Sentences with phrase «lackadaisical on»

Apple missed a big opportunity to green up its latest new iPhone, Greenpeace said, and games console makers seem to be altogether lackadaisical on green.

When they are lackadaisical on the field it makes the game dull.

If they lack the drive and commitment to reach their fitness goals, Kagan wonders if they might be equally lackadaisical on the job.

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Arsenal will need to improve on their defensive markings as they allowed Martial, Young and Rooney rooms to test the resolve of Cech which Bayern Munich may punish any such Gunners lackadaisical momentary defending.

Early on in their friendly match against Belgium, the US» lackadaisical defense was shredded and gave up the early goal to Kevin...

Im not making up how lackadaisical he looks on the field, low tempo, in creative.

Ozil is a liability and he needs to be sold... he is opposite of Sanchez... only Wenger can tolerate Ozil lackadaisical attitude on the pitch, no one else

Early on in their friendly match against Belgium, the US» lackadaisical defense was shredded and gave up the early goal to Kevin Mirallas.

The Coach had suddenly become stale overnight and that filtered to the boys on the field with a penchant for unseriousness, lackadaisical attitude and to prove that, talented young players in their generation such as Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, Jack Wilshere and even Aaron Ramsey peaked at an early stage in their careers without knowing that they had peaked because there was very little coming from the coach.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

Though Jason Dufner may have had a lackadaisical reaction to winning the PGA Championship by two strokes over Jim Furyk, he did, however, appear extra excited to see his wife Amanda Boyd on the 18th green after Sunday's round.

If it's not Niles well then Elneny because even Wenger must be adding up the cause and effect with allot of our goals against, I would say that we'd have at least a quarter less shots on our goal this season but for one lackadaisical individual.

Arsenal players need a fighting spirit while on dt pitch to advance in any tournament, one man down ystday nd they were playing lackadaisical.

Karius gave away a cheap penalty with a reckless challenge on Wilfried Zaha, while a lackadaisical piece of play from Van Dijk allowed Christian Benteke the second of two golden chances that he failed to finish.

On 31 minutes, Steven Gerrard, lackadaisical all afternoon, lost the ball.

So ebil obstetricians are both trigger - happy scalpel fiends, desperate to cut wombyn open as soon as look at them, AND lazy, lackadaisical layabouts who won't go near wombyn with a scalpel until it's too late... Also, you said the woman still wanted to try for a vaginal delivery, so in other words the midwife wanted to overrule the OB AND the woman, and force an operative birth on the mother.

Touching on work in the Public Sector, President Mahama said most public institutions can work efficiently if the workers change their lackadaisical attitude towards work.

Some of my friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.

Speaking on Abusua Nkommo hosted by Kwame Adinkrah, he indicated that President Akufo - Addo and his government's lackadaisical attitude towards teachers in the country especially NAGRAT clearly depicts that he does not recognize the good job teachers are doing in the country under his over rated leadership.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday slammed President Obama's «lackadaisical» attitude toward terrorism.

According to him, the position of the Electoral Commission on the preparation of a credible voters register for the elections, which is just six months away, appears unsatisfactory in view of what it calls the lackadaisical posture by the Commission towards the electoral process.

The court, presided over by Justice Anin Yeboah also expressed its displeasure with the lackadaisical attitude on the part of the current Attorney General, Marietta Brew Appiah Oppong and her outfit to retrieve the money from Mr. Woyome.

Taken as a whole, the proposals seemed geared to appease Mr. Cuomo's detractors on the left in his party, who have been upset by the governor's pace on issues like campaign finance reform and public financing of elections, and by his lackadaisical support of Democrats in the State Senate.

Speaking on the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Labo said immediate dismissal of the IGP would have driven a serious message to police officers with lackadaisical attitude.

Phil: So, I mean, I think that is one of the problems touched on at the summit was that we have a lot of warnings about potential pandemics — swine flu back in the»70s in this country, avian flu — and there is the real threat of people becoming lackadaisical and not taking any of this seriously after a while.

This is partly because the science shows on television keep changing, but it is also a fact that work in the field has, until lately, been spotty and lackadaisical, undertaken more often by desperate science writers for an afternoon than by a dedicated specialist for an entire year.

And you were way more thorough than I in drafting a fabulous post (I apologize for my lackadaisical writing on this one... I've got the «moving blues» but good and am feeling quite harried with all the packing and such!)

Whatever triumphant feeling it initially evokes, Weed Wars drags as the lackadaisical attitudes of both the suppliers and the customers begin to grate on a viewer's nerves.

S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk is an unassuming genre hybrid, and the impact of its finale is magnified by the fact that, for most of its 132 - minute runtime, it plays out like a lackadaisical The Searchers - inspired Western throwback about a group of noble frontiersmen (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins) on a mission to rescue a maiden kidnapped by unholy savages.

Universal Pictures is clearly hoping to resurrect a character with whom they've been in business for some 83 years, but this fantasy - feeling effort delivers little in the way of scares, relying mainly on the charismatic presence of Welsh actor Luke Evans (Fast and Furious 6) to anchor the lackadaisical proceedings... [Much] like the recent, widely reviled I, Frankenstein, this misconceived project mainly signals a need to go back to the drawing board.

Not her bedraggled excuse for a husband Phil (William Fichter) who, while keeping his marriage vows, sneaks off to the local love shack for some illicit playings of the Wheel of Fortune board game with local diner waitress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis); Not her dimbulb, lackadaisical moron of a son Jeff (Marcus Thomas) whose lust for Lite, as in Miller, cost him the use of his right hand (how the residents tell the story is one of the highlights of the flick); Not Jeff's partner Bobby Calzone (Casey Affleck) who takes it on the chin from every member of the Dearly family or his fiancé Ellen (Neve Campbell) who giggles hysterically when she hears the news of Mona's demise.

Owen Wilson perfectly plays the lackadaisical Gil, who while on vacation with his fiance Inez (Rachel McAdams) finds himself chasing a new romance every evening when the clock strikes midnight, and he's transported back in time to 1920s Paris.

Rees cuts effortlessly between the various narrative threads (aided by editor Mako Kamitsuna, who previously collaborated on Pariah), and makes some neat connections, such as cutting from a battle in the war to Hap Jackson (Rob Morgan, one of Stranger Things» lackadaisical cops) falling of a ladder.

In this place of concrete and telephone wires, transients subsisting on very little and tourists lost on the way to the nearby theme park, six - year - old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) runs amok with a shifting group of friends and gets into trouble with the motel's usually patient manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe), while being occasionally looked after by her very young, alternately lackadaisical and ferocious mom, Halley (Bria Vinaite).

Of course, in a film that relies so heavily on the personalities of its comedic leads, it certainly helps (in fact, it may be crucial) if you like Will Ferrell's irreverent hamming and Jon Heder's lackadaisical, dorky nature.

Studies predict that Finland will hang on to its lackadaisical workers, and suggest things like «keep students in school by engaging them with smaller class sizes and better paid teachers» or «get rid of standardized tests» and» individualize learning,» which they'll expand on by saying «create a system that instills curiosity, creativity, passion, and accept that it is impossible to test these things.»

Sometimes a prod of the throttle whips the tiny V - 6 into a delightful, power - producing frenzy, while the same throttle input at a similar engine load might on a different day produce a markedly more lackadaisical response.

The narrow roads combined with the locals» lackadaisical attitude toward the center line placed a premium on steering precision, and here again the Mini shines.

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Often overloaded, the large amounts of fuel on these combined with less than ideal fuel handling and lackadaisical attitudes by crew make for explosive situations.

Citi have appeared to be a bit too lackadaisical in their approach to American Airlines credit cards and have sat on their laurels for a bit too long — that's why I gave up my Citi AAdvantage Executive card late last year... it wasn't worth it to me.

Be it the grandeur of forts and palaces, spectacular monuments or the lackadaisical ambience of Goa, the meticulously designed «Golden Triangle with Goa» tour package endeavors to serve an exciting mix of royal and cultural heritage and tropical beaches on the platter of the guests.

They come across as very lackadaisical despite working closely on the hardware with Nintendo.

It's a far cry (and I'll come back to that later) from the days of my lackadaisical youth when my parents would cook and clean for me, so leaving me free to spend days on end breeding a golden chocobo in Final Fantasy VII.

Super Air Zonk, on the default difficulty especially, starts off at a seemingly lackadaisical pace by comparison.

Or you might look at misbehavior which is all too common in ordinary pseudoscience disputes, but which in the physical and biological sciences is very uncommon on the funded academic side: e.g., triumphalism about unfalsifiable claims, and circling the wagons around various kinds of data hiding (e.g., remarkably lackadaisical formal investigation of CRU even after FOIA violations, and broad enthusiasm for promoting the formal results into an informal full «nothing to see here, move along» exoneration).

Or, are you too lackadaisical towards security BECAUSE you are on a Mac?

Some will suggest that title insurance gives lawyers a false sense of security or has made some lawyers lackadaisical about the work they are required to do on a real estate transaction.

It's critical to write to a specific person rather than falling back on Dear Sir / Madam, which looks lackadaisical, as though you didn't make an effort (and that doesn't reflect well on how much effort you'll put in on the job!).

Consider these assessments: «Based on your poor work habits and lackadaisical attitude, you'll be on probation for the next three months.».