Sentences with phrase «liston sparring partner»

We're placing more expectations on our relationships than ever before — we want our partner to be our best friend, our lover, our intellectual sparring partner, maybe our co-parent — while simultaneously investing less time and energy in the relationship.

The Advisory Board acts as the sparring partner for the Steering Committee and the secretariat advising on a range of issues but most notably on the selection of opportunities for the report.

Of 12 players on his team, the bottom five didn't play — they were just sparring partners.

Honestly, a man of your intellectual stature and prowess in logic needs a sparring partner with whom you are more evenly matched.

In Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), Kevin DeYoung, the senior pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, and Ted Kluck, a sportswriter who has written for ESPN, are quick to admit that they «don't think of our emergent sparring partners as «the bad guys.

After all, he's so much more than my atheistic, church attending, intellectual sparring partner.

And not as a perpetual temptation or sparring partner so much as a badge of honor, proof that we're intellectually rigorous, honest, and thoughtful — not the mindless automatons the world thinks we are.

Canada's Saputo is set to line up against old sparring partner Murray Goulburn and other milk processors in United Dairy Power auction.

On the other side of the fight is an old sparring partner, Michael Moore, who was an independent but also health minister in Carnell's government.

Canada's Saputo is set to line up against old sparring partner Murray Goulburn and other milk processors, as an auction for Victorian milk processor United Dairy Power gets under way.

His sparring partners will include Victor Jacinto and Nathan Aguilar, 113 - pound stalwarts who will wrestle challenge matches when only one varsity spot is available at competitions.

He was murdering all the sparring partners in camp except me.

Dashon Johnson, one of Pacquiao's sparring partners, said he and others were sent home from camp early because Pacquiao could no longer spar during training.

All the Kings offered was a job as a sparring partner when they worked out potential draft picks.

His chief sparring partner, Kevin Kelley, reportedly called the fight a «mismatch.»

I think you could get a better manager for less but who, with any professional pride would step into our set up and not demand a serious budget each year or a sparring partner (DOF) to see we get the right players or put up with an owner for whom winning is irrelevant?

If you don't know who TY is, watch the Arsenal Fan TV videos; he is Claudes mate and sparring partner.

Inside the ring, Carbajal, the little man of La Mancha, the newly acclaimed Manitas de Piedra («Little Hands of Stone»), is steadfastly belaboring sparring partner Abner Barrajas as club members in racquetball attire cheer him.

As an example of this I offer you Claude and Ty, good mates but verbal sparring partners and a sort of double act on Arsenal Fan TV.

McNeeley's manager, the millionaire Harvardman Peter Fuller, himself an old college boxer and sometime sparring partner to McNeeley, recently described his fighter as «a straight stand - up guy with a good jab, a good left hook and a fair right.

Jimmy Ellis, his days as Muhammad Ali's sparring partner far behind him, crashed home an effective right hand to win the WBA version of the heavyweight championship and, finally, a chance at better paydays

While often the black boys unload freight or work on the docks during the day, then spend long dreary hours in the gym at night, the white fighter is «romanced» — no job, no fights over his head, the best equipment, expensive sparring partners.

As a fitness test on Oct. 13 in Reno, where Holyfield trained before moving his camp to Las Vegas, the 28 - year - old Holyfield was put through a grueling 12 - round session against three sparring partners.

His two years as Muhammad Ali's sparring partner were another sort of embarrassment.

Another sparring partner, Eddie Richardson, had been sent home after twice being knocked out by Holyfield in earlier sessions.

He has plenty of tools to aid his progress, namely sparring partners like Brenden Johnson (NorCal No. 3 at 120), Eli Blake (sixth, 138), Jed Campos (18th, 152) and Noah Blake (second, 160).

Henry Dean, a former England international and sparring partner of Percy's, was instrumental in the Dark Blues record of 16 consecutive victories over their Cambridge counterparts during the 1980s and 1990s.

With no qualifiers to play, hosts Russia have been desperately looking for sparring partners to prepare for the 2018 World Cup — even playing a friendly against club side Dynamo Moscow in September 2017.

We're placing more expectations on our relationships than ever before — we want our partner to be our best friend, our lover, our intellectual sparring partner, maybe our co-parent — while simultaneously investing less time and energy in the relationship.

Due to the fact that it is considerably smaller than the Assembly, the Senate tends to work a lot more quickly, and has fewer late nights — though it certainly has seen its share of epic debates, thanks to Sens. John DeFrancisco and his verbal sparring partner, Liz Krueger.

Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved in New York politics in recent years, calling for more funding of public education and stumping for Cuomo's frequent public sparring partner, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Rather than making a push to give this power back to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a regular sparring partner of the governor's, Cuomo said he would «appoint separate Inspector Generals for both SUNY and CUNY [who will] review contracts and hiring for both improper and illegal actions.»

The senator notably made a video in which he and his frequent sparring partner Liz Krueger smoked a joint and reenacted the love scene from «Lady and the Tramp.»

And our exclusive NY1 / Baruch College poll finds that this summer hasn't been particularly good for Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval ratings, especially compared to his frequent sparring partner in Albany.

Ms Harman had the perfect sparring partner in the form of PMQs veteran William Hague, who continues to stand in for David Cameron despite his palpable lack of deputy status.

Even as he made a concession to one of his longtime sparring partners — public sector employees — Cuomo took a jab at his main rival in the state Democratic Party: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Ghanaian boxer Bukom Banku may be looking forward to a fight against Samir Bastie, but hasn't wasted any time in finding a sparring partner in fellow comedian Lilwin.

Mandelson said the coalition is right to tackle Britain's fiscal deficit, though he challenged his old sparring partner, George Osborne, on two fronts.

Even as he made a concession to one of his longtime sparring partners — public sector employees — Mr. Cuomo took a jab at his main rival in the state Democratic Party: Mayor Bill de Blasio.

But Osborne has already appeared alongside another of his former sparring partners, ex-shadow chancellor Ed Balls, to campaign for remain, with Balls arguing that the issues at stake in the 23 June referendum mean party politics should be put aside.

Balls said he respected Osborne, his old Commons sparring partner, for facing down the Eurosceptics in his own party, comparing it to his own decision to refuse to back joining the euro when Labour was in government.

The results were worse for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the governor's fellow Democrat and frequent sparring partner.

Steven Weinberg, who shared the Nobel with Salam in 1979, is a regular sparring partner.

Once settled in Geneva, he acquired a new sparring partner in Josef Jauch.

For Lesser had a rapier - sharp mind, and a single false move was enough to leave his sparring partner impaled and wriggling.

They also were, you could say, sparring partners for Deep Blue.

I don't want a sparring partner, I want a woman that I can Love, And that knows how to be Loved.In todays society, It's getting Crazy!

Washed - up former boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) hasn't had much luck «managing» a string of beat - up bots until he hits it big with Atom, a sparring partner machine that improbably becomes a champion contender.

When Gong's old sparring partner sets a trap for Yuya, the only way Gong can save his friend is to forfeit his duel and get tossed from the tourney!

Best buddies and sparring partners, Vince (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar (Antonio Banderas) are a pair of worn - out, over-the-hill prizefighters who jump at one last chance to work in the big time.