Sentences with phrase «of a blip in»

After a strong September, Woking have suffered something of a blip in late October, as Nathan Baxter and company went down 3 - 1 to Dover and 3 - 2 to Guiseley this week.
Not even worthy of a blip in the radar for hospital births.
«It's been more of a blip in the history of beekeeping,» she said in an interview.
BTW, if the blip in the SST record were due to the bucket / intake transition, would one expect all of the blips in each ocean basin to be in phase?
A judgment of $ 80 million probably does not cause much of a blip in most major corporate balance sheets.
One would think that such a data breach and the company's subsequent nonchalance about its impact would cause some sort of blip in terms of Snapchat's usage or growth.

Not exact matches

Says Brannon, «The total number of subscribers leaving pay TV is going to be so low that increases in ARPU are going to make the transition of these folks away from pay TV virtually a small blip on the radar.»
The discovery started humbly, with a curious blip in magnetic field readings during the first flyby of Enceladus in 2004.
Although it may seem as if the staffing shortage of the late 1990s is long gone, today's looser labor market is just a minor blip in what will likely be a continuing labor crunch.
But even if he's right — like any of these predictions, it's debatable — that figure would be a minor blip in one of the world's biggest economies, which measured US$ 2.26 trillion in 2010, according to the World Bank.
Although Softbank - which had recently acquired the personal computer industry's biggest trade show (Comdex) and publishing company (Ziff - Davis)- was barely a blip on the industry's radar, Son had dreams of becoming a big player in the fast - growing tech sector.
If there's a blip on this otherwise impressive record, it's Cool's experience with Benjamin Moore, the 131 - year - old paint company Cool was sent in to help after a slew of management and strategic problems (Fortune profiled the business» blues last month).
But this period should be looked at as an anomaly, a mere blip in the stretch of 40 to 70 years during which we amass, manage and consume our life's savings.
After hearing that Kohl's delivered same - store sales of over 5 percent for the first time since 2001 and that Children's Place logged an 8.5 percent gain in holiday - season same - store sales, Cramer sensed that these were more than just positive blips on the retail radar screen.
You could say that 2018 is still a young year and it's way too early to judge things, which is true, but the level of volatility in both stocks and bonds during February is making this year feel like we've lived through two full years already, and I think what the markets are signaling is more likely to be a sea change than a blip.
But it would only mean Hey Inc. is back to where it was in December, with a crazy blip at the end of a four - year journey.
From Nike to PVH to Tapestry [formerly Coach], Cramer has watched the companies and their stocks tell a story of a comeback in the apparel space, giving him confidence that the strength isn't just a blip.
But leaders including those in the White House said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, and experts agree that the phenomenon was more blip than Black Monday.
But I don't trust these recent blip - ups in markets and expectations based on the notion that Trump and his merry band of billionaires are going to be great for investors.
«We ignore whatever the daily news is, whether it's the latest twist in the health - care legislation or the latest blip from the Federal Reserve,» said Roger Lowenstein, one of Sequoia's outside directors and the author of a book on Buffett.
The painful losses will still be fresh in their memory, and they'll worry the recovery is a temporary blip, which of course it may well prove to be.
The main question now is whether this transformation will be permanent, or, as has been promised by policymakers of late, just a temporary blip in the history of banking that could soon go away.
Here's Nick Laird of Sharelynx's chart setting out the SGE withdrawal figures for the past eight years, which demonstrates nicely the huge (and very consistent apart from a blip in 2014) upwards trend in withdrawals as China's economy has continued to grow and individual purchasing power has grown with it.
In Strategic Total Return, we continue to carry an average duration of about 3 years in Treasuries, where the prospect of further credit strains remains favorable for Treasuries, but where yields are already so depressed that small upward blips in yield can quickly wipe out a year or two of prospective interesIn Strategic Total Return, we continue to carry an average duration of about 3 years in Treasuries, where the prospect of further credit strains remains favorable for Treasuries, but where yields are already so depressed that small upward blips in yield can quickly wipe out a year or two of prospective interesin Treasuries, where the prospect of further credit strains remains favorable for Treasuries, but where yields are already so depressed that small upward blips in yield can quickly wipe out a year or two of prospective interesin yield can quickly wipe out a year or two of prospective interest.
«If you're retiring in 15, 20, 30 years, this market volatility is a very small blip in that picture,» said financial advisor Kraig D. Osborne of Edward Jones Investments in Edenton.
That depends, I think, on whether Schleiermacher's and Hegel's day is over, on whether modernity is wrapped up - on whether, as it was put in one late - night discussion of Pannenberg's work in a gathering of friends and admirers, the Enlightenment was a blip.
As in Will Herberg's undoubtedly classic Protestant, Catholic, Jew of 1955, the «neo-evangelicals» who would later be known simply as evangelicals were hardly a blip on the radar screen.
... and there was mostly silence in public by the EV celebrities involved, though enough blips of evidence of their views from themselves and others associated with Emergent Village, plus documentation of their appeals in private to delete, edit, direct, control, shame.
Or is it a blip on the screen of history, born of the Progressive era among minorities in a strange land, institutionalized in the New Deal, and now left in the dust by the neoconservative revolution?
It says that we're only a tiny blip in the Universe — an inconsequential mote in the outer spiral arm of a conventional spiral galaxy trillions of light years wide.
Oh, and by the way, this Pastor is a HUGH blip on my gay - dar - I would fathom most of his hatred likely stems from his closeted life in small - town Kansas.
Back in 2008 - 09, when so many on both sides were saying that Obama's (and the Democrats») big victory signaled a new birth of PROGRESSIVE REFORM, I said that he's going to be little more than a blip in our political history.
In the broad scope of history, the hegemony of positivism is a temporary aberration, a mere blip on the screen, already beginning to fade.
Besides the one blip of a pumpkin back to school recipe in August, I held out on the pumpkin craze until October.
Port Kembla in the Illawarra is one of the most socially and naturally diverse suburbs in Australia, yet an industrial reputation and a sleazy blip in its history have overshadowed it for many years.
Surreal only begins to describe the NBA Draft Combine, a curious blip on the annual calendar in which the whole league gathers for two days at this West Side gym for the ostensible purpose of working out, measuring, and evaluating prospects.
It was a little blip in the ever - churning news cycle, barely noticed and very quickly forgotten by the vast majority of people.
But even if all this proves to be true and Arsenal do show that the first game was a blip, I think we have a problem Houston, in the shape of Man City.
Didier Drogba, considered by many to be one of the most lethal finishers in the Premier League, has been nothing more than a blip on the radar this season.
Monaco was a blip in terms of goal scoring.
And don't conveniently ignore Chelsea (a), Olympiakos (h), Zagreb (a) and Bayern (a) and pretend Gabriel is the ready packaged solutions to all our CB «woes» (problems that are wildly exaggerated and out of all proportion to the actual perceived problem — PM / LK, even with the blips, have been the most consistent and successful CB pairing in the PL for the past couple of seasons.
The red card did not stop the eccentric shot stopper from being named as the goalie of that season's tournament and it was a rare blip in a pretty stellar career for Lehmann.
Of course, the game vs Chelsea in Beijing was a blip occasioned by a combination of factors, not the least of which was the team recovering from food poisoning and having two academy players start at right / left wing back and CB; plus, being the last game of a gruelling tour, there is a tourist effect to the last day of the touOf course, the game vs Chelsea in Beijing was a blip occasioned by a combination of factors, not the least of which was the team recovering from food poisoning and having two academy players start at right / left wing back and CB; plus, being the last game of a gruelling tour, there is a tourist effect to the last day of the touof factors, not the least of which was the team recovering from food poisoning and having two academy players start at right / left wing back and CB; plus, being the last game of a gruelling tour, there is a tourist effect to the last day of the touof which was the team recovering from food poisoning and having two academy players start at right / left wing back and CB; plus, being the last game of a gruelling tour, there is a tourist effect to the last day of the touof a gruelling tour, there is a tourist effect to the last day of the touof the tour.
I agree and even though the Community Shield against Chelsea next weekend is not that important in the grans scheme of things I think we need to show that last weekend was a blip and just as a fast start in the Premier League is important I think a strong start to our Emirates Cup would be handy so let's not have some inexperienced young midfielder playing on the right of defence.
But, on a city team it is just a blip in form even though they have lost 3 of their last 4 matches in all competitions.
It's something you don't quite get at the University of Washington, where the school is just a blip on the map, buried in a sea of skyscrapers.
Giroud just is not good enough and thats the facts here, we would have been three goals up with a real world class striker, regardless of Ozil and sanchez current form if we had brought in a real DM player then we'd have won points at other games and this would be just a blip, teams do loose games and they do have off days, the real problem lays in the fact that Wenger has no real top notch choices to mix and match with is he has slumps with his current squad.
Still just five points adrift of the playoffs Chris Wilder's side remain in the mix for back to back promotions despite a midseason blip.
Oden is the brightest blip on the radar screens of talent hunters across the basketball spectrum in America, whether they represent the NBA, a college, a shoe company or a television network.
We now sit only six points behind the Manchester clubs who are currently tied at the top, and I firmly expect both sides to have a blip in the near future, and United are yet to encounter any of the top sides as of yet.
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