Sentences with phrase «bad first effort»

It's not a bad first effort, but rivals currently have the upper hand.

Not exact matches

The first involves the «inverted U curve,» which models the inflection point at which the addition of units — of effort, of people, of money — stops making something better; and the further point at which adding units actually makes something worse.

Not too bad for a first team effort.

Of course it would be silly to suggest that winning any game, cup or otherwise, isn't good for the club, but let's remember just how problematic FA Cup success has been for this club... I'm certainly not going to suggest I didn't enjoy seeing Arsenal win, I'm a fan of this club first and foremost, but how bad are things when you find yourself secretly wishing that your own team lost so that just maybe real change would finally come... I resent this team for even making me feel such thoughts and it's going to take a lot of effort on their part to earn my trust again... this club has treated the fans so poorly that it has created an incredibly fragile and toxic environment, so much so that a «what have you done for me lately» mentality has emerged... fans rise and fall depending on the results of each game because we don't have faith in those in charge to make the necessary changes to personnel and tactics... each time we win many fans attack any dissenting voices and make unrealistic claims about the players, the manager and the potential for unprecedented success... every time we lose the boo - birds run rampant, calling for heads to roll and predicting the worst... regardless of what side you fall on, it's not your fault, both sides are simply overcompensating for the horrible state of affairs that have been percolating for several years... it's hard to take the long view when those in charge have lied incessantly and refuse to take any responsibilities for their own actions... in the end, we are trapped by the same catch - 22 that ManU faced upon Fergie's exit... less fearful of maintaining the status quo than facing the unknown, which was validated, wrongly or rightly, by witnessing the difficulties they have faced during this transitory period... to be honest, the thing that scares me most is that this team has never prepared whatsoever for this eventuality, which considering our frugal nature and the way we have shunned many of our most revered former players is more than a little disconcerting

Young's first effort wasn't bad either, and while it's taken a while for him to find the back of the net, he certainly did so in style as he continues to play an important role for Mourinho and Man Utd this season as they hope to remain within firing range on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table.

That was exactly what Elneny was, his passes are mostly side & back passes, his only tackle was a foul, he was either out run or hardly made any effort to run for the ball first, his absolutely lack of creativity makes him an even worse player than Arteta!

Despite helping Germany to win lift the World Cup trophy last summer, and to qualify for the tournament in the first place of course, the Arsenal play maker Mesut Ozil was getting the same sort of criticism from the football media and former players in his homeland as he was from the English press and pundits, for what many perceived as a bad attitude and a lack of effort.

After Giroud heads it to Lacazette who shoots wide Bellerin has to save a ball from the line after Cech could only half stop the first effort after again a bad control from an Arsenal player.

Then instead of a second baby we got a second dog (bad idea) in an effort to keep first dog company.

Ne missed the mark badly on his first effort — and is likely to do more harm with his new push.

A few thoughts: (1) First, as you say, Luke's effort to defend top pay on Rawlsian grounds almost certainly falls at the empirical stage - the relevant pay differentials simply aren't necessary to maximize the position of the worst - off.

Saturday, January 28 — As the Great Depression approached its worst, Wisconsin made the nation's first governmental direct relief effort for the unemployed.

In an effort to reduce its notoriously bad traffic problems, Jakarta installed its HOV regulations in 1992, using a «three - in - one» policy that required three passengers in each vehicle on some major roads, between 7 and 10 a.m. and between 4:30 and 7 p.m.. However, it suddenly scrapped the policy in 2016 — first for a week, then for a month, and then permanently.

As the task became harder, children in the first group performed worse after their mistakes compared to the group that had heard effort was important.

In an effort to help daters feel and act confident while avoiding becoming a subject for Bad Online Dates, DressForTheDate.com helps men and women shop for or utilize their current wardrobe and budget to look their very best for that oh - so - important first date or second or third date.

It is unfortunate that so many people join dating sites but so few put a fair effort into writing a really good profile that makes them stand out from Examples of good and bad online dating profiles to attract women and get them to write you or to respond to your first message to them.

A clumsy interface as well as an ineffective physical activity, Exerbeat is not the worst offender in this continuously offensive market of unimaginative motion control games, but it offers little value beyond keeping grandma and grandpa entertained during their next visit, though Nintendo's first party efforts are still the clear choice for virtual workouts.

Nostalgic fans of this movie should appreciate Buena Vista's fine DVD treatment, but everyone else is encouraged to avoid this first and probably worst directorial effort from the subsequently accomplished Ron Howard.

That's too bad, because First They Killed My Father is a tremendous effort, one that's highly critically acclaimed and has already made an impression in the awards race.

X-Men: First Class is a feisty prequel effort, effectively restoring badly needed snap into the mutant franchise, breaking away from Wolverine to fiddle with a colorful community of heroes and villains.

For over two hours, there are car chases, shoot - outs, snarling bad guys, a snarky side - kick, and, because this is the typically overproduced Jerry Bruckheimer effort, explosions, the first a restrained 15 minutes into the proceedings.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

This was clear early last year when they were caught off - guard by the successful effort of Common Core opponents and movement conservatives to stop the passage of now - outgoing House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline's first draft of what became ESSA, and just plain crystal after the passage of the final (and even worse) version.

Prevention and Mitigation This is the first phase of the plan because it covers what you are already doing on a daily basis to keep schools safe by preventing bad things from happening and mitigating for those that will happen despite our best efforts (such as Hurricane Katrina).

To squeeze into sixth spot (ahead of the Toyota C - HR) in its first few months is not a bad effort at all.

As if I wasn't feeling bad enough about my skills the first time on a surfboard, Luna, the unofficial mascot of the Maui - based surfing school Maui Surfer Girls, had to show me up by effortlessly riding the waves, with barely any effort even being shown on her part.

The world has some rough customers and often offers some depressing headlines in the news, and but when you start looking at all of the ways you could help vulnerable people or animals, simply by donating your points and miles or cash back, and start thinking about what effort and energy it took to start these worthy causes in the first place, you might be reminded that there's still far more good in this world than bad.

When it first launched, I was concerned that it was going to end up as some rushed - out season pass experiment gone badly wrong - fortunately no, a lot of serious care and effort has gone into it.

As much as I love zombie games — and am still searching for the perfect one that gets surviving a world filled with the undead just right — I walked away from my brief experience with Undead Labs» first effort thinking it was a rough, undercooked, glitchy mess of good intentions and bad executions.

As I listen to the manifest nonsense that has been promulgated by the likes of right - wing fanatic radio hosts and moronic ex-governors in response to the effort to bring the U.S. into alignment with other industrial countries in providing reasonable and affordable health care for all its citizens, it seems that things have only gotten worse in the years since I first wrote those words.

Yu Yutopia is not a bad effort for a first time flagship and work reasonably well with great specs on paper.

Worse, the candidates who use these resumes templates risk appearing as someone who is not very creative and is not even willing to put the time and effort into creating the best possible first impression through a stand out resume.

«There would be nothing worse than to go through all the emotional and physical effort that it takes to move, only to hate your job after the first few weeks because you didn't fully understand the position before agreeing to it,» Streif says.

But the thing is, when you're nervous, you may simply be breezing through the motions and a half - hearted effort can leave a bad first impression.