Sentences with phrase «as a contest after»

Indeed, the game was effectively over as a contest after the Londoners nicked two early goals.

The game was almost over as a contest after just 20 minutes when...

Not exact matches

As umpire John Hirschbeck himself explained in an interview after the controversial game — the only World Series contest ever to end on an obstruction call — intent does not matter:

After explaining how Elijah (the captain calls him Isaac), as «the only Presbyterian», challenged all the prophets of Baal to a contest to see whose God could cause an altar to ignite, the captain turns to the contest itself, beginning with the prophets of Baal:

But as you can imagine, many marshmallow enthusiasts were left without boxes after the contest, so General Mills decided to up the ante.

«When Tossed announced the salad contest, I was inspired to enter because I thought that this would be a great opportunity to create a healthy and enticing salad named after LAUP and to help raise awareness of our wonderful non-profit organization, as well as recognition about our participation in next year's 2013 L.A. Marathon,» Andrade says.

After adding a few filters to Bet Labs, we found that all favorites had gone 76 - 63 ATS (54.7 %) in MNF contests as opposed to the 49.1 % win rate for all other favorites over that time.

Arsene Wenger was very clear in his comments after the West Brom v Arsenal game on New Years Eve that Mike Dean had made a grave error in awarding the Baggies a penalty in the dying minutes of the 1 - 1 draw, but after telling us all that he was going to contest the charge it now appears that he has admitted that he was guilty as charged.

Ross's hands are clearly not as big as Vince Carter or Jason Richardson, the two guys who really repped the Eastbay in the dunk contest (after Kobe Bryant, who didn't do it the same justice).

After a tumultuous couple of years, Colorado hired a happy warrior, Dan Hawkins, who favors offensive pyrotechnics, a splash of Zen and player contests, such as belly sliding in the snow

As usual, Holyfield trained as though he were about to enter a bodybuilding contest, right after a title fight, just before competing in a triathloAs usual, Holyfield trained as though he were about to enter a bodybuilding contest, right after a title fight, just before competing in a triathloas though he were about to enter a bodybuilding contest, right after a title fight, just before competing in a triathlon.

It appears that Alexis Sanchez is pretty much doing whatever the hell he likes at the moment, as after he insisted on coming out for Arsenal in the second half at West Brom against the wishes od Arsene Wenger and the advice of the Arsenal medical team, he has now taken his injured ankle off around the world to play for Chile in what will be a fiercely contested World Cup qualifier against Argentina.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

After Vick and others were convicted on federal charges of trafficking and sponsoring fighting dogs, Jonny won a Most Beautiful Dog in the Country contest in 2012, had a Gund plush toy created in his likeness and last week was recognized for his work as a therapy dog with a new award: ASPCA Dog of the Year.

Though the game already looked over as a contest, Messi made sure of things by making it a brace just after the hour - mark.

Spanish newspaper AS reported that Iniesta is expected to announce his future after Barcelona contest the Copa del Rey final against Sevilla in Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano on Saturday evening (3.30 am kick off Sunday morning Hong Kong time).

FORMER Chelsea and Tottenham boss Andre Villas - Boas will contest the Dakar Rally in 2018 after quitting as manager of Chinese side Shanghai SIPG.

The hosts equalised after 68 minutes when Brighton backed off Shaqiri on the edge of the area as the Swiss placed a low shot into the bottom left - hand corner of the goal, the first time he has scored in back - to - back league contests.

Indeed the match was put to bed as a contest soon after the interval as Eto'o completed his hat - trick, tapping in from close range after woeful defending by United at a corner.

After a Super Sunday in which the top four Premier League sides battled it out in fiercely contested games, as they looked to gain superiority over their closest rivals, all eyes were on the top marksmen to deliver for their respective teams.

It was a disappointing defeat as Blackburn were on a high themselves after afive match unbeaten run consisting of a couple of decent results against the two teams currently contesting the league, Chelsea & Manchester United.

The Trotters hold fond memories of their last visit to St Andrews, but they'll be hard - pressed to repeat the trick not even a month after they were last in the Midlands contesting a fixture with the Blues, that despite Birmingham's recent slump in form, as Bolton's record on the road in the Premier League this season has been woeful, and even more so since the turn of the year.

Egypt will contest the final of the African Nations Cup on Sunday, overcoming Burkina Faso in an extraordinary penalty shoot - out as their semifinal finished 1 - 1 after extra time.

It was the contest that the Stamford Bridge crowd in attendance deserved, as a somber remembrance for Wilkins after his shock death this week was proceeded by a quality contest from both sides.

A half time scoreline of 5 - 1 didn't so much reflect badly on Fulham as it did well on Chelsea; the visitors had been the better team up until the moment they took the lead, but Morris» youngsters simply went up through the gears after that, and the game as a contest was well and truly finished.

Liverpool have lost their second friendly contest of the summer after Italian side AS Roma defeated them 2 - 1 on the night.

While United did go into the contest as the form team after winning five on the bounce, but their recent record in the Manchester derby was a definite question - mark.

Britain's six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir contests five events in Rio and the wheelchair athlete remains on the hunt for a podium place after finishing just outside the medals as he defended his T54 1500m title.

Arsenal were level 1 - 1 at half - time but three second half goals in the space of ten minutes after captain Laurent Koscielny limped off with a hamstring injury, effectively ended the tie as a contest.

Even in defeat, as rare as those occurences have been, Bolton have been pleasing on the eye and were even unfortunate; a red card to influential and much sought after centre - half Gary Cahill scuppering their chances of grounding a point out of their away contest with Arsenal when the score was level at 1 - 1, while they had several penalty appeals turned down before seeing Maxi Rodriguez toe - poke one underneath Jussi as Bolton suffered their second undeserved defeat of the season.

The hurt of the undeserved elimination will sting for a while, as the sluggish first - leg performance will creep into the Juventini minds even more so after their heroics in the return contest.

However, there are also some positives as Arda Turan has recovered from the knock he sustained during a training session in the buildup to the contest against Valencia while Jasper Cillessen is also deemed fit enough to travel with the squad after recovering from an ankle injury.

But as the German champions pressed for the second that would have turned the heat on Luis Enrique's side, Barca pounced at the other end to kill the contest after 14 minutes.

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The two men were never seen as close, after a hard fought leadership contest saw Huhne's camp dub his opponent «Calamity Clegg».

A development happening weeks after Zanetor won her bid to contest the Klottey Korle seat of her father's party the ruling NDC, it appears to have been in the works for some time now, as a facebook post by Mr. Mensah in the week in which the suit was filed suggested

After deciding not to contest the Dome / Kwabenya seat in 2012, many saw that decision by the Political Scientist who is also a legal luminary as the right opportunity to prepare himself for the Speaker position if the NPP wins power.

However, after Conservative MP Ian Gow was killed in 1990 — the last serving MP to suffer such a fate — the main political parties contested the by - election in his Eastbourne seat as normal.

After analyzing the circumstances that led to his loss in the election, he decided to contest the Korle Klottey seat as an independent candidate.

12 of the Presidential hopefuls in the 2016 elections were Monday disqualified by the Electoral Commission after the commission okayed just four as fit to contest the race.

After the policy forum election debacle, the NEC threat to Dan Jarvis is the second time in as many months that it has changed the rules midway through a contest to nobble a candidate it didn't like.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

Conference will be extremely important as the new leader seeks to unite the party (and possibly the Miliband family) after the contest and start to build a new team to take on the coalition.

It's a deft bit of deflection for the NRCC, considering the GOP's own messy primary process has produced Donald Trump as its likely nominee after the party initially appeared close to a contest convention of its own.

After a hotly contested campaign, the Congressional race in the 13th District, which is comprised of Northern Manhattan and a portion of the Bronx, finally reached the end of its road as the Democratic Primary was held this past Tues., Jun. 24th.

New York State has a slew of fascinating congressional races, from sure things for one party that will still bring a new face, like the contests to replace Charlie Rangel in CD13 after nearly fifty years or Steve Israel in CD3, to a bunch of races that could unseat young representatives and flip seats, such as Republicans Lee Zeldin on Long Island (CD1) and Elise Stefanik (CD21) or Democrat Sean Maloney (CD18).

For example, Indira Gandhi didn't enter the Indian National Congress party leadership contest until two years after her father's death and we are yet to read it anywhere that Rajiv, his son, was involved in any «Deception Campaigns» before he was appointed as Prime Minister on October 31, 1984, following his mother's assassination earlier in the day.

Three hours after the result was finalised, David Cameron was announcing his intention to stand down as prime minister, triggering a brief but tumultuous Tory leadership contest.

If Miliband becomes prime minister after the 2015 election (as he remains favourite to do) there won't be an election contest for many years.

Shekarau in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday said: «As you may be aware, for quite some time now, since, after the 2015 general elections, there have been various calls made by individuals and groups from many quarters, nationwide, urging my humble candidature for the contest of the presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the next general elections, due in 2019.