Sentences with phrase «big defeats for»

His staunch support for the coalition's welfare reforms, which the rebellious Lords continued to systematically take apart this week in two big defeats for the government, underlined the fact that much of the coalition's policy book is straight out of the Tory party manifesto.

«It is a big defeat for us.

We just hope it doesn't ultimately translate into a big defeat for the idea of public accountability.»

The confrontation came as Norman among 91 Tory MPs to vote against a mainly elected Lords, inflicting the biggest defeat for the coalition since it came to power.

The one big defeat for Theresa May in the Commons was Dominic Grieve's amendment that, in effect, requires parliament to vote to approve the final withdrawal agreement with the EU, on which work still continues.

«This was a big defeat for those who advocate for education of the whole child, and the emotional and academic development of our children,» he says.

If I win, it would be a big defeat for the climate mullahs and a rare victory for sanity in the ongoing climate wars.

Not exact matches

Lütke scored another big win in September, when digital titan Amazon conceded defeat and chose Shopify to replace its own service for online sellers.

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

I was down after a big failure or humiliating defeat; I was searching for answers or a way to redeem myself; and as a result, my awareness was heightened and I was unusually open to change.

It's about being a part of something bigger than myself and working for justice, making space for God, while defeating a core lie that I still, somehow, believe about myself and, perhaps, women.

As a friend pointed out to me in an email yesterday, the possibility of defeat for national health - care reform is the fault of its biggest champion.

Although a first defeat in 13 games for Arsenal will have been a big blow to the happiness and belief of the Arsenal fans, it has only seemingly caused a small scratch to the veneer of confidence that the players have got from our excellent 2015 so far.

«We are a big team, we are Arsenal and we need to attack because we need the result, but we need to attack with intelligence and make sure we don't suffer a defeat and complicate our situation for the rest of our competition.»

If you consider spurs as big club than we have fallen for real.barcelona are also dominating but what counts is a win.in football you only celebrate wins, so stop trying to look for a positive in a defeat accept and how big teams think (winning mentality) @goonsquad8

Much has been made of his lackluster career — before defeating Tyson he was 29 -4-1 and known principally for having quit in the 10th round of a 1987 bout with Tony Tucker — and the series of personal misfortunes that piled on him as he neared the biggest day of his life.

A draw wount be gud enough for dis game nd any other game, we need to imbibe dat winning mentality of a big club, nt hoping for a draw or a slim defeat against other big teams, wil it be an offence if we win our remaining 15 epl matches or win all our ucl nd fa cup matches?

If Oklahoma State can win its rubber match against the Oklahoma Sooners in the Big 12 Tournament opening round on Wednesday, they'll get a chance to defeat Kansas for a third time in Thursday's quarters.

The 19 - year - old made his Premier League debut against Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday afternoon, and even though Jose Mourinho's side fell to defeat, the youngster made a big impression and will be hopeful that it's just the first of many appearances in the league for the Red Devils.

Inspired by a familiar setting, St. John's defeated nemesis Boston College for the Big East championship

Merse has gone for victories for all the big sides this weekend bar Liverpool, who he believes will fall to a 2 - 1 defeat at Old Trafford.

Texas A&M's stunning 86 - 65 demolition of North Carolina on Sunday was the largest margin of defeat ever for a Williams coached team in the Big Dance.

Whatever Big 8 pride I had came out in droves during the Fiesta Bowl, which saw stoic Tom Osborne defeat cocky Steve Spurrier and saw Tommie Frazier rip off one of the most famous plays in college football history; he ran into a wall of Florida defenders, then ran right through the wall for a 75 - yard touchdown.

In other Big Ten matchups, Northwestern defeated Iowa 31 - 15, Illinois nudged Purdue 15 - 13 and Minnesota squelched Indiana 24 - 3 as John King galloped for 179 yards.

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Back in the East, CLEVELAND (3 -2-0) prepared for bigger things by overwhelming Pittsburgh (1 -3-1) 41 - 10, and WASHINGTON (3 -2-0) defeated game but outmanned Atlanta (0 -5-0) 33 - 20.

In terms of favourites for the match, it's a very close one to call, but Reading have certainly showed their vulnerabilities in big games of late, with losses against the likes of Huddersfield and Brighton, and a shock 3 - 0 defeat to Preston North End just 2 games back.

Kansas Statesliced Missouri's conference lead to a game and a half by defeating Colorado65 - 58, as Ed Nealy pulled down 16 rebounds and Tyrone Adams scored 20 points.In their earlier victory over Nebraska, the Wildcats established a Big Eightrecord for field - goal accuracy (77.1 %) by sinking 27 of 35 shots.

As a result, Klopp will be desperate for a league boost, and they wouldn't come much bigger than defeating the Premier League leaders at home.

The biggest for me though, was the humiliating and heavy defeat that Chelsea inflicted on Manchester United and their former manager Jose Mourinho.

3) bet you know many people who reach for a cig to calm their nerves and after taking all the blame for the 2 — 0 defeat he would be under immense stress so even if true it's no big deal.

The Gunners, however, struggled to live up to the high pressing and high tempo game plan from their German opponents and, had it not been for some profligacy in front of goal from Klopp's frontline and midfielders, Arsenal were looking at a much bigger margin of defeat.

Tonight's Champions League fixture against Anderlecht will be a test of Arsenal's «big boys» credentials, as they will be playing away in this competition for the first time since the 0 - 2 defeat at the Westfalenstadion on Matchday 1.

While we may have all enjoyed Chelsea's hard to fathom fall from grace this campaign, they have already inflicted one of the few defeats on Arsenal and could perhaps put another big dent in our title hopes on Sunday, so it is still a massive game for Arsene Wenger and the players.

«If we want to be close to the top of the table after two defeats then we have to win the big games and this is the first opportunity for us to do so.»

If loosing at home to a bottom half team, who hadn't won for God knows how long and being totally outclassed by Chelsea are 2 little defeats, I kind of wonder what a just a «medium» defeat looks like, not to mention a big defeat

However, with respect to the game against Southampton in midweek, perhaps the biggest injury boost that has been handed to Arsene Wenger's side is that Morgan Schneiderlin, unarguably the Saints» best player so far this season, is out for the big game as a result of an abductor injury the French international had picked up during the 3 - 0 defeat to Manchester City at St. Mary's.

Chelski probably will win EPL, but i will take pleasure with beathing them on Emirates, we lost EPL in first 10 games, but you can see improvements, we are defeating big teams, winning 16 games from 18, crazy streak, i am hyped up for next season, something special will come!!!

The timing of the talk about Arsene Wenger getting a new Arsenal contract could hardly have been worse, on the back of a title ending defeat by Chelsea that looked so simple for the Blues that the Gunners have been compared to youngsters kicking a ball about with the big boys in the playground.

Wenger is getting worse, those big defeats last year, the fact that we as fans weren't thinking of a win at the Chelsea game but hoping for a small defeat shows just how far off the pace Wenger is.

It would have been a big help to Arsenal and our chances of winning the Premier League this season if Leicester City had managed to beat Chelsea or at least stop the league leaders from adding another three points to their total, especially after the setback of a defeat last week and the loss of their main striker Diego Costa this weekend, but the fragile Foxes could not even hold out for seven minutes.

No matter how much blame you allocate to Arsene Wenger for the poor performances of Arsenal this season in big games like the home defeat by Watford, the limp display away to Chelsea and most obviously the complete battering at the hands of Bayern Munich, you must realise that the manager does not send the side out with instructions to play poorly or not put much effort in.

This is one of the worst performance I have ever seen.not even defeats against the big 3 in the bpl last year was so painful.this formation sucks as nothing working for us..

I have also listened to idea that the crushing defeats away to our biggest rivals would have been avoided if we had had for example a Schneiderlin, Carvalho, Martinez or Khedira etc in our line - up.

Fortunately for the Gunners, no one has yet really taken the Premier League by the scruff of the neck and with the German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich in our Champions League group, it was always looking like Arsenal would not finish on top and so that defeat away to Dinamo Zagreb is not necessarily a big problem.

The 5 - 1 defeat has the football media and the fans full of criticism for the Arsenal players, especially the defenders, and wondering whether this awful result has given Tottenham a big boost ahead of Sunday's north London derby.

The big German Per Mertesacker was our captain in Arsenal's humiliating defeat at Tottenham on Saturday and by rights should be accepting some of the responsibility for allowing Harry Kane to punish us twice.

Our side will be keen for a big performance against the Reds, having already been embarrassed by the Anfield club in August when they gave us a 4 - 0 thrashing on Merseyside, and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain will hopefully be on the end of both defeats having played at wing - back for us in the reverse fixture shortly before moving to our rivals.

2) OZIL if he would have not been our biggest signing, you can bet your bottom dollar that he would be warming bench on a permanent basis, he is great player no doubt, but not for ARSENAL, I will always say OZIL was never the same since that defeat at ETIHAD against Man City, when BFG had to reprimand his attitude after the game.

After losing to both Kiev and Olympiakos last season and defeat to Bayern we put ourselves in a very bad position but won are remaining matches including big win against Bayern We can't put ourselves in that position PSG are favourites but they are beatable we need to improve our performance from Saturday We need to work hard for 90 + minutes and who knows We need to expect PSG to be at their best But we have a lot of talent and we can do it