Sentences with phrase «single bad year»

Many firms can withstand a single bad year — but few are in a position to withstand two or three bad years.

The most pressing question is whether 2015 is a single bad year or the prelude to something more painful than «more or less flat.»

Many investors strive to get «too good to believe» returns without considering what happens when that star investment has just a single bad year in four.

However, as teachers develop a track record and become less vulnerable to a single bad year, they will be more supportive of efforts to police their own ranks.

Low risk fliers on young players who have had some success at some point in their careers, coming off a single bad year like Pryor and Walford are not bad things.

Not exact matches

As earnings season comes to a close — and as the S&P 500 looks to rebound from its worst month in two years — investors are hungry for the types of large single - stock moves that create money - making opportunities.

It wasn't our very worst pick this year (see CVS, above), but we're singling it out here because it's one of the few stocks we recommended twice (in our March restaurant stocks story, and in our Midyear Investor's Guide in May).

This means that every single person on this planet, from a newborn to the pre baby boomer generation, from the most advanced countries to the worst places on earth, from the top 1 % earners to homeless people have spent more than $ 3 on Apple products (and services) last year.

My single income household grosses roughly $ 120K per year, but thanks to non-taxable benefits (housing allowance, subsistence, etc.), only 75 % of that annual pay is taxable (not bad considering I've given a blank check to God & Country).

«You would not cut the value of a good farm in half just because bad weather conditions caused a crop failure in a single year» Phil Fisher

In the March quarter, revenues were down 10 % on a year over year basis, which was worse than our expectation for a low single - digit fall.

Earlier this year J.P. Morgan Asset Management released a report entitled «Staying Invested During Volatile Markets» that discussed the interaction between the S&P 500's (SNPINDEX: ^ GSPC) best and worst single - day performances over a 20 - year period between Jan. 3, 1995 and Dec. 31, 2014.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came to Israel Sunday in the midst of the worst crisis in relations between Israelis and Palestinians in years, but he did not meet a single Palestinian representative and mentioned them publicly once.

Perhaps the late medieval church, but their sins were greatly exaggerated by the Humanists of the Enlightenment (as well as the Protestants) and so we have to take the reports with a grain of salt and also make sure that we don't condense several hundred years of bad history into a single solitary condemnation.

At least 70 people were killed by ISIS this weekend during a pair of suicide bombings, in the worst single attack to hit Baghdad this year.

As a 36 - year - old woman without a ring on my finger, I've had my fair share of experiences in the single life — some good, some bad.

But 15 years after the worst terrorist attacks in American history, we are still having to defend the existence of a facility and a process when not a single verdict has been reached in those attacks.

I'm thankful for you reading this now, for my bad food photography which evolved into better food photography, for each and every nutrition client over the years, for my colleagues, for my publisher, for my family, and for every single one of my struggles.

Arsenal fans will obviously hoping that this is where the coincidence ends as well, because the Gunners got off to the worst possible start last year by losing at home to Liverpool (and when you consider they pipped us to the final Champions League spot by a single point that loss looks even worse).

That would seem to qualify him for Toledo, even with a single bad outing in Erie last year after the trade.

The perfect example of our mental issues has to be our matches vs Chelsea, when you think we haven't won against them in a competitive fixture in 3 years is bad, when you realize we haven't scored a single goal either and you get an idea.

Next season will be tough as hell This season was our best chance to win the PL in 12 years Wenger not signing a single outfielder to strengthen the squad was ridiculously bad decision We only needed a top CF and another DM He needs to make up for it by getting a handful of WC players: CF, winger, CB and DM

A patch of bad form and you write off a player from the first team of Barca going back quite a few years and is the best left winger in prem last season on the first team of Arsenal no doubt and has almost single handedly won Chile the Copa America which includes Brazil Argentina messi and co..

The entire «Color Rush» BS was the brainchild of Nike, which is a suck organization anyways, and was just to try to sell some hideous jerseys to casual, idiot fans; thankfully, that only lasted a few years, but it was memorable for the horrendously bad look almost every single team had to sport on the field.

I want trophies very badly, in fact i would love us to win both UCL and BPL this year if possible, but i know and am sure good team cohesion would win both without even a single addition.

Everything about last year's team, good and bad, could be magnified, from the fun offense to the iffy defense to the close games — S&P + projects six games with single - digit margins.

The problem is not that Arsenal have got worse, it is that every single team above us has got exponentially better, which is what we expected with the arrival of all these top - class managers in the last couple of years...

Dennis Dale McLain stands out sharply, a single paisley page in a year papered with bad tidings.

Naturally all JustArsenal readers have known for years that there MUST be something wrong with the training methods, because it can hardly be a coincidence that every single year Arsenal get hit with a full - blown injury crisis, and this season has been even worse than usual.

Right now the only weak link in this team is BFG... when will he dropped to benched... everybody knows that he is too slow and everyone exploit that in every single game... but still he keeps on starting the game... i never feel secure with him especially when we are attacking and play high line... If I was gabriel I would be fuming from inside... cause gabriel is so much better than him but still BFG starts while gabriel always start from the bench... We have enough warnings by now, surely we are not waiting for a Monoco like game... and then start blaming him... Gabriel has to start, the guy got lot to offer... his mentality his attitude his passion, fire in the belly this guy has to start... and he also can be the leader that this team so badly crying for years now...

Of course he's going to do well because he plays for ARSENAL but, the fact is he is our worst main striker for the last 15 years and Benzema will be an upgrade in every single department in comparison to Giroud

You make some good points Simon but that doesn't alter the fact that we've been singled out over the last ten years for some unbelievably bad decisions and media reports by Sky Sports, the FA and the referees.

@ Gunna shah 0k my bad he is taller but still arsenal concede a whole lot of goals last season so pls don «t talk about anyone getting the best of vamarlen he is part of the defence and for god sakes do nt mention djourou he has improved in inches am not abusing wenger the fact is Arsenal, have not won a single trophy in FIVE (5) years and the League in SIX (6) years that is the truth it hurts do nt» t it no one likes to hear the truth we all like promises and lies and thats what wenger have been feeding Arsenal fans i have nothing persona; l againt wenger but sh*t is Sh*t notice we are already in austria no new goalie i will be shocked if one comes in we wait and see.............

While I struggled with that, in part because we live apart and have been seeing each other for about a year and so I didn't have all the answers to everything, it occurred to me that this has probably been my greatest fear as a single woman — that something bad will happen and no one will be around to help me.

Okay, so I'm a single mom of a 3 year old boy with autism (that fits two of your «worse off than me» categories, right?)

Through the years, he gained experience (for better or worse) as an estranged dad, a part - time dad, and a single dad.

A separate report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned that the new system would hit working, single parents who would be over # 1,000 a year worse off on average.

It provides a single, seemingly straightforward measure of party performance that can tell us not only how well or badly a party has done as compared with four years ago, but also as compared with any previous local elections for which a PNS is available — even though the places in which local elections are held varies considerably from one year to the next.

He told his local newspaper that his early years were years of «love and warmth» and that he did not have «a single bad memory» of his time in the orphanage.

Despite having been cited in 18 consecutive inspections, at Nuestros Ninos Day Care Center in Brooklyn — the second worst persistent violator — a director claimed that the site had never received a single violation in more than 35 years of operation.

So we'll invest in the early years, help put troubled families back on track, use a pupil premium to make sure kids from the poorest homes go to the best schools not the worst, recognise marriage in the tax system and, most of all, make sure that work really pays for every single person in our country

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

I mean whatever you think of Paladino, there is no denying that Silver is a criminal, he is single handedly holding the entire state hostage so he can please a few special interest groups in Manhattan, he's been in there for 16 years, thats longer that some of the worlds worst dictators.

Meteorologists warn the worst is yet to come, with the storm expected to dump 200 to 300 millimeters of rain in a single day — two to three times the country's normal rainfall for an entire year.

It's a bad habit that made its way to our bedside approximately ten years ago with the arrival of the first iPhone: Replacing our everyday (and single - purpose) alarm clock with our multi-tasking smartphone.

She also took some time to indulge us in a nosy Q and A about making the new line, her worst Valentine's Day and what to do if you're single on the most romantic day of the year.

The survey asked 200 New Zealanders to name the day of the year when they least wanted to be single, and it seems men and women are of one mind: 52 % of women and 45 % of men think being single on Christmas Day is worse than being single on Valentine's Day or on New Year's year when they least wanted to be single, and it seems men and women are of one mind: 52 % of women and 45 % of men think being single on Christmas Day is worse than being single on Valentine's Day or on New Year's Year's Eve.

For American men, however, the worst day of the year to be single is Christmas Day.

Men and women are of one mind: 52 % of women and 45 % of men think being single on Christmas Day is worse than being single on Valentine's Day or on New Year's Eve.

For men, however, the worst day of the year to be single is Christmas Day.