Sentences with phrase «worse than at the beginning»

As a result, nearly 1.6 billion individuals now live worse than at the beginning of the 1980s.»

Not exact matches

Eight years after the beginning of the last recession, the economy is in much worse shape than was expected — at least judging from the forecasts that the Congressional Budget Office published back in August 2007.

«Unfortunately, a few bad actors are taking advantage of the [VA home loan] program as home lenders have begun targeting veterans and servicemembers to generate profit and fees at their expense, often leading to higher loan amounts and putting families in a worse financial position than they started off,» observed Senator Tillis.

Having begun with the quest for God, Percy's Christian humanism comes, at its worst, to value the pilgrimage more than the Shrine.

Many years and five or six physicians later, I was actually worse off than at the beginning of that period.

Giroud, I said it to myself at the beginning of game that he should not play but it was worse than I even imagined.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

With less than a month until March Madness begins, we'll take a look at the best and worst college basketball teams against the spread for the 2011 - 2012 season.

At it's worst, I could not put her down or be more than a few feet away from her before the wailing began.

Megan began biting at 8 months, far worse than what I recall with Andrew, yet I presevered.

Catastrophizing is when you think about a worry so persistently that you begin to make it seem much worse than it was at the outset and much worse than it is in reality — a tendency to make «mountains out of molehills»!

More often than not guys go out on a date but fail to make that impression since they are bad at conversation skills right in the beginning.

Popper's assistant Pippi (Lovibond) speaks almost entirely using words beginning with «p» which is precisely as preposterous, pretentious and pitiful as it sounds and isn't the comedy genius it wants to be but other than that it's not at all bad.

I come away more stressed than I was when the session began, like a bad day at work.

A report published recently by IPR North has already found that disadvantaged pupils in the North begin school at a worse off position academically than those in the capital.

Only recently have we begun to look deeper, in popular culture (books and movies, etc.) at the experience of slavery for those enslaved, and the experience of survival for those in the South who weren't soldiers — obviously much worse than for families up North, since these states were not in the «war zone.»

The yield - to - worst of the S&P / BGCantor Current 30 - Year U.S. Treasury Index closed the month at 2.90 %, 17 bps tighter than at the beginning of the month, which was 3.06 %.

But before you begin your quest for the best bad credit auto loan rate, keep in mind that these loans come at higher rates than traditional loans.

If it was a combined SKU like Striker Pack, they could easily do it, but since they want to sell the games separately, they'd have to split it into two carts for each SKU... though I still think MMLC2 should have been the card game, as it's WAY bigger than the first one to the point it makes you wonder why the half - half is getting a physical to begin with, and if LC1 was the downloadable game there would be nothing bad about that at all in regards to taking up storage space.

We need a lobbys private best, the lobbys that here now are very poor, worst than Gran Turismo 6 or 5, people that not see another people, bugs in the track at the beginning of the race, we can't block the cars like the lobbys of the gtsport races.The users of this game need a online more complete, the spirit of the Gran Turismo is got races with friends.

Here's a quick look at the latest findings in a sad saga that's beginning to look more like a bad movie than a current event.

This approach recognizes that family litigation has the potential to leave families worse at the end of the case than they were at the beginning.

Personally, I'd rather keep the life insurance, use the cash values to supplement my investments and / or use the cash value to pay my income in the years the stock market goes down (like 2001, 2008, etc) so that I don't end up worse off than when I began because at the end of the day that account can't lose its value, I can't be sued for the value of it, I don't need to report it on my son's FAFSA form for college, AND if I pull money out of it for my son's school, the dividend still pays the same amount as if I hadn't drawn the money out in the first place (fun fact: that last point isn't something that a northwestern policy does, but new york life and massmutual's contracts do).

Gen X homeowners — those aged 35 to 50 — wound up seeing the worst effects of the downturn, and though they have begun to recoup equity, they are doing so at a more sluggish pace than older generations, according to the recently released Zillow Home Equity Report.

My sister has one, and I don't see her very often so seeing your doodles make me smile even more: — RRB - We've had the worst heatwave since records began here in eastern Australia, but now it is Autumn and I can tell you that I am enjoying it even more so than spring at the moment!