Sentences with phrase «down by a minor»

In the by - elections, they increased in 1 contest, went down a lot in the second and were down by a minor margin in the third.

I felt a little better after walking a bit, and started running again, not to be slowed down by a minor dehydration scare.

It has all the makings of a solid game, yet is let down by some minor problems but I still feel that Lucid Games should be given a pat on the back for driving Geometry Wars into new territory.

Hugely practical family car with extra seats for shared school runs, but unexciting to drive and let down by some minor electrical issues - and the driver door handle ceased to work.

In 1984 Michèle Mouton from France came second in the Audi Sport quattro, despite being slowed down by a minor defect; in the following year she won the race.

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Given that the S&P has rallied since early 2009, experienced only a minor correction in 2011, is currently at a cyclic peak, clearly over-bought on a monthly and weekly basis, and has been artificially sustained by central bank easy money, is it likely that the next MAJOR move is up or down?

He estimated that parental involvement laws caused pregnancy rates amongst minors to go down by between four and nine per cent.

Too often, minor injuries to the feet, ankles, and knees are ignored by young athletes because they believe their youth protects them from injury or they are worried about letting down their coach or teammates.

He noted that, in the previous weeks, he had dealt with a minor crisis over a US spy plane shot down by the Soviets, negotiations with the US about stationing Polaris submarines in the Clyde, fishery disputes with Iceland, alarmist Treasury papers on the economy, the reconstruction of the cabinet and a decision to build the new liner Queen Elizabeth II.

Similarly, she also promised to end the practice taken by Home Office of «turning down applicants over minor details, forcing them to pay a second time when reapplying.»

The policing strategy in which officers crack down on minor offenses in order to stem serious crime has often been lauded by lawmakers and police administrators as an effective crime - fighting tool.

De Blasio won the mayor's race campaigning against intrusive police tactics such as stop - and - frisk, where hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were frisked by the police each year, and other elements of the «Broken Windows» philosophy, where police crack down on minor offenses to prevent more serious crime.

«By ensuring courts are not unnecessarily bogged down with minor offenses committed by those who pose no threat to public safety, we help focus police and prosecutorial resources on those who commit serious crimes,» Mr. Vance saiBy ensuring courts are not unnecessarily bogged down with minor offenses committed by those who pose no threat to public safety, we help focus police and prosecutorial resources on those who commit serious crimes,» Mr. Vance saiby those who pose no threat to public safety, we help focus police and prosecutorial resources on those who commit serious crimes,» Mr. Vance said.

The Methods: Photochemical modeling by a Caltech team indicates that ethane, a hydrocarbon detected on Titan by both of the Voyager spacecraft and the European Infrared Space Observatory, is created when solar ultraviolet light breaks down methane, a minor component of Titan's nitrogen - rich atmosphere, into a stew of organic molecules that form a dense orange - brown smog.

That was evident during last year's US Supreme Court case when an attempt by California (again) to ban violent video game sales to minors was struck down, in part because the scientific case had unravelled.

ReCore is a great game bogged down by a handful of minor annoyances.

Most disturbingly, he seems even to have caved into ultra-conservative religious morons by toning down the magic (there are no details of the actual lessons taught at Hogwart's, and the spell - casting is reduced to a few minor flourishes and a strange comic - relief kid who's always blowing things up) and side - stepping the sticky revelation that Harry actually talks to snakes in the reptiles» hissing language and not the Queen's English.

Although the experience is weighed down by a few minor problems, the overall journey is one that no gamer will soon forget.

by Walter Chaw As the year winds down and distributors great and small try to cram their films into rotation for possible awards consideration, the truism that there are just as many mediocre foreign and independent films as mainstream ones proves sage for a quartet of minor releases.

In the aftermath, school districts influenced by the «broken windows» policing philosophy popular in the mid-1990s — which clamped down on minor crimes in hopes of preventing major ones — instituted get - tough approaches to student misbehavior.

Roesch and the Talbot 14/45 — Nick Baldwin discusses the importance of this remarkably advanced model and recalls his enjoyment of his own example / Napiers in Australia — A fascinating selection of period photographs of Napiers «down under» has been discovered by Bill Bishop / Derby Bentleys — On their 60th anniversary Martyn Nutland re-assesses the first Rolls - Royce - produced Bentleys / Car badges — In part 2 of his article Michael Worthington - Williams reveals further examples of motor car heraldry / Evolution of the car up to 1904 — Bryan Goodman explains how the design of the earliest cars developed from that of contemporary horse - drawn vehicles / 1931 Morris Minor — The Editor experiences William Morris's somewhat belated but technically advanced answer to the Austin Seven / Acetylene lighting Part 2 — Dr. C. Brooks continues his history of the development of acetylene lighting for vehicles / Hillman light car mystery — Some doubt remains as to the precise age of this beautifully preserved 1919 Hillman.

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Fortunately, it was covered by the warranty and the dealer changed it out lickity - split, but Cunningham still had to drive it back from Death Valley while injured, its one corner jouncing up and down at the most minor of bumps.

If they were down, or crashing, during this time frame, then the mutual fund would probably have outperformed the ETF by a huge margin (instead of just barely - which was driven mostly by minor differences in fees and expenses).

Well, years ago I naively thought that a bank's Tier 1 Capital Ratio pretty much boiled down to Equity divided by Total Assets, with some minor tweaks.

Meanwhile, across the globe in Hawaii, down - with - the - kids Democrat politician Chris Lee added more fuel to EA's fire by publicly calling for legislation to end the sale of loot boxes to minors.

It's a minor point, sure, but having this fake front means the console looks a little disheveled when you're using it — it's awkwardly pulled down by the controller lead, and the whole console just doesn't look as well put - together as its older brother.

Diplomacy, intelligence, trading and government sections have been dumbed down and feel like minor distractions rather than key elements of the game, while the production system has been improved but is hamstrung by the division designer refusing to allow changes to templates unless ground combat experience is attained.This is very difficult to achieve unless a country is actually at war, meaning that the player is prevented from setting up their army the way they want in the early period of the conflict.

Leveling up slows down significantly towards the end but with minor equipment upgrades, it is quite possible to beat adversaries even 20 levels above your own by simply rolling away from their strongest attacks.

What the National Gallery has done instead is bring together a host of minor works — botanical paintings, landscapes, scaled - down copies — alongside others by the likes of Cézanne, Renoir and even Kandinsky.

Reichardt's next film, Wendy and Lucy, centered around the escalating hardships of Wendy (played by Michelle Williams; Lucy is her dog) whose car breaks down in a rural Oregon town en route to a well - paying summer job, the film shows how seemingly minor setbacks can lead to devastation.

Revered from his own day down to ours by those who see possibilities for transcendence in the printmaker's technical know - how, Callot has nevertheless been a fairly minor figure in the art history books, no matter that some of his impressions of the horrors of war are as indelible as Goya's and that his reflections on the pleasures of the theater and the fairground rival those of Rubens and Watteau.

The mainstream media by and large got the story right — puzzling anomaly tracked down, corrections in progress after a little scientific detective work, consequences minor — even though a few headline writers got a little carried away in equating a specific dip in 1945 ocean temperatures with the more gentle 1940s - 1970s cooling that is seen in the land measurements.

Unfortunately it shows, in my judgment, a current tendency by this group of scientists and their supporters to react by down grading some serious and basic statistical errors and inabilities to place uncertainty measures on results to a level of «minor» flaws and to characterize the criticisms as personal attacks.

Image Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-- National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) By WUWT Regular Just The Facts From the Insurance Journal: «The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks set to go down as a big washout, marking the first time in 45 years that the strongest storm to form was just a minor...

I would suggest to you, KR, that the fixation on the non problem of CAGW by our scientists, with government funding exclusivity to what should be a minor backwater of science, combined with governmental incompetence and avarice with determination to fleece the populace of every last red cent in the process, are exactly the reasons why the world would not pull together to even detect, let alone react to the threat of an asteroid bearing down on the earth.

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The Arctic cools down substantially depending on how much heat is lost especially during the long night, it is an ideal location for determining Global Warming trends because of wider temperature discrepancies caused by apparently minor (CO2) changes.

The initial chaos in bail court caused by these projects pays dividends down the line as the vast majority of cases have resulted in most minor players being cut out entirely with mid and high - level suspects entering guilty pleas.

The bundle of nerves running from your head down to your tailbone is only protected by a bone casing, and even a seemingly minor accident can impact its ability to function as intended.

Believe it or not, you can get those numbers down even further by shopping around and embarking on minor tasks to make yourself appear less risky to insurers.

As it stands, the F131 is an incredible performer and a great value that is brought down a couple notches by some minor, yet noticeable, flaws.

These may be viewed as minor imperfections by some, but when your company's motto is «Never Settle», is the OnePlus 2 letting down its fans?

By making a clear plan for how you'll spend your time job searching, you can keep yourself motivated and avoid getting bogged down in minor details.

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The new government's approach to native title has started to trickle down through the system via policy announcements and minor legislative change, and it has been commented on by the High Court.

The CREAcrat - inspired rating system that was voted down by representatives of in - the - trenches Realtors could prove fatal, via a targeted negative rating for reasons other than services rendered, to the reputation of an otherwise good Realtor, whereas a poor rating against a resort can easily be explained away as just a one - off occurence by a wayward employee or a misapplication by someone of a policy or simply a minor oversight / mistake.