Sentences with phrase «less successful year»

Case in point: A big U.S. equity overweight has been less successful year - to - date, given the recent pullback in U.S. equities and particularly strong performance from Europe and Japan.

Not exact matches

Fifty - six - year - old Amie Crawford, who graduated with an associate's degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and had a successful 30 - year career as an interior designer, never thought she'd be in a job where the average take - home pay was less than a fifth of what she had made before.

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

Supporting Thames Valley companies 21 years on The world's most successful growth market and home to no less than 63 Thames Valley - based companies, AIM turned 21 in June.

For instance, in 1993... MUSLIMS tried to topple the WTC and «only» SIX were KILLED... then less than 10 years later on 9/11/01, these jihadists were successful!

The 3 categories are: Born Globals (companies who have started less than 5 years ago and are already internationally successful), companies with less than 50 employees and companies with more than 50 employees.

My goal this year was to be less busy and more contemplative, but I haven't been very successful.

Red Bull has never hesitated to say that the Renau - sorry, «Tag Heuer» engines aren't good enough (even during the successful years) and it seems that Renault couldn't care less about whether it supplies the team in the future.

If you believe that the likes of Liverpool and Spurs, who have been far far less successful than us over recent years, receive anything like the criticism, ridicule and down right abuse that we do, then I'm afraid I've missed it.

The 20 year old has netted 14 Premier League goals despite making just 18 starts, perhaps most importantly he has outscored any of his Chelsea team - mates and has done so at a «lesser» side and one wonders if this successful spell will lead to a recall to the Blues first team next term.

Arsenal have had their most successful pre-season for 10 years, winning every single game and even beating the defending Champions Chelsea at Wembley, so it was nothing less than a shock to watch West Ham outplay us at the Emirates yesterday.

These players were in a team coached by THE most successful side (s) in British Football History.Their Manager DEMANDED and EXPECTED nothing less than TOTAL SUCESS.His players had drummed into them that nothing but winning would be acceptable.It was common to hear of all Manure players taking control of their team and with this brought years of domination of the EPL and contention in the CL on a regular basis.

This would undoubtedly be a big call from the Gunners if they came to that decision, with the Frenchman at the club for 22 years and still set to go down in history as their most successful of all time, despite less silverware in the second half of his reign than the first.

Whether it's Gazidis making ridiculous claims about our supposedly successful transfer window, even going so far as to suggest that everything went according to plann, or it's Wenger having the audacity to speak about taking a much more proactive approach to the re-signing of players with less than 2 years left on their current deals; which on it's own is a nothing story, it's football management 101, but let's not forget just a few weeks ago he was proudly championing his «ingenious» plan of having his best players playing in the last year of their respective contracts.

Remarkably, City striker Sergio Aguero is only in the PFA Team of the Year for the first time in his long and successful Etihad Stadium career, despite this arguably being one of his less impressive seasons.

Keeping Giroud on this squad with the promise of substantial playing time... the offensive tactics of this squad is way too indirect and is much more reflective of a hold up play / cross in the box scheme that suits Giroud's skill - sets but can't continue if Wenger really wants Lacazette to be successful... without Sanchez on the pitch this offence is a little bit like a headless chicken, passing sideways, providing relatively poor service to undersized players and sub-par finishing... this isn't to suggest that Arsenal can't perform without Alexis but this offensive scheme is antiquated and ill - advised, especially considering our personnel (poor man's Barca)... if Arsenal doesn't want to pay the price to get topnotch players so we can press high and play all out attack, we would be better served by adopting a counterattack approach... unfortunately that would mean developing a far less skittish defensive group that could withstand the pressure and we all know that Wenger hasn't opted for that approach considering our defensive pickups in recent years and the lack of a «boss» in the midfield

With the exception of last weekend's rout by Arsenal the performances against Tottenham, Manchester United and Liverpool have been generally acceptable and, in many ways, were similar (but with less successful outcomes) to games against the «top» sides last year.

Trust is the bedrock of a successful marriage, and now, as we spend physically less time together, it can breed mistrust over the years.

Mr Cameron added that his children, who also include two - year - old daughter Nancy and new baby Arthur Elwen, «couldn't care less» whether he became Britain's premier and stressed that a «successful dad» was one who spent time with his offspring.

Over the years, as Matilda Raffa Cuomo became known as a key player in her husband's successful political career, a rift developed between her and her lesser - known brother Sam, a Republican, who is now a deputy county attorney in Nassau.

Low - income housing initiatives that Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced nearly five years ago have been less successful than the administration hoped, according to an analysis...

Nonetheless, given the remarkable increase in the participation of young people in higher education that has taken place over the last 20 years, the brief analysis presented here reveals little evidence that the much vaunted policy ambition - to provide better access to higher education to those from less privileged backgrounds - has been successful.»

Further executing on his grand plan, his first date with Kerry Kennedy is a tour of one of his low - income complexes not far from the housing project (less successful than Andrew's own) started by her father in Bedford - Stuyvesant twenty years before.

He said the maximum sentence if the government is successful is 20 years and prison and a $ 250,000 fine but under federal sentencing guidelines it would likely be substantially less than that.

A dirty bomb — radioactive material by a conventional explosive — «is much less of a problem to detonate and if successful would render a large swath of a big city uninhabitable for years,» he says.

NIH officials say this analysis began a few years ago after they became concerned that minority scientists appeared to be less successful in winning grants.

Moreover, the integral «Assured Challenging Employment» guarantees them a job in Singapore upon successful completion of their postdoctoral training — returning AGS PhDs are committed to work in A * STAR's Research Institutes for not less than 3 years.

You should stay current in your flirting; attempting to connect with a potential date over last year's movies is far less successful than talking about movies that are of the moment.

Culkin joined the cast of Lymelite in 2008 to portray the 15 - year - old neighbor of a man suffering from Lyme disease, and took a supporting role in the less than successful Scream 4 in 2011.

You could have referred to him as an Oscar nominee; a Shakespearean thespian; a solid supporting presence in prestige films like 12 Years a Slave (to jog your memory: he was the one who was not Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt or Chiwetel Ejiofor); someone who has graced successful great - man biopics and and less - than - successful versions of the same; a sex symbol; and the third - greatest Sherlock Holmes of all time.

Four years on from Fifty Shades Of Grey and the height of Fifty Shades mania, and one year after the much less successful Fifty Shades Darker comes the final part of the film trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed.

In some respects, where last year's The Force Awakens excelled, Rogue One is slightly less successful.

This strategy arguably began with the successful revival the World War II epic in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998), and the following year they tried (with considerably less success) to bring back the spectacle of the haunted house with Jan De Bont's The Haunting (1999).

Following a domestic theatrical run more successful than any other non-IMAX limited release movie this year, which still earned less than half of the movie's substantial reported production budget, Tree of Life recently made its home video debut exclusively in a Blu - ray + DVD + Digital Copy combo pack from Fox.

It's even possible to read it as a critique of the Reagan administration along the lines of Dan O'Bannon's less - successful The Return of the Living Dead from two years earlier — locating as it does a pair of sweater - and - ascot yuppies (Sarah Berry and Richard Domeier) to play against the aforementioned hicks (Dan Hicks and Kassie Wesley), with blue - collar folk represented by our Ash and Linda.

The success of The Avengers might make the ensemble superhero film seem like a sure bet, but that movie benefited immensely from years of successful films like Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and to a lesser extent, The Hulk.

The direct - managed schools were generally less successful than those operated under charters, and the RSD has massively shifted toward the charter option in recent years.

Moreover, the other handful of studies that lasted for four years might only have done so because they were relatively successful, so that the less successful ones are omitted.

The success of your school year will depend less on the beauty of your bulletin boards than on the structure you put in place to support successful academic performance and positive thinking and behavior.

Further, a preliminary evaluation of the BTR from 2012 showed that in their early years of teaching, BTR graduates are less successful in raising test scores than other novice teachers.

I would further resign myself to concluding that 17 - year - olds across all three major racial sub-groups have shown little to no improvement in terms of NAEP scores over the last 30 + years, which suggests that public high schools are not doing a more effective job with a student population that has, over time, come to school less - prepared to be academically successful.

For those who have been teaching for less than five years, Berliner explained the system would be deficit oriented so that they can learn the skills needed to be successful.

And it's important to note that at any time during those four years local school administrators have the authority to relieve the less successful teachers of their jobs.

Why should they be sacrificed just because their less - successful colleague has more years within the district?

If successful, the EPA estimates that when manufactured in volume, the added costs of the hybrid components should be recouped in less than three years through lower fuel and brake maintenance costs.

The surgeries, of course, were not always successful — if a patient's problem had been so easy to fix, it would have been corrected by lesser doctors years ago.

The Joy of Less had sold 70,000 copies in just over 4 years by the time I took it on, so clearly Francine had created an incredibly successful and powerful book on her own.

In an account better than spy fiction, Jennet Conant shows Dahl progressing from reluctant diplomat to sly man - about - town, parlaying his morale - boosting wartime propaganda work into a successful career as an author, which leads to his entrée into the Roosevelt White House and Hyde Park and initiation into British intelligence's elite dirty tricks squad, all in less than three years.

THE BOOKSELLERS» CHOICE In less than three years since the company was founded, Kobo has developed a successful turnkey solution that enables a wide variety of retailers — both large and small — to capitalize on the eReading growth occurring around the world.

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