Sentences with phrase «set than in recent years»

The refreshed QX80 will find itself wading into battle against a tougher competitive set than in recent years.

Not exact matches

The overall strength in demand for credit, combined with the fact that interest rates remain slightly lower than the average of recent years, continues to suggest that the current policy setting is not inhibiting the growth of the economy.

First of all we need to assume that the people in charge behind the scenes at Arsenal FC are actually thinking about putting a new manager in charge, rather than the usual default setting of letting Arsene Wenger having yet another crack at the Premier League despite the Gunners slipping further and further away from mounting any sort of challenge in recent years.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

The relative benefits and risks of birth in different settings have been widely debated in recent years.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A problem when trying to evaluate the effect of birth setting on perinatal outcomes has been the use of actual place of birth rather than planned place of birth to define comparison groups.

They also trust the state Education Department and the Board of Regents more than Cuomo of the Legislature when it comes to setting education policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in recent years.

In recent days, the Chancellor Phillip Hammond has hinted at a few of the measures he will announce on Budget Day to meet his pledge to build 300,000 homes a year — a more ambitious target than set by previous Governments.

Given the recent economic turmoil and the fact that patent protection on many successful drugs is set to expire in a few years, maintaining innovation is more essential than ever to a company's survival.

Update: as suggested by the academy in its 2006 report, Michael Mann and his colleagues have reconstructed northern hemisphere temperatures for the past 2000 years using a broader set of proxies than was available for the original study and updated measurements from the recent past.

But despite the increasing precision of some 300 modern - day experiments using Cavendish's set - up, different labs have found slightly different values for G, and in recent years the discrepancy has widened rather than narrowed (see «G - whizzes disagree over gravity»).

POLICY MISMATCH To promote new - energy vehicles, the government has offered various incentives in recent years including tax breaks, and set targets such as having 5 million new - energy vehicles on the road by 2020 - more than 8 times the current number.

That's about 2000 years earlier than suggested by previous studies focusing on a different, more selective set of genes known as the exome, but it's in line with recent archaeological findings that point to distinctly Tibetan permanent settlements appearing between 3600 and 5200 years ago, Yang says.

According to the statistic, there are more than 2100 dating sites for people with herpes, HSV, HPV, HIV and other STDs in the world, Some have huge user base, some are new site which are set in recent years.

Written and directed by Maggie Carey, the film can easily be compared to American Pie or Super Bad, but from the female perspective and set in 1993, an interesting choice considering much of the language or concepts discussed are significantly more recent than 20 years ago, but let's not quibble about such issues.

The recent report by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley on the «baby boom echo» describes an unparalleled enrollment increase in the public schools: Last fall, school enrollment reached 51.7 million students, more than the 51.3 million record set by the baby boomers 25 years ago.

the European periphery is a bubble («The Euro crisis is not over... the European economies are not going to change for the better for years to come despite all the cheating and breaking of laws»), Value investors need to venture to Russia («when you look at today's opportunity set, you're left with a set of assets where nothing looks attractive from a valuation point of view») or buy gold mining stocks -LRB-» The down cycle could be much bigger than anybody believes if the market realizes that all the actions taken in recent years do not work.»)

Sony have a seriously impressive lineup of exclusive titles set for this year, but in a recent interview with Scrawl FX, a senior Sony executive has suggested that console exclusivity does more harm than good.

«In recent years, there's been a view in Washington that we should simply «let the market work» by taking a hands - off approach, rather than adopt a proactive and comprehensive set of energy policieIn recent years, there's been a view in Washington that we should simply «let the market work» by taking a hands - off approach, rather than adopt a proactive and comprehensive set of energy policiein Washington that we should simply «let the market work» by taking a hands - off approach, rather than adopt a proactive and comprehensive set of energy policies.

There is an annual cycle in the discrepancy between UAH and RSS in recent years, but it's less severe than in the LT case (about 0.04 deg peak to trough, as opposed to almost 0.2 deg in the LT set).

With an economy set to experience more growth than in recent years thanks to a change in political leaders who understand the importance of encouraging investment and stimulating economic development, the time is ripe for savvy property investors to make the most of potential capital growth.

With an economy set to experience more growth than in recent years thanks to a change in political leaders who understand the importance of...