Sentences with phrase «big strike against»

If you bristle or become annoyed, that can be a big strike against you.

A simple mistake could be a big strike against you.

... science has just issued a pretty big strike against letting kids younger than 14 cross solo.

So Confessions of a Shopaholic already had one big strike against it: I wasn't sure I'd be able to empathize with the heroine.

That's a pretty big strike against the movie from the start, and although Blitz tries his best to mold the story into a sort of adult «Breakfast Club,» the characters are paper - thin and none of the subplots pay off, including a potential romance between Eloise and a hunky wedding crasher (Thomas Cocquerel) that goes nowhere.

I wondered how I would like the Intak but I can now say I am a huge fan and while the Intak is a reusable (green) water bottle it does have a big strike against it... it is plastic.

First, it appeals to our religious pride (which is a big strike against it).

The biggest strike against Rango, though - for both the movie and the hero - is that the lizard is so damn ugly.

The Audi S8 Plus strays from the traditional muscle car path with its fullsize f4 - door body, but the biggest strike against it is that unlike a traditional muscle car, the S8 plus features all - wheel drive.

However, old, unsettled debt likely counts as the biggest strike against you.

If a manager has a bad year, it's like 3 big strikes against them: a) AUM declines due to negative investment returns, b) AUM declines due to client redemptions, AND c) sentiment's likely to slap a lower valuation on their resulting AUM & revenues.

The biggest strike against the combat, though, is defense missions in the open beta were downright dependent on close - quarters combat; no matter how many zombies I burned, shot, or blew up, I eventually had to hack at them with machetes and axes thanks to their sheer numbers.

The biggest strike against the GBA version is it's awkward 3/4 perspective that makes judging jumps more difficult than it should.

A low median household income and high insurance costs are big strikes against Oklahoma for single parents.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Pompeo «is also a big strike» against the JCPOA, Eurasia Group's chairman added.

The likelihood of a United States strike against Syria after a suspected chemical weapons attack increased Sunday as President Trump said there would be a «big price to pay» and officials in France vowed the country would «do its duty» in responding.

The United States imposed major new sanctions against Russia on Friday, striking at senior Russian officials and some of the country's biggest companies in one of Washington's most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other «malign activity».

Now, they see an opportunity to strike back against one of their biggest rivals — and they're pulling no punches.

From Carlson's view, it was the resulting liberation of lots and lots of women to be wage slaves just like men that struck a decisive blow against the big and stable American family.

If the Spurs players are forced to watch that game beforehand they will know that they are up against a formidable strike force which is taylor - made to give any team in the world big problems.

Rotate him and the Coq and play them together if you want to boss / nullify the midfield against the big boys who have a potent strike force (I.e Barca).

Sanchez was very poor 2day & shld have been substituted earlier bt the boss decided 2 remove Walcott instead, the 1st goal against us was supposed 2 be disallowed as Bellerin was struck down & injured, arsenal played the 1st half without a recognised striker on the pitch meanwhile we had 3 recognised strikers on the bench & finally why do we always play with fear when we play against a big team?

As well as that, he's also shown he's a big game player with a late strike at a big moment in a derby game, his 23rd against London - based opposition.

The only one that will strike fear in the players is Simeone, but you will have to give up possesion football against the big teams, that is his tactics against the big teams.

But in the eyesof big league clubs, Cust had two strikes against him: He was an all - or - nothinghitter, and he had a lousy glove.

Erikson last night also nicked important goal for Tottenham against Palace with beautiful strike... It will be interesting to see how game will take place because Tottenham always play on counter against Big teams..

I believe we don't have the striking power to break Chelsea, RM, BM, Barca, PSG, and even Utd (after improving their side)... Giroud is too handy against big experienced CB's and Walcott can not find his spot against deep and dense defense, Welback (I have hope in this guy) needs to step up his first touch, finishing, and hold up play... we need a wc striker much more than we need DM, because when Coq is fit (doubt that the case all over the season) we are fine in that department but ST even with all fit and inform we would find difficulties to break strong defenses (not Sunderland, WB, AstonVilla.

Other memorable Rooney strikes include his volley against Newcastle all the way back in 2004, and of course his late winner against Arsenal in 2002 that announced him on the big stage.

The former Galway United midfielder is about to embark on his first full senior season at Loftus Road and his strike in a pre-season friendly against Lokomotive Leipzig is anything to go by, he could be in for an even bigger and better...

Big weekend for the Golden Eagles as they have to strike out on the road against the Hoyas before heading to Omaha to tangle with the first place Bluejays.

Kane looked like he needed a confidence - boosting goal, so his strike was welcome ahead of the big one against Man United.

And I have another, bigger, strike against me — I'm divorced, so it's likely I may be fending for myself during my golden years.

In 1888 they went on all - out strike against their appalling conditions and management bullying, taking on one of Britain's biggest and most ruthless firms - and winning.

One of the coalition's biggest defeats of the last parliament came in 2013 over proposed air strikes in Syria against President Assad.

The resulting $ 1.16 million Extreme Events initiative would test the trio's approach against the most advanced power grid simulator then available, operated by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), to predict where and how often big blackouts struck.

The big turn in the Dougie story was the strike against Ike the Spike, the small, muscular murderer who nearly did in Good Cooper.

Every fat cat from Las Lomas Polo is shadowed wherever he goes by five or six escorts, and Spider Salazar is even worse; ever since he struck it rich he's had himself protected by a troop of thugs trained in Israel, and that night Spider, who hadn't been on a horse for months because he was clogged with cholesterol and had to content himself with watching from the stands, that night Spider, who was completely plastered, ordered them to bring him the most spirited horse, a big, imperious bay called Parsley, and if I say «called,» Agustina princess, it's because no one calls it anything anymore, since in the darkness, the mud, and the commotion, Parsley lost his temper and threw Spider, slamming him against a rock, and then some genius of a bodyguard, a guy they call the Sucker, had the brilliant idea of teaching the horse a lesson by blasting it with his machine gun, leaving it riddled like a sieve with its hooves pointing up at the moon, the most pathetic little scene imaginable.

Nonetheless, at least seventy percent of the books sold in the U.S. are still print, so Amazon's inability to get its titles into bookstores was a huge strike against the vision that it would be able to compete directly against general trade publishers on big fiction and nonfiction titles.

The flag carrier reported a # 25m operating profit in the third quarter, against analyst predictions of a loss of # 90 - # 100m, and a loss of # 51m year - on - year, despite the big freeze and the threat of strike action disrupting operations.

Lending ideas from the MMO genre, the end of the story is arguably the beginning of the main game - teaming up with allies to earn stronger loot across its Strike instances, PvP modes and, starting next week, its first Raid scenario that welcomes bigger teams of 6 to fight together against powerful bosses in a new location.

Many Video Game Voice Actors are striking against a number of the industry's biggest companies because of how gaming publishers are handling voice acting contracts and performances as a whole.

Because bomber is specialized to fight against big ships while fighter is great at striking ships like bomber.

Conserving energy at home may strike some as about as sexy as Jimmy Carter's sweater, but changes in how we use electricity daily may provide the biggest bang for our buck in contributing to the fight against global warming.

al, the estate of a man killed in a truck accident, Sam Tom, filed a lawsuit against the big rig driver who struck his vehicle and the trucking company that employed him.

The Galaxy Alpha is a preemptive strike against a bigger iPhone, it measures just 6.7 mm thick and weighs 115g.