Sentences with phrase «against a crowd of»

Up against the crowds of last season, the last three matches (including Chesterfield in the League Cup) stand up quite well.

Air Horn Spray Paint + Traffic Cone It acts as a really loud horn (so loud that Chuck has to cover one ear when he uses it) that, when used for an extended time against a crowd of zombies, will cause their heads to explode.

The various game modes pit groups of 6 - 20 players against each other so more skilled players will be able to get more kills and score more points even against a crowd of newbies.

You can also improve barricades at the shelter entrance, or create machine - gun towers that are very efficient against crowds of enemies.

The Alabama police had used German shepherd dogs against African - American protestors (images of which were used by Andy Warhol and, more recently, Kelley Walker) but they also turned fire hoses against crowds of peaceful black school children with spray powerful enough to strip paint from a wall.

Police are on guard against a crowd of Brazilian supporters of a cause in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2014.

In this article we are going to list some of the skills that can really help you stand out against the crowd of other candidates (if you showcase those skills in action).

Not exact matches

The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin on Monday in which the crowd chanted «Paul Ryan sucks» and Trump railed against what he called «corrupt» media and a «rigged» election system — a frequent accusation the Manhattan billionaire has brought up without evidence.

If a lot of pixels are crowded against the right side of the graph, it's probably somewhat overexposed.

I'm personally fascinated by the growing and increasingly crowded market for portable power (myCharge is competing against the likes of Duracell and Hyperjuice).

Betting against price swings has even become one of the market's most crowded trades.

Having a solid understanding of what you own is a strong countervailing force against the crowd.

This is popular ply by the anti science / antievolution crowd, take a quotation by a reputable scientist out of context, or leave out the salient parts, and use that as a weapon against evolution.

In this polemic against the mass, the crowd, Kierkegaard could never be justly accused of parading a new snobbish aristocracy, a small upper - house of supermen.

And if all the generations that have lived on earth rose up and united into one crowd in order to charge against eternity and to coerce it also with their enormous majority, eternity splits them up as easily as the imperturbability of the cliff that, without moving from the spot, disperses the foaming surf, as easily as a storm wind in its advance scatters the chaff.»

How many of us are strong enough to stand up against a crazy storm of crowd - sourced bullying?

The scene was a very attractive one — this grandfatherly figure seated with a crowd of children gathered around, against the magnificent backdrop of St Peter's.

Later, «the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders... realized that he had told this parable [of the evil tenants] against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd [ochlon].

Suffice to say, there were plenty of eye - rolling, seizure - like eruptions in the crowd as people cried out and the exorcist confronted them, pressing his Bible against their heads, and demanding that their demons reveal their names.

The suffering which Jesus was to undergo, which was a result of many individual sins (the betrayal of Judas, the envy of the Sanhedrin, the cowardice of Pilate, the injustice of the crowd) was seen by the Son of God against the background of Sin itself as an assault on the will of an all loving Creator uttering it forth through his Word.

The exercise combines elements of a rite of passage with characteristics of an endurance contest, pitting attendees against overheated (or overcooled) auditoriums, crowded lobbies, middle - aged men who don't use Flomax, and small doorways unable to accommodate large crowds.

The NT is clear that the high priests riled up the crowds against Jesus, similar to you right now in claiming followers of Jesus would hate Jews.

In some families this prejudice against emigration in any form went back to emigrants after the political upheavals of 1815 and 1848, to the very scions of «our crowd» in this country.

Matthew Harrison Brady, populist icon, three - time Democratic presidential candidate, and leader of the crusade against evolution, arrives in Hillsboro to prosecute the case, where he is greeted by the mayor and a large, enthusiastic crowd singing «Give me that old - time religion.»

Then, after a few months, at best only three years, of a public career in which He was hailed by a crowd which proved fickle and had won the adherence of a coterie of men and women who did not fully understand Him, He ran afoul of the leaders of the organized religion of His people, was accused by them of fomenting rebellion against the civil government, that of Rome, and was crucified by the order of the local representative of that government.

In the holy irony of the gospel, the blood of forgiveness lands on the crowds who had spoken, even screamed with bloodlust against the Son of Man.

Place the wings on the grill, crowding them together so that they are all touching (this goes against the conventional wisdom of giving meat room so it doesn't steam ¿ you want them to steam so that they stay moist).

She called them «talismans against loss and forgetting» — the continuation of crowded lunch gatherings ringing with laughter and a reminder of companionship.

The aromas of dried rosemary, smoke and something akin to cheddar crowd and jostle against one another in the shiver - cool space, so concentrated that a visitor's Pavlovian hunger pangs war with a fight - or - flight response to such pungency.

The against - all - odds victory captured the imagination of the assembled crowd, which included the Watts, an Irish race horse loving family who had built a thriving whiskey distillery.

Gurriel tipped his helmet to Darvish, who he made a racist gesture against during Game 3 after hitting a home run off of the righty, but the crowd is not letting him off the hook.

The Colts» signal - caller continued to struggle with turnovers this week, and tossed two picks in an abysmal first half against the Saints, drawing a chorus of boos from a displeased home crowd.

To give you an example, I was at a third round replay in the 1959/60 season against Colchester United at Highbury that attracted a crowd of 63,000.

They then went on an unbeaten run of five games, all in front of their home crowd, before once again coming unstuck against Richmond, this time at Iffley Road.

«He has played against Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United in the FA Cup so has played in that big game environment, and for a big club in Leeds United so he's used to playing in front of crowds.

Some of the people crowding against the railing above the west end zone at Giants Stadium on Sunday hoped to catch the gloves and chin straps the players tossed up to them.

«If you know me, there wasn't any doubt that I was coming back,» said Rizzotti, who scored eight points, had five assists and battled head - to - head against former Olympian Dawn Staley of the Rage before an appreciative crowd of 8,676.

The lowest attendance for a game last season was against Fenerbahce with a crowd of 56,271, but according to the Metropolitan Police there were only 44,779 people at the game.

While Shea Stadium shook from the noise of 63,497 New Yorkers — an all - time AFL record crowd — who had come to cheer their town's only winning team against unbeaten San Diego, Joe Willie's arm was right when it had to be.

AFL: Undefeated NEW YORK (4 -0-1) got a bit of luck against the undefeated San Diego Chargers before a record AFL crowd of 63,497 at Shea Stadium when the Chargers» Dick Van Raaphorst missed two field goals, from 30 and 21 yards out, to preserve a 17 - 16 victory for New York.

True justice would be Bryan accepting this beatdown from Owens and Zayn as part of a long - con to get Shane into the ring so that Bryan could lay hands on the guy who has made his job significantly harder for months and months, and the crowd realizing through Bryan's actions that yes, it is Shane O'Mac who is in the wrong and is the bad guy, and Bryan, Owens, and Zayn deserve to be cheered for standing up against the injustices of their patronizingly paternal corporate overlord, but I'm also not going to hold my breath on the Right Story being told here.

are you ok with a LGBT crowd beating the shit out of Werdum with baseball bats, because they are defending themselves against his verbal assault?

Oklahoma City is doing exactly what road teams hope to do in the playoffs — quietly executing against a team feeding off the energy of its home crowd.

Arsenal's Europa League tie against Bundesliga side FC Koln has been suspended by an hour due to the «interest of crowd safety», according to the BBC.

Hope he gets his first hattrick against Liverpool in front of his home crowd...

That night, for a game against Reno, Huffaker, the public defender, took over the PA duties, announced the 24 - second countdowns in lieu of a shot clock (which Speed kept) and then used the mike to introduce buxom cheerleaders, infant ball boys, puzzled journalists and practically everybody else in the «crowd» who was breathing.

Previewing the game against burnley, Olly was given no chance on the ball and was over crowded, pushed, hassled, and bruised repeatedly, did nt expect him to score game by game but he had broken all barriers even in the face of critism (constructive or not) and with all the media nonsense and transfer talks and he stood tall (plus he the most handsome lad in epl, the GOLDEN MIRROR attests for that).

Neither team will want to lose or give an inch, of course, but the Scots will be roared on by a vocal and fierce home crowd and if their qualifier against the Republic of Ireland at the weekend was anything to go by, there will be many a hefty challenge flying in.

There is a sudden sharp, clean crack of bat against ball and a throaty roar from the crowd.

Waited about 3 months then signed him from Newcastle for # 47,500, played his first game the following Saturday against Leicester City reserves in front of a crowd of over 11,000 and made his debut for the first team the following week against Bolton, beat them 5 - 1, George scored two goals.