Sentences with phrase «by their opponents based»

This is a group of guys that won't be judged by their opponents based on record.

Argumentum ad Hominem is particularly egregious in the context of climate science because its practitioners feel entitled to dismiss any fact or study done by an opponent based solely on the affiliation of the author, his funding source or his parentage.

Not exact matches

Opponents of Initiative 1183 noted how almost all the US$ 23 million spent by supporters came from Costco, a Washington - based retailer.

A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent.

Preseason projections still account for 30 percent of teams» ratings, which doesn't help, but neither do Arizona's poor performance against UTSA or Utah's plodding offense, which has been outgained by the opponent, on a per - play basis, in every game so far.

Massive results earned by two London based Premier League teams as both Tottenham Hotspur along with Arsenal successfully destroying their opponents on Sunday.

Opponents contend the measure, based off the Reproductive Health Act introduced by Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, would pave the way for partial - birth abortions, a result the Cuomo administration insists is incorrect.

Led by Manhattan GOP Chairman Dan Isaacs, supporters of Powers» opponent, Thomas Belesis, founder of the NYC - based financial services company John Thomas Financial, have also been working the phones.

Her Republican opponent is dissed by the the Speaker of the House, but that doesn't stop Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand from sending out a fundraising appeal based on the GOP convention here in Tampa:

Democratic State Senate candidate Justin Wagner vowed if elected he would block any legislation authorizing any transfer of municipal land for the construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline, a pledge he contended could not be promised by Republican opponent Terrence Murphy based on his voting record in Yorktown.

De Blasio distinguished himself from his opponents in last year's Democratic mayoral primary by highlighting his support for police reform, and in particular for legislation that exposed police officers to state lawsuits for alleged bias - based stops, and created the office of NYPD inspector general.

Multiple sources told us that Murphy will not run for the seat, formerly held by Clearwater Republican Jack Latvala... Currently, former state Rep. Ed Hooper is running for the Pinellas - based district against a long shot Democratic opponent, Bernie Fensterwald, and fellow Republican Ilir Karruli.

«Something like this could boost a Weiner opponent by 7 percentage points and, based on his last race, that could make it a serious race,» the source said.

White Van Conservatism is not based on «right wing caricature», as painted by our opponents.

Barrett, who is a Lake Placid - based defense attorney, said he looks forward to the general election where «I'll have to win by a wider margin to withstand another litigious attack by my opponent if he is upset with the results.»

Labour's opponents all have small activist bases, as evidenced by the former's dominance at council level.

Written by Caleb Taylor, December 10, 2016, at 12:40 p.m. Forts is a physics - based action - RTS, where players are challenged to construct custom bases and destroy their opponents in a battle for the last of Earth's natural resources.

The analogy: consider Starcraft... say a player manages to expand to 5 bases and keeps his opponent on only 2 bases by out manouvering him and generally out playing him; that match would probably descend into a killfest slaughter of every remaining asset the 2 base player had until he surrended or died completely.

Presented as a series of turn - based scenarios that unfold month by month over the course of fifty years, the goal in Empires mode is simple; unite all the provinces under one rule and crush your opponents.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

These barriers have kept choice - based reforms from receiving the proper trials they deserve, which is significant on two counts: first, by ensuring that only half - baked versions have been adopted, opponents have made it easier to claim that the reforms were tried but they failed; second, profound changes in a system - the kind of changes that choice would bring to bear - can not arise overnight.

Being that the information presented below is academic, fact - based and intellectual, some elected officials won't take the time to read it or perhaps understand it, but the information confirms what has been understood and discussed by opponents of the Common Core SBAC testing and other inappropriate standardized testing schemes.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average combines various stock prices to provide information about the health of the overall stock market; the Weather Channel reports «heat indexes» that combine temperature and humidity to indicate how hot it feels; Consumer Reports measures product quality by combining measures across multiple dimensions; college football rankings are based on an index that combines wins, losses, the quality of opponents, and other factors.

On a statewide basis, a lot of those average scores, in math in particular, aren't so great, a fact being lamented by state education officials and providing fodder for testing opponents.

Officials shot down the months - long effort based on a last - minute binder of «rescission» signatures collected by Parent Trigger opponents, including local representatives from the California Teachers Association — a move the judge now calls illegal.

Once a George H.W. Bush education official and an advocate for greater testing - based accountability, Diane Ravitch has in recent years become the nation's highest - profile opponent of Michelle Rhee's style of charter - based education reform (one also espoused by Barack Obama).

Going by the reputation of the Taiwan based company, it's likely to be a formidable opponent.

As a bit of review, the federal estate tax, is also coined the the «death tax» by opponents, and is a lump sum tax based upon the value of your gross estate upon death.

[10] Though far less than the «one billion birds» sometimes cited by TNR opponents, [11] ABC's «estimate» is based on some dubious assumptions.

The service works by essentially keeping all resources stolen by your opponent on your base, and then simply handing the rival identical copies of their hard - earned resources.

Players can decide to either quickly attack an opponent's base, adopt a more defensive strategy by fortifying their own headquarters or maintain a balance of offense and defence.

Additionally, Developer Samurai Punk must have a great sense of humour because I found myself extremely intrigued and entertained at the sly comments made by the quirky voice over guy when when eliminating an opponent, even the text - based comments kept everyone that was playing highly entertained.

The only way you're able to flank the enemy base is by air units, encouraging you to turtle up and surround yourself with base defenses when playing against human opponents.

The main objective of the game is to score more touchdowns than the opponent by the fourth quarter, but being a strategic, turn - based game, players can't just run up to the goal line and score freely.

To get rid of them, you must use other cards abilities to live to tell the tale until you've gathered enough supplies to escape or your opponents have their bases overrun by zombies.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

«To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that team - based combat has been pitted against real - time strategy in a balanced, live - action online game,» said Michael A. Williams, CEO of Reality Gap, Inc. «Shooters must confront swarms of alien opponents, but unlike most FPS games, they are playing against aliens managed by a human intelligence looking to outwit and outmaneuver them.»

Within a framework of turn - based strategy and turn - based combat, Lords of the Black Sun endeavours to differentiate itself by allowing players to beat their opponents by using Generals, diplomacy, intelligence, trading, or plotting the downfall of enemies by financing wars against them or aiming to cause anarchy.

The arcade version features the traditional stage - based playthrough, in which the player progresses by beating five different opponents one by one, ending with a fixed penultimate and final stage.

There are three event types including a race against three A.I. controlled opponents throughout a 3, 5, 7, 9 or 15 lap duration and the ability to have Nerf power - ups on or off, while elimination returns to the series» routes by having a round based system in which the character who is out of sight from their opponents gains progression towards winning the event with the ability to utilise an airstrike and have Nerf power - ups on or off.

You battle opponents 1v1 by selecting a hero which will give you a unique deck of battle cards based on their role and style.

The aim of the game is to eliminate the opponent and gain an advantage by taking over their base for example.

Strike too early, and you risk being knocked out right before a wave of fresh enemies comes to replenish you and your enemies» base, but strike too late and all the blocks you've yet to place will be stolen by your opponent.

These fights are based on the actual stats and items possessed by opponents, and fighting them adds them to a player's Rivals List.

Based upon the infamous historical conflict between the Cold War's two great super powers — the Soviet Union and the Unites States — you must choose which of these two countries you will lead to victory, as you strive to undermine and destroy your opponent by any means possible.

Within a framework of turn - based strategy and turn - based combat, Star Lords endeavours to differentiate itself by allowing players to beat their opponents by using Generals, diplomacy, intelligence, trading, or plotting the downfall of enemies by financing wars against them or aiming to cause anarchy.

According to Kotaku, it's essentially a party - based sports RPG, where teams of three will face off against one another in an arena and try to get the orb into their opponent's pyre by jumping, dashing, passing, and stealing.

Attitude - based gameplay; choose the best course of action by engaging your opponents physically and mentally using charm, deception, intimidation, or a show of force

By the time you've studied the map and determined the best place to roll and defend, your opponent has already done significant damage to your home base.

Modes include «Color the World,» in which teams try to colour more blocks than their opponents by touching them; «Capture the Horse,» which involves mounting and riding your enemy's tetragonal stallion back to your base; and «Ball Game,» which is basically basketball with fighting.