Sentences with phrase «barren runs of»

As we have seen in our injury - filled barren runs of bad luck.

The French international had been on a barren run of nearly four months without a Premier League goal, but ended that with his strike against Manchester City this weekend.

Messi's goal was his first against Chelsea in nine meetings with the Blues, ending a barren run of 730 minutes without one against the Premier League giants.

It's not quite as dramatic as it sounds as we've only played three away games since then but it's still a barren run of 335 minutes which surely needs to end if we're to pick up a third title in five years.

After breaking our barren run of form with victory in our last match against Hull City, Mauricio Pochettino will be aiming to end his first season in charge of the Lilywhites with victory, but he'll need the influence of key players to achieve that.

Burnley hadn't scored since their 1 - 0 win over Manchester City in March, a barren run of six goalless games.

That win was their second in four days and helped end a barren run of four matches without even picking up a point, but Stoke have been known to go just as quickly off the boil as jumping straight back on, so are they really worth chancing at The Hawthorns?

However, Wayne Rooney also put in an eye - catching performance and even though he failed to end a barren run of three months without a league goal, the England striker still played a pivotal role in his team's overwhelming success and contributed largely to Beratov's scoring plaudits.

Not exact matches

I want to sidestep the brief, silly article running in Esquire about the increasing number of «kaleidoscopically shifting arrangements» we honor with the name family, but I also want to use it to frame what I think ought to emerge as a new vein to be mined in the sometimes barren - feeling realm of political theory.

Own goal has been on quite the barren run since the beginning of the season.

Costa had found the back of the net earlier in the game to end a five - game long barren run, but he was not done there.

Arsenal ended a three - year barren run by winning the 2015 Emirates Cup, their fourth win of eight entries, beating Wolfsburg and Lyon 1 - 0 and 6 - 0 to secure the title.

Wenger insists that despite his barren run, the manager is not worried and he is aware that the player will be frustrated by his lack of form.

Feels exactly as I felt in 1986 in the middle of a 17 years barren run for the team I decided to support for life.

he was one of the luckiest managers ever prior to this ten year barren run.

He's already delivered a trophy within six months of his arrival, whilst Arsenal are on the verge of another one of Wenger's barren runs if he doesn't win the FA Cup.

Giroud is a steady, and consistent striker regardless of his barren run which I have already excused.

The same can't be said for his teammate Luis Suarez though, with the 30 - year - old experiencing a barren run compared to his usual high output so far this season as he's managed to find the back of the net just three times in 12 outings.

However, unfortunately for Ozil, Olivier Giroud had other plans and the French international went on a barren scoring run in which he was dreadful in front of goal.

Arsenal and Wenger will find it tough to fight for the Premier League title, if their strikers strike a barren run in front of goal, and show no signs of making a turnaround for the good.

I know many of you have your reservations about him, but he recorded his best goal tally yet for us last term, and is regularly improving, despite his barren run, which I blame on the lack of freshness due to being overworked, while Theo and Welbeck were out.

The French international scored twice in five minutes at the Stadium of Light, while Ibrahimovic drew a blank at home to Burnley which extended his barren run to six Premier League games without a goal.

its a sign of intent... lpool are vulnerable at back so klopp brings in a decent centre back... we need that same attitude times 6 if we are to have a team that competes again at the top... but with the delusional corporate tool running things it will be another failed year... thats basically 14 barren years and taking us back closer to the bad old days of the 1960s when we never one a title over the decade

He was called up to the England U21 side a couple of weeks ago and scored on his debut, and he has finnal broken his barren run at Hull as well after scoring in the penalty shoot out win over Premiership side Leicester.

In turn, Arsene Wenger will want to end that barren run especially with growing talk amongst the media and supporters of a power shift in north London, while for their own aspirations, they can't afford to fall further behind their rivals for a top four finish.

The young French forward has been one of the big positives in United's season and after a barren run in front of goal he has begun to look more threatening, scoring twice in his last five league matches.

Yet the «News» was all about our lack of trophies, a countdown clock as each season extended our barren trophy run.

What the Liverpool's barren run has demonstrated, however, is the importance of Sadio Mane and, unfortunately, the inability of Daniel Sturridge to fill such a void.

The Gunners are once again blowing any remaining hope of ending their barren run without a trophy at the business end of the season, as is the norm with them nowadays, and there is probably no better time to be playing Arsene Wenger's rattled men than just three days after another unsatisfying outcome, but also on the back of their exposed form.

Another positive for United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be the return to form of star man Wayne Rooney, who really did produce a masterclass against Wolves last time out as the striker ended his barren run with a well - taken brace in a resounding 4 - 1 win.

Even the fact that Arsenal scored two goals after a bit of barren run in front of goal isn't a positive.

Last week's 1 - 0 loss at home to Manchester United stretched Villa's barren run in front of goal to three games − a little over six hours in total since their last Premier League goal.

Birmingham extended Arsenal's barren trophy less run of 6 seasons, with a devastating 89th minute goal.

Wednesday's 3 - 0 reverse at Craven Cottage to Fulham, a match Bolton barely even contested such was the dominance Fulham enjoyed, was Bolton's third consecutive away defeat and stretched their barren run without an away win in the Premier League to an alarming ten games, nine of which were losses.

The Scot has won just two of his sixteen league games in charge, two of which coming against a then utterly demoralised and in free - fall West Brom either side of the New Year, and he is currently struggling to rouse the troops during a nine - match barren run which has seen Rovers go nearly three whole months without winning.

I properly fancied Everton's chances of ending their barren run last weekend with victory over Fulham at Craven Cottage.

The Portuguese star and Ballon D'Or winner brought an end to his run of almost five hours without a goal after a barren spell for Carlo Ancelotti's men.

If you want to put jobs, the economy and living standards first, you must vote Labour to stop a landslide victory that could turn Britain into a barren tax haven run in the interests of billionaires.

«Whenever someone who is married with children runs against someone not married and without children there is always some kind of effort to suggest there is something amiss with the barren candidate,» Graham wrote.

Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

At the center of a story, in a performance evoking intense idealism, is Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a martial - arts instructor who runs a storefront studio on a barren city street.

Instead of luscious grassy planes, deserts, and snowy mountains, in Freedom Wars players must tackle a barren network of run - down urban sectors while being constantly surveyed by the omnipresent Panopticon.

Writers Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

No more running through map after map of barren terrain in hopes of flipping over a lonely bucket or kicking an idle pile of leaves to discover one health potion you're never going to use.

Life On Mars — not to be confused with the two TV shows that have already run with that Bowie - alluding name — will see Krasinski shifting his aims from post-apocalyptic Earth to the equally barren surface of our solar system's fourth planet, centering on a young woman trying to survive on the Red Planet.

Instead, it's a very personal story — a road movie where the apocalypse has already happened, in which Logan, a deteriorating Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart in a wonderful supporting role), and mutant test subject Laura (newcomer Dafne Keen) are outlaws on the run, traveling across a barren landscape in search of their own paradise.

Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

Still the open world can feel barren thanks to its lack of content and while there will be sidequests to undertake, majority of the time is usually spend running from one location to the next with nothing interesting in between to make the journey easier.

But inAPPropriate Comedy is a barren, laughless wasteland, and the ugliness of its racial stereotypes and crude sexual humor makes it seem about twice as long as its 83 - minute running time (which is really more like 75 minutes padded out with outtakes, bloopers, and an unusually long end - credits sequence).

Meera Subramanian is a freelance environmental journalist, author of A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, and a conflicted gypsy who can't stop planting perennials.