Sentences with phrase «than stellar when»

For example, if your credit score was less than stellar when you took out the loan in the first place, and you've been making your monthly payments on time, your credit could have improved.

Not exact matches

When it comes to white collar crime, Canada has enjoyed a less - than - stellar reputation for prosecuting those involved in financial schemes and corporate corruption.

You'll need to use extra care when transferring larger balances, especially if you have less than stellar credit.

Totally understand about taking slightly - less - than - stellar pictures when hungry — been there, done that.

And yep — when they got voted in as birthday snack, we knew they were stellar — doesn't get much better than that, right?!?! ~ G&S

Even when we send the less than stellar flops, no one ever seems to complain — lovingly (and unknowingly) earning his office the nickname «the trough,» where no crumb is left behind.

Unfortunately the results were not stellar — the décor paste cracked and the filling escaped when I rolled the cake up, because the décor paste was harder and less flexible than the surrounding sponge cake.

They're extremely astringent when firm / underripe and make for a less than stellar pie eating experience.

When we fill our tummies up with processed foods and very little or no fruits and vegetables, we've got a prescription for fatigue, constant hunger due to lack of nutrition, and likely less - than - stellar sleep as a result.

Take this superfood for a spin when you're feeling less than stellar in the morning.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

«Cazorla and Ramsey provided stellar protection; they pressed when necessary, but more often than not, they fell back in to form a solid line.»

In any case we do always seem to make it more difficult than it should be and when this occurs we provide stellar performances, previous bayern games, our monaco game away from home, coming back from 2 - 0 down against hull idk but to me it shows a lack of preparation / concentration for the big occasions.

Star senior Keenan Evans enters the tournament at less than 100 % after mid-February turf toe issues, and Texas Tech's ability to support its stellar defense with offensive production takes a big hit when Evans isn't right.

Considering this is a school that has a less - than - stellar reputation when it comes to sexual misconduct during the last few years, one would think that Penn State might be a bit more proactive on this front.

Mushrooms may be dismissed as a less - than - stellar vegetable when it comes to health, but don't let its bland colour fool you — mushrooms are jam - packed full of good nutrition and immune - boosting qualities.

The suit became an issue in Trump's presidential campaign as his rival for the GOP nomination, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, used the legal challenge as an example of Trump's less - than - stellar record when it comes to business.

Although Cuomo's favorability is still high, it has dipped slightly since January when 76 % had a positive view of Cuomo, 16 % had a less than stellar impression of him, and 8 % were unsure.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any human - made electromagnet.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any man - made electromagnet.

Given the redshift of the light from this stellar explosion — which occurred about 10 billion years ago, when the universe was one third its current size — the object appeared much brighter than it would have been if [dust filling intergalactic space simply made the supernovae appear dim, as some researchers had proposed].

Models of stellar evolution estimate that the sun is about 40 percent more luminous today than it was when the Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago.

It's not clear how long it will take for the stars to fully merge, or what will happen when that occurs: Some models of stellar evolution suggest the merged star could explosively release a massive amount of energy, while others hint it could simply burn through its fuel more quickly than each star would on its own.

When a star less than eight times the mass of our Sun runs out of the supply of hydrogen fueling the thermonuclear reaction raging in its stellar core, it may transform into a red giant instead of ending its life in a dramatic supernova explosion.

This is called a stellar wind, when from a star other than the sun.

H. Bond (STSci), R. Ciardullo (PSU), WFPC2, HST, NASA HD 147513 B is a young white dwarf (a remnant stellar core which enriched its binary companion, Star A) with elements heavier than hydrogen when it cast off its outer gas layers) like planetary nebula NGC 2440.

So called because the smaller varieties almost resemble planetary disks when viewed through a telescope, planetary nebulae represent a stage at the end of the stellar life cycle rather than one at the beginning.

The amount of oxygen in a galaxy is determined primarily by three factors: how much oxygen comes from large stars that end their lives violently in supernova explosions — a ubiquitous phenomenon in the early Universe, when the rate of stellar births was dramatically higher than the rate in the Universe today; how much of that oxygen gets ejected from the galaxy by so - called «super winds,» which propel oxygen and other interstellar gases out of galaxies at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour; and how much pristine gas enters the galaxy from the intergalactic medium, which doesn't contain much oxygen.

«When the 1988 stellar occultation occurred, scientists were out to detect the atmosphere, which had been expected on theoretical grounds for more than a decade,» Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, said via email.

Unfortunately, when many people set out to do just that by running or spending time on the elliptical, they're met with less - than - stellar results.

I'm a personal trainer and for the last decade have been teaching my clients «the truth» about food and haven't seen any case of someone who, when eating 15 % fat or less on a whole foods plant based diet, had anything other than stellar results.

When we fill our tummies up with processed foods and very little or no fruits and vegetables, we've got a prescription for fatigue, constant hunger due to lack of nutrition, and likely less - than - stellar sleep as a result.

What or who are your supports when you feel less than your stellar self?

The thing that is tough, though — is given that my goal is 100 lbs down by 2/23 (my birthday)-- it is frustrating when I deviate slightly (had one night where I ate quite a bit of carmel corn, and the next day big stirfry with light soy sauce, etc)-- yet because I ate even more strict and cleaner than before for 11 straight days before that (not one cheat day, processed food or meal), I gained 14 — yes 14 — pounds in water weight that two weeks later I have only lost 12 of, despite hitting the gym 6 times since, and continuing to eat stellar (no cheat - low sodium days)-- Funny thing is, my clothes are looser and looser --

Four amazing causes, three stellar discount codes, less than two weeks until Christmas, and one big fat smile that you're going to put on quite a few folks» faces when your gift goes full circle and gives back to the world.

The stellar cast could play every single one of these roles in their sleep but that doesn't make them guilty of lazy performances; Anthony Mackie's conflicted cop is empathetic at times and well in need of a slap at others while Casey «better - in - every - way - than - his - brother - when - on - screen» Affleck is likable if not always blessed with the best lines of dialogue to deliver.

Considering the less than stellar track record of Stephen King adaptations (including the recently released monumental failure that is The Dark Tower), it's pleasant to report that director Andy Muschietti's (Mama) stab at one of the writer's most revered works of art doesn't float like a lifeless corpse down in Pennywise's sewer lair, but instead propels forward with frightful momentum and probably the best character work that could be done when bringing such a lengthy and detailed story to the silver screen.

The tendency for film critics and fans alike to give inflated ratings to filmmakers they personally favor or who are typically critically acclaimed, even when the films themselves are less than stellar.

Despite a stellar cast, many felt Marvel had spent too much time focusing on Earth rather than Asgard, so, it was a nice surprise when Kevin Feige revealed back in 2014 that the third Thor film would be Thor: Ragnarok.

Personally, I believe that this year was slightly less stellar than 2015 when it comes to gaming but of course, your opinion may vary.

I'm sure that many of you have first - hand experience with various forms of less than stellar eLearning, and have thoughts on why good eLearning is not easy to come by; others of you might have a couple of eLearning - related pet peeves, and I image one or two of you out there have written impressive tomes on «what not to do when developing an eLearning course».

«When most of us have experienced less than stellar examples, it's hard to create a positive, rich experience for students if we don't know what it looks like.»

In the wake of his controversial statements on teacher pay, State Schools Superintendent Mark Johnson says he used «less - than - stellar phrasing» when he said $ 35,000 was good money for young teachers in rural parts of North Carolina.

LOS ANGELES — Robin Wynne Davis was taken aback last year when the state test score gains of her third - grade students at Melrose Elementary School labeled her a less - than - stellar teacher.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said teachers are often scapegoated to explain low - student achievement when policymakers refuse to properly fund K - 12 education — and she doesn't appear to see unions as the driving force behind keeping less - than - stellar teachers at low - performing schools.

It's a standard 4:3 ratio, and the 6.4 - inch screen isn't very large, all of which contribute to a less - than - stellar experience when viewing a wide - screen movie.

The fatal blow for it not surpassing its German counterparts comes down to two things: its less - than - stellar engine note and how it gets bogged down when pushed to the extreme.

Things like that push people to the ipad, it's no secret these Android tablets are better, but when you complement beautiful hardware with less than stellar app selection, it does nt leave much to wonder about why Apple is trouncing these Android tablets in market share.

Sal Severe advocates being honest with our kids and ourselves when our behavior has been less than stellar.

Those with less than stellar credit often have to wait for decisions when applying for credit cards.