Sentences with phrase «by knocking them off»

The Knights kept their hopes of an undefeated season alive by knocking off Memphis for the American Athletic Conference championship, setting up Monday's battle in Mercedes - Benz Stadium.

Once a good bet for the second division, Cincinnati has now won the respect of the doubters by knocking off its toughest pennant rival

Barnes was a role player for the «We Believe Warriors,» made famous by knocking off the No. 1 seed Dallas Mavericks as the No. 8 seed in 2007.

While, # 15 Team Cohen, exercised some Playoff demons by knocking off last year's Runners - Up # 2 Team Sternberg.

They have plenty of time to make a name for themselves and wouldn't it be fitting if they get their first W as a unit by knocking off the Undefeated # 1 Team SAE in Hoops on Sept. 30?

After grabbing everyone's attention by knocking off Kansas in Lawrence and edging West Virginia when the Mountaineers were ranked No. 2, the Red Raiders came back to Earth down the stretch with a four - game losing streak to land a No. 3 seed and a date with 2016 tournament darlings Stephen F. Austin.

Last year theSeminoles snapped a six - game losing streak in the series by knocking off theHurricanes 10 - 7 in Tallahassee.

To ensure the flake fractured with the right proportions, toolmakers often first shaped the core by knocking off scrap pieces in a systematic way.

They are «tamed», in general, by breaking their spirit: often by starvation and beatings, and sometimes by knocking them off their feet with tractors and tying them down.

He supplements his city employee salary by knocking off gambling parlors and betting joints in his free time.

A great place to kill 10 opponents by knocking them off somewhere high with the Aard sign is the Bandit Camp at the «Devil's Pit» fast travel point in Velen.

If you're easily discouraged and in search of positive reinforcements, ranking your debt from lowest to highest amount can keep you motivated by knocking off several smaller amounts quickly.

Just as I was creating some space in Award Wallet by knocking off all the US Air accounts... #rolleyes -LSB-...]

Since you defeat other players by knocking them off the map or into hazards, the Practice isn't really suitable for preparing players for the real game.

Not exact matches

Dollar Shave Club was already trying to knock the incumbents off balance by igniting a price war.

If Verizon knocked $ 1 billion off its billion offer, that would be an impact of 62 cents a share after taxes, Helfstein said, far below the $ 2.03 per share that Yahoo fell by Thursday afternoon.

By the end of trading, fear of an all - out trade war had knocked more than 2 % off the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

He did — and also displayed flyers that warned customers of knock - offs sold by a large company at the same trade show.

The «find» option would bring up very similar options and let you sort by price point and delivery time, so you could find the Crate and Barrel knock off of that designer table you saw in a magazine.

Yes, bow ties have appeared on Glee, that popular Gilbert and Sullivan knock - off, and they've recently been endorsed as «cool» by none other than Doctor Who.

During his second stint at Atari, in 1975, Jobs worked on a «Pong» knock - off called «Breakout» with the help of his longtime friend Wozniak, who did most of the engineering work on the video game, even though he wasn't being paid by Atari.

By aligning your business or brand with a YouTube creator whose following matches your target demographic, you can knock off multiple birds — content creation, audience alignment and a high - profile endorsement — with one stone.

To begin, he knocks our most respected experts off their pedestals, dismissing the notion that peer - reviewed studies by scientists and academics are beyond reproach.

The retailer positions itself as offering a luxe dollar - store shopping experience, «unique» products and higher quality goods than homegrown Dollarama, Canada's king of knock - offs, but it does so by copying Japanese chains that came before it.

Taking those excess funds and putting them directly toward student debt can knock off months if not years of payments by reducing the principal balance and ultimately, the interest.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro ordered a re-denomination of the ailing bolivar currency today by knocking three zeroes off amid hyperinflation and a crippling economic crisis.

With more than 30 years of recommending stocks under his belt, Charles has knocked the cover off the ball by compiling an amazing record of success and by posting gain after gain for his loyal readers.

Set up autopay — called «auto debit» by Citizens Bank — to get 0.25 % knocked off your interest rate.

«It would have been perfectly proper,» Wood begins by insisting, «if Mailer had knocked Jesus off his throne, as a serious writer should try to do.

By not advocating sinning and preaching against sinning, the goal is to produce sorrow for sinning thereby knocking us off our high horse and enableing the gospel (forgiveness for sinners) to go to work in the life of the sinner.

You might be sick and tired of being single and alone, watching your friends get knocked off, one by one, into the world of love while you feel more and more isolated.

We could have picked off all of the «worshipers» headed to the shrine and knocked al - qaeda off the map one - by - one.

Scripture teaches that we all have a responsibility to grow into maturity and not remain baby Christians who are easily knocked off course by dodgy doctrines or by chasing after faddish spiritual practices.

Note to anyone who wants to see this country ruled by religion: Please knock it the heck off.

And since said pseudo Paul never got knocked off a horse by «god», he / she has no credence.

I find myself suddenly seated in a pew, having been gently knocked off my feet by light.

And then in (with a gleeful chuckle of righteous indignation, of course) when you knock them off the ladder, you can assume that the divine saftey net will teach them a lesson by conveniently letting them hit the bottom with full force.

But horseradish as a food can trace its roots back at least 3,000 years, when some adventurous eater first bit off a piece of the pungent root and was knocked backward by the blow to his head.

The timer went off and as I walked into the living room, I was almost knocked over by the smell of chocolate that was undulating out of the kitchen.

Punctuated by a tang of buttermilk and the smoky flavors of bourbon, this pie will knock you off your feet.

We were simply knocked off by the killer combination of grilled chicken salad with ranch!

It is one thing to understand that Chinese consumers want to «live the dream» by showing off knock - off products that are almost identical to the appearance of the real products.

Hoping that the peaches on my trees won't get knocked off by a late freeze as they did this year Bookmarking this recipe for sure!

There's delectable sushi and other Japanese fare provided by local favorite Azuki (I highly recommend the seafood shumai dumplings); to - die - for ramen bowls, my current obsession, from Kuro Obi — Ippudo's quick - serve spin - off; roasted duck shawarma and other Mediterranean delights from ilili Box; masterful Mexican fare from Gabriela's Taqueria, where the grilled skirt steak and homemade house vinaigrette dressing will knock your socks off; decadent lobster, crab and shrimp rolls and clam chowder all doing New England proud; and beer and burgers courtesy of Whitmans New York.

They make this sausage sweet potato ball surrounded by mushed plantains then deep - fried like a Scotch egg: it'll knock your socks off.

Fight these little pests with fire by knocking the aphids off the seedlings with a spray mixture of soapy water and chile powder.

I often try to save time by making the curry as the squash is roasting, I can usually knock a good 20 minutes off overall cook time this way.

I even figured out a knock - off by accident one day, after I accidentally put my homemade ice cream in the fridge.

Iowa opened the day with a win, knocking off Illinois by three to earn the right to face top - seeded Michigan State.

The upset came in the third matchup of the day, when Northwestern was knocked off by Illinois, likely squashing the Wildcats» NCAA Tournament hopes.