Sentences with phrase «shown little ability»

No lender will consider approving a start up business loan to an applicant that has shown little ability to keep their personal finances in order.

It will be slower to come given Amazon's dominance, but the trad publishers have shown little ability or interest in changing with the times.

The FCC has also shown little ability to aggressively enforce its own rules, despite a history of credible claims of fraudulent pricing by telecoms.

But it might be worth spending a moment considering another attribute he had, which politicians and political commentators have shown little ability to emulate over the last few months: he was usually right.

Not exact matches

The target is a medium term one, so there's a little bit of flexibility over the short term, and I think experience shows that in trying to do economic policy and trying to control inflation there really isn't an ability to fine tune these things over very short periods of time, you have to take a more medium term perspective.

Shoving people into positions of power at Federal agencies that were created to protect the public interest based on little more than Trump's gut instinct that his picks will show him the requisite personal loyalty that he demands is undermining the Federal government's ability to do its job.

I am an immunologist and my personal experience over the past 30 years has shown me that people who rely on their own intellect and abilities live very shallow lives with little meaning other than their work.

The scientific community has shown very little ability to regulate itself.

Instead we perceive a much larger and more diverse assortment of individual heavy drinkers who have little in common except that (1) they drink a lot, (2) they tend to have many more problems in life than nondrinkers or moderate drinkers, and (3) they show a puzzlingly inconsistent ability to manage their drinking» (p. 99).

Elneny brings little to the team, limited passing ability only ever choosing the easy pass as well as being weak and slow, this showed yesterday getting beat by nearly every Man United player that came his way.

The little bit I did see from him at the end of last season was enough to show me that the kid still has some decent pass rush ability from the edge, which is what he was supposed to be coming out of college in the first place.

Desxpite only making five starts in the Premier League this season our long serving star, dubbed Little Mozart for his amazing ability, has continued to show what a top quality footballer he is.

and shown flashes of his ability as a cracking finisher and a hard worker for the team, but perhaps the better starts to their new careers from the likes of Lukaku and Morata have put his transfer a little bit more in the spotlight.

Shack should be able to take 15 to 20 off of him but I hope it doesn't negate his ability to own the paint and back people down... he did show the ability to drive a little tonight but his shooting is suspect at this point (not seeing the Jenkins comparison), he has literally zero verticle explosiveness (not seeing the Paschall comparison at all) but he can rebound, has great footwork around the rim and has a good spin move that he does have a quickness out of to the rim.

Pentathlete Jane Frederick could not show all of her talent, but a little of her ability went a long way

The sharp - shooting fishes» ability to spit water to hit food targets have been well documented, but a new study published online in the journal Zoology showed for the first time that there is little difference in the amount of force delivered by their water jets to targets at different distances.

Most dogs show little interest in the average television set because of their visual abilities.

«For Stone Island, which shows little evidence of recovery, any future disturbances may further hinder its ability to bounce back.»

A study published in the recent online journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B set out to test that question with the little West Coast tidepool copepod, Tigriopus californicus, which normally shows an ability to tolerate wide ranges in temperatures.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

No Joe = clean apartment and the ability to watch all the trashy reality tv shows my little heart desires without judgement.

However, new research is showing that these little buggas are responsible for whole - body health including our ability to lose weight.

For example, there is a funny bit where Kevin James» character, Eric, is a little too attached to his mom (the super adorable Georgia Engel from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), but they chose to spend more time on a stupid running gag: Eric has the ability to «burp - snart» (burping, sneezing, and farting at the same time).

Very much a genre stylist in the mold of golden - age Hollywood directors like Anthony Mann or Raoul Walsh, Uchida showed little discernible personal style to mark him as an auteur in the French critical mold, but the uniformly high quality of his works and his ability to succeed in a variety of genres mark him as a filmmaker very ripe for (re) consideration by critics.

The Japanese launch featured another platformer — Nezmix, a game starring a Stuart Little - alike that showed off the Xbox's ability to pull of fur effects and nothing more.

Why did they get involved, other than to show the rest of the world that each of them, bless their little overcompensated souls, has the ability to say dirty and rude things like the rest of us lowly non-celebrities?

About his ability to marshal big egos there can be little doubt, but his camera bobs all over the axis of action like a first - year film student, and he shows almost no command of tone, reducing the material's vaguely satirical detours into perversion (incest!

Director Steven Brill has worked with Adam Sandler in the past (he directed Mr. Deeds and Little Nicky), so he's been around someone who has shown an ability to mix crazy humor and heart.

I'll give Alba a little credit here, as she isn't really known for her dancing abilities or her street cred either, but she does a decent job in showing off some impressive moves, and she doesn't really embarrass herself too much in the role as a Black Latina from the tough side of town.

This game is great because it gives each player a chance to show just how little they know about how people behave, and then gives the remaining people in the room the ability to rub - in how ridiculous of a guess it was.

Classroom «Crisis»: Many Teachers Have Little or No Experience MSNBC, September 26, 2011 «While education experts caution that lack of experience isn't necessarily an indication of a teacher's ability, student achievement scores do show that on average a first - year teacher is not as effective as a third - year teacher, said Susan Moore Johnson, an expert on teacher recruitment and retention at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

Pope et al.'s (2002, 2005) and other studies (Wang & Holthaus, 1999) showed that completion of standalone technology courses have little to do with preservice teachers» ability to apply the technology in real classroom settings.

I think the «professionals» that do the test drives are so diluted with the massive range of cars trucks SUV's etc that they drive they loose the ability to fine tune what matters to the specific group of people into this type of car... Also there is a lot of room in the front seat - seems to have endless adjustment to it - I am a huge guy 6» 3 and 250 pounds and just to feel like the Santa fe I have to have the seat upwards, I will slowly adjust this back as I get used to the car... Also no one wants to discuss the arguments about the 19 inch wheels adding a little to the ground clearance - an engineer showed me this huge equation that in the end said it added 1.45 inches... who knows... But I am impressed with the power, I thought it was slightly bigger and more powerful that the CX - 5 and handled just as good maybe better off regular roads....

While we have to wait a little longer before we get behind the flat - bottomed steering wheel and polished pedals of a Golf R on the road, the ice - test does show off the playful side to the Golf R — and its new - found ability to turn off all of the driver assistance systems.

Just because your family portrait shows a few little ones doesn't mean you need to give up the ability to enjoy your time behind the wheel.

While it's tempting to think of the time off from school as a time to relax the rules a little bit, at least where academics are concerned, studies have shown that students who do not spend time reading during the summer months actually return to school having lost significant ability on comprehension and vocabulary... [Read more...]

Especially since studies continue to show that teens — who led the move to MPGs and iPods from CD players — have little interest in e-readers and e-books, preferring paperbacks for portability and hardcovers for durability and the ability to physically relate to something they cherish and has emotional importance to them.

In fact, eating junk food has been shown to decrease memory and cognitive ability in as a little as a week, according to a study conducted at the University of New South Wales.

While it's a little bit disappointing that no new - to - the - series power - ups show up outside of the Aeion abilities, it's nothing that holds back the majesty of this adventure.

Some other gameplay features were also shown in the Final Fantasy XV Xbox One gameplay demo like an ability that allows the character to dash forward and sort of like teleport a little distance to advance on the enemy.

Trying to do all those things and work on my upcoming show was leaving me a little frazzled and drained, so I unplugged (to the best of my ability, anyway).

The creek is heartening to see because it shows the ability of wild things to fill in gaps and thrive amid some of the most heavily trammeled human habitat if we leave just a little room for nature — what Thoreau called «the swamp on the edge of town» (as pointed out to me by the «renegade naturalist,» Daniel Botkin).

Though showing up a little late to the electric vehicle party, Ford is flaunting the new Focus» ability to recharge the 23 kwh...

The demonising of her by small insignificant little people who have no ability to show compassion or see beyond their navels, pockets or ideology is despicable and even more so when they use the safety of Parliament to undertake such attacks.

Regarding your analysis: I already indicated I have little faith in your ability to do the analysis (I earlier looked at temperature data you claimed showed no increase, and actually found a HUGE increase, much larger than the global mean).

It's one of those little things that makes the Pixels just that much more appealing than other Android phones, and shows Google's ability to do some special things with its own hardware.

This little monster is essentially an Echo Show with fewer abilities and a more focused approach.

There are a laundry list of little changes owners have hoped for, including the ability to show friends by their user name and the possibility of some jovial background music in the eShop.

A functional resume shows achievements and abilities, with little emphasis on dates.

It hinders those with little or no experience to show their abilities and responsibilities.