Sentences with phrase «than mediocre at»

It's our belief that our clients are served better if we focus being excellent at one line of insurance rather than mediocre at many.

Not exact matches

Bill, he told me repeatedly, knew no other solution than throwing money and people at a problem, which was why Microsoft's software was so convoluted and mediocre.

In an environment where the opposition can regroup and take the advantage in a heartbeat, indecisiveness is considered a fatal flaw — worse than making a mediocre decision, because a mediocre decision, especially if swiftly rendered and executed, at least stands a chance.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Yes, a mediocre credit was able to borrow at less than zero.

A badly run business at that but for mediocre people with mediocre dreams, it's more than enough.

Just like Ohio State, Bama also had just lots of blowouts of mediocre teams... albeit without losing at home, losing to an unranked team, losing by more than two scores, or doing all three, as Ohio State did.

Both of these are far less accomplishments than his predecessor KS, who was classified by Pitt fan base as mediocre his last 4 yrs at Vandy.

He is just a mediocre player, on pair with Ramsey or Walcott.Sell them all, including Gibbs, Ox and all the British players we have.They are all mediocre at best.Other than fight in the bars, facebook posting and tattoos, what other things recommend Wilshere for attention?I hope he is not coming back and remains to Bournemouth - a team of his calibre.

This happens after Giriod dragging our striking department for more than 4 years to his mediocre level.Who will miss the lamppost at Arsenal

Im struggling to understand the excitement surrounding Lukau with a lot of gooners, he's rubbish in my opinion or at the best mediocre, we'd have two lamposts rather than one if we got him in ok so he's 23 but by now he should have been at the top of his game and he's clearly not and is no better than giroud anyone??? can any one explain why he's the answer?

I'm still dubious because he really hasn't been more than mediocre offensively in 700 + plate appearances at AAA level.

total failure... Can you believe Wenger spent 32 millions on 2 average players (Chambers and Welbeck) and is penny pinching when is sbout real class players?What is in his mind?Pay a fortune in salary for mediocre players live Walcott, Ramsey and Wilshere and have hesitations about increasing Sanchez wages... keeping on books failures like Sanogo... The truth is - I say it for years and years - until the «British core» disapears, we are not going to be succesful.The low quality of British players is dragging the team back.Last time Arsenal was a powerhouse NONE of the first 11 was British.Wanna see how the British quality looks like in a football team - look no further than national sides of England, Scotland, N Ireland, Wales, even Ireland (not British but same style)- all mediocre teams «able» to be defeated by any team coming to mind.And you are asking about Chambers?He is in the same mold like Wilshere,Walcott,Ox,Ramsey,Gibs,Jenkinson - mediocre overpriced and overpaid players.The world is full with hungry, ambitious and skilled players living in poverty and dreaming of moving to the top at any cost or sacrifice (did you see the poor house - if you can call that house, looking more like an old tent - in which Alexis Sanchez grew up?Or Suarez?)

Its interesting to note that Ramsey who I believe had a pretty mediocre season last year with us appeared to play to his full potential in the euro's which means to me that he's either not surrounded by the right balance at Arsenal OR he want to be noticed to move on from us, and who could blame him really we all know that the manager and board have no will to ein the PL as they place thier profits far higfher than thier silverware cabinet and that Im sorry to say is a fact

The hypothesis was that mediocre teams (defined by teams with a winning percentage of less than 60 %) would be undervalued when they play against the top teams in baseball (opponent winning percentage of at least 60 %).

simple, we were top of table more than any other team last year, only loss in back that started was sagna, we managed last year w arteta & flamini, of course I want to strengthen there, but the glaring issue to me is at striker, we have a full complement of good to mediocre strikers, adequate but not going to compete season long against city and chelsea, in my opinion, back line fine, DM needs upgrading, attacking midfield strongest in EPL, central striker??? put a thierry henri on this squad in his prime, we win the league,

The problem is with ur stubborn attitude.Thing is you think you can win the premiership on the cheap, but you cant cause you can't motivate the players ffs.Leicester winning the premiership will give you one more reason to say see i told you we don't need to spend big money to win the league, but you had 12 attempts to do so for the past 12 years cause our team for those year was better than Leicester squad and you still didn't win a thing.Just because you have a mouth doesn't mean you could say anything show some respect for the fans, stop blaming the fans its the mediocre players who you have at the club that needs to blamed.And you as well for not spending any money on outfield player in the summer.

We already knew from last season's analysis that mediocre teams (defined by teams with a winning percentage of less than 60 %) have been undervalued when they square off with the league's elite (opponent winning percentage of at least 60 %).

I don't see how two mediocre wrs changes the fact we need to finally hit on at least one game changer at wr early and our history shows we can find oline late lall we have to do is look at what Rd Wagner and Alex Lewis we're drafted but if they are cool with getting left in the past with this pre historic style of offense than we will continue to be mediocre

Even if we have to struggle a bit at first, I'd rather that than stay mediocre forever.

I would rather want quality over quantity, and in the past he was forced to buy cheap and ultimately not really get the best players... but now I feel I would rather buy one world class player at a time and bind them in for the long term, than buy 2 mediocre players and then moan about them a year down the line when they are not consistent enough and under performing.

We can't beat a mediocre team because we are not better than that overall... They want to win, not us... The tourist club is Arsenal, like some type of resort where they get pampered, massage, jacouzzi, go to the gym, exercise in training, great body and money... Then they have all time to party and snatch all the girls... It's a rip off as price of their ticket... Wake up and get real, leave that poor referee, maybe go wait for him and bumrush him or throw his ass in jail; it is Monopoly at arsenal after all..

to buy seven players at 6 million who are mediocre over three seasons than it is to buy three at 100 million netand then spend nothing for three seasons and have the world beaters we need

Obama promised more than a year ago to host such a gathering, one of several at which he has extolled the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and lamented the mediocre performance of U.S. students on international tests.

Straight - A students are more likely to develop bipolar disorder than their more mediocre peers, at least in Sweden, according to a new study of more than 700,000 former high - school students.

While I recommend trying out DoD, I don't believe their attempt at «bringing roguelikes to the masses» was much more than stripping out most the work that went into Nethack and putting a mediocre graphical overlay atop it.

Secrets to find within the game make it interesting at times and some of the glitches purposefully left in the game give a few chuckles, but other than that it's a rather mediocre game based off of an outdated Internet meme.

The Purge Anarchy captures the idea behind the Purge so much better than the first movie, which i would say is mediocre at best.

Box Office: It was an all around mediocre weekend at the box office, but Limitless did perform a little better than expected.

The movie doesn't truly hit the wall until it arrives at its interminable, aggressively larger - than - life finale, which is so overloaded with computer - generated effects that it feels as though it'd be more at home in a cutting - edge video game - thus ensuring that Insurgent ultimately falls right in line with its hopelessly mediocre predecessor.

A mediocre platformer at best, Sonic Forces manages to do nothing more than reinforce long held stereotypes against Sega's beloved blue blur.

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival to universally favorable reviews, Get Out might well do better with critics than moviegoers, based on the many empty seats at my screening and the upsettingly mediocre 6.1 average user rating it held pre-release on IMDb, a site whose votership has exhibited some regrettable tendencies to vote down certain racially representative works.

Like Ride Along and Think Like A Man, The Wedding Ringer relies heavily of Hart's usual charm and comedic talents to carry a somewhat mediocre concept through to box office glory, but with a less than stellar box office take in the US thus far (the No. 1 US comedy for three weeks in a row is clutching at straws to say the least), is Hart's bubble about to burst?

For all of the talent on board, it isn't unwatchable, but at the very least, it should have been better than mediocre.

◦ Trend: The public grades their local schools more favorably now than at any point in the past ten years, despite mediocre performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the same period.

If it turns out that schools post mediocre scores and parents aren't spurred to act at least as energetically as they have to the excesses of testing, we are in far deeper trouble than we think.

Although the public supports its public schools, it finds them mediocre at best, deserving no more than a grade of C.

Why can't they understand that analyzing texts distinguished for the truth of their content and the beauty of their craft — whether literary or informational — is a far better way to acquire and practice language and math skills than following a cacophonous basal or leveled reading program in which the texts are mediocre at best?

The flood of disaggregated student achievement data loosed by NCLB has been extremely valuable — arguably the best thing about that statute — and we're better than ever before at identifying bad and mediocre schools, including schools that work well for some students but not for others.

And that's before you even consider Amazon's own Fire tablets, which have mediocre - at - best software ecosystems and performance but are nevertheless more versatile than the standalone e-readers.

It's a capacitive TFT with multitouch support and a resolution which is slightly lower than its rival at 600x1024 pixels, giving a mediocre pixel density of 170ppi.

Better to excel at one or a couple of products than to make a slew of mediocre ones.

The BlackBerry Z10 may not be a perfect device — its mediocre battery life is another drawback — but it serves as a more - than - capable vehicle for the brand - new BlackBerry 10 OS, which is a success, at least in our opinion.

The fund is tiny, mediocre and running at a loss of.68 %, so this is a marketing move rather than an adjustment to the economies of scale.

Traveling is exhausting, and there's nothing more frustrating than paying too much for a mediocre cup of coffee at the airport.

Nobody said UC3 will be mediocre, you said it is better than AC, which at most you've only played the one.

Thats some pretty boring patch notes other than that mediocre, single player, short story is over (for now at least anyway).

I can pay # 30 for something like Borderlands and keep myself amused for 60 hours +, or I can pay # 13 to go and see a mediocre film at a London cinema for an hour and a half, having my chair kicked by some little *** who more than likely has a knife so I can't even tell him to **** off.

How could it not be when pictured up there is the producer of the game, Guido Henkel (look at that picture again and tell me you'd dare produce mediocre work), while the lead designer is none other than my fellow Hokie, Chris Avellone, whom you may know as the guy behind such gems as Fallout 2, Icewind Dale, KOTOR 2 and more.

Energy Invasion is mediocre at best, an unnecessary idea for a game, but for little more than a dollar, it was alright, I guess...