Sentences with phrase «in a small pond who»

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So, if you put someone in a very, very highly competitive pond, they are going to reach very different conclusions about who they are and what they are capable of than if you put them in a less selective pond, a smaller pond.

Nearby is a small pond in which she keeps fit by swimming, usually naked and heedless of the crocodiles who also exercise there.

Two years older and you're talking a first round pick vs. a player who's a big fish in a small pond on a sixers team.

There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out of Real if he ever wants to be the kind of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless of how it happened this guy is a shadow of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds of accolades

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

In a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponIn a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponin - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponin his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small pond.

Although gas exchange in larger lakes can be predicted by wind speed, this relationship breaks down under low - wind conditions, such as in small ponds, said Meredith Holgerson, the lead author of the study, who conducted the research while completing her Ph.D. at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES).

«We found that we can't easily predict gas exchange rates in small ponds, and that variability in gas exchange increases with lake size,» said Holgerson, who is now a research fellow at Portland State University.

It follows the imaginative story of a boy named Marco who is fishing in a rather sad, small pond, called «McElligot's Pool».

I may be a very small fish in a huge pond when it comes to being a published author, but I keep my ear to the ground and I talk to a number of others who have been in the business a lot longer than I.

For parents who need convincing: Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the utilitarian value in going to the «lesser» school — aka the big fish / small pond effect; your kid will do best at a college where they can be in the top 10 percent, not at the most highly selective school where they may end up in the bottom half of the class.

«Our findings show that warming can fundamentally alter the carbon balance of small ponds over a number of years, reducing their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide and increasing emissions of methane,» says Gabriel Yvon - Durocher, chair in ecology at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter, who led the study.

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