Sentences with phrase «facing the likes of»

Sorry, my ancestors were brought over in bondage to work in the fields of the South, then they had to face the likes of Jim Crow and other hardships that I could not imagine.

Far more impressive is the fact that he has already faced the likes of Eagles left tackle Jason Peters, Cowboys left tackle Tyron Smith and Texans left tackle Duane Brown — three guys who are pretty damn good at the game of football — and he didn't look overmatched at all.

Milner will work tirelessly to win the ball back and rarely leave his full - back exposed which will be vital when facing the likes of Neymar, Suarez and Messi.

We've faced the likes of Suarez, Aguero, Toure, Hazard and yes, Rooney and RVP and we've pulled through against all of them.

needs to work on aerial contest more before we face the likes of Benteke, Lukaku, Huth.

In a Sky Sports report the former Manchester United and England defender and current TV pundit accused Arsene Wenger and the players of being too arrogant or naive to change the tactics when facing the likes of Man City, Chelsea and Man United.

Better that than scrape through against Zenit, still face the likes of Barca and stretch the squad on all fronts.

St. Francis has scaled back the preseason slightly for 2017 — out are multiple tournaments facing the likes of Mitty and other state powers — because the Troubadours know each other and their strengths and weaknesses better than a year ago.

A) This is a Defensive lineup to face the likes of City, Utd, Barcelona and Munich's, We will be up against it when we play these kind of teams anyway, so why not try a different strategy against them, Leicester proved that it worked.

With everything going very well both domestically and in Europe this season, the prospect of facing the likes of Bayern isn't as daunting as it has been in recent years.

He will be a massive miss and we we'll be facing the likes of Barcelona very soon.

Floyd's reasoning was if l can get paid $ 8M to face the likes of Baldomir, why would l face Margarito for the same amount and bigger names in Cotto, Hatton for less.

We've faced the likes of Barcelona and Bayern Munich in that time, but we've also missed out on progressing against the likes of AC Milan and AS Monaco.

Apart from that they have a relatively normal Premier League action facing the likes of Brighton, Leicester and Watford.

In his five years at Notre Dame, Faust was so overmatched that he made the faithful tremble in fear over the prospect of facing the likes of Air Force.

Facing the likes of Willian and Oscar, both of whom he competes against for a World Cup berth, the spectacular 21 - year - old will have a unique chance to impress Luiz Felipe Scolari just two months before the World Cup.

Let's hope Szczesny can shake out the cobwebs once and for all before he faces the likes of Tevez, Aguero, Silva and Balotelli...

Spurs will have to rediscover form rather quickly, as the team will be facing the likes of Juventus in the Champions League last 16 round next month.

No games in the Premier League are easy but Palace face an extremely tough run in after the Hull game as they face the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal in a space of three weeks and if Pardew's men are unable to claim points over the next few weeks, alarm bells will start ringing soon at Selhurst Park.

He says it will be an exciting summer for his squad as they prepare to face the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona.

They will face the likes of Ethiopia's world indoor 3000m champion Genzebe Dibaba, who set world bests over 1500m, two miles and 3000m indoors this year.

For an 18 year old to be sent out on loan to a mid-table club and then being recalled the following season to face the likes of Xavi and Iniesta in the Champions League game doesn't require much deciphering of his qualities.

After this match, Blackpool will be facing the likes of Bournemouth, Crewe Alexandra, and Leyton Orient in the remaining eight matches of the season.

Granted, it helped that Juve faced the likes of Pescara, Chievo, and Genoa along the way, but hey, if you so convincingly and beautifully beat a phenomenal team like Barcelona in the process, I think I can cut you some slack.

That enabled Plzen to qualify for the group stages for the second time and face the likes of Manchester City and Bayern Munich.

Cruise through tonight and it is onto the last 16, where we could face the likes of Borussia Dortmund, Atlético Madrid, Napoli, RB Leipzig, Lyon, AC Milan, sporting Lisbon and Marseille.

Hugo Lloris has failed to keep a clean sheet in each of his last four Premier League outings but that does include facing the likes of Manchester United and Arsenal, whilst Paolo Gazzaniga stepped in to shut out Crystal Palace at the start of the month.

Not to forget, Liverpool have to face the likes of Spurs, Chelsea and City away from home this month.

Kenenisa Bekele is to face the likes of marathon world record - holder Wilson Kipsang when he makes his British 10 km road debut at the Bupa Great Manchester Run on May 18.

World No. 1 Justin Gatlin goes in the 100m and faces the likes of European record - holder Jimmy Vicaut, Tyson Gay and Britain's sub 10 - second man Chijindu Ujah.

Manchester City's current rank, at 16th, means that unless they reach say the semi-finals of the Champions League, they will remain in pot 2 and face the likes of Bayern in the group stage.

After years of coming second and facing the likes of Bayern Munich in the 2nd round.

France's Cindy Billaud will be looking to make up for her loss to Britain's Tiffany Porter in Zurich but she faces the likes of Olympic and Commonwealth champion Sally Pearson as well as Queen Harrison and Dawn Harper - Nelson of the US in the 100m hurdles in Stockholm.

The 2011 world 100m champion set his 100m PB of 9.69 at this event two years ago and this year, over double the distance, he faces the likes of fellow Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade — winner of the 200m event in Doha in May — as well as Qatar's world indoor 60m bronze medallist Femi Ogunode and France's European 100m champion Christophe Lemaitre, who returns to competitive action following injury that ruled him out of last month's Bislett Games and European Team Championships.

A face like that of Bette Davis — that's rare, damn it.

And to make sure the threat is real, John Wick will also have to face the likes of Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman (of The Raid) and more.

This is high level stuff you won't be touching for a long while, but keep an eye out when you do face the likes of the Vaal Hazak, Pink Rathian and — of course — Nergigante.

It is placed in the entry level MUV segment where it will face the likes of Nissan Evalia, Ashok Leyland Stile, Tata Sumo Grande and Chevrolet Enjoy.

I enjoy little faces like that of the Brussels Griffon... a face only a father could love!

Take control of history's greatest warriors and face the likes of Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Hannibal, Hernan Cortes, Shaka Zulu, Sun Tzu, Vlad the Impaler and William Wallace.

Some impressive thinking has gone into this and the use of a chatbot as a front - end could easily be developed using a physical face like that of the impressive Nadia being developed in Australia.

Not exact matches

And since you probably couldn't afford to take a comparable salary at first, you also faced a variety of unappetizing choices like dipping into savings, or running up credit card debt, or borrowing money from your friends and family.

Just like an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you'll face as a recent college grad starting out as a freelancer is landing your first paying gigs.

(How many business cards like those do you have laying around, for which you can't even put a face to the name of the person you met?

Instead of a cream, which tends to just sit on top of your face and act like a barrier, Neutrogena's moisturizer is in gel form.

Instead you could look at what skills the problems you face need to solve and acquire them like you would any other, or hire people with them if you don't want to learn them, but not to consider yourself incapable of learning them.

After reading this study, I'm wondering if perhaps women entrepreneurs face very different social environments than the men do, even outside of tech enclaves like Silicon Valley.

One of the main issues facing voice assistants is that users simply don't know how to use them beyond simple commands like playing music or getting weather updates.

On the face of it, this may seem like a slam - dunk for sole proprietorships, but the difference between the low corporate tax rate and higher personal income tax rate often makes it more even.

That alone sounds like a pretty good case for letting fly with more humor at work, but the study goes on to identify further reasons to let more humor into the sometimes straight - faced world of business.