Sentences with phrase «nadir for»

Since the recession officially ended, this was a nadir for the economy as consumer confidence Data as of November 2011 plummeted, concern about a double - dip recession resurfaced, and fiscal policy indecisiveness reached its zenith.

Given the fact that trust in climate science is at its nadir for well - founded reasons right now, and many of them seem from their own words, to be philosophical lightweights — I think I'll do fine on my own thank you.

The heavy ice of the last Ice Age must have been the nadir for walrus populations.

As it was, inflation was receding, and 1986 was the nadir for the 80s.

The last five quarters have not been kind to ACLS, with the company generating substantial and increasing operating losses in each, reaching a $ 22.8 M nadir for the September quarter (see the Q3 10Q here).

A one - minute «blooper reel» (the nadir for this sort of thing — it's full of fart jokes), juvenile set - top «Valiant Training Challenge,» trailers for Lady and the Tramp, Kronk's New Groove, the Studio Ghibli collection, Sky High, Bambi II, Toy Story 2, and «Power Rangers S.P.D.», and Disney Movie Surfers segments on The Wild and The Shaggy Dog round out the disc.

The 62nd Awards were arguably the nadir for Oscar, with the twee Driving Miss Daisy beating a strong field including Born on the Forth of July, Dead Poet's Society, My Left Foot, and my pick, Field of Dreams to Best Picture.

It was a high - water mark for carnivores and a nadir for animal - lovers.

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.

Combine this with the suspension, the unfortunate Jones illness and I start to wonder if this is the nadir for Shaka.

Purdue The nadir for the Boilermakers came last Oct. 9, when they became the first team in NCAA history to score 56 points... and lose.

Not exact matches

Thankfully, the global active rig count seems to be nearing its nadir after falling for 22 straight weeks.

«Buying a company below its historic average or intrinsic value (as that is how low quality businesses will often be valued when they are close to the nadir of their capital cycle) is a good starting point for any investment and has a track record of producing excess long - term returns» Marathon Asset Management

Just a few short years later, the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union catalysed a debate in which patriotism showed its less attractive face, reaching its nadir on 16th June 2016, when Labour MP Jo Cox, a campaigner for continued EU membership, was repeatedly stabbed and shot by a man shouting «Britain first».

New York reached its nadir in 1975 when Coach Charley Winner, thinking his team was just a few players away from playoff contention, traded his first, fourth and sixth draft choices for three defensive linemen, two of whom now are out of football.

Arsenal haven't demonstrated a well coached defence for years and 2017/18 season represents the nadir.

It reached its nadir in Zaragoza, Spain, at the qualifying tournament for the 1992 Olympics, where the Azzurri struggled to beat a team of Albanians who played in the same ratty Chuck Taylors they used for padding around town.

A 3 - 1 home defeat to Blackburn on December 13 was the nadir, but also the catalyst for a 18 - match unbeaten run which brought the Premiership trophy to Highbury for the first time.

The nadir unfortunately is an easy one for me and I'm sure many others: Going up 2 - 0 AT HOME against The Ones Who Shall Not Be Named (I can't even bear to mention them — honestly), and then losing the match and the derby 3 - 2.

However, both his appearances and quality of play have declined over the past few years, reaching its nadir this past season where he only made six appearances for Sevilla.

His nadir as a role model for fatherhood probably comes in the Empire Strikes Back, when he slices off his son's hand with a lightsaber just because Luke refuses to sign up for the family business (Evil Incorporated).

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

No more so than in the US Republican primaries, which reached a nadir when Marco Rubio mocked Donald Trump for having «small hands» and alluded to his rival wetting his pants.

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.

A room of Democrat activists at the height of Clinton's popularity wouldn't have shown the kind of spirited approval these people did for Bush at the nadir of his popularity and power.

In what must surely count as the nadir of a strange odyssey, Robert Sullivan finds himself sitting in a cold, dank alley in the middle of the night, observing his newly purchased (and forlornly empty) rat trap, fighting «a savage urge to try one of the Vienna sausages» he has used for bait.

Neumann, an instrument specialist for the MESSENGER mission, helped to calibrate the altimeter's reflectance signal, which can vary depending upon whether the measurement is taken from directly overhead or at an oblique angle (known as «off - nadir»).

That calibration enabled the researchers to detect high reflectance deposits consistent with surface ice in three large craters for which only off - nadir detections were available.

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 saFor 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 safor 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.

He defends his choice to spend no more than $ 100 for family gifts on Christmas in saying, «If you believe that our consumer addiction represents our deepest problem — the force that keeps us from reaching out to others, from building a fair society, the force that drives so much of our environmental degradation — then Christmas is the nadir.

Havel et al (32) reported that substitution of carbohydrate for dietary fat increased the diurnal circulating leptin pulse amplitude (peak minus nadir plasma leptin concentration).

The isocaloric high - protein diet led to no significant change in nadir plasma concentrations, peak plasma concentrations, or AUC values for the 24 - h leptin profiles obtained during CRC2 compared with those obtained during visit CRC1.

For the most part, however, the actor's last two decades as a performer were distinguished by a steady stream of cheap, threadbare horror films, reaching a nadir with such fare as Hillbillies in a Haunted House (1967).

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.

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.

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.

Daft Punk's nadir, the 2005 LP Human After All, didn't lack for good songs, but its hurried execution (it was recorded in six weeks) begat a monotonous and half - baked album.

The film's nadir is a scene in which Curtis recites a poetic «song» to a group around a campfire and which becomes the occasion for a montage devoted to the beauties of a kitschy soundstage version of «nature,» followed by glimpses of other salt - of - the - earth slaves at rest who register like warmed - over Depression archetypes.

He belongs to the hardboiled, get - the - job - done leading men of action films past, but even in this time of increasingly progressive heroes remains incredibly popular for his steely, charisma - not - necessary aloofness - so popular in fact that the franchise was resurrected after Jeremy Renner nadir The Bourne Legacy for a fifth film some 14 years after the original just to bring the real Bourne back.

predilection for dick and fart jokes is very much in evidence (though, thankfully, there's nothing here approaching the scatological nadir of Dogma's Golgothan), yet while he may have gained a fair amount of notoriety for that lowbrow brand of humor, his greatest strength has always been the rapier wit of his dialogue, whenever raunchy or not.

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

Underneath it all plays Ten Years After's «I'd Love To Change The World,» the absolute nadir of Woodstock - era protest rock; the movie's sound editor deserves some kind of award for smoothly deleting the song's opening volley against «dykes and fairies.»

The best compliment I can muster is that it ranks better than the Transformers movies, which sets the bar for summer blockbusters at its nadir, and that's hardly praise at all.

Halfway through the year, The Neon Demon kindly established the nadir of 2016 cinema for me and with just three months to go, I am doubtful I'll see anything worse this year.

Cutting back and forth between Wilson at his prime during recording sessions for Pet Sounds and the nadir of his life in the 1980's, drugged up in a haze under the oppressive thumb of his doctor turned manager / caretaker and all around monster Eugene Landy, the film strikes an excellent balance between Wilson the genius and Wilson the broken man barely holding onto his life.

The softened America at its nadir - with undemanding schools, unpunished crime, rampant welfare, a feckless army under a timid national policy in Vietnam - is the setting for Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet of 1970 and Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone of 1973.

However, as Paul Peterson shows (see «Ticket to Nowhere,» p. 39), long - term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveal only small increases in mathematics and science scores after 1982, when scores for 17 - year - olds reached their nadir.

In the early 1980s, for example, when salaries had been dropping for a decade and districts could not fill their vacancies, the average quality of teachers reached a nadir in virtually every respect.

While it is true that the nominal budget for public schools has increased slightly from its nadir in FY 2010 - 11, North Carolina's public schools themselves have not benefited from higher resource levels since the change in General Assembly majority.

For the most famous and most respected American in European society, this humiliating experience had to be the nadir point of his life.