Sentences with phrase «better than victories»

Nothing can give you confidence better than victories.

That's a big quality win for the Blue Demons... arguably better than any victory Marquette has this season.

And hopefully you've entered a pie and it wins, because the tagline of the pie challenge is spot on: «The only thing better than victory is victory a la mode.»

Not exact matches

Not all hedge funds had a good day, though — even though the Dow and S&P 500 ended Wednesday up more than 1 % each, proving wrong the universally dire predictions for the market in the unexpected Trump victory scenario.

And I'm pretty sure that praying for victory in battle is more about being a better soldier than it is about tilting the tables in my favor.

Two of these — «Flower of Purity» and «Gentle Guide of Youth» — are especially relevant to our current theme In the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victory.

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

If the Disney version of the Narnia stories features radical conversions of hearts and wills — rather than easy victories of good over evil — then we shall have cause to be thankful.

If the Disney version of the Narnia stories features such radical conversions of hearts and wills — rather than easy victories of good over evil — then we shall have cause to be thankful indeed.

Thankfully, there is an outcome we can work for that is even better than «a conservative victory.»

In sufficient number of causes to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairs.

They sell purple sweet potatoes!!!!!!!!!! I think the sound that came out of my mouth when I saw them, scared the lady behind the till a little bit, and more than likely, she thinks I've got some serious issues, because I did a little victory dance when I was leaving the shop... Oh well, small price to pay for having an access to these beauties.

If you want to hold on to your «moral» victories from some good play and a few bright spots than do it.

Beat Purdue, 17 - 9, a victory that is worth more than it used to be, via Purdue being interesting and good now.

The Wolverines have a hilarious average margin of victory (35 points, best in the country) against a schedule that's been less weak than predicted, and the Tide have been mostly dominant against a pretty solid schedule.

Their tally of six victories is more than they have managed in front of their own fans but, as well as just one draw, they have suffered seven defeats.

Want to hear from all those arse licking football idiots drooling away on this website over a bunch of friendly victories... So I'll say it again mert is a liability Ramsey and giroud are good bench players and we need a world class dm... Oh and a new manager... Endlessly playing out of position... Same shit year in year out with this guy it really is... Even if we win if this guy thinks he has a winning team he is even more dillusional than I though and I wanted him carried off to funny farm 5 years ago

With a front - row seat to his playing partner's third win of the season, Bo Van Pelt watched Woods grind out his 74th tour victory, surpassing Jack Nicklaus along the way, and pronounced him better than most.

Was a team who failed to win its division and counts its best win as a victory over a good - not - great LSU team more deserving of a final four spot than multiple Power 5 conference champions?

That could well be provided by the exciting crop of under - 21s who are, if their 5 - 0 victory Bosnia - Herzegovina is anything to go by, fairing a lot better than their seniors.

What better to shut his mouth than for arsene to record back 2 back league victories over his arch rival.....

He was also able to seal the victory with that sack / caused fumble at the end, and it doesn't get any better than that.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Other than pairs of wins over Florida State and Virginia Tech and a double OT victory over a Bonzie Colson-less Notre Dame, the best thing about the Cardinals» profile might be the fact their worst loss came against 62nd - ranked N.C. State.

And while the Blue Raiders don't own a true name brand win, their three best victories, a sweep of No. 44 Western Kentucky and road win over 47th - ranked OVC champ Murray State, are better than anything Louisville has on its profile.

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On Tuesday morning, a Trump victory was such a longshot that the winless Cleveland Browns had better odds of beating the Ravens than Trump had of winning the White House.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

In 244 starts in the Cup Series he had scored just two victories — both on road courses — and had finished better than 17th in the year end standings just once.

With a change in instructors and a retooled swing, Phil Mickelson is striking the ball better than ever, as evidenced by his impressive victory against the strongest field in the game at the Players

He boasts a better victory than everyone else in the HW division (Joshua essentially beat a more aged Klitschko w / a long layoff) and Fury is in general a bigger name than Wilder in the UK.

That hug never came, thus shaping the driven personality of an inimitable figure who, more than any other — through his embrace of free agency, through his creation of the fabulously profitable YES network, through his maniacal quest for victory — shaped the business of baseball into what it now is, for better or worse.

Well, i agree with cech that we need to focus on gunning for the bigger trophies rather than celebrating on this victory tokens that we win during the friendlies..

As best we can tell, Bull Cyclone went 8 - 3 that first season, and 21 - 9 for three years, which was more victories than Scooba had enjoyed in its history.

For a club of our stature, we should be used to winning games like yesterday's, but wenger has taken us so low to the point that we celebrate such victories occasionally.It's been more than a decade since we last beat utd convincingly, yet in that period, they have bested us several times including an 8 - 2 drubbing.

The majority of this side proved in travelling to Serbia that they had more than enough to come away with a well - earned victory, although the performance was far from perfect as they shipped in two goals.

I just think he's more of an Alex Smith, Phillip Rivers, Andy Dalton (good stats, lots of 9 win seasons but no big playoff victories) than he is a star QB.

Of course, the biggest cash reward goes to the winner, and Walker more than doubled his 2016 earnings, which were $ 1.5 million prior to the PGA, with a 14 - under finish, good enough for a one - shot victory over Jason Day.

While USC's 4 - 5 record against Group 1 is better than UCLA's 3 - 7 mark, the Bruins have a pair of top 20 wins, while the Trojans best victories came over Middle Tennessee and New Mexico State during Christmas week in Hawaii.

Pep Guardiola is far more interested in stopping Wilfried Zaha than bettering his own record for successive victories.

In truth they played a better game than New England and deserved their victory.

It's an important victory, it's a good victory, I think deserved, but I don't see more than that.

Burnley are a better home side than they are away from home, but the Cherries took a recent victory on the road at Stoke which suggests that they can go to Turf Moor and collect all three points against the low - scoring Burnley.

There was no better example than the 6 - 1 demolition of Paris Saint - Germain in the previous round; Neymar grabbed that game by the scruff of the neck and willed Barcelona to victory.

It is one of the reasons, for example, why New Zealand's 34 - 17 Rugby World Cup final victory against Australia at the weekend will be remembered as a much better game than their 8 - 7...

Nowhere was his ability better highlighted than in United's 3 - 1 victory over Arsenal in December, when he made 14 saves, although there have been a series of key interventions throughout the campaign.

The more than comfortable victory would do Barca a world of good, especially when they have suffered a number of setbacks recently on domestic front.

Ultimately, few had expected anything other than a home victory here, and the win both keeps the Blues well in the title hunt (after Manchester City and Arsenal were both victorious a day earlier) and puts the final nail in the coffin of United's chances of successfully defending their Premier League crown.

An admirer of Guardiola's methods, a former assistant to Carlo Ancelotti and a natural opponent to the caustic, spartan pragmatism of Jose Mourinho during his time in Madrid, he wants to win, and win better — just like Zidane the player, Zidane the manager wants to achieve victory through technical excellence more than anything else.

Now, Owen Coyle loves nothing better than guiding his Trotters to victory, but every now and again a point, particularly away from home, will suffice, as come the end of the season those accumulation of draws could be the difference between survival and relegation.