Sentences with phrase «year nadir»

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In the two years since that nadir, Enerplus has posted double - digit year - over-year growth in production, reserves and cash flow.

But after a lousy year that saw the commodity's price get slashed nearly in half, many experts believe that the sector has finally hit its nadir.

Just a few short years later, the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union catalysed a debate in which patriotism showed its less attractive face, reaching its nadir on 16th June 2016, when Labour MP Jo Cox, a campaigner for continued EU membership, was repeatedly stabbed and shot by a man shouting «Britain first».

«History will tell you that when a school gives a guy only three or four years, the next guy will go through another three or four without success,» says Bill McCartney, whom Colorado administrators stood by through three losing seasons, including a 1 - 10 nadir in 1984, before the Buffaloes broke through.

Arsenal haven't demonstrated a well coached defence for years and 2017/18 season represents the nadir.

Arsenal perhaps reached their nadir this season with a terrible performance at St Mary's on New Years day that saw them lose ground on their top four rivals.

However, both his appearances and quality of play have declined over the past few years, reaching its nadir this past season where he only made six appearances for Sevilla.

Labour were at an electoral nadir in 2009, and so this year they can expect to see their vote share pick up sufficiently with their national revival.

I'd personally feel extremely unhappy if he didn't, in the same way that I always felt uncomfortable in the Blair years, huge majorities but only 2/5 of the electorate had actually voted Labour, less than in 1983 the nadir of Labour's misfortunes..

When it came to the 17 - year broods, the levels of these birds rose slowly after emergences, peaking in year 12 and then declining afterward, reaching a nadir again in emergence years.

Still, sea ice is far below the long - term average and stands to rank among the lowest years on record at its end - of - summer nadir.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

He belongs to the hardboiled, get - the - job - done leading men of action films past, but even in this time of increasingly progressive heroes remains incredibly popular for his steely, charisma - not - necessary aloofness - so popular in fact that the franchise was resurrected after Jeremy Renner nadir The Bourne Legacy for a fifth film some 14 years after the original just to bring the real Bourne back.

Underneath it all plays Ten Years After's «I'd Love To Change The World,» the absolute nadir of Woodstock - era protest rock; the movie's sound editor deserves some kind of award for smoothly deleting the song's opening volley against «dykes and fairies.»

The results with this year's «Rock The Kasbah,» penned by Glazer and directed by Barry Levinson, are marginally better, but not by all that much: It's an utterly forgettable and ineffectual «comedy» that's more reminiscent of Murray's mid -»90s nadir («Larger Than Life,» «The Man Who Knew Too Little,» et al) than the more critically adored stuff he's been making this century.

The nadir of this terrible year of non-Hunger-Games blockbusters, Zack Snyder proves once again that he has no sense of visual storytelling, even if the static images may be well constructed or beautiful.

The Happening, starring Zooey Deschanel and Mark Wahlberg, prompted the New Republic to assert,» [A] n astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined,» though Shyamalan's career eventually reached its nadir with the infamous Last Airbender (2010) about a 12 - year - old boy who provides the last hope of restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos.

Halfway through the year, The Neon Demon kindly established the nadir of 2016 cinema for me and with just three months to go, I am doubtful I'll see anything worse this year.

There's an entire thread elided from Hill's picture centred around violence in «old» Earth cartoons — a conversation that would have fit snugly in the mostly - animated Event Horizon, as it turns out, dealing as the movie does with the question of existential representation in a year, 1997 *, at the peak of our digital revolution, with The Fifth Element on the one side and a pinnacle (or nadir) of sorts, Titanic, on the other.

However, as Paul Peterson shows (see «Ticket to Nowhere,» p. 39), long - term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveal only small increases in mathematics and science scores after 1982, when scores for 17 - year - olds reached their nadir.

The current 10 - year earnings average starts in November 2003 when real profits were just rebounding from the nadir in March 2002.

30 - year fixed rates are hovering around 4.6 % right now, which is close to a historic nadir.

More interesting perhaps, is that the share price has followed a pattern of alternating lower lows and lower highs every two or three years; the share price rose after 2003 to a high of $ 35 only to fall back to the $ 14 range in 2006, then made another high in 2007 close to $ 35 before falling again to $ 6.70 during the 1st quarter of 2009, the equity nadir of the financial crisis, before once again rising to $ 24 last year.

The decline accelerated for the next year and a half, reaching a nadir of $.50 in December 2008.

Amazingly, within a couple of years of the Great Depression's nadir, they published more theoretically and empirically rigorous accounts than (for example) Ben Bernanke's Essays on the Great Depression, Princeton University Press, 2004.

Many whale biologists believe their population is now at 10 % of historical levels, having bounced back from a mere 1 % at their nadir less than fifty years ago.

The exhibitions that rippled through our cultural fabric over the past year, at least those occurring in and around New York, have registered the predictable number of highs and lows, though 2014 did manage to plumb one nadir unlikely to be matched for a good long time.

Heh, several years ago I figured out that after a nadir, ice volume would recover faster than extent or area.

The world is currently in an Interglacial, and though warm compared to the nadir of the Ice Age approximately 20,000 - years ago, it's not as warm as previous Interglacials.

«A NOAA polar orbiter is nominally «sun synchronous,» meaning whenever it observes a particular spot on the earth at nadir, the local time on the earth is constant from year to year, usually being referenced to the crossing time over the equator [i.e., local equatorial crossing time (LECT)-RSB-.

This year the never ending attack on «editorial» may have finally reached its nadir.

The recent non-precedential decision in Deslam v. Deslam, No. 1237 WDA 2012 (March 15, 2013) presented the Superior Court with the dilemma of Ellen Deslam in the nadir of her third marriage, just 36 months from her Medicare eligibility date, after a five year union.

Sales of Manhattan apartments during the first quarter of the year hit their slowest pace since the nadir of the Great Recession, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal.