Sentences with phrase «much of the abysmal»

«Much of the abysmal performance of the Senate the past two years can be traced to the failed leadership of downstate Democratic Senate leaders, such as John Sampson and Malcolm Smith,» the paper opined.

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There has been a failure to communicate with citizens from the very beginning, abysmal information release to questions — so much so that Alberta Connects refers all my health questions to the government of Alberta to some Bermuda Triangle at Alberta Health where these questions disappear.

Out of the anxiety of creatures capable of such abysmal self - knowledge as we can and often do acquire, much evil and wickedness emerges.

He has also been wildly inconsistent in his performances ranging from brilliant in short spells to abysmal for much of the rest.

Honestly, I thought Cam looked awful out there; maybe he's still working off some rust from his injury but the placement of his passes was abysmal and he didn't generate much offensively.

I can't really do justice to how much I want him and the team to be able to answer those questions confidently and with positive results on the pitch, but our recent track record of lasting the distance when in the title race is abysmal.

It has been an abysmal season, United fans are calling for Moyes» head and Cleverley has been culpable for much of what is wrong with the club.

On the other hand, as I also noted in my JO post, I do tend to overlook some of Oliver's shtick — and questionable tactics — when I consider how much valuable attention he's drawn to critically important issues like childhood obesity and diabetes, our nation's over-processed diet and the abysmal state of school food in many places in the U.S. I'm just not sure he would have achieved the same high ratings with a measured, PBS - style documentary on the topic.

The same can't be said of Michael J. Bassett's abysmal sequel Silent Hill: Revelation, which ruined so very much of what made the series special.

While the internet hivemind celebrated the film's abysmal numbers — just desserts for a film that focuses on a generically pretty white boy and not the trans women of color who actually started the 1969 riot — they've largely overlooked the much bigger elephant in the room: namely, that Stonewall isn't all that different from all the other major LGBT theatrical releases.

Beyond his extensive Rolodex — he's Walt's grandnephew and son of former Walt Disney Company executive Roy — Disney hasn't advanced much as a director since his abysmal 2000 monastery drama A Question Of Faith, but he keeps the pot boiling under a true story that, at a minimum, succeeds in stoking righteous liberal outragof former Walt Disney Company executive Roy — Disney hasn't advanced much as a director since his abysmal 2000 monastery drama A Question Of Faith, but he keeps the pot boiling under a true story that, at a minimum, succeeds in stoking righteous liberal outragOf Faith, but he keeps the pot boiling under a true story that, at a minimum, succeeds in stoking righteous liberal outrage.

It's not the personal slight so much as the principle of the thing: While recognizing that some of the Hoover era was marked by abysmal violations of civilians» rights, Felt is convinced of the overall goodness of the Bureau and deeply committed to its independence, particularly from the White House it is investigating.

It abandoned much of what made the first game great, and would be the starting point for Relic's shameful descent into MOBA - like actions - per - minute gameplay that finally culminated in the abysmal Dawn of War III.

The state, which took over the McDowell public schools nearly a decade ago, has failed to make much of a dent in the county's abysmal test scores and a dropout rate more than three times the national average.

Much of the targets of Burris» criticism are virtual charter schools, which many charter school advocates do not support because of their abysmal performance.

However, I have never had as much fun as I have with Uncharted 4's online multiplayer; it must be my appreciation for the franchise, as I've enjoyed the rather abysmal online multiplayer of Tomb Raider and Uncharted 4's online component is simply down - right addicting.

When I first pursued the research into play styles that became my book with Richard Boon, 21st Century Game Design, it was because of the recognition that marketing was valued more than game design — and with good cause (despite the abysmal state of understanding in games marketing departments...) since marketing expenditure is a much better predictor of eventual sales than anything else.

They can't even predict the next decade, much less ten decades; despite tuning they only poorly replicate the historical climate; their equations can't be shown to converge; the number of tunable parameters is far too large for comfort; they show absolutely no skill at regional scales; their results for things they are not tuned to replicate (e.g. rainfall) are abysmal — in short they are glorified Tinkertoy ™ models which have one common characteristic... they don't work well.

Compared to the title insurance premiums, the legal fees are a bargain because at least the lawyer is actually doing something useful and beneficial while the title insurance premium provides coverage not much above the level of a scam (read up on that industry's abysmal record of burying gaps in coverage in the turgid fine print and equally abysmal record of not paying claims that are more than a few hundred dollars worth of tax arrears).

The chance of getting any real usable item drops are abysmal, because the game developers have never put any time into developing endgame content that is engaging, and would lose half their playerbase if said playerbase wasn't spending so much time leveling and acquiring resources.

Again, much better than the abysmal 10 % of offers to deals that are commonplace.