Sentences with phrase «laggards at»

When you see a horde of guards heading your way, it's a blast to pop out of the room you're hiding in, pick off a couple of laggards at the end of the pack, and then shift across the room without anyone spotting you.

We are now the laggard at the bottom.

It's paired with Renault's Getrag - sourced six - speed dual - clutch transmission which generally works smoothly, but can be a bit of a laggard at times when a bit of response is required on the move.

PB was a notable laggard at the beginning of the data, and slightly underperformed over the full period, but the composite was the better bet only 36 percent of the time.

Not exact matches

That means rebalancing your portfolio at least once a year, by selling some of the assets that have done best — and exceeded their model allocation — and buying more of your laggards.

If you look at the company and say «I want us to be a great place to be,» than you need to eliminate the slackers, the laggards and the people who are just putting in his or her time.

Not as well as global frontrunner Norway, where women hold 35.5 % of seats, but not as bad as laggards like Australia, Ireland and Portugal, all of which top out at 13 % or less.

«Narrowing the gap between the laggards and those at the frontier of digitization could help accelerate productivity and growth,» it says.

I'm in the Laggard Quintile of the «longshot odds» Bell Curve; never had your balls / brains, and my adventures always seemed to end with me flat on my back, staring up at the lights.

Regardless of Brenner's trumpeting of recent total shareholder returns, AMP has been, and remains, a perennial laggard, trading at an 8 per cent discount to the market multiple versus its historical 8 per cent premium.

«They're all trying to get toward... a better blend between a physical and digital experience,» he said, «and analysts are looking at J.C. Penney as a laggard in the innovation of experience.»

A bullish bias is based largely on Bond yields bottoming out, NOT TOPPING, along with Advance / Decline being back at new all - time highs while various former underperforming laggard sectors like Healthcare, have begun to outperform.

«We are just laggards when it comes to voting rights,» Schneiderman said at a news conference in Albany at the Capitol.

Quinn's view is that the bill would add an additional financial burden on small businesses at a time when they are already suffering in a laggard economy.

Personal note: At the risk of appearing a laggard, we journalists really try hard to sift through the sludge of politics and personalities to give readers, listeners and viewers the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Such cosmic laggards offer an opportunity to study at close range how most other galaxies might have formed, long ago and far away.

They show, for example, that South Dakota ranked last in the race at 135.8 points, falling more than 100 points behind the next - closest laggard — Arizona, which scored 240.2 points.

More importantly, it is unfair to high - quality teachers, especially younger teachers, who don't get immediate reward for their performance, have to wait 20 years or more to reap the full benefits, may not get the full benefits if they leave the profession (which is possible in an age in which one can change careers at least three times during their working lives), and must deal with laggard colleagues being paid equal pay for less - than - stellar work.

Despite being home to an early online leader, Maynard - based Virtual High School, Massachusetts is a laggard when it comes to online learning — actually capping virtual school enrollments at 500 — and prompting protests from iNACOL.

Since not everything is meant to increase in price at the same time, some laggards may have justification.

The performance records of the five laggards will get buried along with their names, never to be mentioned again, at least publicly.

After nearly 3 years of launch, if i look at its performance, it stands out among the laggards with just 9 % annual return.

You can increase your stakes on the likely winners, and remove your bets from the laggards and fallers, at any time during the race.

The study found that Marriott Rewards topped the list with an average payback rate of 9.4 percent, followed by Hilton HHonors at 8.9 percent and IHG Rewards at 8.6 percent; Starwood's SPG was the laggard with a 6.1 percent payback rate.

When playing human opponents, those who fall to the rear are showered with the most useful power - ups — such that a leader, after executing a near - perfect race, can be pummelled with misfortunes of one sort or another until a laggard pips him at the post.

The world's 20 largest economies need to increase their 2030 climate commitments six-fold to keep within the two - degree warming curb agreed at the Paris summit, and Australia is among the worst laggards, a new global report argues.

At the APEC cocktail parties, the irony of the world's worst climate laggard claiming that the rest of the world was holding back its ambitious agenda would have drawn wry smiles and the odd guffaw.

There is a simple and incontrovertible test of whether Australia is a world leader or a world laggard: are we reducing, or at least slowing the growth, of our greenhouse gas emissions?

Laggards (look closely at the Innovation Adoption Curve; they're out there on the end of the bell curve) might find your thank you email a tad informal.

At the laggard end of the spectrum, the median house in Brownsville, Tex., took 122 days to sell, and in Myrtle Beach, S.C., it was 105 days.