Sentences with phrase «back in the opposition»

He may be a player of panache instead of power but he is also a more diligent presence in the final third than James Rodriguez — Pogba often led the way when it came to winning the ball back in the opposition's half in Serie A last year.

They had the majority of possession, but still were looking to win it back in the opposition half or just inside their own.

Sané and Sterling acted as the wingers in that game and were tasked with pressing the outer centre - backs in the opposition back three.

This is why big teams try to get the ball back in the opposition half (high press) so as to quickly create space and situations.

Under Gordon Brown he rose to a ministerial position at the Foreign Office, but back in Opposition he fell well short of the votes required amongst his colleagues to make the shadow cabinet.

During this conference at least, the Lib Dems could pretend they were back in opposition.

Bone believes a switch to a minority government, with the Liberal Democrats back in opposition, is in the «national interest».

But it is hard to imagine that even back in opposition, Alexander will ever fully forget the importance of keeping the government's books in balance.

Not exact matches

I bring this up because this absence (or call it omission, if you like) underlies the staunch opposition of many conservative Republicans to the Affordable Care Act — and to previous government efforts to provide publicly funded health care and insurance coverage to their citizens going back to the passage of Medicare in 1965.

After returning to Serbia in late 2015 after 12 years in detention, Seselj led his party back into parliament last year as the strongest opposition force, and he now hopes for success in a presidential election due in April.

I would hardly suggest risking your health in the cause of a great idea, but, if you truly believe in it and have amassed sufficient evidence that it will work, don't back down at the first sign of opposition.

Fianna Fail, whose backing Varadkar requires from the opposition benches to keep his government functioning, has said it will move a motion of no confidence in Fitzgerald at 2000 GMT on Tuesday unless she quits, a position that hardened on Monday.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

The assumption is that they couldn't possibly have been so reckless as to invite the hurricane of opposition that's grown to category five since Morneau put out his proposals, back in July, to restrict the tax advantages open to professionals and entrepreneurs who manage their finances through what's called a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC).

It signals that the NDP may be easing itself back to its familiar role in opposition, where it depicts any trims or cancelled programs as cold - blooded murder of the public trust.

Libya's United Nations - backed unity government finally assumed office in Tripoli on Wednesday despite opposition within two existing administrations and threats of violence from some militias based near the capital.

In 2002, George W. Bush introduced steel tariffs, but backed down in the face of considerable oppositioIn 2002, George W. Bush introduced steel tariffs, but backed down in the face of considerable oppositioin the face of considerable opposition.

So the interesting thing is that over the last few days it does seem like we're getting a bit of that back and Gold is now trading in opposition to the Nasdaq...

Government and opposition parties all backed the investigation, either in support of the probe or to clear the names of their colleagues.

Some brokerage executives hope that in the face of such vehement opposition, the Department of Labor will back off.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Back for a return engagement, President Donald Trump's address to the National Rifle Association on Friday comes after he temporarily strayed from the group's strong opposition to tougher gun controls following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida — only to rapidly return to...

Taking a quick look back at Alberta politics over the past twenty - five years, you will find opposition leaders that made positive contributions to Alberta politics, but could not withstand the meat - grinder of opposition politics in Alberta.

Alberta PC MLAs voted to invite Independent MLA Mike Allen back into the government caucus after a year in the opposition benches.

In its opposition to the tariffs, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) had not only the backing of the majority of the solar industry, but also enlisted the aid of right - wing think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council, as well as a host of manufacturing interests and large energy consumers.

Founded in 2013, the AfD rose to prominence on the back of an anti-immigration stance and its opposition to Merkel's decision to open the country's borders to over a million migrants, mainly those fleeing violence and persecution from the Middle East.

Back for a return engagement, President Donald Trump's address to the National Rifle Association on Friday comes after he temporarily strayed from the group's strong opposition to tougher gun controls following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida — only to rapidly return to the fold.

Well as heard in the news that those arriving to the west are being well trained on sophisticated equipment's and combat training and then sent back to Somalia to fight as opposition to prolong suffering for the area and others sent to lead pirate operations in the area and that is all done to give an excuse for the western Navy to be present in the area as well as to cause the raise of the insurance premium against the ships passing the area raising therefore the costs of commodities as well as an opportunity for private security companies to flourish guarding the passing ships?

The Conservatives are now Her Majesty's Official Opposition and the New Democratic Party is back in their familiar territory as third - place in the House of Commons.

GET A PRINT OF THIS CARTOON I did this back when Vicky Beeching first came out and the flood of opposition, expressing itself in misunderstanding, hate, harassment, and exclusion, began for her.

Of course, Wesley would also be critical of many forms of liberalism, but it is important that today's evangelicals not read their opposition to liberalism in general back into Wesley.

Reuters: Egyptians support new Islamist - backed constitution in referendum An Islamist - backed Egyptian constitution won approval in a referendum, rival camps said on Sunday, after a vote the opposition said would sow deep social divisions in the Arab world's most populous nation.

This struggle brings about personal suffering, in the giving up of luxuries for oneself for the common good and in facing the determined opposition of the organized forces of social injustice, often consciously or unconsciously backed by the religious establishments.

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

He became more vocal in his opposition to appeasement, and backed many causes that aided refugees fleeing Hitler's Europe.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

I did this back when Vicky Beeching first came out and the flood of opposition, expressing itself in misunderstanding, hate, harassment, and exclusion, began for her.

Francis acknowledged that «the field in which you sow is unyielding and that there is always the temptation to give in to fear, to lick one's wounds, to think back on bygone times and to devise harsh responses to fierce opposition.»

Lanzetta points out that this crisis has made Traditio appear in opposition to «progressivism» whereas of course everything in the Church is Traditio, literally «handed on», all the way back to Christ himself.

Our Flesh has always been in opposition unto God so all the killings were necessary in the universes journey back to The Creator.

It can not simply retreat back to the Middle Ages or to the Fathers and place them in blind opposition to the spirit of the present age.

(If a considerable number of Psalms go back to the prophetic period or earlier, as some modern critics hold (in opposition to the view which prevailed thirty years ago), then there is additional support for the view that there was no such radical change from collective to individual conceptions at the Exile as has often been asserted.

The orderly unfolding of church process was repudiated in several ways: the group acted behind the backs of the administrative board and against Methodist conference regulations; and the group was aware that opposition to its scheme might well subvert the continuing leadership of Sid Carlson in guiding the church.

And yet, when fundamentalism rose up in Islam, there was an opposition to science and that work migrated back towards the West.

The opposition is between the view that the further back you go, you go to more and more rudimentary judgements and the view that there is a real difference between perception and thought; and also that you don't in perception come down to a (Kantian) inchoate manifold which you work up with conceptual schemes, but that you come down to something given in sense - awareness about which you can say a great deal more than that.

The GM rice has been field - tested in the Philippines back in 2011 in five separate locations in Luzon, despite the intense opposition from various farmers and consumers organizations.

The Opposition will back a Greens» disallowance motion in the Senate to stop the Federal Government from changing the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Summer time we need a dedicated LW, we are constantly left exposed on the counter with wing backs in, or in line with, the opposition box.

The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.

Giroud has dragged back many balls from the touchline using his strength and putting it perfectly in the opposition area.

Henry = a CF who could get in behind the oppositions def, could hit the back of the net and could pass the ball.