Sentence examples for hard to outperform from inspiring English sources

PROFESSIONAL fund managers find it very hard to outperform stockmarket indices in a reliable fashion.

(Sometimes it's really not hard to outperform Apple's own apps, you know).

It is very hard to underperform even if you're working at it, which actually makes the cases hard to outperform when you're working at it.

As a result, managers of ethical funds find it harder to outperform when larger-caps rally and when resources and defensives are in vogue".

Like black players breaking into baseball, women pols have had to consistently work harder to "outperform" their peers and "be better than average to measure up".

In the great old days of the classy Hollywood movie, an actress was sometimes hard put to outperform her costume.

In other words, people who are smart, nice, and hard-working tend to outperform their peers.

"It's going to be a lot harder for California to outperform the way it has the last two years," said Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West in San Francisco.

C1 EchoStar Faces Big Challenge Now that Rupert Murdoch has made the deal that will put DirecTV in the hands of the News Corporation, EchoStar will be hard put to continue to outperform DirecTV the way it has for the last 18 months.

Now that Mr. Murdoch has finally made the deal he has been anticipating for at least a decade -- the deal that brings the News Corporation into the United States satellite television market -- EchoStar will be hard put to continue to outperform DirecTV the way it has for the last 18 months.

As Mr Kravis has said, many of the techniques that private-equity firms pioneered paying managers with shares, concentrating on shareholder value, making good use of debt, maximising cashflow are now standard practice in public firms, making it hard for private equity to outperform public equities.