Sentences with phrase «competing for points»

Most dogs in competition at conformation shows are competing for points toward their AKC championships.

Career Mode allows players to live the life of a NASCAR champion, competing for points across multiple seasons on the road to victory.

It's all about having a bunch of friends over and competing for points.

Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.

Most members of CASI belong to «pods» and compete for points to get to the big cookoff, Terlingua.

Doubts remain over whether the Honda engine will be anywhere near quick enough to compete for points, but both Toro Rosso and Honda are off to an excellent start in their relationship and could well end up being a match made in heaven.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is a 64 - player objective based shooter that splits each side in a group of squads where you'll compete for points on the battlefield.

In our school, the entire community of students, faculty, and staff belongs to either the White or Blue team, and during the school year the two teams compete for points in various events, such as Field Day or Problem of the Cycle.

Every student is in a «house» or «clan,» and these groups compete for points all year long.

As well as the campaign, Extinction features a daily challenge mode, where you can compete for points against other players on a leaderboard, as well as an «Extinction mode» which is basically a survival against an endless horde of Ravenii.

Compete for points by defeating Majini in SLAYERS or take down other players in SURVIVORS.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is a 64 - player objective based shooter that splits each side in a group of squads where you'll compete for points on the battlefield.

This karaoke title for Wii U has several game modes where players sing together or by themselves, compete for points, get real - time feedback, and follow the lyrics on the GamePad.

When they pop the bubbles, fruit comes out and the players compete for the points.

Recruit Mushroom Kingdom allies to improve your chances, take on big baddies in Boss Battles, compete for points with other players and get back those stolen Stars!

Subscribers compete for points and prizes as they reach out to like - minded potential supporters whose names are provided after the subscriber gives the campaign access to contact lists.

Compete for points by defeating Majini in SLAYERS or take down other players in SURVIVORS.

Not exact matches

Foursquare users compete for badges, points, and «mayorships,» awarded to those who check in to a place most frequently.

ANALYSIS: The point of no return may have already been reached for bricks - and - mortar retailers struggling to compete with the online experience.

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

The Surface 2, like the Pro 2, has another bonus over many competing tablets in that it has a USB port for plugging in peripherals, but again, I'm not sure that's much of a selling point.

The New York Times, for example, pointed out that both iTunes Movies and the iBooks Store had competed directly or indirectly with Chinese services such as Tencent Video and Youku Tudou for video and China Reading (Yuewen Group) for ebooks.

These cost - cutting strategies have now become the plus point for SpaceX to compete against the giants in the industry and for the first time, it is looking possible for the low - cost passenger flights in the space.

«Star Player» allows users to watch the UEFA Champions League soccer games while competing with friends and other fans for points by anticipating what will happen next.

In the daily games, participants pay to compete for cash prizes against others in online leagues based on imaginary teams assembled from rosters of real players, which accumulate points based on how those players perform in actual games.

What is clear, however, is that most states with right - to - work laws are quick to point them out as they compete for business.

He also points out that business travelers are considered sought - after customers and companies will compete for their patronage, sometimes through loyalty programs.

That had been a sticking point in Texas, which along with California, Arizona and New Mexico had competed with Nevada for the plant.

As Slashdot points out, the incident comes at a bad time for Microsoft, which has been recently focusing its attention on Azure in an effort to compete with the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, IBM, and Google.

Doing this requires establishing a clear point of view on the trajectory of the health - care segments in which they compete, a candid assessment of the assets and capabilities they would need to win in those segments, and, most importantly, a detailed plan for how they could uniquely add value to any potential targets.

We found that borrowers in both groups were able to reduce their interest rate by an average of 1.56 percentage points when they refinanced their loans with lenders who compete for business through the Credible marketplace.

Readers have pointed out that Johannes Hirn made Tsarnaev the subject of a photo essay, «Will Box for Passport,» taken before the boxer competed at National Golden Gloves competition in Salt Lake City.

Citi ThankYou Premier vs Chase Sapphire Preferred: While these two credit cards often compete for the same customer, one major area of difference is the airline and hotel transfer partners if you are planning to transfer points to frequent flyer programs.

(CNN)-- When Shane Wright met with members of Vocal Point, a Brigham Young University a cappella group that was considering competing on NBC's singing show «The Sing Off,» the main question he had for the nine male students had nothing to do with their singing talent.

Sure enough, by the end of the night, Jordyn Wieber missed the chance to compete for all - around gold by 0.233 points.

One of the phenomena most difficult for the Catholic Church to understand, as Gilfeather O'Brien points out, is how the Guatemalan cofradias (religious fratemities based on the syncretism of Roman Catholic and ancient Mayan teachings) have been unable to compete with Pentecostal groups that offer «personal transformation of the kind the Catholic Church has desired but never achieved over the centuries.»

Printing ushered in the Reformation and with it religious plurality and the differentiation of consciousness reflecting competing and conflicting classes and other interests (all struggling for the right to tell stories from their own points of view) in the same society.

While you are crying for rights, if a student wants to give a prayer at her graduation then it comes to a point that we are dealing with competing rights.

While they sincerely preached and stood for these principles, they became, fortunately, not a rallying point for unity, but one more denomination competing on the American scene.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

«As the popularity of gluten - free and sugar - free products continues to surge, the ability to print «Gluten - Free» on the bottle — a first in the vodka category — is a major point of differentiation for a small company competing with the marketing muscle of global brands,» said Drew Adelman, CEO, Devotion Vodka.

The Danish legend makes a great point, and between the Liverpool hierarchy, Klopp, his players and any potential new signings, they must figure it out if they want to compete for the major honours.

We are at this Point about as far away from a side that can effectively compete for the title as we have ever been, The first half was a «no show» for the players and while the way the players actually perform on the day is not 100 % Wengers fault, the fact that he has no players on the bench to replace non performing players is entirely his fault.

I quite agree sell all the deadwoods but which player in his right mind would want to come to arsenal at the moment, remember people man u was in the same situation under moyes but we're able to attract better player's even when not playing champions league, the selling point from arsenal point of view is to tell players which they are trying to get what the plan is of getting back to top flight football by going for the Europa league over the FA cup and finishing in the top six otherwise if they go for wishy - washy arsene wenger stupid attitude of we've got quality all the squad we are competing for everything then I'm afraid We will end up with nothing

My only fear is that the first match after national duty is alway difficult for Arsenal to win but what is involve in this game will make Arsenal players to work hard to destroy Old traford and come with the required three point that will put us in competing for the league

Tottenham, even with kane, are looking for a striker and seems to be close with janssen... if u want to compete, ur point does nt exist... u are just saying xhaka is better that carvahlo or every other DM even when he is not played a single minute for our club!

This sort of thing has been going on for years not just this season which is why we have not seriously competed for the title (within a point or two with say three games left) since 2004.

realistically guys we all know we aren't signing world class players within a week, we just can't compete with such a board, i may point a fingers at Wenger for fielding 2 left back's but this is poor window is really down to Kroenke and co..

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Special mention must go to decathlete Leif van Grinsven for competing in six individual events, winning three and placing second in two, undoubtedly the largest personal points haul of the day (if Leif were an Oxbridge University, he would've come third in the medals table — astonishing).