Sentences with phrase «against challenging opponents»

It was a cracking week of Champions League action, with strong results again for the Premier League clubs involved, as Manchester United, City and Liverpool all won while Chelsea and Tottenham drew against challenging opponents.

Little gutted for Chambers I think he's had some great performances against challenging opponents like Aguero etc..

Not exact matches

Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.

His red card against Burnley was highly controversial, as he appeared to be on the end of a horror challenge from Ashley Barnes before being sent off for his reaction against the opponent.

And the key to challenging for the CL is to learn how to play against different opponents, passing the ball and keeping possession won't work when Flamini barely held his own against Norwich and West Brom.

But we haven't challenged for the PL title for many years, and these are the problems, that we seem to have constantly: 1) We are letting in too many goals 2) «Physical teams» often seem to be able to beat us 3) We always loose too many points in the internal games against top opponents 4) We always have too many injuries 5) We have many matches, where the team seem unmotivated for at least one half In a single match or even a few matches, you can blame individual players or even the whole team for problems like the above.

of course the games against stoke, leicester etc would have gone a long way to seeing us challenge for the title last season but for a long time now we've been labelled flat track bullies i.e we are generally very good at beating opponents outside the top six but our record against man utd and chelsea maybe even city quite recently has not reflected a team on the same level as those going for the premier league title.

It also came at a time, where it was clear, we yet again were not anywhere near challenging for the PL title, and the reasons for not challenging seemed to be exactly the same as in the years before; losing most games against the other top clubs, and generally using tactics, where many opponents relatively score easily, especially if they are a bit physical and determined.

Three of their four Premier League opponents were from the bottom half of the table, and Arsene Wenger's men weren't challenged in any of their games, except against Newcastle United who were unfortunate to not even recover a point after producing a stunning second half display.

Coming off two HUGE home wins against West Virginia and UConn the Pirates now travel to the Dunkin Donuts Center to take on the Friars who always challenge good opponents at home.

Needing a win to keep their small shot in challenging for German Bundesliga title, Wolfsburg were determined in grabbing all three points against their opponent.

Vitesse were this week drawn against Lazio, Nice, and Zulte Waregem in the Europa League group stages, opponents that pose fine challenges for all four as the season develops.

The challenge for Wenger, then, is to ensure that Arsenal have the crucial attacking movement from Ramsey without sacrificing defensive solidity against better opponents, such as Chelsea.

Alcantara won last year with just 32 % against the two opponents - turned - allies and Democrats see her as the most vulnerable to a challenge.

I have marshalled a considerable case against and see no worthy opponents from Labour have discounted them from being anything of a local challenge.

Now the Democrats have to worry about defending freshman Sen. Brian Foley, who is being challenged by Republican Lee Zeldin, and — albeit somewhat less so — protecting Sen. Craig Johnson against his GOP opponent, Jack Martins.

During a post filing press conference, Clinton declined to directly challenge the Democrats running against her — namely Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — but did sharpen the contrast with her stoutest opponent by repeatedly emphasizing the fact she is a longtime Democrat.

Teachout, accused by fellow Democrats of being anti-Israel when she mounted a surprisingly strong primary challenge against Cuomo in 2014, refused last week in a debate with her long - shot primary opponent to say whether she backed Cuomo's anti-BDS order, prompting a tough attack from national Republicans.

She is being challenged by her 2010 opponent, John Messer, (fixed), who ran as a Republican two years ago, but has since switched his enrollment and will face off against the senator in the September primary.

Ex-city Comptroller John Liu has let his legal challenge of $ 525,000 in fines against his prior campaign languish for at least 18 months — as he sits on a new campaign war chest of $ 444,000, his opponent charged Tuesday.

Schoeneman concluded, «This is the type of politics I have been fighting against and why I decided to challenge my opponent for the 10th district seat in the County Legislature.

Schoeneman added, «This is the type of pay - to - play politics I have been fighting against and why I decided to challenge my opponent for the 10th district seat in the County Legislature.

«The political consequences for challenging petitions — for bringing a ballot - access case against your opponent — has grown significantly, in terms of editorial support and claiming some sort of good - government mantle,» he said.

If you first face multiple opponents you easily beat, she says, you might be psychologically geared up to win again, even against a more challenging competitor.

They began by studying players» emotional reactions to a car - racing game, which showed that some prefer a leisurely drive against easy opponents, while others enjoy a stiffer challenge.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (CS: CZ), a tactical action game, challenges you to compete with and against cunning AI opponents in mission - based campaigns spread across the globe.

Being someone who has played PRO TOUR, this game is even more challenging than playing against other pro tour players sometimes when you are fighting against the AI unless you manage to draw a superior hand that plays out better than your opponent's hand does (which is highly unlikely, hence the number of losses you will experience even during campaign mode).

These challenges include basic races against computer controlled opponents, time trials, trying to overtake as many slow - moving vehicles as you can, outrun a persistently approaching wave of colour, collecting clocks before the time runs out, and elimination boss battles.

Well, in essence players assume the role of one of a handful of professional runners, with a fairly visually diverse selection at hand that all share the same base stats, and then race against either online opponents or NPCs across tracks that offer varied and challenging obstacles to overcome.

Playing against human opponents naturally offers a different type of challenge, but there's nothing here that hasn't been done in other recent iterations in the series.

As usual the game tries to mix things up with a range of deranged human opponents and boss - like «psychos» but the culture shock of coming up against an enemy that actually presents a challenge is often jarring, and humans encountered elsewhere on the map seem as curiously resistant to damage as the zombies are prone to it.

Gamers caneither play against the computer opponents or challenge four of their friendsfor some high speed racing action.

Working out where your opponent will hit the ball, his stance and where to return is a challenge, but the real challenge lies against your mates.

In addition to legal challenges, opponents of special education vouchers are beginning to advance political and educational arguments against the idea as new programs are being considered in states such as Texas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and the existing Ohio program is poised to expand.

As the courts continue to uphold choice programs, opponents will likely shift to using regulation to strangle choice programs and turn to more targeted legal challenges, like the DOJ's threats against Milwaukee's voucher program over special - needs enrollment.

(Teaching middle school, by the way, is even more challenging — it's like playing tennis against 30 opponents — each armed with a different piece of sporting equipment, and playing by different rules.

In order to advance, players battle in turn - based, head - to - head «match - three» style puzzle games in one of three distinct gameplay modes: Single - player allows gamers to battle against the computer AI as they embark on over 150 challenging quests, Instant Action allows gamers to jump in and immediately play continuous battles to level - up characters without participating in quests, and Multiplayer allows gamers to battle live opponents via wireless connectivity.

All matches are played against an AI opponent or you can challenge your friend's Ad Hoc or jump online and find a player to go head - to - head with.

Hone your skills against AI opponents, play with friends locally and online, and then challenge the world via the online league system, featuring an Elo rating system More Than Just Pure Pool!

The top AI players are pretty decent at what they do, but if you're a word puzzle aficionado you'll probably want to play against human opponents if you want to be challenged.

The game has a very limited set of single player functionality, a small number of challenge rooms that act as a tutorial and offering you a place to practice the mechanics, but the game is designed for online play against other humans and offers no AI opponents of any sort.

These challenges both involve a random bounty that has you completing specific objectives against advanced opponents with completely random modifiers on them that can make some rooms literal impossibilities to complete.

Scribblenauts Showdown will have: «Showdown Mode — Up to four players compete against each other in «Wordy» mini-games, which challenge players to outsmart their opponents using words from the

In addition to the standard deck building and ranked ladder matches, which allow you to climb the ranks monthly and earn rewards, the game also comes with challenges that'll test their skills in certain scenarios, akin to puzzles that'll have put on their thinking caps, and the Gauntlet, which is a sealed deck mode where players get to create a unique deck out of random cards and test their skills against other opponents.

Compete against opponents from around the world or race against friends in real - time challenges.

To advance their character, players battle in turn - based, head - to - head «match - three» style puzzle games in one of three distinct gameplay modes: Single - player allows gamers to battle against the AI as they embark on over 150 challenging quests, Instant Action allows gamers to jump in and immediately play continuous battles to level - up characters without participating in quests, and Multiplayer allows gamers to battle live opponents.

The final challenge has the player going up against a Totem Pokémon which is your classic Pokémon battle as you attempt to outwit your opponent.

Players can measure their tactical skills against several opponents in big multiplayer battles or against enemies in a challenging single - player campaign.

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Challenges are the main area of the game, these include Races (get from A to B faster than your opponents), Duals (where you race against one opponent), Road Rage (where you must take down a set number of opponents before the time runs out) and Stunt Runs (which basically comes down to you showing off by pulling outrageous maneuvers to beat the target score before the time runs out).