Sentences with phrase «n't make the grade»

According to a recent survey conducted by Towers Watson and National Business Group on Health, most workplace wellness programs simply aren't making the grade.

Call the former franchisees, and ask them why the agreement was terminated, whether the franchisee wasn't making the grade, or whether they had some type of grievance with the franchisor.

CNN: Secular coalition grades presidential candidates When judged on their ability to relate to the desires of secular Americans, the presidential candidates aren't making the grade, according to a large coalition of secular organizations.

The same can be said, of course, about the alcoholic who does not make the grade to sobriety.

Given the fact that I spend the majority of my time in our residence, a place has to actually feel like a home to me, and many places just do NOT make the grade.

Regardless of your best intentions, when you realize those tomatoes you were saving for your lunch are over-ripe and may not make the grade to be sliced for your sandwich, there is a great option - Oven Roasted Tomatoes!

If fast food doesn't make the grade in your house, it's easy to come up with your own version.

Australian diets aren't making the grade with an addiction to junk food largely to blame, according to findings from the CSIRO Healthy Diet Score Survey.

If they don't make the grade, we don't buy them.

You don't need to be on 8m a year, to realise that he should only be played in non vital games as he simply has not made the grade for the first team every single game.

Yes, an expensive striker could add another dimension, but they could equally not make the grade in the EPL, which is a hard league to score goals in.

Despite positive performances from both of you, there is a chance you may not make the grade.

In fact he made it clear that it was his choice to come to north London in the first place, not a second choice after not making the grade with Barcelona.

Maybe I'm wrong though, maybe he is focused but just doesn't make the grade is all.

Frustration and fear are not two words that you would normally associate with a footballer doing well, but there is a good case for saying that they have been heavily connected with the way that Francis Coquelin has gone from being another failed Arsenal youngster who did not make the grade and fulfil his early promise, to one of the most important players in a Gunners side putting together some of the best performances and run of results that us fans have seen for some considerable time.

It's also worth the risk because we could recoup most of that money if he doesn't make the grade.

We had a very difficult season because players we brought in from Europe didn't make the grade and we paid the price.

We signed far too many some times expensive and overly paid players who just did not make the grade.

Soriano was previously a reserve player at Barcelona, but having not made the grade at the Nou Camp he left for Salzburg in 2012, despite a fine goal haul for Barca's B Team.

Players like Gibbs, Chamberlain, Coquelin, Ramsey, Walcott, Gabriel, Mertesacker and Monreal would not make the grade at top teams all over the world yet they make the cut for Arsenal.

Agreed we need to move out those who can not make the grade any more.

Still, the 21 - year - old seeminly fancies himself as moving on to better things before long, insisting he can make it at another big club despite not making the grade at Stamford Bridge.

we got crap players on the pitch who have been there for 10 years and still do not make the grade.

We aren't moving players on quick enough that aren't making the grade or fitting the tactics.

Where we have failed is recruiting the proper match winners over the last decade with exception of Sanchez and move on when players are not making the grade — Walcott, Gibbs, Djourou, Coquelin, Jenkinson, Penant, Fabianski, etc..

It is crucial now that Wenger gives him some playing time to prove that he is capable, but if he doesn't make the grade then Wenger may be forced into the transfer market in January.

Familiar performance... top opposition and the team doesn't make the grade.

However the same goes for taking a chance on youngsters every team in the premiership releases players that don't make the grade bit if u don't give them a chance then who will.

I am not trying to justify our actions, but i think he didn't make the grade.

Some times you just don't make the grade.

ormande - ottewill might not make the grade, and i cant see where this left back is coming from in the future, there are a few shout outs for Rodriguez the Swiss fella and he does look the business, but wont come cheap maybe we should be looking at Southampton again for this position, they seem to produce the goods in this area of the pitch.

Manchester United have been forced to bring through some of their younger players thanks to a huge number of injuries, but the players who you would expect to making their marks on the first - team, such as Adnan Januzaj, just aren't making the grade.

We blame Wenger for been indecisive and keeping hold of players that are taking forever to bloom and yet when he does exactly that and cut players who don't make the grade we still moan....

At 24 he is no longer a young player and as I always point out, if a player has not made the grade for sure by 23 he is not going to.

Some of these guys saying that this and that guy isn't good enough because they aren't Matic or have his quality have fforgotten or ddon't know that he couldn't make the gRade at Chelsea hence they sold him.

Gidman was told he wouldn't make the grade as a youngster but went on to have a very successful career and colourful life.

If I am honest, the idea of a player who couldn't make the grade at a team like Bristol City joining Leeds didn't help the pessimist in me.

He was on the books of giants PSV Eindhoven starring regularly for their U-19s but didn't make the grade to the first team before he was loaned out to Jong PSV.

Prior to his move to Stoke City in 2013, Butland rejected a chance to join Chelsea after the Blues had agreed a fee with his former club Birmingham City because he feared that he wouldn't make the grade at Stamford Bridge but opted to join the Potters that same transfer window because his chances of playing regularly was higher with them.

But eventually, those players won't make the grade.»

After not making the grade at Spurs, I was expecting to finish off my career in Asia which was not a bad outcome.

If you don't make grades or others» approval a major focus in your household, your child is more likely to stay motivated about school.

But, all that sugar, added salt, preservatives, GMOs and lack of good stuff means they don't make the grade for nourishing young bodies and brains for learning.

That meant that in 2018, some strollers had to be deleted, because they just weren't making the grade.

To me, this is not the end of the world, it's a lesson, just like anything else designed to help him see that he's not making the grade.

We asked readers to spill on the baby gifts they got that just didn't make the grade.

At that time, 31 % said he was doing an average job, and 17 % thought he wasn't making the grade.

Those teachers whose students can't make the grade should be labeled «developing» or «ineffective.»

The new technology separates perfect peptides from those that do not make the grade, says Shiyue Fang.

If they don't make the grade, «they don't get an Eng.D.,» says Swansea University's Worsley.