Sentences with phrase «backed wrong horse»

«In decades, the industry may find it backed the wrong horse.»

In January 2007, the Met Office backed the wrong horse — El Niño.

Bethesda backed the wrong horse in this case.

LibDems backed wrong horse.

He seemed at loose ends when the voting went to a second ballot and it became clear he had backed the wrong horse.

But in their self - imposed season of anomie, Afenifere committed the ultimate ideological apostasy, by their own Awoist doctrine: pushed the wrong cause, backed the wrong horse, kept the wrong company, and coalesced behind the wrong person, as arrowhead to Aso Rock, in Ondo Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, ruthless political hustler and survivalist, who just defected to the wide - and - merry Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from the supposedly straight - and - narrow Labour Party (LP).

Between the old Afenifere and the Buhari Presidency, there appears no love lost; since the grandees so spectacularly backed the wrong horse at the 2015 elections.

As Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel said yesterday, Auburn's hire of Malzahn is a bit of an acknowledgement that the program backed the wrong horse when it let Malzahn leave for Arkansas State in 2011.

Both the lay defeatists, who lament that the Church pitiably lags behind its present day task, fails to act and time and time again backs the wrong horse, and the clerical triumphalists, who proclaim with ardent enthusiasm the principles of the Church and think that the mondo megliore would radiantly dawn provided these principles were generally accepted, underestimate theoretically and existentially the proper, religious function of the Church.

The lists above and other evidence suggest not merely that Whitehead backed the wrong horses, but that his horse sense was somewhat eccentric.

The music only changed after the loss of 2015 — the first time the Igbo elite would back a wrong horse, and the appointments and other gravy dried up.

He clearly appeared to speak from the bitterness of backing a wrong horse in 2015, and, for political redemption, desperately clinging to the «restructuring» buzz.

The former justice minister talks about backing the wrong horse for the Tory leadership, his new life on the backbenches and next steps for Brexit.

«I don't know if I am backing the wrong horse, but I think it is going to help with public engagement,» said Mark Coetzee, Zeitz MOCAA's executive director and chief curator, of his decision to make the figure the defining leitmotif of his museum's opening exhibitions.

Jim D: «It is slowly dawning on the skeptics that they are backing the wrong horse in the attribution stakes.»

It is slowly dawning on the skeptics that they are backing the wrong horse in the attribution stakes.

These are good steps, but Silver is still backing the wrong horse, and the sooner he dumps Pielke (who's also a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder), the better.

Not exact matches

As I rode down, she waved me back, talking to the horse in the gentlest, lightest patter, as though nothing much had ever been wrong, really, and, anyway, everything was all right, now.

En route, a groom may haveto remove head collars to calm the horses and when he puts them back on, he canplace them on the wrong horses.»

There was a fanboy war back than and I picked the wrong horse.

Perhaps back then, although the Internet existed and people were able to use it the same way we do now, they didn't see their ability to express their opinion to others as an invitation to look a gift horse in the mouth and rant about everything they personally saw wrong about it.

Clearly, the wrong horses have been backed.