Sentences with phrase «sharp performance in»

Ozil surprisingly played with a very sharp performance in the CSKA Moscow, even though I think the penalty was unjust.

Despite some sharp performances in May, the bulk of the 2015 - 16 season was a major disappointment for Liverpool striker Christian Benteke.

Not exact matches

In fact, it saw the sharpest drop since the financial crisis as weaker corporate performance sacked cash bonuses and accounting regulation hampered pension growth.

While the U.S. economy shrank a surprisingly sharp 2.9 % in the first quarter of 2014, the worst quarterly performance since the first quarter of 2009, the economy is expected to improve drastically in the second quarter helped by better weather conditions, some pent - up demand after a harsh winter, and job growth.

The typical performance review system doesn't work because you're demotivating half your population, poking them in the eye with a sharp stick.»

Delivery times from vendors lengthened for the sixteenth successive month in October, with the latest deterioration of vendor performance the sharpest since April.

«The sharp decline in March export growth after very solid performance in January and February suggests some exporters may have front - loaded exports (early) this year due to concern over the possibility of a Sino-U.S. trade war after the U.S. hiked tariffs on global imports on solar panels and washing machines,» said Lisheng Wang, an economist at Nomura in Hong Kong.

Commodities also followed risk assets higher, even gold, and coupled with the weakness in European and Asian, one might wonder how, and when the sharp performance gap will close.

Even allowing for this, the results to date were well above expectations and in sharp contrast to what might have been expected given performance of the economy.

The strong export performance of 2015 gave us new confidence, but this was shaken again in the first half of this year when we experienced a sharp decline over five months.

The news for stock pickers just keeps getting better — in addition to the overall great year for the market, one of the biggest trends holding back performance has shown a sharp turnaround.

October saw the sharpest fall in manufacturing production in at least five years, and the overall performance of the sector has dropped to yet another record low» said Cheryl Paradowski, president and chief executive officer, SCMA.

Its promises are not wrung out of problems — although their lure is made sharp there — but out of Godly performances celebrated in the devotion of the church.

But on the other hand i want there to be rotation to keep the fringe players semi-happy and also to keep their performances sharp... One change i would make would be podolski in for welbeck, i think podolski has done enough to get a start.

Three years of brilliant performances make Jones the 100 - and 200 - meter favorite at the trials, especially with Miller — who has not looked sharp in recent European races — saying last week that she is running merely to make the team in Sacramento, with victory in Sydney as her larger goal.

«We need a top level team performance where everybody is spot on in the discipline and sharp physically and ready to work for the team.

He has not been helped too much by the performance of the team in general so far, but we need him to be sharp up at Newcastle today.

Going simply on current form and the performance of each player in the Premier League win over Sunderland last weekend, you would assume that Wenger would go for the Costa Rican, even though the Ox was clearly a bit rusty after a spell out of the team with injury and should be sharper now.

We have to believe that our indifferent performance was a down to an interrupted pre-season causing a lack of match fitness and that we will be far sharper in the coming weeks.

They clearly created more chances but after the first goal they lost their sharp edge and thus that ended in a bad performance for them.

Clearly teams are winning against us by being sharp for a moment or two in front of the goal.But we lack that, else it would have been a different story altogether.I should praise Fabianski for his performance yesterday.

We can usually defend sharp and together as a unit until a chance appears, and to slip back into this sort of performance will not cut it in CL much less the PL, we saw that again and again.

I noticed a sharp improvement in his performance when he was pushed further up the pitch.

With discipline the theme of today's column, sharp bettors have been extremely selective in early betting as well, not overreacting to the week's performance.

The company closed last spring after 146 years in business with company officials saying the final nail was a sharp drop in ticket sales after it stopped putting elephants in its performances.

He said the performance of the cedi in the last eight years is in sharp contrast to the remarkable stability of the cedi during the eight years of the erstwhile NPP government under President John Agyekum Kufuor.

The best Democratic performances in the state Senate in the past half - century have come in elections in which Barack Obama led the ticket and inspired a sharp spike in turnout in some solidly blue portions of the state.

With the Administration for Children's Services having suffered several high - profile child deaths in recent weeks, Mr. de Blasio faced sharp questioning over the agency's performance.

It's been a performance that stands in sharp contrast to, say, how longtime and former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, himself no stranger to scandals, would have handled a public controversy.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday that the Long Island Power Authority «has to end,» as he continued his sharp criticism of the authority's performance in the wake of superstorm Sandy.

Behaviorally, the mice with 110 CAG repeats showed a sharp decline in both rotarod and open field performance from around 4 weeks of age whereas the 240 CAG repeat mice displayed a 2 - 3 week delay in the onset of behavioral decline with a much slower progression of decline in both tasks as compared to 110 CAG repeat counterparts.

Increasing muscle fascicle length through eccentric training could therefore be a valuable method for improving athletic performance in movements that have peak contractions at long muscle lengths, such as the terminal swing phase of sprinting, or the ground contact phase of sharp change of direction (COD) maneuvers.

Minimising your intake could improve your health in other ways, if you're fatigued all the time, if you're mentally sluggish and not as sharp as you'd like, or if your sexual performance needs pumping up.

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Indeed, with approximately 0.5 seconds available for force production during COD maneuvers with sharp turns (Sasaki et al. 2011; Dos» Santos et al. 2016), maximum force production is likely to be quite closely related to COD performance, particularly as peak force in concentric contractions is reached in as little as 125ms (Tillin et al. 2012a).

Named one of Variety's 10 Actors to Watch in 2007, Swedish - Canadian actress Malin Akerman has since been tearing up Hollywood with her beauty and charisma, her sharp comedic timing, and her touching dramatic performances.

It doesn't try to show some drastic change, but it does attempt to convince others that change can indeed happen, it also never puts blame on one person, because obviously with marriage it is a joint effort, there will be trials and on other occasions it simply won't work, but time and commitment can change that, rarely can a simple film like this address so much in such limited issues, but sharp, often improvisational dialogue and strong performances create a very real and insightful piece that underplays everything for maximum effect, which works.

Drawing a parade of colorful performances from a constantly surprising cast, the curiously titled «John Grisham's «The Rainmaker»» is Mr. Coppola's best and sharpest film in years.

An appealing comedy with an unabashed streak of melodrama, sharp dialogue, and a superb ensemble cast, anchored by a lead performance by Al Pacino in lovable scamp mode.

Critic Consensus: Sharper and wittier than your average period piece, The Lion in Winter is a tale of palace intrigue bolstered by fantastic performances from Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, and Anthony Hopkins in his big - screen debut.

Featuring a career - making performance by Lily Collins, and pitch - perfect supporting roles by Keanu Reeves, Carrie Preston, and Lili Taylor, To the Bone subverts expectations at every turn with its razor - sharp script, and its undiluted look at what young women face in living up to both society's expectations of beauty, and their own.

Critics Consensus: Sharper and wittier than your average period piece, The Lion in Winter is a tale of palace intrigue bolstered by fantastic performances from Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, and Anthony Hopkins in his big - screen debut.

But Cherish is also home to what is easily Robin Tunney's best performance to date, another smart and quirky turn by Tim Blake Nelson, a disabled person in a heroic and human role, and a premise that is sharp, intriguing, and original.

Though the humor on the show can be a little too dry at times, and some of the in - jokes are only funny if you've worked in a hospital setting before, it features sharp writing and excellent performances from its cast.

Director Lanthimor digs deep, and Farell, following a sharp turn in «In Bruges» and «7 psychopaths» gives a performance of ferocity and feelinin «In Bruges» and «7 psychopaths» gives a performance of ferocity and feelinIn Bruges» and «7 psychopaths» gives a performance of ferocity and feeling.

With its sharp writing, superior cast, evocative locations, seductively seamy subject matter and delicious performances, Top of the Lake is decidedly back in a major way.

Quite an interesting first film by Foughi and likewise a suitably intense performance by Jabbari, on whom lenser Sina Kermanizadeh concentrates sometimes in sharp close - up and other times in soft focus.

Witty, razor - sharp observations abound in this stand - up performance from Gina Yashere.

Tucked in between all the hurt and the jokes, the character development and the across - the - board terrific performances is a surprisingly sharp look at contemporary America...

Tucked in between all the hurt and the jokes, the character development and the across - the - board terrific performances is a surprisingly sharp look at contemporary America... Full Review