Sentences with phrase «performance of a year ago»

Team Sternberg is back this year to build on their solid debut performance of a year ago in the Chicago Hoops League.

Graham will run behind an offensive line that lost just one starter, which can be interpreted as good news or bad, given its performance of a year ago.

Not exact matches

When tech entrepreneur Kieran Snyder analyzed performance reviews done by a diverse group of managers at a variety of companies a few years ago, she found that constructive feedback given to women included strong elements of «negative personality criticism» that were all but absent from the suggestions for men.

The company says the performance of it self - driving technology is working four times better today than it was a year ago.

Four years ago the firm developed a» Bain Index,» which charts the performance of Bain client stocks against various indexes.

For example, a few years ago, a compelling study in the MIT Sloan Management Review used ROA data (among other metrics) to compare the performances of external and internal candidates in CEO successions.

More than 40 years ago, the Magna founder decided his company would experience higher productivity and less labour strife — and, as a result, faster growth — if its workers got some of the financial benefits of strong performance.

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index was launched over 25 years ago and is designed to measure the equity market performance of the emerging markets.

«Our first quarter revenue represented the strongest first quarter performance in Stifel's history, as net revenue of $ 750 million increased by 11 % from the same quarter a year ago.

First, higher bonus payments in the first quarter of FY 2016 versus last year as we met the performance goals laid out a year ago.

He is credited with helping establish a ground game and turnout machine that in 2012 «reproduced — through brute force, dedication and will — a turnout in the swing states that in some cases bested the campaign's remarkable performance of four years ago.»

Below I put the result of the poll you voted on a year ago for the 2016 year performance.

It should therefore be less of a surprise to discover that if you had invested # 1,000 in the Trust 10 years ago, it would now be worth # 5,281, one of the best performances over the period (an investment of # 1,000 in an ETF tracking the FTSE All - Share index meanwhile would be worth # 1,686 over the same period.

We are very pleased that recent performance showed a substantial reversal from the results reported to you a year ago following the fourth quarter of 2015.

The labour market, meanwhile, continues to benefit from the economy's strong performance over 1997 and early 1998, and unemployment remains below the levels of a year ago.

The rich succession of the country's national styles, including Moorish, was celebrated in Budapest with a renowned exposition a century ago, and is being recalled this year by the city's splendid exhibitions and performances in its «Farewell to the XXth Century.»

Twenty years ago in New York, a friend and I were walking uptown along Madison Avenue after a performance of Alec McGowan's one - man Gospel According to Mark.

An example of these cultural facets can be found in the performance of 505 Southwestern Chile Sauces, a small, regional brand that Holland's company purchased a few years ago.

Four years ago, U.S. figure skater Brian Boitano gave a stunning performance — the best of his career — and won the gold medal at the Calgary Olympics.

Haskins has been the presumed starter (big recruit, big arm, showed flashes a year ago as Barrett's back - up), but Burrow has seemed to keep the competition alive with his performance this spring, including the best numbers of the QB's for OSU this past Saturday.

Consider the performances of these replacements for players whom the Steelers have lost since the Super Bowl: Running back Jerome Bettis is on pace for a 1,700 - yard rushing season; guard Will Wolford and tackle Justin Strzelczyk have made the offensive line stronger than it was a year ago; fourth - year linebacker Chad Brown has seven sacks in place of the injured Greg Lloyd; and retread quarterback Mike Tomczak has completed 62 % of his passes.

Contra Dyke, they concluded that «the proportion, or total amount, of minutes played five, or ten, years ago by English players in the Premier League, is unrelated to international performance,» and that «neither Italy, Spain, Germany or England seems to do any better when their citizens are playing more total minutes, across the top four leagues as a whole».

David Ospina has been a worthy back - up since joining the club from Nice three years ago, and was somewhat unlucky to lose his place to Cech on his arrival from our London rivals, after six months of superb performances when displacing Wojciech Szczesny as number one.

That dark day two years ago saw us produce and lacklustre and spineless performance and there were suggestions that all the talk of history and the past got in the way of the preparations.

Klopp has been underwelhming thus far but man is this performance reminiscent of the Dortmund machine a few years ago.

Just over a year ago, Arsenal visted the Etihad stadium to face Manchester City in a hugely important Premier League game and were in need of an excellent defensive performance to keep out the star - studded City attack.

The biggest surprise is that the Indians» pitching staff has matched that performance: It's fourth in the AL in ERA (3.49) with almost the same cast of characters that ranked 11th a year ago.

A year or so ago you would not have given Arsenal FC a snowball's chance in hell of being able to sign the young centre back Rafael Varane from his current club, as the French international was a regular starter for Real and was drawing rave reviews for his performances in Spain and around Europe.

I am looking at the bigger picture here and as far as I'm concerned Arsenal is doing much better than we were 5 years ago, in terms of finances and pitch performance.

Just one week ago few people outside of his own inner - circle knew the name «Marcus Rashford `, but after two incredible performances for Manchester United against FC Midtjylland in the Europa League and then against Arsenal, the 18 - year - old forward has become an overnight sensation.

Two years ago he was barely beaten by T.V. Lark, and last year, despite one of his best performances, he lost by a length and a half to France's Match II.

A couple of years ago the majority were blaming the likes of krone, gazidis, law, etc for the poor performances.

Jordan Speith, 2015: Spieth's rise to become one of the hottest golfers in the world was solidified with his performance at the Masters two years ago.

When Mesut Ozil was signed by Arsenal a couple of years ago, the German play maker had formed a reputation as being the king of the assists with his creative talents at both Werder Bremen of the Bundesliga and Real Madrid of La Liga, as well as his stunning performances for the Germany national side.

He still has some way to go to match his performances from a couple of years ago so I give him a 7/10.

«When our association discovered that bats could be altered and gain enhanced performance above our bat standard, stiffer penalties were instituted as a deterrent,» wrote Craig Cress, the president of ASA, in an email to me years ago when I first started examining this story.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

In addition, we review the performance of an NFL «trend» published in a research paper two years ago.

This will be Peter's 2nd trip to a World University Championships after he travelled to Spain two years ago after a run of performances including 3rd in the Senior British Championships and 3rd in the BUCS Championships which led to his selection.

A few years ago this team would have been world beaters, now they should be ashamed of their performances.

It gave us fans something to celebrate and the performance proved that the players have got rid of that building pressure to win a trophy that nearly saw us throw away another chance against Hull City at Wembley a year ago.

David Florence and Richard Hounslow won Team GB's 14th medal of the Games, replicating their C2 silver medal winning performance of four years ago at London 2012.

His transfer fee of # 5m with # 4.1 m in performance related add ons (# 9.1 m total) ten years ago is the equivalent of # 25m in today's money (transfer fee inflation adjusted).

The team's performance against Crystal Palace is far below what we all know they are capable of but let's remember that we only got a scoreless draw against Sunderland 2 years ago and we lost 1 - 3 to Aston Villa (irrespective of the reasons) last year.

Just as there is nothing palatial about Selhurst Park, there was nothing regal about the Villans» performance yesterday nor was there anything noble about the behaviour of the minority of fans who showed a complete lack of respect for the minute's silence in memory of the ninety - six people who lost their lives at Hillsborough twenty - five years ago.

Soldado joined Tottenham in a deal worth up to # 26m just two years ago, although only # 13m of that fee was paid up front with the rest due in appearance and performance - related add - ons.

Many, perhaps even most people remain unconvinced by the performances Inter have offered up under Spalletti and continue to be tormented by the memory of what happened under Roberto Mancini two seasons ago, when the Nerazzurri strung together a run of stodgy victories between August and December and then fell apart in the New Year.

We ve all hated him 2 or 3 years ago but since the mid of the 2008 - 2009 season (Feb - march 2009) he is been fantastic, that was the time that he started to show more quality and consistancy on the pitch, I still remember many of us here including myself criticising Song and Deni badly as they were just chilling out there on the pitch, slow moving...... etc... but his performance now isnt a surprise for all long time and real Arsenal supporters.We ve all made mistakes on criticising our new comer boys but we all now see the result after few seasons.

Hector Bellerin has managed to earn a reputation as one of the best young right - backs in the world since establishing himself as a regular for Arsenal a couple of seasons ago and the 22 - year - old has managed to catch the attention of Spanish giants Barcelona due to his performances.