Sentences with phrase «less than promising»

After a few weeks of job search, and less than promising results for jobs that he is well qualified for he seeks a second opinion.

After an ominous intro in which a nameless young woman is abducted from a nightclub and chained up in a flatbed truck, the film zeroes in on Sacramento newspaper reporter Brea (Paula Patton) on the eve of what seems a less than promising birthday weekend.

Should you think his next effort, the graphic novel - spawned I, Frankenstein, might be an improvement, notice that it's a Lionsgate release scheduled to open in January, a less than promising combination.

So naturally I decided to investigate the scientific evidence, but unfortunately the results for acne patients are less than promising.

The latest chapter in Canada's relations with our powerhouse business partner to the south appeared less than promising.

The campaign started after the National Employment Law Project released a 2009 survey showing that restaurant workers, grocery baggers, household cleaners and other low - wage workers complained their bosses paid them less than promised, if at all.

I definitely abandon sites sometimes when their offerings are much less than promised but there are some sites that I consistently revisit in my quest for naughty times.

There's mild diversion here and there but for a film that's billed as «sidesplitting», «hilarious», and «laugh - out - loud», that's much less than promised.

The Lens: Enhanced test monitoring at RSD charters likely will be less than promised http://bit.ly/1TeQ0Oo

They are always going to pay less than they promised, and if anything doesn't work out as smoothly and eazy for them, they will say, «we don't want to... do business with you, cause you don't make our life easy.»

This model comes with a 2.0 - liter four - banger with a meager 208 horsepower on tap — far less than that promised by the entry - level Stinger.

«Official announcement of a release date is nothing less than a promise to fans and business partners.

We're not known for making excuses, saying «no» or delivering less than we promise.

This is a list of POTENTIAL devices for Android Oreo — that's slightly less than a promise from the company.

Not exact matches

Any outfit promising a super-speedy turnaround will probably deliver less than optimum results.

The company promises assistance in less than a minute by phone or chat and in less than 30 minutes when you submit a help - desk ticket.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

Given that the average tenure of a CEO is far less than that, it risks looking like a leadership team making a promise that someone else is going to have to keep.

Panera actually made the promise less than a year prior to cut all artificial additives from the menu, but this represented an important and transparent step in getting the job done.

Despite rapidly accelerating revenue, the rate that Twitter added monthly active users slowed — less than 4 %, to 241 million, in its first quarter as a public company, and as low as 1.4 % in a recent quarter — worrying investors that Twitter might not be the mainstream product that its soaring valuation promised.

The Tampa Bay Times, for instance, reported that Kids Wish Network was spending less than 3 cents of every donated dollar on the children it promises to provide for.

Ellison promised to include a clause in its contracts that says it will cost less than half of what Amazon charges for the same service.

Just one day after Inc. covered the formal launch of Mosaic, a clean energy crowdfunding platform based in Oakland that connects investors with solar energy projects, the start - up has made good on its promise: In less than 24 hours, it hasalready funded four sustainable energy campaigns in California.

«It was less than a year ago that we revealed the Bolt EV concept and promised to deliver a long - range electric vehicle attainable by the masses,» GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said in a statement.

This is significantly less hawkish rhetoric than that of Trump himself, who has promised «fire and fury like the world has never seen» if North Korea issues further provocations.

The party's daycare pledge would bring less than one - sixth of its promised 370,000 new spaces by next spring.

* For employees it is a way to persuade current executives into getting pay raises in a way that hits the bonuses current executives, who are signing their employment contract, less than the bonuses of future executives and shareholders, who will have to pay those raises; hoping that future executives and shareholders will not renege on the promises of deferred compensation by previous ones.

Companies» promises are less reassuring than laws, she said: «If user privacy is going to be properly protected, the law has to require it.»

Before they were shut down, the ICO had raised nearly $ 15 million from thousands of investors since August by allegedly making false promises for a 13-fold profit in less than a month.

SAN FRANCISCO — In another sign of the turmoil sweeping Uber, the company's president of ride sharing has quit after less than a year on the job, following a string of scandals at the startup and CEO Travis Kalanick's promise to hire a new second - in - command.

As with any business venture, the promise of profits attracts some less - than - savoury characters.

Annual subscriptions equate to less than $ 2 per day, and we promise you will be satisfied.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2017 - 219 Washington D.C., Dec. 4, 2017 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it obtained an emergency asset freeze to halt a fast - moving Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraud that raised up to $ 15 million from thousands of investors since August by falsely promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month.

Meanwhile, business Liberals, perhaps including Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, will likely be pushing for less social spending than promised in the platform in order to balance the books on the original schedule.

Alibaba, the parent company of Alipay, made a strategic investment in Sina Weibo last year, with not only cash but also a promise of bringing in no less than $ 380 million worth of advertising revenue for Sina Weibo through displaying Taobao / Tmall items in the next three years.

If the NDP government is serious in their promise to meet the target, they will have to rely on more expensive regulatory policies to make up for the less stringent than recommended carbon tax.

The momentum drivers today — caution and risk aversion — may be less exciting than the promise of a new technology paradigm, but the consequent valuation disparity is roughly the same.

It makes sense and seems much healthier to accept reality and learn to cope with it, even when it's less pleasant than fairytales that make a lot of promises there is no reason to believe.

And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.

Does the promise of his rising again reflect anything less than the «definite plan and foreknowledge of God» (Acts 2:23)?

God is faithful, and he will never do less than he has promised.

If one lets the no - inherent - free - will interpretation of the less than 0.5 % of the Scriptures set the precedence on what the word of God says about man's free will, then a person is forced to do some absurd reasoning / interpretation of the majority of scriptures that imply that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts.

Therefore when I encounter the very few verses of Scripture text (approximately less than 0.5 % of the Scriptures) that on the surface possibly could be interpreted to contradict that majority precedence (man's inherent ability to accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts), I interpret them in light of this majority precedence (which can be easily done).

For me, any religious system that gives or promises to give peace of mind is idolatrous; the price we pay for «peace of mind» will be nothing less than the sacrifice of something basic to our own humanity.

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

Viewed in this light, we may see the birth and deaths of stars, the emergence of life, its moments of complexification, and the eventual rise of consciousness as sacramental evidence of revelation's promise no less significant than God's calling of Abraham and the prophets.

As to this history, it is less the experience of the change of everything than the tension created by the expectation of a fulfillment; history is itself hope of history, for each fulfillment is perceived as confirmation, pledge, and repetition of the promise.

Endorsing a man who publicly and privately promotes sexual promiscuity in hopes of reducing abortion is no less absurd than endorsing the candidate who promises increased access to abortion.

Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel» (7:14) Less familiar is its context: Isaiah has been pleading with King Ahaz to put his trust in God's promise to Israel rather than in alliances with strong military powers like Syria.

Revelation comes in the form of a divine promise which upon reflection turns out to be nothing less than God's own self - donation to the world.