Sentences with phrase «city by championing»
For his part, de Blasio won the mayorship of New York City by championing the cause — calling for an end to New York's «Tale of Two Cities.»
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The consensus around the «right to the city» - an idea championed by Ecuador and Brazil - was historical.
Just as importantly, his work on the distribution of electricity led to the world's first power plant in New York City (though his technology choice, direct current (DC), was eventually surpassed by the alternating current approach (AC) championed by rival inventor, Nikola Tesla).
Cupertino's commitment to meeting its RHNA and to creating more opportunities for affordable housing is reflected in various policies adopted and championed by the City Council.
He was probably not the god originally mentioned in the telling of the story, but by this time he had become chief god of the city of Babylon and therefore greatest of the gods, so his name was substituted as champion.
Former Champions League winner, five time Serie A title holder Esteban Cambiasso was linked with a move to Tottenham and a move home to River Plate but stunned everyone by signing for newly - promoted Leicester City.
It's a dire start for the reigning champions, and Mourinho has found himself under immense pressure — particularly following consecutive league defeats to West Ham United and Liverpool, as well as the midweek defeat by Stoke City in the Capital One Cup.
Neither Manchester City nor Real Madrid should sleep too soundly on their Champions League title hopes as they're being joined in the semi-finals by Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid.
Imagine the champions got beat by Birmingham City and Spurs came back from 2 - 0 down to beat Arsenal 3 - 2 in the big North London Derby... I'm sure the bookies are laughing their head's off this [Monday] morning!
Until May when we are crowned champions every team we face is our biggest rival, we have a poor record against Stoke City and Swansea we need these points so this must be rectified by beating such teams
Arsenal have the bad luck to have to face the Champions - elect Man City just four days after being embarrassed in the League Cup final by Pep Guardiola's side, but Arsene Wenger is very hopeful that his team can pick themselves up to try and get revenge at the Emirates, where the Gunners have only lost one League game all season.
Arsene Wenger has made an early foray into transfer market after buying just one player, Petr Cech, in the entire summer last year, which suggests that the 66 - year - old may be feeling the pressure to deliver success in the next campaign.The Gunners extended their Premier League title drought to 12 seasons as they finished behind champions Leicester City by 10 points.
Premier League champions Manchester City and title - leaders Chelsea have been beaten to the status as the most dangerous team in English football by, wait for it... League One outfit Brentford!
Two Premier League away games, at West Brom tomorrow and then Norwich City next Sunday, are punctuated by a must - win home clash with Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb and with a stretched squad that is a tough eight days of football.
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England forward Vardy has rejected the chance to join the Gunners, who triggered his release clause, by signing a new four - year contract with Premier League champions Leicester City.
Ivan Rakitić's long goal combined with a late penalty save by Marc - Andre ter Stegen ensured that Barcelona advanced past Manchester City in to the Champions League quarterfinals.
They then lost a close game to champions Manchester City, and then faced more humiliation in the North London derby as they were blitzed 5 - 2 by Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, the same scoreline as last season.
And by all accounts, Reeves returned to Goodison Park with a glowing report on the Eredivisie champion's skipper, who has also been attracting the attentions of Everton's city rivals Liverpool in recent weeks.
During Wednesday night's Champions League semi-final win over Manchester City, the Real Madrid midfielder got a bit frustrated when he felt that Cristiano Ronaldo was being given rough treatment by those City brutes.
Bale looks needed by Mourinho as he'll be under pressure to build a more attacking side for next season following his side's total inability to keep up with Manchester City this term as well as his side's shock exit to Sevilla in the Champions League this week.
East and West will clash in a season made exciting by new cities, fans, faces and champions.
We also needed a result to confirm our own brilliant record of qualifying for the Champions League, but you would not have known it by the way Arsenal started this game away to Premier League rivals Man City.
It's been a frustrating season for United, who have been miles behind rivals Manchester City for much of the Premier League season and who were surprisingly eliminated from the Champions League by Sevilla.
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What are you on about Man United have signed Ibra and Mikhataryan with no champions league football, don't be fooled by Chelsea's non activity that's because Conte was busy with the Euros and Man City have brought in Gundogan and will bring in more that's not even questionable while Wenger and Arsenal sit back as if everything is fine with our weak squad!
I'm sure you can all see how fortunate again Manchester United have been with the fixtures this week by playing Manchester City in the middle of two massive Champions League games against Liverpool, well I've news for you.
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been speaking to the media ahead of his side's Champions League meeting with Man City, with talk dominated by injuries.
The most points lost in the last 8 games by eventual champions in recent years has been Man U (10 pts 2007, 9 pts 2013), Man City (8 pts 2014), Chelsea (8 pts 2006).
Premier League leaders Chelsea fell 4 - 2 at the hands of third tier Bradford City at Stamford Bridge, whilst reigning league champions Manchester City were also beaten at home by Aitor Karanka's Middlesbrough.
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Hart is still highly regarded by the rest of his City teammates, though, and is still capable of pulling off a solid performance, as he did in the Champions League tie against CSKA Moscow last week, but Pellegrini believes the 26 - year - old will respond positively to some serious competition for a starting spot.
By the way, we had the luck to face Man City just after they had a tough Champions League game away to Napoli.
The point is that thanks to this we are now in a better position, instead of being left for dead completely by Man City and Chelsea and their unlimited resources we will now be able to buy players commanding transfer fees like Sanchez or Ozil every season or two, we achieved this while staying in the Champions League year after year.
Premier League giants Manchester City have previously felt the force of Uefa's FFP restrictions, with the club hit by a fine and a limit on numbers in their Champions League squad for this season.
Two local derby draws have destroyed our chances of catching Leicester (or Tottenham by the looks of things) and we now have to fight Man City for the automatic Champions League spot.
I don't see the point in getting into the champions league just to finish 2nd in group stage but i do believe that if the kind of luck city had by losing on 2 occasions to Juve yet still finishing 1st and their run in towards the semis i would be ecstatic and for good reason.
Arsenal have got a lot more to do than simply catch and overtake our north London rivals Tottenham if this season is to be seen as anything but a disappointing one, and with 11 points to make up on the current Premier League leaders you would have to say that Leicester City are big favourites to finish above the Gunners and complete an amazing campaign by being crowned champions of England.
A top class performer with an # 8m release clause for Champions League clubs, Fabian Delph is most wanted by Manchester City and possibly Liverpool.
A group of Manchester City fans have been stopped from watching the club's Champions League tie with CSKA Moscow from a nearby tower block by Russian police, according to the Metro.
The Thunder were eliminated by the eventual champion Mavs in last season's Western Conference Finals, but, despite winning the four games by an average of 8.5 points, Oklahoma City handled them in this first round series.
City were knocked out of the Champions League by Barcelona on Wednesday, and now only have the Premier League to play for, but after last weekend's shock defeat to Burnley, that too seems beyond them.
The ex-Gunner declared, «If Manchester City had continued playing the way they started the season, they would virtually be champions by now.
After he missed the last half hour of Arsenal's last Champions League game against Anderlecht and then the away defeat by Swansea City in the Premier League, Mikel Arteta can be absolved from blame for the way the Gunners have thrown away two winning positions in a row.
Turan has impressed in La Liga since joining Atletico from Galatasaray back in 2011, and helped guide the club to a La Liga title win in the 2013/14 season, as well as on a run to the Champions League final, where Diego Simeone's side were eventually beaten by city rivals Real Madrid in Lisbon.
With Arsenal facing a difficult opening to the new Premier League campaign with Liverpool followed by the champions Leicester City in our first two games, along with the probable absence of key players like Mesut Ozil, Koscielny and Giroud, Arsene Wenger knows that his pre-season preparations are hugely important.
Actually winning cups getting to those finals by beating the best teams in the leagues even though we lost one to the best team in the league this year is more than one fact and what the guy stated in the article is a host of statistical facts and we sniffed the league in 2016 every one but us failed to beat the champions that year twice there is a host of facts that hold up success here an mostly ranting opinions saying yea we won cups and made it to finals so what, we did nt win ecl or epl only 1 team does that and other than Leicester which we were 2nd only city, mu and chelsea have won since we last won so not many clubs do that and totten ham hasnt won a cup since 2008 we have won 5 in 8 seasons and been to 3 other finals
Led by manager Pep Guardiola, Manchester City have the best odds to advance from the Champions League Round of 16 and are the clear favorites to win it all.
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