Sentences with phrase «smaller than i hoped»

So the 12th and 78th minute protest was smaller than I hoped.

Yet even if Cuadrilla's bounty is smaller than it hopes, the earth is riddled with shale rock; its exploitation may check the upward pressure on prices, weakening the economic case for reducing dependence on hydrocarbons.

Not exact matches

Innovation is about «small ball» — a succession of base hits and quick scores rather than swinging for the fences and hoping for home runs.

Theoretically, it's good for small business: The Wall Street Journal reports that Giuliani hopes at least 13 million people will trade their employer - based insurance for a private plan, bringing the number of Americans who buy their own policies to more than 30 million.

Meanwhile, the founders have to continue along, hoping for a bigger payday, which will now be more complicated and smaller, percentage-wise, than before.

Along the way, Denton spent more money than almost any other media company, large or small, on trying to reinvent reader interaction through a proprietary platform he called Kinja, which he hoped would level the playing field between journalist and audience.

At a time when people are living longer, yet retiring with a smaller pot of savings than they'd hoped for, this book will become the essential guide.

And business, especially small business, is the best hope of the world's poor» their best hope of becoming economically independent, producing more wealth in their lifetimes than they expend.

If talk about God is to express more than intellectually satisfying constructions, abstract ideals, and hopes, theologians will have to show in fact that Hartshorne is wrong when he says that «our knowledge of the concrete divine reality is negligibly small» (NTT 77).

Touchstone editor Simon J. Dahlman observes that ECT «is little more than the published hopes and dreams of a small group of influential church leaders.»

I also believe your «hope» and «faith» has ZERO to do with any reallity outside your small mind that would rather force scientific discoverys to conform to a preconcieved genesis account or throw them out the window all together than open your mind to possibility you are wrong.

Nevertheless, there is now a growing willingness - as long as it is made clear that this is no excuse for the existence of this appalling crime within an organisation which ought to be an example to society at large rather than a reflection of it - to think seriously about what that implies for our relationship to a society which, because of our bishops» gross mishandling of the problem, we now have small hope of influencing in this matter.

I am hoping this will convince your father that a much smaller garden will produce more than enough food for all the friends and family we have, but I am afraid he is just enjoying all this fresh stuff way too much.

This week, I finally made it, with a few small changes, and it came out even better than I'd hoped.

So even without the relaxing of the FFP rules, Arsene Wenger is still likely to have a smaller transfer budget than our big Premier League rivals and with Chelsea and the Manchester clubs also able to offer the lure of Champions League football, our manager will be hoping that his transfer targets are not the same.

All that can be hoped for is that the scar ends up smaller than the lesson learned.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

It's no joke keeping wenger for another rebuild was suicide and I'm afraid to tell everyone that this will be the worst season in wengers history 35mil for xhaka instead of 32mil kante was when I ended my hopes for wenger and now bakayoko aswell is he blind??? I wanted mendy aswell being an arsenal fan is horrible iv hated the last 2 years more than the last 3 decades coz I know hope is gone WENGEROUT before its late and we end up being the smallest slowest team in prem history

Don't kid yourself there.Giroud is not the one benching Lacazette in France National team.It's Griezmann.Giroud is also an average player.It's just good service which is making him look good.If he was in any of the smaller clubs it's not like we'd be wishing to sign him.Lacazette is exponentially a better player than Giroud.He just needs time and I hope he doesn't share it with Giroud just like the way Giroud had his time.He's been average over the past seasons yet fans would bring up stats defending him while calling Walcott who has the same impressive stats as average.Isn't it a disgrace for Walcott to start over you in CF?If Arsenal were serious we wpuld've sold Giroud and Welbeck then used the money to get reliable back ups who are not inconsistent.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

But then the Sox signed Martinez, a slugger smaller than New York's giants but just as powerful, and I began to feel a glimmer of hope.

Evergreen Park league officials say they decided to speak out despite the risk of being criticized in hopes of protecting the integrity of Little League baseball — a once small - town organization that's now worth more than $ 80 million — and keep their league, as well as others, alive.

I hope this gets through to you in some small way and that you do nt truely believe we have a right to beat the Dortmunds and Napolis of this world because at least one, if not both are in a better place than us right now.

Thnks SF for this knock - out match up info.I've always thought that winning or loosin agst Porto yesterday did nt matter, as I saw these big teams fallin to the 2nd place, I was thinking that may be it shud be also gud for us to be 2nd so that we would face lower team in the knck - out rd but this seem to be the otherway ard.Panathinaikos is the only small team there, the rest are all danger for us.But who knows??!!! As far as the history of this season taught us, it seems like we play better agst bigger team than agst smaller team, so lets just hope the best for our players.As SF said: the biggest matter now is the game agst BORO on strday.

my breast is getting bigger than the other one cuz my baby like to feed on one breat more, i'm trying to start feeding him from the small breast first so he get quit full and i nurse him from the big one with he about to sleep just to make them even,,, i hope that works,, i guess,,, what do u think??????

They caused odors and are a little smaller than I'd hoped.

But the boundaries I * think * will make a relatively small difference, and less than some hope / fear.

While his proposed smaller - than - anticipated 3 percent increase in state aid for education will spark a food fight, we hope it's part of a larger conversation about how New York funds K - 12 education.

«For those proposed locations that are more affluent, a project would have to provide a considerably greater overall direct and residual economic benefit to the host municipality and surrounding region than a smaller project sited in a disadvantaged region,» he wrote to Sen. John Bonacic, R - Mount Hope.

I have no idea how long I will serve in the House — that will be up to the people of Weaver Vale — but I hope that if I am to leave this place sooner rather than later, I will be able to help, in a small way, to put the «great» back into Great Britain.»

Here's hoping that solving P versus NP turns out to be faster than proving the Honeycomb conjecture, which states that if you need to divide a surface into tiled shapes of equal size, a hexagon is the shape that requires the smallest length of dividing lines.

In my paneled session on resource scarcity, I end my 3 - minute «pitch» hoping for not much more than small strides toward putting the problem of global forest sustainability — the pure science of which we all seem to agree is largely done — into the hearts and hands of some of these mind - blowingly successful businessmen and social entrepreneurs.

Astronomers plan to measure masses for at least 50 TESS planets that are smaller than Neptune in the hopes that many of them will have rocky, and therefore potentially habitable, surfaces.

Many have high hopes for a new power source called the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG), which uses a smaller amount of plutonium - 238 and is more efficient than previous radioisotope power sources.

Known as the Abbe diffraction limit, it meant that a researcher using visible light — the best method for studying biological samples — couldn't hope to see things smaller than about 0.2 micrometers, or millionths of a meter.

* Clarification, 26 September, 11:48 a.m.: The story has been revised to reflect the fact that Oak Ridge officials hope the number of staff reductions will turn out to be smaller than 475.

In the future, researchers hope that advances in computing and simulation will make a full - particle simulation possible — as first - principles calculations are currently too intensive to solve small - scale magnetism for regions larger than a few thousand atoms.

A small dam in M'bé near Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire represents the inspiring story of unsung heroes who helped more than 300 farming households survive a difficult time when they had little hope.

I hope that this trend is here to stay, as these small - batch goods with a story are far more responsible than mass - produced, wear - and - tear home accessories from large chains that are often made with questionable sourcing and production methods.

Regardless of your aspirations, dividing your ultimate goal into smaller, manageable tasks has been proven to work better than sticking only to the big picture — if anything, the latter seems to lead only to confusion and frustration, especially when you put all of your hopes and motivation into a life - changing complex goal without realizing that it's a long term commitment and small failures are bound to happen.

I consider this second year a huge success for my small business blog — We've grown so much faster than I'd hoped & that's down to you lovely people.

Current / Elliott The Rolled Sleeve Glitter Tee (Small)- This top was way smaller than I was hoping; I really wanted it baggier and less... glittery.

The points are smaller than a pencil so I hoped they'd be OK but I was prepared to remove the tips from the cable if necessary.

I am a 20 year old mom that currently live in a small town in new mexico with high hopes of getting somewhere else almost anywhere else rather than here.

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE — May 12 — LinkedIn is hoping to create a viable business by capturing a small piece of a classified advertising market estimated to be worth more than $ 20 billion.

The fifth episode, while not spectacular, offers hope of bigger - picture ambitions for Lucifer, since almost nothing could be smaller than the case - of - the - week procedural shenanigans plaguing the wheel - spinning earlier episodes.

More than though it's a tough look at a mother's love, senseless loss and the hope that can be found, even if you only get to experience it in small pockets of time.

She then starts to break audience's hearts when she recalls her forced downsizing experience and its impact on her life and how she'd always hoped to meet that Norwegian doctor who, seeing how her downsizing had reduced her pain due to her lost leg — realized it's the first time he'd never been so proud of his downsizing efforts when he heard her story and realized she was relieved from unbearable pain only to find herself on the margin of a downsized society that, even though became smaller in size, its ego and indifference are bigger than ever.

The cast all come out on top and there is hope in the final frames that we have a good journey ahead of us, it's just a shame this journey felt like nothing more than a speeding bullet that missed the target by a small yet worryingly meaningful margin.

Consequently, one would expect a smaller response to the Michigan Merit Award than to the Hope scholarship.