Sentences with phrase «as a defeat for»

Sat side - by - side in the table, you'd be naïve to think that this clash was anything but a six - pointer — especially as defeat for either party could be accompanied by a spell inside the bottom three.

«I don't see this as a defeat for groups that are concerned about the environment,» said John Weaver, who advised former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman during the Republican presidential primaries in 2012.

Not exact matches

The company chose HPV for its flagship efforts, says Kim, because about 25 percent of women who get cervical dysplasia as a result of HPV have immune systems strong enough to defeat the virus without outside help.

Eclipsed in the popular imagination by Apple and battered by the earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand, Sony looks as defeated as ever, predicting another loss for this fiscal year, this time to the tune of US$ 1.2 billion.

Democrats grappling with the shock of Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump are also beginning to turn their attention to 2020, and pondering who could defeat Trump as he vies for reelection.

The US has never before pulled in as many stealth jets for exercises on the Korean Peninsula, and never before have those jets trained so realistically to defeat North Korea.

Failure can be taken one of two ways: Either as a catalyst for learning and doing better next time, or as the ultimate defeat you never let yourself recover from.

A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm's AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country.

The repeal followed a similar legislative defeat in Santa Fe, New Mexico earlier in the year and was seen at the time as a loss of momentum for soda tax advocates.

Many publications were still undecided on who won as of November 9; Maine newspaper The Bangor Daily News declared a win for pro-legalization folks, and the against side accepted defeat in the piece.

«In an unusual bullish move for the non-yielding safe haven asset after a rate hike, this can be entirely attributed to the aforementioned USD weakness, as Wilders» Dutch election defeat eases some fears of a populist European backlash.»

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

I was down after a big failure or humiliating defeat; I was searching for answers or a way to redeem myself; and as a result, my awareness was heightened and I was unusually open to change.

As a sole proprietor of a travel consulting service and as a free - lance writer, I can guess at some of the reasons for failure: Undercapitalization Undercapitalization Undercapitalizaton Oh yes, then there is the fact that lots of folks just don't have the entrepreneurial personality, that can come up smiling in the face of crushing defeats (ask any real estate agentAs a sole proprietor of a travel consulting service and as a free - lance writer, I can guess at some of the reasons for failure: Undercapitalization Undercapitalization Undercapitalizaton Oh yes, then there is the fact that lots of folks just don't have the entrepreneurial personality, that can come up smiling in the face of crushing defeats (ask any real estate agentas a free - lance writer, I can guess at some of the reasons for failure: Undercapitalization Undercapitalization Undercapitalizaton Oh yes, then there is the fact that lots of folks just don't have the entrepreneurial personality, that can come up smiling in the face of crushing defeats (ask any real estate agent).

I mean, we worked directly for the campaign, as indirectly, and we worked for a Super Pac in support of the campaign [called] «defeat crooked Hillary» was it's unofficial title or «keep the promise» or something.

Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

Trudeau's minority lasted as long as it did thanks to support from the New Democratic Party (in return for the implementation of some NDP policies), while Harper's was aided by disarray in the opposition Liberal Party — Paul Martin's resignation, a lengthy and divisive leadership convention, and the unwillingness of the new leader, Stephane Dion, to defeat Harper until the Grits had begun to reduce their party and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green Shift).

Thus the wage gains are from a one time energy glut brought about by increased supply from fracking, lower demand from a weak global economy, and some producers increasing production to make up for lower prices (not entirely self defeating as consumer nations expand inventories while prices are low).

«This is as Orwellian as it gets,» says Barbara Roper, director of investor protection with the Consumer Federation of America in Washington, D.C. «They will serve their clients best by defeating a regulation that would require them to do what's best for their clients?»

To many investors, visionary entrepreneurs come off as naïve or worse — isn't it safer / easier / more profitable to create a (nother) social network for cat fanciers than to try to cure cancer, defeat terrorism, or organize the world's information?

Millar stresses the periodic upward revaluation of gold as the mechanism for defeating a deflationary debt depression at the end of an economic cycle.

While Tory stalwarts such as Dave Hancock, Doug Horner, Thomas Lukaszuk, and Doug Griffiths are almost certainly in line to keep a spot at the cabinet table, the retirement and defeat of a number of Tory MLAs and cabinet minister may have opened spots for new faces at the table.

Now ranked as the seventh - best currency according to the global coin report, which is actually a defeat for LTC, Litecoin is still trading in the green.

Mr. Shariff was first elected as the MLA for Calgary - McCall in a 1995 by - election and served until he was defeated by Liberal Darshan Kang in 2008.

He first ran for the PC Party in 1993, first in an unsuccessfully bid for the party nomination in Edmonton - Glenora and then as the PC candidate in Edmonton - Highlands - Beverly (in the election he was defeated by his Liberal opponent, Alice Hanson).

If you went strictly by Stephen Harper's spoken record, he never resigned as Conservative leader after last fall's election defeat, and he's got no plans to do anything but carry out his full four - year term as MP for Calgary Heritage.

As well the owner might, considering that the ring is adorned with 124 diamonds, is valued at $ 25,000 and, most significantly to Kraft, symbolizes his team's triumph in Super Bowl XXXIX, when it defeated the Eagles for its second straight championship and third in four years.

By 2010, having suffered a stinging defeat in his bid for re-election as the Democratic governor of New Jersey, Mr. Corzine hoped to resume his career on Wall Street.

Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!

Yesterday, President Obama took to the podium and proclaimed, ``... we have always been and always will be a triple - A country,» and it sounded like empty sentimentalism from a man at a loss for words and for meaning» the kind of helpless, grasping - at - straws thing you say to a defeated friend you are trying to buck up, even as you know you lack the answers, or the resources, to offer either consolation or solutions.

I wonder what will the religious wackos believe in the future... and the mighty prophet Tom Cruise climbed to the highest tower and defeated the evil Tethans that were holding his virgin wife Kate the tall one and his reign lasted for a hundred years as recorded in the fragments of the magic blue disks written by Sony the inscriber... or... Frodo the saviour..

Their actual objective in pushing for creationism to be taught in schools as «to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies».

Around WWI (i.e. 1920ish), Britain agreed to split the land we know as Jordan and Israel today into two parts — an Arab state and an Israeli state — to reward them for their efforts in defeating the Ottoman Empire (re: Balfour Declaration of 1917 / Churchill White Paper of 1922).

For example, if as Matthew claims anything is possible with the Lord, then why couldn't Judah defeat the iron chariots when the Lord was with him (Judges1: 19)?

2) the question of «defining God» — if it is an entirely anthropocentric project (as you seem to assume)-- defeats the whole discussion for a transcendent being.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Today, no responsible historian considers Tet anything other than a colossal military defeat for North Vietnam and the end of the Vietcong as a major force in the struggle for Vietnam's future.

As St John Paul II said, war always represents a defeat for humanity.

In the Babylonian creation myth, for example, man was created as a kind of after - thought in order to perform the menial tasks, which otherwise would have been part of the responsibilities laid as a judgment on the defeated rebel gods.

If this end were acknowledged, then female warriors would represent the same tragic defeat for humankind as do male warriors.

As for the original claim of «It is no longer helpful to assume God is» kinda defeats the name of God in Exodus.

For Aunt Emily also shares Uncle Will's stern ethical humanism in its paradoxical regard for defeat as its finest justificatiFor Aunt Emily also shares Uncle Will's stern ethical humanism in its paradoxical regard for defeat as its finest justificatifor defeat as its finest justification.

As for moving to the Middle East, America is my country, and I will strive to get her back to God and defeat secularism.

These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

It begins at a Pentecost tournament called by Charlemagne, for Christian and Muslim knights alike, which is interrupted by the arrival of Angelica, a woman of astonishing beauty who offers herself as the prize to any knight who can defeat her brother upon the field of battle.

As Christopher Lasch also points out, new therapies» solutions are tautological, self - defeating to the extent that they advise people «not to make too large an investment in love and friendship, to avoid excessive independence on others, and to live for the moment — the very conditions that created the crisis of personal relations in the first place» (New York Review of Books [September 30, 1976]-RRB-.

For the true sportsman every contest is a new beginning: he carries no burdens of earlier defeat and wears no garlands of prior victory; he plays each game solely for itself, as if there were no othFor the true sportsman every contest is a new beginning: he carries no burdens of earlier defeat and wears no garlands of prior victory; he plays each game solely for itself, as if there were no othfor itself, as if there were no other.

Is it a problem, a defeat for our religion or do we discover that the interrelationship of people of different religious traditions is of benefit for our life as human beings in this global village?

All knowledge about death does not alter the fact that death is not a meaningful part of life and that there is nothing for us to do but to accept the fact of death; hence as far as our life is concerned, defeat.5