Sentences with phrase «at least challenge for»

For Arsenal, my expectation isn't to win the title, but I would expect us to at least challenge for it, and we haven't... So from my perspective, his good years have earned him this one last year to put in a serious challenge.
It's been too long without a league and with our main top players refusing to extend their contracts for now (Sanchez and Ozil), we need to at least challenge for the title till the end.
The trio of fabregas, van persie and nasri should be good enough to at least challenge for the title, but we finished 4th again, a full 12 points behind United.
If a new manager comes along and wins the title right away, or at least challenges for the title, can you imagin what kind of stain that leaves on his legacy?
And with Swansea being the first of three EPL matches against teams currently in the bottom five, Arsenal fans can reasonably expect to be at least challenging for top spot by the end of the month.
Nearly no one (team, fans, media) was expecting something less than at least challenging for a tournament berth.
Furthermore, if we are just one or two players away from success, or at least challenging for the league, then why has Wenger been saying this for the last few years at least, with pretty much no improved results.

Not exact matches

The Tories are challenging her to pull the plug on the Liberals for blowing at least $ 585 million to cancel two gas plants for political reasons.
For some people, networking events are challenges and having at least one friendly face there can give them the confidence to network better.
I told him I was looking for an almost impossible (at least for me) challenge.
It may prove a challenge, but if you're still hunting and pecking, you could give this gadget a try so you can at least save face for your slow word - per - minute count.
Now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is here to stay for a while, at least, this challenge will come to a head in the form of the Cadillac Tax, as employers brace for a potentially drastic change in the way they offer benefits to their employees.
While working as a server, stability has frequently been a challenge for Ottawa resident Aaron Quinn, who spent seven years at a restaurant which expected him to work at least one «on - call» shift each week.
If you want to write a book, setting a Challenge that says you'll write for 2 hours a day will automatically trigger some progress and mental momentum, because you know that if you just do that over and over again, for six months, chances are very good you'll have at least a rough draft in place when you're done.
I propose to you who want to honor Thoreau's legacy, to develop your integrity, even if no one else knows, and to make our planet more tolerable, and to make yourself a leader of yourself, to reach your potential, to choose one thing you can do today that will challenge yourself to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, at least just for today.
which sounds like they're doing it for themselves and enjoying the change, at least after the initial challenge.
But what it means — theoretically at least — is that there is a lot more potential for posts on Medium to be challenged directly on the platform than there is for a newspaper op - ed piece to be challenged in the same way.
For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).
When I interviewed for my flight attendant position at Pinnacle Airlines in 2010, the hiring manager slid a piece of paper across the table and told me, as if issuing challenge, «That's how much you'll make in your first year» — a fairly cinematic way of telling someone their salary is $ 15,500, though at least she was candid.
The 15X macro was at least as challenging to stabilize, but yielded even sharper results for the small depth of field it supported.
It's not even a question anymore whether Faraday Future is challenging Tesla's design because the startup company has already made it clear in a teaser video released on Dec. 15 that its main competition for the FF91 — at least in terms of speed — are the Bentley Bentayga, Ferrari 488 GTB, and Tesla Model X P100D.
The paper's findings begin to challenge these thinkings — at least for the group of retirees in the study.
Beyond that, this blog is for you, the reader at large, and I hope that I can challenge and engage you to think about issues in different ways or at least get you to argue about my thinking on them.
To participate in the Iceland Challenge for Shelter, taking place in July 2017, each trekker must raise at least $ 5,000 for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation.
The biggest challenge here is that exchange rate volatility currently makes bitcoin a poor store of value, at least if your time horizon is measured in months, weeks, or even days, as it is for people who get paid daily or (bi) weekly and pay their rent or mortgage monthly.
Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.
We are looking for early - stage startups that are addressing at least one of the 9 financial inclusion challenges the Prize focuses on.
The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.
I'm sure it's not for the small talk, I truly believe it's a way to help cope, at the very least in a small way, with whatever challenge it is they're facing that has evoked either a negative reaction, or a reaction they're not used to.
This is a forum for, at least in part, debate and challenge of our views and beliefs.
At least for me, I introduce others to concepts they never knew existed (concepts that challenge you) but you add nothing beyond a statement that God doesn't exist (people learn nothing from that).
Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.
How else does it happen that the problem of the One and the Many, or any philosophical analysis of the meaning of God, is plagued, or at least challenged by a concern with its implications for a personal deity?
Some other orders may be more stable, but for some of us, at least, life in the Jesuits is more challenging and more congenial.
The result is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH FOR us instead of THROUGH us.
In this paper, I want to challenge this interpretation, because it is at least one - sided and this one - sidedness has some important consequences, both for the interpretation of Whitehead's philosophy itself and for the claim that this philosophy is a valid contemporary metaphysics, addressing all basic metaphysical issues in an intelligible war.
But thanks at least for having rational arguments, unlike some other mentally challenged individuals on this forum.
It becomes more of a challenge when it involves someone who is going to have gender reassignment and they can't take the dress off... they must live as a woman for at least a year.
For example, if leaders are learning from the experts in the field, they will be in a better position to challenge pastors to read at least one recommended book a year that will help them better understand the dynamics of abuse.
I don't see many other guys commenting but for any guys reading this, I challenge you to have at least three of Sonnet's recipes a week for a month.
But these perfectly crunchy asparagus fries are ready to take on the kid taste test challenge, as they combine two aspects in food that at least opens the door for kids to try and maybe even like -LRB-?)
As we always love a challenge, we got the idea to see whether we could make five different entrees (each suitable for at least two people) using $ 20 worth of proteins.
President of Layn Europe Luca Pennestri told FoodNavigator it can achieve up to 100 % sugar reduction in many applications, while for more challenging foods such as bakery and chocolate, Layn has a proprietary sweetener blend of monk fruit and stevia that can cut sugar by at least half.
Since I have been on a gluten free diet for at least 10 months, I took the gluten challenge.
I had a fight with my wife and I have been challenged to cook at least one dish for the family and friends on our wedding anniversary....
As for Giroud I hope what I'm hearing is not true.You get the feeling that once Lacazette starts scoring he just won't like it.He's also another overrated player who's also hear because of Wenger's kindness.Apart from the fact that he's good with his head I don't see the positives of keeping here and even Welbeck.We need players who can push Lacazette to perform and these are just not the players.They are more of rotation players.Do you think if Welbeck and Giroud were at top form they can challenge Laca at his best?I always laugh at our strikers though.On one hand, one doesn't fit our style of play but at least he can finish.On the other hand, the one who fits our style of play can't even score a goal.I can't believe we are joking with such a crucial role.I'm sick and tired of seeing average strikers in the club.It's been painful watching the likes of Bendtner and Chamakh already.Now I have to cope with this.
At least in this case, it was a challenge trade of sorts, with then -24-year-old Taylor going to the Dodgers in exchange for Zach Lee, who had lost his prospect sheen, so the expectation was there that both could be good with a change of scenery.
The 20 - year - old was in a good run of form before he was crocked following a strong challenge from Hector Moreno and is now able to put his full weight on his injured leg and is expected to be out for at least six months.
I'm not being unreasonable and expect a title every year, but at least be challenging seriously for it.
He was on for 30 mins did nothing at all... A decent manager would have sold him in June and put in a big bid for griezman... Too latr now... We need to spend at least half of this 200m kitty or we don't stand much chance of retaining third let alone challenging for more...
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