Sentences with phrase «bad fall from»

Her last few weeks after her return in September from Pietrasanta — where she went every summer to paint — were marked by a bad fall from which she made a recovery in record time.
It is perhaps a little easier to see cause and effect when you're an aerialista (inadequate self - care = bad fall from great height!)
One bump in the road and your hamster can have a bad fall from the second level of a cage.
Any of these films would be worthy of an Oscar win, but I'm personally rooting for the race documentary «13th» (a must - see for anyone, the kind of film they should show in schools) and «O.J.: Made in America,» which is a marathon at nearly eight hours in length (it was shown in parts on ESPN earlier this year), but a completely fascinating look at race, media and society as it was in the 1990s and today, and just happens to be a tragic portrait of the worst fall from grace for a sports star in the history of our country.

Not exact matches

The bad news reason is that part of the explanation is falling demand, and the falling expectation of future demand, particularly from China.
Take 2008: BRIC equities from the major emerging markets led the decline, falling 49 %, while Canadian small caps, down 46 %, represented a close second worst.
In the study sample of 60 different inversion deals, approximately 15 - 20 percent of shareholders fell into this long - term investor category and were made worse off from the inversion.
The United States has been falling behind on math and science test scores for decades — and waiting for help from the federal government is almost always a bad idea, no matter who is in office.
In other words, a data breach could seriously impact the trust of your customers, leading to lower sales and, in the worst - case scenario, a fatal fall from the marketplace.
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Wal - Mart's first - quarter net income fell 5 per cent as bad winter weather and financial struggles kept customers from spending at the world's largest retailer.
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Kroger also fell 15 %, making it the worst performing stock on the S&P 500 and extending its losses from a day earlier when the company reported declines in first quarter profits.
The car maker, which has consistently fallen short of promised production targets and is fighting bad publicity over a fatal crash of a car using its Autopilot system, said 10 days ago it would have positive cash flow from the third quarter.
That is its worst weekly slump since 2011, and leaves it close to what Wall Street calls a «correction,» or a fall of 10 percent from a recent high.
And, to round out the bad news, the median pre-money valuation for companies also fell sharply to $ 10 million from $ 14 million.
At Tim Hortons, where the company is dealing with the fallout of bad publicity from its reaction to minimum wage increases in the country, comparable sales fell 0.3 percent in the quarter.
But SQC demands that if the plotted points begin to show a trend away from the center, rather than clustering randomly around it — or, worse yet, begin to fall outside the boundaries in either direction — then production must stop.
Analysts said the manufacturing report from China wasn't really worse than other data, and the selling appears to be related to the expected end of the selling ban issued when the Shanghai market was falling in the summer.
With rats literally falling from the ceiling in Dallas, Texas and norovirus outbreaks in Sterling, Virginia, it seems like things couldn't get much worse for the fast - casual Mexican restaurant.
Tesco fended off an attempt by Unilever to hike prices by 10 % and currency hedging has insulated firms from some of the worst of the pound's fall.
BEIJING Aluminum Corp of China Ltd, known as Chalco, said on Monday that first - quarter net profits fell by 19.4 percent from a year ago due to lower aluminum prices but one - off gains helped it avoid a much worse result.
We all fall into bad routines from time to time.
Worse still, the dividend yield just fell from 8 percent to zero.
We've previously analyzed firms engaging in a roll - up strategy, such as InnerWorkings (INWK), which fell 50 % at its worst, and Valeant (VRX), which still trades down 65 % from when we originally published these reports.
Therefore, if they report bad results then not only do you take the hit from the results themselves, but the P / E could fall too if the assumed growth isn't there.
Hurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it gets better.
The three major U.S. indexes are off to their worst start in history, having fallen into correction territory, or down at least 10 percent from their 52 - week high.
Its worst three - month drop was in 2011 when its price fell by 68 percent, from $ 16.1 to $ 5.14, during that year's third quarter.
By contrast, the recent Dow drop from 11,750 to under 7,200 was «only» a 38.7 % fall (although Nasdaq got spanked worse, losing 78 %).
If they fall then rise, then your exposure is reduced during the bad times and you'll benefit from a rising market later.
These may have lessened the fall in Canadaâ $ ™ s corporate tax revenue losses, but not by much. Even worse, this tax shifting makes the overall net impact even more negative as any revenue gains from income shifting come at the expense of even greater revenue losses elsewhereâ $» and fuel a race to the bottom with tax cuts.
«This latest fall in production was made worse by manufacturers cutting into their inventories, as the fall in new orders from Canadian manufacturers has levelled off since September.
 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).
I can't believe this bad fig hasn't fallen from the branches already.
Most readers of «First Thoughts» are likely, being mostly conservatives of some sort, to feel that things are always getting worse and that the contemporary world has fallen a few steps down the slope towards decadence from the position its predecessors held.
How can it move us to be told that Jesus gave his body as a feast «truly from heaven come down,» and then to be treated to a tableau vivant showing the children of Israel in the desert, in the style, colors and postures of bad Sunday school illustrations, with manna falling from the sky in the form of bits of fluttering paper?
While that is not desirable, which is worse: to occasionally fall into sin ourselves, knowing that such sin is covered by the grace of the cross, OR telling the whole world that although we've been rescued from sin and death and the devil, they can just go to hell because all we care about is our own eternal life?
If the Crucifixion does not express and embody a decisive self - transformation of God, then at most it can only give a guilty humanity a temporary respite from the sovereign power of the transcendent Creator, while at worst it can seal a fallen humanity in its abject state of powerlessness and self - abasement, totally repressing every tendency to movement and life.
I learn from people who fall from grace, I am so badly in need of grace my own self.
I've gone through such a difficult, isolated time as the Christians around me believe things that make me so angry — like gays are sinning and that homosexuality is the worst thing for our society and is accelerating us towards the end times and that if we support gay people we are deeply deceived and can fall away from the faith.
The Decalogue is not the imposition of the will of an arbitrary divinity; the Ten Commandments help the liberated from falling back into the bad moral habits of slaves, and thus help a free people remain faithful to the logic of their liberation.
Usually when we hear about a ministry leader «falling from grace,» we assume the worst.
He had asked what happens to Milton's Adam and Eve after the Fall, thinking of their sudden lust for each other (when formerly they bad experienced only pure sexual love), their mutual recriminations and laying of blame, their alienation from the God who had been their friend, and so on.
Republicans should be relieved, for example, that the Twenty - Second Amendment prevents Bill Clinton from running for president again, and it is always possible that Republicans currently in power will fall victim to hubris, incompetence, or simple bad luck.
Last, had I known that alcoholism is a disease worse than cancer, and that it ran through the family genes thus any baby born had a strong chance of becoming one... well, that seals the deal but, I bet the parents who also fell for religiosity, not knowing it was an enclave for pedophiles... talk about regrets from hell.
The further we fall away from God's word the worse we are.
Sin is often thought of as wrongdoing or bad thoughts and actions, but the Greek word comes from archery and originally meant a falling short of the target.
The reason it's easy to think otherwise is that we keep alive the great liturgical art from the past while allowing the bad stuff to fall out of memory and to decay.
All bad things about the Church are coming from fallen human nature and from the devil trying to destroy it but he will never succeed as promised by Jesus.
If the civilians are limited of their weapon capacities or worst banned from their God given right to protect themselves or their neighbor then we leave all the powers to the goverment and run a risk of falling under the leadership of tyrants.
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