Sentences with phrase «against the weaknesses of»

I find that people who usually speak the loudest against the weaknesses of the flesh often have issues in those areas.

We've seen a rising client revolt against the weakness of billable - hour pricing; I think we might be on the cusp of a rising lawyer revolt against the weakness of billable - hour compensation.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Department of Energy has begged for new authority to defend against weaknesses in the grid in a nearly 500 - page comprehensive study issued in January 2017 warning that it's only a matter of time before the grid fails, due to disaster or attack.

That's good news for bullish traders, and a comeuppance of sorts for skeptics that warned against a market reckoning in the event of tech weakness.

LONDON, Oct 24 - The euro fell to a one - week low against the dollar on Wednesday after worse - than - expected German business activity and sentiment data fuelled concerns of weakness in the euro zone's largest economy.

Gartner noted that the weakness of other currencies against the dollar had led to price hikes in certain regions, leading in turn to fewer sales.

Renewed confidence in the European economy and persistent weakness in the dollar have driven the euro up 16 percent against the U.S. currency from the first quarter last year to the end of March 2018.

Elsewhere in forex markets, it's a relatively calm day, with a slight correction in the risk - off trade that we have been monitoring for weeks, as the yen is a tad lower today against all of its major peers, while the Dollar couldn't gain on risk - on currencies, despite the equity weakness.

BHP Billiton VP Huw McKay explains that, despite recent weakness, owing to slowing demand, and against most predictions, to date, the price of the steelmaking raw material is still up 31 %, having retreated from a surge of 52 %, after near - decade lows, in December last year.

It was also a big coup for Amazon since its one weakness against Apple and Google in the voice assistant wars is the lack of distribution on smartphones at scale.

Furthermore, weakness of the euro and the British pound against the US dollar, combined with market volatility caused by ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, presents managers with additional stock - picking opportunities in the region.

Baker expects that the weakness from the housing market, which is already spreading over to other sectors of the economy, will have an even larger impact in 2007 as consumers lose the ability to borrow against dwindling home equity.

Our exchange rate against the US dollar and the currencies of most of our trading partners has shown little net change over the past year, and the rise in the trade - weighted index in recent months has been due mainly to the weakness being experienced by the Japanese yen.

The US dollar's weakness extended into another month, making the US currency's performance against other major currencies over the first seven months of 2017 its worst start to a year for more than three decades.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

He belongs to our race, sharing our propensities and temptations, bearing our human responsibilities and enduring our human weakness; yet in him the sin of Everyman, the inward - looking self - centeredness which bars the way to communion with God because it tries to establish and justify itself over against God, is overcome.

A rehabilitation of the «orders of creation» must take into account its weaknesses and the validity of many of the criticisms leveled against it.

Ogden, while paying tribute to the constructive efforts of Bultmann, Bonhoeffer and Tillich in the fight against supernaturalism, nevertheless notes a fundamental weakness in them, namely, that «the conceptuality these theologians employ is insufficiently developed, so that what they mean when they speak of God is left obscure or uncertain or else their conception of God is still determined by the same metaphysical - theological premises by which the supernaturalism they seek to transcend is itself determined.

Walter Cardinal Kasper, who heads the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, put it very well last May when he said that the Catholic Church had weakened itself by «cutting itself off from its Jewish roots for centuries... a weakness that became evident in the altogether too feeble resistance against the persecution of the Jews.»

«Jesus chose the power of God's weakness over against the ultimate weakness of coercive human power.

Noni and all those who find themselves ostracised or slandered unfairly firstly God loves you and you are special to him you are his children his daughters and sons do nt ever forget that so you are not alone in fact you are the apple of his eye and he loves you.No matter what people say about you it does nt change the fact that he loves you and will protect you just abide in him he will strengthen you in your weakness.Never think you are alone we have the holy spirit and have other believers even though we may not go to church together we love the Lord just as much as you do which means we are brothers and sisters in Christ.Just trust him and take each day as it comes he promises to never leave us or forsake us.He has given us his strength in our weakness so that like him we are overcomers the head not the tail.Keep asking the Lord what it is he wants you to do and be obedient though it may be hard but in the end it will prove good for you for the Lord is for you not against you.regards brentnz

George Weigel defends the paragraphs (84 - 86) of the Synod report against «German spin» doctors; unfortunately, it could be said that his defense shows the weakness of the paragraphs and the document.

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

the power to give, the power to love, the paradoxical power of «weakness»... God's power is thus much greater than the compelling force of a tyrant who makes others submit against their will... his power is sufficient to transform a willful person from self - centeredness to love, without destroying or even violating the tender plant of freedom.61

Whoever not only says, but feels, «God's will be done,» is mailed against every weakness; and the whole historic array of martyrs, missionaries, and religious reformers is there to prove the tranquil - mindedness, under naturally agitating or distressing circumstances, which self - surrender brings.

Against the parching certitudes of Marxism - Leninism, Solzhenitsyn sets the sort of thinking that gives life — the affirmation, not of the idea of humanity and its destined perfection, nor of endless and irremediable brutality, but of the reality of the human individual with his simultaneous weakness and dignity.

One reflection of the movement's philosophical weakness was its prejudice against the scholastic tradition, at least in its contemporary guises.

An important aspect in the struggle against the unjust globalization is weakness of the poor themselves.

This was the secret of that moral energy which sustained the Republic in its material weakness against superior numbers, and discipline, and all the power of England.

Unfortunately, those Wesleyans who recognized the weakness of the social gospel in this respect tended to react against its passion for social righteousness as a whole and to interpret Wesley falsely as an individualistic thinker.

It teaches the wisdom of appearing foolish, the success of appearing to fail, the strength of weakness and the advantage of lying low, the benefit of yielding to your adversary and the futility of contention for power... if there is one book advising against the multifarious activities and futile busy - ness of the modern man..

The likes of Ozil and Ramsay are regularly slated by fans and the media when the real problem lies further back.Wenger has failed to address this weakness during the past 5/6 years and as a consequence Arsenal have become a laughing stock, a team which rarely keeps a clean sheet against even against mediocre teams with respect to Watford, Stoke etc..

Here we go again.Let us be positive going into our first match.So we were very wary of the team selection against chelsea but we came out strong.All this team need is total support from fans.I watched the Manu match yesterday we all saw some of their weaknesses considering how much they've invested the last 4 yrs.Players should judged based on their performances not on transfer fees.

Ozil and Xhaka should be left on the bench in view of their defensive weaknesses against a side like Man City who are likely to dominate possession.Mertz should not be played as he simply does not have the pace to cope with the Man City front three.This may appear a defensive line up but a similar strategy worked well against Chelsea earlier this season and may do so against the most impressive attacking side in the league.

However, looking at what Sutton is inviting the other team to do and extrapolating from that what his real fear is and what the real weakness of this defense is combined with the performance against Oakland shows that this is most likely not bad luck on 50/50 balls, but a true weakness that was desperately trying to be hidden by scheming.

The age and hunger of Tottenham's squad is one of its strengths, but it was also exposed as a weakness in the title run - in, when a lack of experience arguably cost them games against West Brom and Chelsea.

Allright firstly, we will talk about our lose to man utd... its no good we keep losing by team with most weakness defend... its hurt inside bit still has something we learn... it is the possession... we r winning too much possession against man utd, so we are first step on back to our beautiful way of play... and we are dreaming on that... we will back to those way and win games...

, repeating the same unsuccessful tactics year after year even though they carry the same weaknesses, can't beat poor United at their worst, strengthening the enemy with transfers... the list of transgressions this man has committed against Arsenal is growing & bordering on treason!

no sorry its not massively off form... its repeating the kind of form we have been seeing for years now which includes periods of good play, even excellent play, but with persistent weaknesses which wenger has failed to correct due to his own arrogance and the boards greed, and which lead to another empty seasons... oh sorry a welcome cup victory against hull city, replicating the success of wigan, and an amazing triumph in the community shield....

3 clean sheets on the spin is unusual for Arsenal albeit the average quality of the opposition.The real test will come against a Man Utd side with real pace upfront.With regard to the weaknesses in the side Xhaka and Sanches have been no better than average since the start of the season and do not justify their places.

The Chile manager already knew that Alexis was in a weakened condition when he arrived in South America but he played him for the full 90 minutes against Colombia, and despite his injury and weakness he still intends to play him this evening if there is any chance of him getting on the pitch.

«It's nice being able to do that during the week, studying the strengths and weaknesses of the players you are likely to be up against, how they play and how we prepare, what we can work on, on beating them.

City's weakness is counterattack that's where we have to hit them hard, defend well and with pace counterattack, we would need Wellbeck for pace and help out with defending against the likes of Yaya Toure our game plan has to be in the first 80 mnt play for draw then let loose.

«We know we're going to be up against a great team but they have their weaknesses and we're more than capable of beating them if we get our gameplan right and perform on the day.

But the lesson here is AFC need to buy top quality tall and pacy centerback and tall powerful dm to defend set pieces against the likes of west brom and sunderland next season rather than playing a striker who is clearly off form to compensate / cover such weakness.

Unfortunately, against very top teams, our lack of width becomes a major weakness for them to exploit.

Qualities: Giroud - Hold up (but not against top defenders Tery, Cahil, etc), short pass, hard working, team player, defensive duties (set - pieces), injuries Benteke - Hold up, short pass, better dribbler, long shots, finishing, positioning, defensive duties (set - pieces), can play with his back to the goal and also drop deep and face the goal when marked weakness: Giroud - very slow, easily marked, poor finishing (not wc finisher), technique Benteke - injuries, not a hard worker If you look the stats for the since 2012/2013, they have almost similar records except that Benteke scored like total of 19 goals (correct me if I'm wrong) in his 1st season and also have a decent record against top teams, keep in mind he plays for AstonVilla not Arsenal where you get much more chances and better players around.

Caroll had his 1 in 10 great game and it happened to be against us Welbeck was a little poor today Iwobi was not bad but West Ham hounded him and he struggled on occasions Sanchez can be stressful to watch sometimes, he needs to learn how to pass quicker and better and needs to learn to use his left foot Belerin is great but needs to learn to cross as his high crosses are just floaters, which are really easy to defend and very hard to attack Giroud bought some solidity that we needed Ramsey was ok, Walcott was his usual «meh» Hoping that the Arsenal players work on their weaknesses over the rest of this season and over the summer.

His strengths will be maximized and his weaknesses can be minimized RG — TBD, but whoever it is will be a stronger at the point of attack than Harris was and can't possibly be worse against bull rush, which was the root of all Harris» problems in pass pro RT — McGary is already playing in position.

kudos to AW: * fixed our weakness of not scoring from set plays, * now «does tactics»: high press against pool, * gets players to shoot more, esp from outside box.