Sentences with phrase «become albatrosses»

Since then Hampton and Neagle combined were 37 - 42 through Sunday, and their contracts have become albatrosses for a team trying to rebuild.

But the so - called Buffalo Billion is in danger of becoming an albatross for many involved.

Otherwise his contract becomes an albatross which prevents you from signing better players and not an asset.

Because of Oyegun's conduct of our affairs, the party is rapidly becoming an albatross to those it was meant to help.

Our advice is that Mr. Governor should concentrate more time on how he would complete his «one way flyover bridge» which is fast becoming an albatross to the extent of his announcement that it is a federal government.

It's just a matter of shifting to a new paradigm and seeing a future without some of the fuels that have become an albatross.

It becomes his albatross, toted around unexamined, as Wilson descends on a spiral of juvenile addiction (gasoline huffing) and avoidance.

The federal standards forced upon us by an ever intrusive department of education have resulted in no shortage of controversy and has become an albatross around the necks of many a governor who agreed to adopt the system.

AYP has become an albatross around the neck of school districts rich and poor.

Miles Roby gazes over this ruined kingdom from the Empire Grill, an opportunity of his youth that has become the albatross of his daily and future life.

It had a tapered depth, but that thickness ultimately became an albatross.

Bob Ambrogi gave an example here earlier this month of how phone book ads can become the albatross around a firm's neck.

The prime minister stated last month that he wants to «wage war against the excessive health and safety culture that has become an albatross around the neck of British businesses».

When your husband's addiction is made known to you, the secret becomes the albatross around your neck.

When you are married to a teacher, their vacation schedules become your albatross.

The long term tenant that many landlords seem to cherish becomes a albatross to your business interests.

While Kushner representatives downplay the risk, an exhaustive new report by Bloomberg details how the purchase has since become an albatross.

It will become an albatross around your neck if you buy it.

Not exact matches

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

It's analogous to that applied to the banks, bankers» bonuses and the commodification of risk, whereby giant financial institutions become both our saviours and our albatross, like the half full and half empty glass.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the issue of drug use and arrogance among others are now an albatross that is getting...

The economy became an ungainly and unbalanced albatross.

Modern birds have several flying styles: They can soar on thermals like hawks and albatrosses, glide and flap like storks, or explode from the ground like pheasants and roadrunners, flapping their wings to become airborne for a few hundred meters before landing.

THE wandering albatross, long a sign of good luck and source of superstition for sailors, could become a latter - day boon to them as the inspiration for a low - energy scouting aircraft.

Husband - and - wife team Eric VanderWerf and Lindsay Young of Pacific Rim Conservation spent 14 years banding 477 Oahu albatrosses as chicks and monitoring what became of them.

«As more albatrosses relocate to higher islands like Oahu in response to sea level rise, where mosquitoes are more prevalent, this disease, and perhaps others, will become a more important threat to the species, so we need to understand more about it and how to prevent its transmission.»

Every year, thousands of seabirds and marine mammals ranging from herons, pelicans, and albatross to sea otters, sea turtles, fur seals, dolphins, and whales swallow or become entangled in this debris.

It's become a bit of an albatross,» complains Andrew Bolton, curator of the New York Metropolitan museum's costume institute (he's from Blackburn, Lancashire, and loved the New...

Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back), Miyagi becomes something like an albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.

Taut, spare, riveting and with a twist that has become in many ways an albatross around the neck of its writer / director, The Sixth Sense rests squarely on the shoulders of Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment and the imagination of the viewer.

The 4G version of the tablet also became somewhat of an albatross for T - Mobile as it could not move enough units to justify further support, which led both Dell and T - Mobile to essentially abandon it while Dell continued to support the Wi - Fi version with updates.

If, on the other hand, you're one of the millions of Americans who find themselves underwater on their home values, and your mortgage has become a financial albatross that you can no longer afford to carry, filing for bankruptcy gives you the right to surrender the property and walk away with no liability for a deficiency judgment.

As a result, the credit they temporarily extended to themselves to maintain their current living expenses becomes a financial albatross tied around their necks which drags them even deeper in debt.

In the seascapes in the Washed Ashore Series, debris including discarded plastic, styrofoam, rubber, computer chips and nylon fishing line is camouflaged as it is to sea turtles, albatross and dolphins, who think the plastic is plankton, are caught in the fishing line, grow encumbered and strangled by six pack holders or become immersed in rusty colored oil slicks.

The deal was risky and ultimately a failure, the petition said, becoming «an albatross» following the financial downturn in 2008.»

Asked was he worried about the «albatross» some artists had complained the prize had become, he said, «The thing about Britain is it doesn't understand what it has got until it has gone missing.

It's a hyper - vanity version of first - generation tech which is ostensibly intended to compete with high - end Swiss watches but likely won't appreciate in value and has the added albatross of becoming obsolete, unlike its «dumbwatch» counterparts.

When I found a service that could write my resume for me, my resume became less an albatross around my neck and more a realizable dream.