Sentences with phrase «strings of better»

There is a string of good companies in the pipeline that will help kickoff a strong 2017.

Investors would certainly chase performance after the string of good years, but very few would be able to earn the overall outperformance figures.

I remember standing in line at my dad's visitation and enduring an endless string of well - intentioned one liners.

However the Frenchman has seemingly now lost his place to Granit Xhaka after a string of good performances for the team.

Arsenal on the flip - side are breezing into the title race with a long string of good results, and have climbed to second in the table having only lost one league cup encounter since their opening weekend defeat to Liverpool.

The program decided that they'd had enough of their coach's string of good, but not great seasons and asked him to step down on November 29th.

Seemed to be in place whenever Navas got to the byline, cutting out a string of well - placed low crosses.

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A string of good performances and some rather unfortunate draws, the latest being the 1 - 1 result against Arsenal, was backed by a 4 - 0 thumping of Feyenoord during the mid-week.

Last season there were signs of improvement under Brendan Rodgers, but a string of good performances were often overshadowed by a poor one.

Despite releasing a string of well - received movies, it has not won an Oscar since 2008.

What we have here is a string of well - made sequences that had zero emotional impact because I cared not one jot for the characters involved.

After a string of well - cast disappointments, we're all hoping for a return to Tim Burton magic this year with his new film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

While hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be celebrating a string of good GCSE results, others will be disappointed.

Surely professional authors with a string of best sellers and a backlist that fills five Amazon screens don't have problems tricking their brains into work mode.

But in 1814, the family's uninterrupted string of good luck began to run out.

There are plenty of water sports here — the scuba diving is excellent — and you'll also find a string of well - marked hiking and biking trails.

This success didn't come over night, but through a rather long string of good decisions and emulation of Counter Strike on mobile devices over the years.

But how can you trust the conventional wisdom when last year featured a ridiculously entertaining string of good games starring kid squids, gothic hunters, glitchy sci - fi heroes, and the lone survivor of a nuclear war.

One particular news story talked about how Thor bought a Power Disco Ball, and suddenly he had a string of good luck that he credited entirely to the purchase of said Power Disco Ball.

Wait until you have had a string of good months before you deciding to upgrade your office or hire a part - time assistant.

But with 300 - and 400 - pound contestants pushing the limits each season, that string of good fortune may not last forever.

The feeling is even stronger if the author has written a string of good books.

A recent string of well ‑ deserved thrashings in court have demonstrated that the Supreme Court is truly an independent, non ‑ partisan body, able to act as a check on the Harper government's actions.

Your in - house undemocratically «elected» (by approved voting delegates only) revolving - door, part - time, so - called Presidents, although being nice people, are simply puppets at the ends of the strings of the well entrenched regime of mandarin puppeteers.

Not exact matches

But this new model is still far from proven, and physicists will need more data and a better understanding of string theory before that's possible.

An experiment in making no - strings - attached offers to help friends and acquaintances yielded huge returns, not least a lot of good will.

Another parent named JH wrote: «We've tried a couple of different brands, but this is the best... First, the string is pretty strong and doesn't usually break.

Those moments will do more good for you in making you a better businessperson then any string of successes.

The U.S. economy also looked to have bounced back in the third quarter, while a string of data showed Europe weathered Britain's Brexit vote better than many had feared.

Just as those repeated years of 4 % and better growth in the 1990s added up to a stunning surplus, our recent string of 2 % and worse years add up to the opposite - and will keep doing so, unless something sparks much higher growth.

It's a compelling premise: that you can get more done at work, better understand your co-workers, and generally like your life more if you take some of the tension out of the string.

If job - seekers can also string together a couple of good references, hiring often comes down to a gut decision.

The transactions are structured so as to spare institutional backers of the ride - hailing firm the pain of marking down the value of their investments, while at the same time offering staff an exit well below what they may have been hoping for before the company was hit by a string of governance scandals.

If the news is good and you see a steady string of positive cash balances across the bottom row, you know that, assuming your data is good and your assumptions reasonable, your business has a good chance of making it.

Prosecutors began to uncover a string of corruption scandals in 2014 and 2015, involving both private and state - controlled companies, like Petrobras, the nation's oil and gas champion, as well as current and former elected officials — namely, the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

You may never write a book or call yourself a writer, but if the majority of your day is spent stringing words together to communicate, then it's worth your time to learn how to do it well.

She's looking for a taste of the good life, and she just so happens to control the purse strings when it comes to big - ticket buys.

The news also comes as Uber is still managing a string of scandals, including accusations of a sexist work culture as well as driver protests.

It's also a break from the food business, where Berkshire (BRKA) has done a string of big deals recently, including Heinz and Kraft, as well as providing financing for Burger King's acquisition of Canadian doughnut chain Tim Horton's.

If both sides can come together and play well for a string of games, the Birds could still make a run.

But in a notable display of counterintuition even for Wall Street, they fared surprisingly well in the aftermarket — a remarkable performance that suggests that when it comes to investing, a string of zeroes is a mark of character among really small companies.

There's a brand - new menu chiptune as well, although this one is, of course, more identifiably Super Nintendo in its instrumentation, with string samples and otherworldly sounds instead of straightforward beep - boop.

In interviews in the days after Morneau's Oct. 24 economic statement, several key cabinet ministers and well - placed government officials all insisted the brakes haven't been applied to a string of ambitious and inherently risky policy unveilings, planned for the coming months and beyond.

Other «backstops,» Hauptman said, could be a court - granted preliminary injunction, as well as a string of bills offering «technical» fixes to the rule, «like what we've seen in the Dodd - Frank context... to chip away and open a loophole in the rule.»

Other «backstops,» Hauptman said, could be a court granting a preliminary injunction, as well as a string of bills offering «technical» fixes to the rule, «like what we've seen in the Dodd - Frank context... to chip away and open a loophole in the rule.»

But equally wretched is the current state of politics in America, where Congress can't do anything about the nation's never - ending string of mass shootings or our massive federal debt or the dysfunctional state of U.S. health care or, well, anything important.

Though Smith says the grant to Georgia Tech came with no strings attached, AT&T plans to send a large group of its employees through the program and is in talks with Udacity to sponsor additional courses as well.

That's the «gambler's fallacy» if I've ever heard it - the notion that a string of bad rolls raises the probability of a good one.