Sentences with phrase «at nadir»

As one commenter noted, constitutional rights are «at their nadir» in the courtroom.

Gossip, at the nadir of the scale, is trash talk that will arise no matter what we do.

Given the fact that trust in climate science is at its nadir for well - founded reasons right now, and many of them seem from their own words, to be philosophical lightweights — I think I'll do fine on my own thank you.

The flight of an OMI follow - on instrument would preserve the continuity of Aura's higher - resolution ozone data, but only at nadir — meaning that a limb capability would still be needed.

«A NOAA polar orbiter is nominally «sun synchronous,» meaning whenever it observes a particular spot on the earth at nadir, the local time on the earth is constant from year to year, usually being referenced to the crossing time over the equator [i.e., local equatorial crossing time (LECT)-RSB-.

But here at the nadir of the «debate» (or fruitless war of words) to co-opt the public to a science they are not equipped to judge, no one will question their own tragically flawed estimation of their own «expertness»; no one is learning anything.

The ancient species had numbered more than a million a century ago and — in a crash similar to that of the American bison in the 19th century — was reduced to a few tens of thousands of animals at its nadir.

Many whale biologists believe their population is now at 10 % of historical levels, having bounced back from a mere 1 % at their nadir less than fifty years ago.

Now, I don't want to trash talk my parents because this was the 1960s and dog training was perhaps at its nadir.

At the nadir of our performance, a typical comment from our clients after hearing our case was something along the lines of «I hear what you guys are saying, and I agree: These prices seem crazy.

From January 2007 to December 2008, the simple value strategy lost 20 % of its value, and was down 40 % at its nadir.

At its nadir, the Mark IV had a...

The softened America at its nadir - with undemanding schools, unpunished crime, rampant welfare, a feckless army under a timid national policy in Vietnam - is the setting for Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet of 1970 and Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone of 1973.

The best compliment I can muster is that it ranks better than the Transformers movies, which sets the bar for summer blockbusters at its nadir, and that's hardly praise at all.

The Great Depression is at its nadir and the Banks kids are grown - ups now (played by Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer), with children of their own.

Josh is, of course, very like Woody Allen's Cliff Stern, the documentary film - maker in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) who, at the nadir of professional failure, is forced to film a tribute to his hated brother - in - law, a highly successful man at home in the same world of tuxedo dinners and speeches from which Ben Stiller's Josh feels excluded.

QuickBird imagery has a resolution of 61 cm (at nadir) in the panchromatic band and 2.44 m resolution in the four multispectral bands (blue, green, red, and infrared).

In nonhuman primates that received ALN - TTR01 in a single dose of 1.0 mg per kilogram, the mean percent transthyretin knockdown at the nadir level (7 days after administration) was approximately 50 %, with recovery to the baseline level by day 28 (Fig.

It was issued at the height of the tea party movement and, arguably, at the nadir of congressional Republicans» willingness to address the climate crisis.

Estimates of the population size at its nadir range from 30,000 to 200,000.

A room of Democrat activists at the height of Clinton's popularity wouldn't have shown the kind of spirited approval these people did for Bush at the nadir of his popularity and power.

That's nearly twice the support Paterson held at his nadir — a Marist poll in May 2009, put Paterson's approval at 19 percent, a record low in the pollster's three decades of work.

Their leader's approval ratings are now comparable to Gordon Brown's at his nadir.

His Cold War era tragic co-comics included Jean Bedel Bokassa (Central African Republic, who, at the nadir of his power debauchery, renamed CAR Central African Empire, and crowned himself «emperor»); and Alhaji (Dr.) Idi Amin Dada, Conqueror of the British Empire (CBE), the Ugandan power psychopath and savage.

Just as each individual must arrive at his nadir of exhausted possibilities, at which point of death he is united to God, so also that portion of the human race which has achieved its historical limit must now find death and life in an ecstatic moment of self - forgetfulness.

This lived - out action had a shape which was that of a descending curve which went down, into, through, and under every broken God - relationship, and was apparently destroyed at the nadir of its career on Good Friday.

When the Chinese regime was at the nadir of its brutality, the religious left was hailing it as a bastion of social progress, if not the very kingdom of God on earth.»

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

The company's chief executive bought millions of shares during the midst of the turmoil in December, 2008 and February, 2009 — «a time when the stock market was at its nadir and people thought the world was going to end,» said chief financial officer Laurence Sellyn.

When he became CEO in 2008, the company was at a nadir.

Furthermore, at its nadir, Canada's GDP fell 5.4 % — pretty good compared with the 5.7 % drop in the U.S., and awesome stacked against Germany's 14.4 % slide or Japan's 15.2 % tumble.

At the nadir of the financial crisis in early 2009, Scotiabank CEO Rick Waugh again warned that foreign competitors (freshly bailed out by their respective governments) could wreak havoc on Canada's Big Six.

Not exact matches

The nadir, perhaps, was the «boom boom room» scandal at Smith Barney, where female employees were told by colleagues to remove their tops and «entertain» clients.

Its stock closed at $ 42 on Monday, nearly double from the company's recent nadir in December 2015.

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During the nadir recent crisis (2001 — 2003), prices reached record low levels (Kona at 49 US cents / lb according to the ICO indicator price, April 2001) and left many Kona producers in very difficult conditions.

Both teams were docked points, and a glorious rivalry was born — one that would rumble through much of the 1990s and 2000s, taking in Martin Keown and Ruud van Nistelrooy, Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira, before reaching a farcical nadir (or zenith, if you're that way inclined) when Cesc Fabregas allegedly lobbed a slice of pizza at Alex Ferguson.

Arsenal perhaps reached their nadir this season with a terrible performance at St Mary's on New Years day that saw them lose ground on their top four rivals.

It reached its nadir in Zaragoza, Spain, at the qualifying tournament for the 1992 Olympics, where the Azzurri struggled to beat a team of Albanians who played in the same ratty Chuck Taylors they used for padding around town.

As a direct result of this style, the last two performances (away at Stoke and home against Fulham) have to go down as Moyes» true nadir.

The nadir unfortunately is an easy one for me and I'm sure many others: Going up 2 - 0 AT HOME against The Ones Who Shall Not Be Named (I can't even bear to mention them — honestly), and then losing the match and the derby 3 - 2.

With pre-season not being the best, a 1 - 0 defeat at Walsall the nadir with unrest amongst the fans, the optimism which budded at the start of the month looked to be withering.

Today, it stands at -53, having reached a nadir of -58 at the time of the Budget.

Labour were at an electoral nadir in 2009, and so this year they can expect to see their vote share pick up sufficiently with their national revival.

The send - off stands in stark contrast with the rank - and — file turning its collective back on Mayor de Blasio at the funeral of Ramos and Liu — perhaps the nadir of Bratton's term.

Still, sea ice is far below the long - term average and stands to rank among the lowest years on record at its end - of - summer nadir.

Neumann, an instrument specialist for the MESSENGER mission, helped to calibrate the altimeter's reflectance signal, which can vary depending upon whether the measurement is taken from directly overhead or at an oblique angle (known as «off - nadir»).

The prostate - specific antigen (PSA) of patient 1 decreased from 16.52 at talazoparib initiation to a nadir of 0.66 after 3 months on treatment (Fig. 1A).

As shown in Table 5, the peak minus nadir leptin concentration was significantly lower at visit CRC3 than at visit CRC1 and was lower at visit CRC2 than at visit CRC1 (P = 0.09).

The film's nadir is a scene in which Curtis recites a poetic «song» to a group around a campfire and which becomes the occasion for a montage devoted to the beauties of a kitschy soundstage version of «nature,» followed by glimpses of other salt - of - the - earth slaves at rest who register like warmed - over Depression archetypes.