Sentences with phrase «already lost the battle»

But if the Avengers have already lost the battle, how can they make a comeback?

There is, of course, something else to be said, which does seem powerfully to bear out the defeatist conclusion that we have already lost the battle for traditional marriage.

To hell with Wenger and his economic policies, i think he has already lost the battle to land the title for Arsenal.

It doesn't matter what YOU think about gay marriage, amigo, since you've already lost the battle in NYS.

What really «gets» me is that these guys are still insulting, hiding code and data, and generally still fighting the already lost battle.

If you don't know that answer, and can't find it within a minute, then you have already lost the battle.

If that's the only way we're getting our kid's attention, then we've already lost the battle.

If that hiring manager has to wade through tons of content that mean nothing to them to find what does, you have already lost the battle.

When this happens, you have already lost the battle.

are going to come your way, then you have already lost the battle.

This is moving FAST, and it appears we have already lost the battle on the Property Transfer Tax increase!!!

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Because if your good people and loyal knowledge workers are seeing any of these eight toxic habits in action (the first four are about management; the rest are about the workplace), the leadership battle at the top may already have been lost.

Thankfully, you have already lost that battle as public opinion now reflects a more loving and supportive society.

Besides, hasn't the battle to defend the unborn already been lost, and the effort to preserve traditional marriage headed for defeat?

A long, honest look and conversation with the man in the mirror may help you see the beauty of the process, remember yourself in the chaos of your internal battle (sometimes we lose ourselves this way — kind of like not seeing the forest for the trees), and discover the blessing that you are, in the way the people your life touches already feel you are.

If it comes to fighting the battle is already lost.

Saul, now a pathetic figure, fighting a battle already lost in his own mind, persuaded that from the narrow circle of family out to the broad circle of the world, everyone is against him; seizing gratefully upon the offer of the Ziphites to surrender David to him:

By the end of the 1920s, when Carl McIntyre left Oklahoma to enroll at Princeton Theological Seminary, most of the battles for denominational control had already been lost.

I think we've lost the battle already.

A trade would involve the Angels eating a whole lot of Hamilton's salary, but they're already on the hook for all of it unless they want to try and fight a battle (they would likely lose) against the MLB Players Association.

Butland has even been reported in the Manchester Evening News saying that he is flattered by the links to City, so is this one transfer battle that Arsenal have already lost?

When you're trading half your roster and all of your assets for a superstar that A) doesn't want to be there longterm, B) is recovering from a potentially chronic injury, and C) has never won an MVP... maybe fighting that battle means you've already lost the war.

We seem to be losing the psychological battle already and yet we are the better team.

Stoke City are already braced to lose their biggest three stars this summer, whether they win their battle to stay up or not.

The Reds are already reeling from a run of bad results that have seen them get eliminated from the FA Cup and League Cup, as well as lose to relegation battling Swansea City.

One of the leading doctors» groups fighting the government's NHS reforms has sought peace with Downing Street, in a sign that the battle against the bill may already be lost.

«I just think they're refighting an old battle that they've already lost,» said Michael Dardia, co-research director at the Citizens Budget Commission.

I'll always read things with an open mind, but if it as I fear it turns out to be a rehash of «more markets, more choice, and more outsourcing», it'll demonstrate that the Blairites in question have failed to learn the key lesson of Blair — that parties and movements have to adapt to changing times, not keep fighting battles which are already either won or lost.

«In this case, it will even be the decision of the majority and a losing battle already,» the Speaker ruled.

Megan Leavey, though, has already waged a losing battle long before its protagonist arrives in Iraq.

Barbera admits to losing out in the battle over The Walk, the Robert Zemeckis - directed feature about Philippe Petit's high - wire walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 — already memorably covered in James Marsh's 2008 documentary Man on Wire.

The thugs who sneer that the president is «one of those ac - a-demics who never served a day in his life» may lose the battle for the White House, but there's little doubt that from the start they've already won the war for narrative tone.

If an end user who is using a Learning Management System and eLearning tool finds it challenging to use the eLearning tool in the first place, then friction is already established and the battle of learning is lost before it has begun.

Their mantra as they walk in the door is, «Today, I'm going to control them, keep them quiet,» instead of, «Today, I'm going to teach...» The battle is already lost before it has begun.

Lost in the heat of battle around charter schools is the fact that Los Angeles Unified already offers parents a mix of school choices that the full board could coalesce around and expand as needed.

However, almost a year behind schedule, the Aakash risks losing the early advantage it once had, as there are already a host of tablet PCs battling it out in the low cost segment.

If you already let slip that your protagonist will lose this battle, what is their reason for continuing the story?

But I am beginning to feel that they have whole - heartedly lost the digital battle already.

Presenting a dispute between the two as a battle for publishing's soul is missing the fact that we already lost publishing's soul years ago.

By the time you saw the first signs of his illness, the battle was already lost and nothing anyone can currently do will prevent its imminent departure from this World.

It helped that I really disliked the first NSMB DS game, and NSMBWii was like a breath of fresh air that made me feel good about the series again, but between what I heard of NSMB2 and what I played of SM3DL, NSMBU was already fighting a losing battle with me.

Check out this post for all you need to know about it: updates to the Arena; new weapon skills; new options in Weapon Refinery; minor improvements for future Tap Battle events; improvements for Rival Domains; no more lost / reduced SP / EXP when allies are defeated in battle or if you're clearing a map you've already cleared; improvements to the tutorial and gifts to new players, andBattle events; improvements for Rival Domains; no more lost / reduced SP / EXP when allies are defeated in battle or if you're clearing a map you've already cleared; improvements to the tutorial and gifts to new players, andbattle or if you're clearing a map you've already cleared; improvements to the tutorial and gifts to new players, and more!

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Step into the opening battle of Lost Dimension, however, and you'll find it very similar to the ranged, semi-open combat of Valkyria Chronicles (or the seemingly already forgotten Natural Doctrine).

Back then, the former self - proclaimed «King» of the battle royale genre had already lost a shocking 78 % of its players.

As already discussed, supports are valuable characters and as such, letting them die would mean your team loses its form of sustain and without heals, it can be hard to win a drawn out team battle.

He was already determined to find the perfect composer for the project and one day heard the battle theme from Lost Odyssey playing at the Aniplex office.

This makes battles even more hectic than they already are, and gives you a feeling that you're never truly losing.

Now today, 2018 is critical and the next couple of years as well are far above «truly critical» tipping point of no return — that «battle / argument» has already been lost with the most likely outcome being inaction, denial and ongoing minimisation by those with the only institutional political power to engender change leaving nothing much more and a reliance on a forlorn unrealistic impractical hope» alone.

This one is a losing battle for conservationists with really only one possible way to prevent the coming waste of water as a resource: Buy and hold all the water rights in the immediate vicinity of Nevada and not selling water to the big business's that are already thoroughly entrenched in the area and selling only to the homes who install the more efficient water using devices.