Sentences with phrase «made years of failure»

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Woodside has made no secret of its dissatisfaction with Shell's failure to sell Australian LNG in recent years.

As my own company has grown, I've had to make continuous adjustments to strategy and approach every year based on business development successes and failures and a slew of other things I couldn't really plan for.

Fifty years ago company management could make a bunch of rules and put in place processes to develop a system wherein failure wasn't an option.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

Mr. Costolo, a wealthy former entrepreneur who has led Twitter for the last five years, had grown tired of second - guessing by Wall Street, with its focus on the social network's sluggish user growth and its repeated failures to make its products more appealing.

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The ultimate conclusion of that survey is stark: «59 % of last year's crowdsales are either confirmed failures or failures - in - the - making.»

You've seen the statistics that ominously warn of the failure rate within the first year of business, and while the stats don't necessarily tell the whole story, there's no doubt that making it through your first year is no cake walk.

There was no decision made years ago to use cheaper parts to cut costs, no arcane calculation of projected failure rates that turned out to be flawed, or wasn't sufficiently tested.

The failure to make the charges stick first time around, did not surprise many young Koreans; to them, this was another frustrating sign that they live in a culture of «elites but no leaders,» explained 28 - year - old recent law graduate, Kim Hae - il *, in an interview with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

At last year's annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett said that Wells Fargo had made three key mistakes, with the failure of former CEO John Stumpf to act quickly being the primary error among them.

I don't focus on my regrets or failures but on what I've done right, and that includes the family of friends I've made during my 50 years on this planet, not how well I worship God.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

For me they include drop - outs who have dropped back into life, students who were almost total failures in their first years of study who, given another chance, made good.

I find all this, after thinking about it for some seventy years, almost ludicrous in its begging of questions and failure to make coherent sense.

It seems strange that such statements should need an answer in the year in which Rolf Hochhuth's stinging play, The Deputy, has made painfully clear the moral failure of churches in Germany that neglected political issues and concentrated on spiritual and institutional questions.

After 9 years of failure to make bread at over 5000 feet altitude, this recipe / method is awesome!

So far all of the bread I have made which comes to 6 loaves in two years have been a failure except the last one.

I have heard some sections of our support angrily claim to «not care» what happens to our side this season, with certain individuals insisting that our failures this term would make sure Wenger leaves, with those people trying to justify their acceptance of a bad year.

The 22 year - old could make up for the failures of Granit Xhaka this season, and in my opinion, could potentially be our Kante.

As recounted in Craig Ryan's engrossing new biography of Piantanida, Magnificent Failure, the 33 - year - old New Jersey exotic - pet dealer was a benign hustler who as a teenage hoops hotshot had once outscored Wilt Chamberlain in a YMCA tournament and in 1957 had made the first ascent of the north face of Devil Mountain in Venezuela.

There is no doubt in my mind that the most disastrous decision we made during the past calendar year, up to and including the most eventful January transfer window in recent memory, was not the Sanchez debacle that saw him off to Old Trafford, which will forever be considered a failure of epic proportions, or the selling off of Ox to Liverpool following a thrashing less than a fortnight earlier, or even the triangular clusterf * ck that saw Giroud head to our crosstown rivals in the 11th hour, but the re-upping of our manager after another tumultuous and cringe - worthy campaign both on and off the pitch.

Payton's career hit bottom last season when he was held responsible for everything from the firing of coach Paul Westphal (one week after he and Payton had had a heated confrontation during a game) to the Sonics» failure to make the playoffs for the second time in three years.

Who in their right mind can argue with this comment of his — ``... By giving Arsene Wenger a new contract in the summer it was made clear to the players and the fans that failure to win the title over the last 13 years doesn't matter,».

Spanish international Soldado cost Tottenham a massive # 26m fee two years ago (via BBC Sport), brought in using the funds made from the sale of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid, and the 30 - year - old has proven a massive failure.

In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

The process of developing a title winning squad by buying one high cost component every year, run the risk of failure when the other players become disenchanted with the team along the way, especial if there is not any trophies, they will want to move on to ensure they win something of substance in the best years of their career, while this is being done other teams will be finding the individuals needed to make a proper title run, some will do this by buying the expensive players and others will scan the various leagues to get a proper reasonable option to fill their needs.

This year its the start of the season, last one was failure in the winter transfer martket which made us fail.

Finally, if it is true, as you state that Gazidis is now entirely responsible for incoming players and not Wenger, then just answer me why we pay Wenger the best part of # 9 million a year to just fail to coach us and just make public media excuses for his many failures?

He's NOT god he's NOT infallable, fine we are all only human but to deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wages.

No amount of positive thinking from fans will change that state of affairs and to think otherwise just allows the delusional one to make endless excuses for his own abject failure... And it's not all abou the money there is not one player I can honestly say has improved under wenger in the last 10 years... Fabregas was the last and he joined us 15 years ago!!!

So for me, not making 80 points, in how many years now, including the 7 years failing to make it past the round of 16 in the Champions league, plus completely missing the champions league this year, plus the 10 - 2 humiliation at Bayern, plus the way we sleepwalked through 5 away defeats, throwing away games that were in our complete control like Everton away for example, and so and so on, is nothing short of failure.

just think of the lineup we could have had if our management team had any foresight and changed their fiscal policies when they promised we could compete with any team in the world... instead we are a team that sells it's stars, let's it's top players rundown their contracts and doesn't properly produce and / or develop their young talent... remember when we played Bayern last year we had a higher weekly wage bill and yet they had Lewandowski, Vidal, Mueller, Ribery, Neuer, Lahm, Alonso among others in their lineup... if that doesn't open your eyes to the utter failure of those making soccer decsions, nothing will

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

Wilshere is a far more accomplished footballer... Ramsey scores more it's true but that is only important bcse of wenger's failure to bring in top quality attackers prior to Sanchez arrival... Carzola wilshere rotation makes sense this year before wilshere takes on that role full time next year

some fans will go an extra mile to defend Wenger even though everything is obvious that after 13 years of failure, he won't change and we should expect the repetition of previous seasons for next season as well, but they are happy with that as long as le - fraud is happily getting the fat paycheck and making every sort of excuses to defend his failures, they even defend the failures with him

This was supposed to be the year where Honda finally got things right, but a spate of failures during pre-season testing made it obvious that the team was in for yet another season filled with miserable Fernando Alonso team radio messages and a smorgasbord of hilariously over-the-top grid penalties.

Failure to strengthen at key times in either the summer or january is nothing short of brainless and ambitionless especially for a top team with champions league and premier league ambitions (sorry we are there to make up the numbers) Year after year we see either a striker midfielder or defender become injured and we lose momentum because either the board or Wenger see otherwiYear after year we see either a striker midfielder or defender become injured and we lose momentum because either the board or Wenger see otherwiyear we see either a striker midfielder or defender become injured and we lose momentum because either the board or Wenger see otherwise..

Doesn't on the face of it make any sense but neither does rewarding Westley's current failures with a 5 year contract.

After a bumbling few years of consistent failure, the West Ham job feels like a make - or - break opportunity for the Glaswegian.

She and Robbins cohabited and since just 10 percent of all cohabiting couples make it past five years (let alone that they're a Hollywood couple), they were anything but a failure to me; they raised their boys to adulthood.

It wasn't until two years later, when we got his diagnosis of fragile X, that his failure to latch on and global hypotonia made any sense.

Chojnacki said that septic system failures are running 15 percent to 20 percent higher than at this time last year because of rain - saturated ground that makes it difficult for liquid wastes to be carried away and absorbed by the below - ground septic field.

The preschool and early elementary school years are sometimes marred with exaggerated fears, odd anxieties, nightmares, night terrors, and other evidences of insecurity that can make the most confident of parents feel a combination of dismay, frustration, worry, and failure.

Sometimes, I felt that not making it to a year would be a mark of failure — as a mother, as a provider, and a caregiver.

This post really resonates with me, especially when you say, «It makes no sense to commit to a certain type of parenting before you see if the type of child you have would benefit from those parenting ideas»... I made this error & have spent the better part of a year feeling like a complete & utter failure because I couldn't get my daughter to «conform» to what the «experts» said she should or shouldn't be doing etc... it is only recently that I have taken a step back & learned that it's okay to take pieces of the miriad parenting options & use what works best for me & my daughter.

He will note that last year, the EU made tackling poverty in Africa a priority, but warn that many of its policies - in particular the failure to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP) of farm subsidies - are actually making poverty worse.

Mr Cameron is rightly proud of the fact that on May 7 he made the Tories re-electable after nearly 20 years of failure.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»