Sentences with phrase «rather weak quarter»

Not exact matches

OK, its launch alongside an untested and in many quarters untrusted console ensured pretty weak sales, but the fact that Ubisoft chose to give its Wii U horror debut the spirit of old - school Resident Evil rather than Left 4 Dead is one hell of an interesting sign.

Impressively, attending the school with the strongest civic climate (where 85 percent of students listed voting as a component of good citizenship) rather than the school with the weakest civic climate (where 46 percent chose voting) increased anticipated participation by a quarter of a standard deviation, or by about twice the effect of the individual student's having listed voting as a component of good citizenship.

weak effort or disruption should never result, as it often does today, in suspension and then return to the same class, but rather in separation from the students who are working hard, with intense remediation intended to allow a new start in a new class the next quarter.

August brought Sotheby's second - quarter results, declared by new CEO Tad Smith as «rather bumpy,» which in translation means weaker than expected by Wall Street analysts, with profits off 7 % and revenues down 1.1 %.