision at the FDA, which he now expects to arrive before the end of 2017.

In the end this shrinks the economy — and that means that more and more loans will go bad, until crisis levels are reached at the point where lenders realize that there is no more room to extract more, and stop lending.

If our market had continued to appreciate at a rate of 30 % per year for another year or two, the end result would have been even worse.

I'll repeat what I wrote during the 2000 - 2002 bear market: at meaningful market lows, «the tenor of news reports has always been something to the effect that «conditions are bad, expected to get worse, and there is no end in sight.»

So rounds tend to be «range bound» where prices at the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies test the top end of the range, and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) test the bottom end of the range.

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

Overdue loans, an indication of future bad loan formation, at the five biggest banks totaled 416 billion yuan as of June 30, an increase of 27 percent from the end of last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Outside of 2016, when a slowdown in China meant things really were bad, the company has tended toward guidance at the moderate end of the spectrum, and then typically reported results that beat.

Nothing is worse than going through a website, adding things to your cart, and at the end you have to fill out all this information.

It is not clear now with a Canadian dollar at par and the US in its worst recession since the end of WWII this is likely to happen again.

In our opinion, this is a bad idea, even if your chosen company is doing an excellent job at the end of the day that money is still your retirement pot, and nobody else will care as much about it as you do.

The bailout is not efficient, he writes, «because it can only deal with insolvency by buying bad assets at far above their true value, thereby guaranteeing big losses for taxpayers and providing an open - ended bail - out to the most irresponsible investors.»

I just think that in its current form, or at least the form it's been in since August 11th, 1987 when Alan Greenspan took office, has ended up being very bad for our country.

Though their bit wasn't directed at me personally, my eyebrows did pop up at their remark that the profit margin argument «annoys us to no end, for it smacks of either lazy thinking and lack of work, or worse, downright intellectual dishonesty.»

Let's say we ended the 20 year time period at the absolute worst time, right in the middle of a terrible bear market in early 2009.

Meantime, at the other end, four stocks saw share prices go downhill i.e. Crest Nicholson, Gleeson, Taylor Wimpey and McCarthy & Stone (which was the worst with a 12.9 % incline).