Sentences with phrase «pretty much promised»

And please, let's not bother talking about NAMA, court cases etc... For years now, REO's had terrible corporate governance, far too much leverage, and pretty much promised to totally fuck investors... And so it has come to pass, and shareholders don't even have a luxury Moroccan get - away to show for it...

The proof was already there and we were pretty much promised more would come.

Odds are the situation is a lot more complicated than whatever you find in that story and I can pretty much promise you that nobody speaks for a whole team when it comes to putting forth what «the locker room» thinks or how it feels

Not exact matches

I promise it will serve you well — and set you apart — in pretty much any profession you choose.

In a time where you can pretty much bank on cell phone cameras capturing every moment, it is more important than ever for brands to make smart decisions when it comes to delivering on promises to their customers.

«I think this time, the analysts have pretty much had it with Kroger's promises and what amounts to bizarre, almost faith - based investing in the stock,» Cramer said on Friday.

Of all the robots that we tested it stood out in pretty much every category: no big or unrealistic promises, an easy sign - up process, with clear instructions and all the necessary information about the software itself.

On Tuesday the President spoke at Georgetown University and promised a package of executive orders and administrative rulings that aim, pretty much, to shut down the use of coal.

Death is pretty much the last frontier, which is why I think christianity with it's promise of eternal life has such a toehold in the western psyche.

Last week I promised you that Genesis 2 — 4 contained some revolutionary ideas about everything related to life, humanity, society, religion, war, politics, violence, and pretty much everything else in life.

With Manchester United radically going off the boil and Tottenham Hotspur failing to capitalise on their early season promise, Arsenal were pretty much guaranteed a top - four finish in the Premier League.

In its first year at the helm of the Erie County Legislature, the Republican - aligned majority has pretty much delivered on its promises of a year ago.

«We haven't detected a saola yet, but it's a very promising method for finding it and pretty much any other mammal in the forest.»

You can pretty much wear this top with ANYTHING in your closet and I promise you, you'll look like you tried / look put - together.

So it's not really a sickness, so much as a disorder of laziness but I promise the weather of late makes it that much harder to do pretty much anything.

I'm pretty much convinced that the only way you'd get me to a Super Bowl party is the promise of great chilli and cute desserts like those cookies.

I like this Pinky Promise color because it goes with pretty much every outfit.

Pretty much any color scheme will work but those «must haves» promise to give the celebration some warm holiday spirit!

Don't really like to put too much about myself but I promise I'm pretty awesome;)

Still relatively under the radar, the script we read (by Christopher McQuarrie, among others) was actually pretty good, suggesting this could be the much - needed shot of adrenaline that «X-Men: First Class» promised, but mostly failed, to be to the franchise.

and writer Steven Knight penned three scripts that I very much enjoyed: Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, and Amazing Grace.

Basically it's the premise of pretty much every horror film going but early buzz is promising something special.

«The Promise» is pretty much a mess of a movie; the acting is overwrought, the plot is too tangled to play like anything but a plot, and although I know you can create terrific special effects at home in the basement on your computer, the CGI work in this movie looks like it was done with a dial - up connection.

Rival series God Eater is pretty much a non-entity in these parts and though Soul Sacrifice had promise, it strayed too far from the game it tried to imitate, the end result being a laborious, tangled web of ill - thought mechanics.

Although there are no concrete plans currently in motion, George Miller has been promising another Mad Max movie from pretty much the moment Fury Road became the surprise blockbuster hit of 2015.

No, you won't get anything innovative here, but it provides pretty much everything that it promises.

I seem to recall Sahara straight - up promising more «Dirk Pitt Adventures» when it could barely conjure up an adventure for itself — and the His Dark Materials franchise pretty much arrived D.O.A., didn't it?

It is a given that no one is seeing Independence Day: Resurgence for the plot, but rather pretty much what they were promised; most of the cast getting back together with some new faces to kick some alien ass one more time.

Back in 2009 and 2010, when the Common Core was adopted by a host of states ready to promise pretty much anything in exchange for Race to the Top funds, it was fueled by twin promises: It would «raise standards» and it would make it easier to compare how schools and states were faring in reading and math.

And, because standards and assessments are the backbone of pretty much everything else in K - 12 schooling, that could tear down all manner of promising efforts on teacher quality, school improvement, and the rest.

HONIG: HR is critical to pretty much everything that goes on in schools, and in districts that are serious about transforming their central offices, HR is changing in promising ways.

The brakes cope pretty well but are groaning within a handful of really hard laps, the car is slightly clumsy on turn - in and understeer sets in quickly and that engine — which sounds fantastic and promises so much — feels overly burdened.

But the real news here is that even the most basic Camaro promises much better performance than ever before, even if it looks pretty much the same.

As promised, Ford revealed the Focus RS this week, and as expected it's pretty much a bundle of awesome — more so than any other RS model that's come before.

The Takeri Concept isn't just a concept for the sake of it, but is pretty much what we'll get as the 2013 Mazda6, which makes the Takeri not just more interesting than it would have been as a pure concept, but also promises an interesting new Mazda6 too.

It's an impressive package with good looks, the promise of a great drive and proper performance for prices that will start at # 70k (or thereabouts) less than the old SLS AMG, despite performance — certainly in the AMG GT S — that's pretty much a match.

Yugo remains pretty much as when introduced in this country three model years ago: a small car promising basic transportation for a small price.

Startled Lion is not only still hungry (but much prettier); he's tired of being fussed over, and in exchange for a promise to behave, he gets to share a box of doughnuts with Little Red and her aunt.

They all seem to be pretty much the same, and they promise to provide the same kinds of services.

And it's pretty much a no brainer, give a free e-copy of your book to anyone who promises to review it.

Our hands - on videos show it best, but considering this tiny start - up has managed to do what has pretty much escaped Microsoft for the past decade, it's very promising.

Not only does the movie service promise movie and TV shows to rent or buy, but it integrates with Ultraviolet, the studio - supported digital video locker scheme that lets consumers buy movies once and access them pretty much any way they want — including through the new Nook HD tablets.

Remember that CPP promises are pretty much guaranteed, but the same can not be said for contribution levels.

I think after the recent publicity PETA's gotten (collecting animals from veterininarians with the promise of finding them homes, only to kill them a few minutes later), their credibility on any subject is pretty much non-existent.

if the dev did not delivered what they promised, or the game is flat out bad customer gets to take their money back this will weed out any bad developers this particular indie developer pretty much showed in public how bad his game is because those 13 out of 18 didn't even play 2 hours of his game

It promised a certain white - knuckle intensity that the console couldn't quite deliver on with any consistency, and it might have made a pretty convincing argument if you didn't pay much attention to, say, Gradius III.

More than just vehicles with 4 wheels, developer Criterion is promising a game with more modes of transportation than pretty much any other «racer» out there.

Sorry, but with Scorpio, it pretty much means MS has given up on trying to build the X1 to the point they like to promise while peddling the system early on... and sadly for the devout Xbox fan, MS has a terrible history of long term support both for their software, and more specifically their hardware.

The game will feature pretty much the same feeling as the single player campaign, but the Naughty Dog team promises some tweaks were made to ensure the online experience is a good one.

As promised on Wednesday, we'll be analyzing Mario Party 3DS further and talk about what pretty much is on everyone's mind; What characters will be in this game!?