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As long as the hardware is up to scratch, everyone benefits.
Her look was also not up to scratch—more nipple, please!
When the fight gets dirty, however, Bert isn't up to scratch.
It has also been slow to bring its compliance up to scratch.
If the gear's not up to scratch, the administration hands out penalties.
Some worry that the quality of education is not always up to scratch.
Only in one country, New Zealand, is public-sector accounting up to scratch.
And so it was that Retro Patents was set up to scratch an itch.
"We didn't feel that what was delivered was up to scratch," Mr. Qattan said.
But other bags I tested just weren't quite up to scratch, and over time.
"Edna was far too soft an employer to keep me up to scratch," Kenny said recently.
But ultimately, it is when a performance is not up to scratch that people notice it.
It looked at how business friendly the cities are and if their infrastructure is up to scratch.
Yet Pokémon wasn't quite up to scratch with Digimon when it came to virtual pets.
In Cairo, Mustafa Sadiq crafts them by hand and musicians check that his work is up to scratch.
It's a shame that this technology isn't up to scratch when it comes to this kind of search.
Employees from the restaurant visit the farms in person to double-check that everything is up to scratch.
But the Android-based prototype wasn't up to scratch due to a lack of USB peripherals for Android.
As far as ICAO, a United Nations agency, is concerned, Somali and Egyptian airports are up to scratch.
But the past few weeks have made it painfully obvious that the system is not up to scratch.
While health applications could boost the wearable market, Koh said sensor technology is not quite up to scratch.
They made a playable build, it wasn't up to scratch, and he told Alex and Jason to kill it.
Maybe your tactics aren't quite right, or maybe your knowledge of a game's inner workings isn't up to scratch?
He had dispelled the myth, expertly but inexplicably disseminated by Mourinho, that United's players were not up to scratch.
Occasionally, I reach up to scratch an itch on my face and curse myself as the saltwater stings my eyes.
The environment ministry said Anyang's decision-making processes were not up to scratch and law enforcement was not sufficiently strict.
The audit sector's regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, said last month that some audits of banks were not up to scratch.
Mind you, I suppose that depends on which former England captain is your host and whether his banter is up to scratch.
"Their standards are not up to scratch," said 71-year-old Walt Burrows, who has driven a black cab for 39 years.
It was Señora Gaeta who employed the girls and also relieved them of their duties if their efforts weren't up to scratch.
Reckitt, which generates nearly a third of its China revenue online, should help to get Mead's e-commerce offering up to scratch.
Animal rights advocates say that the journeys are often too long, regulations aren't up to scratch and the rules are often flouted.
Thanks to the official push for "indigenous innovation", Chinese automation firms are often subsidised even if their technology is not up to scratch.
In many cases, especially in cities like Dublin and London with their older architecture, accessibility may not be up to scratch, McCann explains.
Even Hillary Clinton, who once supported it as the "gold standard" of trade agreements, has since concluded it is not up to scratch.
Once her language skills are up to scratch, she will take seminars on the German school system and the teaching methods used here.
Dealers have to properly package their product and make sure its "stealth" is up to scratch, otherwise customs officials may seize the package.
Idalys Ortiz, a judoka from Cuba, told The Washington Post that other food on offer in the Olympic Village simply isn't up to scratch.
Reckitt, which generates nearly a third of all its China revenue online, should help to get its target's e-commerce offering up to scratch.
If they can make a decent Sazerac then they're probably up to scratch, he explains, cradling the glass in his hand, leaning against the bar.
He is threatened by "sanctions" when his CV isn't up to scratch, and instructed to wait—and wait—to hear from an unseen "Decision-Maker".
It can be rough, and it is always hard work, so I always keep myself up to scratch with my karate, boxing, fencing, and judo.
The upsetting message here is that you could spend hours toiling away in the gym with no reward, if your diet isn't up to scratch.
Instead, it's a clear illustration of one of the key problems facing virtual reality businesses right now: VR headsets still just aren't up to scratch.
The much touted group-calling feature isn't yet available, but it will finally bring FaceTime up to scratch with pretty much every other video chat app.
This could be done by seeing that universal public services are up to scratch and enabling people to live rich, healthy lives regardless of their wealth.
Some critics say SWIFT should also be more active in auditing clients and be ready to cut off members whose security is not up to scratch.
Its gaffe-prone campaign was clearly not up to scratch: at one point Mr Kenny managed to insult some of his own constituents as champion "whingers".
But before NASA sorts out living arrangements for this mission, it's going to need to make sure the rockets it uses are also up to scratch.
Before publishing a comment, users had to be sure their knowledge of the topic was up to scratch, or face a grand jury of fashion experts.
It still faces the threat of further penalties if the U.S. Department of Justice decides that its controls to prevent money-laundering are not up to scratch.
"There are around 30 million small businesses in the US and a huge number of them are falling behind just because their systems aren't up to scratch." 
"We have been consistent with both manufacturers (Airbus and Boeing) in saying get deliveries right today ... get your production and delivery systems up to scratch," Barrett told Reuters.
Homeland Security said the system is getting better over time and will be up to scratch by the supposed 2021 deadline — even if the watchdog has its doubts.
At least "Mont Vérité" was staged at the Domaine d'O's Bassin, a gorgeous alfresco setting that allows for extensive stargazing when the action onstage isn't up to scratch.
All this means that landlords should expect to spend more keeping their buildings up to scratch, says Peter Papadakos of Green Street Advisors, a real-estate research firm.
So, impatiently, and worried about spoilers for that game, which I thought wouldn't be up to scratch on the Wii U, I went out and bought a Switch.
However, Leahy said it would be hard for countries to make billions of dollars of investments over decades to get the product line and support network up to scratch.
"The company uses the dreaded term 'broadly' in line with expectations to describe the numbers, code for not quite up to scratch," AJ Bell investment director Russ Mould said.
"What we're starting to see is investors take themselves away from any stocks which aren't up to scratch in terms of where they think growth is going," Roy added.
Others, meanwhile, find themselves facing evictions because they are not aware of the state the houses are in and cannot meet deadlines to bring the property up to scratch.
"Our hunt for a Canine Critic is our way of ensuring our pet-friendly hotels really are up to 'scratch' with a four-legged expert's 'paw of approval'," said Oakman.Hotels.
Slovenians generally tend to speak very good English so, if your Slovenian, Hungarian, and Italian aren't up to scratch, it's very easy to communicate with the people who live there.
Yet the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance of the top 20 firms says its members still need at least five more years to get manufacturing standards and data reliability up to scratch.
A travel company is hiring five to 10 people to stay in some of the world's most luxurious properties to make sure they're up to scratch for the wealthiest buyers.
He was appointed in 2016, despite having never held a senior position at an opera house, and many critics complained that some productions under his watch were not up to scratch.
You won't get all the bells and whistles that come with some more expensive models, but you still have everything you need to make sure your dental hygiene is up to scratch.
He was not up to scratch in his first tournament back from injury at Queen's but 37 aces in two matches suggest his booming serve will once again be his biggest weapon.
In this way, users will have a wealth of information about them available online, but current search solutions are not up to scratch in order for a person to trawl through their own data.
Soccer body UEFA has acknowledged that stewarding was not up to scratch and it said on Wednesday that the number of stewards in the stadium would be increased by about 10 to 20 percent.
Emanuel Steward, the former boxer and then trainer who had come in to help Naseem get up to scratch for the fight, later said that he thought the Prince looked massively off the pace.
He said he had never opened a PizzaExpress in Peterborough because the city had many residents with Italian roots, and he feared those diners would think that his dishes were not up to scratch.
Efforts to teach minority peoples Mandarin are "not up to scratch" in various places, said Zhu, who is head of the minorities and religions committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body.
But, the temporary building—used in between searching and purchasing a new facility—wasn't up to scratch and members of his Blackzilians team went to train with Hooft at the Combat Club as a result.
Walking into the fight with an undefeated record and 21 of his 26 wins coming by way of knockout, Walters simply didn't look up to scratch when contesting Lomachenko for his WBO junior lightweight title.
"Kylie loves to cook so we had to make sure the kitchen was up to scratch and really enabled her to be able to cook and do the things that she loves, like making cupcakes," he says.
My guitar playing was finally back up to scratch after my years in LA. It was our first chance to show the new phase of Earth and I felt like we did a good job of that.
Even for practical engineering purposes, if you're designing an engineering system and it doesn't perform up to scratch you need to understand which of the many components is not pulling its weight, where do we need to focus the attention.
"Being a party member who is up to scratch is not something for today or tomorrow, something that can be accomplished in one move or one done once and then forgotten about," the party's anti-graft watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said on its website this month.
OpenThread is Nest's customised version of Thread, a wireless networking protocol for connected objects in the home that Nest and partners like Samsung and Qualcomm first announced in 2014, with the rationale at the time being that existing protocols like WiFi and Bluetooth were not up to scratch.
There's only so much you can do to improve your home cinema set-up before you need to actually invest in a new TV. You can line up the best snacks, the best drinks, and the best seats, but if your TV isn't up to scratch, then the experience is going to be lacking.
As you might already know, the company has hit some stumbles in recent times with unflattering leaks of its products, executive departures, reports that the tech and hardware may not be up to scratch and the lingering question of whether anything can ever meet the hyped-up expectations that a $4.5 billion valuation confers on a startup, at least in the short term.
The song "I'm a Man" was performed between "Do You Remember The First Time?" and "Dishes", but was edited out of the footage at Jarvis Cocker's request, as he didn't feel it was 'up to scratch'.
It drafts in additional staff to make sure the atmosphere is good and the service is up to scratch. It applies the many 'tips of the trade' that it knows; for instance, giving away alcoholic drinks at the opening can backfire.
A fourth track, titled "Frightened", was set to appear on this EP, but it was not deemed up to scratch by frontman Mark E. Smith. A different recording later surfaced on the band's debut album, Live at the Witch Trials, and the original is now believed lost.
He also played in the next game, a 2–0 defeat at Burnley, but while his speed and effort were praised, his control and shooting were deemed not to be up to scratch. He did not play for Manchester United again and was transferred to Cheshire County League side Mossley in December 1931.
While some of the straight camera work is not up to > scratch, there are a number of photographic feats that are quite effective. > It is a picture that looks older than it really is, especially in the tinted > portions where one goes from an amber interior scene to an azure blue night > in the open.
The tour established Kim Hughes and Allan Border as test batsmen. However it was a disappointing tour for Australian strike bowler Rodney Hogg. Hughes thought key problems were the failure of the Australian openers to get off to a good start, and dropping of crucial catches. Hughes: > Not enough of us came up to scratch... Rodney Hogg was disappointing.
The Squadron is now based alongside 637 VGS in a converted Fire-station and tower used during previous operations at RAF Little Rissington. During this time much work has been done by the MOD and the Squadron to bring the building and the facilities up to scratch, including a fully compliant aircraft hangar, accommodation and an aircrew feeder.
Ward worked tirelessly to get the teaching and the facilities up to scratch. His efforts culminated in a complete new building designed and equipped to his own requirements. The building was opened on 1 March 1904 by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. There was a seven course lunch for the King and Queen and a select guest list included Thiselton Dyer.
Due to his lack of experience, Jackson was a 10-1 underdog in the betting. The challenger won in nine rounds, paving the way to victory by muscling Mendoza into the corner of the ring, grabbing his hair, and pummeling his head with uppercuts using his free hand. Mendoza managed to come back up to scratch after this, but was soon knocked out. Jackson beat him into submission by the end of the 9th round.
Macclesfield were denied promotion in similar circumstances a year later, but their Moss Rose home was swiftly brought up to scratch and they were admitted to the league when they won the Conference title in 1997. However, when Stevenage Borough won the Conference title in 1996 and became the third successive champions of that division to be denied promotion due to their sub-standard stadium, they had to wait 14 years before achieving promotion.
Molenaar was born in Zaandam, North Holland. He was signed for Leeds United by the then manager George Graham from FC Volendam for £1m in January 1997 to try to shore up the defence. He became a regular in the side until the end of the 1996–97 season. In the 1997–98 season however his performances were not up to scratch and he fell down the pecking order playing around half the matches.
He had already permanently dropped his lengthy drum solos from the band's onstage performances.Welch (2009), p. 142-143. While he came across to Lewis at the time as "delighted"Wall, p. 411. about the upcoming trek, Bonham privately confided on the eve of the ill-fated rehearsals for Led Zeppelin - The 1980s, Part One that he felt depressed and uneasy about going on tour, and that he felt his drumming was no longer up to scratch.
The last decade of the 20th century saw most of the ten years spent getting the ground up to scratch with £130,000 being spent in the process. The sale of two players, Jon Penman and Carlo Nash, helped considerably with the expenditure on the ground. The club saw little success on the pitch after the Wembley visit until manager Steve Parry led them to the Floodlight Trophy by beating Kidsgrove Athletic 2–1 in the 1998–99 final.
The bigger man won in nine rounds, paving the way to victory by muscling Mendoza into the corner of the ring, grabbing his hair, and pummeling his head with uppercuts using his free hand. Mendoza managed to come back up to scratch after this, but was soon knocked out. Jackson beat him into submission by the end of the 9th round. Mendoza asked for a foul for the hair pulling, but it was ruled to be legal at the time.
The SVA then found its license for the next season revoked on financial grounds as well as its home ground not being up to scratch, and 1. FCS was admitted instead. The club went through the various levels of appeal and at times the case was ruled in its favor but in the end the German Football Association ruled against the club. The situation brought back memories of 1963, when Saarbrücken was awarded a place in the Bundesliga for similar reasons.
In May 1902 Sissoi Veliky attended a fleet review honouring the state visit of President of France, Émile Loubet. In June she was moved into a drydock in Kronstadt. All available financing was diverted to the completion of the and the new cruisers, so the repairs of Sissoi Veliky proceeded at a slow pace. She had her artillery, boilers and ventilation system completely replaced, but once again it turned out that the repairs were not up to scratch and needed a thorough rework.
The report is simply not up to scratch. At one > stage, it talks about an anonymous allegation that the police dropped a > criminal action against a person whom Mr Stalker knew. The Sampson report > says: No further action was taken…the papers have been destroyed…the matter > cannot be taken further nor can any comment be made. There should be further > investigation into the claim in The Observer that its inquiries showed that > the case was prosecuted in the normal way.
Jean Perrault (born May 28, 1945), is a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Sherbrooke, Quebec from 1994 to 2009, and as president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.Mike de Souza, "Not up to scratch: Ottawa's infrastructure stimulus comes at a desperate time". Canwest News Service, March 26, 2009. In his capacity as president of the FCM, he was one of the most outspoken Canadian opponents of the "Buy American" provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
For Stars and Stripes he did American News Letter, a weekly summary of news from America, plus sport flashes and items from various theatres of war. For Cairo cinemas, he announced Headline News of the Day. Foy helped stage and announce USO sponsored programs, including a Jack Benny broadcast from Cairo to New York and an Andre Kostelanetz concert with Lily Pons. Foy scripted his own shows, including Up To Scratch, a lively program of the current hit tunes, and Shows on Parade, which he hosted.
Al-Mina'a were in first place in their First Stage group, with six wins, one draw and two losses, but the many mistakes for the referees against the team and then a number of problems arose between the club management and some players and other reasons which caused a decline in the level of the team, although the team still managed to qualify for the Elite Group. Their performances in the Elite Group were not up-to- scratch, so the team ended the season in sixth place.
VfL Wolfsburg suffered a nightmare season, only just staying up in Bundesliga, in spite of signing internationally seasoned players Diego and Simon Kjær. Being threatened at the bottom of the table, especially after selling key striker Edin Džeko to Manchester City. The replacements were not up to scratch, which saw manager Steve McClaren sacked. Following a short stint with Pierre Littbarski in charge, the club's 2009 championship-winning manager Felix Magath, who just had been sacked from Schalke 04, in spite of having taken them to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.
After being delayed to ensure the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita versions are "up to scratch", the game was released on 5 August 2014 in North America and the following day in Europe. CurvevStudios later announced that they will bring the game to Wii U, the graphical capability will be on par with PC version. Subsequently, after the game's release on Wii U, Nintendo assisted in bringing The Swapper to the Japanese market, and they announced this during the Japanese version of the April 2015 Nintendo Direct presentation.
The Squadron has now been based in Building 161 for 20 years, which continues to be one of the remaining T2 Hangars at MDPGA Wethersfield. During this time much work has been done by the MOD and the Squadron to bring the building and the facilities inside up to scratch. Running repairs have been carried out to the main metal skin of the hangar and the doors have been serviced. Since 2006 considerable work has been done with respect to improving and renovating the hangar and side buildings.
Throughout the mid-1990s, Ford and Glenn Hooper played together in several small rock bands such as Sweater, Sixteen & Sheadly. After one Sheadly gig, bassist Jo Taylor approached the band and told them that they needed her to play as their current bassist wasn't up to scratch. A few years passed, Sheadly had split and once again Ford and Hooper were on the look out for new band members, placing adverts for members in the window of their local music store. In a twist of fate, Jo Taylor picked up the advertisement, and the band 'Beachy Head' were formed.
Lloyd explained his collaboration with Banks on their first versions of 'Espedair Street' (subsequent versions are dated from between 2005 and 2013) in a Guardian article prior to the opening of The Curse of Iain Banks: > When he [Banks] first played them to me, I think he was worried that they > might not be up to scratch (some of them dated back to 1973 and had never > been heard). He needn't have worried. They're fantastic. We're slaving away > to get the songs to the stage where we can go into the studio and make a > demo.
In September 1945, a letter was received by Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of Sir Arthur. The letter stated, "My pride is not unduly hurt by your remark that 'The Man who was Wanted' is certainly not up to scratch for the sting is much mitigated by your going on to remark that it carries the authentic trade-mark! This, I feel, is a great compliment to my one and only effort at plagiarism." The letter was written by an architect named Arthur Whitaker who had sent the story to Arthur Conan Doyle in 1911 with a suggestion that they publish it as a joint collaboration.
However, her forehand, albeit reliable, has been variously described as "bizarre" and "clever", owing to the unusual amount of spin and/or slice on the shot. The Daily Telegraph commentator Emily Benammar noted in 2010 that if Pironkova's, "forehand comes up to scratch, she's in with a chance of beating the best". Overall, Pironkova does not rely heavily upon her groundstrokes, but is instead noted for her stroke-play, variety of shots and intelligent use of the court and its geometry. She is also known for her squash-shot forehand and for incorporating flat and slice shots into rallies from her forehand and backhand sides.
Mainwaring proceeds to inspect everyone's feet, despite having a slight problem in his back that eventually results in him using a chair to inspect the platoon's feet. After he has finished, he concludes that everyone's feet are fine, but he decides to impose some long route marches to get their feet up to scratch. After a fifteen-mile march, Mainwaring asks the men to have their feet ready for inspection in five minutes, while he and Wilson have a chat in the office. Mainwaring confides in Wilson that he knows that he is a shy and sensitive man who handles the men quietly and subtly.
This proved to be Rovers last major final to date, as the team that had part dominated the English game faded away. By the late 1980s, time had taken its toll on Craven Park stadium, following the Bradford City stadium fire, capacity was restricted and the cost of safety work spiraled. Major renovations were needed to bring it up to scratch. Large amounts of money were spent on the ground each year repairing sections but once one section was repaired another would fall into disrepair. In 1988/89, their last full season at Craven Park, Rovers were relegated to the 2nd Division and Millward decided to stand down as coach.
As the day of the masque and baptism was postponed, Melville had to entertain the ambassadors in Edinburgh, with his brothers Andrew Melville of Garvock and William Melville Commendator of Tungland.Thomas Thomson, Memoirs of his own life by Sir James Melville of Halhill (Edinburgh, 1827), pp. 410–413. Robert Bowes said the ambassadors were entertained by various lairds of Lothian in turn, at the king's request. John Colville wrote that the day after the ambassadors arrived Anne of Denmark took the ferry to Fife and went to Falkland Palace to avoid them because she felt her accommodation at Holyroodhouse was not up to scratch.
In line with talk of mergers in the professional game moves were afoot to create a regional side based on Peterborough and Leicester with the aim of creating a stronger side. However, due to administrative and travel issues amongst players and staff the plans for the East Midlands Knights were shelved. Northampton Knights played 5 games in the 1995/6 season before dropping out of NCL Division 2 in November 1995 and subsequently folding. In 1998 an application to the Rugby League Conference was made but they withdrew before the season started on the basis that the club's organisation was not up to scratch.
The late opening resulted in the reviewers for the Michelin Guide having only a two-week window in which to re-assess the restaurant for the 2008 guide. Bosi admitted later that the restaurant was not yet up to scratch in those two weeks and agreed with the decision of Michelin to downgrade Hibiscus to a single star in the 2008 Guide. The restaurant was also given a "rising star" as one with potential to go up to two stars in the future. During the run up to Christmas, the stress of serving 550 covers a week in a new location with a modified menu resulted in three sous chefs resigning.
Southport impressively won the league with 96 points and once again scoring 100 goals and tasted success in two more cup competitions and an excellent FA Cup run took them through to the second round proper for the first time since 1968. After proving the ground was up to scratch the club were duly promoted back to the top flight of non-league football the Vauxhall Conference. After a promising first season which saw the club finish fourth and only nine points off champions Kidderminster Harries followed by another a Kettle shocked the town with his resignation in March 1995 citing personal reasons with Billy Ayre appointed to oversee and cement the third-place finish.
Early on, Oldfield realised he was out of practise in his guitar technique as his fingertips had softened, causing pain when playing. He focused on the instrument for three weeks to get up to scratch. Oldfield began by gathering the necessary instruments that he intended to play on the album and arrange his studio into an environment that he could work in. This involved the purchase of a mandolin, ukulele, and bodhrán. He then decided to record in time with a wind- up metronome, as opposed to a programmed click track, and set up his workspace and Pro Tools software to resemble a 24-track machine that he had used in the 1970s.
A former schoolroom opposite the parish church is used as a village gathering place, and a learning centre. The village post office operated from these premises, but following recent post office closures, it is no longer operational. A further landmark of Tong village is Tong Garden Centre, which is situated at the south-western end of Tong Lane about from its junction with the B6135. On Tong Lane there is a holiday camping site, a motorcycle hill climb, and the Innovation Motorsports rally (and four by four) testing centre drive, located opposite the Holiday Inn Leeds/Bradford, a testing facility used by professional rally teams to ensure their up-and-coming drivers are up to scratch, before the major European rallies.
Erlewine, nonetheless, said that "[the album] does have the familiar tunes, so it serves its purpose". Irving Tan of Sputnikmusic put Dance Again... The Hits into the category of a greatest hits album that "you get facial brickbat of moderate-to-raw disappointment at the discovery of how thin and forced the artist's discography really is". He wrote that having another artist featured on nine of the thirteen tracks "gives the impression that as a product, having Jennifer Lopez alone is simply not enough". He further criticized the decision to include the Murder remixes of "Ain't It Funny" and "I'm Real" over the original studio versions, stating that it was almost like "Sony Music held their hands up and admitted that the initial cuts that they published simply weren't up to scratch".
Brown was born in the Longfleet St Mary parish of Poole and had represented the Dorset County F.A. In March 1910, he was invited to The Dell for a trial; considered "up to scratch", he took the place of Horace Glover at left-back (Glover had moved to centre-forward in the absence of Charlie McGibbon) for the Southern League match at Bristol Rovers on 26 March 1910. Described as "tall, weighty and muscular", Brown played well enough to earn another match, a week later, at home to Norwich City. Despite acquitting himself well in his two first-team appearances, Brown decided to abandon his football career and resume his profession as a fisherman, although he continued to play for his local club, earning a trial with the England amateur team in January 1911.
68 as a real-life character who would be carrying the book. "As every journalist will confirm," Malcolm writes,Malcolm, pps. 71-3. > MacDonald's uninterestingness is not unusual at all ... When a journalist > fetches up against someone like [him], all he can do is flee and hope that a > more suitable subject will turn up soon. In the MacDonald-McGinniss case we > have an instance of a journalist who apparently found out too late that the > subject of his book was not up to scratch — not a member of the wonderful > race of auto-fictionalizers, like Joseph Mitchell's Joe Gould and Truman > Capote's Perry Smith, on whom the "non-fiction novel" depends for its life > ... The solution that McGinniss arrived at for dealing with MacDonald's > characterlessness was not a satisfactory one, but it had to do.
July 2020 Ramela penned an open letter to the South African sports minister in which he claimed 'As a professional athlete, I did not get to reach the peak of my potential therefore my career, up to the point where my career abruptly ended because of this lawlessness'. Unfortunately for Ramela, cricket, like many other sports has clearly defined KPI's and performance metrics which show clearly that Ramela was not up to scratch as a domestic cricketer. In this day and age one needs to be very careful of listening to people in leadership positions as they are perceived as 'informed' or 'educated'. Ramela is a perfect example of a false prophet, someone who has been given everything on a silver platter but still has the impudence to complain about a system which has been emperically proven to benefit him.
However, the show did come in for some criticism. San Jose Mercury News criticized the plot and the casting saying that "the storylines usually involve the obligatory three-episode-arc drug problems or lost virginity with dialogue designed to keep a dog up to speed", and that "Whoever at FOX thought Benjamin McKenzie (Ryan on "The O.C.") could pass for anything younger than 25 should be fired". A DVD review was critical of the repetitive plot stating that "the Ryan-Marissa fol-de-rol gets tiresome as it devolves into relentless bad timing", while Entertainment Weekly did not think the acting was always up to scratch, stating "it's unfortunate to have all this potential for arm-flinging drama invested in Barton, an actress who can be as flat as a paper doll". It was also denounced for excessive brawling and glamorizing underage drinking.
45 Peter Wykeham suggested that the government in London was more to blame than any of the British commanders in the Far East. Despite repeated requests, the British government did not provide the necessary reinforcements and they denied Brooke-Popham – and therefore Percival – permission to enter neutral Thailand before it was too late to put in place forward defences. Moreover, Percival had difficulties with his subordinates Sir Lewis "Piggy" Heath, commanding Indian III Corps, and the independent-minded Gordon Bennett, commanding the Australian 8th Division. The former officer had been senior to Percival prior to his appointment as GOC (Malaya). Percival was ultimately responsible for the men who served under him, and with other officers – notably Major-General David Murray-Lyon, commander of the Indian 11th Infantry Division – he had shown a willingness to replace them when he felt their performance was not up to scratch.
"As every journalist will confirm," Malcolm writes, :"MacDonald's uninterestingness is not unusual at all...When a journalist fetches up against someone like [him], all he can do is flee and hope that a more suitable subject will turn up soon. In the MacDonald- McGinniss case we have an instance of a journalist who apparently found out too late that the subject of his book was not up to scratch—not a member of the wonderful race of auto-fictionalizers, like Joseph Mitchell's Joe Gould and Truman Capote's Perry Smith, on whom the 'non-fiction novel' depends for its life...The solution that McGinniss arrived at for dealing with MacDonald's characterlessness was not a satisfactory one, but it had to do."Malcolm, pp. 71–73. In Malcolm's depiction, it was in order to conceal this deficit that McGinniss turned to social treatises like Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism.
Mrs Denny was so impressed that he was going to work at Windsor that she instructed one of the chauffeurs to drive Percy and his father there. By 1931 the number of gardeners at Horwood had been reduced from nineteen to seven, and Harry struggled to keep the garden up to scratch. Whilst BT had Horwood House, as their management college, the number was down to two, but they had the advantage of mechanisation. Harry Thrower died suddenly on 31 December 1939, when he was 57, from haemorrhage of the lungs brought on by smoking an ounce of pipe tobacco a day, and the effort of keeping the gardens up to standard with the three remaining gardeners. He was buried at St Nicholas' church in Little Horwood, with the inscription on his tombstone of “Highly valued friend and head gardener for many years to Mr. & Mrs. Denny of Horwood House”. Mrs.
" Meanwhile, Catherine Gee said the show was a flop and listed six reasons why, which included unoriginal jokes, Hart's asides to the camera and the show retaining "the worst aspects of the sitcoms of yesteryear." The opening episode of the third series became one of the most watched shows in the UK over the Christmas period, attracting a total audience of over 11.5 million viewers. For The Telegraph, Michael Deacon compares the programme to a childish Christmas panto, finally adding, "Perhaps I’m just getting old. I’m sure I’d have loved this show when I was six." Keith Watson, writing for Metro, says the series three finale is a "great end to an up-to-scratch season, Miranda never fails to cheer up an evening, reminding many of us that we aren’t alone in the everyday awkward situations that we might find ourselves in – to some extent, anyway.
James p. 2-5 In 1894 Hall married Ethel Wootton de Wiveslie Abney, daughter of Sir William. The engagement had begun when he was aged 19, five years before, but at the time this was still considered a young age for a naval officer to get married. In 1895 he was appointed as gunnery lieutenant on the cruiser Australia where he served for two years before being appointed to the senior staff at Whale Island. He was promoted to commander 1 January 1901, in recognition of services with naval forces in South Africa, and later served on the battleship Magnificent, flagship of the second in command of the Channel Fleet.James p.5 In 1904 he became commander of the predreadnought battleship Cornwallis which was commissioning with a new crew to operate in the Mediterranean. Hall had a reputation as a strict disciplinarian with an ability to get the best out of a crew, so he was given some of the worst sailors to bring up to scratch.
" The reviewer for Time Out summed up Never Say Never Again saying "The action's good, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a man with the right stuff." Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the film contains "the best Bond in the business", but nevertheless did not find Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy (starring Roger Moore), or "that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love." Malcolm's main issue with the film was that he had a "feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-office success and the effort to make character as important as stunts." Malcolm summed up that "the mix remains obstinately the same – up to scratch but not surpassing it.
Clive Robertson's audio, installation, video, sculpture and performance works have been seen, heard and/or collected in many countries including England, Wales, Canada, U.S., Germany, Poland, France, Holland, Japan and Australia. Performances include: 12,13,8,11 (1970); Air-To-Earth Parachute Jump (1971); Conversation Piece (at Corrugated Cardboard Products Ltd) (1971); A Year of..F (with Sue Clancy) (1972-3); The Sculptured Politics of Joseph Beuys (1975); In Video Traction (with Marcella Bienvenue) (1976); Explaining Pictures To Dead Air (1978); The Intervenors (with Janet Martin) (1982); In A Drunken Stupor (1983); The Ganser Syndrome (with Johanna Householder and Frances Leeming) (1987); The Sinking of The Gigantic (with Frances Leeming); Taschibosen – The Bridge (1991); Turning the Page (2002); The Confessional Archive Toolshed (2000); The Butler and The Secretary (with Germaine Koh) (2003); The Award (2014); and Flagging Peace (with Ciara Phillips) (2016). Videoworks include: A Subtle Shade of Violets (1976); Lunar Re-Appraisal (1979); Speaking of Our Culture (1982); What Can A Man Say? (1983-6); Up To Scratch (with Craig Condy-Berggold) (1988); Trade Winds Canada Ltd (1994); A Grandmother and a Godfather: Kit Fahey and Joseph Beuys (2004); Il a cessé de l'aimer l'art aujourdhui (grace å George Jones) (2013); and I.O.60s (In Our Sixties) (2010–15).

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