Sentences with phrase «attempts by rivals»

China had controlled a huge swathe of mining power, despite recent attempts by rivals such as Russia to get in on the action.

I also do not believe it will be at all easy to change the leadership of Labour so soon after electing a new leader in such a short space of time - It shouldn't be discounted also that Corbyn could do very well as party leader in the next few years and stop dead in their tracks any attempts by his rivals within the party to challenge his authority.

It has sought to fight off a hostile $ 105 billion takeover attempt by a rival, the Singapore - based chip maker Broadcom.

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By analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a divBy analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a divby taking a dive.

Mylan, now officially free from the clutches of Israel - based Teva, which had been on a hostile attempt to acquire its smaller rival, is also a symbol of reinvention - by - acquisition.

The chocolate maker has used a distinct shade of purple (Pantone 2685C) on its Dairy Milk wrappers since 1914, but recent attempts to trademark that colour in Britain have been thwarted by its arch rival Nestlé.

Some of the executives were said to have been skeptical about the victim's story, motivated by the suspicion that Ola, Uber's ride - hailing rival in India, was attempting to sabotage Uber.

In what looks like an attempt to help guard against a legal patent assault by its large tech rivals, Google is spending $ 12.5 billion to buy mobile handset maker Motorola Mobility.

The tie - up, announced in London by Elop and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, will see Nokia adopt the Windows Phone 7 operating system in a dramatic attempt to compete in what Elop called «the war of ecosystems» against rivals» offerings.

Earlier this year, Qantas attempted to boost its struggling international division by signing a 10 - year partnership with Dubai - based rival Emirates.

Before we attempt to answer this question, we note that as investors we appreciate the appeal of Bitcoin as a rival currency to those issued by governments.

On the contrary, he wants us to enrich a necessarily extensive appreciation of the Western tradition by attempting to understand other traditions that rival it in significance and to understand where they are both profoundly different and deeply similar.

Such a reduction is in fact attempted by what is known today as «creationism,» or especially «scientific creationism,» which presents the biblical accounts of cosmic origins and God's activity as though they were alternative scientific and objectively historical accounts rivaling those of secular science and history.

In 2012, on the road against Ivy League rival Cornell, Princeton fell behind by 20 in the first half, but closed the margin to 22 - 15 in the second half before a failed onside kick attempt with 1:42 to play marked the end of the rally.

What I am talking about is the bizarre decisions that are being made by our Premier League rivals Chelsea and how these decisions seem to be giving Arsenal a big hand in our attempt to become champions of England.

If that does not do it for you Gooners, maybe the statistical report by Metro comparing the shooting and scoring stats of the Premier League title chasers will do the trick, as the report shows that Arsenal are doing better than all of our our rivals in the two key areas of goals per attempt and goals scored per shots on target.

The Mirror reports that Arsenal's London rivals Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as Barcelona, are also interested in Bazoer, and that Wenger could attempt to get ahead by sanctioning a bid.

If you by the way the Arsenal transfer rumours have been progressing during the summer then it looks like our London rivals and the current Premier League title holders are set to step up their attempts to sign our England international star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, who is one of a number of Gunners that have enetered the final year of their current Arsenal contracts.

A clear example would be a coach from College X attempting to form a pipeline from a specific 7 - on - 7 team by dissuading a 7 - on - 7 coach from going to rival College Y's summer camp.

Arsenal are looking for another striker in January and are ready to rival Sir Alex Ferguson by attempting to lure Lewandowski away form Manchester United and to the Emirates Stadium, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.

Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger might attempt to rip rivals Manchester United off by taking away one of their most prized

Spitzer (AKA the steamroller) was hardly a shrinking violet during his brief stint as governor, and according to a report by Cuomo — who was AG at the time, having followed Spitzer into that office — he misused his executive power over the State Police in a botched attempt to smear his top political rival, then Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

The governor spent the next year armoring his left flank, presumably against the threat of a 2018 coup attempt by a liberal rival like state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman or Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

On Wintour and Watt, he writes that reports of Miliband's speech in yesterday's welfare debate have missed «the most significant aspect of his speech — an apparent attempt to reframe Labour's economic policy which is being run by his great rival Ed Balls.»

The PBR's focus on green issues will be seen as an attempt by the chancellor to outflank his Conservative and Liberal Democrat rivals ahead of his expected move to No 10 next year.

A Manhattan judge has ordered CBS to turn over emails by Friday morning in an attempt to establish who has editorial control over a television series about Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes» office or else possibly face an injunction that would postpone the show's debut episode next week, according a rival candidate.

Males compete over territory and mates by swivelling around and grappling one another using their barbed hind legs in an attempt to wrestle and kick their rival off the cactus pad arena.

Further historical investigations showed that the revolts disrupted attempts by Ptolemaic armies to seize territory in Mesopotamia through wars with their main rivals, the Seleucid Empire.

Further historical investigations showed that the revolts severely disrupted attempts by Ptolemaic armies to seize new territory in Mesopotamia through at least nine major wars with their main rivals, the Seleucid Empire that straddled parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, between 274 and 96 BC.

The film is a quietly simmering character study about an immigrant named Abel Morales (Isaac) and his wife, Anna (Jessica Chastain), who attempt to grow their business under the shadow of an imminent criminal indictment and physical assaults on the company's drivers, presumably orchestrated by Morales» rivals.

«Cuban Fury» Synopsis: A former salsa prodigy attempts a comeback years after his career was ruined by a rival dancer.

I want to start off this «review» of Suicide Squad, the third film in Warner Bros» new attempt at building a universe out of DC comics characters to rival what Marvel is doing with their cinematic universe, by apologizing for the somewhat lax approach I am about to take to writing this.

Despite winning the 1991 US Championships when she became the first woman to successfully execute the gravity - defying triple axel, Harding's place in sports history is one of ignominy because of her suspected complicity in the clumsy attempt by her abusive husband Jeff Gillooly (played by Sebastian Stan) to hobble her elegant rival Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Twenty years ago this month, a man named Shane Stant attempted to boost Tonya Harding's Olympic hopes by whacking rival Nancy Kerrigan's right knee with a metal baton during the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.

The Lyon brothers face troubles from the past: Andre still sees Rhonda's ghost, Jamal wrestles with a pill addiction, and Hakeem's attempts to find love are interrupted by a surprising family rival.

BMW is attempting to seize the alternative - drive initiative from luxury rivals by creating a new subbrand, under which it plans to sell a range of purpose - built electric, hybrid and range - extended...

Previous generations of the Toyota RAV4 were becoming outclassed by newer, more comprehensive all - rounder rivals, so the current car is Toyota's attempt to claw back that lost ground.

Gavin soon got the better of his BMW rival and sat in the wake of the # 3 Corvette shared by Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia and the final phase of his stint, while relatively straightforward, was punctuated by a spin for Auberlen when the Californian attempted a retaliatory lunge at Turn 1.

This has left the company deeply wounded, and experts believe the launch of the BlackBerry Messenger on a rival platform could be a last ditch attempt by the company to help stem the tide.

Fuming at the Tiki Shack Bar over a rival's latest attempt to derail her career, Ronnie comes to the rescue of a girl being beaten by an angry thug, unaware that Antsy Carruth has stolen twenty - five grand from her drug mule ex-boyfriend, and hired enforcer Neon Polk has been sent to get the money back.

Apple could roll out smartphones and tablets with bigger screens in a move analysts say is an attempt to catch up with a trend set by its major rival Samsung.

Barnes & Noble has been battered by Amazon, its powerful online rival, and has incurred big financial losses from its largely failed attempt to carve out territory in the e-book space with the Nook.

Moriya's obsessive behavior towards Ouno is weird and over-the-top, his enthusiasm challenged only by his rival Miyahigashi's attempts to beat him at something for once.

Square Enix does its best to keep lone players entertained, attempting to give each rival a personality by enabling them to comment on events during their turn.

Where once the two stood side by side — then rivals, as almost identical JRPG adventures — there are now two very different schools of thought behind them — while the FF team attempts to reinvent the genre in the wake of a boom in the popularity of Western RPGs (almost to the point of leaving RPGdom behind altogether), the DQ team embraces its heritage, choosing instead to innovate on far more subtle levels and keeping its presence on consoles where content is not dictated or hamstrung by potential financial or time investments.

Curators and critics, however, sometimes prefer not to engage with these invigorating rival claims, perhaps because any attempt to characterize or evaluate can be dismissed as judgmental or elitist, an effort to draw distinctions at a time when what can look like the gray zone of mixed media or multimedia is embraced by an increasing number of artists.

That other sinking ship, for example, the UK's Liberal Party has in recent months sought to secure its future by attempting to demonstrate that it is taking the global warming issue more seriously than its rivals.

Previous stories offered up head - scratching spin on the school shooting at Sandy Hook (which Jones states was a false flag operation carried out by government operatives) and a train wreck carrying dozens of Republican congressmen (which Jones attempts to spin into a devious plot by democrats to kill congressional rivals).

The device will also be faster than the ongoing models, which is a given for a brand new flagship phone set to succeed its predecessors, however, the Galaxy S9 will reportedly attempt to combat one of its biggest rivals — the iPhone X — by adopting new features similar to Apple's own flagship.

Apple is facing an uphill struggle in its attempts to wean Chinese smartphone users off cheaper rival devices in a saturated mobile market, according to a new Bloomberg report.With Apple gearing up to sell its most ambitious but most expensive iPhone yet, local competitors like Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi are already poised to compete by launching their own less expensive feature - packed devices around Apple's September 12 «iPhone 8» launch date.Unofficial «iPhone 8» poster spotted in Chinese store (via Slashleaks) While it sticks to a global template that's served it well, local vendors have become adept at technology design while tailoring phones to local tastes, such as with dual SIM capability.