Sentences with phrase «pretty poor job»

But notoriously, law firms, they've done a pretty poor job in protecting their own data.

Well, firstly it was ported by High Voltage Software (not internally by Konami, as we were led to believe) and they've done a pretty poor job.

I didn't have very much money at the time, but I did a pretty poor job of investing what I had.

I've noticed that people tend to do pretty well with insurance for asset protection but they do a pretty poor job of income / earning power protection.

Economic theory alone does a pretty poor job at explaining historical business cycles.

And if teachers are undermining accountability they must be doing a pretty poor job of it — we live in a time of unbelievable obsession with standardized testing, and teacher evaluation systems based on test scores of subjects that most teachers don't even teach — and from students they don't even know.

The academy today does a passable job of acknowledging good disciplinary scholarship but a pretty poor job of recognizing scholars who move ideas from the pages of barely - read journals into the real world of policy and practice.

If you're vitamin B12 deficient, your body does a pretty poor job producing red blood cells to carry oxygen through your system.

But the different demographic blocs actually did a pretty poor job of consolidating around a single candidate.

Second, that we had done a pretty poor job of it so far.

When I walked into my first Houston ISD School Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I knew next to nothing about school food except that my district seemed to be doing a pretty poor job of preparing it.

My complaint was simply that as the match wore on, we got worse, and we did so because the pressure and frustration of not scoring got higher, and that happened because there was a pretty obvious (to me) disfunction to our attack, due to Walcott being on the pitch and Alexis playing in a role he's rarely occupied for months (and doing a pretty poor job of playing that role, not just in his giveaways, but in not actually being in the box and making typical CF runs).

Diaz walks forward the whole time in his fights, but overall does a pretty poor job of taking the fight to guys if they just backpedal like Woodley has in his last 3 fights.

I thought Jarrett / Poe would keep teams from running up the gut but so far they've been doing a pretty poor job.

So someone is doing a pretty poor job of protecting my freedoms, it would appear.

Not exact matches

Lots of Christians would argue that you can indeed have a high - paying job and still be a Christian, as long as you give pretty much all of your money to the poor.

Competitive losses to Oklahoma, Ole Miss and Wisconsin were nice, but double - digit losses to pretty poor East Carolina (28 - 18) and SMU (17 - 0) teams won't get the job done in Price's ninth season.

That was a pretty extreme example of a camp doing a poor job of feeding kids, but it certainly isn't an anomaly.

Even though the game is pretty easy, there are a lot of instances where it does a poor job of explaining to you what you need to do next, or where you need to go; that's a big problem for a game that is clearly intended for a casual audience.

The acting is pretty poor with the exception of Dan Stevens («Downton Abbey»), who does an excellent job straddling the line between well - mannered nice guy and stone - cold killer.

Expect older hardware, small storage space, pretty poor screens and overall shabby bodies, but these toys are really inexpensive and will do the job, as long as you don't throw much at them.

From there, they actually do a pretty decent job of breaking down the controversy surrounding Battlefront II, a series of missteps so poor that «even Wall Street took notice.»

Also, while the purists would say that groups like the UN-sanctioned IPCC is a poor way to assess science, among other things because it's fraught with built - in political biases, I think under the circumstances it 1) did a credible job, not void of the biases and prejudices, but pretty much kept them in check, and 2) there was no other way to do it.