Sentences with phrase «decisions at the worst time»

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Jon Bon Jovi on how he feels Steve Jobs and iTunes have altered the music - buying experience... for the worse The Sunday Times, March 2011 Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album, and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

 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).

The times when you had a really meaningful conversation; hugged someone; helped keep someone from making a very bad decision etc, shared someone's joy at their prodigal returning.

Everyone at some time in their life makes a bad decision, like sticking your tongue on a frozen metal object.

The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.

We all hbe our yes we tired by 11 years of mediocre but calling for the managers head at this time is absurd and irrational more pike decision out of anger.even if a new manager comes now it will be worse and target will be top four lets stop whining am angry as well but if wenger goes now then this season is awaste the new manager wouldn't pull a miracle and just coz hes new guys think we will win the league or rather challenge.

You need to be on the line giving hope and encouraging your team even schooling if need be, they are paid to take the praise as well as the bad, so a new type of Manager that stands on the line and makes the decision to either close out game or add to win, Wenger apart fro Arteta Flamini who if 2 yrs younger would do it with attackers we have them, how ever when you make the subs at the right time can to alter the game is key and Wenger is not that type of person.

Edmunds, too raw for me, 2 - 3 years from now he can be great, until then I think he'll run hot and cold, too many times at VA Tech where he made a bad decision that gave up a score.

And I'm not opposed to healthy debate and direct questioning on what, at times, has appeared to be Wenger's bad decision making.

I thought it was an odd move from the boss at the time but do these comments from Mertesacker prove that Wenger got this decision badly wrong?

What fans can demand IMO is that you are in the fight, bad decisions, injuries at worst time, red cards..

Kaymer then made a curious decision to putt with his ball up against the first cut and miles from the hole at the 16th green, and he'd make a disappointing par there to make those final two nerve - wracking holes the ultimate test with his game leaving him at the worst time possible.

While Ferguson may have insinuated that Mikel would go on to regret his decision to join the Blues he didn't do too badly during his time at Stamford Bridge.

Refereeing decisions are, essentially, football's other weather; you can complain about them if you like, and they can certainly ruin your day if they go badly, but time spent shouting at a referee is time spent shouting at clouds.

Arsenal decision to build a new stadium was at the worst possible point of time.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

Poor decisions were made; when England were trailing at half time to Iceland, Hodgson substituted England's best player, Eric Dier, for the team's worst performer in the tournament, Jack Wilshere.

But how often, how bad, how crucial, at what time do those decisions occur?

Remember that there is no such thing as «the college of one's dreams» — college is a reality, not a dream, and it will and should take on the texture of waking life, not dream life, rich with wonderful moments and harrowing ones, feelings of rightness and feelings of wrongness, a staunch belief at times that this was the best place possible and an equally staunch belief at times that this may have been the worst decision ever made.

The problem is that NOCSAE's decision could not have come at a worse time (or perfect time, I guess, depending on your point of view): just as football teams, from the youth level to the National Football League, are gearing up for the fall season.

You stayed awake at night, agonizing over the best decisions for your child, often times over-thinking what the best way was to handle these behaviors, and yet these behaviors have continued to get worse and worse.

This also would be a tough pregnancy and be a rough decision for the doctor to make, but obviously if it is too early, the dangers of baby being born at this time is worse than the potential issues with giving steroids and its side effects afterwards.

«Any decision or attempt to divide the Democratic Party at a time when I am working hard to unify Democrats in Mt. Vernon is a bad decision.»

«The term limits decision was a decision that I made with many of my colleagues at a moment in time when we were facing the worst economic crisis this city had seen since the Great Depression,» Quinn said.

But if I can say one thing that may be of interest to your readers, it is that they shouldn't feel bad about themselves if they make the decision to step off the path, because it might be the right decision, although it might not feel right at the time.

In a stroke of bad luck, he lost his funding at about the same time the tenure committee reached its decision, which didn't help his job search.

«We make bad decisions all the time,» says Sabine Marx, associate director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, thanks to incomplete information or other barriers to action, like high up - front costs for things like indecisions all the time,» says Sabine Marx, associate director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, thanks to incomplete information or other barriers to action, like high up - front costs for things like inDecisions at Columbia University, thanks to incomplete information or other barriers to action, like high up - front costs for things like insulation.

Bad decisions are mere consequences of poor information available to you at the time of making that decision.

At worst, the time and effort required of members in order make effective decisions drives some people from the teams.

It's hard not to feel for the people who've made bad decisions, especially when you can tell that those decisions looked reasonable at the time.

Even their bad decisions — and there are many here — make sense at the time.

And how this myth just causes really, really bad decisions at times.

While hiring a PR agency is most likely one of the worst decisions you can make as an everyday or mid-list author (heck, probably as an author at any level) taking the time to learn the basics of PR can open doors you never thought possible.

Legal The Malaysian cartoonist Zunar has appealed a court decision upholding his 2010 arrest and detention, claiming police acted in bad faith when they arrested him under the Sedition Act because of his book Cartoon - O - Phobia, which had not yet been released at the time of his arrest.

Given the haste of this announcement, the incoming Trump Administration at HUD suspended this decision as to provide incoming officials sufficient time to better understand the potential impact — good and bad — such a reduction would have on the market.

Lenders may impose stricter guidelines on a loan that is written for bad credit, and base their decisions upon what you have proven to other lenders in the past, without regard to the situation that you were in at the time.

Because allocation decisions that cause poor results at the end of 10 years cause investors to lower their stock allocations at bad times for doing so.

Whether because of job loss, economic downturn, illness, death, divorce, or just a couple bad financial decisions, overwhelming debt can strike Minnesota families at any time.

While Dimensional funds are easily parsed into index categories based on geography, market - cap size and value / growth dimensions, there are other rules that drive the decision to invest in one company at a given time — none of which are based on short term forecasts or speculation, and all of which are based on those pre-determined rules of construction, including the firm's willingness to assess how badly a seller needs to part with their shares, and the seller's desire to sell the lot quickly, and at a discount.

Lally is a sweetheart, but at the same time, she was making some bad decisions.

(I appreciate at this stage you will probably want to know what food it is and I really feel bad for teasing, but I made a decision some time ago to steer clear of personal recommendations on dog food brands as I think it's important that pet owners find their right diet for their own dog by using the method I'm about to give away.)

Lego Indy can be very fun to play at times, but bad design decisions end up making the title a chore to play through.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

At the same time, some utilities are making it ever harder for customers to protect themselves from bad utility decisions.

My decision to start drinking almond milk couldn't come at a worse time.

All of these bad decisions are made easier when all of the actually sensible people, or people who know anything about the subject at all, are being assailed on all sides, and aren't necessarily keen to find the time to explain, once again, that yes, the world is warming.

There is no national importance, the appeal decision turned on a finding of fact to a large extent, and to have an appeal pending for the next year or so would mess up Toronto politics even worse than having Ford in office does (hard though that is to believe at times.)

A judge does not know your family dynamics and bases such decisions on very limited information, and usually the judge is seeing parents, especially divorcing parents, at the worst time in their lives.

This delay can force us to make decisions at a time of crisis, the worst possible time for peaceful and effective communications.