Sentence examples for former ratings from inspiring English sources

The spring return of Fox's "Glee" on Tuesday did little to support the notion that it will return to its former ratings glory anytime soon.

"If you dug into it, if you had the time, you would see errors that magically favored the banker," said one former ratings executive, who like other former employees, asked not to be identified, given the controversy surrounding the industry.

American Idol, the former ratings juggernaut that earned the nickname "the Death Star" for its apparent ability to destroy all who opposed it, has finally met its match – apathy.

Some of the shine seems to have disappeared from Life Begins, ITV1's former ratings banker, which returned for its third series with 5.7 million viewers and a 24% share from 9pm.

The key prosecution witness was Colin Douglas Beavers, the former ratings chairman of the I.B.F., who became a government informant in 1997, videotaping and recording conversations and meetings that involved Lee and other boxing figures.

Shine's dismissal came in the wake of lawsuits, and allegations of sexual harassment, bequeathed to Fox by its former president, Roger Ailes, and its former ratings king, Bill O'Reilly.

The deal at the heart of that complaint — called Abacus 2007-AC1 — was devised in part by a former Fitch Ratings employee named Shin Yukawa, whom Goldman recruited in 2005.

The new supercomputing performance standards, developed with industry help, are intended to replace former speed ratings that often departed so radically from computer performance on real-world problems that potential customers came to ignore them.

It's not uncommon for former presidents' ratings to rise once they leave office.

At No. 5 in his former-girlfriend ratings, Laura (Ms. Hjejle) joins a string of vibrant women (Shannon Stillo, Joelle Carter, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lili Taylor) in Stephen Frears's fine-tuned adaptation of Nick Hornsby's novel.

The fight continues over a new evaluation plan that scraps the former "satisfactory," "unsatisfactory" ratings, instead rating teachers as highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective, 20percentt of which is based on student growth on test scores.