Sentences with phrase «battled against favored»

While unions and their allies spent most of their campaign funds on Democratic legislative candidates and the groups they battled against favored Senate Republicans and Cuomo, both sides often gave to the same candidates.

Not exact matches

As the battle for talent continues to heat up, startups and small businesses are competing for quality employees against big corporations that have serious advantages working in their favor.

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

It has its own distinctive message of salvation (political freedom), its own «set apart» people group (America and its allies), its own creed («we hold these truths to be self - evident»), its own distinctive enemies (all who resist freedom and who are against America), its own distinctive symbol (the flag), its own distinctive god (the national deity we are «under,» who favors our cause and helps us win our battles).

Just 4 % of tickets are taking the draw despite a 30 % chance of it happening, and I think Middlesbrough are favored too much at home against a Swansea team who keep battling.

Stefanik benefited from a similar air war against Woolf, a first - time candidate who fought an uphill battle in an election year that favored the GOP.

Bellavia, who was passed over for the GOP nod in favor of Assemblywoman Jane Corwin and appears to be fighting a losing battle against her for the Conservative line, has not said whether he'll run as an independent if he doesn't get a ballot line.

«If we could find a way to tilt the battle in favor of L. crispatus in women, then we would be increasing the barrier properties of their CVM, and improve protection against STIs,» he says.

Both films will battle against Academy tendencies that generally don't favor the kind of ice - cold formalism and dark humor that Fincher uses, nor the impenetrable vulgarity that Anderson trades in with his latest.

And the ongoing battle of the parents of Palm Lane students: the Superior Court judge ruled against the District and in favor of the parents.

It's going to be an extremely difficult battle and eReader companies have to be ruthless and if possible attack Agency Model Publishers directly (legally, boycott them, hide them in their ebook stores, favor other publishers, rally users against them).

Many of the firms pushing back against Vanguard favor active management, but that has been a losing battle for quite some time.

You'll also have to keep the standard Pokemon elemental system in mind, matching your party's strengths against the enemy's weaknesses, and boss fights are particularly tough, often requiring you to be loaded up on magic stones and equipped with your own nasty tricks to turn the tide of battle in your favor.

Battle against opposing clans, place bounties on hated enemies, and discover ruin artifacts to gain favor with the gods with great deeds and holy sacrifices.

Waiting silently against a wall while the battle comes closer and blasting an unsuspecting victim repeatedly with my shotgun was great fun, and helped me tip the outcome of the match in my favor on more occasion than one.

Godly cards and abilities can be assembled by the player before engaging in battle and used during combat, these cards can easily change the course of the fight should the odds be stacked against their favor.

Those in favor of the change face an uphill battle against a deeply entrenched insurance industry that has so far successfully squashed previous efforts to adopt comparative negligence rules in the mid-Atlantic region, according to the Post's report.

If the accident report came out against you and in favor of the other driver just understand that you are facing an uphill battle.