Sentences with phrase «challenged by rival»

Christ has ascended his throne, but his rule is challenged by rival thrones.

Celgene's patents likely won't be challenged by its rivals anytime soon — its three main patents expire in the 2020s, by which point the company will have made a considerable amount of money on the drugs.

After the mild - manned politeness of last week's debate - the party leaders were quick to go on the attack and Mr Clegg's policies were repeatedly challenged by his rivals.

Not exact matches

Though it suffered through a challenging 2016, the company bounced back by revamping its sales model and expanding in India, where it rivals Samsung Electronics Co. (samsung - ct) as the biggest vendor.

Analyst Chris Murray of AltaCorp Capital called the moves pure marketing, by highlighting the challenges facing its domestic rival while also promoting its service as an alternative.

Although Walmart may be challenging Apple in mobile wallet payments, it's likely more focused on holding off rival Amazon by using digital services to stay engaged with its consumer base.

What's more, shopper traffic was up again, a notable achievement given the challenges faced by rivals from Target (tgt) to Macy's (m) to get people to come into stores over the holidays.

As the representative of a rival conception of infinity, therefore, the Smartphone poses a direct challenge to the Virgin — a challenge that is captured perfectly by that billboard on the façade of Santa Maria dei Miracoli.

FSU's out - of - conference schedule will be much more challenging next year than it was this year, with a marquee opener in Dallas against Oklahoma State followed by semi-ACC team Notre Dame, plus annual rival Florida.

With all this in mind Koscielny is right to suggest that whilst «we are Arsenal» and no doubt we will pull the strings together to get the «top four job» done, Arsenal have been left behind by their rivals in the Premier League in terms of challenging at the very top.

A lot of us have already dismissed the challenge from one of our main EPL rivals Chelsea, after West Ham did us a massive favour by adding the scalp of the Stamford Bridge club to that of Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal.

Although Blues boss Jose Mourinho is thought to be ready to let the world class stopper leave the club in the summer, he has made it abundantly clear as reported by the Guardian last week, that he would be reluctant to sell to next season's potential title challenge rivals Arsenal.

Dutch Eredivise outfit PSV Eindhoven accepted rivals Ajax's nomination to take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge — and did so in spectacular fashion, by calling in a police water cannon.

Another season on loan and if nothing comes of it he should b canned... But the bigger worry is that wenger actually believes he already has the attacking options to win EPL and challenge for cl simply by switching the whippet to centre forward... Need to get rid of Walcott podolski Ryo and Campbell bring forward two of the youngsters and buy a world class attacking option... We have progressed this season but partly because two of biggest rivals didn't... Next season more difficult and a serious manager would plan accordingly

Manchester City striker Aguero underwent an arthroscopy after aggravating a knee problem during their derby defeat to rivals Manchester United, Pep Guardiola citing a challenge from Ashley Young that went unpunished by referee Martin Atkinson for the injury.

Getting eliminated from the FA Cup challenge by their arch rival, Arsenal is not a pleasing result for Tottenham Hotspur, that's why they are really eager to redeem themselves this Saturday, January 11 when they meet up against Crystal Palace in their latest English Premier League fixture.

«I was a little bit surprised by the fact Chelsea are selling to their rivals who will be challenging for the Premier league next year,» Irwin told talkSPORT.

He is challenging his rivals, to splash the cash, to do whatever they like and that in the end, it won't matter as he will still have quality players to defeat the teams put together by his rivals.

The reds of Manchester have been somewhat put in the shade by their city rivals and whilst winning the Premier League is pretty much dead in the water with Jose Mourinho as manager they are well capable of putting in a sustained challenge for the Champions League.

Led by Andy Vernon and Gemma Steel, British athletes sent out a warning to their rivals ahead of next month's Euro Cross in Belgrade at the Liverpool Cross Challenge on Saturday.

A day after a debate hosted by the Times Union, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan challenged a figure on minorities in the city workforce cited by mayoral rival Common Council President Carolyn McLaughlin.

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.

ALBANY — A day after a debate hosted by the Times Union, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan challenged a figure on minorities in the city workforce cited by mayoral rival Common Council President Carolyn McLaughlin.

De Blasio is «extremely vulnerable» to a challenge next year, and is already running virtually even with his strongest Democratic rival, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, according to a poll released yesterday by Bradley Tusk, a consultant focused on ousting the mayor.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Wednesday reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the substituted governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, in the forthcoming November 26 election in Ondo State to challenge his replacement with Jimoh Ibrahim, who belongs to a rival faction of the PDP.

A Brooklyn judge on Monday rebuffed a challenge by Gov. Cuomo's campaign to the candidacy of Democratic rival Zephyr Teachout, placing the lefty law professor on the Sept. 9 primary ballot.

Kenya's election commission had declared Mr Kenyatta the winner by a margin of 1.4 million votes but the result was immediately challenged in court by his nearest rival, Mr Odinga.

That permanent change to the structure of the county organization would be a victory for reformers and progressives, who complained that the number of those positions were expanded by Lopez in order to fend off challenges from rivals.

A challenge to the results by his main rival, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, is rejected by the Supreme Court.

I also do not believe it will be at all easy to change the leadership of Labour so soon after electing a new leader in such a short space of time - It shouldn't be discounted also that Corbyn could do very well as party leader in the next few years and stop dead in their tracks any attempts by his rivals within the party to challenge his authority.

Karpinski is also known to make friends by challenging their rivals.

[It's] so popular, in fact, that it's now challenging global payment systems like Visa who've been forced to adapt by creating their own [rival] system here,» Opoti says, referring to the multinational's new mVisa service.

Cupid has been challenged by continental rival Cupidon over the Scottish company's use of the Cupidon.com domain name it bought 18 months ago for # 175,000.

After a sequence that rivals James Bond for spycraft and mayhem, he fails — because an American mercenary, known by the nickname Eric Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) saves Klaue for his own reasons (namely to challenge T'Challa for the throne).

When a rival bank challenges his to a skeet shoot, Mr. Drysdale has no choice but to enlist the sharpshooting skills of Jed by making him a bank vice president.

I think it may only be rivalled by The Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show but I'll let you be the judge of that.

This time both halves of his identity will be challenged: the wealthy Stark by a rival businessman (Sam Rockwell) and Iron Man against super-powered Whiplash (Mickey Rourke).

Inspired by the true - life events confronting Abraham Lincoln and his monumental moral and political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery, and based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of the year.

Then just weeks after the accident, he got behind the wheel to challenge his British rival, James Hunt who's portrayed here by Chris Hemsworth.

Robin Ellis is the dashing Ross Poldark, returned to Cornwall from the war in the colonies to find his betrothed engaged to another, his family estate in ruins, the copper mines targeted by a rival and his fortunes challenged.

This mode basically is a test bed to practice your skills by challenging a rival's score in each race.

Efforts to foster collaboration between district and charter schools — traditional rivals for scarce educational resources — are showing some promise, but challenges remain in forging effective partnerships, according to a new study released today by Mathematica Policy Research.

Certainly, the T6 was in no position to challenge its European rivals in a straight line, despite the considerable refinement offered by its (still) standard eight - speed automatic transmission.

Ford's 2016 Edge midsize - crossover SUV challenges the best domestic and import rivals by offering a wide variety of trims, engines and options.

Audi has become a threat to its fellow country rival, BMW, by challenging the Bavarian auto maker for the numero uno... Read More

Of course, most of these are traits that are shared by the A8's rivals, and selecting just one of these excellent luxury sedans is bound to be a challenge.

Excited as we've been by the idea of an upgraded (and manual) version of the Volkswagen Polo GTI, it has some mighty big challenges ahead of it, not least because its main rival, the Ford Fiesta ST, is still cheaper and, frankly, capable of making far more expensive machinery look silly.

Amazon Coins will be introduced in the United States in May in a move aimed at inspiring the creation of more fun, hip or functional programs for its challenge to iPads and rival tablets powered by Android software.

Moriya's obsessive behavior towards Ouno is weird and over-the-top, his enthusiasm challenged only by his rival Miyahigashi's attempts to beat him at something for once.

Ingram is being challenged by their major rival, Baker and Taylor Distributors, who will be selling ebooks within the next two months.