Sentences with phrase «as the defence attempted»

The mention of her job and children came initially during trial, as the defence attempted to undermine her credibility in cross examination.

Not exact matches

The Boss has been tinkering with our formation a lot this season after opting to go with a three - man defence at the end of last season when we started grinding out wins as we attempted to return to the Top Four.

Southampton's Virgil Van Dijk was subject of heavy interest from Liverpool over the summer, with the Reds even failing in their attempts to sign the Dutch international as per the Express, however it now seems Man City are set to put their hat in the ring as they attempt to sure up their defence.

22 attempts and 8 on target... Oh please, please someone enlighten me as to why we do nt need another CF and how Giroud is a good one when he got bullied by a 16 year old debutant who forced him to go out wide as a lone striker, That defence too my god people were talking about how Koscielny and Metersacker were the best pairing at Cb no were not... and today proved why there were a few times metersacker overcommited when payet was dribblng left a gaping hole in that defence and if westhams strikers were on the ball this would have been a much larger margin.

So for that unique reasons Mahrez will be able to attempt passes or use them as decoy and go on those maze running tearing appart the defence.

van Persie was showing his class going forward, and he rolled back the years, reminding Gunner fans of his compatriot, Dennis Bergkamp, as he attempted an audacious chip, that flew over the Bolton defence and keeper, but again he managed to find the post.

It happened in 2015 as Chelsea attempted that lamentable defence of their Premier League title under Jose Mourinho.

The game will more than likely take the form of attack vs defence, with Roy Hodgson's side setting up as a double decker bus in a desperate attempt to avoid another relegation scrap.

As Mubarak's defence now attempts to expose these interests, the SCAF is likely to respond forcefully, combining repression, diversion and media control.

She launches into a defence of government attempts to help small and medium sized businesses, selling the stabilisation of the banking sector as a means of assisting them.

Thus, when Rawlings and his colleagues staged another coup on December 31, 1981 and overthrew Dr. Limannâ $ ™ s government and established the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), Djan and another ex-AFRC member, Major Mensah Poku, went on the BBC African Service and condemned it as an â $ œunpardonable treasonâ $, and vowed to fight Rawlings to restore constitutional government to Ghana â $ œat the appropriate time.â $ They secretly â $ œmade various attempts to reverse the Rawlings illegalityâ $ without success.

Attempts by the prosecution counsel to further clarify on the matter led to a «technicality - battle» between the two counsels as the defence posits that the witness» testimony was not ambiguous.

If that were ever in doubt - or if anyone again attempts the «intellectual passing himself off as Bertie Wooster» defence - we need only consider his handling of the case of Nazanin Zaghari - Ratcliffe, an Anglo - Iranian dual national imprisoned in Tehran.

Shadow home secretary David Davis said: «As usual Tony Blair's attempted defence of ID cards has left us with more questions than answers.»

Attempts to portray you as «soft on defence» would be 25 years out of date: after all, where's public understanding of, let alone support for, the case for the surge?

What is clear is that Vince is determined to present an economically credible, progressive and above all distinctly Liberal Democrat economic platform — as the Tories test their coalition partner's resolve by attempting to legislate for crushing austerity in the next Parliament, his defence of a Lib Dem approach to economic policy will matter more and more.

But part of its motivation appears to be an attempt to draw some of the sting from Islamist terrorism by equating it with the work of anti-Muslim extremist groups such as the English Defence League.

He is overseeing a strategic defence review, attempting to reorganise the Ministry of Defence and dealing with a war that is close to having lasted as long as the First and Second World Wars codefence review, attempting to reorganise the Ministry of Defence and dealing with a war that is close to having lasted as long as the First and Second World Wars coDefence and dealing with a war that is close to having lasted as long as the First and Second World Wars combined.

«There is no target for government funding of R&D as a percentage of GDP, no encouragement for industry to increase its spending and no attempt to transfer funds from defence to civilian research.»

Meanwhile, Submission Showdown is the opposite to Stand and Bang as all punches and kicks are removed in favour of takedowns, grappling and submission holds, although in the scenario of neither fighter being able to make their opponent tap out, a tie - breaker is introduced for one fighter to lock in their hold, while the other fighter attempts to prevent the hold from becoming tighter with the tie - breaker then reversing roles in offence and defence until one of the fighters has successfully locked in their submission hold.

Fighternet provides a full overview of your performances and accolades in ranked championships and Ultimate Team throughout all 10 weight divisions in the form of KOs, TKOs and submission wins and losses, quickest wins and losses, alongside such statistics as the amount of titles won, longest defence, current defence, total attempted strikes and takedowns and more besides.

You'll need to deal with more difficult waves of loaders and defences as Claptrap attempts to open the door (and fails miserably).

If you don't know, in the Phoenix Wright series you play as a defence attorney attempting to prove your client's innocence by searching for clues and evidence and finding contradictions in the prosecutor's / witness» allegations.

As I've observed on multiple occasions, the Penn State Inquiry could have attempted a narrow technical defence — that, even if the allegations were true, there wasn't an offence.

In the full media glare, Bauer Media's defence of this case attempted to characterise its articles as true or as trivial or not likely to be taken seriously.

Any instruction of defence counsel attempting to balance the insurer's interests against the defended policyholder's interests is seen as an encroachment of the policyholder's rights — a reflection of the boundary - based American approach to contract law.

When defence secretary Michael Fallon complained in the Commons of lawyers making a «shameful attempt to use our legal system to attack and falsely impugn our Armed Forces», a columnist on the Law Society's Gazette went so far as to compare it to the shocking case of the murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

You should also attempt to manage risk via contractual provisions such as insurance, the right to control the defence of any claims, defined responsibilities, indemnification, and law of the contract.

The Lawyer describes Emily as instructed in weighty disputes, citing her recent defence of Barclays against a $ 240m indemnity claim by UniCredit, the major Italian bank, in respect of a sophisticated structured finance deal between the two banks and that she acted for the UAE's Crescent Petroleum in knocking out an attempt by the National Iranian Oil Company to challenge an arbitration award against it.

The appeals arises from attempts by Le Groupe Polygone Éditeurs Inc. to identify as part of their defence the confidential source used by Globe investigative journalist, Daniel Leblanc, in his stories in covering the scandal.

The board had a hard task as the defence tactic does seem to have been to sit back and make Mrs George prove negligence while attempting to frustrate this at every turn but the board seized on res ipsa rather than leaving Mrs George without a remedy.

The second and last day of the Competition Tribunal appeal hearing between The Commissioner of Competition and The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) wrapped up expeditiously Tuesday morning, as defence lawyer William Sasso made his closing remarks in a final attempt to induce the panel to overturn the previous tribunal's ruling.