Sentences with phrase «showing poor effort»

As a fan, the temptation might be to reward a player who's putting up great numbers, just as you might want to withhold from one who's thought to be showing poor effort.

Not exact matches

«When executives tell me that flattery doesn't work and that people can see through strategic efforts to garner their support, I cite extensive evidence showing that we are generally quite poor at discerning deception,» Pfeffer explains.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Hell, I was watching the UT Martin game with the sound on and the announcers rightly called Nkemdiche out while showing a replay of his piss poor effort on a quarterback scramble.

the problem is not with sanchez but the reluctance of others to move up with him; the guy showed more energy and effort than all the others on saturday; ramsey was poor on saturday but to his credit he continues to get in to scoring positions but we need to have attack minded players who do the same; the ox is still work in progress in this respect but ozil should be encouraged to stay high and another attacker brought in... reus the colombian kid somebody who can link up with sanchez....

As a Spartan, I'm well aware of the poor effort he showed at times and the other stuff like the ATV accident.

Ozil poor nonchalant first half display and put in some effort after we had gone a goal down but did not show enough quality when it mattered.

Our stick - guarding Pole made a rather poor show of Andreas Weimann's effort for Villa's equaliser yesterday, letting a hopeful shot slip under him.

If you've spent your life making poor health choices and your kids have watched, it may take some time and convincing to show them the way, but the extra effort is worth it — keep at it!

The Bridgeport mayor has been collecting thousands of signatures to get on the primary ballot, and some delegates surmised that Ganim might not go forward with his convention effort if he believes that a poor showing would make him look like a weak candidate.

Casale isn't the only Republican to point to organized labor's efforts, driven in part by the constitutional - convention question, as a possible cause for the GOP's poor showing.

If we understand this, it won't just change the way we view the lives of the poorest in society, it will also show how misguided many current efforts to tackle society's problems are — and it will suggest better solutions.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.

Although the 2030 target seems improbable, if not impossible, proponents point to a few successful efforts — including the brief defeat of dog rabies in N'Djamena, the capital of dirt - poor Chad — to show that the disease can be beaten back even in Africa.

Though subsequent efforts have shown great care to stay both true to the original script and culturally accessible to American viewers, this one makes the poor choice of casting 21 - year - old Van Der Beek (just beginning his «Dawson's Creek» run) as a character who sounds about 11 in the original Japanese presentation.

Why put those poor stunt guys and performers through the fighting and the action if you're not going to show the audience the result of their efforts?

What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helm.

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

Inside though is a really poor effort to show off the game.

So what people often end up doing is simply going with the formats they see in Microsoft Word, which is often outdated and poor quality, or looking up instructions, which takes a lot of time and effort and is often imprecise, or getting a sample from a poor quality source and hoping it can show them the right things.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.