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This is causing an uneven performance in sales closings, which is likely to continue, but we also see notably higher levels of sales activity compared with a relatively flat performance in the preceding four years,» Yun says.

Hopefully with Apple switching to custom chips, issues the current generation of MacBook Pro laptops suffer from — such as poor battery life and uneven performance in some cases — will be a thing of the past.

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That to me is the great unknown — it's a good bet UKIP are going to double or triple their national vote share but it might be very uneven, with big votes in safe seats and more modest performances in marginal seats due to a stronger campaign from the other parties.

They are also concerned about the uneven performance of the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), the regulatory agency which decides what changes can be made in the operating permit and how to enforce the provisions of the permit.

Regular performance of sports (e.g., cycling, swimming) and activities (e.g., typing on a computer, painting) that involve an uneven stimulation of the muscles that are involved in UCS

The movie portrayed her personality and as a legend of a woman posed as a man to enter the monastery and become Pope.German actress Johanna Wokalek was pretty good for that role and the other performances were decent as well.The portrayal of the time, crowds and the cities was below average, but very effective, since it was a low - budget movie, the image and lighting quality was not always good.The weak point of the movie was in the rhythm, which at times was uneven, and went from fast to very slow, but still it was never boring because of the strong plot.

«Decoding Annie Parker,» though uneven in its execution, has at its heart two remarkable women and one remarkable performance.

It's an uneven movie with some odd jolts in the story, but the performances — especially from Patricia Clarkson — are noteworthy.

DiCaprio's uneven performance as the main villain never takes on enough definition to seem necessary in the already cluttered plot.

Critic Consensus: It's decidedly uneven, but like Paul Rudd's performance in the title role, Our Idiot Brother is too charming to resist.

But now the piper has come for payment, and the price is the manifold shortcomings of Green Lantern: a woefully underdeveloped script; dubious casting (I don't care how many billion galaxies are out there: in none of them is Tim Robbins the father of Peter Sarsgaard); slack, aimless direction by Martin Campbell; and a set of decidedly uneven performances.

Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...

Set deep in the English countryside, the feature debut from Smith can be tonally uneven but boasts enough solid performances and pops of quality car chases to recommend it.

Kathryn Hahn delivers another standout performance in A Bad Moms Christmas, which is nonetheless a disappointingly uneven comedy.

The footage above is docked, but the game arguably looks at its best in portable handheld mode — the 720p resolution holds up better there, and the game seems to run with an unlocked frame rate, shooting for 60 fps and sometimes getting there with uneven but decent performance.

The biggest surprise of the piece is Wasikowska's uneven performance: her accent dropping in and out, she generally gives off the impression that she squeezed this thing in between a full dance card.

Super-charged by two perfect lead performances by Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds, The Change - Up can be wildly uneven at times, but somehow manages to balance it all out in a way that's both satisfying and hilarious.

It's certainly tonally uneven and you get the sense that Slattery is a little out of his depth in balancing it all but he does manage to deliver many excellent scenes, has a fantastic eye for detail and draws out superb performances from his entire cast.

Robbie's performance is uneven, which is perhaps not surprising given that she was asked to portray Harding at various points in her life spanning decades.

That clash of R - rated approach and broad melodrama proves an uneven pitch at times but Macdonald's signature intensity, combined with another sneak attack performance from Saoirse Ronan, assembles a thrilling genre entry that stands firmly alongside its contemporaries in terms of quality.

Ramin Bahrani's «At Any Price» features the best Dennis Quaid performance in forever and its last act is rather excellent, but the film is too uneven and unfocused for us to include here.

It helps that in his hands, Dracula become a sumptuous, colorful, artistic, bloody feast for the senses, even as the performances are... well, let's say uneven.

Though it boasts a strong performance from the always reliable Tom Hanks and good supporting turns by Alexander Black and Sarita Choudhury, the movie is a somewhat bland and uneven character study about a middle - aged white guy getting his groove back in the Middle East.

Ten more: S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, a violent yarn with an indomitable Vince Vaughn performance; BPM, a moving look at AIDS activists in Paris; Before I Fall, a teen Groundhog Day; Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a lush holiday at an Italian villa; Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its ingenious time - shifting narrative; Alexander Payne's social comedy Downsizing; William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, a period piece with bite; the uneven but lively satire The Square; Steven Soderbergh's clever heist picture Logan Lucky; and the Twilight Zone vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

It boasts some fine performances, and as we all know from Ender's Game, Butterfield has the uncanny ability to make uneven material work, such is his natural charisma and skill in front of the camera.

With such a script so uneven in tone, it's little wonder that the performances are wildly varied.

Teller's acting was most likely butchered in editing, where multiple reshoots were spliced together, resulting in an extremely uneven, and at times nonsensical, performance.

The performances in Stay are rather uneven.

As to my personal choice, I'm going to surprise even myself and single out Washington in «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» The film is undeniably uneven, but Washington's performance as an idiosyncratic idealist is thought out in such detail, and so different from the characters he usually plays, that it won me over completely.

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Second, student gains were uneven across Teach to One's schools; one school in particular stood out with student - learning gains significantly higher than those posted in other schools, which begs the question of what is causing the performance gains — the Teach to One model or some other factor.

Though New Hampshire has some of the highest - performing public schools in the nation, performance across school districts is uneven.

Based on a study of more than 40 states, «State Test Score Trends through 2008 - 09, Part 2: Slow and Uneven Progress in Narrowing Gaps» compares student performance on state tests and state - level results from the National Assessment of Education Progress.

The academic results in the recovery district charters have been remarkably uneven, with some closing because of dismal performance, and other upstarts posting higher scores in some grades than the longtime academic leaders.

The in - school performance pattern of the students in this study suggests that the reversal of underachievement may be lengthy and marked by uneven progress.

While these programs are often popular with advocates, and already in use around the country for many decades, including in New York City, their performance has often been viewed as uneven.

Critics of Initiative 1240 have pointed to the uneven performance of charter schools in the 42 other states that now permit them.

«Reduce uneven incentives and avoid «incentive cliffs» by increasing [school performance score] points more gradually as students move to higher performance levels,» notwithstanding the fact that no research to date has evidenced that such incentives incentivize much of anything intended, at least in education.

But what's most apparent is the abilities of the PDCC roll bars to slacken off when the car is cruising in a straight line, removing the sort of head toss that could blight a stiffly sprung high performance SUV over uneven road surfaces.

A decent e-reader in certain scenarios — but uneven battery life and sluggish performance take the shine off.

Overall it is a good tablet in itself, but it's held back a little by what may seem like an uneven performance due to an imperfect firmware.

The voice - acting is uneven in both performance and existence, as if the relevant teams paid their actors with the budget of 12 Big Mac meals (medium).

Like some of the previous entries, performance is rather uneven, with evident frame rate drops on the field which can be distracting but thankfully not in a major way.

Uneven but ultimately exhilarating, «Isa Genzken: Retrospective» showcases a body of work that, while marked by frequent shifts in approach (from Minimalism to Post-Minimalism and from Conceptualism to Pop) and including a variety of mediums (sculpture, painting, collage, performance, photography and film), is remarkably consistent in its themes.

As a result, the inverter is able to ensure optimal performance even in challenging environments, such as those with uneven grounds.

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