Sentences with phrase «year of muddling»

(MCT)-- The lower - than - expected annualized growth rate of 2.8 percent reported Friday for the final three months of 2011 raises doubts about the strength of the U.S. recovery, and concerns that 2012 may be another year of muddling along.

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Sales have been muddled in recent years and the company is in the process of remaking itself just a few years after it acquired private - label manufacturer Ralcorp for nearly $ 5 billion in early 2013.

Next up was a system that streamlines the notoriously inefficient process of pumping and storing breastmilk, which new moms have muddled through for years.

As far as the market in general is concerned, this argues for unexciting long - term returns, possibly a «muddle - through» trading range for quite a number of years to come.

Now, this is one of the clearest verses in the Bible on salvation, but for some reason, a lot of people have muddled and confused this passage over the years to say something it does not.

I spend the next few years studying the history of Christianity itself, especially the early church, and that not only «re-connected» me to the faith, it also allowed me to survive amidst all the muddle of the current climate.

This year, the wonderful birth of a new granddaughter has muddled this, so Dad and I will be having a community Thanksgiving dinner with my son's Army comrades at Ft. Bragg, NC.

That year there was such a muddle that the national championship never was settled to the satisfaction of all.

Fellaini's continued presence in United's squad tells a story of the muddled post-Ferguson years, and a squad that has been built and rebuilt by several men who didn't really know what they were trying to do.

Tim Lollar, the San Diego Padres» 26 - year - old smash hit of a lefthander, muddled through last season with a 2 - 8 record and an ERA that looked like a Richter scale reading on a bad day along the San Andreas Fault.

Tanking is getting rid of every older player making any kind of money and muddling through for a few years with a bunch of heralded rookies, has - beens, and never - will - bes until those prospects pan out and then payroll is spent on complimentary pieces to supplement a young, dynamic core.

Every reason to believe we would have muddled through the last 20 years in Tottenham or Newcastle or Villa mode, use up and dispose of 10 managers in the search for the Holy Grail of an occasional cup and a Europa League finish.

Muddling our way to the top 4 for the last number of years has suited the manager and the board.

English football's relationship with the ball - playing central defender is an interesting one: it (if we may for a moment reduce such a complex muddle of thought and action to a singular entity) loves them in theory, it sanctifies them when they're Bobby Moore, but it doesn't entirely trust them, and it certainly doesn't have time for them in the early formative years, when all that ball playing seems to detract from the serious business of stopping goals.

That there have been ten (plus caretakers) in the twenty eight years since, though, tells another story as the clubs make - do - and - mend muddle through strategy has failed to adapt to the cash rich era of modern football.

As I muddled through the toddler years with my firstborn, I decided to take an approach to nutrition that was unheard of, as far as I knew.

It truly is EXACTLY what I would have loved to have had available years ago instead of muddling my way through, making a bazillion mistakes, and running out of steam and motivation.

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

But no election - year incumbent wants a story line muddled by angry bands of roving protesters.

Over a year of post-referendum government inaction and six months of muddle since the Article 50 notification has made our country look unwelcome to the rest of Europe and the world.

The eurozone crisis may muddle on for years to come — or could be settled with the break - up of the currency by the time this article is published.

Even Jessica Asato's glancing reference to producer capture is at least useful both as metaphor for New Labour's corruption of earlier party structures (see above) and as a partial description of how economic reality has altered, assisted by New Labour, over the past 12 years, though she goes on to muddle the point.

And while Cox said candidates got out of the way for Long to run, another race still two years down the line remains very muddled right now.

And the muddled response that the Tories ultimately settled upon — criticising the micro-detail of the announcement while hawking around a partially edited video of Ed Balls from January this year — demonstrated how they crack under pressure.

Further muddling matters, companies are developing many different levels of automation that range from assisting drivers with braking, parking and lane - changing (referred to as «level 1» abilities) to full autonomy («level 5»), which is still several years away.

But even more damning is that the formulation Lomborg offers now, following criticism that he muddled the point, is still not unambiguous: sometimes projected resource lifetimes are measured based on extrapolating a constant rate of growth of consumption into the future starting «from the year discussed», rather than assuming a constant consumption rate, and sometimes they are measured «from the year discussed» by assuming that the consumption rate is following a bell - shaped curve (the famous «Hubbert's pimple»).4

The big news coming out of those muddled waters this year is that singles are becoming more and more open - minded when it comes to gender roles, dating expectations and infidelity.

Heller's debut feature stars Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze, a precocious 15 - year - old muddling her way through the swinging scene of seventies - era San Francisco.

There are also some very good supporting actors which give a bit of enjoyment to an overall muddled film, including Jean Reno, whom I haven't seen in a film for years.

Here, on the heels of The Post — a wonderful, important film that had the 71 - year - old filmmaker still firing on all cylinders — Spielberg offers up a muddled, downright hideous catastrophe.

Here we have a genuinely superb talent (I don't care if he was riding atop a flying horse in this year's poorly - received Winter's Tale - Farrell was wonderful in it) whose box - office let - downs of late include ropey, sci - fi remakes (Total Recall), muddled, indie - schmindie projects (Seven Psychopaths) and boring horror yarns (Fright Night).

Though the film's attempts at character - driven diversions feel a bit muddled, director Matt Wolf overall does an effective job of showing the similarities of teens through the years.

Worst - case scenario: It's a murky muddle that keeps Del Toro from getting to complete any of the dozens of other exciting - sounding projects he's been attached to in recent years.

Just as I've never understood those who accused «Tinker Tailor» of being hard to follow (admittedly, no film this year refused to spoon feed you to quite the same degree, but the storytelling is never muddled), I've never gotten those who find the film absent in emotion.

He also points out, correctly, that all that many districts offer these students is a chance to muddle through four years (or more) in a large, comprehensive high school, in hopes of earning a diploma that by no means signals readiness for college or a career.

Teachers» leaders last week accused exam boards of creating a «massive muddle» after Ofqual data revealed that almost 74,000 GCSE grades were changed this summer, compared with just over 48,000 last year.

The sad truth is that this muddled analysis of zero tolerance and disparate impact is likely to reverse the hard - earned gains of earlier years.

For years, the answer from researchers has been a muddle, while a handful of recent studies have clearly shown voucher students backsliding academically.

And while the overall numbers are somewhat muddled in the data, state officials still reported increasingly white charter schools this year, so much so that the state's Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a GOP champion of school choice, asked to pull a demographics report from the State Board of Education's agenda in January because it was too negative.

It will never happen, of course, so next year, we will all muddle along in the same way as the last dozen, with another huge number of teachers in the first 5 years, and many teachers over 50 leaving.

Somehow, I manage to muddle along, work on a computer all day, check my email and social media, watch an couple of hours of TV daily, write, blog, podcast and still read more than a hundred books a year.

If we muddle along at the average rate of growth over the last two years, the FOMC may very well sit on its hands and not tighten as quickly as presently expected.

«I know the benefits of the program so I muddle through, but find the process significantly frustrating,» says Scott Wignall, a 41 - year - old deaf disability worker in Winnipeg who manages his own RDSP.

And if you want to learn more about the events of 90 years ago, watch Peter Finch as General Nobili and Sean Connery as Amundsen in a crazy muddle of a movie, the Red Tent.

Help this muddle along by using population data 30 years out of date, shifting even more urban warming into the non-urban group.

«The most significant labor case on this year's Supreme Court docket was handed down this morning, with a somewhat muddled result,» writes employer's lawyer Mike Fox in his assessment of the Supreme Court's reversal of the 5th Circuit's decision, rejecting the theory of adverse impact under the Age Discrimination Act.

Michael Genesereth of Codex, Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics wrote two years ago that computational law «simply can not be applied in cases requiring analogical or inductive reasoning,» though if there are enough judicial rulings interpreting a regulation the computers could muddle through.

I took French through highschool (and an extra year because it was in Ontario) but I can still barely muddle through basic sentences, and most of my colleagues (in Toronto) are the same.

You raise many great questions, including «What do [people in committed relationships] do to muddle through the morass of hurt and confusion that builds up over years?»

It's more muddled with a modified gross lease since the landlord pays these costs for the first, or base, year of the lease.