Sentences with phrase «lackluster year for»

Despite a lackluster year for the category in general, Google hasn't given up on smartwatches yet.

By most accounts 2013 was another lackluster year for U.S. law firms, marked by stagnant demand for legal services and only minimal increases in lawyer productivity.»

2008 was a lackluster year for the PSP.

In 2016, new first lien mortgages topped $ 2 trillion for the first time since the end of the housing crisis, but mortgage originations were still 25 percent lower than their pre-recession average.8 So far, 2017 has proved to be a lackluster year for mortgage originations.

The industry recognition has fueled a tremendous growth in sales for the computer manufacturer in spite of a lackluster year for the PC industry.

With CES stealing much of January's spotlight, and with a rather lackluster year for Motown reveals, what does the future of North American International Auto Show hold?

It is a remarkably fun movie, especially in 3D, alive in ways that so many of its peers in this lackluster year for animation simply are not.

A pickup in M&A activity is always a bull thesis for biotech investors, especially after what Jefferies analyst Michael Yee called «a relatively lackluster year for biopharma M&A» in 2017.

• Following two lackluster years for IPOs, we should see the «unicorn backlog» of more than 200 venture - backed private companies start to clear out in 2018.

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Analysts have lowered iPhone X shipment projections for the first quarter of next year, citing signs of lackluster demand at the end of the holiday shopping season.

Nearly half of these hedgies posted only single - digit returns for their investors in 2016, «a lackluster sum in a year when the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was up 12 percent, accounting for reinvested dividends,» writes The New York Times.

The new partnership reflects years of deterioration due to increased competition from rivals, lackluster fundraising, insufficient resources devoted to getting jobs for students, and overly generous compensation for some of its faculty.

The beleaguered technology company's core business is up for sale after years of lackluster performance, with bidders including frontrunner Verizon, inventor Dan Gilbert (backed by Warren Buffett), TPG, and a consortium that includes Bain Capital and former Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn.

The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.

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.

But lackluster spending data may change: It is hard for us to believe the big increases in employment over the past year, together with rises in aggregate wages and the extra disposable income accumulated from the big drop in gas prices, will not translate into increased consumer spending.

It began after the government reported Friday that average wage gains, which have been lackluster for years, had surged 2.9 percent in the 12 months that ended in January.

Industrials are likely to provide lackluster returns over the coming years given the dour economic outlook for global growth.

The outlook for both years would mark an improvement over the economy's lackluster growth of 1.6 percent in 2016, its weakest performance since 2011.

The lackluster performance of the bank stocks for much of this year is also a major reason why Barty expects them to recover soon.

Ive been supporting Arsenal for 65 years to say im dissapointed, well words fail me Why did we let the window slip by and not do the business in the begining get in quick and get our players signed and out as well but NO we buggered about with the DREAMER for 6 weeks dithering with expensive so called talent and what we get another Frenchman, soon we will be able to say we have the whole french international team here The way to go is to boycott the home games and make it known the fans run the club not the useless manager or the lackluster board who do nt know who plays for us and are not interested in football per say just the money Buy Kroenke out and let him go as well

@ARSENAL FAN I gave up blaming WENGER so will not start accusing the man, but he and only he is responsible for the performance of this squad, don't remember seeing such a lackluster team in the past years, yes he bought Superstars so what, watch OZIL one good game 10 unnoticed, nobody wants to say it loud because he was our biggest signing but is also our biggest FLOP....

Such a disappointment for the Panthers this year and more specifically Cam Newton, even after starting the year with a rib injury he has grossly underperformed and has left this writer sobbing uncontrollably many a Sunday night because of his lackluster fantasy performance, but I digress.

With Americans tuning in to watch the league for the first time on the commercial broadcasting station, last year's leading goalscorer put the visitors ahead after what was otherwise a relatively lackluster start to the David Moyes era in Manchester.

In an election year marked by lackluster campaigning and low turnout, one group of New York City voters came to the polls in droves: those seeking to lodge the futile and time - honored protest of writing in a candidate for mayor.

But in a political system where lackluster enforcement has for years given cover to rogue lawmakers, the prospect of such investigative firepower is an indication of how its efforts could upset the current political order.

As if the state GOP didn't have enough problems — saddled with lackluster candidates and financial difficulties in what is expected to be a big year for the Republicans nationally — party activists are calling for the ouster of its $ 150,000 - a-year executive director, Thomas Basile,

Andrew Kennedy, who heads the board and also serves as a senior economic development aide for Governor Andrew Cuomo, defended the report against the harsh criticism of columnists and lawmakers who derided the 76 jobs created in Start - UP's first year as lackluster.

And PS: when you take a look through and start to worry that you haven't found enough goods to thoroughly burn through your retirement savings, don't fret: for the last few years, the catalog has been lackluster, but the goods that weren't in the catalog end up being the highlights.

I've been getting the color of my hair enhanced for nearly 30 years, long before any gray started to appear, thinking the natural color to be a bit dull and lackluster.

In a weak year for animated movies, the lackluster stuff remains in contention no matter what.

There's no denying that 2017 has been a great year for video games, with no shortage of success for Microsoft, including the release of the Xbox One X. Despite a lackluster lineup of games when the powerful console launched in October, next year is set to deliver some heavy hitting titles.

The immeasurable amount of satisfaction that film gave to me more than makes up for what I believe was a lackluster year in American cinema.»

Would I trade a peaceful world for a lackluster year at the movies?

Afterall, E3 was the last time we saw a direct and we can all agree that it was one of the most lackluster ones for years.

Sony had a lackluster show and, after the impressive PS2 demos of the previous year, there were disquiet grumbles at the quality of games for the new console.

2016 was an intriguing year for movies, with many big Hollywood blockbusters turning out lackluster, but hopefully things are looking up between 2017 and 2018.

Star Wars fans have been deprived of a worthy video game tie - in for several years, with DICE's previous effort feeling lackluster and shallow in comparison to the...

Star Wars fans have been deprived of a worthy video game tie - in for several years, with DICE's previous effort feeling lackluster and shallow in comparison to the studio's own Battlefield series.

On the same day that the Obama administration announced its intentions to beef up the enforcement of civil rights in the nation's schools, the head of the office for civil rights during the Bush years said its track record isn't lackluster as claimed.

What's a better hypothesis for the lackluster math performance of our fifteen - year - olds?

And for good reason, what with every year bringing more bad news from PISA and TIMSS about our lackluster global standing.

And four years after signing off on the final draft of the standards, he spends his weekends trying to make up for what he considers the lackluster curriculum at his daughter's school, and his weekdays battling the lackluster curriculum and teaching at schools around the country that are struggling to shift to the Common Core.

As a former association president for many years, I have found their agenda very lackluster.

For example, last year, Congress passed the «Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act» on a strong bipartisan vote despite the lackluster outcomes of most of the nation's charter schools.

It starts with a wide, aggressive grille that's new for this year and does away with the boring, bland styling that makes so many compacts lackluster.

Even Barnes & Noble, which had the then - competitive (and still good, but lower - resolution) $ 99 Nook Glowlight, hasn't had an update for two years, apart from its lackluster collaborations with Samsung on color tablets, such as the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook.

Moto's displays have been lackluster for years.

The Fire phone, which Lab126 worked on for four years, debuted this summer to lackluster sales and reviews.

Its willingness to limit initial sales to Verizon with an $ 800 price has been credited to lackluster results that, according to analysts, could see just 300,000 sales for all of the first calendar quarter of the year where Apple likely sold more iPad 2 units in just the tablet's first few hours.