Sentences with phrase «relative failure»

The Nation has thrown massive resources at the water pollution problems since 1972, only to witness the «relative failure of the regulatory and technical solutions it chose.

Boucher introduces Lotto as «an outlier in Italian Renaissance art, a portrait painter capable of capturing the soul on canvas, a man whose religious art struck a note of sincerity in an age bound by ritual and dogma, a figure overshadowed in life by Titian and Raphael and condemned to poverty and relative failure in his own day.»

2) He assesses the most recent efforts at school reform — performance pay, school turnaround strategies, renewed emphasis on school accountability — as relative failures.

Ian Rands suggests it was the pressure of being the focal point of his hometown team's attacks, allied to the side's general tactical naà ¯ vety, that led to relative failure with only eight league goals in two frustrating seasons.

The PlayStation Network continues to show its age, and the Vita's relative failure put a monkey wrench in the PlayStation ecosystem.

It's what kept the company afloat and successful even through relative failures like the Gamecube (and, yes, the Wii U).

While most corporate marriages end in relative failure, Amazon's $ 13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods could very well be the birth of a power player in the grocery space.

Confession becomes prayer when it is made with a consciousness of the limitlessness of the possibilities of goodness against which every human achievement must appear as a relative failure.

A flow of recent sociological literature on the relative failure of the CEBs as compared to Pentecostal success is instructive reading for all historic Protestants (see Burdick, Hewitt, Teixeira et al...).

We are 16th in the league, We play europa Cup not champions league, Our best players want to leave, Our manager is a relative failure (unless we are counting FA cups), And the owner is negligent and shows no ambition.

While the 29 - year - old has managed another seven substitute appearances, he has scored only one goal all campaign, and has seen only 146 minutes despite Diego Costa's relative failure.

This is a reminder that one team's relative failure is another's aspiration.

Since Viera left, we have had practically no warriors, hence the relative failure compared to Wengers first decade when we had a team packed through with warriors and therefore had great success.

The time spent at Manchester United, as Ferguson's chosen successor, was always going to be a difficult gig and it was a relative failure rather than an absolute one.

I've looked into and researched Israeli Kibbutzim and have found their relative failures (especially related to learning empathy and attachment in regards to finding a life mate) in virtually eliminating a Primary Attachment Figure to be troubling.

Despite its relative failures, Labour should remain Wales's biggest party in terms of both votes and seats, for the 20th election in a row.

The relative failures of these apps suggest that in order create a female - friendly mobile dating experience, you.

It's instantly clear that Howard, along with returning screenwriter David Koepp, has learned nothing from the relative failure of both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, as Inferno, for the most part, chugs along at a lackadaisical pace that's compounded by an overlong running time and surfeit of underwhelming subplots.

My Life (1993), Speechless (1994), and The Paper (1994) were relative failures, despite star casting and name directors, while Multiplicity, a 1996 comedy featuring no less than four clones of the actor, further demonstrated that his name alone couldn't sell a movie.

The relative failure of 2014's The Amazing Spider - Man 2 sadly brought Garfield's reign to a premature end, but for a brief moment he gave us perhaps the most honest portrayal of Spider - Man yet.

The former got worldwide attention, and the latter quickly developed a fervent cult following despite being a relative failure at the box office.

Having said that, the first hour is so interesting, Foy is so good, and Soderbergh is so clearly still at the top of his game, that the relative failures of the climax can be forgiven.

CHICAGO — The incredibly talented men and women who make up the cast of «A.C.O.D.» make the relative failure of its script easier to bear.

Written and directed by Feig, Spy reunites him again with his Bridesmaids and Heat star McCarthy, who was wobbling a bit after the relative failure of Tammy, which was the first film where she was the only name on the poster.

In the course of decrying the picture's status as camp curio and chick flick, it reminds me of another notable picture with women involved at every level of creation, Jane Campion's In the Cut, and its relative failure.

Perhaps the relative failure of Nine might give him a little nudge in the right direction.

Indeed, they conclude that choice is «a system set up to create unsuccessful schools and loser students» and that the reforms involved «the deliberate creation of relative failures.»

Other educators have pointed out to me that the Accelerated Reader program has a demoralizing effect on students who don't read as fluently as their peers, driving home their relative failure in a painfully public way.

The ill - fated Renault Vel Satis was a big car with headlamps so oversized that its down - the - road graphics told you it was a small car, which was no doubt one of the contributing factors in its relative failure in the market.

Part of the relative failure is the proprietary memory cards that are outrageously expensive, as well as the relative price of the system itself when compared to the 3DS.

The company has remarked repeatedly that it's doing things differently this time, changing the way it approaches the release strategy compared to the relative failure of the Wii U. Most recently, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has noted that the NX will avoid the Wii U's greatest failure: A weak launch line - up.

«However, it will have been burnt by the relative failure of the PS Vita, which managed a mere 15 million sales.

A quick point - by - point comparison of Obocchama Kun with its cartoony peers might lead one to believe that the game is a relative failure.

It begins to look as though the institution needs the prize to give credence to what would otherwise be a relative failure.

As stated at para. 97 of the PDCC report, the relative failure rates at that point in time are 20 % for LPP candidates v 10 % for Articling candidates.

Both products were relative failures.

The relative failure of Microsoft's smartphone ambitions will also have dulled Cortana's appeal.