Sentences with phrase «lead performances of the year»

In Mommy, Anne Dorval delivers one of the best lead performances of the year as a mother struggling to care for and understand her violent son amidst the more common struggles that lower - middle class families face.

Assisted with a synth score straight out of the»80s, and led by one of the best lead performances of the year (Michael C. Hall), Mickle's film swerves from left to right, going from one dastardly deed to another.

Not exact matches

While the GGEI is recognized as a leading international measure of the green economic performance of many countries, researchers at Yale (who also produce their own green country ranking each year) have criticized it for having limited geographic coverage.

When it came time to reward top executives last year, more leading companies handed out performance - based awards instead of time - vesting stock options, according to a new study from human resources consulting firm Mercer.

This year's field of Best Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.

To ensure performance in complex sales processes, LeadBot 2.0 leverages more than two years of learnings across thousands of lead interactions to master skills like conversation routing, intelligent targeting, team availability, and a ton more.

With almost 20 years of experience in shareholder advocacy, Jonas is responsible for leading and coordinating Trillium's extensive advocacy program, which works to engage companies on their environmental and social performance.

This big pop leads to a few years of undistinguished performance and investor impatience — where the manager may very well be doing exactly what their fund is supposed to and what their process requires — but to the casual buyer, none of that matters.

Meanwhile, suppliers» lead - times lengthened again in June, which marked two years of worsening vendor performance.

As for Elanco, it turned in less - than - stellar performance in the third quarter of last year, reviving questions about whether Lilly might spin off what has long been a leading player in animal health.

Following years of operational stagnation, substandard share price performance and all but negligible change to key oversight functions, Ultratech now faces a contested campaign led by Neuberger Berman LLC, a well - known, but generally passive investment manager.

Professionals rarely do so well over 50 years that their decisions about when to get in and out of a stock lead to better performance than they might have achieved by just putting money into an index fund that buys every stock in a particular category.

Momentum and growth stocks were in favor this year, and that helped the Validea Momentum and Small - Cap growth investor portfolios lead the pack in terms of relative performance.

Over a 14 - year period, Mr. Moysiuk led the creation and development of a significant institutional private equity business and portfolio, which generated exceptional investment performance.

Mohamed Ali Beyhum, executive general manager of BankMed, a leading bank in Lebanon, says: «Despite a relatively weak year for global economic conditions and another discouraging performance for the global investment banking industry, which saw revenues fall to a three - year low, 2012 proved to be a relatively healthy year for the Middle East investment banking industry.»

«Emerging markets hedge fund performance has surged in recent months, led by funds with exposures to Latin America and Russia, driving the strongest monthly performance gains in over a decade, as commodities and regional equities recovered from steep early year losses,» stated Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR.

This new development will build on the business» strong performance in the hospitality sector, where it currently supplies four million pieces of mochi a year to leading Japanese restaurants.

The onetime face of the franchise has seen that surgically repaired joint diminish his performance at third base, leading to 15 throwing errors last year and a period early in the season when he struggled just to get the ball across the diamond.

But they couldn't, as the favorite, Riva Ridge, led the herd of horses in the Kentucky Derby round the circle in a dizzying wire - to - wire performance, the likes of which has not been seen in years

There have been plenty of managerial changes at top clubs around the league and most of them have led to lower performance, not better, the only exception being Conte's Chelsea, whom Arsenal have beat in 3/4 of the last competitive encounters in the last year.

At the top we mentioned how last year's Runners - Up were Freshmen (aka 2017's DKE SO squad) and under the same house as this current Freshmen crew led by Ben Wellek... In the many debut performances we've seen out of Freshmen, very few have been as impressive as theirs..

This will be Peter's 2nd trip to a World University Championships after he travelled to Spain two years ago after a run of performances including 3rd in the Senior British Championships and 3rd in the BUCS Championships which led to his selection.

Led by a supercharged performance by SEC Player of the Year candidate Terrence Jones, who finished with 27 points, nine rebounds, three blocks, two steals and no turnovers, the Wildcats dominated early and only kept extending their lead.

Players who aren't ranked as high by these groups tend also not to be picked as high in the preseason, but keep in mind that at the end of the season those that lead teams to titles, those that come through with record - breaking performances and those that are selected as various players of the year by a newspaper will often then rise above.

Barring injury, a horrid spring training performance, or the arrival of the Unarian Space Brothers, Matt Cain will open 2006 in the Giants rotation, and will be a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year.

The 24 - year - old has reportedly attracted the attention of several leading clubs across Europe after his strong performances for the Foxes in the first half of the season, including a goal an an assist in Monday's 2 - 1 victory over champions Chelsea.

Upon joining Southampton in 2013, Mauricio Pochettino, one of the brightest managers to emerge in recent years, conducted a vigorous and holistic investigation into the football club; the result of which led to a number of changes that improved performances to new heights.

The 22 - year - old had been offered to other English clubs, but the improvement in his performances coupled with the cost of recruiting Alex Sandro in the current window has led United to consider an alternative strategy of retaining Shaw while adding a younger deputy such as Tierney or Sessegnon.

«This kind of performance does not win Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox Jewish, Tea Party or other conservative voters to the Republican Party, and has led to some of the splits the party has seen in recent years in the 23rd Congressional District, the 2010 gubernatorial race and most recently the 26th Congressional District.»

Mr Blair gave a polished performance at his appearance before the committee earlier this year, insisting that his decisions in the lead - up to the 2003 invasion was based on the soundest intelligence possible that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

The dichotomy between the two leading candidates for album of the year was dramatically underlined by their performances.

Reputed for its superior financial performance and best in - class product and service delivery, the bank has received numerous awards from industry watchers and analysts, among these are the «Best Banking Group of 2015, Nigeria,» by the World Finance Magazine and the 2015 Bank of the Year by leading international investment and communications group, Africa Investor (Ai).

The discovery of PFOA in the Hoosick Falls water supply two years ago led New York officials in January to declare the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant in that village a state Superfund site.

But this year a combination of an IMF bailout programme, a US$ 1.8 billion cocoa syndicated loan, a US$ 750 million Eurobond and the central bank's tightening of the monetary policy has led to the cedi recording one of its best performances in recent years.

One tumultuous year on, May's failed gamble of a snap general election left her leading a minority government dependent upon the DUP, whereas a better than expected performance means that Corbyn looks like leading Labour for the foreseeable future.

Beginning July 6, Elia will lead a state education system that has overseen several years of contested reforms around teacher performance, learning standards and student testing.

One of these contacts led to my involvement in a 3 - year investigation of the performance differences in wood and metal bats, including development of a 3D computer simulation to study bat performance.

His picks (posted on www.egrandslam.com) have led to positive results for 9 of the 13 years (counting 2013 positive performance).

Despite a lack of symptoms, more than half of the children experienced stunted growth in the first two years of life, leading to irreversible damage and contributing to poor cognitive development, poor educational performance and reduced earning potential in adulthood, trapping individuals in a lifetime of poverty.

«There are some fascinating projects of how to reduce costs, improve performance and really get the technological lead over where the rest of the world is,» Majumdar said in an interview last year.

«While Lisfranc injuries have a reputation for resulting in poor player performance in the NFL, our study is the first to fully assess their career impact, including effect on athletic performance following return to competition,» said lead author Kevin J. McHale, MD, a fifth - year orthopedic resident at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The biomechanics of the back squat have been reviewed countless times over recent years (O'Shea, 1985; Chandler and Stone, 1991; Neitzel and Davies, 2000; Escamilla, 2001c; Schoenfeld, 2010; Clark et al. 2012), leading to a range of suggestions regarding performance, and various recommendations have been made for correct or optimal technique (Carter et al. 2013; Myer et al. 2014).

I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....

Even this was an offbeat lead role and unfortunately, as a result of a lawsuit, The Ghost Ship (and with it Knaggs» most interesting and fully realized screen performance) was withdrawn from distribution soon after release in 1944 and suppressed for 50 years, until the mid -»90s.

Other enjoyable performances back Sandler's up: Emmanuelle Chriqui is a charming leading lady; Lainie Kazan's crack comic timing put me in mind of her uproarious portrayal of the ultimate Jewish mom in 1982's My Favorite Year (and she doesn't look like she's aged a day since); as two of the Zohan's old foes, John Turturro is amusing (even if he's in danger of becoming this decade's answer to Vito Scotti if he takes on too many more ethnic roles), while Sandler's longtime buddy and perpetual hanger - on Rob Schneider for once DOES N'T make you want to tear out either his hair or your own.

It certainly helps that he has one of the finest casts I've seen so far this year, headlined by three tremendous performances from the leading triumvirate.

I can't say it's either lead actor's best comedic performance, but it is by far one of the better comedies you will see this year.

Eddie Redmayne, who was the toast of the awards season last year for his role in The Theory of Everything, also received a SAG nomination this morning for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, and responded with his own reaction to the news:

It's been over a year since we heard about Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film from Daniel Algrant (director of People I Know and some «Sex and the City»), that would follow the true story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's breakthrough 1991 performance at his father's tribute concert at St. Ann's Church.

Best Actor: There was an embarrassment of riches in lead male performances this year at Sundance, with the best of them collectively worthy of Oscar's entire best actor lineup in itself.