If you think that you're a financial engineer, you're not a very good financial analyst.
But the market is not a very good predictor of future economic activity.
Constitutional Reform Minister Mark Harper retorted that "rushing forward with ill-considered legislation... is not a very good way of legislating".
Not a very good report card for the success of the day.
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The electrons from the stressed rock cannot follow the holes, because granite is not a very good conductor of this more usual form of electricity.
"It was not a very good day, " said the American, who is almost certain to end a year without a title for the first time in his career.
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The obvious initial inference to make about a test that does not pick up a difference where you expect one is that it is not a very good test.
Lying is not a very good long-term economic strategy, and Greece is going to be doomed regardless of which policy it pursues because its economic institutions are totally broken, corrupt, and ineffective.
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"I'm not a very good spectator, " said Fallon.
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Anybody who has -- believes that you can try to predict the outcome of a Supreme Court case based solely on the questions of the justices is not a very good student of the Supreme Court.
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You can make a case (not a very good one, but you can make it) that the money that Apple earns under the protection of the US Government, in the US, should pay something towards the costs of running that US Government.
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Make no mistake, this quarter was a disappointment as management did not do a very good job of reigning in costs while sales were less than impressive.
While we understand the reasoning behind it, we believe that the decision to sell such a huge stake in ICBC at a time when stock prices across global markets are repressed may not be a very good one for Goldman in the long run.
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"The review pointed out that if you have a situation where 90% of your population is doing something, then it's not really a very good law, " said Simon Levine, head of the intellectual property and technology group at DLA Piper.
Chances are these behaviors will never change, so why not place a very good bet.
But though this is the best opportunity for peace talks in years, it is not necessarily a very good one.
Obamneycare architect Jonathan Gruber is not in a very good mood.
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But he did not do a very good job of making the case in Parliament this week - which may partly explain why Mr Osborne came out of this week surprisingly well.
We're always looking for a type of player who's not physical but a very good thinker, who's ready to take decisions, who has talent, technique and agility.
"We were a very good charity but not a good business, " says Kassalow.
But what that also illustrates is that if your answer to this challenge of rising gas prices is just drilling for oil, you're not going to find a very good answer, because an all-above -- all-of-the-above approach is required.
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She said the animals have had a devastating impact on water fowl which are not very good fliers and tend to spend a lot of time on the ground.
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