Sentences with phrase «for failing at»

Like I said, this is denialism 2.0: pretend you think AGW is real and potentially serious, but at the same time keep attacking individual climate scientists, stress the uncertainties («we know nothing»), and blame the climate scientist community for failing at getting people and politicians to take action.

Capitalism does a better job because the people affected by the goods and services being created call the shots as to which producers are rewarded for providing valuable goods and services and which are penalized for failing at the job.

We blame — ourselves for failing at the parenting task, or our children for being recalcitrant, or television for distracting them, or the school system for not being strict enough.

Loaned out Arsenal star Lukas Podolski has been told by Germany legend Lothar Matthaus that he should blame himself for failing at the North London club, reports the Daily Mail.

Finally, it is challenging — the challenge of the Catholic writer in our times, perhaps — to marry a joyful Christian witness with a rigorous engagement with intra-Christian controversy, and I accept John Connelly's rebuke for failing at that challenge.

The Health Service Journal reported a March 2014 exit date has been set for the controversial figure, who refused earlier this year to take any level of personal responsibility for the failings at Mid-Staffordshire which occurred on his watch.

Some reports are suggesting that Sir Paul Stephenson, head of the Met, should apologise for failings at the force.

Not exact matches

For instance, a keyboard model will be the first smartphone to emerge under the Foxconn agreement after the failed attempt at the touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 earlier this year.

They found those traits in an unlikely man — a cypherpunk, part - coder, part - activist, who boasts of holding a world record for the most failed attempts at building a business around peer - to - peer, decentralized file sharing.

Plus, in 2008, the Aurora distribution center had been at the center of another settlement — this one for $ 13.25 million — for the same issue: failing to report suspicious orders (McKesson did not admit wrongdoing).

BEIJING, April 24 - China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers» meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice - breaking trip to China this week by India's prime minister.

'» It became known as the «Frisbee speech,» and for years it gave foreign acquirers confidence the government wouldn't throw the book at them if they failed to live up to their promises.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The bureau says it has reason to believe the stores «failed to offer certain sleep sets at the regular price or higher for a substantial period of time [and]... did not sell a substantial volume of some sleep sets at the regular price or higher for a substantial period of time.»

But he couldn't resist a final dig at those rooting for his firm to fail, relaying a «little ditty» about how short sellers were apparently dealt with in the 19th century: «He who sells what isn't his» n, must buy it back or go to pris» n.»

The party criticizes Tories for slashing youth summer employment programs, and otherwise failing to tailor policy directed at young people.

These latest reports and in particular the Productivity commission are nonsence to say that it will have a marked effect on the overseas On - Line sales is absolute rubbish.My daughter is in retail in Sydney the problem with overseas On - Line they pay no tax eg GST super, the list goes on we forget WA metro has say 1.8 m people Sydney has 6m Bondi Junction which is probiably the largest shopping centre in Sydney is shut at 6 o, clock most nights The gov keeps going on about the east and what they do Wayne Spencer and co are mouth peaces for the large retailers.My main concern is the On - Lne which is destroying Australias retail ecnomy if it fails being our largest employer the country will be in huge trouble economicly.I have spelt this out in detail in an Email to Bill Shorten if you would like a copy

U.S. federal health regulators have proposed banning Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes from the blood - testing business for at least two years after determining that the company failed to fix deficiencies at its California laboratory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

On stage at the conference, Paltrow Neumann said the first thing the couple did when they made some money for themselves was pay back the original investors of their previous failed endeavors.

In addition to the aforementioned tanks of yeast, the tie is a good vehicle for casually referencing scientists» previous failed attempts at mass producing spider silk (a valuable material that is tougher than regular silk and can be machine washed.)

Amid the Florida shooting, Murphy lashed out at his colleagues on the Senate floor for failing to act.

«If China fails, or even if this fixed investment model fails, countries like Australia and Canada are in deep trouble,» says John Lee, a foreign - policy expert at the Hudson Institute who is also a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia.

Earlier this month, Nike suspended its sponsorship of Sharapova, the highest - paid woman in sports, after she said she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open due to a substance she was taking for health issues.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to reach the minimum acquisition level of 50 per cent.

You could owe fees up to $ 250 per employee for whom you failed to file information in 2016, capped at $ 3 million.

That would normally be an end of the matter, but not everyone is inclined to take Deutsche's compliance department at its word after a string of governance scandals in recent years that culminated in a $ 630 million settlement for failing to police money - laundering by its Moscow office last month.

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

Winterkorn might have been a notch less imperious than the chairman, but he still displayed an almost theatrical officiousness: He publicly dressed down his juniors at an auto salon for failing to build a steering column that could be adjusted as smoothly as a Hyundai's.

He explained that the current Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who's also the Dutch finance minister, gathers significant support among the other finance ministers but failed to get enough backing to continue with his European role after having lost the general election, putting an end, at least for now, to the idea of a permanent president.

«Having taught at Stanford now for 30 years... one of the things I think that we're failing even in our elite education — and we're failing at Stanford although we're trying — is teaching people to fight constructively,» Sutton said.

For example, if you own a dry cleaning service, you might list the different services you offer or the quick turnaround you provide on items (24 hours), and then note how your competitors fail at these features.

That came despite the fact Goldman failed to impress investors in its first quarter earnings Tuesday, posting trading revenue that was 2.4 % lower from a year earlier, at $ 3.4 billion for the quarter.

The supervisor of Dianella - based building company Frayson has been fined $ 15,000 for failing in his duties as a manager and supervisor on work carried out at 20 Perth properties over a 10 - year period.

At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting last May, for example, Buffett expressed regret for not investing in Google (now known as Alphabet)(googl) and Amazon (amzn) stock years ago, having failed to appreciate the tech companies» great potential.

«There is enormous pressure when a missile reenters the atmosphere... If (electrical) circuits break and a trigger device fails to detonate nuclear fuel, you can imagine that only some twisted metal will fall on Alaska or Hawaii, even if North Korea fires missiles at them,» said Kim Dong - yub, an analyst at Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies.

Whatever you choose, I recommend sticking to a schedule and committing to feeding your brain for at least 30 minutes a day without fail.

I recently stumbled on two great tips for those who have previously failed at journaling.

At the start of the year, a story from Business Insider cited a PrivCo analyst whose prognosis for the company had it failing before the year's end.

Contractor Serco has had to pay about $ 1 million in penalties for failing to achieve certain performance targets at Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Shares of the company are flat for the year after its most recent earnings report failed to beat Wall Street estimates for the first time in two years, but Marshall said that he expects its revenue to continue to grow at above - market rates.

The IRS RMD rules can be a bit confusing, and failing to satisfy your annual RMD can be expensive, costing you an excise - tax penalty of up to 50 percent on the amount not distributed as required, warns Manisha Thakor, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance, a community of more than 140 independent registered investment advisors throughout the country.

Ackman's Pershing Square Capital teamed up with Valeant to mount a failed hostile takeover of rival pharmaceutical company Allergan, and at the time, the famed fund manager credited Pearson for being able to spot opportunities where others couldn't, much like business legend Warren Buffett.

Also excluded are companies that failed to report full financial statements for at least three - quarters of the current fiscal year.

The penalties for failing to do so — at least on paper — are severe.

(In full disclosure, we at Fortune had predicted — in our ordinarily can't - miss, fail - safe, never - wrong «Fortune Crystal Ball» for 2016 — that «sola» would succeed.

After reaching the semi-finals of the MIT $ 100,000 competition, the venture ended up failing because the path forward was vague, and at the end of the day, our appetite for risk was very different.

As a psychology student at Harvard, he developed the lie detector test but failed to win acceptance for it.

In a Facebook post on Friday afternoon, Van Susteren — who had previously slammed Carlson as a «disgruntled employee» — also took a dig at Fox executives for failing to supervise Ailes, who served as Fox News CEO for two decades.

«Almost every failed entrepreneur... overestimates their ability to generate revenue, or underestimates what it'll take» to start making money, says Stewart Thornhill, executive director at the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Qualcomm and Broadcom round out the subsector's top five companies by market cap, making a failed merger between the two companies particularly painful for the group, according to Scott Kessler, lead tech analyst at CFRA Research.