Sentences with phrase «few measure up to»

There are many hardships that a parent will experience throughout their child's life, but very few measure up to serious legal problems.

Ask any senior woman who dates online about the quality of available men, and many insist that only a few measure up to their basic needs.

I looked at every villa on the island it seemed like, but few measured up to Sea Forever just in description and photos, let alone how much better it was in person.

Not exact matches

A credit freeze is one of few measures affected Americans can take to protect against identity theft, or at least make it very hard for potential thieves, now that their personal information could be up for sale online.

The music you hear when the system starts up is the first few measures of SNL's version of «Don't Fear the Reaper,» the Blue Oyster Cult song to which Will Ferrell can be heard enthusiastically slamming his cowbell.

Yet it is impossible to even guess with authority about where this headed because few before have seen a politician like Tsipras, who led his Syriza party to victory in January on a promise to undo all the austerity measures that had been implemented since Greece's profligacy caught up with it in 2010.

New York state last month passed a similar measure that makes it illegal to advertise apartments for fewer than 30 days in New York City, and lawmakers have pushed the federal government to take a closer look at Airbnb and other home - sharing sites on accusations of creating housing shortages and driving up rental costs.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

Measure coriander seeds and pulse in a coffee grinder a few time to just crack the seeds up a bit (you can also leave them whole if desired), add to a sauté pan along with the cumin seeds, garam masala and 1/4 cup oil.

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** oUp front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** oup and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

On homecoming eve the freshmen climb up the mountain to party and whitewash the big rocks that measure more than 100 feet long and form a «W» and, though that is about the extent of any traditional activities, the school is not so new that a few guys could not come down from Idaho last month and pelt the statue of Weber's founder with some well - chosen eggs.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

Once again, very few of you would measure up to their standards.

Few cohabiting heteros live together for the long haul — most break up or marry in about five years, with many seeing it as a cost - saving measure (one apartment is cheaper than two) more than a statement of their commitment to each other.

Indeed very few strollers would measure up to the Baby Jogger City Mini Double Stroller in design.

Critics of the school lunch block grant idea warn that the measure does not provide enough funding to keep up with growing needs, does not guarantee a free lunch to needy students, and would prompt many schools to offer fewer complete meals or to drop their lunch programs altogether.

When not practicing all the safety measures and especially when not breastfeeding, there IS a statistical increase in risk showing for first several weeks (up to a few months).

«By opposing [Labour] measures to freeze energy prices and expand free childcare for working parents, the Tories have shown once again that they only ever stand up for a privileged few not for hard - working families.»

When Clegg has taken up whichever international job it is that he's meant to want and Alexander is running some ghastly lobbying firm in London, no one will much remember «Alarm Clock Britain», the pupil premium (much less its origin) or any other measure that excites the true believers for a few days but they will remember their years of under - employment and unemployment, the lies about tuition fees, the first time they saw ads for private provision in the NHS and, first and foremost, that they should never trust the Liberal Democrats again.

Over the past few months, various polls measured Cuomo's lead over Paladino as anywhere from 29 percent to 45 percent, but today's Rasmussen poll of 500 likely voters puts Cuomo up by «only» sixteen points.

The geologists clambered up the valley walls, stopping every few dozen feet to measure the rocks» polarity with a handheld magnetometer.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

A member of the theropod group, [1] they weighed a few dozen kilos and could measure up to two meters in length.

One has only to look back a few years to the 2003 scare over SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which ended up causing about 774 deaths worldwide, for a recent measure of the potential for global pandemic panic.

As a testament to the technical difficulty of setting up the experiment, further experiments to measure optical torque and angular momentum have been few and far between.

By measuring the effect for different material thicknesses in the range of a few nanometers up to several micrometers as well as for different temperatures, the scientists have found characteristic behavior.

The Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS) uses radar to measure the lunar subsurface structures and tectonic features that are up to a few kilometers in depth.

The typical human can withstand 2 to 3 g's (1 g is the measure of the gravitational field on Earth), and researchers believe a few minutes of hypergravity in space might be able to make up for days of free floating.

Researchers at Wageningen experimented with a combination of laser technology and chemical knowledge, coming up with a sensor consisting of one single molecule that is a few hundred times more accurate than existing devices used to measure nano - forces on the molecular level.

To measure this frequency, fountain clocks toss small clouds of slow - moving cesium atoms a few feet high, much like a pulsed fountain, and measure their oscillations as they pass up, and then down, through a microwave beam.

By measuring ocean swells of different wavelengths, the duo traced the destructive turbulence to a storm in the Gulf of Alaska that, a few days earlier, had kicked up 40 - foot - high seas.

Within a few months, the scientists measured concentrations up to 1,500 - 2,000 micrograms per liter from new sediment.

«Such galaxies, which have remained dormant for most of their lives, are believed to contain the chemical elements forged a few minutes after the Big Bang.By measuring the relative number of hydrogen and helium atoms in the Little Cub we might be able to learn more about what made up the Universe in the moments after it began 13.7 billion years ago,» Cooke added.

Fewer than one - third of them believed that current quality measures were up to the task; only a little more than one - third were convinced that health plans and the government would «try hard to make such measures accurate.»

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

Before measuring your 1RM, you need to perform a few warm up sets of the exercise to get the muscle ready.

Image via Getty This jumpsuit does not measure up to the other sheer piece by the same designer she wore on the Twilight red carpet a few days ago, but I respect Kristen Stewart's determination to wear as little as possible and call it «fashion.»

A fair number of women over 50 who date online say that few men measure up to their basic needs.

Succeeds in the top priority of creating a worthy opponent for its superheroes and giving the latter a few new things to do, but this time the action scenes don't always measure up.

It's a depressing job but John seems to take pride in tracking down the missing relatives and occasionally re-uniting families but the government sees little usefulness in his role and as a cost cutting measure, John is given his walking papers and a few days to tidy up his years of work and wrap his last case.

Of course, very few of these moments match - up towards the more classic moments of The State, but most of them equal or eclipse Wain's previous effort, Wet Hot American Summer (although nothing here measures up to Christopher Meloni's mumbling camp chef).

While most high school students will disagree (and few of us grown - ups remember our exam periods at school that fondly either), tests, quizzes and exams are a straightforward way to measure the overall performance of your learners and their comprehension of the training material.

Lifeguard # 2 was very methodically measuring out the distance between his umbrellas, carrying a few out at a time, putting them up and then calmly walking back to the storage hutch for more to add to his line of umbrellas and chairs.

Most states set their standards within NAEP's «basic» range, and very few state standards measured up to NAEP's aspirational proficiency standard, which measures «mastery over challenging subject matter.»

We watch them closely, and we exit those charters that don't measure up,» said Mr. Chester, adding that the state has had to close a few.

Although a few charters have failed to measure up, both districts are bracing for more of the schools to open in the coming school year, and others with long waiting lists are planning to expand.

Schools dramatically beefed up their use of security cameras, metal detectors, and guards after the Columbine shooting, even though a Secret Service report conducted a few years after the massacre found that these measures were «unlikely to be helpful» in preventing violence.

Ito had reportedly already begun reforms within Honda's R&D department to establish greater quality control measures, and presumably Hachigo will take up this task when he assumes the top post in a few months.

Following a consistent stream of product enhancements year after year — along with steadily increasing sales — Sentra kicks things up a few notches — 64, to be precise, if measured in horsepower — with the addition of the new 2017 Sentra SR Turbo.