Sentences with phrase «underachieving on»

Perhaps surprisingly, the full electric sedan Renault Fluence ZE fell short of the anticipated five stars, underachieving on pedestrian protection, driver and passenger protection offered.

So far he has underachieved on the continent, but on this...

Not exact matches

Popular, he'll NO, but as many fans have stated Arsenal is bigger than any player, especially those that have chronically underachieved, spent an eternity on treatment table or demand ridiculous wages the club won't pay.

The only thing that is certain, is that the longer our own fans keep carrying on and poisoning the energy when things don't go right, the longer we will underachieve, regardless of who's in charge.

at the start of his career he inherited the best back 4 + gk in the league... won 2 league titles later on i admit he was able to sign good defenders and cdm to build arguably one of the best team in europe at that time... but even with that team he underachieved.....

On defense, a pass rush that was supposed to be among the league's elite has badly underachieved with just nine sacks in six games.

Such a meaningless risk, especially for a team that has well, underachieved in the playoffs on a consistent basis.

The genuine answer is that we are tired of supposedly «world class» players on Arsenal wages performing like westbrom quality players.We are also tired of consistently underachieving with a manager who appears fire - proof.

The Mirror have crunched the numbers, however, and worked out just how much teams are overachieving or underachieving based on their averaging finishing positions for the last five seasons, coming up with this alternative Premier League table:

Ballerina recharging at the back you said, that cost the 4th goal at Liverpool I recall, look people we need a director of football performance that way underachieving players can be moved on quickly even at a loss sometimes, as for mustafi his stats and performance was good when he was bought and still does the job for Germany but at arsenal I'm still to be convinced

Wallace admits that the resulting five - player trade, which brought underachieving Vin Baker to Boston, was «a calculated risk,» because the four years and $ 32 million left on Baker's contract gives the team a third player at maximum salary and restricts its ability to make a major trade until at least the 2005 - 06 season.

that is not what it means to be a devoted fan... you are simply a pawn that enables this club to continuously underachieve because they prey on your gullibility and spineless devotion... good luck with that

Utah underachieved by 5.5 points in Wednesday's Foster Farms Bowl win, but Washington State underachieved by 12.5 points in the Holiday Bowl, and Colorado came up nearly five touchdowns short of the spread on Thursday night in the Alamo Bowl.

In Serie A, Montella's side are currently fifth with 39 points, six points behind third - placed Napoli, who occupy the final Champions League spot, and will look to close the gap starting this weekend as they take on underachieving Inter Milan at the San Siro.

It's reasonable to question his leadership, being the best player on an underachieving Connecticut team that might barely make the NCAA tournament.

On the other hand, the expectations have been very high and in the last month it felt like we underachieved.

That is why teams that look great on paper sometimes underachieve.

Arsenal were left facing the facts yesterday that once again they have finished a season having massively underachieved from what is expected of them and on this occasion they couldn't even achieve the consistent top four slot that they've held down for the past twenty years.

It may sound simple, but buying low on underachieving playoff teams and selling high on the league's elite is a simple way to build your bankroll during baseball season.

Some of those signed to provide firepower to City's team proved to be excellent value for money but others failed to justify their fees and were sold on at a loss after underachieving at the Etihad.

Their record in Manchester is shabby, as have been some of their recent displays against the 19 - time champions of England, but the Gunners will care less about their underachieving past — this has been a week where they've had too defy the critics, sceptics and plenty of damning statistics in order to keep the haters off their back, and they're prepared to go through the motions all over again on Sunday, when they'll be targeting their first league win over United in Manchester since 2006.

Leeds United look to continue their good run of form by taking on an underachieving Norwich City side that sits in 16th place in the able, but only six points behind Leeds, who are in 7th place, four points behind Sheffield United for the final playoff place.

Where Forgetting Sarah Marshall frolicked on the beach, this amiable but underachieving comedy just sort of blobs on the couch.

But it failed to leave a lasting impact on me; and while I openly accept the fact that not all dramas are made equal - and therefore, not all of them really need to reach me on some complex emotional level - this one underachieves rather grossly.

The movie, co-written and directed by Bottle Rocket's Wes Anderson, is meant to be an offbeat comedy / drama about an unusual high school student who underachieves in classes because he spends all of his time on extracurricular activities.

No matter how much I felt the film underachieved, I fully agree that every actor here was on terrific form.

Tuva Novotny as Borg's chain - smoking fiancée provides an on - off sounding board but is ultimately little more than set - dressing, Vitas Gerulaitis (Robert Emms) is reduced to an underachieving boozy playboy, and every English commentator speaks in the plum - posh voice of Noël Coward or John Mills on the bridge of a Second World War battleship.

An underachieving yet passionate student, she wishes nothing more than to go to a college on the East Coast in a city that, unlike her perception of her hometown, has culture and heritage.

The flashbacks reveal some major marital problems between the underachieving adjunct science professor and his resentful wife (Naomi Watts), who we later learn is wrestling with a potentially malignant mass on her brain.

Brooks plays Daniel, an underachieving yuppie businessman who carelessly takes his new Mercedes for a spin, only to run head - on into a city bus.

Thankfully UTV's DVD and most especially Blu - ray meticulously capture the audiovisual splendor as it appeared on the big screen, and the underachieving financial returns at cinemas have not prevented the studio from including an informative making - of documentary on both editions.

«I think my favorite thing about the senior project is that it creates a sort of level playing field on which even a customarily underachieving student can excel,» added Camp.

Back in class, maybe the assignment was to write a narrative demonstrating membership in a community, and the guy at the head of the class has elicited chuckles with his account of life as an underachieving painter on a construction crew.

• Be overweight • Underachieve at school • Be less physically active • Drink more sugary drinks • Snack on foods high in sugar, salt and fat • Sleep less and • Have fewer social interactions [2]

I shared the story with Delisle during a workshop he conducted on underachieving gifted students.

Prior to a university - based workshop, 2 weeks of structured activities using the Model of Digital Storytelling (Figg, 2005) focused on rich language development, oral history, and movie - making technology in a community - based summer enrichment program designed for underachieving student learners.

Tracking systems are of questionable value when more than a third of children might be underachieving yet deemed on target.

To paraphrase this piece from the Associated Press, civil rights groups fear these waivers are dimming the spotlight on traditionally - underachieving student groups:

This causes a problem when the school structure and grades rely on repetition and memorization, often resulting in bored, unchallenged students who then underachieve.

The Florida Department of Education awarded $ 2.7 million to the college in 2015 to create a dynamic research center where UF education faculty are vigorously transforming teacher preparation for elementary teachers so they can have a greater impact on student learning, especially among historically underachieving students.

Among the reasons for the high costs at low - performing schools are higher costs for security and more programs for underachieving students, which can be very expensive, according to Frank Johnson, an expert on school finances at the Department of Education.

«And for schools that serve traditionally underachieving populations, the approach has been to double down on math and reading instruction.»

But the NUT is concerned that those working as advisers on daily pay rates of up to # 840 in schools which are underachieving could have their impartiality compromised by a potential pecuniary interest when inspecting a school.

That act, adopted in 2010 as part of a state effort to qualify for federal Race to the Top grant funding, established a formula for the state superintendent of public instruction to use in creating a list of 1,000 underachieving schools on what's now called the «open enrollment list,» starting with the lowest - achieving schools on California's Academic Performance Index.

Whitmore (1980) estimated that at least 20 % of gifted students underachieve, while the U.S. Commission on Excellence in Education (1983) estimated 50 %.

Unlike the underachieving 21 though, the new SP / 300R is no road - going sports car to rival the Lotus Elise — it's an exceedingly potent track car to take on Radicals and Westfields.

The S2000, on the other hand, is the one underachieving child in the otherwise happy family of Honda cars.

Making the Case makes it's grand return to Gamer Crash, putting the spotlight on some underrated or underachieving games.

I won't pick on any firms by linking to their underachieving Facebook Fan Page, but if you search for any given large firm's presence on Facebook, what you'll likely find will confirm this.

Part of the reason the law - firm ecosystem has changed so dramatically in a single generation is greed: The most profitable partners steadily discarded their underachieving colleagues, because they didn't want to share the spoils... Within the next decade or so, according to one common hypothesis, there will be at most 20 to 25 firms that can operate this way — the firms whose clients have so many billions of dollars riding on their legal work that they can truly spend without limit.