Sentences with phrase «not even their performances»

Stupid scientists played by Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall Green, Rafe Spall and more are the source of most of the mind - numbing plot points, and not even a performance from Michael Fassbender as the android David does much to save the film.

The xDrive50i isn't even the performance version of the X6 and it can get to 60 in just 4.6 - seconds.

The CPU has NO PROBLEM executing 32 - bit code, and there isn't even a performance hit in doing so.

Not exact matches

According to a new report from public - advocacy nonprofit As You Sow, that's because most pension funds, mutual funds, and other institutional investors continue to «rubber - stamp» exorbitant pay packages — even when a CEO's performance doesn't measure up.

Many companies have performance reviews around this time, but even if yours doesn't, take the time to think about all that you've accomplished.

Good to Great is one of the bestselling business tomes of all time, but even it doesn't really deliver the promised magical management framework that allows «almost any organization» to «substantially improve its stature and performance.»

Even if you consider the detachable screen little more than a party trick, you still get a well - built laptop with unmatched runtime and performance options that most other 13 - inch systems simply don't offer.

If you find yourself confronting poor results — a dribble — or even if you are looking for new paths for growth in your company's performance, wouldn't your time be best served identifying and removing the kinks?

I was disappointed in my performance, and even more frustrated that I didn't make the most of the opportunity to showcase what I could do.

The cost is nothing more than a little bit of lost productivity on the part of the top employees who act as coaches, and even that's partly if not entirely offset by the performance bump in those they train.

To professional athletes, sleep is not about spirituality, work - life balance, or even health and well - being; it's all about performance.

In my experience, even financial professionals do not put in enough time into understanding margin performance.

While new gadgets such as tablets or even e-readers have debuted at premium prices and then quickly nose - dived to dirt cheapness, SLRs have stayed expensive for decades — even despite the digital revolution — largely because the glass and precision parts used to make lenses simply don't see Moore's continual price - performance improvements.

Buffett fans will get a chance to hear him discuss his stocks and their performance on Saturday, even if they're not in Omaha, by tuning in to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting live stream starting at 10 a.m. ET.

Beyond the smoother software rollout, we didn't even touch on Android's existential security crisis, or the fact that the iPhone 7 destroys all competition from performance standpoint.

So even his stellar on - tape performance didn't completely sway the admissions staff.

She was under crazy pressure from her boss because of her department's under - performance and felt she couldn't risk even the tiniest possible screw up.

In this sense, value does not necessarily equal net profits or even break - even performance.

It turns out that even those who stress particular negotiation behaviors and attitudes see those things not as hollow gambits but as the natural performance traits of the smarter negotiator you must become — by way of better preparation, rational thinking, and so on.

That's not even considering the toll this sort of victimization can have on a student's academic and extracurricular performance and personal relationships.

I'm not talking about setting repercussions, or establishing goals, or even communicating about some well - intentioned Key Performance Indicators (or KPIs).

With science showing sleep deprivation creates a host of negative effects, from decreased creativity to radically compromised mental performance (and that's not even getting into the physical problems it causes), attending to your body's need for sleep is always a good idea, but failing to get enough rest also exacerbates our tendency to get stressed out, so it's even more important to pay attention to if you feel your mental health is getting a little shaky.

Though a number of people weren't happy about Madonna as the choice for the tribute and even protested the performance, that wasn't evident on the screen.

An Intel Celeron N3160 processor and 4 GB of RAM are enough to provide steady, cool performance and capable multitasking, even if it's not quite as powerful as Dell Chromebook 13 or the aforementioned Toshiba.

It is unclear how these revelations will impact Thinx's performance or even Agrawal's role as a spokeswoman.To be sure, Racked's article includes a note from a Thinx spokesperson stating that the article contained «inaccurate» information, though it did not point out what exactly was erroneous.

At the same time, public speaking is a performance, and that's a good thing, even if you're not a natural actor.

«We found that deliberate practice does not account for all, nearly all, or even most variance in [elite music or chess] performance,» they write.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

The 4 percent rule is based on the portfolio's initial balance; subsequent market performance isn't dynamically factored into the withdrawal rate — even though it can dramatically affect the portfolio's balance.

Indeed, it is poised to become the next great brand export from a country not known for its global brands — even if its shares are as overpriced as a hundred - dollar hoodie, leaving investors vulnerable to anything less than peak performance.

Efficient diversification will not be enough to earn good returns; even very well established track records will provide a less reliable guide to future performance; and bond managers will probably have to stray far from their comfort zone to deliver even modestly positive real returns.

Even when they lose a game, players pick up a few coaching points, so even when they're not very good, they can «level up» and improve their performaEven when they lose a game, players pick up a few coaching points, so even when they're not very good, they can «level up» and improve their performaeven when they're not very good, they can «level up» and improve their performance.

Another big challenge for LPs is that they are asked to measure the performance of these illiquid assets even though doing so is quite difficult and may not be indicative of future real cash returns.

Unfortunately, most fund research does not analyze the holdings of a fund, even though the performance of holdings equals the performance of a fund.

However, investors shouldn't pay too much attention to those vagaries in performance, because currency movements are notoriously difficult to predict and tend to even out, noted BlackRock analysts.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

Even though this would typically lead to a poor market performance, this did not happen on Friday.

But even with those gains, commodities couldn't put in a positive performance in the period.

First, of all, they can buy some specialized equipment which, even if it doesn't nearly reach the performance of ASICs, can easily beat GPU mining.

If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks is not being operated logically.

I don't know how he managed even to be awake, but he gave a solid performance.

The investment fund transactions show the market is becoming interested in the stock, and while the buys are still very low, at around 0.29 %, one should bear in mind that Maserich had not been previously considered as something valuable at all, so even such a small buying volume may boost future performance.

Deven Nunez is not going to get an Oscar for that performance, as it would have been camp and trite even in a grammar school class play.

Performance may move in cycles — and there will likely be years when even the «best - performing» style may not have positive returns.

The company's sales performance may face even deeper scrutiny inside Google's new parent company, Alphabet, where Nest now sits, as the hardware maker faces its most critical year ever.

As the late Sir John Templeton observed in 1979: «If you want to buy the same thing that is popular with your friends or popular with the investment analysts, you can't get a bargain... If you are going to have superior performance, you've got to buy what other people are not buying, or even what they are selling.»

He then goes on to assert that it is simply not true that strength and weakness in gold stocks tells us anything about the future performance of gold, which as anyone with a little bit of experience in trading this sector knows is incorrect, even if he tries to support his claim with presumably carefully cherry - picked statistics.

This is why the scammers don't bother to go into too much detail about the robot; ultimately its performance is irrelevant as the scammers have already gotten paid before you have even started using the robot.

Even performance woes at drugmaker Akorn aren't enough for Fresenius to demand a discount on an agreed $ 4.3 bln tie - up.

Lady Gaga wore a barely there g - string that night and didn't even bother to change after performance, preferring to spend the rest of the evening being photographed basically naked.