"Lackluster results" means that the outcomes or achievements of something were disappointing, dull, or not as good as expected.
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The spot delivered
lackluster results in public opinion polls and failed to impress professional ad reviewers.
Educators across the country have struggled to revamp failing schools, spending billions of dollars
for lackluster results.
Some blogs post tried - and - true recipes, and maybe it is just my poor luck, but sometimes I
get lackluster results from other bloggers.
They also know that spending tons of money on a publicity firm will have very
lackluster results if you have zero interest in playing a leading role in your own success.
If you fit the genre and want to run the risk of paying a lot of money
for lackluster results, then give them a try.
Public school advocates declared the proposal little more than a privatization scheme that
yielded lackluster results in similar efforts in Tennessee, Louisiana and Michigan.
Barnes & Noble has just
posted lackluster results for its fiscal fourth quarter, including a $ 57.7 million loss, and an 0.4 percent increase in revenue to $ 1.38 billion.
After lackluster results from Chronicles, Universal was unwilling to fund another Riddick outing saying that the return from the 2nd film was not enough to approve another sequel.
Despite a
somewhat lackluster result for Kirchner in the August PASO primary, her campaign has been a direct partisan confrontation to Macri's governing coalition.
Yet Mayor Mike's good work for big kids is matched
by lackluster results for the city's younger students.
The gathering of government officials, business people and non-governmental groups ended with what some participants
considered lackluster results.
Amid the slowing economy, flagging housing market and unfolding credit crunch, neighborhood and community center REITs posted
lackluster results during the third quarter, suffering as consumers reined in spending.
Hazlehurst's inconsistent and
often lackluster results throw a spotlight on how difficult it is for a state to take over far - flung school districts.
The media had conferred that title on Gundlach as Gross» Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund started posting
lackluster results compared with its peers.
If you are
experiencing lackluster results, your team may be feeling the effects of a few common problems: not creating the right kind of content, not targeting the right audience, using the wrong strategy or having the wrong people doing the work.
While typical diets often yield
lackluster results replete with weight regain, practicing IF fosters sustainable, automatic fat burning, often generating greater weight loss than typical calorie - restricted diets despite similar calorie intakes!
After years of
lackluster results according to them, the CIA (led by Alec Baldwin's Alan Hunley) has gotten tired of the IMF's warnings about an underground terrorist organization named the Syndicate and have called Hunt back to D.C.
Appropriately painted in the orange - tinted red known as Rosso Dino, this was another non-numbers matching car (a replacement engine was fitted at some point in the past), which helps explain the
slightly lackluster result.
Furthermore, when last fiscal year's
lackluster results came in (primarily because of continued low gas prices) management skipped their bonuses (imagine that!).
Here are a few truths I've learned coaching over the years: General, Non-Specific Resumes Get You Generic,
Lackluster Results Know the saying, «Rubbish in, rubbish out?»
If you've been disappointed and heartbroken from
lackluster results in your dating life, it's understandable that you could be carrying the energy of disillusionment and skepticism on your dates.
«For example, when Dell Inc. decided to use social media to launch Linux laptops, the effort
yielded lackluster results, partly because Dell failed to recognize that the online voices were not representative of a larger customer base,» Kane writes.
Frankly, most personal injury firms handle too many cases at a time with inexperienced staff, which we believe frustrates client and
produces lackluster results.
Too many put profits before performance, are run by operators who don't know what they are doing,
get lackluster results, and aren't, as envisioned, collaborating with district schools.
Some worried the state's program would yield disappointing results, similar to those reported in Michigan, Tennessee and Louisiana, all states that launched like - minded charter takeover programs in the last decade but
reported lackluster results, financial headaches and public battles with angry parents.
Barnes & Noble just
posted lackluster results for its fiscal fourth quarter, including a $ 57.7 million loss, and an 0.4 percent increase in revenue to $ 1.38 billion.
The soft goals and horizontal leadership structure of the Occupy Movement were eventually blamed
for lackluster results, but the Occupiers defend their stance saying that, despite their short - lived «occupation,» they created a significant dent in the national dialog.
Lambe cautioned that after he had success with a Palm Pilot title, he ended up making a large amount of other simple casual titles, and he believes his lack of passion rubbed off and ended up
with lackluster results.
My lackluster results forced me to approach the largest bodybuilder in my gym to ask him what the secret to getting big is.
The company blamed reduced smartphone unit volumes in the second half of its fiscal year for
the lackluster results, as well as a negative impact from the sale of lower - priced components at key Android OEMs.
The lackluster results of the European summit showed that no debt resolution was in sight for European countries.
«The most probable explanation for
the lackluster results of expansion efforts such as these is that too often, the AP courses were introduced without the necessary attention to preparation and prerequisites,» says the report.
The uncontested races, and
lackluster results in others, are the latest manifestation of the continued decline of Republican power in city politics.
Given
the lackluster results of my own home experimentation, I was reenergized when I came across Maggie Koerth - Baker's recent review of Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid by Shaun Gallagher.
That may be why immunotherapy for narcolepsy has so far yielded
lackluster results.