Sentences with phrase «less than a disaster»

It has shocked both critics and fans alike, and while it is palpable that Chelsea's EPL campaign was nothing less than a disaster this season, was it the right move to get rid of Jose Mourinho?

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Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

A couple of weeks after the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank, then Environment Minister Jim Prentice stated that «the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico shows that Canada's oilsands are less risky than offshore drilling.»

Anything less than 100 percent effort is a recipe for complete disaster.

If the disaster seems less than total to you, it is because you have failed to keep pace with the media, who have suddenly descended into one of their periodic fits of panic at the state of the economy — described in just the last 24 hours as «failing,» «dire,» «gloomy,» and «worsening,» not to mention teetering «on the edge of another downfall.»

It's been less than a year since United's mega PR - disaster, when a passenger was wrestled out of his seat and dragged, bleeding, down the aisle.

Although the state had a modest increase in its gas tax in 2017 — less than 1 cent per gallon — it is crude oil prices and natural disasters that determine pricing overall.

If something less than total disaster happens in most... areas, it stands to reason that the market should recover strongly.

Being in the health insurance industry is even better, as it is less prone to catastrophic claims payouts from natural disasters than the property and casualty business.

Christians are not less vulnerable to physical disasters (accidents, tornadoes, hurricans, earthquakes and such) than non-Christians.

Second, I'm perplexed because the things that move me to ask questions — disasters like the one in Haiti, religious pluralism, heaven and hell, science, poverty, injustice — don't seem to bother them like they bother me, and I (unfailry) wonder if it's because they are less compassionate or less intelligent than me.

When there is a momentary break in the course of these disasters, when abundance is known, when peace timidly establishes itself, when justice reigns for a span, then it is fitting, unless we are men of too little faith, that we should marvel and give thanks for so great a miracle, realizing that no less than the love and faithfulness of the Lord has been needed in order that there might be this privileged instant.

The inner tensions expressed themselves now less in the misery of depressive bouts than in bursts of furious anger and forecasts of disaster.

If you are fortunate that your kitchen was relatively unharmed and the business is closed for less than a full week due to a disaster, salaried - exempt employees receive their full week's salary if they performed any work during that week.

Anything less than a win over Crystal Palace at the Emirates will be a disaster and even at the halfway point of the season it would leave our Premier League title hopes in tatters.

Stadium debt needed to be paid off and less than 4th = disaster.

Basel 1 Manchester United 0 Disaster struck for Manchester United with less than a minute of normal time left when Michael Lang prodded home to claim -LRB-...)

got to youtube and search for formula for disaster and baby bottle death and see how the formula companies are working their magic in other countries less fortunate than ours!

A disaster nap is a nap that is less than 45 minutes in length.

That's thanks largely to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was the first to suggest additional disaster aid — remember that FEMA only has about $ 800 million on hand, which is less than even New York's estimated storm bill of $ 1 billion — be offset by other budget cuts.

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

What if tonight's European election results bring even greater disaster — say, less than 20 per cent for Labour?

The Government's new database of every child in Britain will not be «an IT disaster» and will cost far less than has been suggested, Children's Minister Margaret Hodge said today.

FEMA Press Release New York State and federal officials remind those affected by Hurricane Sandy that they have less than 30 days to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for possible federal disaster assistance.

He added that he's «shocked» and «flabberghasted» that the four other boroughs, which suffered significantly less damage than Brooklyn, qualified for disaster aid.

Natural disasters like storms or floods cause less people to migrate than rising temperatures, new research suggests

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

Worldwide, disasters have doubled in 30 years, from less than 400 in 1980 to 950 last year.

Disaster management teams had less than 72 hours to make decisions that would affect millions.

The invasion has been a disaster for beekeepers: Africanized bees require more careful handling and produce less honey than bees of pure European stock.

Crouch said that the mild winter and lack of snow in much of the eastern U.S. makes the flood outlook for 2012 far less ominous than last year, when floods caused billions of dollars in damage and accounted for two of 2011's billion - dollar disasters.

Researchers found that people with more intense reactions were more likely to accept mental health referrals than those with less intense reactions to a disaster.

Firefighters who responded in the first two days of the World Trade Center disaster and those who worked at the site for six months or longer are more likely to need sinus surgery than firefighters whose exposure to the site's caustic dust was less intense or shorter term, according to new research published in the American Thoracic Society journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

«Sequestration levels are nothing less really than a disaster across the federal government,» he continued.

Stunning corollary: the oft - stated goal to keep global warming less than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is a recipe for global disaster, not salvation.

Especially since the disaster at Fukishima, many people suspect seafood of being less than healthy and can't help but wonder what contaminants might be hidden in seafood.

The end result is nothing less than a nutritional disaster, evidenced by some of the most popular foods eaten by Americans on a daily basis.

The recipe for disaster comes when an athlete has less than adequate health as reflected by hormone imbalance and poor sodium regulation; and then, if the athlete is encouraged to drink large amounts of fluids during an event, overhydration can occur along with hyponatremia.

Mostly my room is still a disaster and I'm still the less - than - proud - owner of piles of garbage.

Thanks to my disaster of a craft room and craft supply hoarding, this pink roses wreath only costs me less than $ 10 to make.

The tetchy band of thirtysomethings» interpersonal problems are infinitely less compelling than the mysterious and original global disaster the filmmakers have devised.

Other characters are rendered less convincingly than their real - life counterparts, with an assortment of fake - looking dye jobs, wigs and facial hair that make the cast of «The Disaster Artist» seem, incongruously, less real than the characters in «The Room.»

Hirsch, with his face rendered into a Technocolor ™ disaster is somehow less disturbing than the genuine liking for Hirsch by the man responsible.

The war on drugs escalates to war under President and former ghostbuster Ernie Hudson in the 1999 straight - to - video Ice - T vehicle Stealth Fighter (less a disaster film than a disaster).

Contrary to the fact the ambitious animation studio is consistently held to a higher standard than the likes of DreamWorks, Blue Sky, Fox and Warner Bros. (to name a few), such an impressive track record has earned it the luxury of being able to crank out the occasional less - ambitious production without fearing a major media storm in which words like «disaster,» «major setback» or «uninspired» could comprise the headlines of the day.

We may be in the minority on this, considering the warm reception that has greeted the film at festival screenings, but The Disaster Artist struck us as less a movie than an over-extended Funny Or Die skit packed with celebrity cameos — which is to say, it makes little sense if you haven't already seen The Room.

But The AV Club, reviewing off of the Toronto cut of the film (The Disaster Artist premiered at SXSW as a «Work in Progress»), was less than impressed, saying it's «just barely a movie.»

Thankfully, audiences also seemed to have enough of Jason Friedman and Aaron Seltzer (Vampires Suck, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie) notoriously lazy brand of comedy as when The Starving Games opened last month (November 8) it made less than $ 10,000 and barely saw ten theaters.

IGN can't give less than zero stars for a movie, but Disaster Movie deserves it.

In the past, even his lesser efforts have usually contained some element to make them worth considering — even a disaster like «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion» featured that hilarious supporting turn by Charlize Theron as a femme fatale for the ages — but other than Vittorio Storaro's reliably stunning cinematography, there is nothing alone those lines here.