Sentences with phrase «lukewarm response in»

Fast forward to 2012, it was Mercedes - Benz which seemed to be trying their luck with the launch of the B - Class, another premium hatchback which was expected to get a lukewarm response in the Indian market.

Despite Mr. Lander and Ms. Chin's calls for «bag fees by Earth Day» last month, the bill has failed to gain traction in the Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio gave it at best a lukewarm response in his anti-trash OneNYC plan.

Samsung, LG, Motorola and other tech giants have all introduced watches of their own to a somewhat lukewarm response in recent years, but the Apple Watch — given the company's unique ubiquity — holds potential for widespread adoption of the wearables category.

Not exact matches

The administration's response also comes as it weathers additional criticism for what some have characterized as a lukewarm response to the nerve agent attack on the former spy Sergei Skripal in the UK.

But the public response has been more lukewarm, particularly in cities where rising housing costs have already led to concerns about affordability and gentrification.

God, speaking in Isaiah of all the new things that are about to spring forth, gets a lukewarm response.

If the oldline churches are lukewarm in terms of intensity of conviction, can they really be doing even relatively well when it comes to such signs of vitality as societal engagement and response to external challenge?

It highlighted the amateurishness of the government response to the floods, despite the lukewarm write - ups Cameron received in some sections of the press this morning.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) gave a lukewarm response to proposals spearheaded by health secretary Andrew Lansley in the white paper published this summer.

Hein is an interesting one to watch, given that he's calling on the state to pick up the local share of costs from damage, a move that's received a lukewarm from response so far from the governor (Cuomo has said he's doing everything he can to get federal aid, but everyone's going to have to pitch in on the effort).

Darwin was a bit anxious, as the response to Origin of Species had been lukewarm in Germany, so he invited the biologist and his «bulldog» Thomas Henry Huxley as a third wheel — if there was some kind of confrontation, he could defuse it.

While HERO received a lukewarm response from both press and public, UNFORGIVEN — written in 1976 when Peoples was an unknown quantity — was a critical and commercial smash.

Faithful readers may note my response to the 2016 Deadpool was a receptive but not entirely impressed lukewarm and for audiences who just couldn't catch on to the verbose nastiness of that film, there is no conversion therapy awaiting you in the sequel.

What's surprising in a new survey published today by 50CAN, a reform - oriented advocacy group that supports more rigorous teacher evaluations and early education, is the relatively lukewarm response to some of the most favored ideas for improving the school system among education advocates and many elected officials.

The initial response from public school advocates has been lukewarm to the overall House plan, although some K - 12 leaders have complimented a House proposal to spend an additional $ 11.3 million each year on students with disabilities and relaunch a GOP - axed Teaching Fellows program that provides university scholarships in exchange for a commitment to teach in North Carolina.

Microsoft has been desperately trying to make a mark in the fast evolving tablet PC segment, though consumer response to its currently available Windows 7 has been lukewarm at best.

The tablet has been selling really well off late which is in stark contrast to the lukewarm response that the PlayBook had earlier met with.

The first tablet issued by HP received a lukewarm response by the media and experienced lackluster sales in the retail sphere.

Response to it has been a little lukewarm in the comments, but there's no doubt that the Sony Xperia Tablet Z is one of the most aesthetically stunning Android tablets we've ever laid hands on — and it's water - resistant, to boot.

Square Enix's effort to bring current - gen cinematics to its mobile line - up saw a lukewarm response when it first launched in 2015.

Recommended reading Rachel Whiteread's retrospective at Tate Britain opened this week to glowing reviews in the Guardian and the Times (#); acclaim with some reservations at the Telegraph; and a lukewarm response from the Independent.

Critics were seldom lukewarm in their response to her.

It's also important to note that those measures of lukewarm support for cap and trade were in response to a question that provided respondents with an explanation of what the policy was and how it would work.

Why we have had such a lukewarm response from world leaders in re: to CC is because they were looking to America for leadership and found «absolutely nothing».

The other difficulty is that the people who were «lukewarm» in their predictions of probable response of the climate to GHGs predate the coining of the term.

An earlier TANGEDCO tender issued late in 2016 was met with a lukewarm response by developers due to mounting problems in the state concerning late payments and curtailment.

The Chevy Tahoe hybrid may have won the Green Car of the Year award, and the Chicago Police is considering a switch to the vehicle for policing duties, but the response from the general public has been lukewarm at best: «G.M. has sold [only] about 1,100 of its Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon hybrids since their introduction in January,» which is» well behind its goal of 12,000 sales a year, and a fraction of the more than 100,000 hybrids sold so far in the United States this year.»

Last month, a $ 1.8 million suit was filed by a well - known special effects company in the car industry, and FF received a lukewarm response to a reveal presentation at the CES conference in Las Vegas for its first production vehicle.

LG will tackle the lukewarm market response in the high - end handset market in the same regard.»

In late 2009, it released the GI series of gaming headphones, which were met with a lukewarm response at best.