Sentences with phrase «in poor position»

It sounds hollow, lacks any real punch, and is in a poor position, so you'll need headphones to make the most of movies or music.

The headphone port is in a poor position on the right side, which means for right - handed mouse users the wire is in the way of your mouse.

«Local officials, who are rarely up to speed on wind power technology, are in a poor position to question or challenge the utility's claims about the safety and advisability of the project.

Sadly, many customers who could benefit from other choices are in a poor position because of their credit.

Matches are often frustrating, shots will still bounce past your player and the AI will sometimes second - guess you, placing you in a poor position to return a serve.

The researchers wrote that dating sites «are in a poor position to know how the two partners will grow and mature over time... and how the dynamics of their interaction will ultimately promote or undermine romantic attraction and long - term relationship well - being.»

In addition, these sites are in a poor position to know how the two partners will grow and mature over time, what life circumstances they will confront and coping responses they will exhibit in the future, and how the dynamics of their interaction will ultimately promote or undermine romantic attraction and long - term relationship well - being.

If scientists don't know how the blue stragglers formed, they are in a poor position to understand how they will evolve and die, adds Gosnell, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas.

Chelsea are unbeaten since Hiddink arrived at the club, but their horrendous form under their previous manager Jose Mourinho has left them in a poor position in the league.

There are no near post runners, he's just in poor position.

All of this illustrated the fact that Anglos such as myself are in poor position to judge what is desirable and possible in a multicultural situation.

However, settling too deeply or firmly into a routine could put you in a poor position when things change abruptly (and they will in a startup).

Bolasie rarely saw the ball, but was in poor positions to recover when possession was turned over.

Not exact matches

While competing in the Champions League is hugely profitable to the top clubs, participation is dependent on finishing in a certain position in their domestic leagues, meaning that a poor season can see teams miss out.

As the film progresses and the ball starts moving away from its center position of the image because of poor camera work, the algorithm can essentially rotate each key frame so that the ball magically appears in the same spot in every frame.

The ratings on ACT reflect Standard & Poor's view of the company's position as a leader in the fragmented and competitive convenience store (c - store) industry in North America, as well as in the more concentrated Scandinavian market; its solid profitability and cash flow; and its intermediate financial risk profile.

But Davies needed several additional infusions of capital and delayed his requests for money so long that he was «in a poor negotiating position.»

That poor tradeoff between expected return and risk keeps us in a defensive position.

Numerous times in the past, a cluster of distribution days after an extended rally, combined with the suddenly poor performance of individual leadership stocks, has been enough to prompt us to exit long positions within just a few percent of a market top (check out this actual such example from mid-2012).

E.g., perhaps it made some sense to withstand some decades with a current account deficit in order to support the development of countries (then poor) in order to strengthen the position of the U.S. during the Cold War.

A separate Bloomberg News analysis of the same period found that five of the biggest U.S. activist funds sought 174 board positions on Standard & Poor's 500 companies in the same period but nominated women only seven times.

The chart structure is poor as we have gone straight up and then straight down so be patient as I will be looking for a bullish position in the weeks ahead.

«While everyone who supports small businesses wants to see these employees profit when their companies profit, it's best for entrepreneurs to determine how the tax cuts will actually play out in their situation before putting themselves in a potentially cash - poor position.»

Scott's earlier experience also includes positions in REIT and CMBS credit analysis at Standard & Poor's, sell - side equity research at Macquarie Capital, acquisitions at Advanced Real Estate Services, and financing at BRT Realty Trust.

This distinction makes it a poor Fit to the market, as big positions in equipment manufacturers like Joy Global take it beyond the scope of our benchmark.

So with poetic justice, it was in the same position as the subprime borrowers whose junk mortgages it had underwritten and sold to investors gullible enough to believe Moody's and Standard and Poor's AAA ratings.

We believe the company is positioned well for an improvement in consumer sentiment, which will help if price competition increases due to poor winter weather and weak inventory positions at competitors.

He's the poor schmuck who at age 32 still hunkers down in Mom and Dad's basement because his post-graduate education only fetches him a position as PhD burger flipper at the Scottish restaurant chain which shall not be named.

You all talk about Catholic Republicans not wanting to help the poor, but how in the world does a true Catholic accept the democrats position that its ok to kill babies — seriously, how can that possibly be acceptable?

The quickest and easiest way to understand the second condition is to use its theological analog, the preferential option for the poor: the more disadvantaged and marginalized people are, the greater should be the assistance and solicitude extended to them by those in a position to help.

Majority of these «poor» people put themselves in that position.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

My criticism is directed at the universalizing and overly theoretical position of the intellectuals, theologians and politicians who proclaim that they are responsible for all the world's poor but in fact — perhaps without knowing it — are partisans and politicians.

The same point is affirmed in Scripture regarding the privileged position of the poor, and it has been reaffirmed forcefully in recent liberation theology.

indicates that the poor may inherit the kingdom before those of position in society.

Just 18 months after deciding to leave his position, his rapidly growing Castle Community Bank has helped some of the most vulnerable people in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.

In fact, he is making himself equal to God, adopting the position of judge upon his poorer neighbour as well as judging himself all too favourably.

How can they participate in a coalition that is largely poorer, less educated, and darker - skinned than they are, while maintaining their comfortable position (both economically and socially)?

According to Alan J. Bailyes, there were five theological issues between the ecumenical and evangelical positions: Church and world, the nature of conversion, Gospel and culture, Christology, and hermeneutics.3 Bailyes explains that a sound and solid ecclesiology has long been a weak link in the evangelical chain of theology, «coming a poor second or cven third behind its soteriology with its emphasis upon the individual and his / her relationship with God.

In addition, we want our little faith community to grow into a true picture of the Kingdom, which belongs to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the humble, and which is made up of people of all different ethnicities, political persuasions, and theological positions.

My friend suggested that Jesus was speaking hyperbolically here, that such a position is too impractical to apply literally (or to America's poor), and that we should instead defer to Paul's instructions in 2 Thessalonians 3:10 — «if a man will not work, he shall not eat.»

From this perspective the aim of the poor is to become wealthy, and the aim of the wealthy is to maintain their wealth, which means to maintain the status quo and their position in it.

Years later, when Gov. Perry actively supported the death penalty and cuts in government programs for the poor - positions that clashed with the more progressive stances of the United Methodist Church - some fellow Methodists speculated that Paint Creek's cultural conservatism shaped the governor more than his church did.

Norris Magnuson has shown in a recent dissertation, «Salvation in the Slums» (University of Minnesota, 1968), how close contact with the poor moved the «mission workers» toward new social and political positions that favored the oppressed.

Broadly speaking, it may be said that the defense of the poor, prompted in the first place by Christian sentiments of solidarity or charity, crowded out all the rest of Christianity and ended in total abandonment of faith, in indifference to the revelation, and in the atheism that appears to be a normal revolutionary position.

Thus they would be poor role models as well as dangerously unstable in positions of leadership.

And people wonder why is it ppl who are poor or not in ridiculous positions of power are so much happier than the ppl who live alone on their one seated thrones.

Finally those laymen who are in positions of power may work with community groups and agencies to do something about the disease - producing forces: poor housing, insufficient education, unemployment, lack of child care.

Poor Peter was across the table, probably in the end position.

«An Inspector General is required no matter which political party is in government to provide independent oversight — but the position is even more critical when Ministers like Barnaby Joyce promote such a poor culture in the Department,» a statement said.