Sentences with phrase «attack by a rival»

But a smart defensive strategy can be crucial to fending off attacks by rivals.

It was gathered that the clash was a payback attack by a rival cult group in the town as the group had lost four members during a clash on Friday.

In one of the two big action pieces, the Mexicans are attacked by a rival gang and John barely escapes.

Not exact matches

And those other workers, by the way, were already unionized, making it a sneak attack not just on the employer, but a rival union as well.

The 37 - page indictment issued yesterday by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller alleges that Russian agents used a multitude of tactics to attack Donald Trump's presidential rivals and sow mistrust of the American political system.

Escalating missile attacks on Saudi targets by the Iranian - backed Houthis threaten to detonate an epic clash between the rival Sunni and Shia alliance systems.

Though this assault was by no means launched, it reveals that tensions between rival cryptocurrencies might ultimately culminate in such attacks.

His prioritises are often scrutinised by the fans and media alike, and it's Kroenke's main shareholder rival, Alister Usmanov, who is at the forefront of the attack.

Our ineffective attack, injurys and collapse against our rivals cost us, take away the the drubbings and we have the best defensive record by a country mile.

Arsene Wenger and the lads have also answered a few questions and proved wrong some doubts that were being aimed at us by the football press, like when we changed tactics and played on the counter attack to win a game against a big rival way to Man City.

An attacking midfielder by trade perhaps, but he deserved to be compared with his greatest ever rival — Pele — and his successor as the golden boy of Argentinian football — Lionel Messi.

There is reported interest in Kagawa from a number of Bundesliga sides but the 24 year old attacking midfielder may be tempted by a move to another Premier League side, though one wonders if Man United would be willing to sell the former Borussia Dortmund man to a domestic rival.

The paper now say that Chelsea are under - pressure to go ahead to match or better the offer made by their London rivals, having lost out to Liverpool in the pursuit of Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and furthermore needing more attacking options to provide competition for new signing Alvaro Morata.

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Our options to sign this summer for an attacking role are slimming by the day, and it looks likely that two strikers we may have distanced ourselves from, Carlos Bacca and Vincent Jansson, could also be closing on moves to rival London clubs West Ham and Tottenham.

Another season on loan and if nothing comes of it he should b canned... But the bigger worry is that wenger actually believes he already has the attacking options to win EPL and challenge for cl simply by switching the whippet to centre forward... Need to get rid of Walcott podolski Ryo and Campbell bring forward two of the youngsters and buy a world class attacking option... We have progressed this season but partly because two of biggest rivals didn't... Next season more difficult and a serious manager would plan accordingly

Basel showed their class by beating Jose Mourinho's side in the group stage but, as City have shown domestically this year, they are far superior to their city rivals, with Guardiola's side a lot more fluent in their attack and continuing to play with real freedom right across their starting XI.

However, the Red Devils could still be rivalled by London giants Chelsea with Antonio Conte keen to add more options in his attack front ahead of next season.

Playing a crucial match against their direct qualification rival, Switzerland, Seleccao das Quinas immediately try to take hold of proceedings by putting in an attacking display straight...

With the arrival of Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang, the Gunners should have an attack that's good enough to compete with their rivals, as long as they are not constantly undone by the kind of naive and weak defending we've become used to seeing.

Footage broadcast by National Geographic showed a male penguin attacking a love rival, leaving them both bloodied and battered.

It could be viewed as an effort to one - up an ad recently released by Catsimatidis» primary rival, Joe Lhota, that stars Lhota's former boss, ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying his one - time deputy is a «great leader» being «wrongly attacked» with «false» and «desperate» attacks launched by his (unnamed) opponent.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Although Ms. Quinn didn't call out her rivals by name, in the original Times story, her campaign criticized Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, for having ties to some members of NYC Is Not for Sale 2013, the attack ad coalition.

The president said that the planned terror attack in Russia thwarted by a CIA tip could have left thousands of people dead had the US not given its rival the heads up.

After the mild - manned politeness of last week's debate - the party leaders were quick to go on the attack and Mr Clegg's policies were repeatedly challenged by his rivals.

Ahead by single digits in Iowa a day before voters head to the caucuses, Trump continued his attacks on main rival Ted Cruz who has accused Trump of being too liberal on social issues and too cozy with Hillary Clinton because of his «New York values.»

The tactic has been criticized by fellow members as well as good government groups and Ms. Quinn's mayoral rivals, who have been increasingly vocal in their attacks.

Queens voters need an accounting degree to make sense of Friday's dueling attacks by state Sen. Tony Avella and rival John Liu.

Stung by Carl Paladino's below - the - belt attacks, an angry Andrew Cuomo summoned his war council on Monday to figure out how to fight back against his slash - and - burn GOP rival.

She had witnessed male langurs attacking infants sired by rivals and leaving them for dead to clear the way for impregnating females with their own genes.

With its title tongue - in - cheekily evoking «I, Claudius,» another epic tale of madness and debauchery, the dramatic comedy «I, Tonya» revisits — with verve, intelligence, scathing humor and more than a touch of sadness — the bizarre 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by goons associated with the camp of Kerrigan's athletic rival, Tonya Harding.

And yet, despite those observable similarities, it was announced early last year that Margot Robbie would star as Tonya Harding in director Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya, a fictionalized depiction of the fallen former American Olympic figure skater who, in 1994, was connected to an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, leading to the totally frenzied and unjust trial - by - media of Harding.

She fell from that pinnacle when Jeff Gillooly, by then her ex-husband, set in motion a knee - capping attack at the US Figure Skating Championships on Harding's rival, Nancy Kerrigan, hoping to keep her out of the 1994 Winter Olympics just seven weeks later.

In January 1994, Kerrigan was attacked with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.

Ironically, that makes for a more interesting movie — the Watchers are by far the best Transformers ever put on film, and their defense of the Ark rivals the attack of the Ents at the end of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Thinking initially that the offenses are being carried out by rival Serbian gangster Papa (Bruno Ganz), Greven responds to Nils's attacks on minor henchmen with a preponderance of force, starting a gang war that lands Nils conspicuously in the middle.

She is infamous for a single, shocking act of violence — an attack, in January 1994, on a rival American figure - skater, Nancy Kerrigan, that was orchestrated by Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly.

The real life story of ice skater Tonya Harding's fall from grace and attack against rival Nancy Kerrigan is captured onscreen by Margot Robbie, Allison Janney and Bobby Cannavale.

During a practice lesson of the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, her glamorous, exceedingly graceful rival Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by a man who was later identified as an associate of Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly.

Sitting on floor of the Cobo Arena, one of Harding's biggest rivals is seen holding onto her leg, in immense pain, distraught by the random attack that was later on revealed to be a planned assault.

I, Tonya is a story covering the rise and fall of Tonya Harding, a former American figure skater, who first gained prominence due to her immense skating talent, and gained global notoriety for a single, shocking act of violence — an attack, in January 1994, on a rival American figure - skater, Nancy Kerrigan, that was orchestrated by Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly.

1) They make it pretty clear they haven't read the book 2) They attack an author personally 3) They often attack in packs, using identical talking points 4) They may be organized by a «rival» author (yeah, mean people are usually kinda stupid, too.)

They claim this is because their TOS guidelines ban reviewing by a «competitor,» and this protects against attacks on rivals by sock puppets.

Trigger special events and attack combos by balancing your Friendship, Affection and Rival levels.

Additional variety is provided in the form of different event types such as 3 lap single races; completing a lap within only a strict number of laps in time attack; head - to - head races sees the player having to overtake their rival as quickly as possible within a set time limit on a track day which is open to the public followed by holding your position; track days require a certain amount of overtakes within a set time limit; and drag races are knockout tournaments which requires the player to shift through the gears manually to maximise their top speed in order to cross the finishing line ahead of the opposing rider in each round of the competition.

Total War Battles takes gamers to feudal Japan, just as a warlord is taken by surprise thanks to the treacherous attack of a rival.

Players can attack and capture locations owned by the rival gangs, and assign one of their lieutenants to operate the location.

Inspired by the chain - based scoring systems in games created by respected arcade shooter developer Cave, Snops Attack is among the best in its crowd, easily rivaling top XBLIG shmups like Score Rush and fellow list - maker Shoot 1UP.

You need this mana to cast spells and if you store it in your castle other wizards can't steal it (in some levels you need to defend your castle from attacks by monsters and rival wizards).