Sentences with word «nadir»

As Mayor Bill de Blasio confronts a pair of hostile police unions convinced that he is responsible for the deaths of two police officers Saturday, he is reliving a conflict familiar to past mayors rather than reaching the absolute nadir of relations between City Hall and police.

Even now, though, it's hard to find anyone who'll really go to bat for the film as anything other than a new nadir in Burton's creative slump.

It is listless and painful, with fakey gore and dialogue that reaches nadir even for an auteur never known for his pen.

These photographs usually view the scene below by looking straight down at nadir, or nearly so.

It would be a grimly positive thing to see this moment, with Corbyn visibly on the ropes, as some kind of nadir for the party.

The Red Devils may be considering Guardiola as a potential replacement for Louis van Gaal, whose miserable spell in charge at Old Trafford arguably reached a new nadir with defeat to Stoke City on Boxing Day.

The absolute nadir of Halle Berry's dreadful post-Oscar career.

Things reached a dispiriting nadir when his side were booed off the field at the end of a 2 - 1 victory over Hull City.

The real nadir comes when the paedophile actually allows Matthew a face - to - face meeting with the now teenage Cassandra: he sets up a meet in a remote and snowy spot.

by Walter Chaw Thinking that Oscar - winner Kathy Bates had reached a career nadir as a Bible - thumpin» mama in Adam Sandler's deplorable The Waterboy, colour me surprised to note that Ms. Bates actually plumbs a new depth in reprising that performance for Les Mayfield's painful American Outlaws.

A new nadir in Lamborghini's fortunes began in 1994, when Chrysler passed ownership to a group of Indonesian investors.

The film reaches that nadir after a meandering two - plus hours that purport, just like the first movie, to show what happens «after happily ever after.»

Maybe I should have been keeping a closer eye on CDS spreads — that's when they reached their recent nadir at just over 700 bps, before rocketing to today's 932 bps.

While the party came nowhere near winning either seat, its steady increase in support indicates that it is recovering from the electoral nadir of 2015.

Expectations were low for this because the golden age of North American indie horror has been comprehensively remade as 21st century nadirs of the genre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween and the rest all looking too clean and healthy, as if the grubby originals were digitally disinfected.

But crucially, the company has been investing heavily in sustainability consistently over the entire past decade, first as a reaction to its public relations nadir in the early 1990s when the brand faced boycotts after the press exposed «sweatshops» in Asia.

His true nadir was in February and while he wasn't back to elite levels, he had turned the ship around in March.

For NASA, the past couple of decades have had an «it was the best of times, it was the worst of times» flavor, with fantastic high points such as the Cassini mission to Saturn and the treks of the Mars rovers but also nadirs such as the shocking losses of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles.

Wayne is fashioned into a frontier prophet / Miyagi, a father - figure sage to this whole gay marching band that reaches its pinnacle / nadir once Lane apologizes to one of his hands and gets a flushing rise out of the feller to rival the John Ireland / Montgomery Clift flirtation in Red River.

Found - footage horror reaches a possible nadir with this ridiculously silly, ostensibly handheld record of a high school play haunted by the ghosts of previous productions.

Over the Top is quite possibly the creative nadir of Stallone's (Rambo II, First Blood) once flourishing career, and if you've followed his ups and downs, this is saying more than you can possibly imagine.

At something of a personal nadir in 1969, he was appointed senior lecturer in painting at the Central School of Art, where he had also been a student.

Three months ago, the global financial markets were at their short - term nadir, but few knew it at the time.

The yield curve has enough slope to benefit banks that don't face a lot of credit problems... and the yield curve will steepen further from here, particularly if the expected nadir of Fed funds drops below 2 %.

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It has also been speculated that the loss of coral reefs during the last Ice Age contributed to the higher pH. Research has estimated that during the cold nadir of each ice age, coral reef extent was reduced by 80 % and carbonate production was reduced by 73 % relative to today.

But the big driver of gains on the S&P / TSX Composite index has been another commodity that has returned from a price nadir: gold.

There's no reason to think we won't top 18 million within the next few years, and the good news for automakers is that much of the growth since the recession - year nadir of 10.6 million has come in the premium and luxury categories.

Channel TLT uses a weighted average between the near - limb and nadir views to extrapolate the data to lower altitude, thus removing almost all of the stratospheric influence.

As CEO, he weathered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and steered the firm back from a reputational nadir, when it faced scrutiny and fines over how it sold mortgage - linked securities.

At a literary pinnacle we have the tormented, existential priests of Graham Greene, and at a literary nadir the sexually compromised priests of much popular fiction.

Sure that no one could trump (sorry) Mitt Romney's wooden failure with Latinos, we have watched Trump sink to an unimaginable nadir with our community.

Christians should see the present nadir of American politics and its enabling of a hollowed - out culture as a summons to deeper catechesis, more persuasive apologetics, fuller evangelical communion, brighter martyrdoms.

If that was distressing, 2015/16 must have been his second nadir: he missed 47 games after suffering a hairline fracture in training.

That started with Muhammadu Buhari's stone - age despotism; featured IBB's brutal and wayward power - wield, chalking the first annulment of presidential mandate in Nigerian history; and hit the very nadir in the stark, thieving and murderous Abacha, who had to expire for his country, which he brutally raped, to progress.

In the recent Copeland byelection, Labour reached its electoral nadir under Corbyn, losing a seat that it had held for decades.

«It's simply a reflection of the fact that the subway system is deteriorating and everybody who uses it knows it,» said Richard Ravitch, the former MTA chairman widely credited with helping rescue the system from its previous nadir a generation ago.

Since the early 1990s the numbers of Fraser sockeye have steadily dwindled, reaching a particularly troublesome nadir in 2009 when more than 11 million sockeye were forecast to return and only 1.4 million showed up.

EXRAD has one conically scanning beam as well as one nadir beam, which looks down directly underneath the aircraft.

For one thing, while it's best to take in light within two hours of waking up, there's good news for those who work nights or just can't stand to get up earlier: «The idea is to get light before what we call the circadian nadir, which most people experience in the mid - to late afternoon,» he says.

When it comes to empty calories, it's tough to beat the nutritional nadir that is sugar - sweetened beverages.