Betekenis van:
fall short
to fall short
Werkwoord
- tegenvallen, afvallen
- fail to meet (expectations or standards)
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- This year's harvest will fall short of last year.
- Any translation, however good, will clearly fall short of the original.
- This year's harvest will fall short of that of last year.
- The real estate financing strategy is ambitious and threatens to fall short of the targets set.
- The moratorium and the lease proposed thus fall short of having a pro-competitive effect similar to a structural remedy.
- Both remedies fall short from ensuring that a new competitor will enter the gas market for LICs.
- Operators that fail to fulfil this quota have to pay a fine of EUR 0,60 per litre of biodiesel for which they fall short of the quota.
- The Commission therefore considers that these commitments fall short from addressing the strengthening of GDP’s dominant position in the market for gas supply to power producers.
- At the same time, the liquidity position, including short-term financial loans, was EUR 174 million as at 30 April 2008, a fall of 53 % as compared to the end of December 2007 [25].
- For those draft measures that fall under point 6 below and are notified by means of the short notification form, the Commission does not need in principle any additional documentation to carry out its tasks.
- As explained in more detail in Annex 1, the calculations of the discounted incremental cash-flow of the southern runway show in 2005 that the revenues fall short of the investment costs by about EUR […] for the period 2005 to 2042 (see column 4 in Annex 1).
- In the short term, the expert's Alitalia forecasts show only a slight fall in cash flow to €212 million at 31 May 2005; management improvements and lower investment, together with a fourth MD-11 sale and lease-back transaction will continue to bring benefits.
- Some argued that no measures should be taken because there had been only a short temporary fall in farmed salmon prices in the two to three months following the termination of anti-dumping measures against Norway in May 2003, and prices had since returned to normal.
- Operators that fail to fulfil this quota have to pay a fine of EUR 0,60 per litre of biodiesel for which they fall short of the quota. To a large extent this mandatory blending requirement appears to have compensated the alleged sales losses and to have counterbalanced the reduction in incentives.
- Interest rate risk [64] is the risk that short-term interest rates may increase during the lifetime of the long-term investments, while long-term interest rates are locked in; or, to take an equivalent market-value perspective, that the market value of equity drops while the yield curve shifts up, given that the value of the assets will fall further than the liabilities if the liabilities have a shorter effective lifetime.