Sentences with phrase «nadir when»

This probably reached its nadir when Jon Stewart came after him (video below) over some spectacularly unfortunate advice he gave to viewers back then.

Among many low points, this may have reached its nadir when a House member from Nebraska asked, smirkingly and out of the blue, whether nitrogen should be banned — presumably to make the point that atmospheric gases are all either harmless or outright beneficial, and hence, should not be regulated.

Control feels slippery and skittish, and reaches its nadir when you try to make use of the game's melee combat.

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.

Not exact matches

When he became CEO in 2008, the company was at a nadir.

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.

The company's chief executive bought millions of shares during the midst of the turmoil in December, 2008 and February, 2009 — «a time when the stock market was at its nadir and people thought the world was going to end,» said chief financial officer Laurence Sellyn.

When the adverse inflation - rate trend reaches its nadir, we will mark the end of this secular bear and the start of the next secular bull.

«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».

When the Chinese regime was at the nadir of its brutality, the religious left was hailing it as a bastion of social progress, if not the very kingdom of God on earth.»

A kind of nadir was reached a few months ago when Deane Ferm roasted me in the pages of The Christian Century as an exponent of secularism and a contributor to the God - is - dead movement.

After the death of Charlemagne darkness again descended, and by the middle of the tenth century Christianity had sunk to a lower nadir than, to the date when these lines were written, it was ever to know.

Both teams were docked points, and a glorious rivalry was born — one that would rumble through much of the 1990s and 2000s, taking in Martin Keown and Ruud van Nistelrooy, Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira, before reaching a farcical nadir (or zenith, if you're that way inclined) when Cesc Fabregas allegedly lobbed a slice of pizza at Alex Ferguson.

«History will tell you that when a school gives a guy only three or four years, the next guy will go through another three or four without success,» says Bill McCartney, whom Colorado administrators stood by through three losing seasons, including a 1 - 10 nadir in 1984, before the Buffaloes broke through.

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.

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.

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).

A ten - hour flight with a cranky toddlers whose ears hurt may well be the nadir of our family travels, the only upside is that when you've hit rock - bottom, there's nowhere to go but up.

They stuck by him during his nadir last summer, when his leadership of the party seemed doomed - indeed, the organisational, campaigning and social media nous of the pro-migrant radical left probably saved him, and certainly boosted his general election performance.

The nadir came in the ghastly encounter between Gordon Brown and Labour supporter Gillian Duffy on the campaign trail in Rochdale last May, when the prime minister angrily dismissed Duffy's views on immigration as «bigoted».

It's way down the nadir, from those lofty heights of 2007, when former CJN, Muhammadu Lawal Uwais, beatified the NJC with that singular honour of recommending the electoral chief, a power his Electoral Review Panel wanted taken from the president.

The nadir of all this was reached when Koonin wrote an editorial in The Wall Street Journal that appeared to question climate science.

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.

When it came to the 17 - year broods, the levels of these birds rose slowly after emergences, peaking in year 12 and then declining afterward, reaching a nadir again in emergence years.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

The nadir of the movie's poor judgment occurs during its still - mostly - astonishing climax, when Petit lies down on the cable, engulfed in misty cloud cover, and watches a lone gull hovers over him and seems to stare into his eyes, as if wondering if he's some kind of bird, too.

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.

But the bottom is ultimately just the bottom, and when you get this close to the absolute nadir of cinema, subtle measures of relative merit just don't mean much anymore.

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.

Dodge Dart The Dodge Caliber was arguably the nadir of Chrysler's new - product development in the Daimler era, when cost - cutting was taken to new heights — or depths.

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

The current 10 - year earnings average starts in November 2003 when real profits were just rebounding from the nadir in March 2002.

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.

When you look at the in - game store and realize it would take well over $ 1000 to purchase a complete version of the game with every costume, character, and feature unlocked, it can feel like the absolute nadir of free - to - play game making.

When the Microsoft launched the successor to the Xbox: the Xbox 360, it was so much less costly than a comparable gaming Windows PC at the time that the PC gaming market reached a new nadir.

This was a time when US arcades were reaching a nadir in terms of popularity.

This plan had the ultimate effect of undoing Gleick just when he should have been reaching the zenith of his career and casting him in the nadir of his career instead.

The nadir of all this was reached when Koonin wrote an editorial in The Wall Street Journal that appeared to question climate science.