Sentences with phrase «lack of urgency about»

After watching the Insight television program, I happened to read Lloyd's post on the Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil conference, where he was perturbed by the lack of urgency about the issue.

Asked about the poor showing of Cincinnati's vaunted community schools, Fariña called their results «pretty good» — a statement that's not only hard to support with evidence, but also suggests a surprising lack of urgency about academic achievement in some of the city's most hard - pressed schools.

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Giroud can never make a case to be selected over Alexis (if we are serious about winning the league) bcos his lack of pace and a sense of urgency always kills the tempo of our attack, and thatz a wrong way to start games.

«We were talking about desperation and playing with urgency and we've lacked that a little bit in the last handful of games,» Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said.

The thing that really bothers me is the thing we've disagreed on in the past and that's imo Wengers apparent lack of Urgency and decisiveness when moving into the transfer window I know that Scheweinsteiger would be a great addition but He is somewhat over the hill in comparison to the others that are being toted about and while I know that we are not the cash Rich Man Poo or Man Sh!tty or Chelski I do know that we are at a point for the first time in ten years where we don't need to replace many players or are being frced to sell the quality ones we have, we are for the first time in a spot where we only need to add two or three players and we are there in terms of being able to compete, Id hate for the financial Exuberance to stop us taking that final stride forward into the competitive team we nearly are IMO spend the money now, get the striker, get the DM and we wont need to look at transfers in a big way again for several seasons and with that in mind Id rather have the likes of Benzema or Lacazetta or even Cavanni than a nearly over the hill Scheweinsteiger.

Dave McMenamin explains that a lack of urgency from Cleveland's front office has made some Cavs players uneasy about their chance to capture another championship.

«It's hard for us to get the true message out about the children most impacted by the lack of urgency from the governor and others,» Ansari said, noting that Nixon has lent AQE her voice for well over a decade and that her newfound prominence was also bleeding through.

Director Benoît Jacquot «s uninspiring take on the period opened the Berlin Film Festival days ago, but something about the film's lack of urgency must be contagious, and we're only getting around to reviewing it now.

«There's been a lack of urgency in the council's response to persistent complaints from head teachers about the conduct of certain governors,» he said.

The state was supposed to be monitoring the schools in the Commissioner's Network, but it seems that Estela Lopez did not take this charge seriously — nor did the other board members, who act shocked that no background checks were required for employees of a State charter school; no policies in place about hiring / nepotism; no concern about a lack of curriculum; no urgency about teacher certification.

Second, I write regularly about the urgency of school choice for families who lack the financial means to avail themselves of its most common form in New Jersey, moving to a better district.

State Superintendent Dr. Carey Wright expressed her «concern and alarm» about what employees witnessed at the high school, and said administrators lacked a sense of urgency about the seriousness of the plan, although she recommended its approval.

It's a perfectly valid point and one that tears my opinion in half; on one hand I agree that a lack of urgency to the quests made it the whole thing feel a bit stupid, but on the other hand the lack of urgency made it so much easier for the play to simply wander off and become lost in the land of Cyrodill, only emerging years later when somebody said something about a game called Skyrim.

Rotating and moving of the main character both lack urgency about them which did prove annoying when repeating puzzles.

I talked a bit about Game Informer's new website earlier, and I still like it a lot — the sort of thing that 1UP was meant to be to Ziff's magazines back when it launched in 2003, something that didn't quite happen due to a lack of urgency and many other reasons.

With the lack of urgency you are quite happy to adopt, I guess that in about fifteen years time some academic will finally be arsed to write the paper that «will sort it all out».

Searching for answers, the crew hung out with author Ross Gelbspan as he promoted Boiling Point, his newest account of the lack of urgency felt by the public about climate change.