Sentences with phrase «of weak support»

For me, it remains one of the last Oscar season's less excusable oversights that, in one of the weakest Supporting Actress races in years, Tomei's blazing performance in «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead» gathered no momentum whatsoever.

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The stimulus arguments made by proponents of a higher minimum wage tend to both fairly weak (not a lot of empirical support) and the benefits fairly small relative to the size of the economy.

While the market was supported by strong sales of existing units in the quarter, new properties remained weak.

«As a startup with a very weak balance sheet compared to some of the bigger chemical players, most people wouldn't want to do business with us without the support from someone with a big balance sheet.

While safeguarding the bottom - line for the prevention of financial risks, China will step up credit support for weak links in the economy, including small firms and the rural sector.

At the moment, there's a little bit of support from weak equity markets, but we see further weakness coming through,» Daniel Hynes, senior commodity strategist at ANZ, told CNBC.

R.S. Burt, «Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition» (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992); P. Caligiuri and M. Lazarova, «A Model for the Influence of Social Interaction and Social Support on Female Expatriates» Cross-Cultural Adjustment,» International Journal of Human Resource Management 13, no. 5 (August 2002): 761 - 772; M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties,» American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (May 1973): 1360 - 1380; and M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited,» Sociological Theory 1 (1983): 201 - 233.

«What sparked the rally is a perception of a shift in Canadian government policy toward the dollar,» said Michael Malpede, a currency analyst in Chicago with Refco Inc., adding that Mr. Dodge's comments put an end to the widely held perception in the market that Canada supported a weak currency to help its exporters.

However, we were not concerned because a subsequent pullback to new support of the breakout level is relatively common, and has the benefit of shaking out the «weak hands.»

The extensive pan-industry study has uncovered significant deficiencies in Canadian industry capabilities for effective commercialization — notably, poor competitive competencies, a weak culture of collaboration and a pervasive lack of funding and smart support for innovation in commercialization.

This is exactly the type of price action we actually like to see during periods of consolidation, as it serves to shake out the «weak hands» who typically sell when stocks and ETFs break obvious technical levels of price support.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government reined in new spending in a wait - and - see budget that touts support for ordinary Canadians but hedged its bets in the face of a still weak global economy and unpredictable fallout from the Donald Trump administration.

A weaker dollar tends to be beneficial for multinational companies, because it can support sales of goods and services abroad, with a stronger dollar having the opposite effect.

This generally supports the case that Living Goods offers high quality products, but because our experience on the site visit may have been non-representative and there are many other potential factors that may affect the effectiveness of drug treatments aside from following storage procedures for drugs properly, we consider it to be only weak evidence in support of the quality of Living Goods» drug treatments.

Such everyday contacts (often referred to as «weak ties») have been shown to provide important support, particularly to those at risk of social isolation.

Economic growth in the UK was broadly supported by consumer confidence and exports reinforced by a weaker pound sterling, with the easing of credit conditions leading to credit growth, loose fiscal policy and global economic growth.

On the spending side of the ledger, the priorities have been agriculture support (after two weak monsoons), rural development spending, infrastructure investments and a massive structural shift to direct benefit transfers deposited in the bank accounts of beneficiaries — made possible by the extraordinary biometric identity card program (Aadhaar) covering 950 million people, and the impressive financial inclusion initiative which has opened over 200 million new bank accounts for impoverished families.

But unexpectedly weak trade and construction, industries that support millions of jobs, have prompted expectations Beijing will boost spending or cut interest rates again to shore up growth.

In «Miles to Go Before We Sleep,» Johnathon Stroud, chief intellectual property officer at Unified Patents, argues that Barnett ignores other evidence that supports the elimination of «weak» patents through an administrative process created by the 2011 America Invents Act.

Fellow Dog International Business Machines (IBM - Free International Business Machines Stock Report) rose about 10 % in price during the first half of the year, but support for other tech - oriented stocks in the Dow, particularly Apple (AAPL - Free Apple Stock Report) and Microsoft (MSFT - Free Microsoft Stock Report), was weak.

IOTA is testing the lower boundary of the key $ 0.45 - $ 0.48 support zone, as it remains relatively weak amid the Bitcoin break - out.

Weaker currencies should support these markets, though we are wary of political, policy and trade risks in the eurozone.

Despite having healthy supports in place at both the Federal and Provincial programming levels, in the form of R&D tax credits, grants, loans and collaborative agreements, it's our ability to grow Canada's R&D - intensive sectors that proves weak.

If a stock can not trade through a resistance point or bounce at a support then it means it is weak... and we do not want to make a habit of buying weak stocks.

The bull run is supported by the perceived safe - haven qualities of U.S. bonds, especially in the current weak patch in global growth and the crisis in Europe that is culminating in the degrading of sovereign bonds.

The internal strife, high price point, weak specs, and lack of app support ultimately doomed this early tablet.

[3][4] Reasons for this include its linguistic differences from 1 Peter, its apparent use of Jude, possible allusions to 2nd - century gnosticism, encouragement in the wake of a delayed parousia, and weak external support.

Believing that God is the giver of all life, our aim is to uphold and support the dignity, sacredness, personhood and flourishing of every human soul, whether born or unborn, elderly or young, privileged or poor, healthy or sick, strong or weak, American or international, Christian or Muslim or other faiths or no faith at all.

But this opportunity will be missed if the lawyer does not ask appropriate questions and listen, if he (or she) does not consider the support of marriage a part of his job description, if he takes the position that a client seeking to keep her marriage together is in the wrong place, if he believes that lawyers who encourage reconciliation appear weak, or if he tries to shunt the whole problem off to the mental health professionals.

Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visible in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker... Consistency means we can't have it both ways» (quoted by Mark Shield on CNN.com, May 7).

If the day of the formally established church ever ends once and for all, then transnational religious movements may be increasingly valued and supported and perhaps can be more effective as peace agents if they remain institutionally poor and weak.

Countries in which there is strong support for same sex marriage, according to Blankenhorn's reading of two international surveys, display the weakest support for heterosexual marriage.

Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.

Support for this was not the figure of the poor, humble, and weak jesus but rather God himself, omnipotent Lord of the universe and sole source of power.

Bonhoeffer argued that the attempts to preserve the church often reflected a too - high veneration of the state, a de facto support of traditional social values, and an unduly weak view of human nature.

In what follows we see power over all enemies, the prayerful support of all his people, repeated emphasis on concern for the needy, the weak, those who have no helper, and once again «abundance of grain in the land» (v. 16).

I just want to be in a relationship where the man sees my strength, but allows me moments of weakness — where I can be close to him, looking for support > and he not think me weak for this.

The weaker the ego, the more support and acceptance are needed as the context of even gentle confrontation.

«Ultimately the weakest will be hit three times over,» Ryan writes, «by rising costs, by drastic cuts to programs they rely on, and by the collapse of individual support for charities that help the hungry, the homeless, the sick, refugees and others in need.»

Against this background, both the woman's desire for her husband, and his need through support to prove himself worthy of her desire, protect — at least at first — burdened and weaker woman from simple tyranny and, even more, from abandonment.

As a weaker force, the insurgents can not operate without the support of the people.

Tribal and nationalistic deities in particular have commonly been associated with the dominant customs and the ruling class, have been regarded as committed to the support of national policies, have become often gods of the powerful rather than of the weak, of the rich rather than of the impoverished, of the existent system rather than of social reformation.

Christ is in the struggle, against all the forces which support and justify the domination of the poor by the rich, the weak by the powerful.

The Church must extend its leadership to the instruction of the ignorant, support for the weak or confused, and reconciliation of the fallen.

The goal of reconciliation may, for long periods of time, require Christians to throw their support fully on the side of the weaker party.

Some philosophers — viz., those who accept either a weak (natural necessity) or a strong (logical necessity) version of lawful necessity — have argued that (4b) directly supports (1)- (3) in a way (4a) logically can not.

Pope John Paul clearly did (think of his trust in Cardinal Sodano and all that led to, including his support for Fr Maciel and his appointment - on the advice of nuncios appointed by Sodano - of a whole raft of weak and liberal bishops most of whom are still in place and still weakening the Church).

«Even the authors of this study admit that they failed to find any cause and effect, and provide weak scientific evidence to support their contention.

With less than ten games left to play and a combination of injuries and weak support plaguing the team, Arsenal striker Alexis Sanchez is on pace for his lowest goal total in league play in over five years.

No if the players, former players the board and over half the fanbase support a specialist in failure, then you know what you've become.A FAILING CLUB.You'll have to let those with the strength and amplitude of being able to live with everything that is going around the club do as they wish.We predict for change but change might not come for a long time.Wenger might not leave unless he is forced to.But the protess for change are weak and the board members are fine with his achievements I