Sentences with phrase «sort of fail state»

Six field goals allowed is a different sort of fail state, but also one that should be able to be overcome on a balanced team.

Not exact matches

But when framed in the context of today's digital and hyper - connected society, we often fail to see ways in which technology is preventing this sort of state from ever happening.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

They have spent decades ordering poor countries and failed states to sort out their problems with dodgy money, even while taking much of that dodgy money and ploughing it through their banks, their ritzy stores, their estate agents, and their offshore tax havens — with barely any questions asked or eyebrows raised.

There was widespread speculation that LaValle and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox had struck some sort of deal that boosted Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's failed pitch for the GOP line in the governor's race and Chris Cox's House run, but all parties denied that.

So in the May issue, Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, he writes an essay in which he raises sort of the specter that potentially, in the decades to come, that if we are not careful, that these problems with maintaining a sufficient food supply could get bad enough that it actually would threaten the state of civilization globally; that it just could cause widespread chaos, cause a large number of failed states and trigger [an] enormous number of problems down the line.

Though the hustle and bustle of the shopping hotspots never fails to me feel ever so slightly anxious about the state of my own Christmas shopping efforts (this year, non-existant so far...), there's a sort of hurried energy to the place that's undeniably infectious.

And she's not right to fail to note that the Common Core would have been — at least at this point in time — a sort of ambitious pilot program involving a smallish number of states that were serious about the implementation challenges, until the feds blundered into the middle of it with «incentives» that turned it into a sort of national piñata.

Other districts, most - notably Detroit, have largely failed in wrangling with their fiscal woes and found themselves under some sort of state takeover.

(http://www.senatorphilpavlov.com/commentary-how-we-are-reinventing-states-outmoded-education-system/) What Sen. Pavlov fails to mention is that gaining a spot on the state's «achievement gap list» is no measure of any sort of educational or learning issue — its simply an indication that a school's students have not met a predetermined goal, set by the state (not teachers), with respect to standardized test scores in math or reading.

In - game consequences for these violations are trivial at best and rarely lead to any sort of «fail state» or «game over».

If you fail to modify your vehicle to be in accordance with state regulations, you may not be granted a renewal on your vehicle registration — this can lead to all sorts of miscellaneous problems with the DMV.