Sentences with phrase «challenging performances of the year»

Even though there isn't a lot of plot for her to deliver, it is one of the most challenging performances of the year so far and one of her best.

Not exact matches

The end of the year is a great time to reflect on the company's performance, talk about challenges and accomplishments and plan for the year ahead.

The parent company also said that while it will not resuscitate the C$ 3.6 billion merger plan, it will implement a two - year program to improve the performance of Fletcher Challenge Canada, with a view to exiting the paper business.

It remains cautious however, highlighting that as the final quarter of 2015 unfolds, «a growing challenge for gold and for the rest of the precious metals complex would be that investors are likely to become more protective of year - to - date performance.»

«We are raising full year EPS guidance today due to the strength of our underlying operating performance of our first two quarters, despite the challenges facing Walmart U.S. in the short term, and the current economy,» said Tom Schoewe, executive vice president and chief financial officer.

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«Amidst the economic turmoil in 2009, SCB was able to close the year with a healthy and above - target profit, which strongly bears out the bank's right strategic direction to become the «premier universal bank in Thailand,» plus the bank's resilience in adapting to a very challenging economic environment, which resulted in the solid performance,» says Vichit Suraphongchai, chairman of Siam Commercial Bank.

So an «upside - down out of the gates» January is more than inauspicious — it's an outright «non-starter» for risk managers in light of the performance - challenged era of the past few years.

Notwithstanding the challenges, Sims noted that most stakeholders had a «positive view» of the ACCC's performance and perceptions had generally «improved since last financial year».

During this last part of the year they've shown that they're ready for Formula 1, getting to grips with the car quickly, showing good performances and always demonstrating to be prepared for the challenge.

I think we need a new manager and may improve some performance aspects of our team, but my view is that without significant investment it will take many years to get us back to a title challenging team.

Embracing the challenge, the 39 - year - old Brodeur seemed to shake off the previous losses and his recent history of playoff failures to deliver a vintage performance, as the Devils coasted to a 4 - 0 victory behind Brodeur's shutout performance.

Without that he might have even been able to mount a challenge for win, but it didn't really matter, because it was still one of the finest performances from anyone throughout the whole year.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

The Swans still remain rock - bottom of the standings, but they will take a lot of heart from the performance heading into the New Year, where they have a testing challenge versus Tottenham Hotspur.

He said President Mahama has shown great performance in development and excellence in providing long lasting solutions to major challenges confronting the country over the years hence the Caucus's optimism of achieving the stated percentage for the party.

A year later, town of Amherst Council member Mark Manna challenged Zellner's chairmanship, arguing large factions of the party were unhappy with his performance.

He held that the company's performance this year was impacted by two major factors of tough economic challenges around consumer spending, which according to him driving consumer preferences towards value brands across the sector as well as the effects of FX policy and Naira devaluation.

The following year the annual assessment noted that Network Rail had made progress in delivering a number of major rail projects, but cautioned that some performance setbacks meant it had «big challenges ahead.»

The Government also announced its intention to carry out a consultation towards the end of the year asking for views on a plan for a 20 year strategy for the national road network and new challenging performance targets for the Highways Agency to deliver against.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, in his welcome address, said the annual conference is a forum for re-accessing the performances of the Nigerian Army for the year in order to rededicate them to the challenges of new year, saying it also affords the Nigerian Army hierarchy the opportunity to rub minds with the public and the private sectors, the academicians especially in view of the contemporary security challenges in the country.

With the large amount of high - quality films this year, choosing the best performances was quite a challenge.»

Murphy has done impressions of Richard Pryor throughout his years of stand - up, but the challenge will be to turn the performance into more than just an impression.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze debuted a few years ago for Wii U and this Switch version is basically a port with some improved performance and a new Funky mode where you can play as Funky Kong or tone down the level of challenge as DK by granting him extra health.

This year's Actress Tribute honoree, Amy Adams, has built an impressive body of work, challenging herself with each new role, and touching audiences worldwide with her masterful performances.

DVD special features are ample, anchored by a feature - length audio commentary track with director Alvart and producer Jeremy Bolt, in which the pair discuss Alvart's late - in - the - game, pre-production idea of depicting the effects of years of hyper - sleep via sloughing skin, as well as the special challenges involved for Foster in crafting a performance out of reacting to Quaid's disembodied voice, since more than half of his material was prerecorded, before the younger actor's scenes.

See how Eddie Murphy's outrageous talent has kept the world laughing year after year!THE NUTTY PROFESSOREddie Murphy gives the «performances» of his career, playing seven roles in this story of a «calorically challenged» genetics professor...

GHOST WORLD (Grade: B +): Thora Birch won the best actress honors at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival for her performance as a passively rebellious 17 - year - old facing the first challenges of adulthood in this funny, sad and ultimately tragic teen angst drama / comedy directed by Terry Zwigoff («Crumb») and based on a serialized comic book by Daniel Clowes.

by Walter Chaw Emerging in the middle of one of the most experimental, challenging periods in cinematic history, Performance — completed in 1968 but shelved until 1970 — is a product at once ahead of its time and two years too late.

The PZC tackles challenging issues about the kind of teaching and learning that should be done in classrooms all around the world, but is not being done, in part because of the pressure for certain performances on certain kinds of standardized tests, in part because teachers teach what they were taught and in the ways that they were taught 10 or 50 years ago.

The Greater Manchester Challenges was a three - year initiative to improve the performance of over 1,000 schools, focusing in particular on students from low - income families.

As a new presidential administration nears the close of its first year in office and educators across the country grapple with the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's educational performance earns a grade of C from Quality Counts 2018, the 22nd annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

Thus, my challenge to you is to find an underachieving gifted child (research shows about half of gifted learners experience underachievement - or the gap between potential and performance at some point in their school career) and give them a good year.

-- Mel Ainscow The Greater Manchester Challenge was a three - year initiative to improve the performance of...

To address this challenge, TFA relentlessly collects, analyzes, and uses data about the performance of the students in the classes taught by individuals trained through the program and has found that many of their teachers help students achieve at least a year's worth of growth every year.

The City has implemented a number of initiatives in the past three years to improve middle school students» academic performance, including expanded after - school programs, the School Renewal Program (providing the most challenged schools with additional funding), instructional resources and experienced leadership, and the Community School expansion.

The plaintiffs are challenging the state's tenure period of two years as being too short for school districts to make proper judgements on a teacher's ability to enhance student performance.

West Windsor - Plainsboro has been formally collecting student performance data on the Global Challenge for the past six years.2 The data indicate that there has been a steady increase over time in the quality of student problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

The service - based school's governing board — a blend of well - known New Orleans philanthropists and young attorneys — was already aware of the performance challenges it faces when the school year started.

The limitations of education systems — with insufficiently developed state data systems, as well as assessment systems that at best could capture a summative snapshot of student performance by grade, year - to - year (without actually tracking student progress over time)-- presented major challenges.

How to incorporate mobile students, who enter schools / classrooms after the start of the school year, into educational performance evaluations remains to be a challenge.

«I don't think we've gotten a single complaint in the past year and a half dealing with the PowerUp program,» said P. Gayle Fallon, the president of the 6,000 - member Houston Federation of Teachers, which is currently involved in a lawsuit challenging the district's use of controversial statistical methods to gauge teacher performance.

All of this performance potential combined earlier this year to set a blistering lap time of 7 minutes, 50 seconds on the challenging Nürburgring racetrack, beating the previous front - wheel - drive production lap record, not to mention more powerful sports cars.

NHTSA provides $ 5M / year in funds to support the development and testing of the DADSS technologies, however, DADSS research faces substantial technical challenges in order to reach performance objectives necessary for large scale implementation.

All that, combined with benchmark braking and world - class ride and handling characteristics, make the Dodge Charger SRT8 civilized enough for a grocery run but fully capable in more challenging situations • The 2009 Dodge Charger SRT8 is part of a broad lineup of Street and Racing Technology vehicles developed under the credo «Race inspired, street legal» SAFETY AND SECURITY Please refer to the Safety and Security Glossary for descriptions of the following features: • Advanced Multi-stage Air Bag System • All - speed Traction Control System • Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) • Auto - reverse Sun Roof • BeltAlert • Brake Assist • Brake / Park Interlock • Child - protection Rear Door Locks • Constant Force Retractors • Crumple Zones • Electronic Stability Program • Energy - absorbing Steering Column • Enhanced Accident Response System • Height - adjustable Seat Belts • HomeLink Universal Home Security System Transceiver • Inside Emergency Trunk Release • Interior Head - impact Protection • Knee bolsters • LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren) • Low - risk Deployment Air Bag • Power Adjustable Pedals • Remote Keyless Entry • Seat Belt Pretensioners • Sentry Key ® Engine Immobilizer • Side - impact Door Beams • Tire Pressure Monitoring Display COLOR AVAILABILITY • Deep Water Blue Clear Coat • Bright Silver Metallic • Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat • TorRed • Hemi Orange (with Super Bee Special Edition Package) MANUFACTURING INFORMATION • 2009 model year production start: July 2008 • Production location: Brampton Assembly Plant in Brampton, Ontario, Canada • 6.1 - liter HEMI V - 8 engine: Saltillo Engine Plant in Saltillo, Mexico • Five - speed automatic transmission: Indiana Transmission 1 in Indianapolis MARKET POSITION Dodge Charger SRT8 is the latest incarnation of a storied Dodge performance nameplate, combining SRT performance attributes with Dodge attitude.

With its long sweeping hood, aggressive crouched stance, and deeply etched lines that transition flawlessly from roof to deck lid, the 50 - year old car embraces the sentiment of the past as it blasts into the future challenging the status quo with improved performance, unprecedented style, and increased efficiency.

Taking into account the theme of this year's LA Design Challenge of emphasizing the need for minimizing the use of the planet's resources while building a car that's efficient, lightweight — no more than 1,000 lbs — comfortable, and safe without sacrificing the design elements that would make it attractive to consumers, Mazda is basing the MX - 0 on the ideology of the MX - 5, albeit using parts that are lighter and simpler than the ones found in the Miata, all while not compromising the car's overall performance.

And that makes the BMW i8 a trailblazer for a new generation of sports cars, defined not only by their performance characteristics but also by intelligent solutions to the challenges personal mobility will encounter over the years ahead.

As the automaker continues to offer higher horsepower specs and spectacular performance, it faces the challenge of upping the ante year after year.

In a span of just six years OLED display technology is now challenging and even exceeding the performance of the best LCDs.