Sentences with phrase «first big performance»

You just got out of your first big performance review with a pay raise and you're pretty excited about it.

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«Our biggest issue was that we lacked reliable statistics about our performance, ticket first - response rate, first resolution rate, satisfaction ratings and industry benchmarks,» she explains about the company's 62 - member strong customer - care team.

Shares in Smith & Nephew had their worst performance in close to 10 years, down 7 per cent after Europe's biggest artificial hip and knee maker downgraded its revenue and profit forecasts following a weak first quarter.

As earnings season ramps into full gear, the performance of some of the biggest names could determine future of the tech boomAs large tech companies report first - quarter earnings in a flood of results during the next two weeks, they face a major test: Will they continue to post huge growth, and fuel further overall gains for the market, or settle into a more mild adulthood?

I see lot of coments about how we can sign Reus «cuz he's a world class player.Yes, he is a great player BUT did you see how mutch this season was he injuried?The period when Dortmund win some games and comme forward in the table was the period when Reus was available, rest of the season he was injuried.This is one thing, the other think is that Klopp say he will leave Dortmund in the end of the season and looking for a new chalange.I'm pretty sure that he will leave to a big team and will take Reus after him.Sterling is exactly the same type of player as Sanchez, just doesn't have the same experience, he's not fully developed.I think he can be a first XI player for us and I think will be great alongside Sanchez, replacing Cazorla when he will leave.Sterling is an English player, will be great to see him at nationat team too, and we need as mutch as rest of the big teams from EPL home grown players.The coments who say that we have Gnabry and Wellington make me laugh, really?Do you want trophies?Or do you want to see more young players and waiting year after year to confirm or just see how they doesn't play anything?We are a top team, and need performance in UCL too, not just participaiting.Sterling is a young CONFIRMED player who will definetly help us.Agree that he's not fully grown but he will be a great player.

The name of Francis Coquelin has been on the lips of many an Arsenal fan in recent weeks, especially since his disciplined and destructive performance at the heart of the Gunners midfield helped to produce our first big away win in a long time.

The night's biggest revelation, however, was sophomore running back Derrick Washington, who dazzled in his first career start with 130 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries, a performance that suddenly has Columbia buzzing that he may be Missouri's most gifted tailback since James Wilder.

This will come as a big blow for Arsenal, who have made Monreal first choice at left - back this season after a string of fine performances to make that position his own against Kieran Gibbs.

Given Beckham's performance over the last two months, and really, the first two his years of his career, it's safe to say matching up with him will probably be Norman's biggest test of the season.

Golf's first designated event became Rod Curl's first victory, as the brash little Indian beat the big boys at Colonial with a brave performance

First and foremost, Carolina really needed him — or hell somebody, anybody — to come up with a big time performance against the Cardinals the way he did.

Our squad is depleted, we're miles off Chelsea, everyone expects us to lose, we have an horrific record in the big games this season, our first half performances have been diabolical, and Wenger will probably field a poor starting XI yet again!

The return of Abou Diaby to the starting line - up for the first time in 19 months was obviously a great boost for him and the club, but I think perhaps the biggest positive for us was the performance of Isaac Hayden at centre back.

Last year Woods's impressive performance in the Match Play, coupled with an earlier win at Torrey Pines in his first week back after knee surgery, persuaded everyone that Tiger was on a fast track to his biggest year ever.

Arsenal was given one of the weakest team in this CL competition.Everybody expected a win, like by big margin but the whole match there was no fight and desire.The game was so poor at all front last night.City and Man Utd played their hearts out even though they were defeated.Man Utd players witnessed a horrific injury to their team mate, that will affect their focus and rhythm but they fought with desire to win the game till the end.City were the better team than Juventus, they played really good.I have even read an article on Sky that states even though Man utd and City is defeated they still can qualify the group stage, thats how their performance were reassuring.But Arsenal were really poor from starting the game till end.Zagreb got their first win in CL since 1999, that says it all.

Malaga winger Joaquin Sanchez is promising a big performance from his side on Wednesday as the Spanish side host Borussia Dortmund in a Champions League quarter - final in their first ever appearance in the competition.

It may be just a coincidence that Arsenal put on the best away performance in a really big game for years on the same day that our former striker, record goal scorer and all round legend Thierry Henry was in the TV studio for the first time to give his verdict.

One of the first things the TV pundits said after watching Arsenal put in an amazing performance to take Manchester United apart with surgical skill was to ask whether this result would send a big message to our Premier League rivals and I think we are all agreed that this is exactly what we did.

Alexis in his second season after a freakishly brilliant start, Ozil coming in to consistent form at the end of his second season, Coq now with a proper body of work under his belt and a whole summer to work on it, Bellerin with his first season jitters out of his system, Giroud finally realising he might be a pretty decent striker, Gab with some solid performances and the close - season to bond further, Monreal maturing in to an unspectacular but tremendously solid FB, Ospina settled — it is my opinion that these and others will be what will bring the bigger improvements and the consistency needed next year rather than any wholesale changes.

first half of last season 40 + points, this season 30 + = big improvement in the teams performances since last year... with consistency that is amongst the best in Europe and certainly the PL..

My Biggest Expectation this season is for the longest serving manager in the EPL to be the very first to be shown the door after dismal, shambolic back to back performances.

Setting aside postseason performance, the Big 12 ranked first in Pomeroy's adjusted efficiency margin and had only one of its teams (Iowa State) finish outside the top 65 of ESPN's BPI.

They've gotten big performances from several different Players over the first few weeks of the Season.

He and Michael Floyd, another big guy who ran well (4.42), ran the best in this drill, but Hill might have just secured himself a selection in the first three rounds with this performance.

Finally A big special man of the match performance from our player of the season Alex — if there was a title for his effort alone we would win the prem, but I'm still purring after his display to first ride the challenge after his 1 - 2 and scoring from an acute angle surrounded by 3 players..

The Nigerian pair first attracted attention from some of Europe's biggest clubs following their standout performances at the FIFA Under - 17 World Cup.

A 3 - 0 first - leg win in Spain has left two - time UEFA Europa League winners Atlético Madrid in sight of the quarter - finals; Lokomotiv will need a big performance in Moscow.

England turned in one of their best performances in recent years in a frantic and exciting first half littered with big moments, and nervy second half which saw a spell of Polish pressure withstood and a gradual fight back from England.

Manchester United find themselves playing another big match after the two - week international break, much like last month when the first match back was against Manchester City at Old Trafford, with United falling to a 2 - 1 defeat after a poor first - half performance.

The 26 - year - old has put himself on the radar of some of Europe's biggest clubs with his performances for club and country — he was Germany's first - choice left - back in their run to the Euro 2016 semi-finals.

Since then, Rovers have thrown away two priceless opportunities to enhance their stance in the top - flight further, losing away to Bolton 2 - 1, despite boasting a numerical advantage for most of the second half, as well as throwing two invaluable points away last weekend when drawing 1 - 1 with bottom of the league West Ham, Kean's very first game in charge and it was a game where Blackburn produced one of their poorest performances of the season, certainly at home, where Rovers were previously a force to be reckoned with under» Big Sam».

Ok, by playing in the Dutch league for Ajax, Neres will not be able to win performance buzz in the short term, but even if he doesn't get a move to one of Europe's «big 5» leagues this summer and stays at Ajax, he is more than likely to be getting more first team minutes than Pellegri, including some in the Champions League or Europa League, which would no doubt raise his profile even further.

However, if I am Spalletti, my biggest concern is the lack of meaningful first half performances in a majority of games this season.

Prior to the game, doubts were placed on how Per Mertesacker would adapt to his first start of the campaign, but the Big German acted brilliantly as the sweeper in the back three as he put in a performance capable of commanding the man of the match accolade.

It is a side that should be fired up, looking to put in big performances to force their way into first team reckoning.

On the big stage, namely the Champions League and Russian Cup final, performances were suspect but it is fair to argue that CSKA were punching above their financial budgets simply to be there in the first place.

Olivier Giroud has been the example of how bizarre that first leg performance was, with his subsequent performances making a big difference to the team.

Although Walcott's performance was the big positive to come out of this game there were plenty of others: Arshavin was far more busy than in the opening game, Jack Wilshere was given more time and space to show what he can do and Chamakh showed good determination to react from two poor misses to score his first goal for the club.

It comes as Cuomo has racked up big political wins in his first six months and this week's Siena College poll showed his job performance rating rose to 58 percent among New York voters.

Since the first edition of the book The Strongest Shall Survive in 1976, Bill Starr's «big three» — back squat, bench press and power clean — have often been revisited in the effort to identify a handful of strength training exercises that can significantly improve performance in sport.

The fourth annual Louder Than Life marked the festival's biggest year yet, drawing 60,000 fans to Champions Park to witness headlining performances from Ozzy Osbourne featuring Zakk Wylde on Saturday and Prophets Of Rage on Sunday, plus Five Finger Death Punch, Incubus — returning to Louisville for the first time in over a decade — Rob Zombie, Stone Sour, Rise Against, and nearly 30 other bands on three stages.

According to the first reactions, there's a big element of surprise and the performances by Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin have both been heavily praised.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

First - timers to be nominated for lead performance in a comedy series included: Linney for «The Big C,» Martha Plimpton for «Raising Hope,» Galecki for «The Big Bang Theory» and McCarthy of «Mike & Molly.»

Both performances earned strong reviews, and the following year Snipes found himself as the lead in his first big - budget action flick, Passenger 57.

Most tantalizing, though, is Kylo Ren, whose history is a slow reveal, and whose turmoil, in the cold, counter-intuitive brand of intensity evinced by Adam Driver, is a wonderfully subtle thing in a story full of big explosions and a sometimes scenery - chewing, but always delightful, performance from Domhnall Gleeson, as General Hux of the First Order, which is the evil the successor to the evil Empire.

Among those is a lovely Emilia Clarke, who serves as both a first love and big problem for Han, a dandy Donald Glover, slyly forming a wary alliance with Solo on his own, and a wonderful Linda Hunt, whose voice performance as Lady Proxima is so much fun, I want her to get her own movie.

Laurence Olivier delivers a fine performance as the haunted de Winter, still under the shadow of his controlling first wife even after she's died, while Joan Fontaine's naïve little girl in the big mansion is a bit precious but effective nonetheless.

Regardless of how much big - screen work they've done before, they make up one of the best ensemble casts of the year, but standing first among them is Tessa Thompson, who gives a revelatory performance that in a just world would be a serious awards contender.

Life Lessons features a young Steve Buscemi in one of his first big movie roles as performance artist Gregory Stark, who performs comic monologues (written by Buscemi himself) on abandoned subway tracks, falling far short of Dobie's definition of art, which is «you make art because you have to,»cause you got no choice.»