Sentences with phrase «against a couple of»

Like last year, they have a Win or 2 (at least) against a couple of the top Teams..

In their last two games against a couple of the league's most elite passers, they've held Peyton Manning and Rodgers to a combined 358 passing yards, while allowing zero touchdowns and grabbing four interceptions.

I mean, he hasn't exactly thrived so far playing in hand - chosen situations, so maybe throwing him into the deep end against a couple of the best is worth a shot.

Against a couple of teams he will score a brace or even a hattrick as a striker, then take 7 games to score again.

«I only know him really from the Bundesliga and I've played against him a couple of times in the Premier League as well,» Xhaka is quoted in the Independent.

Flamini as a decent cover for coq!!!!!! takes u in to a fantasy world that even the deep web couldn't replicate... I watched to prior games where he utterly failed to control his territory against a couple of mediocre teams..

So now they are off to China where we face Bayern Munich on Wednesday, and Chelsea next Saturday, and we will be hoping to continue our long winning run against a couple of the best teams in Europe.

And you can take all of these for a spin on an inch - perfect rendition of the Spa Francorchamps circuit on your own, against the improved AI, or against a couple of dozen friends in multiplayer.

The former has played against us a few times and I've thought he was pretty lively on every occasion, and the latter has won the League One title in the not - so - distant past, and scored a screamer against us a couple of years ago.

As I said, I think we started off looking good, but the lack of presence in the box (Sanchez was dropping deep too much, and anyway, he's not going to win many headers in the box against a couple of Huth - sized giants) meant there was something fundamentally off in our attack and we got worse and worse as the second half wore on.

All of which means that story number 2 about green tea improving therapy against a couple of cancers is TOTALL....

This way he keeps the viewer — and possibly the director — genuinely off balance, shimmying up against a couple of massage parlor cuties (he's clobbered by a baseball bat, departing consciousness with a lovely goofball pratfall), sussing out Martin Short's smarmy Dr. Blatnoyd (letting Short run circles around the infield, the receptionist, and a nice pile of medical - grade cocaine), or playing telephone straight man to Jeannie Berlin's Aunt Reet, a Catskills gargoyle with killer timing: «Maybe you're better off with the Nazis.»

As with You're Next, Barrett's screenplay moves quickly, the skills David picked up while serving coming into fast, impactful play against a couple of school bullies who have targeted Luke.

I'm so bored of people whining about Julia Roberts winning for a terrific star turn that happened to be nominated against a couple of other terrific performances by less popular actresses.

To find out the cost of credit card debt, I applied this debt example against a couple of debt payment calculators.

I did try out a pistol and a shovel against a couple of zombies, yielding mixed results.

That's what I've gathered from KX13 and discussions of it (especially John Nielsen - Gammon's), and I've been using it against a couple of «15 - year pause» parrots elsewhere.

What happened here is that plaintiffs won a total of $ 588,000 on intentional and negligent misrepresentation claims and then also obtained fee awards of about $ 270,000 against a couple of the tortfeasors.

This model will come up as a rival against a couple of other sports bikes, including the Suzuki GSX - S1000F and Kawasaki Ninja 1000.

Apple just showed off their all - new iPad Pro, and we wanted to see how it stacks up against a couple of the best current Android tablets out there.

We also tried out a side - by - side comparison against a couple of competing Android phones, and in addition, we've got a few tips and tricks to get you started.

We played a tournament against a couple of other schools and we became champions.

Not exact matches

In the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructure.

Its investment unit has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

The list includes a couple of the firms that shared in the windfall from holding out and litigating against Argentina.

The past couple of years have been marked by investor revolts against the level of salaries paid to top executives at some London - listed companies including Sky Plc and Pearson Plc (pearson - plc).

Deutsche Bank's investment unit, in particular, has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

In that case, according to the IRS, rental losses of up to $ 25,000 for single taxpayers and married couples filing jointly (and $ 12,500 for married filing separately) can be used against other types of income.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.

«This would give Russia the ability to deliver a guaranteed small - scale strike against a target of choice; if coupled with an ability to penetrate missile defenses, Moscow would also retain the option of launching a successful single - missile attack,» the Jane's Intelligence Review report said.

The loonie has dropped about two percent against its American counterpart since early January, mostly in the last couple of weeks.

A couple of years ago, Benioff famously went to bat against several state laws that would allow business to refuse service to people based on sexual orientation under the umbrella of religious freedom.

White Tale, coupled with other Clariant shareholders who came out against the deal, left the Swiss company doubtful of mustering the two - thirds support necessary for the merger to go through.

Some of the more paranoid or lawsuit - fearing companies in the U.S. require office couples to sign a wavier or «love contract,» vowing that their relationship is consensual and neither will take legal action against their employer (or each other) should the love prove less than eternal.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

As noted above, the final results for the previous fiscal year coupled with about six months of data for the current fiscal year are required before one can properly assess the current results against the latest official forecast.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

Hefty fines were imposed within a span of a couple of years against two corporations — in 2011, Niko Resources was fined $ 9.5 million and was put on probation for three years, and in 2013 Griffiths Energy was fined $ 10.3 million.

So, to get a secured credit card you have to put down a certain amount of money — typically a couple of hundred dollars — that you can then draw against when using your card.

WisdomTree's yuan ETF is heating up as investors start making bets China's currency is heading higher against the dollar for all kinds of reasons, the latest a couple of reports suggesting the Chinese government is ready to let its currency start rising again.

There was a couple years ago the Wyden - Bennett bill, which really did a version of that and employers were against it.

In 2008, we maintained a very concentrated SmartKnowledgeU Crisis Investment Opportunities portfolio allocated to just a couple of asset classes, and we ended up the year with not a lesser 20 % loss against the 40 % + losses of a diversified US S&P 500, but we ended up with slightly positive yield for the year.

It was not exactly a surprise — I was going up against a 10 - year incumbent and I only put a couple of months and a relatively small amount of money into the battle — but it is disappointing just the same.

With a couple notable exceptions, the consensus on the street appears to be that the single currency will rise to 1.25 or 1.30 against the greenback by the end of the year, supported by accelerating economic growth in the Eurozone and an end to the European Central Bank's (ECB) quantitative easing program.

To guard against this threat, I proposed a couple of investment restrictions for the JIRA that should keep the wolves at bay (see bullets two and three above).

The last couple of months have brought a string of closure announcements, including that of the Redcar plant in Teeside, a symbol of previous against - the - odds survival.

The lackluster employment report, coupled with the attack against Syria, helped push US 10 - year Treasury notes to 2.28 %, their lowest intraday yield of 2017, on Friday morning.

Be that as it may, the point of this talk is to argue against the proposition that a particular type of demand management policy was responsible for growth achieved over a couple of decades.

But how can those of us who love life fight against in - vitro fertilization clinics when those clinics give infertile couples (and those who have great difficulty getting pregnant) the joy of being able to have children?

You may be (as I am) against destroying embryos to use for stem cell research, but I bet you are delighted for the couples who get to have children as a result of in - vitro fertilization clinics.