Sentences with phrase «very weak year»

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Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

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«TV shipment growth in China was strong in the fourth quarter, due to sell - in for the Chinese New Year Holidays, which runs counter to the very weak conditions in other emerging markets,» said Paul Gagnon, director of TV research for IHS Technology.

While the positives include the unemployment rate falling to 42 - year lows, a weaker pound sterling is leading to a spike in consumer inflation; in the event of a negative outcome in the negotiations with the European Union, the UK currency could slide further, leading to a rise in consumer prices and leaving the Bank of England in a very precarious situation in which easing interest rates will be ruled out due to high inflation, and hiking rates will lead to a slowdown in economic activity.

I have written repeatedly over the past year (and longer than that) that the US banking system is very weak — more specifically, that it is weaker than the Fed, Treasury and financial press would have us know.

Domestic demand has been held back by weak consumption, which fell by 2.6 per cent over the year to the December quarter in response to restrictive measures introduced in 2002, aimed at slowing the previously very strong rates of growth in consumer credit.

For the first several years» worth of recovery, that took the form of relatively rapid job creation paired with very weak wage growth due to the large stock of unemployed workers.

The pcb market continues to grow, and although the fpd market was very weak last year, it is stabilizing as a result of strong demand for smartphones.

You are very weak - minded to really take at face value a 2000 year old book filled with 3000 year old stories, when there isn't one iota of proof that ANY «god» at all was behind those writings.

She explained: «A year ago when I had a very challenging situation with my health, I really felt that God taught me how to depend entirely on him in my weakest moments.

I was getting very weak and along with a lot of other awful symptoms (which I suffered from for years) I was practically crawling through the grocery store aisle and noticed a rice pasta package.

Just more dead cat talk that distracts from wenger's failure to upgrade by getting rid of average players who we all know can't deliver trophies even in a weak year... And EPL and cl were both that last year... Walcott Campbell Gibbs ox and mert should all have gone by now... Draxler Rodriguez subotic (there are better though) could have come in as all are actually available with a net spend of very little... Then focus on goal scorer and splash the cash... Would still go for for the borrusia guy but if wenger shows no intent nothing will happen

Now that it is very obvious that we are very weak, Leicester or Tottenham loose will not solve our problem, this is our chance to get rid of that Old Demon, with how it is going now, I want to see the words that remain in his dictionary to defend his 14 years failure.

As a team we look very weak, Our midfield have no bite to them as we keep buying little fancy players but they are no good at tackling and getting stuck in, Santi for me this year do nt want to play maybe he is looking for a move!!!! Jack in in and out of games he is so inconsistanat, Arteta past his best and needs to be replaced, Wenger needs to look at the time and improve it, Last year we got Ozil this year we got Alexis but we are not using them to there full potental, Ransey is class but we can keep hoping for is magic to get us out of shit, Giroud for me is a waste of time we need a top top forward he battles away but he is far below the class we need,

We were weak on the Dline last year before Hyder's injury, and not having Decker was a very big hole to fill.

Ox is in a very weak position, he had his best season last year, was a little more consistent with performance and less injured, he does not hold a fix position in the arsenal team, so we can not say he is of major importance to the team.

As a team we look very weak, Our midfield have no bite to them as we keep buying little fancy players but they are no good at takling and getting stuck in, Santi for me this year do nt want to play maybe he is looking for a move!!!! Jack in in and out of games he is so inconsistanat, Arteta past his best and needs to be replaced, Wenger needs to look at the time and improve it, Last year we got Ozil this year we got Alexis but we are not using them to there full potental, Ransey is class but we can keep hoping for is magic to get us out of shit, Giroud for me is a waste of time we need a top top forward he battles away but he is far below the class we need,

This number, however, incorporates a very weak growth rate of 1 percent for the month of September and 2 percent through the first six months of the year.

In a statement, the White House called Yates, an Obama administration holdover with 27 years of experience prosecuting corrupt public officials and the man who bombed the Atlanta Olympic park, «weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.»

During the very last years, we documented a rapid shifting from the Mediterranean diet in the whole population, but it might also be that the weakest citizens tend to buy «Mediterranean» food with lower nutritional value.

These advanced gravitational wave observatories detected a very strange, weak signal emanating from a galaxy called NGC 4993, 130 million light - years away.

This year, using atomic force microscopy, researchers measured van der Waals forces — very weak attractive or repulsive forces — between individual atoms for the first time.

At the beginning of this year I was barely eating meat or dairy, and unfortunately I began having very weak menstruated cycles.

However, about 7 years ago I had a very traumatic experience and ever since then i feel like I am just weak and getting weaker by the day.

my hips pop up and my lower back arches up due to apparently my very weak core muscles and tight flexors, even though i've been regularly working out for two years now.

Revenue in the early part of the period was boosted by pent - up demand following a «very weak October,» while the company may have decided to concentrate all end - of - season clearance in January, leading to a smaller proportion of sales being at full price than a year earlier, they wrote in a note.

I think that, as a result of the 3 perms I did in the past, the bottom half of my hair got really weak and brittle; I've been consistently getting a ton of breakage, and the hair felt super dry still (even though it hasn't been processed in over a year, and I use very little heat on it).

Still, average animation, lame and unfunny characters, childish jokes, aimed at 4 year olds and toddlers, very weak and dull story line that should interest teenagers or adults.

Overall though very impressed by how these two got straight back at it after 10 years, especially Em seeing how weak he has been lately with Recovery, Relapse etc..

The very future of cinema sometimes seemed to hang in the balance, as Netflix was banned from bringing one of its streaming titles to competition and responded by pulling all its films, worsening an already weak year for English - language cinema on the Croisette.

It wasn't a weak year so much as it was an Oscar race being decided by people seeing movies at festivals without the very necessary component of critics.

It was also a very good year for film — the best, perhaps, since 2007 — so a number of movies that could have made the list in weaker years (Argo, The Dark Knight Rises, Life of Pi, Les Miserables, Skyfall, etc.) have instead been consigned to honorary mentions.

This SOW was done with a very weak set of Year 7's on my PGCE yYear 7's on my PGCE yearyear.

In fact, Vigdor explains, «the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time.»

But the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time.

I have a 2003 Corolla (mileage ~ 70K) that drives very well generally, except for one problem: The clutch has always been quite stiff since I purchased it a couple of years ago, and I think it's slowly getting worse (unless I'm getting weaker...).

A very weak effort by Fiat / Alfa, which is probably why it's been delayed year after year.

Dividend paying stocks have been very popular with investors in recent years due to weak returns in the bond market.

In all of my years of doing quantitative analyses of equity and debt markets, as well as the economy as a whole, my models have shown me that there is a tendency toward mean - reversion, but it is a very weak tendency that is swamped by shocks to the system in the short run.

«Regarding the latter, it's been very frustrating to accurately predict the primary causes of the current market turmoil — the weak U.S. economy characterized by persistently high unemployment and a feeble housing market, plus the sovereign debt crisis in Europe — but to have done so a year too early (lest you think we are engaging in revisionist history, we've attached excerpts from our July 2010 and 2010 annual letter in an endnote at the end of this letter).

Shasta, our sweet rescued Alaskan Husky, has gone through a lot of health - related problems in the past year that she has been with us: Heart worm, Ehrlichia, a fatty tumor, and a very weak stomach at the beginning.

I will hold my hands up now and say I'm using a 8700k @ 4.9 ghz, a gtx1080ti and 16gb of dominator platinum ram, its about as high end a gaming machine as you can get and a game like this should not actually require this hardware but as I say 4 is not a fair and reflective score of the game, come on dude a i5 6400 is a 3 year old 4 core no hyperthreading cpu now, I bet big budget open world games like AC Origins and watch dogs 2 bring it to its knees also, the recommended specs id say have been very conservative aswell, an i5 3570 is not a weak cpu and id say its actually very close to a 6400 but both are on the weak side for games like this especially at 1080p.

Physically ailing and very weak after his second heart attack, he was nonetheless able to create a number of large oils during his later years; his 50 x 60 inch scale took cues from Colour Field artists such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, whom Avery himself had inspired during his time in New York, in order to create an absorbing, all - encompassing pictorial experience.

Large changes in cosmic rays are documented in response to magnetic - field variations (the Laschamp event of about 40,000 years ago is especially prominent) with no corresponding change in climate, so any cosmic - ray influence on the climate must be very small (a weak correlation can be obscured by noise; a strong control is almost always visible «by eye,» and clearly is absent).

They said it was «very likely» that several thousand weak to moderate earthquakes in recent years were triggered by deep - earth injection of water extracted from the ground as thousands of wells have been drilled into shale oil and gas deposits.

During the 2008 - 2009 TC season, the Southern Hemisphere ACE was about half of what's expected in a normal year, with a multitude of very weak, short - lived hurricanes.

Over the same period, a very weak trend of only +0.90 % in open ocean chlorophyll a was found using a maximum of 530,579 data points per year but this trend is not considered statistically significant.

Figure 3 in the SIDORENKOV paper shows 8 LOD shifts that lead a paleo PDO max by 7 to 8 years and one PDO max that has a very weak LOD shift.

Historical records indicate that moderate to strong El Nino events dampen hurricane activity — whereas years with very weak El Niño conditions can be associated with active hurricane seasons if a Climate Pulse Hurricane Enhancement Cycle is in place — and it is.»

However, all years are not the same — therefore it could mature enough to form a very weak El Niño, but not strong enough to dampen the hurricane season.