Sentences with phrase «weak year»

An introduction lesson for a relatively weak year 7 group.

Over at USA Today, Susan Wloszczyna has come to the conclusion that, in a fairly weak year for film with a less - than - competitive Best Picture slate to show for it, the performance categories are where it's at this year: The real action this year is in the acting.

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.

Borje Ekholm, a Swedish business insider and veteran board member, took over as Ericsson's CEO last October after a series of weak years.

What's more, the line - up for the holiday period does seem quite weaker this year, compared 2016 (no Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, for example).

Thomas DiNapoli said the overall weak year on Wall Street will be felt throughout the city and state.

Overall, IT job creation is weak this year with only 39,900 workers hired in the first nine months of 2013, compared with 85,200 hired in all of 2012.

I mean, we are supposed to improve every season and win trophies (Well, that is what a top club does), but still we seemed to rebuilt, reconstruct and get weaker year after year....!!!

CSKA Moscow's Nigerian striker Ahmed Musa has said that Manchester City are very weak this year, according to the Daily Mail.

It was an odd lineup for Sundance 2018, if not a slightly off one; you couldn't run into folks in screening rooms or shuffling down Main Street or hanging out in the Yarrow Hotel Bar — change the name all you want, people, we're still calling it the Yarrow Hotel Bar — without someone commenting on how it was a slightly weak year.

«The US dollar has been exceptionally and unexpectedly weak this year,» a group of Morgan Stanley strategists led by Michael J. Wilson wrote in a client note.

The free agent market was extremely weak this year and after the cowboys tagged Lawrence, there wasn't much left.

Today brought a reality check: the monthly state Labor Department jobs report, which showed weak year - to - year private employment growth in upstate's largest metro areas.»

Accessories are a little weak this year, but there are a few necklaces you'll get quite a bit of mileage out of, particularly that Argento Vivo circle collar necklace I know you love but are scared to buy.

In a strangely weak year for female leads best actress will likely be dominated by Julianne Moore for Still Alice.

However, if her film had come a year earlier, she wouldn't have been in my Top 7... Claire Danes, Gwyneth Paltrow and Radha Mitchell also deserved nominations in this painfully weak year.

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.

Snub: There aren't too many supporting actress performances that scream to be recognized this year (it was a pretty weak year for strong female roles), but the first one that comes to mind is Oscar favorite Jessica Chastain for her performance in «A Most Violent Year.»

It's in the comedy category at the Golden Globes, and given how weak a year it's been for comedy it's a shoe - in..

Ford +6 % Ford's increase came from the F - series (+10 %), the Fiesta (+29 %), the C - Max (which doubled), and the Fusion (+62 % over a particularly weak year - ago total).

«While last fall existing - home sales finished on a strong note, this year's data suggest that sales are likely to be weaker this year unless inventories improve,» Hale says.

Worse films have been nominated and Powell's record and the respect she attracts makes me consider her a potential nominee in what I think could turn out to be a relatively weak year in the category.

What's more, the line - up for the holiday period does seem quite weaker this year, compared 2016 (no Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, for example).

Mohamed Ali Beyhum, executive general manager of BankMed, a leading bank in Lebanon, says: «Despite a relatively weak year for global economic conditions and another discouraging performance for the global investment banking industry, which saw revenues fall to a three - year low, 2012 proved to be a relatively healthy year for the Middle East investment banking industry.»

Speaking to a French sport outlet, SFR sport, Petit has this to say; «There's a part of me that understands the fans» frustration, it's been years now that they have seen other teams win trophies, that the team gets weaker every year, always at about the same stage of the season.

«Those will probably have a very weak year,» predicts George.

While the annual unit sales growth of print books is expected to be slightly weaker this year than in the previous two years, global information company The NPD Group predicts a strong holiday season with 5 percent unit sales growth in the remaining five weeks.

2011 was also a fairly weak year for media tie - ins driving book sales — there was no «Watchmen,» as in 2009, or «Scott Pilgrim» in 2010.

Another weak year for commodity prices took its toll on Caterpillar.

Now the consensus from market watchers suggests it could see another weak year as other global regions pick up.

Still, Gallup's report is a reminder for retailers that the days of making up for a weak year by tearing it up from Black Friday to Christmas Eve are coming to an end.

Because the BRICS countries and many other emerging markets are forecasted to have a weak year in 2016, the IEA predicts that «global demand growth will fall to 1.2 million barrels per day in 2016.»

Moreover, a down January may not be a reliable predictor of a weak year overall.

Alternatively, a down January has not been a reliable predictor of an overall weak year.

This is a weak year for free agent quarterbacks, with players like Mike Glennon expected to make around $ 15 million.

All the currencies have their weak years.

Watford knocked us out of the FA Cup last season at the Emirates, but they are weaker this year and will be more defensive.

The January number is so paltry that it's lower than the monthly average during the weakest year for permits during the financial crisis — in 2009, the average number of units approved per month would have been about 500, according to the annual Rent Guidelines Board housing supply report.

In a weak year for animated movies, the lackluster stuff remains in contention no matter what.

In another weak year for candidates that fit this column, I've decided to go with a film that ultimately misses a mark, but is never less than interesting along the way.

It's the great frustration of Oscar physics that every year brings a crowded category or two that must necessarily exclude performances that would've made the cut in a weaker year.

In so doing, we select out anything that might not be to «their» taste which, in the end, created such a muted, soft list almost everyone began to think it was a weak year in film.

The Year's Strongest Categories: The Best Actress Lineups It's the great frustration of Oscar physics that every year brings a crowded category or two that must necessarily exclude performances that would've made the cut in a weaker year.

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.