Sentences with phrase «barely put up a fight»

They barely put up a fight despite needing nothing short of a victory to progress.

The baby doll was much more relaxed and barely put up a fight.

CREA barely put up a fight.

Not exact matches

In the last European championship both Great Britain and France put up such staunch fights that they were barely edged out by Italy.

At least then we have control of the party rather than giving it back to the Blairites with barely a fight as they wont make the mistake of putting up a left candidate in the next leadership election.

In the week when Labour's Liam Byrne launched his «Welfare Reform», barely distinguishable from the Tories; when Twigg set about education in a similar vein, and when Diane Abbott's loose but innocuous tweet was met by Labour with cringing apologies instead of forthright anti-racist defence, Leanne could have made more of the opportunity to put Plaid firmly at the forefront of the growing numbers that want to see politicians stand up to all this Tory tosh, lead the fight for jobs and against the cuts.

They're not as terrible as they could have been, and both Boom Boom and Pom Pom put up a decent enough fight, but there's barely any variety, with exactly THREE types of boss battle in the entire game.

Despite the fact that the short - handed Spurs put up a tough fight and barely lost to the Heat by the score of 105 - 100, many fans who had purchased tickets to the game in question were disappointed that the Spurs chose to rest their players en masse for the game.