Sentences with phrase «more pointed performance»

The RS5 uses its own special electronic stability control software, given both the higher grip level of the car and the more pointed performance mission.

Not exact matches

Sagan won the green jersey for points at last summer's Tour de France and followed it up with an even more impressive performance at the Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia, which he won in crafty fashion — surging on an uphill cobblestone section and never looking back.

We scored Trump and Clinton based on the performance of these indicators, awarding more points for stronger correlations to the candidates» actions.

According to a 2013 survey of more than 22,000 business executives by the Katzenbach Center at Strategy &, most leaders understand the key point I just mentioned — that culture plays a critical role in achieving great financial performance - and successfully leading and managing change.

Some businesses reporting more - favourable terms linked this development to greater competition among banks, while others pointed to firm - specific factors such as their own stronger performance.

We saw a lift in performance of almost seven full points per store and we believe there is more upside.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

These positive earnings drivers were more than offset by the combined impact of several factors, including increased energy - related provisions for credit losses, a 17 basis point decline in net interest margin, moderate growth of non-interest expenses, the addition of acquisition - related contingent consideration fair value changes reflecting performance within CWB Maxium Financial (CWB Maxium), higher preferred share dividends, and the 20 % increase to CWB's income tax rate in Alberta.

I think most investors would be wise to take a more conservative posture at this point, and be willing to give up some upside for a while... just depends on how much relative performance risk you can stomach.

Making their approach from the functional point of view they tried to discover how ministers defined their more important objectives, how they rated the relative importance of their various tasks and how they divided their time in the performance of their duties.

Point Loma University's Writer's Symposium By the Sea — San Diego, CA When: Monday, February 27, 7 p.m. Where: Crill Performance Hall What: Interview More Info

Well i would suppose he is tapping up, but is if arsenal is going to sell to Bayern, i think not, My point is if sanchez wants to leave let him leave, to keep him would do more harm than good and for me although many blame the manager, i feel one the main reason we got into a slump last season was Alex and Ozil, their negativity affected the performance of the weak minded players in our squad.

WKU didn't allow more than 23 points in a game in any of its first six contests and produced an average percentile rating of 74 percent (equivalent to a top - 35 performance).

Whether Wenger is capable of achieving more, or not, will be decided by our performance and desire for the rest of the season, I know we all have misgivings, but we are at a point of «no return» in the season whereby we can not sign new players or sack Wenger because it would throw the club into chaos.

The two teams sides have had identical starts when it comes to results — seven points from two wins, a draw and a loss — but more than that, have shared a general sense of inadequacy in performance.

He closed the year by scoring 30 or more in nine of his final 10 games, including a 44 - point performance against reigning league champion Georgia Stars.

Barlow had 29 points in one of the more memorable Regular Season performances we've had in any league in 2016.

In its two previous games California had romped for 105 points and more than 1,200 yards, its most explosive performances since the Wonder Team of 1920.

The league leaders stretch the gap at the top to 10 points with Manchester United failing in their attempts to make the title race a little more interesting following Chelsea's resolute defensive performance.

In fact that last time Arsenal picked up more than three points was in 2011, when Arsenal beat Chelsea 5 - 3 at the Bridge and even then the performance wasn't an entirely comfortable sitting.

He then was asked what we need to do in order to challenge and he said be more regular with our performance levels and beat the smaller teams we often dropped points against.

If it had not been for the wastefulness of their centre forward Edinson Cavani yet again we would have got what our poor performance deserved and it is the nature of our recent games that has me more worried than the six points dropped in the last three games.

Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp is desperate to see the visitors go for it and not produce a repeat performance of the goalless draw with Liverpool on Monday night, as he believes that there is enough talent and pride within the club to do more than just sit back and be happy with a point.

I can understand why the life has gone out of our performances but there are 15 more points to play for and we might need a lot of them to stay in the top four.

After Arsenal lost to Chelsea on Sunday, despite a much more spirited performance from us, it meant that the Blues had dropped just two points, in a tough away game at Man City, from their opening seven games in the Premier League season.

Hamilton is averaging more than 23 points per game and has saved some of his best performances for the playoffs, scoring 31 points in a regional semifinal win over Harvard - Westlake - North Hollywood.

A good performance against Arsenal looked set to be wasted after yet more careless defending, but a late Martin Skrtl header saved a point and gave the side a huge boost heading into a vital run of three winnable Christmas games.

A fair point and a more determined combative performance than last year.

Anyway, COYG let's get these three points but more importantly put in title contending performance.

It's hard to tell which was more symbolic of the Wildcats» disarray: freshman guard Alex Legion's decision (and apparent reconsideration) last week to transfer, or that anemic offensive performance in a 19 - point loss to Eric Gordon — less Indiana last Saturday.

Mesut Ozil put in one of his best performances in an Arsenal shirt, and with five different players getting on the scoresheet, Wenger will be delighted with more than the three points.

One more win and on paper one could be mistaken for believing that this season was only slightly behind the previous one; yet performances, points and goal difference tell a vastly different story.

Redshirt freshman Alex Hornibrook's performance was great (more on that in my Game Ball answer), but four takeaways led to 13 points — both touchdowns — and really altered momentum in the game.

«It was a fine performance from the whole team and we got three very important points, which are more important than the goals.»

This post is less focused on providing a match report and more focusing on the key points of the game so it is definitely worth touching on Ozil's performance.

A clear winner in 2013 with a margin of more than 100 points, his performances were even more impressive in 2014 with a demoralising 120 points advantage to claim the Top Goalkeeper Award.

Mark Hughes will hope his team can build on a positive performance in the remaining clashes against Chelsea, Leicester, Bournemouth, Everton, Swansea and Manchester City, although their task was made even more difficult by West Ham's surprise point in a 1 - 1 draw at Stamford Bridge.

She remains the only Arkansas State women's player to have scored 40 or more points in a single game, a feat she accomplished five times, including a 50 - point performance against Louisiana - Lafayette during the 1992 - 93 season.

Another efficient away day performance from the Reds (or more correctly the Oranges); we find ourselves within 2 points of a drab Manchester United team.

Gibson is 22 now and you'd think he might have played more for United's first team by now, but perhaps this man - of - the - match performance will be the turning point in his Old Trafford career.

The acquisition of Adam Johnson from Manchester City in the summer has been one of the more positive points of the Black Cats» season with the England international putting in stellar performances on numerous occasions.

There have been rumours of a clash between Karanka and David Nugent but more reliable stories seem to point to his concerns over other players and their performances, notably Stewart Downing.

Sam Allardyce drew some solace from the way his Everton side hit back to earn a Premier League draw with West Bromwich Albion — but admitted the Blues» performance merited no more than the point they earned.

Not only have they registered more points than anyone else, with the exception of Chelsea, their performances have often been breathtaking.

Once more the match where Milan could hope to seal the league, based on their own performance as opposed to waiting for others to lose points, is against Roma.

Our midfielders and strikers are much better and effective in working together.Liverpool dropped more points with other teams and as far as we are on our best, we will get our three points with a lovely performance.

This reduces the dependency on one player and should more performances continue like ones earlier in the season which yielded no reward of points, one would think that Anzhi will eventually start to pick up some more points.

However, it was a welcome point, when most (including me) felt that a convincing defeat was on the cards, and it was a much more disciplined and organised performance than most we have witnessed.

Alongside Henderson and Milner, Can produced an energetic and creative performance and were it not for the quality of Giroud up front for Arsenal, Liverpool would've been more likely to take all three points.

We couldn't quite do enough to snatch an unlikely point but the performance was far more encouraging.