Sentences with phrase «against scrappy»

Mr. Ferrer lost a bruising mayoral runoff to Mark Green in 2001, and faced an uncertain bout against the scrappy Mr. Weiner; yesterday, he embraced a nomination that had eluded him in two previous runs for mayor.

You're up against scrappy, die hard players who see this as the biggest game of their season, if not career, whilst playing with team members who are finding it hard to get motivated, having just been battling it out with the likes of Real Madrid and Juve days before.

Jurgen Klopp's Reds (20 -10-4) head into their Saturday match against bottom - of - the - table West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns focused on their task at hand, but likely wary of a potential trap game against a scrappy but struggling West Brom side.

Championship Teams always find ways to win and despite Team Lalez's sloppy play in the first half, they found a way to win against the scrappy rookies, Team Levitan.

Not exact matches

Seeing as how we don't actually know one another and personal letters don't generate any blog traffic, I've decided to publicly air my grievances against you in a format that positions you as the powerful elite and me as the scrappy underdog willing to take you on.

The Three Lions seemed to badly lack some flair in their side again over this international break, winning 1 - 0 in scrappy encounters against Slovenia and Lithuania.

Fluked a win against Southampton and Sunderland with a scrappy penalty and offside handball goal.

We know how the scrappy veterans (much like Horford and Mook) can get away with punching, elbowing, pushing, stepping, grabbing against Gianni.

It was a tough, scrappy and nervy win against Newcastle yesterday but a win nonetheless.

The poor performances, the flirt with relegation, the scrappy and lucky wins against Bournemouth, Hull and Burnley will be consigned to history.

Huddersfield, Swansea and Newcastle were beaten in balanced games with the help of good individual play, penalties and scrappy tap - ins, but they lost to Bournemouth and drew against West Brom in games that weren't much different.

Sergio Ramos» headed goal secured Real Madrid a 1 - 0 win in a scrappy Liga encounter against Getafe at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez.

Anything less than Utd scoring 4 will be looked on by Wenger as a victory.Thats where we are now.A scrappy win against the bottom club after the previous two defeats tills you we are nothing more than average.Best thing to happen yesterday was Forehead getting injured we can only hope Santos and Ramsey get injured before OT

Everton kicked off their new season with a scrappy and unconvincing 1 - 0 win against MFK Ružomberok in the Europa League at Goodison Park.

In truth, it was a pretty scrappy game against Catania.

You always got the feeling that it would take a scrappy win in order for Spurs to stop the rut, having previously failed to win their last three matches in the league before Wednesday's 1 - 0 victory away from home against an always lionhearted Blackburn.

It started as a scrappy grass - roots protest movement against Trump, but now the so - called resistance is attracting six - and seven - figure checks from major liberal donors, posing an insurgent challenge to some of the left's most venerable institutions — and the Democratic Party itself.

Scrappy inexperienced Democrat running against an experienced Republican in a district with too few Democrats and too many Republicans.

You're about to see a manipulative film in which the scrappy underdog wins against impossible odds.

The cast works diligently, and Keener is scrappy but calm throughout, with a convincing naturalism as a woman with tremendous strength and a powerful belief in civil rights — at a time when most women were reluctant to speak out against political corruption.

Rebel General Leia (Carrie Fisher) is trying to protect her scrappy army, with pilot Poe (Oscar Isaac) trying against the odds to find a way to get them to safety.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has become a sports cult film of sorts — one of the best of the Frat Pack movies — telling the story of the scrappy dodgeball team at Average Joe's gym, led by Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), going against Ben Stiller's White Goodman and the formidable Purple Cobras from his Globo Gym.

Martin's scrappy set - up begins with the correct amount of misdeeds and mayhem, but 10 Cent Pistol is an example of how omniscient narration works desperately against the desired ambience.

It was a time of «seat - of — your - pants, barely - making - it, scrappy - renegade, throw - enough - stuff - against - the - wall - that - you - hope - something - sticks» filmmaking, and thankfully, we have Used Cars as one of the better examples of this short - lived comedy movement.

Fueled by a scrappy, improvisatory energy, this prison - set boxing drama pits a recently incarcerated heavyweight champ (Ving Rhames) against a yard favorite (Wesley Snipes).

«A dodgeball movie is uncharted film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film's writer / director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»

In the recent edition of California Educator, the California Teachers Association's bimonthly magazine for teachers, the union tries to explain to its members that the lawsuit is the work of the devil; in doing so, it manages to haul out every platitude it could muster from its amply furnished cliché closet, attempting to convince all concerned that it is a beleaguered but scrappy David fighting against a corporate Goliath.

You're no longer the scrappy underdog, making a name for yourself and earning the right to star in star in showcase events — ridiculous, Top Gear style challenges that pit you against trains, helicopters, and other unlikely opponents.

The anti-bourgeois us - against - them ethos of many of Kozloff's quotes gives way in the recent books to a nostalgia for the smaller, scrappier New York art world that de Kooning helped create.