Sentences with phrase «striking than we hoped»

«The results were far more striking than we hoped,» he says.

Not exact matches

When investors buy call contracts, they are hoping the stock will rise above the strike price by more than the cost of the trade.

I hope I am not coming off as viewing myself as above anyone... we are all sinners, and we all need to support each other... your post just struck me as «I'm better than the rest of you»...

Yet to bear rather than strike back in anger or hate, to believe rather than engage in groundless suspicion or attack, to hope rather than give in to despair, to endure rather than surrender to difficult circumstances — these are requirements that test the Christian's commitment.

His 2003 book, Rethinking AIDS Prevention, showed how abstinence and faithfulness, for the most part in its religiously ordered form, had contributed more to Uganda's striking reduction of its HIV infection rate in the late 1980s and early»90s than «safe sex» could hope to.

Having shown an ability to link up with Hazard, Giroud will undoubtedly be hoping to strike up a real understanding with the Belgian international to keep his place in the starting line - up while also looking to get on the scoresheet sooner rather than later as well.

9 points behind Chelsea looks an indomitable margin of points to overhaul but, with the likes of Ramsey and Walcott to return from their respective injuries sooner rather than later, Wenger's wizards can come up with better displays, string a few wins together, strike better consistency, and thereby hope to stage a turnaround of some sorts, both on the domestic and continental fronts.

The Padres are probably marginally worse than that, due to the fact that they strike out a lot, putting pressure on the guy with 2 outs to get a hit (or hope for a passed ball / wild pitch).

I wonder if Hexy decided in the beginning of the year that it was more important to showcase Weise and / or Lehtera in hopes of them playing well enough to entice a GM somewhere to give up something to take one of them off our hands than to have a slightly better player in Meat on the roster but now that we are within striking distance of actually making the playoffs, Meat is getting the playing time while Weise is appropriately relegated to watching from afar and Lehtera would be if it weren't for Raffl getting hurt.

The sad truth is that we are just a couple of players away from having a very strong starting 11... Wenger's fixation with Walcott and mertesakher as starting players remains a mystery to me... neither have the quality of a top team like arsenal... I am not a giroud hater but he is still too inconsistent and the big question is whether welbeck can push him in a way Walcott won't... Campbell has done well and has moved ahead of Walcott and, ox for sure but there is still a question about how much more he can improve... Elneny is certainly an upgrade over arteta and flamini whether he will make it I don't know just hope that he does but arguably wenger could have been more ambitious... That leaves a top quality striking option... There is no doubt that wenger deluded himself over the summer and that needs to be corrected ASAP... Draxler dybala aube and even griezman with a big enough big could have been prized in summer... january not a good time for this but it is not difficult to find better options than Walcott ox or Campbell... All a question of whether wenger wants to win EPL on his terms or wants to win this for the club

Chuba can be a strike partner with Oliver, then bring in Mehrez or Draxler, and we can also bid for Barca's Munir then we can have a great season, our pre-season last year was better than this, only to got beaten by west harm, so don't raise your hope high gunners, just be patient and pray for wenger to have a change of heart.

Hoping atleast a defender would arrive... How on earth are we going to win the tittle with 3 cb and two aged and crap cdms and the world class strike force lead the great YAYA... Even Everton are stronger than us... Will there be any last minute surprises???

I believe we don't have the striking power to break Chelsea, RM, BM, Barca, PSG, and even Utd (after improving their side)... Giroud is too handy against big experienced CB's and Walcott can not find his spot against deep and dense defense, Welback (I have hope in this guy) needs to step up his first touch, finishing, and hold up play... we need a wc striker much more than we need DM, because when Coq is fit (doubt that the case all over the season) we are fine in that department but ST even with all fit and inform we would find difficulties to break strong defenses (not Sunderland, WB, AstonVilla.

The Gunners are seemingly losing hope of keeping Jack Wilshere with his contract expiring in less than three months» time, and Ceballos could emerge as a bargain option, if they can strike a deal with the La Liga holders.

Fiorentina home record is much better than away one so they are hoping to take some points.First scorer Jovetic will return for this match like former Juventus strike Amauri who still hasnt find a target playing for Fiorentina.

The short - term spending plan runs through May 31, though lawmakers hope to strike a deal on a long - term budget sooner than that.

Overall, The Empire Strikes Back is leagues better than A New Hope as it corrects the problems of the first and continues to excel in the areas in which the first was successful.

Weighing in a little heavier on pep talks than practical solutions, the opus struck me like an extended motivational speech offering little more than «hope» to gullible ghetto dwellers still waiting for the change promised way back in 2008.

For what better filmmaker is there to combat the wave of inept filmmaking that the Twilight film series is producing so far (I'm hoping David Slade doesn't hit strike three with Eclipse, if only because I like Hard Candy so much) than Carl Theodor Dreyer, the Danish master who gave us The Passion of Joan of Arc?

The issue of vouchers, perhaps more than any other state or federal issue, strikes a chord among parents and citizens hoping to see their children gain a decent and quality education.

I hope that the feeling of neighbors knowing more about you than you'd like, or the sense of being tied to a community that you have outgrown strike a chord with readers in many places in the world.

We hoped that Couch Potato investing might strike a few of our more thoughtful readers as a smart way to invest â $» smarter, at least, than simply buying a bucket of Nortel stock, which was what everybody else seemed to be doing at the time.

The larger issue is that I have to live somewhere and my family needs a roof over their head and I will not risk that for any «gamble» on the hopes of a big investment lucky strike or giving me a couple percent more than the interest on the mortgage or the risk to my family's habitat.

On paper, Allied Strike offered considerably more than Blaze could have ever hoped to.

Nintendo, hoping to strike gold twice and building momentum up for the Wii U, would be showcasing more than just Super Smash Bros. for Wii U this time.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

And while nothing can be completely guaranteed in the stock market, investors who diversify their holdings in the markets and hold them for the long term tend to have a better chance of making money than those who buy and sell random securities in the short term hoping to «strike it rich».

While anyone with a few bucks, a rock pick, and a map to Crater of Diamond's State Park outside Murfreesboro is more than welcome to take a shot at striking it rich, don't hedge your bets on finding the Hope Diamond anytime soon.

I'd prefer OnePlus to permanently offer more striking colors like Lava Red rather than running them as limited - time offers, so here's to hoping that's something we see changed whenever the OnePlus 6 comes out.