Sentences with phrase «weaker performance from»

SkyCity has posted an 18 per cent lift in first - half profit as improved trading at its Auckland casino offset a weaker performance from its Australian units.

SkyCity Entertainment Group, New Zealand's only listed casino company, has posted an 18 per cent lift in first - half profit as improved trading at its key Auckland casino offset a weaker performance from its Australian and high - roller businesses.

Growth at HBO provided a boost that made up for weaker performance from some of Time Warner's other TV operations.

Weak performances from the players.

Even when he blames fans, media, referees, anyone and everything except himself and weak performances from players.

In doing so, we missed districts that initially appeared noncompetitive but became competitive due to an especially strong performance from a challenger or a weak performance from an incumbent.

The only thing you can do to make things worse for yourself in the long run is to change your allocation in response to weak performance from certain assets.

Constituents traded on Asian exchanges offset weak performances from their western peers.

Not exact matches

The company attributed the performance to its international business, where it saw higher expenses, lower profit margins and weaker gains from sales of assets.

«The disappointing performance in export activity suggests that the loss of export competitiveness from the strong dollar and the weak global backdrop are becoming a net drag on U.S. economic activity,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

In its trading business, income from its markets business decreased 4 percent to 1.35 billion pounds, as macro income fell 14 percent due to a weaker performance by its U.S. rates business and the impact of exiting energy - related commodities.

However, the JSE All - share index, the broadest measure of stock market performance, is down roughly 7 percent from a peak notched up in January due to weak global sentiment and profit taking.

Although the energy sector XLE, -0.23 % has climbed 11.6 %, outperforming other sectors in the past month, financials XLF, -0.85 % which were expected to benefit from rising rates, have lagged, producing the fifth weakest performance among the S&P 500's 11 sectors, according to FactSet data.

This utter lack of correlation between taxes and competitiveness, however, did not stop Canadian business commentators from ascribing our weak performance to (what else?)

The quarterly index from leading global agent Knight Frank fell 0.6 % in the last three months of 2014, its weakest performance since the third quarter of 2012.

LONDON, May 4 British new car registrations increased by roughly 10 percent last month according to preliminary data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), although the numbers are in comparison to a weak performance in April last year.

This looks good enough performance, but is actually weaker than what we had seen from these same banks in recent quarters.

A guy who never turns up in big games, and is happy to just coast from game to game, with the odd good performance here, and there, against weak opposition.

This is simple a very intelligent child can solve this problem.Firstly today our keeper was very poor however i know he will come good.By the way why is Paulista no getting his chance.What i have observed about arsenal since we signed Mertesacker from day one and since he started playing is that Mertesacker hardly gets involved you will usually see him a few times because he does not want to get caught out.e has always been a weak link in the defence even in his greatest performances here.When i see us playing with a high line and he is there i always laugh.It is just a mistake waiting to happen and i can tell u that it will happen again this season.Secondly why is Ramsey Cazorla and Ozil playing in the same line - up in a 4 -5-1 formation.That is just not right though it will win you some matches due to individual brilliance.It wont work at all.Lastly the least i say about Giroud the better i am not judging him on one game.One would imagine if he was not french and like chinese will he be getting these chances under Wenger.To me he will always be an average player and i will stand by my word even if he has good games.

Arsenal was given one of the weakest team in this CL competition.Everybody expected a win, like by big margin but the whole match there was no fight and desire.The game was so poor at all front last night.City and Man Utd played their hearts out even though they were defeated.Man Utd players witnessed a horrific injury to their team mate, that will affect their focus and rhythm but they fought with desire to win the game till the end.City were the better team than Juventus, they played really good.I have even read an article on Sky that states even though Man utd and City is defeated they still can qualify the group stage, thats how their performance were reassuring.But Arsenal were really poor from starting the game till end.Zagreb got their first win in CL since 1999, that says it all.

Fantastic performance from him, but I expect that against weak teams.

The Hoosiers fell from 18.4 % to 10.9 %, likely a result of their poor performance against a relatively weak Temple team.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

With its amazingly weak performance in attracting EU funds, along with backdrop of Britain's outflow (a net donor) from the EU, Romania could be put in a precarious negotiating position, if Brussels does not help it through various exceptional measures to improve absorption rate.

TV debates tend to have their momentum set by the opening performances, but a weak night from Mr Clegg on Thursday could turn the wave of support into a mere blip.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

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.

, as Kubrick, working from his own screenplay, delivers a meandering midsection that's riddled with padded - out and pointedly needless sequences - with the decidedly (and continuously) far - from - engrossing atmosphere exacerbated by O'Neal's often stunningly weak performance (ie the actor delivers a bland and thoroughly forgettable turn entirely devoid of charisma or presence).

Knightley may be the weakest link amongst a cast that includes Adam Brody (Scream 4), Patton Oswalt (Young Adult) and Martin Sheen (The Amazing Spider - Man), however even at her most mannered her performance is far from her worst.

We find two couples and one sister holed up in an old cabin, but this time David (Shiloh Fernandez, a bit weak), his girlfriend and his buddies are there to help his sister Mia (Jane Levy, from TVs Suburgatory, in a fantastically gritty performance) quit her drug habit.

The Cat o» Nine Tails does suffer, however, from extremely weak supporting performances (particularly Catherine Spaak as the requisite bare - breasted fatale) and a script that relies too heavily on extended monologues, which inspire a stultifying awkwardness in their speakers.

Testimony has one great dramatic center, some bravura Steadycam sequences, effective newsreel - styled black and white cinematography, and a greater diversity of music to offset a weak script, clumsy montages, and surprisingly banal performances from supporting players (except Ronald Pickup, who also played Nietzsche in Wagner).

Anchored by an impressively modulated, admirably restrained performance from Mads Mikkelsen (best known for his work with Nicolas Winding Refn), The Hunt is otherwise an indecisive, weak - kneed film.

It might have a typically game performance from Mark Wahlberg at the center, and a few fitful laughs, but the rest of it seemed aimless, lazy and offensive without being transgressive (say what you like about the mostly weak «The Dictator,» but it sets out to hit more taboo subjects than «Chinese people speak funny.»)

Though the performances are surprisingly weak for a director that also plies his trade as an actor, «Man of Tai Chi» is nonetheless a solid debut from Reeves who smartly lets the action speak for itself.

However, it is not the direction that is the weakest component in Danny Collins but rather ironically, its immensely lethargic script that relies too heavily on thundering clichés that devalue the illuminating comedic performances from Pacino, Bening and Garner.

These (and others) are all strung together to piece together the simple as pie story (that has a twist you can see from eight miles away) with weaker than expected performances by the cast.

Indeed, Coates's work picking out the best scenes and moments from a mess of daily footage likely redeemed many a weak performance.

In The Opposite of Sex, he coaxed a star - making performance from Christina Ricci, despite the weak material surrounding her.

You can see Jordan offhandedly weighing the line in his mind like a rock he's about to lob: it's one of many nicely judged moments of performance here from a wildly appealing ensemble cast without a weak link.

Most significantly, they have transformed teaching in Washington from a low - status occupation marked by weak standards and factory - like work rules into a performance - based profession that provides recognition, responsibility, support, and significant compensation, with some starting salaries now as high as $ 75,000 and top pay climbing from $ 87,000 to $ 134,000 (and higher in the city's year - round schools).

The teacher you remember from your youth is not the easy grader who let you get away with a weak performance; it is the tough one who gave you a challenge and was not easy to please.

Conversely, Poland and Slovakia are particularly weak at educating students from families with less education, given the performance of those from families with high education.

This approach is good for kids — protecting them from bad schools — and it's also good politics — safeguarding choice programs from criticisms about weak performance and shoddy quality.

There's no denying that a number of that state's schools serving nonpoor communities have weak academic performance records, that some are also mismanaged and fiscally wasteful and that plenty of families don't realize this, and that more than a few real - estate agents benefit from their ignorance.

To give but one of several examples, the authors offer a nuanced discussion of ability grouping in schools that highlights the potential tensions between the value of improving the performance of the weakest students and the consequences of increasing the gap between them and the most gifted, since the latter are likely to reap the greater gains from ability grouping.

Priorities there have shifted from providing assistance to schools with weak performance (primarily using retired professionals and teachers on loan) to targeting districts in distress.

Weak Licensing Requirements: Most state licensure systems lack rigor, are not closely aligned to real - world expectations and responsibilities for principals, and are disconnected from job performance.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971): Diamonds is the weakest of the early Bond films, a»70s clunker that suffers from phoned - in performances and a predictable plot.

A weak or erratic output signal from a wheel speed sensor can cause poor performance or lack of power from a stop or at low speeds.