Sentences with phrase «as little consolation»

Today's admission that the acquisition was in effect a failure — the write - off is more than the $ 7.2 bn Microsoft actually paid for Nokia in the first place — will likely come as little consolation to those opposing voices.

They've since yielded and allocated a spot but it will come as little consolation to the academy, who will feel that they had everything required to challenge again last year, as the competition was eventually won by the surprise package Red Bull Salzburg.

Ozil managed to get an assist for his Arsenal side but that would have come as little consolation to him.

Not exact matches

Köln's unexpected and hard - won point perhaps comes as some consolation when set against the general perfection of the Bayern experience: all it takes is a little defensive laxity, some wasteful finishing, and one of the best goalkeepers in the world ends up contorted like a pretzel, watching the ball and the result sail past just out of reach.

Arsenal have also maintained their Champions League status which may feel like little consolation, but it protected their status and provided a further financial boost, allowing a team with stringent financial responsibility to acquire players such as Mertesacker, Koscielny, Chamberlain and Cazorla.

, collects the usual suspects (the always - delightful Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, the always - fallible author / historian Bill Krohn, the always - quick - to - Rich Little Peter Bogdanovich) as a series of talking - heads discussing Suspicion's inferior source material, the difficulties Hitchcock had with RKO, and the fact that Fontaine won an Oscar for her work here likely as consolation for her un-awarded work in the astonishing Rebecca.

Kidman is the obvious bet for consolation prize: it feels like she's moving into the Grande Dame phase of her career in which every major role she takes has one eye on the little gold fella, and if a lot of the time she's going to aim and miss (the specter of «Grace of Monaco» hovers on the horizon, not eligible here yet, but still its stinking word of mouth and distribution troubles are already part of the narrative), in general the Academy loves a trier, so a nod for something as unexceptional - but - prestigey as «The Railway Man» would not be out of the question.

I guess as a consolation prize we get the dCi 175 which is a little «fresher».

Although it is little consolation to the American city dweller whose water is turned off several hours a day, and who can not water the lawn, wash the car, or fill the swimming pool, our country is so much better off than the rest of the world as to be swimming in surplus water by comparison.

Probate is not so much for the beneficiaries as it is for financial institutions and the province, so the fact that the siblings will sign off is of little consolation.

Amid all the doom and gloom surrounding the Wii U, Nintendo can at least draw consolation from the success (little remarked upon) of the 3DS handheld — achieved despite dire predictions at its launch that handheld games consoles would no longer be able to cope with the rise of mobile phones as gaming platforms: «Some indie developers have told us that when they offer the same software on iOS and Android, and in the eShop on Nintendo 3DS, the 3DS eShop version sells most.

To such a claimant the knowledge that he failed at the interim stage by a margin as little (and as precise) as two or three percent is likely to be scant consolation.

Words of wisdom and encouragement such as «Don't take it personally», «It's just business», «You made your bed», or «You'll make it up on the next deal» offer little consolation.