Sentences with phrase «few poor efforts»

There could have been more goals, but a few poor efforts and some good saves kept the score from being even bigger.

Not exact matches

«Mitigation» and control efforts that have been proposed will enrich a favored few with good political ties — at the expense of the great majority of mankind, including especially the poor and the citizens of developing nations.

... Coquelin played great again considering that he was too often left too protect the back four against 2, sometimes 3 players... our team effort was poor after our goal... we needed to do better and the next few games will give us that opportunity I hope... Alexis please be back!!!!!

Now that his effort is poor - with a very few exceptions like against Palace — the bad far outweighs the good.

Back in 2005 as manager of Southampton he seemed more concerned with his own reputation than the Saints» efforts to avoid relegation — constantly harping about the poor standard of the players he'd inherited (commenting after a 4 - 1 defeat to Pompey, «We've got a big squad, and quite a few of the players are not good enough in all honesty.

It's not an exaggeration to say that there have been few efforts to empower poor and working people in New York State in the last 25 years that haven't borne his imprint.

It would certainly be a poor reward for his efforts to represent the party in the media over the last few months for him simply to be given a junior post.

Although the 2030 target seems improbable, if not impossible, proponents point to a few successful efforts — including the brief defeat of dog rabies in N'Djamena, the capital of dirt - poor Chad — to show that the disease can be beaten back even in Africa.

The Coen Brothers» last few efforts were decidedly poor (their segment in Paris, je t» aime being the exception).

In many instances, students score few marks for their case study writing because either they are written in poor English or no proper effort has been taken to improve the quality of the work.

The proposed agreement, echoing the architecture of the Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol, has a few main themes: finding ways that rich countries can help poor ones adapt to impending climate change; strengthening efforts to curb emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases from rich countries and the biggest poor ones; and committing rich countries to helping poor ones deploy energy technologies or forest policies that limit their emissions even as they try to prosper.

A few poor papers still get through; climate science is rare in having a well - organized anti-science effort trying to slip bad papers through.

They don't want to waste precious time, energy, and effort trying to learn something they may only apply a few times during their lifetime, and they certainly don't want to risk writing a poor resume that results in being passed over for a position.

They don't want to waste time, energy and effort trying to learn something they may only apply a few times during their lifetime, and they certainly don't want to risk writing a poor resume that results in being passed over for a position.