Sentences with phrase «by damaging defeats»

While they've had two draws with the Blues in January, those were both followed by damaging defeats.

Not exact matches

His reputation was severely damaged by the Peasants» War itself, and by the defeat of the rebel armies, Erasmus's book against Luther had finally polarised almost all opinion either pro or contra Luther, and Luther's reply to it would confirm this.

After all, a point away from home against the champions would not be a bad result by any means, whereas yet another defeat, even if it is a narrow one, would inflict further damage on the confidence and self - belief of the Arsenal players.

Ledley King's chronic knee problems could rule him out as he struggles to play more than once a week and he started the 2 - 1 defeat by Norwich City on Monday, while Michael Dawson is sidelined for the season with ankle ligament damage.

So the former Arsenal academy star Kristoffer Olsson and his team mates from the Danish champions FC Midtjylland did us a massive favour by inflicting a painful and damaging defeat on Louis van Gaal and his players last night.

First up is the visit of City, who may still be reeling after the shock home defeat by Stoke City in their last Premier League outing, so a fast start by Arsenal at home is definitely the order of the day, while I am sure that former United man Welbeck will be extra keen to inflict more damage on his old enemies.

«We thought it important to publicly thank the lads for their performance and to say we emerge defeated by two decisions that were not debatable, but shameful and damaging to all of Italian football.

This was followed by a damaging «El Clasico» defeat to Real Madrid which and a fourth defeat to Real Sociedad in La Liga in as many seasons.

Yet that era has largely now been navigated and it is this changing narrative that makes Wednesday's 3 - 1 defeat by Monaco so potentially damaging.

Gary Neville says Man City were «rumbled» by Man Utd - and Saturday's 3 - 2 defeat will damage their Champions League hopes.

The trouble apparently flared after the disappointing and damaging derby defeat by Barcelona on Sunday and if it does not get sorted out soon then it could affect the team's focus for the crucial final nine games of this La Liga season.

The Blues were beaten by Liverpool at Anfield while Arsenal were humbled by Newcastle at The Emirates, but for Chelsea the situation isn't so bad as they still boast a two - point lead at the top of the table whereas Arsenal suffered their second home defeat of the season, once again against an opponent you would never have envisaged beating the Gunners on their own patch, and their latest setback could do no end of damage to the morale in camp.

Conte saw his side comprehensively beaten in the Champions League by Roma at the end of last month but the 1 - 0 Premier League defeat of Manchester United that followed was an indication no permanent damage had been sustained in Italy.

Damaging defeats to teams who were once dominated by Ronaldo and co has plagued the beginning to their title defence.

While Cameron is seen at Westminster as seriously, if not fatally, damaged by his Commons defeat, those close to the prime minister still believe he can restore his authority by using the Syria fiasco as a way to portray Miliband as weak, opportunistic and unstatesmanlike for failing to support the government over a matter of grave international significance.

By far the most important factor in the Conservative defeat was Black Wednesday and the damage that this did to the Conservative's image for economic competence.

If the Labour brand becomes so damaged by the Corbyn leadership that it can no longer defeat the Tories, it's not impossible that a new force could be created which could.

«Instead of reacting in ways that could damage the trust and love of Nigerians for one another, the President has acted more on the side of caution by ensuring that actions to defeat terrorism are carefully thought - out and pursued.»

David Cameron was saved from a potentially humiliating Commons defeat on gay marriage by the Labour party last night, after a complicated series of political manoeuvres saw the prime minister face another damaging rebellion from his backbenchers.

Major boundary changes damaged his hold on the seat ahead of the 2008 election when Natt was defeated by the CLP's Ross Bohlin.

Progress (damage, points accumulated, etc.) against a Kulve Taroth will roll over into the next Special Investigation and remain until you have defeated it (by breaking off the horns completely), or it gets away.

To defeat Fugu, the Kongs will have to damage him nine times by several means, which include ramming into his backside while he is bloated, ramming a Green Fish into him, or by hitting him while he is deflated.

To capture a Mirage in battle, players not only require an empty prism of the corresponding type but also to put the Mirage in the Prismtunity state, which is inflicted by doing specific battle actions such as dealing physical damage, healing, inflicting status ailments, defeat all the other Mirages first and more.

- Dragon Ball Fusions gets a third update on December 7 - a special quest that will be added - players go investigate a distortion in the space - time continuum, and quickly find out it's caused by Goku Black - trying to get control of all dimensions in order to annihilate mankind - quest includes a series of online challenges - offers special rewards to get - get something simply by participating (such as new characters) Challenge # 1 (December 7th to December 13th)- Challenge: battle against Goku Black (deal as much damage as possible)- Participation reward: Super Saiyan Trunks (Super)- Rank reward: Light Sword (a new special move for Super Saiyan Trunks (Super)-RRB-- Clear reward: new title (Mother's Spirit) Challenge # 2 (December 14th to December 20th)- Challenge: battle against Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegeta (defeat him as many times as possible)- Participation reward: Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegeta - Rank reward: Final Kamehameha (a new special move for Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegeta)- Clear reward: new title (Savior) Challenge 3 (December 21st to December 27th)- Challenge: battle against Fusion Zamasu (defeat him as fast as possible)- Participation reward: Fusion Zamasu - Rank reward: Holy Wrath (unlock a new special move for Fusion Zamasu)- Clear reward: new title (The One Who Felled God)

This is complicated by several factors: 1) the monsters» cues have stopped being obvious, often requiring one to lose units to massively powerful attacks before the pattern can be discerned; 2) you have to time your commands to the beat, and the monsters» patterns are often slightly off the beat, resulting in their attack catching your units just before they Defend or Retreat; 3) the monsters deal ridiculous amounts of damage, resulting in many a cheap defeat.

And if you rack up enough Kudos by defeating enemies without taking damage, she'll sing for you during play, giving you an added boost.

During the encounter with Draxus in 8 - Player Story Mode, the damage dealt by Mass Affliction is now consistent after the Corruptor is defeated.

- split up into three waves - each wave gives the team a quota of eggs to collect, as well as a time limit - goal is to defeat enemies, causing them to drop eggs - haul those eggs back to the basket - if you meet your quota (and you're still alive) when time expires, all remaining enemies retreat and you move on - when you start out, the difficulty can be set to 5 % out of a possible 100 % - heavy Salmonids have armor in the front, so you have to him them in the back - when Inklings take too much damage in Salmon Run, they can be revived by a teammate shooting them with ink - another boss character is a tall, slender creature that approaches from the shoreline - this boss is made up off pots, which you have to shoot to make disappear - another boss is a massive metal eel that rains down ink - the eel is piloted by a Salmonid creature, which you have to take out to stop the eel - another boss has two trashcans attached to the side of it, and it hovers over the battlefield, - a trashcan opens and it rains down blobs of ink onto you - you can take him out by tossing bombs into the open trashcans - Nintendo says that 40 % difficulty is the highest difficulty people on the Nintendo E3 team could beat.

Other battle issues are less noticeable, one being that if you queue all three of your characters to attack an enemy soldier and the soldier is out of health by the second attack, your third character will still target the already defeated enemy and deal points of useless damage instead of attacking a different enemy.

Players defeat enemies by forming words from a set number of random available letters a la Scrabble, with longer words dealing more damage.

Hardcore players who can blow by that challenge as - is can choose to make the fight harder: in Fable, players can boast they can defeat a boss unarmored, or without taking damage.

Learning how to defeat all the boss attacks is your primary goal, this is done by dying a lot and trying to figure out how to dodge or dealing damage.

This move requires building up energy, which is done by defeating enemies and causing damage.

As you take damage, be sure to collect the green Spark capsules as well as green Sparks left behind by defeated enemies.

When trying to defeat the Viscount, you'll want to keep an eye out for the Mercurial Salve trinket, as it will increase the damage you deal to bloodsuckers (like the Viscount) by a high margin.

Special moves are charged when you attack enemies — While Link is fighting, Hylian Troops also fight — They don't mind if you accidentally hit them in the heat of battle — Impa is in the demo and she gives Link tips — Tutorials also have the classic «hey, listen» line when they pop up — Castle Keep has a power up bomb — This is a one use item with a huge blast radius — Link can also collect Rupees dropped by enemies and glowing hearts to restore his life — E3 demo ends with a King Dodongo boss fight who appears at the North Square — King Dodongo breaths a cone of fire Link has to dodge — The trick to beating him is throwing bombs in his mouth when he inhales — Then Link can follow up with a combo ending with a fatal downward slash — Zelda uses a glowing rapier to fight — Has a combo where she darts left and right — Zelda has 3 orbs — You can charge these by pressing heavy attack and then use orbs as combo finishers like creating a golden triangle on the ground that damages all of the enemies inside it — Zelda also has a combo ending with a barrage of arrows from a golden bow — Zelda's special move is a charged bow strike that knocks enemies back — Lizardos was the first enemy with a weak point and if you hit him on the head you'll knock him down — Fill up your Focus Spirit meter with magic jars — When this is full you can press R to get a speed and attack burst — Your character will glow yellow and get a new combo too — Zelda can use three elemental magic spells as her Focus Spirit combo — Hyrule Warriors says «Zelda defeated Moblin» when you knock out a general

I also loved the added replay value with the StreetPass functions — defeating the Shadow Link characters of my friends was a lot of fun, and it was even more interesting to try the different «challenges» by equipping specific item and meeting certain conditions — take no damage, use no items, and so on.

Kill the horde of Skull warriors and collect the ectoplasm to set up towers and defenses whenever the magic stones light up: CATAPULTS, to throw flame to the enemy; BARRICADES, to block the attackers in their path; BARRELS, to shoot fire arrows and explode them in the middle of a skeleton legion; POISON PLANTS, to hit the warriors and slay them slowly while they walk... There are diverse types of magic energy to use at war: LIGHTNING, to defeat targets with metal or steel armor; FIRE, to burn light armor troops and blow up the exploding barrels; ICE, to turn your victims into ice cubes and slow them down; POISON, just one drop and the victim will succumb little by little to its toxic effects; STUN, to shoot and make their heads spin and leave them stupefied; EXPLOSIVE, to send everything flying with its strong TNT head... Use all with the different kind of arrows and do individual, radius or multiple damage.

«Where any person suffers damage as the result partly of his own fault and partly of the fault of any other person or persons, a claim in respect of that damage shall not be defeated by reason of the fault of the person suffering the damage, but the damages recoverable in respect thereof shall be reduced to such extent as the court thinks just and equitable having regard to the claimant's share in the responsibility of the damage».

The Wall Street Journal - February 11, 1998 The Wall Street Journal reported on this case in which I successfully represented a shipping company, which defeated the narrow interests of insurance defense attorneys, in a lawsuit where attorneys for U.S. insurance companies were seeking to compel all foreign shipping companies to litigate claims, regarding damages to goods shipped by sea, in U.S. Courts, regardless of where the damage occurred, or the home country of the ship involved or of its owners.

Representation of a mechanical contractor in the prosecution of multimillion - dollar delay and inefficiency claims against a New Jersey school district and its designers, defeating «No Damages for Delay» provision asserted by way of summary judgment and obtaining favorable settlement for client following three days of mediation.

iv) Did the terms of EE's termination letter defeat any claim by EE for damages for loss of bargain?

Appreciating this, can a Plaintiff simply defeat a Defence application to put a case into Rule 68 by claiming he will seek more than $ 100,000 in total damages at trial?

His experience includes leading internal investigations in response to government agency subpoenas and requests for information; persuading the Department of Justice to decline intervention in cases seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in False Claims Act damages; defeating claims brought by the United States in government - intervened cases; and obtaining dismissals of qui tam suits prior to discovery.

We defeated an attempt by the purchaser of an auto component manufacturing company to obtain substantial damages from investment fund and management sellers based on alleged breaches of the merger agreement and alleged fraudulent representations during the diligence period for the acquisition.