"At a time when the country is looking to the government for confidence and encouragement we get a dull and uninspiring budget from a dull and uninspiring Chancellor," IAG said in a statement.
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He was uninspiring at best as a general election candidate.
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It also provided a cautious outlook deemed "uninspiring" by analyst.
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Mrs Clinton's uninspiring incrementalism made that relative disregard seem absolute.
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So far, Trump's record on drug prices has been uninspiring.
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She's uninspiring, she's unlikable and she's not exciting the base.
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But it's uninspiring to pension funds, endowments and other investors.
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That's not to say the other Democratic candidates are uninspiring.
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These habitual, uninspiring meals seem unlikely fuel for creative work.
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Clinton's message of the practical progressive is flat and uninspiring.
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Could there be a more uninspiring mission for a business?
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So far the documents passed to them have been uninspiring.
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Leave your form blank if the options are so uninspiring.
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Traders also digested the release of uninspiring U.S. data overnight.
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Adding to chipmaker's woes was Intel Corp's uninspiring full year outlook.
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Contemporary cities, at least in the United States, are often uninspiring.
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HK/SIN, after edging down overnight on uninspiring U.S. economic data.
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Men have it easy because women tolerate those uninspiring dick pics.
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The loss to the Nationals was his third straight uninspiring start.
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Conversely, without a "why," the "how" can become rote and uninspiring.
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She also suggested that Vogue had become an increasingly uninspiring read.
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And does he know that he chose the more uninspiring option?
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Fillmore has a reputation for being an uninspired and uninspiring leader.
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Innovative, perhaps, but uninspiring are monotypes, in oil paints, of landscapes.
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But it is uninspiring to pension funds, endowments and other investors.
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But for all the good vibes, the uninspiring rotation is concerning.
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You almost can't blame the Trump administration for its uninspiring blueprint.
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The presidential challengers, most analysts say, are uninspiring and well-worn themselves.
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Instead, doubling down on the transactional facets of his presidency seems uninspiring.
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But the economic targets presented are serious, and Monday's are seriously uninspiring.
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Andy Dalton is uninspiring, but Belichick could win a division with him.
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But I was disappointed to find the outfits on the tag uninspiring.
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Yet the market reaction was predictable to what was an uninspiring report.
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Some bucket-list attractions were overpriced, uninspiring, overcrowded, or just plain boring.
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The uninspiring task of washing the dishes could lead to similar effects.
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Communities you were excited to be involved with may now feel uninspiring.
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She doesn't reflect on her uninspiring speeches or her off-putting personality.
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Only four drivers fell into this category and their stories were uninspiring.
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"iPhone volumes are not deteriorating though iPhone X remains uninspiring," Kvaal wrote.
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The result, though, has been a rather uninspiring race to the middle.
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Bernie Sanders was the turnout candidate, and Biden the uninspiring generic Democrat.
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Instead, he spoke an uninspiring 33 minutes, interrupted by boos and chants.
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Cons: Less than robust online office suite, uninspiring photo, music, and video management.
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This uninspiring performance reflects the fraying international and domestic foundations of world order.
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On balance, the total backlog metric looks uninspiring, mostly from negative FX volatility.
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He says the emphasis on economic theory within the libertarian movement was uninspiring.
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Even the bickering between Bow and Ruby over Bow's parenting skills is uninspiring.
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The choice may feel increasingly uninspiring to many, but it cannot be ducked.
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The muted reaction is, in part, a reflection of the Palestinians' uninspiring leadership.
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Exane analysts also flagged "uninspiring newsflow" from global regulators of the Basel Committee.
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There are many reasons to find Pete's boring yet condescending technocratic approach uninspiring.
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To make something musically uninspiring enough to represent the pettiness that underlies it?
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On paper, it's as uninspiring as the team's short-lived, much-mocked logo.
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It was an uninspiring finish to a match that was brimming with thrills.
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He was uninspiring, often barely finding the energy to whisper into a microphone.
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As the group's ostensible leader, James McAvoy is hilariously uninspiring and hilariously unfunny.
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But the numbers are less than spectacular, and the outlook, let's say, uninspiring.
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While the weather may be uninspiring, your rainy day outfit doesn't have to be.
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Gone are the days when eating healthy meant small, tasteless portions of uninspiring mulch.
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" To David, he hurls, "You're uninspiring, you lack charisma — you lack your own personality!
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So here's what happened on the uninspiring season finale of American Horror Story: Cult.
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As a quietly industrious toiler, and sometimes uninspiring orator, she is not well-known.
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He completed law school to find the legal job landscape brutally competitive and uninspiring.
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Growth across much of the rest of the world is forecast to be uninspiring.
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I don't mind the 10's design at all, aside from finding it uninspiring.
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Obama left an uninspiring legacy of do-nothingness in the face of grave threats.
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Clinton uninspiring and that he planned to vote instead for a third-party candidate.
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Kaepernick finished an uninspiring 13 of 29 for 187 yards and that lone touchdown.
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There are good reasons that the domestic robot has taken such an uninspiring form.
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Still, some found the humor a welcome respite from an often uninspiring train ride.
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However, "I'm only worried about the money if we nominate an uninspiring, disappointing nominee."
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But you're stuck with either gray or black, which I find dull and uninspiring.
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"The candidates the Democrats put forth are just uninspiring," said Gina Biondo, a Moser supporter.
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On the right, they frequently call attention to Mr Hollande's soft and uninspiring economic reforms.
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High-scorers find it slightly easier to book municipal sports facilities, among other uninspiring gifts.
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Mr Nadal's accomplishment may thus appear distinctly uninspiring when compared with his previous title runs.
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All images: Buffalo Bayou PartnershipPublic infrastructure is known for being utilitarian, uninspiring, and downright ugly.
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There's no richness to the sound, it's all very flat and uninspiring, especially with music.
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There's an uninspiring genericness to all smartphones — all the ones that really matter, at least.
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This burger may have had uninspiring beef, but it was also crispy, cheesy, and spicy.
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The shoes were a memorable foundation on which to build an otherwise uninspiring apparel collection.
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The 224-212 loss to the United States 18-and-under national team was uninspiring.
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I think sometimes when your work focuses on color, New York can be so uninspiring.
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Dinner, at least on Tuesday, the first night he spent there, was uninspiring and mushy.
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Tannehill&aposs tenure with the Miami Dolphins came to an uninspiring end over the offseason.
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Sadly, it flopped in the US. The uninspiring name The American Baking Competition didn't help.
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Many had assortments of tops, dresses and pants in stores that were uninspiring, analysts said.
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I find comparisons to 4:44 and Beyoncé's landmark Lemonade to be boring and uninspiring.
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It's tiny, rocky, and uninspiring, though I know my friend and colleague Ryan Mandelbaum adamantly disagrees.
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His well-funded, highly disciplined and pan-Indian party faces an unusually divided and uninspiring opposition.
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Saying that Mrs Clinton was an uninspiring candidate without a compelling message doesn't quite cover it.
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It makes sense in an exciting way; the men's Rumble makes sense in an uninspiring way.
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Previous versions of the sedan had been criticised for their lack of reliability and uninspiring design.
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The end result is a vocal delivery that sounds distinctly uninspiring, robotic, and at times laughable.
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This year the "lesser of two evils" rationale isn't just an uninspiring appeal to risk aversion.
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Stuffed awkwardly into a drab conference room, office workers have conversations that feel tedious and uninspiring.
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Data that track spending on equipment and software, intellectual property investment, and structures were generally uninspiring.
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From a numbers perspective, the industry can feel overwhelmingly uninspiring for women and people of color.
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Last week you said Mike Pence was an uninspiring choice other than to placate social conservatives.
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However, it will also find you eager to cut yourself free from any suffocating, uninspiring relationships.
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Tim Ryan and Amy Klobuchar, both solid but uninspiring Midwestern candidates, may face a reckoning sooner.
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That uninspiring term reflects the fact that the stocks, as a group, are headed for trouble.
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At the same time, Mr. Díaz-Canel's rivals perceive him to be an uninspiring, nonthreatening figure.
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It was an album where we had just done Ozzfest, which was very uninspiring for us.
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His best friend is the uninspiring Bradley, an actor who takes himself a little too seriously.
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The dollar index was near flat after Dudley's comments and following uninspiring data on the U.S. economy.
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U.S. economic growth has been steady but uninspiring, and corporate profits and revenues are in a slump.
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I tried the cream by itself and it was a nice texture but pretty plain and uninspiring.
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The president's snipes at Biden are intended to paint the career politician as old, slow and uninspiring.
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The result is an uninspiring configuration of Picassos that wrap around the room, hanging at different heights.
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"It's really uninspiring when you post a video and everyone says, 'Go kill yourself,'" she told Forbes.
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The latest dunk comes from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who posted a tweet mocking the uninspiring design.
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It utterly exposes just how vapid and uninspiring the overwhelming majority of our political leaders really are.
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The things that would normally make him uninspiring seem reassuring in the Age of The Crazed Tweet.
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Google must really not be worried about hurting Pixel 22 sales right now — probably because they're really uninspiring.
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Unlike the recent, uninspiring IPOs of Chinese state-owned banks, China Tower ought to lure more international investors.
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Sure, I'm all for predictable technological improvements that are also practical, but they can be so damn uninspiring.
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Uninspiring camera aside, all this makes the phone seem like it could be a smooth switch from iOS.
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To be sure, backlash avoidance is an uninspiring mission for a new president, especially in the current moment.
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Then, Leitch talks about his experience seeing Neighbors 2, a feminist-y but ultimately uninspiring Seth Rogen sequel.
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It's very unoriginal, very uninspiring, and replicating something that is created on a printing press, which seems insane.
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When I first picked up the G303, I was struck by just how anonymous and uninspiring it felt.
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the company brought an uninspiring program, "This Is My Body …," to the Joyce Theater.
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It was the type of conservative, uninspiring series that fans have quickly grown tired of, and they booed.
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Keynote speakers can give ponderous or uninspiring speeches (see Bill Clinton in 1988 and Mark Warner in 2008).
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The remaining sections in the exhibition are rather uninspiring assembly-line displays of one pink dress after another.
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Others, like Alejandro Sabella, Alfio Basile and Edgardo Bauza, have been uninspiring, but experienced, relatively well-regarded coaches.
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Mr. Schetyna, the longtime leader of the Civic Platform party, was widely viewed as an uninspiring career politician.
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Having recently seen the swanky showers in Qantas' lounge at Heathrow airport, these seemed pretty uninspiring and basic.
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Ergo, a data protection regulator calling for more of the same systemic failure does look rather, uh, uninspiring.
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"Investing recommendations: "We expect a tepid recovery to uninspiring trend growth, but with diminished economic and policy risks.
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And part of the reason for that is the left has effectively branded her as corrupt and uninspiring.
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"It has been another fairly uninspiring report for the bulls," said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at ClipperData.
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Nor does she seem bogged down with an uninspiring workplace, a shit paycheck, or a lack of meaningful responsibilities.
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Pacquiao is enjoying a career turnaround after uninspiring efforts that left many believing his career was nearing an end.
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While this is uninspiring for gold, the potential for higher recession probabilities still could drive demand for safe assets.
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It's simple, if a bit uninspiring; designed for quick changes between shows, but incredibly easy to replicate at home.
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For now Authory's product focus being (primarily) on backup, and (secondly) traffic generation feels sensible — if a little uninspiring.
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After Australia, Hiroki went back to work in Tokyo, where he took an unfulfilling job in an uninspiring office.
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It wasn't the dream exactly, but so far it was working out OK. His roomies were fine if uninspiring.
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Not to make excuses, but it is easy to fall into a style rut when the weather's, well...uninspiring.
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That vision has yielded a dark, icy, and uninspiring Superman whose theme music sounds like a rejected Creed song.
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Left with the decision to start an uninspiring journeyman at quarterback or their top pick, they went with Wentz.
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Kaepernick, who kneeled again during the anthem, finished an uninspiring 13-29 for 187 yards and that lone touchdown.
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It's an awful, soul-crushing and confusing, uninspiring ... go to an Apple store, you just want to hang out.
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Russia, which entered this tournament off a series of uninspiring results, was certainly not seen as an offensive juggernaut.
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Its front-wheel-drive architecture — which also underpins the Chevrolet Blazer and GMC Acadia — gives it portly, uninspiring proportions.
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Despite being marketed as one of the three leads of this series, her arc thus far has been uninspiring.
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At first, trading for Castro from the Chicago Cubs was perceived by the fan base as an uninspiring move.
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Those who stayed in rooms at the back of the hotel, primarily on lower flowers, criticized the uninspiring views.
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Nor has New Jersey, whose largest city has its own rail terminal called Penn Station that is equally uninspiring.
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While I&aposve had some epic adventures, some bucket-list attractions were overpriced, uninspiring, overcrowded, or just plain boring.
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Picking out an outfit this time of year can be straight-up uninspiring when the mornings are so chilly.
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So with designs so formulaic and industry events similarly uninspiring, why are people still so obsessed with new kits?
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If you believe it's the latter, than the Fitbit Ionic is a surprisingly solid choice, even with its uninspiring looks.
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To win a championship is a great achievement but it's as reliable and uninspiring as the turning of the earth.
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That is how it played out, with the Vikings playing a fairly uninspiring game, yet still winning easily, 19-9.
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The Beoplay H4s tout "crafted" leather, aluminum, and fabric, but I share Ashley's sense that they feel cheap and uninspiring.
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You probably crap out solipsistic, totally uninspiring shit for xojane..That or some dumbass thought piece for equally uptight tools.
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You might think a road, no matter how badly pocked with pot holes, is just an uninspiring piece of pavement.
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Whatever happens, Adolfo Laurenti, global economist at J. Safra Sarasin, described the post-referendum scenario in a note as "uninspiring".
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Sometimes, you get to a place, attraction, or activity only to find it overpriced, uninspiring, overcrowded, or just plain boring.
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The mundane shows have become so uninspiring, the New York Post recently wrote in an article on the very subject.
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Indeed, her more nervous supporters can rest assured after this: she will trudge on with her inevitable, but uninspiring campaign.
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The loft's one uninspiring space was, Bargo felt, the generic contemporary kitchen, so he called Aujla and Bloomstein for help.
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The other quarterbacks on hand, Tom Savage, with 19 career pass attempts, and the career backup Brandon Weeden, are uninspiring.
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It has attempted to run three decent men, but uninspiring candidates in a row: McCain, Romney, and (unsuccessfully) Jeb Bush.
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It's no different with this year's traveling program of shorts from the 2017 festival, which range from solid to uninspiring.
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The Park Lane, built in 1971 by Harry Helmsley, was architecturally uninspiring, but offered wide-angle views of Central Park.
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A discerning primary voter could fairly ask some of the lesser-known, longest-of-long-shot, uninspiring, cookie-cutter candidates . . .
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From overcrowding, to strikes by staff, broken escalators, uninspiring station architecture, service delays, and rodents, here's what it's really like.
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"Given the uninspiring performance of the brand, we suspect it shouldn't come as a big surprise," said RBC Capital Markets analysts.
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That kind of tension and moral conundrum simply doesn't develop in Blade Runner 2049, because the film's villain is so uninspiring.
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And those sorts of tropes get very uninspiring as a designer, when you're playing the same card over and over again.
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Uninspiring. The Rich Kids of Instagram-like feeds feature a nauseating amount of rosé, jets, tropical vacations, and not much else.
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While it's fun to explore the world by zooming around on Google Earth, there's just something uninspiring about most satellite images.
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Uninspiring performance aside, there aren't very many things about the new Fire 7 that stand out as a massive red flag.
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Minnesota took two uninspiring blowout losses without their new start swingman even though Towns and Wiggins were still in the lineup.
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Still, 11 people felt compelled to bid on the uninspiring sketch; the winner — if we can call them that — remains unidentified.
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The two firms had agreed on a purchase price, but the deal fell apart after Gannett's uninspiring quarterly earnings last week.
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And on that front its last model wasn't an amazing success — saddled with uninspiring hardware at a fair trade premium price.
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However, Hunter suggested that there is a feeling of déjà vu towards the promises of transformational progress accompanying another "uninspiring" update.
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The Rams earned an uninspiring 4-12 record in their first season back, and head coach Jeff Fisher was promptly fired.
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Jack, however, did manage to dispatch Medina in six rounds while DeGale was uninspiring against the tough Mexican on Saturday night.
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The evidence on school vouchers is similarly uninspiring, with little gain in test scores and only marginal increases in graduation rates.
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The Rams earned an uninspiring 5003-2500 record in their first season back, and head coach Jeff Fisher was promptly fired.
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Few things are more uninspiring than waking up to rain in the forecast — at least, when it comes to getting dressed.
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But wearing the same hairstyle every day can feel as uninspiring as putting on the same puffy winter coat every morning.
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"We tested their basic knowledge on student loans by asking a few questions, and the results were uninspiring," the survey says.
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Lesnik says that she has sampled "chocolate chirp cookies" — in which cricket flour replaces ordinary flour — but has found them uninspiring.
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"We all accept these valuations in the consumer packaged goods space despite uninspiring growth rates and now-meager dividends," Cramer said.
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It was, in many respects, an uninspiring, managerial approach, a criticism that has been levelled at his administration's overall foreign policy.
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They remained drawn to their team's brash play and menacing image even though its performance on the field was often uninspiring.
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Pobelter posted an uninspiring 1/4/4 KDA (kills, deaths, assists) as Azir, albeit against difficult competition on his new team.
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My first encounters with pirs were uninspiring, but then I found my film's subject from an unexpected source: a medical doctor.
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For people who like to show off their clothing, a season where everything is covered up by a coat can feel uninspiring.
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Similarly, the country's biggest casino operator Crown Resorts also posted uninspiring first-half profit as gambling turnover from wealthy Chinese tourists declined.
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One Australian evacuee, David Huang, told The New York Times that the WiFi was shaky and the food was "uninspiring and mushy."
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He did an admirable job considering the time constraints, but the resulting score for Rogue One was uninspiring for the most part.
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Matisse's historically interesting but visually uninspiring 0003 painting, "La Leçon de Piano," had been owned by the same Scottish family since 1926.
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The original Pixel's headphone audio was awful: it made everything sound tinny and uninspiring, no matter what headphones I plugged into it.
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But the mood is so bad within the party that a coup against her uninspiring leadership is not out of the question.
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Dialog Semiconductor's forecast of a recovery in demand failed to enthuse investors while Intel Corp's uninspiring full year outlook added to woes.
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Republican White House aides and strategists trashed Saccone as an unprepared and uninspiring candidate and weak fundraiser after the March special election.
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What had been a dull, uninspiring game through the first 50 minutes picked up over the final half of the third period.
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Analysts at UBS said that while K+S' second-quarter results were broadly in-line on depressed levels, the guidance was "uninspiring".
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The All Blacks suffered a defeat there last year and played out an uninspiring draw with the Wallabies the year before that.
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Clinton's qualifications for the White House and said she had been unfairly criticized for long-winded policy explanations and an uninspiring delivery.
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This line of thinking offers nothing better than the status quo ante that voters found uninspiring at best and repellent at worst.
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A capable but uninspiring deputy, Mubarak navigated Egypt through the Arab world backlash at Sadat's secretly negotiated peace deal with neighbouring Israel.
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That uninspiring European economic, social and political panorama is what Draghi saw in his parting shot at another round of monetary easing.
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Do not get me wrong, I support the progressive wing of the party and often find myself criticizing the establishment as uninspiring.
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His anointed successor, Heng Swee Keat, a competent if uninspiring technocrat, was promoted to the position of deputy prime minister in May.
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"We see this full-year set of numbers as disappointing and guidance for 2018 uninspiring," said Bryan Garnier analyst Eric Le Berrigaud.
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Shares of Best Buy fell 20.50% Tuesday after the consumer electronics retailer followed up mixed financials with an uninspiring near-term outlook.
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"A great idea at $150 million is sometimes easier to fund than a frankly uninspiring idea at half the price," he said.
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Sure, STEM degrees land recipients in uninspiring fields like petroleum geology and aviation metallurgy, but, it turns out, they can also make movies.
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On the other hand,the still-uninspiring development of core inflation and high policy uncertainty gives the ECB no grounds for sounding hawkish.
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Yet that is what they will have to do, given the uninspiring list of hopefuls who registered by the deadline of January 20th.
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When you buy a Kindle, you know exactly what you're getting: a small, thin, and super light e-reader made of uninspiring plastic.
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Holm was a massive underdog, uninspiring in her two previous UFC wins and showing nothing to suggest she'd surmount Rousey let alone survive.
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But trying to "paint the corners" of the strike zone with Quintana's uninspiring off-speed pitches resulted in two back-to-back balls.
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Lululemon CEO Laurent Potdevin attributed the deceleration to a bland assortment that lacked color, and uninspiring presentation of the products on its website.
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Tuesday's gains were barely anything, leaving the S&P 500 still down 1.3 percent for the year — a truly uninspiring start to 2016.
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The Titans have an uninspiring coaching staff, and after the last two years they're going to need to overpay to bring in talent.
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The house was dubbed "The Plain Gray Ranch" thanks to its uninspiring "before" appearance, on season four, episode three of the hit show.
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Mr. Frederick predicted that, after the weak jobs report Friday and an uninspiring earnings season, stocks would stay where they are for now.
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Wear OS by Google smartwatches have all but fallen by the wayside and the Galaxy Watch Active and Galaxy Watch felt very uninspiring.
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Though it seems like many Americans believe the stereotype that British food is bland and uninspiring, I've found the opposite to be true.
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From the high cost of data to the recent low-fee environment and uninspiring returns, money managers' profit margins have continued to erode.
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Surrounded as she is by uninspiring mortals at all times, it was only a matter of time until she started to reveal herself?
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My friends in New York, many of them Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders supporters who see Mr. Biden as deeply uninspiring, were mystified.
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The left has gotten used to using "peace" — whether by this name or by other uninspiring euphemisms — as a weapon against the right.
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Biden's also an uninspiring campaigner and a terrible debater, which doesn't bode well in a head-to-head matchup with President Donald Trump.
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The line "Watch out for me, I'm about to glow" is heard far too many times over a slow, simple, and uninspiring beat.
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For those with less adventurous palettes, the Filet-O-Fish remains a solid if uninspiring choice for the fast-food-loving fish eater.
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Data out recently showed retail sales grew at a tepid pace for a third straight month while the outlook for capital expenditure remained uninspiring.
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And Howland, the 2016 nominee, is running again after an uninspiring campaign where she lost by 18 as Clinton won the district by eight.
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All it takes to hack that uninspiring packet into a luxurious, gourmet bowl is three extra desk pantry or brought-from-home add-ins.
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Ellenberger was uninspiring in his last fight against Saffiedine, but there were some positive signs that night—helped by a change in fight camp.
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After Erasmo Ramirez went down with an injury in early May, Seattle's ragtag starting five had another uninspiring name incorporated into it: Wade LeBlanc.
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He had the look, the pedigree, the work rate, the mic skills, and an almost uncanny ability to get uninspiring angles and characters over.
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For that reason alone, investing a fourth-round pick and $18 million in salary on the former Baltimore Ravens starter is an uninspiring move.
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As you can imagine, it was an uninspiring place, with a tackle shop, a coffee shop, a few thrift shops, and a Tesco Extra.
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Dems don't want to over-promise, so they run uninspiring campaigns to avoid lying to voters about what they will be able to accomplish.
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Last year, Apple jumped into the streaming music game with Apple Music, which turned out to be a wholly uninspiring clone of Beats Music.
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Even if it's time to say goodbye, a notion I'd settled on after the uninspiring Ashes of Ariandel, I prefer staving off the inevitable.
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Though I'd paid extra for a high floor — the hotel promises views from every room — the uninspiring vista included an adjacent condo's swimming pool.
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Kevin James's characters in "King of Queens" and "Kevin Can Wait" embody the trite role of the American sitcom dad: predictable, sarcastic and uninspiring.
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Men's soccer, in Europe, is an exception: a sport capable of commanding huge crowds every week, even for the most marginal or uninspiring fixture.
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But Lilly somehow rose from the ashes in 2017 to give us "Lily Next-Gen," a completely uninspiring drone that couldn't even get wet.
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These questions are not meant to imply that Soulèvements fails to think about images outside of the standard clichés, or that it is uninspiring.
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And of all the "great actors" here in Hollywood, one in particular has stood the test of time for her many uninspiring and overrated performances.
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Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg's comment that Facebook won't have effective tools to filter hate speech for another "five to 10 years" seemed both dismissive and uninspiring.
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He worked with business leaders, reaffirmed his left-wing credentials by introducing a pension for the elderly, and constantly goaded Fox's chaotic and uninspiring presidency.
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The rest of the specs are uninspiring, at best — a Snapdragon 430 processor, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage, with a 2,700mAh battery.
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Click here to view original GIFIt can be difficult to write music in the often uninspiring settings of a cramped apartment or dingy practice space.
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It is so uninspiring that surly professors call it the "freshman nerve," because it is often misidentified by first year medical students as a nerve.
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It still makes solid phones, but after a few uninspiring models and several years of financial troubles, the brand lost a lot of its luster.
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They were also decidedly uninspiring in Thursday's defeat in Samara, lacking a distinct quality in the final third despite selecting a more attacking line-up.
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Mokhtari said he expects banks to dip further with uninspiring earnings, due next week, and would look to buy into the sector at that point.
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The other sizeable IPOs in the former British colony this year have been an uninspiring mix of financial, education, and water- and waste-management outfits.
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It's at least a half-hour too long, George Clooney is uninspiring as Batman, and the plot line about Alfred dying is really, really boring.
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With so many bedding brands to choose from, it can be overwhelming, uninspiring, and expensive to find the best set of sheets for your bed.
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They could be a reminder of what's hamstrung Democrats in the past: ceding ground to centrists who insist on largely unobjectionable — and uninspiring — white papers.
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And of all the "great actors" here in Hollywood, one in part has stood the test of time for her many uninspiring and overrated performances.
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And while the images it captures look good enough printed on a piece of instant film, the digital copies are low-resolution, flat, and often uninspiring.
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Few economists strayed far from the median view, and those decent-yet-uninspiring growth predictions have barely budged over the last two years in Reuters polls.
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Last, there is Brodie himself, who is now to be found working uninspiring cases as a private detective, while awkwardly spending time with his adolescent son.
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Romney's run in 2012 was uninspiring, and since my mind was focused on finishing a dissertation, I did not have strong enough feelings about either candidate.
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It falls then to designers like John Varvatos and Mr. Snyder to make what passed for big fashion pronouncements in a solid though largely uninspiring season.
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The mercurial Sergio García, still chasing his first major title, also shot an uninspiring 73 and fell into a tie for ninth at two under par.
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This burrito is that fall: an uninspiring combination of overcooked scrambled eggs, a smattering of crumbled sausage, and barely noticeable cheese in a tough, bland tortilla.
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When you stay in a role that's completely uninspiring, your self-worth plummets, she says, and your lack of motivation is easily detectable to your manager.
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Even though the company's most recent round of fundraising was uninspiring, it was still valued for $10 billion, about 10 times that of Lyft's largest round.
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Residents here complain that the list is both too long and too uninspiring, and a question lingers: Can any of these people actually beat Mr. Walker?
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Two years ago, many Americans thought Trump was a lunatic and Hillary Clinton was a depressing rehash of everything that was uninspiring about the Democratic Party.
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Mr. Olmert was an accidental prime minister who had stepped into office just half a year earlier, as an uninspiring replacement for the ailing Ariel Sharon.
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Her response to questions though has been uninspiring I can assure you that the victims of Mr. Weinstein's three decades of predatory behavior are disappointed too.
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The latter piece has been in the National's collection since 1824, yet for all its scale and vibrant colour it somehow still feels uninspiring and workman-like.
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Gabbard's campaign has continued to struggle in recent weeks, having remained in the lower tier of candidates in polling and delivered an uninspiring debate performance last week.
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But, Gary Johnson has been uninspiring and his failure to make last night's debate suggests it's unlikely he'll garner the momentum necessary to make the remaining debates.
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There were plenty of fun fights, but there were 17 bouts in this bloated event so it was easy for uninspiring fights to fade into the background.
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When it was over, his uninspiring performance may have given a lifeline to some of his rivals for the nomination to face President Donald Trump in November.
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DUBAI, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Gulf stock markets may consolidate in quiet trade on Sunday with little fresh news to stimulate trading and the global market environment uninspiring.
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The electoral choice is so uninspiring for some younger Malaysian voters that they have started a movement to cast spoiled ballots to protest the state of national politics.
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Grigol Vashadze, her fairly uninspiring opponent from the United National Movement (UNM), meanwhile, was labeled a puppet and a Russian mole because he'd lived and served in Moscow.
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The Mets rotation is talented but not deep, and the hitters, excluding the electric Yoenis Cespedes, are a pretty uninspiring bunch, and prone to streakiness of their own.
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I don't blame the cast, and indeed, it is a feat that the film managed to make the delightful Chris Pratt somehow utterly uninspiring as a raptor whisperer.
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It may all be a fluke, but as uninspiring as Flores was last year, he is still only 24 and was a highly thought-of prospect for years.
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Its idea of renewal, it seems, is simply to replace its octogenarian secretary-general with a septuagenarian, an uninspiring transfer that is due to happen on July 1st.
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"At the heart of today was that fairly uninspiring retail sales data - almost half of what was forecast," said Simon Derrick, head of currency research at BNY Mellon.
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A New Light Heavyweight to Care About In a division as sparsely populated and uninspiring as light heavyweight, a single good victory can get you on the map.
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Those defeats, several other uninspiring performances in friendly matches and Klinsmann's persistent criticism of his players had raised questions about his skills as a coach, leader and tactician.
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Promotions during the weekend were largely uninspiring, Barclays analysts said in a note, adding that deeper discounts could continue into December rather than being concentrated on Cyber Monday.
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If IGTV views were surpassing those of YouTube, creators would flock to it, but so far view counts are uninspiring and not worth diverting creative attention, Neistat says.
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If inflation comes down, you could see some interest rate cuts which could help a bit, but the overall picture for the South African markets is still uninspiring.
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The film's lead writer is David Birke, who wrote the script for the uninspiring 13 Sins, which was pretty much Saw without the psychological excellence and torture scenes.
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Soma Vine Village, a bit further down the road, was utterly forgettable, with inattentive servers at the restaurant during lunch and flat, uninspiring wines at the tasting room.
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"The law is merely an instrument, and without the involvement of human hands, it is as lifeless and uninspiring as a violin kept in its case," Bharara said.
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Not only are they the same uninspiring beige color as my skin and hair, they're also as thin and patchy as a 13-year-old boy's upper lip.
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Despite equaling a La Liga record of 16 consecutive wins last Sunday in beating Espanyol, however, Zidane's side have been criticized by Spanish media for their uninspiring performances.
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I've spent the last ten years analyzing salespeople and what separates the good, from the uninspiring, worn out, no-good salesperson that is toxic to any sales culture.
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Stalled in the polls and on the heels of another uninspiring debate performance, Joe Biden's campaign was forced to respond to another troubling issue Wednesday: his lackluster fundraising.
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How many times has a leader put you into a new situation in which you were forced to learn, but the "why" was either non-existent or uninspiring.
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The multinational Airbus A400M military transport plane has also set an uninspiring example for cross-border defense cooperation as the program has been plagued by cost overruns and delays.
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The iPad Pro line hasn't been refreshed since last spring, and some (uninspiring) rumors have hinted at the possibility of Apple putting its Face ID technology in the iPad.
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"At first sight, the numbers look uninspiring, but decent," said Pierre Willot, fund manager at Paris-based firm Montaigne Capital, which has a small holding in Air France KLM.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pragmatic, uninspiring and too dependent on Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal's performance at the World Cup is starting to bear an uncanny resemblance to their victorious Euro 853 campaign.
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While the death of the sedan market may leave consumers wanting for low-cost transportation, there's no doubt that there are a lot of uninspiring cars on the market.
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The multinational Airbus A400M military transport plane has also set an uninspiring example for cross-border defence cooperation as the programme has been plagued by cost overruns and delays.
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Few voters on a recent afternoon expressed any excitement about Clinton -- and many seemed downright dour about two uninspiring options, even if they had a special resentment for Trump.
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The dollar fell slightly on Friday as a Federal Reserve official's seemingly dovish remarks and uninspiring data on the U.S. economy doused the sanguine mood from earlier this week.
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But if an uninspiring first-round matchup was not providing the team with the proper motivation, Jordan may have inadvertently put the chip right back on Golden State's shoulder.
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Technically, you could make a few bucks on somewhere like Fiver, but the work will be so uninspiring that it will likely be the cause of you giving up.
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Quitting Your Shitty Job is a new column that speaks to people who turned their back on their totally average and uninspiring jobs to pursue something they actually wanted.
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If that appeals to you then the presidency Clinton promises—one that would represent many of the ills Sanders has run against—will sound horribly uninspiring by contrast. 3.
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The ease with which you can slip in and out, or pop to the shop for four more Oranjebooms can also manifest itself in a slightly uninspiring music policy.
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Something of a journalistic cottage industry has sprung up around the recondite question of just what makes Mitch tick, but the uninspiring, mundane answer is hiding in plain sight.
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On Super Tuesday, Biden showed that a campaign that has been singularly uninspiring to the most engaged sliver of the electorate was able to turn out the most voters.
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From the countinghouses of industrial England to the skyscrapers of 2000s Manhattan, offices were mostly uninspiring places designed to maximize space, often with row upon row of unglamorous desks.
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Much of the work in Material Deviance, especially the slide and video pieces, feels unambitious and uninspiring stuck in little cupolas and rooms, and thus dies on the vine.
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Progressives worry that Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and Michael Bloomberg are uninspiring centrists who resemble recent presidential losers and wouldn't solve America's problems even if they won.
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The 33-year-old left the 200-pound weight class in 2018, but has fought only once since then, an uninspiring win over Chazz Witherspoon at heavyweight in 2019.
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Described by one British paper as a "stubby little Austrian with a flabby handshake, shifty brown eyes and a Charlie Chaplin mustache," Hitler cut an uninspiring and ridiculous figure.
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Even a painting that is somewhat uninspiring overall, like Lorenzo di Credi's "Saint Quirinus of Neuss," offers a startling vista of reds and greens set against a black background.
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Still, Kors' forecast was "uninspiring," given the strengthening handbag market, stable prices at department stores and higher foreign tourism to the United States, RBC Capital Markets analyst Brian Tunick said.
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Analysts at BTG Pactual led by Thiago Duarte called the results "uninspiring," noting in particular a 38-percent increase in net debt due to the adoption of new accounting standards.
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Analysts at BTG Pactual led by Thiago Duarte called the results "uninspiring," noting in particular a 38 percent increase in net debt because of the adoption of new accounting standards.
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The Bulldogs were run off their homecourt in an uninspiring 80-60 loss to Alabama on Wednesday, allowing the SEC's lowest-scoring team to shoot 51.1 percent from the field.
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Uninspiring economic data, political uncertainties and poor stock market performance has pushed many to postpone European floats in 2018, but bankers are cautiously optimistic that next year may improve. refini.
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Bullock does her level best, but trying to sell Sally's instant connection to this uninspiring man is a losing game — especially when her devotion to Gillian outshines everything else onscreen.
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Japan may have been joint top-scorers in the third round of Asian qualifying but they had to call on 12 different goal scorers in a disjointed and uninspiring campaign.
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In debates, she has often found herself in the uninspiring position of expressing sympathy with Mr. Sanders's principles but arguing that the scale and specifics of his promises are unrealistic.
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Instead, the entire team shrank from the moment, and the beautiful basketball we've come to expect from San Antonio degenerated into a series of uninspiring LaMarcus Aldridge mid-range jumpers.
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For much of the past decade, economic growth remained lackluster; corporate earnings, at least until last year, were uninspiring; and the global economy bounced from one crisis to the next.
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In the Gulf, markets again failed to follow global equities' uptrend, underlining how shaky oil prices, sluggish economies and an uninspiring corporate profit outlook are deterring investors in the region.
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J.P. Morgan Asset Management is expecting global economic growth over the next 12-18 months to be "slow and somewhat uninspiring," according to Tai Hui, its chief Asia market strategist.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy entered the Masters as golf's hottest player but the Northern Irishman's opening-round on Thursday was tepid at best, carding an uninspiring one-over 73.
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Rick Scott, a two-term Republican governor with deep pockets, is trying to unseat Bill Nelson, the uninspiring Democratic incumbent, in what may become the most expensive Senate race in history.
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"There is this massive skew for these mega-cap companies that had really great years, over the past several years and in 2019, the trends are uninspiring for them," Palfrey said.
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DUBAI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Dubai's stock market may follow global shares higher and continue to outperform regional counterparts on Tuesday, while Saudi Arabia's index may stall because of uninspiring quarterly results.
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A string of uninspiring results in his first six races followed by a disappointing qualifying effort that had him starting 17th for Sunday's race had dampened excitement around Stroll's home debut.
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Uninspiring design aside, Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL are fantastic smartphones that really give the iPhone a run for its money, especially when it comes to taking photos and videos.
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Mr. Murdoch, 703, shrugged off the talks as uninspiring, according to an associate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wanted to maintain his access to the media titan.
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Until the final few minutes the most spectacular moment of an uninspiring contest came when the $1.6 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium's ocular eight-pedal retractable roof opened to a massive roar.
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But the very traditional staging, by the director Ivan Stefanutti, is uninspiring; simple props and set pieces are rolled into place against generic-looking projected images of snowcapped mountains and such.
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News analysis: Mr. Bloomberg's uninspiring debate debut "risked underwhelming Democrats whose chief exposure to him in recent months has been through an inescapable ad campaign," our political reporter Matt Flegenheimer writes.
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"Europe looks pretty uninspiring, but when you look under the bonnet there&aposs a hell of a lot of good, attractive companies there," he says, singling out Ferrari as an example.
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Sanders escapes without serious damage And there was another dynamic at play on Wednesday that suggests that even uninspiring debate performances will not fatally hole Bloomberg's campaign for weeks to come.
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Broadly, industry watchers are worried about an uninspiring pipeline of movies out of Hollywood and how the theater industry is positioned with Netflix and Amazon pumping out more movies every year.
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A crowd of over 19,000 packed out the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday and an uninspiring undercard was quickly forgotten as McGregor made his way to the Octagon.
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Although Tronc's stock price has increased since Mr. Ferro bought a $44 million stake in Tronc last year — he paid $8.50 a share — the company has reported relatively uninspiring financial results.
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England made eight changes to the team who crushed Panama 6-1 but the uninspiring performance against Belgium highlighted that their options on the bench are not as rich as believed.
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Broadly, industry watchers are worried about an uninspiring pipeline of movies out of Hollywood and how the theater industry is positioned with Netflix and Amazon pumping out more movies every year.
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With five women landing berths on the Rio bound squad Douglas was fortunate to be among them after an uninspiring seventh place finish at the two-day U.S. trials that ended Sunday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar was broadly lower on Friday as a combination of uninspiring U.S. economic data and political uncertainty kept traders biased toward the euro and other world currencies.
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The dollar has been weighed down by political turmoil gripping Washington and largely uninspiring U.S. economic data, which is adding to uncertainty about the pace of future U.S. Federal Reserve policy tightening.
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Then, on Sunday the Wall Street Journal reported that Ive's creative involvement has been waning since Steve Jobs died in 2011 and he found the reign of Tim Cook to be uninspiring.
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The goal is to fill a specific gap in the market: businesses today are often faced with a limited, uninspiring, or potentially illegal set of choices if they want to play music.
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RIC=USPMI%3DECI Coming a week after the U.S. posted sluggish second-quarter growth, the uninspiring manufacturing surveys may give Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen pause before a Fed meeting on Sept.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White cast him on his Ultimate Fighter show, where he suffered an inglorious defeat to portly Roy Nelson and then won an uninspiring decision against Houston Alexander.
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Center was among the dozens of people—including famous actresses and financial power players—federal prosecutors said cheated the system by either ensuring access for uninspiring offspring or else attempting to profit.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar was flat on Friday as a Federal Reserve official's seemingly dovish remarks and uninspiring data on the U.S. economy "squelched" the sanguine mood from earlier this week.
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Investors should still be cautious about Canadian equities even though they appear broadly cheaper than U.S. peers, warned Shailesh Kshatriya, director of strategy at Russell Investments Canada, given an uninspiring economy backdrop.
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"The results for S&P 333 companies are expected to be underwhelming ... investors are likely to look beyond the uninspiring headline number," Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. equity strategist at Credit Suisse said.
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But after Hillary Clinton's uninspiring campaign, her surprise loss, and the feeling of all-consuming hopelessness that the Trump administration has spawned, I have found myself becoming an increasingly avid Bernie bro.
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The dollar was bolstered by higher U.S. Treasury yields which rose even after the uninspiring data, amid concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin unwinding its bond holdings sometime this year.
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Simply rescinding DACA without accompanying constructive solutions will be unnecessarily divisive or wholly uninspiring to those who voted for Trump with the understanding that he would reject business as usual in Washington.
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Clinton's weaknesses had come full circle: She was an unpopular, too corrupt insider, too uninspiring to win, even in the face of an inexperienced bombast running a divisive campaign on exclusionary policies.
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But when it comes to Drake, it's a bit more frustrating and uninspiring because he's shown his depth on so many occasions that when he half-asses things, it's much easier to detect.
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The future of Medicaid is also on the ballot in these Kentucky and Mississippi races, both of which feature Democratic nominees who the typical left-winger would doubtless find uninspiring in other respects.
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But he has been an uninspiring candidate, and has had a hard time explaining what he would do as president, aside from adding an extra dash of state protection to Ms Bachelet's reforms.
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DUBAI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Banking shares were buoyant in Saudi Arabia on Thursday morning while blue chips helped lift Dubai slightly, although port operator DP World underperformed because of uninspiring interim financial results.
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HMD isn't setting the bar high here with an uninspiring design, a lack of waterproofing or wireless charging, and a price point that doesn't make this a cheap Android phone with good specs.
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It's more like Samsung hoping to finally get people excited about a feature that has failed to excite folks for years now… Frankly speaking, current gen wireless charging is a roundly uninspiring technology.
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Coming a week after the United States posted sluggish second quarter growth, Asia's uninspiring manufacturing surveys may give Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen pause for thought ahead of a Fed meeting on Sept.
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Given such favourable circumstances, Mr Mistry's peers might well look at the uninspiring financial performance of much of his group since he took over in December 2012 and conclude they could do better.
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Other warning signs include costly training and seminars, pressure tactics to get you to buy inventory, and an uninspiring product line that has poor reviews or isn't something you'd want to use yourself.
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In fact, a statistical analysis of Ashes history suggests that, after 43 years of outstanding play, the quality of the two sides has fallen to a level last seen during the uninspiring 1990s.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy put in a weak performance in June when declines in car manufacturing, construction and exports gave an uninspiring end to the weakest first half of any year since 2012.
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"Southwest's uninspiring (unit revenue) guide and anticipated decline in consensus forecasts offers little, if anything, in terms of potentially arresting the sector's current correction," JPMorgan analyst Jamie Baker wrote in a research note.
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With a venue rotation widely viewed as uninspiring the PGA Championship has tried to trade on the fact that it is the season's last major, marketing itself with the slogan "Glory's Last Shot".
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"Broader developed market (DM) sentiment remained uninspiring, with weak current momentum and unfading trade uncertainty in the driver's seat," Barclays Vice President of macro research Iaroslav Shelepko said in an accompanying note Wednesday.
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Japan, champions in 2011 and finalists four years ago, were coming off a uninspiring goalless draw with lowly-ranked Argentina in their opener but looked much sharper in the attacking third against Scotland.
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As such, the poll will be a big test for Labour, which relied on a surge of enthusiastic new voters last time round, and its new candidate, Lisa Forbes, is an uninspiring trade unionist.
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Investors also took some notice of the positive domestic PMI data prompted by Brexit-induced stockpiling, although uninspiring Chinese data had sparked a global sell-off earlier and raised questions about the global economy.
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Where competitors like BlackBerry and Nokia might once have shrugged off a slump in sales, Samsung responded with a violent reversal of its long-standing habit for uninspiring design overladen with speeds and feeds.
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The soft-left party was favoured by less than a quarter of voters when her uninspiring boss, Andrew Little, resigned last month, thrusting her into what she described as "the worst job in politics".
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Held at Moscone Center in San Francisco earlier this month, Mobile World Congress Americas was a pretty uninspiring show, but a few interesting startups stood out among the rows and rows of mobile companies.
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Robin Cross, a veteran author of World War II histories, does a workmanlike but uninspiring job of covering all this in OPERATION DRAGOON: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944 (Pegasus, $27.95).
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Data due out next week will likely show an uninspiring picture of the recovery with analysts polled by Reuters predicting roughly flat growth in factory output and a decline in retail sales in October.
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Facebook's new corporate logo is, in a word, bland, leading to plenty of goofs across the internet making fun of the uninspiring font that appears both boring and sinisterly corporate at the same time.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Global economic growth is set to peak at an eight-year high next year as uninspiring investment and increasingly dangerous debt levels limit room for further improvement, the OECD said on Tuesday.
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" But Neighome of Manhattan said, "Roederer is like the nice but uninspiring friend that has impeccable manners, never says a word out of turn and can be trusted to behave appropriately at all times.
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"Pretty much the only black people in Game of Thrones are slaves," Ira Madison writes at the Daily Beast, adding that Game of Thrones' track record on depictions of sexual assault is similarly uninspiring.
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France will be hoping the arrival of a new coach, Guy Novès, a new captain, Guilhem Guirado, and a host of new players will bring success after years of fourth-place finishes and uninspiring rugby.
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However, one thing that never really seemed to fit was the Inspiron tag, which has largely been the home for uninspiring mainstream PCs aimed at students and small business as opposed to anything gaming related.
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He wasn't the most popular candidate as a title contender and after an uninspiring unanimous decision loss to Silva, followed by a split decision loss against Italian Alessio Sakara, Leites was cut from the promotion.
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Having recorded four consecutive draws in their uninspiring attempt to avoid the drop, the Black Cats could finally see things go fully catastrophic this weekend with the visit of Leicester to the Stadium of Light.
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The cover bore a black-and-white photograph of the two men: one youthful and telegenic, a visionary sparkle playing about his eyes and mouth; the other solemn and aloof, dependable perhaps but distinctly uninspiring.
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Meanwhile, the city's population boom has meant that cuisines that have typically been uninspiring in Austin—Thai, pizza, Japanese, and more—now finally have enough of a constituency that places are serving them up well.
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But with both teams having traded the rights to their 2016 first-round picks long ago, Simmons's presence in a bright red long-sleeve shirt was uninspiring, and only mocked the predicaments facing both franchises.
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Forests now only have two or three guards responsible for protecting thousands of hectares of land; it's both a Herculean and uninspiring task for men paid between 123 and 212 TND ($245-220) a month.
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Mr. Patrick, in his comments since entering the race, has seemed to express disappointment in Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar as uninspiring; and in Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as extreme and divisive.
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This is politics played by the most dangerous presidential candidate the United States has known and a deeply compromised, deeply uninspiring representative of a ruling class that has failed not just America but the world.
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Don't get me wrong: the rest of that largely forgettable 23-23 Portsmouth squad were bang average, at best, a statement backed up by a largely uninspiring 295th-place finish with just two victories post-January.
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The dollar was bolstered by higher U.S. Treasury yields which rose even after the uninspiring jobs and service sector data, amid concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin unwinding its bond holdings sometime this year.
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Investors have seen warnings from Honeywell and Dover; uninspiring guidance from Illinois Tool Works and Textron and disappointing result from railroads, almost across the board, from Union Pacific to Canadian Pacific Railway to Kansas City Southern.
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That means the Pixel 4 will likely be the first flagship phone it's launching across all carriers in the US, and making something uninspiring will mean getting much less marketing support and worse retail store placement.
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While we're firm believers that layers are the key to every great outfit, finding a formula that doesn't come across as bulky or — worse yet — totally uninspiring is a trying task for even the savviest dressers.
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NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Dreams of quitting an uninspiring job, helping the needy and traveling the world opened American wallets on Wednesday for a chance to win the biggest-ever $1.5 billion Powerball lottery jackpot.
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Even under less ominous circumstances, a night of social isolation would have been preferable to "This Is My Body…," an uninspiring double bill of contemporary ballets by Sophie Laplane — the company's resident choreographer — and Angelin Preljocaj.
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Though it may take some adjustment, making Mercy even more versatile and correcting the predictable and uninspiring strategies that developed around her is likely to be a positive move for her players and their teammates alike.
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As a writer, I find blank spaces are as distracting and uninspiring as the walls of my own study, a quiet, sunny room in which I have never been able to write more than an email.
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Crucially, that uninspiring broader context also explains the Fed's hesitation to initiate a more systematic process of "policy normalization" — a short-hand for liquidity withdrawals and a move out of negative real short-term interest rates.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares slid on Thursday as a flurry of uninspiring earnings updates from retailer Carrefour and advertiser WPP kept the mood downbeat, while broader jitters over tightening monetary policy spilled over into a new month.
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Modular smartphones have long been a dream, and while the "Friends" system in the LG G5 was a first step, the execution was somewhat uninspiring and it doesn't seem like it's going to really make a dent.
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If the rapid ascent of the wearables as a hot new category is, after the tepid reception to the Apple Watch, poised to falter, Xiaomi's uninspiring new Amazfit may be the final death knell for the smartwatch.
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Personally, sex without kink becomes sort of a thing you just do out of habit and can become very routine and uninspiring, which ultimately can have a negative effect on the relationship and sex positivity in general.
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As the recovery from the Great Recession has taken root in the last few years, we have seen a pattern of generally improving job market numbers that generate an impression of a moderate, but uninspiring economic improvement.
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I could have skipped the Fantastic Umbrella Factory (I didn't expect it to be so commercial and it was a little uninspiring) or the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway (the road trip through Mass the ended in Newburyport).
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How do you decide whether an uninspiring event or a dip in sales is just a temporary blunder — a part of the eternal ebb and flow of the tech world — or an indication of a serious issue?
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Meanwhile, photo, music, and video management is basic and largely uninspiring: Dropbox doesn't have much in the way of tools for organizing your media, though you can, for example, stream videos, regardless of length, straight from your Dropbox.
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Screeching into theaters in the midst of a heretofore uninspiring summer movie season, Baby Driver is a refreshing shot of counterprogramming, boasting all the thrills and power of a flashy studio blockbuster packed into a sporty, efficient chassis.
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Compared with an enormous bronze figure of Mr Gormley's which stands on the riverbank at nearby Trinity College, or the hundreds of iron men placed on Liverpool's coastline, in the new galleries his sculptures feel flat and uninspiring.
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That saw the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party enter the Bundestag for the first time, and prompted an unusually long and fractious process of negotiations, resulting in another uninspiring "grand coalition" under a weakened Mrs Merkel.
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What if Bernie supporters are right that Hillary is too tainted and uninspiring to make a good general election candidate, while Hillary supporters are right that Bernie is too far out of the political mainstream to become president?
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Mizuho Bank said in a note that India's growth "remains uninspiring, even if one of the brightest spots in Asia" as industrial momentum is sputtering and global demand continues to drag most of Asia into a manufacturing recession.
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"The language of environmentalists has been boring, so uninspiring ... If we just speak a technical language, with many acronyms and politically-correct phrases, no one will listen," he said in an interview during a Bonn conference on landscapes.
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His popular image as a would be monarch, as well as his plummeting approval ratings at home and uninspiring track record on reform, leaves the ability of Macron to serve as upholder of the liberal order in doubt.
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The momentum behind Macron is starting to sow panic too in the ranks of the Socialists, who fear they have little chance of making the runoff in May after five years of uninspiring rule by President Francois Hollande.
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After an uninspiring first half that ended with Ohio State leading 4-226, in part because neither team shot better than 211 percent from the floor and the teams combined for 210 turnovers, the Hawkeyes turned things around.
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Gains in "commodities linked stocks today on the back of OPEC is what is driving the market higher...the rest of the market is fairly uninspiring," said Christopher Conway, head of research and trading at Australian Stock Report.
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The soggy Asian session followed an uninspiring performance overnight on Wall Street where the Dow lost 0.2 percent and the S&P 500 shed 0.1 percent, with uncertainty over future interest rate hikes and lower energy shares weighing.
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But while Sanders's electability in a general election is to some extent unknowable, Biden's resemblance to Clinton—vulnerable to corruption charges, uninspiring, out of touch with a populist era—is something we do know is a risky gamble.
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"Establishment figures like Steny Hoyer and the so-called New Democrats hurt Democratic chances of taking back the House every time they support uninspiring, corporate candidates with unpopular ideas," PCCC co-founder Stephanie Taylor said in a statement.
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The rest of the film felt predictable — a stale mix of space and sword (saber) fights, with a largely uninspiring script and the film's few focal points coming across as weakly diluted parallels from earlier moments in the franchise.
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But even if the Republican nominee continues to run out of puff (see Briefing) one last worry haunts Democrats: that Mrs Clinton, an uninspiring candidate lugging decades of political baggage, could still somehow slow and lose all by herself.
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Following an uninspiring 72-61 win over George Mason to open the season, Louisville burst out to a 15-point halftime lead against winless Omaha before allowing 53 second-half points and holding on for a nine-point triumph.
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Couple the downgrade at center with a point-guard crop that is defensively uninspiring at best (Tony Parker's defense is nearly as statuesque as Pau's these days), and you have a recipe for some unsightly pick-and-roll defense.
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They can figure out the rest later—particularly the back end of their roster, which is full of uninspiring substitutes like Steve Blake, a longtime backup who was a frequent trap victim and a painful -20 on Wednesday night.
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Emma Clifford, associate director of food and drink at Mintel, said the boom was being driven by a change in consumer mindset and an explosion of exciting, new vegan products in a sector once seen as "bland, very uninspiring".
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Divac didn't get great value in return, an uninspiring package of draft picks and players, but at least he made the sage determination that the Kings needed a divorce from Cousins, who is a bigger version of Carmelo Anthony.
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But the living room was comparatively uninspiring, while the bedroom had big, beautiful windows and an open view that "you will never really see because you want to close your blinds when you go to sleep," Mr. Rauchwerger said.
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Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, may have also benefited from an uninspiring build-up to the season's final grand slam, crashing out in the first round at Montreal and Cincinnati to leave her fresh going into her opener.
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David Barton, an evangelical activist in Texas who runs Keep the Promise, an umbrella group of pro-Cruz super PACs, said the group's success was a reaction to earlier outside groups that wasted money on candidates uninspiring to conservative voters.
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Sometimes, they're the ornaments that shift aesthetics, that offer personality to otherwise uninspiring spaces: the set of handblown glasses brought back from vacation or the incense purchased to make the olfactory experience of living in New York that much more bearable.
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Jays fans can feel some optimism even without using exit velocities and launch angles: though Morales posted an uninspiring 110 wRC+ in 2016, he slumped through the season's first two months, and put up a 135 mark from June 1 onward.
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But the Tampa Bay Rays, an American League team with low attendance and an uninspiring stadium, are exploring the possibility of playing some of their homestands in future seasons in St. Petersburg, Florida, and some 1,20033 miles away in Montreal.
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It's an unusual setup for the corner of California that mastered the uninspiring, closed-to-the-public office park, and where companies like Apple—whose "spaceship" campus will dedicate more square footage to parking than offices—are perfecting the art.
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The newest hardware from Mark Zuckerberg and friends does what it's asked to do, but an uninspiring new form factor and somewhat limited usefulness in an increasingly connected world make us wonder who, exactly, is supposed to be excited for this.
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To most people's surprise, not least the Ukrainian FA, he declined, preferring not to be fast-tracked to the top and clearing the path for journeyman coach Fomenko to take up the role instead ("A very uninspiring appointment," says Yokhin).
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"The Democratic powerbrokers know Katie McGinty is running an uninspiring campaign that is not catching on, but the question is why are they so panicked by the thought of Joe Sestak as their nominee," said Toomey for Senate spokesman Ted Kwong.
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From there, it was Hutton's turn to stand out, although the final frame was a solid display from both he and counterpart Robin Lehner, as after an uninspiring first two periods, the goaltenders were front and center for the duration.
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The suspicions that Mr. Trump stirs among evangelicals made Mr. Pence, who was one of the most socially conservative members of the House in his six terms there, the most strategic pick among the uninspiring politicians on Mr. Trump's shortlist.
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While you sit at an uninspiring job, pretending to be doing work you might reflect on your former, richer fitter self as you wait to for the day to end for a few mindless hours of a Netflix original series.
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This year it was mostly not great, suffering from some lackluster farty dunks, a performance from Victor Oladipo so uninspiring that it could turn our children onto layups for the next decade, and entirely too much reflection on Dunk Contests past.
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The few times Butler has tried to rely on his own charm—smaller-budget films like Playing for Keeps, P.S. I Love You, and A Family Man—has resulted in many critics criticizing his performances as uninspiring, dull, or unlikeable.
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You can taste Ms. Valdes's talent here and there: in a dark and subtle mole drizzled over otherwise uninspiring enmoladas con carnitas; in a pozole soup that had more soul in its porky broth than the rest of the menu combined.
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Legal inconsistencies notwithstanding, the CPP is an uninspiring, overly simplistic rule that will have little impact on global carbon emissions, provide no leadership in carbon reduction for developing economies and do little to promote innovation in advanced technologies — particularly nuclear power.
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But as North America's major sports jostle for market share in China, an uninspiring hockey tournament in Beijing would be a major blow to the NHL's efforts to broaden its appeal in a sporting market increasingly dominated by the National Basketball Association.
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Some analysts say that the "Out" side may be benefiting from higher engagement among its supporters, many of whom are implacably opposed to the EU, while the "In" side is defending a status quo seen as safe but uninspiring by many voters.
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At the conclusion of its recent annual economic review, the IMF noted that the Brazilian economy has been underperforming relative to its potential, its public debt is high and increasing, and, more importantly, medium-term growth prospects remain uninspiring, absent further reforms.
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The days on our drive south that followed included two uninspiring villages and one, Undredal, where there are said to be more goats than people, so rugged and lovely that I thanked Steven for his willingness to take a detour to find it.
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And it's exceedingly difficult to draw comparisons to extant businesses since Facebook does not physically exist anywhere in particular or tangibly make anything (unless you count its uninspiring voice assistant speaker, Portal.) It is all of these things, and none of them.
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But it's also a singularly uninspiring one, relying on an existing bill that he had no part in creating, and that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed he will never bring up for a vote in his chamber of the legislature.
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Halep is often sullen and frustrated on court, and her coach, Darren Cahill, stopped working with her for five weeks after a particularly uninspiring midmatch coaching visit in Miami, in which Halep repeatedly appeared to throw in the towel before a third set.
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They can either continue to campaign under the banner of "resistance," using similar faces, messages and policies that proved so uninspiring in 2016, or they can present the American people with a new generation of leaders and a new slate of ideas.
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The vice president under Barack Obama, Biden emerged early as the presumed frontrunner in the race to the White House — and that's where he's stayed since launching his campaign in April, despite at-times insurgent challenges from others and relatively uninspiring fundraising.
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"A move above 2500% could also cause a sharp surprise as investors ponder the idea of losses to bond holdings in 25 with the back drop of uninspiring yet steady economic growth — in aggregate, a good environment for owning stocks," he said.
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Samsung also has an updated Notebook 9 Pen, which keeps the same uninspiring design from last year's model, but it gets an updated S Pen, more USB-C ports, and a new 15-inch option that joins the 13-inch model in the lineup.
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Victor Robles CF Max Scherzer P A mostly uninspiring World Series turned on its head Tuesday when the Washington Nationals defeated the Houston Astros, 7-2, in a dramatic Game 6 full of heroes, subplots and memorable moments, all to set up baseball's ultimate game.
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While the rest of his classmates at UC Santa Cruz were creating paintings of the lush California coastline, Bird imagined the most mundane, uninspiring landscape he could think of: the Sears department store his mom had dragged him to as a kid in suburban Sacramento.
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But the artless — the developers focused on the bottom line rather than the top of the line — have also benefited from this one percent, receiving a boost by the big-hearted Dostoyevskian idiots of the world who transform uninspiring city plots into destinations for investment.
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But Richard Nixon's victory that fall was of a piece with the votes that propelled an uninspiring Minnesota senator to a freak near-victory over the president earlier in the year — a frustration as much with the limits on the war as with its excesses.
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Thus, while Selected Works Volume 20113, 1964–69 may contain such rote and uninspiring fare as "On Improving the Work of the Youth League to Meet the Requirements of the Developing Situation," it also includes multiple texts on aesthetics, narrative, and the manipulation of fictions.
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Saturday's result will underscore Biden's resilience after an uninspiring campaign that has included a string of sub-par debate performances, but that has also opened a window into the former vice president's humanity in interactions with voters who, like him, have suffered aching personal bereavements.
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Or is good in bed and doesn't just see a woman as something to pump away at for a few uninspiring minutes before collapsing on top of you in a move so cliché it could have been pulled from a 1990s Jo Brand routine.
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As for the Mills-Perry tandem, their perseverance with the intriguing Frank Ntilikina, the 19-year-old French-Rwandan point guard, lasted all of a half-season before the talent acquisition committee complicated his development by reeling in the uninspiring Emmanuel Mudiay in a trade with Denver.
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But now that stable if uninspiring model — the slang verb merkeln, modeled after the Chancellor and meaning "to just sit there doing nothing," recently made it into the dictionary —is threatened by the emergence of a far-right party that is reaching back into Germany's dark past.
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After taking advantage of a mostly uninspiring early schedule to coast to their best start in 15 years, the sixth-ranked Cornhuskers will get their chance to prove they are for real Saturday when they travel to No. 11 Wisconsin for a Big Ten West division showdown.
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Shortly before Barao's title defense against T.J. Dillashaw I wrote a Killing the King article about the bantamweight champ, pointing to his habits and shortcomings but could never have seen them all being exploited to the letter by the improving but previously uninspiring striker, T.J. Dillashaw.
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Routine becomes habit, habit becomes reflex, and before long your working life slips into a series of actions you barely have to tell yourself to do, all in an environment so uninspiring you'd have to spend every waking hour in it to notice it at all.
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The second-year quarterback for the Chicago Bears was in danger of having the "game manager" label hung on him with uninspiring play, but he did his best Patrick Mahomes impression on Sunday, throwing six touchdown passes to five receivers in a victory over Tampa Bay.
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Sad as Mr. Buckel's death is, as uninspiring as it should be to others, if he set himself aflame to send a message, and it's impossible to unburn him, and too late to direct his energies another way, the least we can do is spread the word.
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In an early mark of the kind of compromise that both made and threatened the party, they settled on an uninspiring city council leader, Peter Vallone — a hero to New York's aging Greek community but an unlikely champion for the multiracial working people's party of their dreams.
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Wild Card games—the Texans were here last year, and Brian Hoyer's four-interception massacre was the impetus for the Texans shelling out for Osweiler in the first place—this is the type of uninspiring matchup that inspires even diehard to wonder whether they really have to watch.
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Lenovo is taking a different, and unfortunately, slightly more sedate path with its flagship Legion Y920 gaming laptop—this laptop looks like one made by everyone else, and for Lenovo, which is known for some really out there and often stunning design choices, this is an uninspiring take.
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In short, it's not like there weren't some perfectly convincing reasons for voting for Trump, or to leave the European Union, and it's not as if either Clinton or the Remain campaign offered anything other than a relatively uninspiring business as usual vision peddled by the same old people.
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The proposed slate offers up an interesting, if uninspiring, mix of content — but the properties, star talent, and money that Disney is reportedly willing to throw at the service indicates that the company is doing more than just treating it like an online version of The Disney Channel.
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First and foremost, it signals the beginning of Trump's firm focus on his reelection campaign, where a scuffle, or worse, with Russia and China would be a devastating event and leave him as a one-term player — even in the context of a rather uninspiring lineup of Democratic competitors.
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Since the mid 1990s, San Francisco has been remodeled as an upper middle class Shangri-La for white suburbanites who, in equal parts, hate the uninspiring blandness and FOMO of living outside a major city, and who are also deathly terrified of inner-city crime, poverty, and bad schools.
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Even if Apple and other large companies did invest more and increased production, consumer spending wouldn't be able to keep up and therein lies the real source of our uninspiring economic growth: the imbalance between large company cash piles and the limited cash consumers have available to spend.
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Serco CEO Rupert Soames, stung by the company's loss of a fifth of its market value in a single day last month after it delivered an uninspiring outlook for the next two years, says that outsourcers now have to be more cautious about the work they take on.
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Even The Wall Street Journal editorial board, generally supportive of Mr. Trump's policies if not his rhetoric and personal style, scolded the president for his uninspiring performance, for treating the crisis as mostly a political threat to his own power, for deploying his typical tactics of denying and blaming.
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Those groups represent a "neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party" that embraces "broken tactics" and an "uninspiring" agenda "more focused on defeating the right than on creating an economy and society that lifts up all people," Ms. Hunt-Hendrix wrote in an op-ed article this year for Politico.
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Produced by Max Martin and Ali Payami, and written by them with Ms. Perry and Sia — and also featuring a rote, uninspiring verse about upliftment by Skip Marley (son of Cedella, grandson of Bob) — this is an eerily effective song, so effective that it masks its glitches well.
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If the Broncos do in fact win the Super Bowl, it will be because of their ferocious defense, an opportunistic special teams play, or a giant predatory bird carrying Cam Newton off into the clouds during Coldplay's halftime performance—that is, by anything but their uninspiring and inept passing offense.
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Might sound strangely idyllic, but bear in mind there is no FOMO quite like that of scrolling through your friends' Insta Stories while watching your father dribbling yawn-juice into a glass of eggnog as Jools Holland brings the bell hammer down on another uninspired year in your uninspiring life.
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And while Amazon has at least some nominal interest in improving many of its other products — Alexa, for example, becomes more advanced with each passing year — Goodreads lingers in the dustbin of the early aughts, doomed to the hideous beige design and uninspiring organization of a strip mall doctor's office.
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Wedged between some technically-proficient-but-soulless prog-noodling and plodding-but-uninspiring black-death, Auðn offered a fresh take on black metal that pays respect to its forebears while threatening to step into realms of brilliance that could see them join the current flock of Icelandic innovators, Svartidauði, Sinmara and Misþyrming.
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He's a soul and blues traditionalist who finds the retro romanticism of modern blues rock crossover acts uninspiring; it's the sort of stuff Lewis made early on—maybe too early—but has since moved past, even if that meant forgoing the kind of fame Bridges and Hawthorne have since gone on to enjoy.
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And the thesis of the piece was that precisely because Clinton was in many ways such an uninspiring candidate — a consummate insider who never promised people that she would dramatically overhaul the political system or make all our fondest policy dreams come true — she was likely to end up surprising people on the upside.
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"The lack of year-over-year improvement in May relative to the underlying levels seen in March-April is somewhat uninspiring when considering the industry is now cycling some of the headwinds that we think dampened demand during most of 2016 (including the combative election cycle and high inflation differentials versus the grocery channel)," he said.
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It is a logical shift away from Strauss and toward Wagner in the operatic repertory that has become so central to the Boston Symphony's identity in recent years, a turn that will also include an act of "Tristan und Isolde" sung by Jonas Kaufmann in April, the highlight of an uninspiring coming season back at Symphony Hall.
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"Good holiday sales are a plus for the industry and are most welcome, but when you look at retail earnings expectations they are still uninspiring — Amazon will continue to put pressure on all segments of the industry [and] e-commerce margins are unlikely to expand anytime soon as more transactions move online, " Retail Metrics founder Ken Perkins told CNBC.
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It's hard to remember after three productive-if-uninspiring seasons in Dallas, but Barnes was once a member of Golden State's ultrafluid Death Lineup, and if he can get back to a 3-and-D style of play, he could be a perfect addition to the Kings' starting five, though that does not mean the deal is without drawbacks.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 2202 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE (D-Mass.) It's been a largely uninspiring start to the campaign for Warren, who had been considered one of the leading candidates in the early running.
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While numbers for FY 19 are likely safe and the stock tactically tends to outperform around this time of year, we note that Apple's valuation has already returned to its peak from last year, next year's iPhone cycle appears uninspiring (with 5G most likely destined for introduction in Sept 2020), and this cycle's temporary price cuts will not resolve the fundamental question circling the stock, i.e.
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When Herzog declares the hallways of UCLA's Boelter Hall "repulsive" before entering the college's weird shrine to the "birthplace of the internet," the audience doesn't laugh because the hallway is perfectly fine — we laugh because we have no better way to contend with the idea of living a life in such uncompromising pursuit of what Herzog calls "ecstatic truth" that an uninspiring hallway can inspire revulsion.
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He knows it's there—listen, we've all done banter, lads, we've all had fun—but he has known since the age of three that one bad photograph will ruin his inevitable ascent to prime minister, so he's sticking with the hands-in-pockets lean-on-the-wall Hugh-Grant-plays-a-charming-if-uninspiring-poetry-teacher-in-a-high-budget-90s-rom-com pose that has seen him right so far.
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He is quite funny on the beefcake bombast of the visiting Bolshoi Ballet's "Spartacus" ("Stalwart men leap and leap and leap, brandishing swords and muscles"), suitably repelled by the chic, misogynist Cruella de Ville aesthetic of Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake" and stoic in the face of the New York City Ballet's slow fade to gray under the sturdy but uninspiring leadership of Peter Martins, who retired under pressure in January, amid allegations of physical abuse and sexual harassment.
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