Sentences with phrase «less success at»

This has also happened at least once or twice to fan fiction sites, although with less success at stamping out the practice which is not as purely derivative.

Unlike the more iconic 787B, the 767B saw less success at the track, failing to score an overall win in 27 events.

Not exact matches

At work, the link between an employee's day - to - day work and the success of the business can be less obvious but employees must understand the importance of their contribution to the success of their department and company as a whole.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

In Richard's case that began with the founding or co-founding 12 different businesses in less than a decade at Microsoft, including notable successes like Expedia and Carpoint.

While there are lots of potential ways we could help working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to focus less on the handful of women at the top — just 28 of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.

Skilled Agile teams record success rates twice those of unskilled teams.13 Scrum projects deployed through an experienced program management office report success rates of 93 %.14 Teams that are at least 95 % dedicated to their projects are nearly twice as productive as those that are less than 50 % dedicated.

Although the less disciplined change their tack in hopes of coaxing along a success, we at Harris Associates continue to look to the horizon and stay the course, even when the winds shift or the gusts blow.

No matter how good we are at what we do, or how many years we've been doing it, we all seek the elusive «better way» to accomplish our everyday tasks — new tools to explore, new techniques with which to experiment, new information to take into consideration — innovations are constantly emerging to help people do what they do in less time, with less wasted effort, and with greater success.

• The Kabuki dance between activist group outrage and administrative prostration at the University of Virginia and elsewhere suggests to me that the university has become less and less capable of addressing our culture's problems (and successes) in a serious way.

And the same process would, though somewhat later and with considerably less success, also overtake my own home town, as it would, at least superficially, just about every American city of more than minimal size.)

I can also imagine a scenario where we take a QB at 2 that ends up stinking and having 5 less 1st and 2nd round picks that could have helped whomever the QB is have more success.

The story behind Russia's vast success at Squaw Valley was the same as it had been at Cortina: a massive sports program enveloping schools and clubs and labor unions and the military service, state encouragement, frequent outright aid to the specially talented, a fierce desire on the part of the individual to triumph, less for himself or his organization than for Mother Russia.

I would rather spend some money on BT and watch games at home.Lucas will eave, Alexis is almost done and we get the Wonder from a league less competitive than the championship teams and all of you are looking forward for success.

What makes you think he would fail with all the riches at his disposal at City but be a success at arsenal with less funds if he is sacked.

we wont for many a year cos the reality is kroenkes model does nt require us to win the league, he still makes money, ivan only furthers that with his business acumen and arsene is great at working with less an still achieving moderate success.

Wilshere should have been move out from last season when his worth would have been a lot more, i think it would be wise for wilshere to look a less physical league at the moment to play some football, in this league it is highly unlikely he will regain any sort of form which would guarantee success in his future at arsenal.

Miranda stayed however and continues to prove his prowess at the back, with the Spanish champions» success coming less from individuals (note Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo) and more a collective effort.

My fellow gunners Wenger is a failure either you admit or not, though this is a preseason match which is less important just to make the players gain fitness, before the competitive matches commence, but at the same time Wenger's tactics and formation should be questioned especially against big teams, he had conceded numerous goals against big teams in which today's match is a reflection of what we are talking about, his old and out dated philosophy is no longer valid in modern football, no wonder Alexis Sanchez can't confide in his plans to propel the team in winning major honours, Wenger still believe in some of the bunch of fringe players he should have gotten rid of in the team and replace them with world class players or players that are hungry for success like Alexis, anyway there is still much time in the transfer window presently to do that, if he can change the hands of time and stop being too stubborn.

OK, 1 percent of the players (or less) will go on to success at the next level, but 99 percent of them will stop playing after high school because — wait for it — they're not that good.

It would certainly be harder to achieve the same level of success at a smaller club or a club with less to offer.

In terms of key tackles, Koscielny won 59 of his 85 attempted tackles, at the rate of 1.78 per game, 15 less than the 100 attempted by Alex Song, who led the club in terms of tackles, at a success rate of 73 %.

You must» nt forget when Alex Ferguson first took the helm at Man Utd he was dealing with players with lesser known credibility, but Moyes was taking over a bunch of superstars already moulded for greater achievements and success.

Moyes could never replicate the success Ferguson had and lasted less than a season at Old Trafford.

Just three teams have accrued less points on their own patch than Rangers (10 from a possible 36; W2 D4 L6), who have won one − a 3 - 1 success against rock - bottom Wigan − and lost three of their last four at Loftus Road, where they were beaten 2 - 1 by Wolves in their last home game.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

These conditions aren't typically treatable at home with any reassuring rate of success, and can be fatal in a whole lot less than 20 minutes.

You have an expert at your disposal, clarity with much less overwhelm, and a strong foundation for ongoing EC success.

French diplomacy has achieved some of its greatest successes less from its diplomats and politicians and more from its amatory pursuits — at least that is the claim of Nicolas Mietton in Une histoire érotique de la diplomatie (Payot).

By comparison, fewer than half of Obama's donors have maxed out, in part reflecting his campaign's success at building a broad base of online supporters who are giving less individually but more in the aggregate.

He said that while he's had success protecting his crops through the DEC - controlled nuisance permit program, he worries how much people's safety would be put at risk if less skilled hunters were given more access through reduced restrictions.

why is Labour against the working class and do not tell me the min wage is a great success it's not it's only at the same level as JSA, it's a disgrace in the world we have to day after gas electric and water people on JSA have to live on less then # 30 a week.

«It's always inspiring to see voters get behind the lesser known, less trendy candidate, but I have to say, after tonight's success, that won't be the case any longer,» said Johansson, standing next to Stringer at a venue better known for the Olsen twins and a tough door.

Less than 24 hours after their new party leader, Charles Kennedy, declared «I am not going to trim» in the battle to win the promised euro - referendum, disappointed activists at the Lib Dem conference in Harrogate admitted that the European parliament elections in June had been a success for the Eurosceptic campaign.

Because the beetles developed at more or less constant rates relative to temperature, Logan was able to describe the relationship between reproductive success and temperature as a series of mathematical formulas.

Scientists looked at modeled predictions of climate change and reproductive data from lesser prairie - chickens from 2001 - 2011 to determine how weather conditions affect reproductive success in the Southern High Plains.

Indeed, in his opinion, the best speech recognition systems are much less efficient than auditory system at best, there is a 92 % success rate compared to over 99.9 % for humans.

«However, we found that children with obesity who were rated as more impulsive prior to starting FBT had greater weight - loss success in the program compared to children with obesity who were rated as less impulsive,» added co-author Kelley Scholz, MSW, research supervisor at Seattle Children's Research Institute.

Now, the reality is that less than half of the people who make a New Year's fat loss resolution will be still on board by the six - month mark, and one study identifies the ultimate success rate at 8 %, which is well, pretty terrible.

The banana - fed group of patients actually saw success more than those who were medically treated with almost 60 percent of the patients being successfully treated while less than a quarter of the medically - treated patients were free of diarrhea at the final day of the studies.

The best introduction to long term success at weight loss can be found by viewing Jeff Novick's DVD... Calorie Density: how to eat more, weigh less etc and Doug Lisle's presentation available on YouTube... How to Lose weight without losing your mind.

A lot less easy — success stories notwithstanding (there will, of course, be some success stories for just about anything that occurs at the frequency and magnitude of online dating).

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The couple is played by none other than Anchorman «s very own Champ Kind David Koechner and Sara Paxton (who previously starred alongside Healy in Ti West's modestly successful The Innkeepers) and is a complete send - up of those possessing wealth... or at least how those of a lesser class often view them, as Ben Franklin - frittering fools; as socially - superior success stories.

Although not a major box - office success at the time (due to the fact that it had lesser - known, older performers), the subtle, sophisticated and serious film was critically - acclaimed.

The company recently has had mixed success as a distributor in their few short years of existence; «Limitless,» «Immortals» and «Act Of Valor» all performed well, «Machine Gun Preacher,» «The Raven» and «House At The End Of The Street» less so.

Their success at the box office made financial investors less fearful of including me in their movies.

The Comebacks has only a bit more success at parody than Date and Epic do, its jokes being less reliant upon sheer recognition factor.

After the stunning success of the first Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark, the follow up (and strangely, prequel) is far less impressive, blighted by pacing problems and clumsy attempts at humour.

As Logan continues to ride the wave of critical and commercial success (it has now passed the $ 500 million mark at the worldwide box office), director James Mangold had some brutally honest choice words for the less refreshing and not so ambitious tentpole releases.