Sentences with phrase «finished near the bottom»

New Jersey does log a solid improvement in our Business Friendliness category for 2013, but still finishes near the bottom at 41st in the category compared with 48th in 2012.

They are designing a roster that, while having the benefits of providing development for young players and the ability to evaluate many prospects, is formed with the purpose of finishing near the bottom of the league for the singular goal of maximizing draft returns.

Kentucky happily hired human air raid siren Hal Mumme in the 1990s, in part because the Wildcats were already finishing near the bottom of the SEC.

That being said, they've still managed to accrue points and shouldn't finish near the bottom of the Standings.

«The lows were finishing near the bottom of the league, but the highs were that we had a great recruitment drive for this year, and we now boast some excellent players, including fellow sport scholars, Daniel Paddon and Declan Thompson.»

It wasn't a great Friday for Haas and Toro Rosso at Interlagos as they finished near the bottom of the timesheets while Sauber were only saved from the final two positions by Antonio Giovinazzi.

In 2005, the school's fourth - graders finished near the bottom of the state, in the 5th percentile.

From the «Most Speculative Stock Fund» list, the iShares MSCI Malaysia Fund (EWM) finished near the bottom.

• Successfully raised the Mountaineer's Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) to as high as No. 7 out of 300 NCAA Division I Teams, a fantastic ranking for program that 6 years earlier finished near the bottom 30 in the RPI at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.

Not exact matches

This year the state returns to more familiar territory, with some of the nation's largest class sizes, near the lowest per - pupil spending and a finish in the bottom tier for the category.

Every time that he came near to reaching the summit, the gods would merely roll it back to the bottom so that he was never free from the work but never finished and he must always labour in the full knowledge of the futility of his work.

Kentucky happily hired human air raid siren Hal Mumme in the 1990s, in part because the Wildcats were already finishing at or near the bottom of the SEC standings.

Nippon Ichi Software's U.S. branch finished near the middle of our mid-sized group in last year's rankings but lands near the very bottom of our major publisher group this year thanks to an increased number of releases and a falling average Metascore.

Among all the subgroups of LA Unified students who took the state's new Smarter Balanced standardized tests, English language - learners (ELL) produced especially disappointing results, finishing behind the state average for ELLs and near the bottom compared with the state's 11 other large districts.

While the transition from the breakneck pacing of Act 3 to the total grind session of Act 4 may have sullied my final impression of the game (and that's why the game sits at the bottom of my top five instead of near the top), Shadow of War remains a title I still play today as I'm in the midst of finishing Act 4 and cleaning up any remaining trophies I've yet to earn.

Despite reaching that far back into history, Motorola is just as eager to modernize the targeted hardware list to keep its complaints relevant — the current iPad, the iPhone 4S and other devices are at risk of a trade ban, posing more of a threat to Apple's bottom line than the dust - covered (and near - finished) initial legal challenge from October 2010.