Sentences with phrase «albatross around»

It will become an albatross around your neck if you buy it.

Instead of 5 hotspots, I thing I am going to focus on this one, it's a biggie, and it's been a albatross around my neck for years!

Most of them just want to get rid of the real estate albatross around their necks as soon as possible so that they can pay off any leftover debts.

When your husband's addiction is made known to you, the secret becomes the albatross around your neck.

When I found a service that could write my resume for me, my resume became less an albatross around my neck and more a realizable dream.

However, its massive size and short battery life are an albatross around the neck of an otherwise great laptop.

The prime minister stated last month that he wants to «wage war against the excessive health and safety culture that has become an albatross around the neck of British businesses».

Bob Ambrogi gave an example here earlier this month of how phone book ads can become the albatross around a firm's neck.

Somewhere between tossing Jonah overboard and hanging that albatross around the Ancient Mariner's neck, sailors acquired a reputation for superstition.

Sony's Playstation Vita has met with less than expected numbers for both of its weeks on store shelves, and while the wifi SKU has seen decent — if not spectacular — sales, the 3G model has been an albatross around the system's neck, weighing down the overall figures for -LSB-...]

Whether you're looking for an affordable apartment, applying for a credit card, or trying to secure a personal loan of any amount big or small, it's that ever present albatross around your neck painting a sad portrait of your financial history.

EMT is a useless stinking albatross around an investors neck.

Together they make up a debilitating albatross around the collective necks of the nation's debtors.

In her letter, Warren wrote that she and President - elect Trump are in agreement that «student loan debt should not be «an albatross around [the necks of students]» for the rest of their lives.»

A very good argument can be made that a good agent will pull together a package of best of breed rights holders to the ultimate benefit of the author, I feel strongly that in the end this creates an albatross around the rights holders, limiting their marketing and experimentation to the narrow confines of what they are allowed to purchase.

Instead, this past year, and especially the last quarter, finds it as the albatross around the retailer's neck.

Print legacy is an albatross around the neck of all forms of digital reading.

AYP has become an albatross around the neck of school districts rich and poor.

The federal standards forced upon us by an ever intrusive department of education have resulted in no shortage of controversy and has become an albatross around the necks of many a governor who agreed to adopt the system.

Make no mistake, Jennifer Lopez is the albatross around this movie's neck.

Having to follow in the footsteps of Attenborough is an albatross around Sam Riley's neck.

Taut, spare, riveting and with a twist that has become in many ways an albatross around the neck of its writer / director, The Sixth Sense rests squarely on the shoulders of Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and the imagination of the viewer.

The title alone is enough of an albatross around its neck (all indications are that it was hurriedly tacked onto a spec script), but an out - of - the - blue, utterly gripping trailer that announced the pic's existence a mere two months prior to release ends up its greatest foe.

And neither taxation nor the Tory press are the albatross around Labour's neck that many think them to be.

She has been a financial albatross around his neck for years.

instead they upped his wages and he's now just an albatross around the neck of the club... Should be offered out at whatever the market will pay in the summer... Might just have to go on a free as not many clubs outside of Middle East or china would pay this guy 7 m a year for his average skill set

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

For years, I wore stepmother like an albatross around my neck, allowing its weight to pull me under the dark waters of depression.

The albatross around Microsoft's neck is its insistence on bundling the Kinect motion and voice sensor with the console, which adds to the overall cost.

It acts as an albatross around the neck of the economy and hinders growth.

Not exact matches

By leading the effort to re-confirm him, the Corporate Democrats (but not most of their colleagues who had to face voters this autumn) removed this albatross from the Republican neck and put it around their own.

In our frenzy to get rid of the two Yemeni terrorists in our midst, we seem to have failed to ask the most important question concerning this albatross President Mahama has wrapped around our necks and the question is; WHERE DO WE SEND THE GUANTANAMO BAY TERRORISTS IN TWO YEARS IF WE FOUND THEM TO BE SECURITY RISK TO GHANA?

«The Conservative Party is an albatross, I believe, around the neck of the Republican Party,» Giambra said.

Twenty years ago, Cahill was a first - term assemblyman, running with an albatross named Mario around his neck, his base in Kingston divided and distracted by Mayor T.R. Gallo's drive to overturn charter revision in the city (city manager).

As their name suggests, these albatrosses wander aimlessly around the oceans, hunting fish.

Costa's lab has carried out groundbreaking tracking studies of a wide range of species around the world, including albatrosses, sooty shearwaters, California sea lions, Galapagos sea lions, crabeater seals, Weddell seals, and southern elephant seals.

At the time they thought she was around 5 years old, making her at least 64 now — almost double the expected Laysan albatross life span.

It becomes his albatross, toted around unexamined, as Wilson descends on a spiral of juvenile addiction (gasoline huffing) and avoidance.

Aside from that, the character roster is really packed this time around (although I would like to know where the rest of the Koopalings, Deadly Six, and Storm the Albatross are).

But for smaller schools or those whose budgets can not support a communications department or individual, the trend is to seek an affordable solution but still remove this albatross from around the necks of their overwhelmed technology department.

Amidst this turmoil, RIM's shares have dropped 71 percent since the beginning of this year, while an analyst from Bahl & Gaynor Investment Counsel referred to the Playbook as an «albatross or a yoke around the neck.»

«Whether you call the PlayBook an albatross or a yoke around the neck, management has not done a good job in bringing good products to the forefront and that's why the share price is suffering,» said Bahl & Gaynor Investment Counsel's Matt McCormick, whose firm oversees $ 4.1 billion and doesn't own RIM shares.

As a result, the credit they temporarily extended to themselves to maintain their current living expenses becomes a financial albatross tied around their necks which drags them even deeper in debt.

, the winds around the albatrosses incubation habitat strengthens.

During El Niño, the winds around the albatrosses incubation habitat strengthens.

Like every other albatross, the young hybrid will stay out at sea for around five years before returning to the place of its birth to court with other birds and find a mate of its own.

The Mike Duffy trial is back for round three and, while this albatross was hung firmly around Stephen Harper's neck, its return to the headlines is bound to remind people of Trudeau's promise to radically revamp the Red Chamber.

Google won't have the Motorola albatross hanging around its neck for much longer.