Sentences with phrase «against early exits»

Which is why it's encouraging that many prominent voices in the entrepreneurial community are taking an aggressive stance against early exits.

Not exact matches

And the dollar is also up against currencies from South Africa (another commodity proxy) to Indonesia (which cut interest rates earlier and suffered a terror attack), Turkey (more terror attacks and political instability) and the U.K. (fears over it exiting the European Union).

With England leading against Slovenia in Port Elizabeth, the Americans knew they needed to beat Algeria to prevent an embarrassing early exit.

Antoine Walker took his game into the paint and gave Boston an early edge over the 76ers The experts were sure the Celtics were going to make a quick exit in the playoffs, and the reasons were obvious: Power forward Antoine Walker would hoist too many three - pointers; he and three of his fellow starters had no postseason experience; and their first - round opponents were the Eastern Conference champion 76ers, who had gone 10 - 2 against Boston over the past three seasons.

It has been a painful time as we agonise over the mistakes made against Monaco that leave us teetering on the brink of yet another early Champions League exit.

Both clubs made early exits from the Capital One Cup — Arsenal losing to Southampton, after United were thrashed by MK Dons — while the North London giants face the ominous task of trying to overturn a 3 - 1 deficit against AS Monaco in the Champions League second round clash.

The Three Lions crashed out at the group stages at the 2014 World Cup as back - to - back defeats against Italy and Uruguay followed by a disappointing goalless draw against Costa Rica resulted in an early exit from Brazil without a win and just one point on the board.

Led by top NHL goal scorer Alex Ovechkin, the Capitals go into their first - round series against the Columbus Blue Jackets having won 12 of their final 15 games and feeling confident about this spring despite a series of early playoff exits.

The Miami Heat will open their title defense against one of the squads looking for revenge for an early playoff exit — except this time the Bulls will likely have Derrick Rose.

And a confidence destroying early exit against an unfancied club would have been nice as well but we can not always get what we want.

But where as against Bradford, and Nottingham Forest earlier this year, Arsenal exited the competition after losing, yesterday we scrapped through.

Even at this early stage in the season, however, you feel that anything less than three points against the Royals will see him nudged just a little further towards an untimely exit from Villa Park.