Sentences with phrase «lackluster year of»

While the company has had a long history of struggle with its smartphone devices, its Surface Studio served as a shining beacon to a lackluster year of mediocre computers.

Indeed, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos cited her second home as a «bright spot» in an otherwise lackluster year of results.

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Because of the volume of payments MCX members command and the original launch timelines, we had previously thought that CurrentC would drive significant mobile payments volume this year, even if adoption among consumers was lackluster.

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.

Since then, the unemployment rate has fallen to a 16 - year low of 4.3 % and economic growth appears to have reaccelerated following a lackluster first quarter.

A former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, who like many others was repeatedly targeted by Fancy Bear but has yet to receive any warning from the FBI, said the lackluster response risked something worse than last year's parade of leaks.

• 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.

If a company posted its best earnings of the last five years two years ago and has been lackluster since, perhaps it's under increasing competitive pressure, so have a look at qualitative factors showing what's going on.

Worries about charging infrastructure and an official bias toward bolstering homegrown competition may have contributed to the company's lackluster Chinese performance last year, which ended with the resignation of Tesla's China president.

April sales were lackluster when compared with earlier this year, with the exception, of course, of trucks and SUVs.

In recent years, money has flooded into low - cost index funds and out of more expensive actively managed funds, thanks in part to a greater focus on the large bite fees take out of already lackluster retirement balances over the long term.

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.

In spite of record low interest rates over the past 20 years, overall economic expansion has been lackluster at best.

Growth is still lackluster because of the sequester, and the unemployment rate is still not 6.5 percent, the Fed target, so they may talk about it but not do anything until early next year.

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.

Indeed, since the beginning of the year, spot gold has seen steady growth following a lackluster 2013.

After years of lackluster growth and lowflation, Europe is finally showing signs of a sustainable turnaround, one that may have far - reaching impact.

The lackluster employment report, coupled with the attack against Syria, helped push US 10 - year Treasury notes to 2.28 %, their lowest intraday yield of 2017, on Friday morning.

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.

I've had some very good ones over the years, so it was disappointing that so many of the gluten free chocolate chip cookie recipes I tried were... lackluster.

But despite the lackluster non-Sudfeld results over the last couple of years, I really struggle to doubt Wilson when it comes to QB play.

True, the lackluster efforts from our squad members don't help, but neither do the tactics and stubbornness of our 18 year experienced manager.

@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.

because still at the age of 28 he has several years left in him at the top of his game which is evident as after a lackluster 2014 he has turned up again in 2015 and currently have 53 goals to his name this season.

Alabama - LSU is one of college football's biggest rivalry games but this year's edition might be lackluster.

Sal Albanese spent 16 years as a city councilman and originally sponsored the campaign - finance law he was accused of violating in 2013, when he bowed out of the mayoral race after a lackluster campaign.

But at the same time, the lackluster showings in several key cities suggest that Democrats might not expect as much of a bump there as they have in past good years.

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.

I can't tell you the number of women (and men) I've encountered who have put up with years — even decades — of lackluster sex, simply because they've been unwilling to endure the discomfort of broaching the subject with their partner.

Over the years I tried many different cleansers and read hundreds of labels only to be disappointed by the lackluster results, endocrine disruptors, and toxic ingredients.

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.

After last year's lackluster red carpet, the Tony Awards is trying to bring a large dose of glamour to Broadway's biggest night and has tapped Anna Wintour to help them.

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

Instead of being a stellar sequel, Capcom delivered a lackluster fighter and one of the most disappointing games of the year.

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.»

Even if you wanted to check this one out solely as an excuse to watch a bunch of established acting veterans cut loose and have fun some laidback fun in their twilight years, Going in Style is severely, distressingly lackluster.

Unfortunately, the lackluster gameplay keeps that depth from shining through and, as a result, you have a campaign that feels like the same one you ran through 10 years ago with the same characters and the same style of combat and feeling of glory — all with a new $ 39.99 price tag.

The people who buy Call of Duty solely to play through the Zombies mode are the smart ones because every year it's the most consistently solid part of an increasingly lackluster package.

A golden age of comic book movies may be dominating Hollywood right now, but over the past few years there have also been signs of an effort to turn around the thus - far lackluster genre of video game - turned film adaptations.

I've seen «Halloween» more times than I can count, and probably shouldn't admit to how often I even watched the lackluster sequels like «Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers» in my teenage years.

The ensemble does most of the film's heavy lifting, since the unevenness of the script impacts Babbit's direction as well (it's surprising to see how lackluster her direction can be at times, considering her excellent work on television over the years).