Sentences with phrase «against scores of»

This means that even if your objectively measured raw score is high, it still may be considered low, when measured against the scores of other test takers.

This language appears to be an attempt to head - off arguments like those made by EFF and others in some of the other massive copyright infringement actions against scores of anonymous defendants.

GameSpire's free - to - play title is an area shooter which thrusts players into heavily armed vessels and pits them against scores of other pilots from around the galaxy over an internet connection.

Most missions will have you facing off against scores of enemies, as you attempt to carve your way through the level — and to the boss awaiting you at the end.

Not exact matches

They analyzed 20,858 transcribed B2B sales call recordings against a sales - specific dictionary, ranking every word, sentence, and overall conversation with one of the following «sentiment scores» ranging from Very Negative at minus - two up to Very Positive at plus - two.

His collection of insights, spread out over 200 pages and padded with a few score - settling attacks against specific bloggers might be lightweight, but that's not to say he's always wrong.

The 45 - year - old is, of course, referring to the jaw - dropping volley he scored against Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 Champions League final at Hampden Park in Scotland.

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

In the first quarter of the Cleveland Cavaliers» nationally televised game against the Philadelphia 76ers, James split a pair of defenders and then scored, while also drawing a foul.

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

In September 2013 he scored a guaranteed purse of $ 41.5 million for a bout against Saul «Canelo» Alvarez.

To develop your credit score, FICO analyzes your debts against your limits, your history of on - time and late payments, the number of accounts you have, the various types of accounts you have (such as revolving, installment and so on), the length of your overall credit history and the amount of new credit you've been applying or.

Both the Eagles and Vikings scored three times in a row in their games last weekend, but we're betting against the trend this time around because I don't think there's going to be a ton of scores in the game in the first place.

While largely still on the defensive, another one of Murdoch's British papers, The Sun tabloid, scored one point Friday against former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who had accused the paper of obtaining confidential medical files on his younger son, who has cystic fibrosis.

So if the emotion of the score isn't matching what's happening on screen, or playing against it if necessary, then it kind of falls flat.»

Darren Mattocks of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC celebrates after scoring against the Colorado Rapids during their April 5, 2014 game.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against Equifax, Inc., TransUnion, and their subsidiaries for deceiving consumers about the usefulness and actual cost of credit scores they sold to consumers.

TD Ameritrade was evaluated against 23 others in the 2011 Barron's Online - Broker review, March 14, 2011, and was named «Best for Options Traders», and one of the «Best for Long - Term Investing» (sharing the highest score with one other broker).

Figure 2 plots the G - SIB score against exposures, the measure of size used in the calculation.

After the report, more women came forward with similar allegations against Conyers, and scores of his Democratic colleagues called on Conyers to step down.

If you have a good VantageScore ®, you're likely to have a good FICO ® Score, because both consider the same factors: Payment history: your record of on - time payments and any «derogatory» marks, such as late payments, accounts sent to collections or judgments against you.

For example, a borrower with two 30 - days - late payments will be scored against a similar population of borrowers.

We also scored the excellence award for best Fintech Place to Work, against a strong field of finalists.

In the remainder of my talk today I would like to set out in more detail how Australia stacks up against the above list, starting with the ten factors on which we receive a very high score, and following roughly the same order as in the list above.

So for this version we are going to discount monthly search volume by multiplying is against the inverse discount rate of the competitive scores (1 minus the competitiveness index percentage).

Fitbit scored a victory in a trade dispute against Jawbone this morning, with a judge ruling that some of the Jawbone patents at the heart of the dispute were invalid.

Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Utah and Vermont were the overall five happiest states, while the cities of Beaumont, Texas; Albany, Ga.; Texas City, Texas; Shreveport, La.; and Monroe, La., were officially deemed the saddest — though the researchers noted the use of profanity counted against the cities» scores.

The Wanderer cheers the Texas lawyers on, apparently in the hope of scoring a blow against their old adversary, the NCCB and USCC.

The likelihood of there being a god is as low as Germany scoring five goals against Brazil in the first 30 minutes of the World Cup.

«The Bishops of England and Wales appear to have scored a point in their mean - spirited campaign against Catholics who use the old Latin liturgy.

Yet Paul goes on to give scores of specific warnings and judgments against all kinds of unacceptable behaviour: impurity, jealousy, strife, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing and the like (Galatians 5: 19 - 2l).

And what point does James Barr score against the canonical method by telling us (in the text, not the notes) that Childs» indices are so poor that «the name of Karl Barth (or, indeed, my own) is cited in the text at numerous places which have been overlooked in the index»?

Drawing on decades of hard work and experience, and working through scores of not - quite - right combinations, Apel eventually wins the race against his peers and goes on to produce one of the most successful men's fragrances ever.

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

In what follows I will not attempt to answer his arguments in detail, still less to score points against him; the matters we are concerned with are too difficult and too crucial to admit of such treatment; I shall therefore merely try to indicate where and why I still venture to differ from him.

Midgley is not hostile to religion and scores points against scientists and others who think that theology has not changed since the condemnation of Galileo.

While guarding against nostalgia for what was, after all, a terrible time, she fondly recalls the score - keeping discussions her parents conducted with Frankfurter and Isaiah Berlin: «We all knew who the friends had been — but oh the guffaws and acerbic dismissals of the enemies: the appeasers, the reactionaries, the anti-Semitic Jews, the isolationists.

Threats by Muslim extremists against Coptic Christians in the past year have forced scores of Christian families to flee their homes in Dahshur and the Egyptian border town of Rafah.

Raskin also reported that not one story coming out of the six - week conference dealt with UNESCO's battle against illiteracy, its development of alternative energy sources, its educational programs for scientists and engineers, its basic research into food production, and scores of other accomplishments during 1980.

It may do this by endeavormg to persuade men that the order which is in effect has divine sanction, by threatening all protests against it with supernatural punishment, and by scores of other more or less creditable devices.

While Carl E. Olson needs to rethink a few details in his revisionist account of the history of dispensationalist thought» including the role of Fuller Seminary» he does score some interesting points against the movement's popularizers.

Just so you know when I wrote «interesting» above I genuinely was interested in having a talk with you, there was no intention of malice or mischief or scoring points against you.

Harvey W. Wiley, the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration, was against using the preservative, citing scores of health complications it could cause.

SAN FRANCISCO — Misconceptions about California wines were shattered four decades ago in Paris when two of the state's wines — Stag's Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon and Chateau Montelena Chardonnay, both vintage 1973 — earned top scores in a blind tasting against the finest French wines.

For participants who have self - assessed their operations against the 227 best management practices in 14 areas from the Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Self - Assessment Workbook, the 2009 report indicates that a majority of the 227 practices showed an improvement in average self - assessment scores since the 2004 report.

Figures reveal Robert Parker's declining influence on Bordeaux wine pricing: Such is Parker's present effect on the Bordeaux market that The Wine Investment Fund uses his scores as one of three pillars by which it measures the relative value of one wine against another...

The country's diet quality was given a rating of 61 on a 100 - point scale when assessed using the CSIRO Healthy Diet Score — a scientifically validated survey which assesses people's diet quality against the Australian Dietary Guidelines.

Last game he played against Parma he battled like mad in winning the ball, running with it half of the pitch and in the end scoring a goal by beating the keeper in a cool way.

So yet again Arsenal have failed to score again, but at least this time we can say we didn't score against Barcelona instead of saying Hull City, Southampton or Stoke!

We need a keeper that is dominant in our box... he needs to come out and collect crosses on a regular with real authority because lots of teams target set pieces or crosses from wide to score against us