Sentences with phrase «early blows from»

Instead, Ohio has faded dramatically, and Buffalo, after absorbing some tough early blows from Ohio State and Baylor, has cruised through most of the last two months of the season.

The Cancun conference suffered an early blow from Japan's announcement that it would never ever agree to making another commitment under the Kyoto Protocol.

Not exact matches

Nike's marquee golf star, No. 1 - ranked Rory McIlroy, is sitting out the tournament after getting injured earlier this month playing recreational soccer — a blow for Nike, which gets big exposure when the Irish star is on the course, covered in Swoosh gear from head to toe.

Credit activist investor Nelson Peltz and his partner Ed Garden (now a GE board member) for blowing the whistle earlier this year, accelerating the CEO transition from Immelt to Flannery.

Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up from the flooded Arkema chemical plant after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up a day earlier after losing refrigeration.

They are increasingly concerned that, aside from the very liberal Bernie Sanders, who could be approaching his ceiling in the early states, there is no backup if something blows up — no Jimmy Garoppolo to step in while Brady is suspended for four games.

So it came as a particularly harsh blow to advocates of work - life balance when Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly scrapped the company's ROWE policy earlier this year, calling it «fundamentally flawed from a leadership standpoint.»

But the Fed's recent signals of an early exit from QE — together with stronger evidence of China's slowdown and Chinese, Japanese, and European central bankers» failure to provide the additional monetary easing that investors expected — dealt emerging markets an additional blow.

Trump's decision comes as a second blow to Chinese - backed deals, which fell by 49 % in the first half of 2017 from the same period a year earlier, to $ 64.2 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

Though the European Central Bank (ECB) refrained from announcing any further actions at its December 2014 meeting, a dovish speech by ECB President Mario Draghi a few weeks earlier did provide further backing for what markets have been signaling for many months, namely that the ECB might introduce full - blown quantitative easing (QE) at some point during the coming year.

We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up».

Similarly, the Hebrew word nephesh may best be translated «breath - soul,» as is clear, for example, in the early story of man's creation: Yahweh shaped man from dust out of the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, so that man became a nephesh — that is, an animated being.

In making the full Aristotelian move I am really drawing much of my insight from Science and the Modern World, a book four years earlier than the full - blown theory of Process and Reality.

Their loneliness, drunkenness, disease, the early deaths of or abandonment by their fathers, the tauntings and beatings they took from their schoolmates: These and other blows became the fundamental truths about the world and the stuff of their poetry.

What made Foy's disastrous decision even more hard to fathom was the fact that just ten minutes earlier the situation was reversed and Evra fairly won the ball from the German midfielder and was through on goal with support either side of him, when the referee decided to blow his whistle and get attention for Ballack who was in fact perfectly fine.

This should hopefully keep Chelsea from throwing everything at us and blowing us away in the early stages.

Liverpool have been handed a colossal injury blow with a key star returning home early from international duty due to injury.

And honestly, if Canizales hadn't blown his wad after the early knockdown I imagine he'd have been able to separate himself from Konishi properly.

After Arsenal survived an early Champions League blow thanks to some last ditch defending, a few moments of magic from the second choice keeper David Ospina and some profligacy in front of goal from Edinson Cavani and Angel Di Maria, the Paris Saint - Germain fans were left cursing their luck after Alexis Sanchez popped up in the right place to rifle home the rebound from Alex Iwobi's shot in the final 12 minutes of our group game.

For the fake PI, blowing the whistle on Myles Jack's scoop and score, starting the clock early coming back from the time out resulting in a delay of game, letting Marcedes get mugged... no they aren't and that is NOT FINE.

It must have been a massive blow to the Arsenal and Colombia keeper David Ospina this week when after a fantastic Copa America tournament so far, they started the semi-final against Chile so poorly that they allowed Alexis Sanchez and his team mates to grab an early two goal lead from which they could never recover.

Arsenal have suffered yet another injury blow as star midfielder Jack Wilshere has suffered yet another setback in his rehabilitation from injury and is now expected to return in February, at the earliest.

Twenty minutes later though, and Liverpool were a few mere minutes away from somehow getting through to half - time a single goal down, despite Spurs» early dominance, then came the killer blow; the goal that ended the match before the second - half...

United raced to a 3 - 0 lead early on and stunned Spurs, who never recovered from the early blow.

The loss of Paul Pogba to a hamstring injury will undoubtedly be a blow for Mourinho as he seeks to maintain his side's position as Premier League leaders following three wins and a draw from the opening four rounds of games, with the Frenchman reported to be out for at least six weeks after pulling up against the Swiss champions early in the game.

Xavier could not recover from the early blow and Marquette cruised to a 25 - 17 win.

Watford were hard done by but had only themselves to blame, having earlier blown Kiko Femenia's 13th - minute opener when Jose Holebas needlessly handballed in the box, allowing Josh King to equalise from the spot (43).

Jonas Lössl didn't let the early blow affect him; the Dane showed quality reflexes to palm away Tammy Abraham's effort from 20 yards after taking in Tom Carroll's lofted pass over a static Town back - line.

Earlier this month their Happy Meals got the boot from San Francisco, and now, in what couldn't be a bigger blow, cupcakes have been deemed healthier than a McRib.

The syndrome happens when a blow causes swelling to the brain before it has recovered fully from an earlier injury.

Early on in this game, Cuomo was reportedly willing to shut down the government if state lawmakers blow the April 1 deadline, but he later backtracked from that.

The WSJ thinks the House Republicans could learn from Cuomo and should «follow his savvy lead and blow the whistle on this rigged (budget) process early and often.»

We will spare no one responsible when caught» Recall that suspected ex-militants, in the early hours of Friday blew up a gas pipeline in Warri South - West Local Government Area, Delta State conveying gas from Escravos — Warri - Lagos - Abuja, property of the Nigeria Gas Company, NGC, in what is believed to be a resumption of fresh hostilities in the Niger Delta region.

Johnson's decision is a big blow to the prime minister who had pleaded with him earlier on Sunday to avoid «linking arms» with Nigel Farage and George Galloway in backing a British exit from the EU.

While space rocks hurtling in from space threaten to deal modern life a mortal blow, meteorite impacts during Earth's early history may have played a pivotal role in kick - starting life on the planet.

«The ability to rapidly share the skill to make Oldowan tools would have brought fitness benefits» to early humans, Morgan says, such as greater efficiency in butchering animals; and then Darwinian natural selection would have acted to gradually improve primitive language abilities, eventually leading from protolanguage to the full - blown, semantically complex languages we speak today.

But dust from the Sahara also blows up onto the snowpack in the Alps, causing early melting.

I seem to recall an expedition in the early 20th century that went there soon after and found the point from which all the trees appeared to have been blown over.

«The good thing about this study,» Uskins Peate says, «is it's applicable to any time in Mars's history where you've had wind - blown material being deposited, which could be anywhere from the very first geological processes that were happening early on in Mars's history up until yesterday.

Early on, when the cluster begins to condense from a collapsing cloud of gas, the brightest and shortest - lived stars blow out fierce winds that energize the first set of cosmic rays and expel material from the star itself.

Imagine all the fantastic events happening in the cosmos: black holes colliding, massive stars blowing up, even the faintest whispers from the universe's earliest moments.

Taking notes from the classics of the genre mentioned earlier, Annihilation is a beautiful, smart, and occasionally terrifying cerebral thrill ride that will leave your mind blown when all is said and done.

But his career definitely got tripped up by his directorial debut «London Boulevard,» a film in the would - be mold of the classic British gangster films from the «60s and early «70s like «Get Carter,» Nicolas Roeg's «Performance,» and even Antonioni's «Blow Up.»

Bud Yorkin graduated from TV specials to direct a number of features through the sixties and early 1970s with his writing and producing partner, Norman Lear, among them Come Blow Your Horn (1963) with Frank Sinatra, Divorce American Style (1967) with Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds, Inspector Clouseau (1968) with Alan Arkin in the Peter Sellers role, Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) with Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, and The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) with Ryan O'Neal and Warren Oates.

The two - minute clip is an outtake from one of the film's many breakfast scenes — only this time the early hours confrontation escalates to a full - blown food fight between Lesley Manville's Cyril and Daniel Day - Lewis» Reynolds Woodcock.

Aside from Star Wars, the early scene showing a group of kids searching for the remains of Autobots or Decepticons (they're all the same when blown into pieces) shows that Stephen King's coming - of - age classics are as fair game as George Lucas's.

Unusually close or spectacularly large viewing will emphasize the technical shortcomings, but most should be pleased if not quite blown away by the video, which must best Elite Entertainment's work from early last decade.

Right from the opening, which puts you inside the cabin of US Airways Flight 1549 with its 150 passengers, an early sign that director Clint Eastwood has put aside his usual pedestrian pacing and isn't just going to make this a blow - by - blow account of the crash dubbed «the Miracle on the Hudson».

Actually, much of Black Butterfly stretches credulity — especially an ostensibly mind - blowing twist about 20 minutes from the end that is so difficult to swallow it effectively quashes whatever minor virtues the film exhibited earlier.

Referencing the budget blow - up in 2015 — when House members walked out of session early, preventing lawmakers from approving an annual budget — Latvala said the Senate should do what it can to ensure public schools have money by the start of next month, even if it's a level of funding the Legislature dislikes.