Sentences with phrase «by opponents do»

Being fouled by an opponent does not constitute «conning» him, nor does standing your ground when he shoves his snarling, bestial face into yours.

Not exact matches

President Francois Hollande's Socialist government, accused by political opponents of doing too little to avert the attack that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, also said it would step up strikes against Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

The response was too little, too late, and it did virtually nothing to quell accusations that the decision to defund Planned Parenthood was motivated by its new vice president, Karen Handel, a staunch opponent of abortion.

Trump may always be despised by his opponents, but that does not bother him as much as they may think.

Limbaugh accused O'Reilly of marginalizing his owner viewers — opponents of gay marriage — by saying that they didn't have a compelling argument and calling them «Bible thumpers.»

Still, any poker player knows that you don't win by getting the best cards, but by knowing your opponent's weaknesses.

And for the Wildrose, a vote for the motion, even by one or two of that party's MLAs, would have done a lot of demonstrate the party is more moderate on social issues than its opponents claim.

In other words, what this statistic shows is that Bill 6 was desperately needed, and that the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act courageously passed by the Alberta Legislature on Dec. 10, 2015, by the government of Premier Rachel Notley in the face of huge — and when it came to its political opponents, hugely dishonest — opposition was the right thing to do.

I don't want to rehearse the whole debate in this column, but I do want to address a claim made by opponents of FRB.

So his strategy is to get the focus off himself, as LBJ did (and Nixon did in 1972) by demonizing his opponent as less than decent and real dangerous.

Also, he disrespects her as a wrestler and an opponent by choosing to forfeit» No, I don't think he was worried about losing to her.

The quantum physicist Max Planck famously quipped: «A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.»

When he's down, he'll try to get his adrenaline going; when he doesn't feel threatened by his opponent, he'll maintain that calm exterior fans have come to expect.

This program gives Wilson many opponents: anti-functionalists among theorists and historians of religion (it's no accident that among theorists of religion Wilson chooses arch-functionalist Émile Durkheim as his hero); evolutionary theorists who don't think that such theory is usefully applicable to social groups; those who think it is applicable to social groups, but conclude that religious groups are maladaptive; and theological realists, who think the whole enterprise vitiated by its procedural naturalism.

I will not deny that I give more weight than he does to the fact of the apparent inability of the opponents of the early Christian preaching to silence the message of the Resurrection once for all by producing Christ's remains.

Post-metaphysical historicists win, when they do, not by out - arguing their opponents, but by out - narrating them, by telling a story with sufficient verve and inventiveness that others also want to tell versions of it, and in doing so to abandon their older stories» in this case, the stories about truth and realism.

Don't expect a debate performance by an opponent to do this jodo this job.

To speak of something called «Christian America,» as both the advocates and the opponents of this idea are nowadays at high levels of passion wont to do, is by itself evidence of how un-Christian the country has become.

[If a foreign government is your opponent, then you should first offer justice and peace, but if this is refused then defend yourself by force against force...] And in such a war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of war.13

It was a panel of unscrupulous church «fathers» who destroyed other books that were equally inspired by God but didn't agree with their favorites; who were inspired by God to stifle dissent by persecuting and even murdering those who disagreed with them, just as God in his wisdom inspired the infanticide and genocide described in the Old Testament; just as God inspired the Crusades and the Inquisition, just as God now inspires those currently working to establish a global Islamic state to eliminate their opponents.

What the ex-KGB hand, Putin, has gotten done is this: He's erected a kleptocratic quasi-dictatorship on top of a crumbling civil society while murdering his political opponents, invading his neighbors, backstopping Syria's murderous Bashar al - Assad, and conducting a fantastic propaganda campaign throughout the world (supported, sadly, by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church)-- all of which is aimed at reversing the verdict of recent history, rebuilding Stalin's empire in a new guise, and deconstructing the West.

Luther did not bother to refer to the fact that he was in the middle of a 40,000 - word Latin text, entitled «Against Latomus», replying to an attack on him by an old opponent at Louvain.

I am inclined to believe also that some of the Christians who condone and practice ultraviolence do so out of frustration; when faced by ultraviolent opponents, they see no possible response other than ultraviolence.

Supplying selective information that is reframed to position a corporation or other entity in unfavourable light so as to encourage it to press for changes is a tactic adopted by some social change and environmental organisations, yet it is the sort of things those lobbies accuse their opponents of doing.

Against Sunderland, the Gunners need to make their passing and attacks count, and get this game done and dusted by Half - Time; failing which, the aforementioned duo of Johnson and Wickham will start growing in stature and pose serious problems for the Arsenal backline that can be rattled when their opponents start running at them.

Special teams can flip a game all by itself, and if it does so in a Clemson game this year, it's probably flipping it to the opponent.

Ozil might have created assists and chances, but most of the assists are from set pieces and most of the chances are predictable chances that can easily be nullified by the opponents (that is why they do not become goals, but just «chances»).

Did he became bad player by coming to arsenal??? 3) Arsenal best wins like against Borussia dortmund away, Liverpool at home, napoli at home, where we totally dominated the opponents, came when wilshere was not playing??? 4) Our worst defeat like BD at home, Liverpool away, Manchester City away came when Wilshere played??

In Mahrez case, he is definitely a wide attacking player, who goes by opponents as if they are not there, has good technical abilities, a wonderful left foot, and does score goals, probably would score more in a team like Arsenal.

I'm not really fazed by the opponents, I just try to do my thing and try to go for the win.

I rally don't know what is going on with Mr Wenger he let jensen go to spurs and now he is diddling his finger around It looking like «we didn't find the quality striker we needed» we have a tough start with new shrewd managers around by October we could be in the relegation zone God forbid I recommend we voice our concern now rather in the middle of the competition so not to embarrass our selves in front of our opponents in the stands

We have the best midfielders EPL and I would go and say outfield players too but we are not using them properly MR Wenger do sent change tactics to suit opponents and never seems to want to change tactics during a match he likes to play safe and sates comfortably converting with his assistance with nothing much than calm sometimes it back fires with losing by 8 goals and that is what drives me crazy with MR Wenger

But he is one of the best off the ball runner that we have — opponents does not want to play high defensive line or press our midfielder higher on the pitch due to the threat he pose — you may argue that the long distance scorcher by Sanchez in the FA final is due to their CBs slow in closing him down, wearying of the Walcott threat.

I have been looking at our remaining fixtures and the previous head to heads (Last 5 meetings) with our opponents and I must say that apart from our away games at Utd and City, (where we could get a draw) we are more than capable of winning the rest, going by them stats, but of course that doesn't allow for the Wenger mistakes of late!

Flanked by fellow undergrads at a lunch table, the most improved player in college basketball is annihilating his tray's contents — bacon cheeseburger, fries, fruit cup, orange juice — the way he does opponents in the paint.

At least Ramsey, as reported by The Guardian, the midfielder was sounding upbeat about the chances of the Gunners doing just that, despite the fact that out next opponents are the league leaders Leicester City who are in fine form and are coming to north London having produced a great away display to put another title rival Man City to the sword.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, I find that (1) it is better to lose later in the season than earlier, (2) AP voters do not pay attention to the strength of a defeated opponent, and (3) the benefit of winning by a large margin is negligible.

Arsene Wenger has been complaining all season about the referees awarding penalties to Arsenal's opponents and the schoolboy errors committed by our defenders, but in his eyes the only reason we have been losing is we simply don't score enough goals.

The way I will do that is by taking the teams that are still tied and add up their opponents points in the standings.

If you didn't know who a fighter was and judged by the quality of opponents, DJ wouldn't even be close.

With the bulk of the game now being played out in their own half Hertha's only real hope of stealing the three points lay on exposing their opponents faults on the counter attack and ten minutes remaining they very almost did only for Nico Schulz to spurn a glorious chance which was created by veteran Ivory Coast front man Salomon Kalou.

It is just that opponents have started targeting arsenal by being unusually physical... did u guys see the tackles that david silva made on arsenal players?

Its funny because if that was done by an opponent player then we would have been crying.

His side are set to take on Bournemouth this weekend, and he has moved to praise the work being done by his upcoming opponent Eddie Howe, claiming he would be a great fit for the Arsenal job in the future.

Inevitably, a defensive midfielder will find themselves tackling because they operate in the area of the pitch where all the opponent's genius players are, but most of the tackling and dirty work is done by the box to box midfielder.

After a couple of attacks by the Gunners they lost the ball and Jack Wilshere did one of his trademark tackles in the opponents half and got himself booked.

After Oleg Gusev got knocked unconscious by an inadvertent knee from the goalie, defenseman Jaba Kankava came to the immediate rescue of his opponent, making sure that his tongue didn't block his air passage.

or simply trying to prove us all wrong again by showing that he could play just about anybody anywhere and win a game on the road against a top opponent; something he hasn't done in quite some time... regardless of the reasons, there is simply no excuse for the goings - on at this club... unfortunately it's unlikely that any real change will come without a dedicated effort on the part of those that feed the beast... our absentee landlord doesn't invest his own money into this club, so in order to force out Kroenke, Wenger and whatever other vermin currently haunt our hallowed halls we need to hit him where it really hurts... continually filling «his» stadium and the constant buying of endless merchandise, like one of the 58 different jerseys available over the last few years, makes us the greatest enablers of all time... have we no self - respect?

Their opponents simply seemed to be taken over by some sort of fear factor because they froze on the day as if totally overawed by a few big names (as you seem to be) and did not play to their normal standards.

Arsenal could really do with a win in the Premier League's first match of the weekend, though, to stretch that gap between us and Everton, so maybe Ronald Koeman also did us a favour at the weekend by beating our next opponents West Brom and making it two defeats in a row for Tony Pulis and the Baggies.