Sentences with phrase «weak effort»

That also means that praise should not be given for trivial accomplishments or weak efforts by students such as minor task completion or the student completing their responsibilities.

Fathers are tentative when it comes to exercising discipline and, when they do, they tend to bring a pretty weak effort.

From a standing start, the car makes an initially weak effort at full throttle, edging forward for half a second or more until the turbo spools up, giving the car a mid-launch pulse of acceleration that can take you by surprise if you aren't ready for it.

Weak efforts mean that the keeper has time to adjust.

Yes agreed, and i remember that allot of that shot accuracy was weak efforts straight down the centre of goal.

An alternative strategy that Presidents Bush and Obama could have embraced would have been a choice - based approach, but only weak efforts have been made in that direction, Peterson says.

Weak effort guys.

If they get to the end of your content feeling no better off than before they started reading / listening / watching it, you not only did a disservice to your business with your weak effort — you've done the entire Web a disservice by cluttering it up with yet more junk.

You'd never know from this weak effort that Canada's corporations received bigger tax breaks since 1999 than any other stakeholder: The average effective corporate income tax rate fell to 25 per cent from 35 in that time (eating up $ 20 - billion of the total tax cuts our governments delivered).

While no longer a Calvinist, I resent this weak effort to cast stones at brothers and sisters.

When it comes to judging the weak efforts of all who follow the great J, Wellhausen's diatribe can not compare with that of Bloom, who speaks of «the long, sad enterprise of revising, censoring, and mutilating J»; where Alter, talks of «composite artistry» in describing the juxtaposition of J and P in the opening chapters of Genesis, Bloom sees deliberate replacement, correction and supersession due to the «revisionary labors» of pious morons.

A weak effort consigned the tournament to the long line of what ifs of English football.

We are making Forster the dummy look like Neuer with our weak efforts.

The Crystal Palace striker has missed twice in four attempts from 12 yards, the latest a weak effort in the 1 - 1 Boxing Day draw at Watford.

In Lionel Messi, Barca still possessed an obvious difference maker, and on one of the few occasions he got free his weak effort from a corner had to be flicked away by Proto's leg, with the goalkeeper unsighted by Suarez.

Sevilla had two saved two over the two legs: Jovetic at the Pizjuán and N'Zonzi at the Kind Power, a weak effort easily stopped.

Hoillett stepped up to take the ensuing penalty, but he saw his weak effort comfortably saved by Tim Howard low to his right as Jason Roberts was unable to bundle home the rebound.

In the wake of $ 231 million in rate overcharging by the Long Island Power Authority over the past few years, and what he views as a weak effort to address the problem, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. signed on as a co-sponsor this week of legislation...

Likewise, if they start calorie counting with the idea that it won't work, they're more likely to give a weak effort or purposely fail.

I get no cruel pleasure from bashing Disney's weaker efforts, even when, as with Atlantis, I feel that I'm morally justified.

But with H2: Halloween II, this is one of his weaker efforts as a director.

Probably his weakest effort to date.

It was perhaps one of Del Toro's weaker efforts, but that was done on purpose for mass appeal.

While probably his weakest effort in years — Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro are tough competition — Howl's Moving Castle is still a riveting motion picture, often joyous, magical, and sorrowing all at the same time.

Though The Guardian isn't unwatchable, it's a weak effort — not scary, sexy, or wicked enough to leave a mark.

Heineman ultimately settles on a pair of divisive figures from both sides of the border: On the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedent.

Writer / director Sally Potter (Orlando, The Tango Lesson) puts for a weak effort, with a wandering story and little real emotion.

are among the most celebrated of contemporary American filmmakers, and there is often sniping that their weaker efforts unfairly avoid the savaging that would be incurred by anyone else.

Though his attempt to trick Thanos was his weakest effort of all time, it's more poetic to think Loki knew he was outmatched and that it was better to die trying to trick the Mad Titan than to serve him as a coward.

The Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men, Fargo) are among the most celebrated of contemporary American filmmakers, and there is often sniping that their weaker efforts unfairly avoid the savaging that would be incurred by anyone else.

Like some of the weakest efforts in Linklater's career (Fast Food Nation, SubUrbia), this movie sees the director trying to tackle a grand issue from too many angles, and emerging with no major new insights.

IN FACT, TOMORROW, I»M GON NA BE BACK AND WRITE A REVIEW OF WHY THIS GAME IS AMAZING AND NOT A WEAK EFFORT!

I like it, but it's PTA's weakest effort.

While Mario Party 8 was their weakest effort, Mario Party DS was a strong addition to the series and wonderful way to end off Hudson's run of the series.

The other two were two of Pixar's weakest efforts («Brave» and «The Good Dinosaur»).

Recommendation: One of the Coens» weakest efforts to date, Hail, Caesar!

weak effort or disruption should never result, as it often does today, in suspension and then return to the same class, but rather in separation from the students who are working hard, with intense remediation intended to allow a new start in a new class the next quarter.

It offers a student little guidance if the teacher simply says, «Not quite there yet,» or «Weak effort.»

Pininfarina's latest creation is a first - rate crowd - stopper, but in some ways, it's also one of the company's weaker efforts.

PW says, «Too many plot contrivances make this one of Kellerman's weaker efforts, but the usual effective interplay between Alex and [his pal Lt. Milo Sturgis] should satisfy series fans.»

Another weak effort from Sony.

If they released that same game as an N64 launch title it would have been seen as a weak effort.

However, on a quantity scale, the 3DS VC has been Nintendo's weakest effort to date.

Britney's Dance Beat 2002 Britney's Dance Beat tries to capitalize on the popularity of dancing simulations like Dance Dance Revolution, but this weak effort will appeal only to Britney Spears» fans.

What is surprising is Gavin's weak effort to somehow counter Judy's condemnation and the painfully lame efforts to dismiss the significance of the HS, diminish Judy's status as a scientist or excuse the original bad behavior on the part of Mann, Jones et al..