Sentences with phrase «solid performance by»

This solid performance by General Literature helped offset the slowdown in the company's education business in France, Spain, and the UK.

After more than a dozen hours behind the wheel in a day, it's another solid performance by the 320d, but it's still failing to worm its way into my affections.

A solid performance by the often underrated Judith Light lends considerable weight to this melodrama's controversial subject: So - called «ex-gay» organizations that claim to «cure» homosexuality through Christian teaching.

Another solid performance by Zac Efron is flattened by bombastic filmmaking; this weepy drama couldn't be any more obvious if it tried.

Jennifer Lawrence has a lot to live up to here, and she handles the many moods of Katniss admirably (her big scene with District 11 tribute Rue is devastating), but Hutcherson winds up stealing the movie as the immensely likable Peeta, closely followed by a rock - solid performance by Lenny Kravitz as Katniss» stylist Cinna.

Overall, it was a solid performance by a solid side.

Another solid performance by the Spaniard.

A solid performance by the stopper, which, coming in contrast to Asmir Begovic's struggles at Stamford Bridge, underlines the daftness of Roman Abramovich's decision to sell him to Arsenal.

Anyways, Team Merar saw solid performances by the Michael «Don't Spear Shaftal» Bailen and Brian «Bradley better not score 15» Deutsch added 15 pts.

Criticized lately for his uneven play combined with recent solid performances by backup Khudobin, Rask raised his record to just 4 -8-2 this season.

Solid performances by both Denni and Eboue.

The film benefits from solid performances by its four stars, but it is overly didactic and drawn - out as its comic tone grows darker and darker.

Cut by some 23 minutes, it's a weird, never quite coherent epic that survives its engagement with its audience by being genuinely engaging thanks to solid performances by stars Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrian Brody.

The film features a lively cast, with solid performances by the leads, who downplay their roles in a way that lets us appreciate the situations they're in without resorting to oversell.

Sure, the entire 10 - episode first season could have been condensed into a single two - hour movie, but solid performances by Molly Parker and Parker Posey, as well as a new and intriguing backstory for the robot, should convince you to stick around to the not - unthrilling end.

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This performance reflects the strong contribution of the specialty molecular sieves business, the benefits of the integration of XL Brands in adhesives, and the solid performance of the division's other product lines led by innovation.

Borrowers, bolstered by solid post-session performances and enticed by record - low interest rates, have begun to have an easier time securing financing.

The A10 Fusion isn't as powerful as the A10X used by the iPad Pro, but it's a solid jump in performance from previous processors.

The company doesn't break out its performance by country but said France had «solid results.»

National hotel performance has been strong over the past several years, driven by solid leisure and individual «transient» business demand, which has risen nearly 40 % since 2007.

True, our unemployment rate is biased down due to the weak performance of labor force participation and still - elevated underemployment, but as I've extensively documented, the US job market has been tightening up for awhile, driven by solid employment growth, now averaging around 200,000 / month.

The main drivers of the first - half performance were solid growth in the combined New Zealand properties, offset by reduced turnover in the international business, continued competitive and economic pressures in Darwin and a weaker Australian dollar, the company said.

«RBC GAM's investment approach is characterized by fundamental research and rigorous discipline, along with a focus on risk management and portfolio construction, all within a team - oriented structure,» said Dan Chornous, chief investment officer, RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «Habib and his team fit seamlessly with our approach, as demonstrated by their strong investment results and stability of returns, with notably solid performance in down markets.»

The solid early performance thus far marks a stark contrast from the low expectations, where analysts were expecting aggregate earnings to decline by 4.5 % on the back of the strong U.S. dollar.

You can't imagine my personal despair when a friend and client, pleased with his long - term performance but exasperated by my avoidance of the «glamour» tech stocks in late - 1999, moved his retirement account to E * Trade, assuring me that he was only going to invest in «solid» techs like Lucent, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems.

Q1 Analysis Analysts Bhavan Suri and David Griffin said BlackLine has made it look easy by turning in another solid beat - and - raise performance.

Group turnover increased by 25 per cent to $ 3.8 billion and total sales grew by 25 per cent last year to $ 3.8 billion, reflecting a solid performance in the Americas as well as Ireland.

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

These excellent results were driven by solid performance for every brand in our portfolio, which resulted in Constellation being the No. 1 growth contributor to the U.S. beer industry for the year.»

18 Apr 2018 — French food giant Danone has exceeded market expectations in its first - quarter sales growth with a very solid performance in specialized nutrition driven by infant formula products sales in China.

Driven by its solid vanillin expertise and innovation culture, Solvay Aroma Performance develops a comprehensive portfolio of food functional vanillin - based solutions (Govanil ™) and fully natural solutions based on core patented technology (Vanifolia ™) and vanilla beans (Vanifolia ™ Bean).

Gibbs - 7.5 - We've really got something special with this boy, Great going forward, and was also solid on defence Arteta - 7 - Another good performance by him, his standing tackle has really improved, it's a shame he had to come off.

For me, strong individual stats must be backed by a solid team defensive performance and in this regard, Koulibaly is the lynch pin of the Napoli defense that conceded the least amount of goals behind Juventus in Serie A this season.

Good performance by Forster in goal and solid defending from Southampton.

Hart is still highly regarded by the rest of his City teammates, though, and is still capable of pulling off a solid performance, as he did in the Champions League tie against CSKA Moscow last week, but Pellegrini believes the 26 - year - old will respond positively to some serious competition for a starting spot.

Joe Protheroe is as solid as they get in the backfield, evidenced by his amazing performance against Dublin in the quarterfinals, and their offensive line just seems to be so much faster than the defenses they are facing.

Didn't get a very big cheer during the pre-match roll call, but, despite being somewhat ignored by Brazil fans, who had turned up to see some of their nation's higher - profile players, Souza produced a solid 61 - minute performance.

but give us a solid analysis why our player of the season so far (yes he has been the most cultured player thus far) should give way, guess that's how we should be rewarding good performances, by being benched.

Solid performance especially by Ozil, he was linked with every attack today.

With four goals in six league matches now (and one of those sitting most of the game watching us get slaughtered by Liverpool), solid performances, and many quality touches I'm even more excited than I was when we finally signed him during the summer, and trust me I raised a few glasses in celebration back then!

Brilliant defence by both teams then led to the draw, but Oxford's solid earlier performance put them far enough ahead of the other teams to bring home the trophy.

Despite having not scored or assisted for the club yet, McTominay has put in solid performances whenever he has been called upon by Jose Mourinho.

Also so happy for debuchy to shut up these arm chair fans by putting in an extremely solid performance.

I'm going to round up the weekend by giving James Tomkins recognintion for his solid performance at the heart of the Hammers» defence.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

D: Ike Opara (Sporting Kansas City)-- Solid defensive performance in SKC's first win of the season by the veteran center back that included a game - winner.

Roma could have won by a greater margin but Antonio Mirante put in a solid performance in goal to keep the visitors in the game.

David De Gea was out - standing, pulling off an excellent save to deny Romelu Lukaku from the spot and keeping the Belgian from scoring any of his many chances throughout the game — this wasn't a solid defensive performance by any means and without the Spaniard's reflexes and athleticism, it could have ended in a humbling defeat.

The Wales international was booed off by the club's supporters during the 2 - 2 draw against Valencia last weekend, but Zidane has backed the Welshman to shrug off his disappointment and come up with a solid performance after the international break.

He put in a solid performance at left - back, forcing a smart first - half save from goalkeeper Tasos Kissas, before being replaced by another debutant, Alex Denny, in second - half injury time.