Sentences with phrase «few leaders behind»

Not exact matches

It's not because I really care whether you're a few steps ahead or behind me in tonight's rankings, or that your place on the leader board is far above mine.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the religious leader behind plans to erect an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York's ground zero, said Wednesday night that moving it to another location would embolden Islamic radicals and help them incite violence against Americans.

If we win all of our games and beat Chelsea, I predict that we will be at least second in the league and no more than a few points behind the league leaders... game on!

The club, who currently lie 6th in the Ligue 1 table, have had a difficult few months after allowing star assets James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao to leave in the summer, and find themselves nine points behind league leaders Marseille.

When you take a long hard look at that and also consider the situation we now find ourselves (8 pts behind the leader & a packed top - 6), you will come to the conclusion that we need to continue to score GOALS and at a minimum replicate the (44) in the second part of the season whilst conceding very few more.

We start well for a few months then we crumble and go out of every competition and fall to far behind PL leaders, then when nothing to play for we look like world beaters and it lures everyone into false hope that the squad is good enough for the new season, and gives Wenger an excuse not to buy!

With Arsenal just five points behind the league leaders and with Leicester facing us as well as Man City this month, Wenger insisted that a few good results would see Arsenal right back in the thick of things and he clearly expects the clubs around us to have slip ups of their own.

Two days later the momentum continued with a 2 - 1 home win against Tottenham; a goal apiece again for deadly duo Cottee and McAvennie lifting West Ham to 5th in the table, 10 points behind the leaders, Everton, having played 5 games fewer.

The three teams below Blackpool are five points behind but two of them, Bury, who were league leaders for some time, and Accrington, who missed out on their chance to go top a few weeks ago, have a game in hand which could take them within a win of first place.

Ronaldo returned late to Manchester United following international action for the Portuguese Olympic side (Portugal were knocked out in the Quarters), and the Reds were already a good few points behind the leaders Chelsea.

That those viewers then swung in large numbers behind the Labour leader suggests the programme may have had an impact on the final result - particularly when just a few hundred votes in swing seats shifted June's outcome.

Mr. Klein and Mr. Cuomo, along with Mayor Bill de Blasio and labor leaders, have met behind closed doors in the past few days to discuss the possibility of reconciliation.

ALBANY — After corruption allegations threatened to stall the chamber's business for the last few weeks of the legislative session, newly elected Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said on Monday he is ready to start working with a unified conference behind him.

In the last few days I've followed the brothers to a Unison hustings in Leeds where Ed told the audience: «As your leader I will never leave this party behind.»

With the Statehouse a few hundred yards behind him, Mr. Levy offered harsh words for Albany's leaders, saying they had badly mismanaged state finances and had made New York a punch line for late - night comedians.

Meanwhile, a few thought leaders quietly emerge, working to put their forces behind what needs to be done — identifying possibilities, boundaries and limitations, defining terminology, and citing research for or against the idea.

Few parents or business leaders know that disadvantaged children often fall further behind the longer they are in school or that schools serving the disadvantaged often have the least experienced teachers and suffer the highest rates of teacher turnover.

Though there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the way the car drives, it's also lagging behind the class leaders in quite a few areas — namely, refinement levels.

Our political leaders and certainly the industry behind them know perfectly well that talking about clean coal is like saying we'll have a cancer free cigarette ready for you in a few years.

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