Sentences with phrase «bad thing this year»

The Gunners may still get a very tough draw but I do not think coming second is such a bad thing this year.

The worst thing this year?

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«Worst thing I ever heard of,» snarled an 87 - year - old man who had been a dedicated fan of the team, formerly known as the Rock Cats.

So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention for our business» — did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.

These gestures often vary in scale and cost, but one thing I have found consistent in my years of running businesses is the astonishing amount of wastefulness due to completely irrelevant or useless gifts that end up at the bottom of a wastebasket or, worse, in a white elephant gift exchange.

If Trump doesn't live up to his deal - making promises we could face another four years of legislative stalemate — which for many businesses may not be such a bad thing either.

After a few years of sporadic blog posts, tiny photos, and a headshot of the woman who handles Mirren's fan mail, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

As bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunker.

It's a good thing for drivers — but bad news for collision repair shops — that people only ever need to visit an autobody operation every seven years or so.

«One of the best things I did this year was answering these two questions honestly for myself: What is my worst self?

«I think one of the things that this team is lacking that hurts them the most is not having the true leaders like we had last year and guys that, when things go bad... I feel like when things go bad, this team struggles a little with bouncing back and making good plays.»

«We wanted to take more risk because we believed that — the way things were — it couldn't get worse,» said one of the founders, 38 - year - old Manolis Nikiforakis.

Even my own post running up to the IPO focused on all the bad things that have dogged the site during its crazy climb over the past few years, from users» privacy concerns to advertisers» doubts about the site's usefulness.

On China — with which Trump has forged cooperation against North Korea but drawn sharp differences on trade — some 48 percent expect relations to get worse in the next year, while just 17 percent expect things to get better.

Things look even worse if you're in the food service sector where the National Restaurant Association says 30 percent of new restaurants fail in the first year, with another 30 percent failing within the next two years.

Early in the year, bond guru Bill Gross warned clients that if the 10 - year Treasury yield jumped past 2.6 percent, bad things for the fixed income market would follow.

One, [in] Afghanistan, the British had never been successful there; the Russians had 10 years there and hadn't been successful... Iraq, I know, was a different deal, because there was a lot of intelligence that told us that bad things could happen there, and we're never sure how that ended up, whether it was pro or con.

«I think that the worst thing employers can do is simply say, «Well, it's delayed for a year, I'm going to stop thinking about that part of the law.»

And, with researchers predicting a 42 percent increase in chronic disease cases by 2023 — not to mention the 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day for the next 13 years — things may get worse before they get better.

Things got so bad, some critics are speculating the 111 - year - old retailer could potentially shutter as a result of Johnson's tenure.

Making things even worse is Xi's two - year - long anti-corruption campaign, which has both terrorized and alienated the vast Chinese bureaucracy.

Olen: The first thing you have to understand is we're dealing with thirty years of a powerful ideology that regulation is bad in a free market.

Since last year, however, things have grown worse.

«There's going to be good things that get you and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing and your skin better be thick,» Bresch told Fortune last year, quoting her father, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin.

«I know it's so tempting to go ahead and make investments and it looks good for today,» he also commented, «but when this thing ends, because we've had speculation, we've had money building up four to six years in terms of a risk pattern, I think it could end very badly.»

«So many entrepreneurs think, «If I can just power through this moment then people will never know things were bad,» Matt Galligan, a serial entrepreneur whose media company Circa folded in 2015, told Quartz earlier this year.

I suspect that if it was making billions of dollars a year, rather than losing billions of dollars a year, then the investors might have been a bit more tolerant of bad publicity and sexual harassment and discrimination and privacy violations and theft of trade secrets and obstructing government authorities and I am sure I am forgetting some things.

Last year's dramatic price rises — bitcoin stood at $ 973 at the start of 2017 — might be the worst thing ever to happen to cryptocurrencies.

In Australia last year, things got so bad that gas on the domestic market was much costlier than exports to Japan.

Been working for my company for 10 years now, and people say all sorts of bad things about corporate America.

«After two years of denying that there was any problem in B.C.'s housing market, Premier Clark has taken steps that will do little to help the situation in the Lower Mainland, and will actually make things worse for people trying to find affordable housing in the rest of B.C.,» said Horgan.

First things first, I have to establish that having a trading bias is not a bad thing; in fact, the right bias could be the cornerstone of a very successful trading period that could last for years and years.

«We did see a little slow down but I think it shows the success of small brewers in recent years and that we can question whether double - digit growth is a good thing or a bad thing,» he added.

The Pew Research Centre's poll this year found that just over half of all Canadians think that the TPP would be a «good thing» for the country (52 %), while 31 per cent think it would be a «bad thing»

A few years ago, when social media and social selling came out (sales 2.0 they called it), there was an almost euphoric sense that spread among the sales community because everyone suddenly hoped (and, some still hold out the hope), that the worse part of their job was now a thing of the past — cold calling.

And, worst case scenario, if things don't work out as planned, I can always stay in the workforce for a few extra months or a year, work part - time, or (worst case scenario) go back to working full time for a short stint later on in retirement.

The Toronto Real Estate Board released April sales figures, and they're down 32.1 % year - over-year, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing

It's one of those ancient fear things that was created hundreds of years ago when people still believed that bad things can happen to you if you don't believe in God and obey Him.

Because God knew, and He knew when He sent His Son two thousand years ago, that things on earth were really this bad.

It may be silly, but then getting paid minimum wage to read books when one is 18 years old ain't a bad gig, and this man and the library he led and the town which made this library possible are irreplaceable factors in both making and preserving important things like the opportunity to read good (or not so good) books in quiet solitude.

And worst of all, when I was a pastor, I did the same thing for years too.

Many bad things have happened in the name of religion, over the years.

Every year it gets worse, things are certainly not going to improve, and it is this that shall lead to the next world war.

In fact, he is probably the worst thing that happened top Christianity in the first thousand years of its existence (I'm still mulling over the second thousand years).

So, you're POINT is that progress is bad apparently, and only things that were «on the radar» 50 years ago are good?

And I have thought about doing this for at least a year and a half today, I woke up and thought «You keep begging God for help but when you feel a direction to go, you don't do it, You stop / fear that things will be worse, And they are worse for your non-actions.

Saul ruled for another 20 years and then came the abrupt awareness how bad things were.

I say we have had these religions for 2000 years and things have only gotten worse, maybe it is religion making things worse.

Any first - year psychology student will tell you that just about the worst thing you can do in a counseling situation is respond to a person's vulnerability by dismissing and invalidating her experience.

I wonder though if things are getting better or worse compared to 2000 years ago....