Sentences with phrase «closest challengers»

All told, it's looking like the closest challengers to the big national banks on the commercial real estate financing front differ markedly by city.

Noble's closest challengers are Elizabeth Price and Spartacus Chetwynd, with equal odds of 11/4.

Closest challengers Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and last year's champions Chelsea, have all failed to match the Foxes» consistency across the season.

Guardiola has guided Bayern to successive Bundesliga titles, with the club five points clear of closest challengers Dortmund in this season's standings.

Kondogbia has been a revelation for Valencia since moving to the Mestalla and has been instrumental in helping them to second spot in La Liga where they are leaders Barcelona's closest challengers.

Closest challengers Atletico Madrid take on arch-rivals Real Madrid on Sunday, but there appears to be no stopping Barca, who are now seven games away from completing the first unbeaten La Liga season in history.

February began with a 1 - 1 draw at Aston Villa, but our cause was aided that night as our closest challengers Manchester United were beaten 4 - 3 at Blackburn, and we were quickly back to winning ways the following weekend at home to Liverpool.

Their closest challengers, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and defending champions Chelsea, are separated by a single point.

Pep Guardiola's men seem destined to land the Premier League title as they hold a 13 - point lead and have a game in hand over closest challengers Manchester United.

The Europa League schedule hasn't been detrimental to Wolfsburg this season when they have been the closest challengers to Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga as well as quarter - finalists in the Europa League.

Bayern are unbeaten in the Bundesliga under Guardiola, with 62 points from 22 matches, an astonishing 19 points of their closest challengers, Bayer Leverkusen.

In a strange Premier League season just gone, Leicester City claimed a shock league title win, and Spurs proved to be their closest challengers for top spot.

Dortmund affirmed themselves as Bayern Munich's closest challengers to finish the season as runners - up and DFB Cup finalists.

Day's scorched - earth policy, under which he has won four tour events in his last six starts by a combined 16 strokes over his closest challengers (six each in his last two), enters the season - ending Tour Championship on the strength of the first five - win campaign since 2013.

With the two teams expected to emerge as the closest challengers to Manchester City in the Premier League next season, this encounter could give clues as to which will be the best bet to dethrone Pep Guardiola's men.

Basically what I am saying is that last season we were way off winning the PL and saying we were closest challengers by coming second etc is just kidding ourselves.

City (28 -3-2) will be hosting a party at the Etihad on Sunday, with the game coming a week after defeat for their closest challengers, Manchester United, sealed the league title.

But it's in Asia where we find Wales» closest challengers.

The only thing we can do is to win our own game at home to Burnley and hope that the pressure helps to have a negative effect on Chelsea and for that reason I think the Arsenal fans should be hoping that Tottenham win as well, because at the moment they are the closest challengers to Antonio Conte's team.

Arsenal could not have picked a worse time to face Antonio Conte's side, who easily beat Swansea 5 - 0 two days ago while resting Eden Hazard, and who have only conceded one goal in their last 5 League games as they moved up to be Man City's closest challengers, albeit 14 points behind Pep Guardiola's side.

This is despite Tottenham currently being ahead of both Arsenal and Liverpool in the Premier League table at the moment, and just two points behind Chelsea, having also been their closest challengers last season.

And Jack Nicklaus (who jokingly hinted at his own comeback to protect his majors record) has better things to do than watch the closest challenger to his all - time mark make his latest return to the PGA Tour following another lengthy, injury - related hiatus.

In case you needed a reminder of why Chris Paul is a closer challenger to LeBron James and Kevin Durant for MVP than you might think, that's exhibit A. However, don't blame Blake Griffin, an All - Star starter yet again, for the swoon, because he's been playing inspired basketball.

Obafemi Martins is widely considered Keane's closest challenger.

As Kisner was drowning his ball, Matsuyama flew the green with his approach to the par - 4 eighth with a gap wedge — a shot CBS commentator Dottie Pepper termed a «bad, bad miss» that left Kisner's closest challenger in deep grass just above the green.

The TF105 was a pretty handy machine and Jarno Trulli took a brace of podiums in the first few races, proving to unexpectedly appear to be Fernando Alonso's closest challenger in the championship until McLaren and Kimi Raikkonen came good.

Similar to previous years when they raided Bayer Leverkusen for the talents of Lucio, Michael Ballack and Ze Roberto, Bayern have completed a hat - trick of signings from their closest challenger in a matter of years.

With 80 percent of the precincts reporting, he had 76 percent of the vote compared with 21 percent for his next closest challenger, Republican Michel Faulkner.

Election strategist Eddy Butler was the closest challenger, taking 214 votes.

Republican voters in five states will go to the polls today in primaries that could dramatically reshuffle the deck for front - runner Donald Trump and his closest challenger, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Problems with the current process were highlighted after the June 26 primary, when unofficial election night tallies showed U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel beating his closest challenger by a respectable margin.

Yesterday, a Siena poll appeared to validate Rangel's efforts, showing a widening lead over Espaillat, his closest challenger.

Labour is a close challenger to the Conservatives in far more seats than the Liberal Democrats are; any fall in the Conservative vote, therefore, is likely to benefit Labour.

Rice's next - closest challenger, State Sen. Eric Schneiderman, raised less than half that amount — $ 260,000 — leaving him with $ 2.2 million to spend on the race.

In a lopsided victory, the incumbent Sampson — who is accused of with stealing more than $ 400,000 in home foreclosure sales and tampering with an FBI investigation, among other charges — garnered 3,000 votes more than his closest challenger to take 54.2 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for the 19th Senate district.

At this time in 2007, polls showed that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was far ahead of his closest challenger with the eventual nominee, McCain, in third.

In the State Senate, 54th District Republican Primary for the seat now held by longtime Senator Mike Nozzolio who is not seeking re-election, Canandaigua Town Supervisor Pam Helming was leading her next closest challenger in that 5 - way race, Floyd Rayburn, by 190 votes.

Overall, then, it is clear that things in marginal Conservative seats where Labour are close challengers, things look slightly more uncomfortable for the Tories than in the country as a whole.

The BMW 4 - series is obviously the closest challenger, but it's pricey — a 435i equipped similarly to this IS 350C would run nearly $ 10k dearer.

Not exact matches

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

In Virginia, heavily favored Democratic incumbent Senator Mark Warner found himself in a surprisingly close fight against Republican challenger Ed Gillespie, with much of the vote counted.

Some challenge the status quo like Certify's Bob Neveu, whose company has become the closest thing to a challenger Concur's got.

It's evident then that enterprise mobile apps will continue to have a significant impact and Deeter's closing piece is to «become great on mobile, or your next challenger will».

What we saw at La Costa was a vulnerable, beatable Woods whose challengers have closed the gap on him more than anyone — with the possible exception of Vijay Singh — realizes.

My point was that despite the joy of not losing to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, we're still not close to being good enough to be title challengers.

We are close to City or United in terms of wage bill yet we are tipped to finish mid table and they are title challengers as of now.

I'll leave you alone in caring about the «told you so» rubbish, I just want this Arsenal side to be best prepared for the new season given we're so close to being a title challenger for the first time in a decade.

Neither really came close to challenging last season, but now that the two top tacticians have ironed out their squads» flaws and put their own stamp on things, it's little surprise to see they're proving tougher opponents than Chelsea's only real challengers Tottenham last season.

Who ends spring with the edge in the nation's most crowded quarterback rooms — and are the challengers closing the gap?

Wenger knew we were close but underestimated the strength...... growth and impact of his challengers......