Sentences with phrase «fight had more»

On television the fight had a more ethereal quality.

By Matt Pommer Wisconsin's recall fight has more twists and turns than the best soap opera.

Not exact matches

And FC Barcelona fights not only to win league titles — it has won Spain's La Liga two dozen times and many European championships — but also to maintain its unique culture within Spain's semiautonomous region of Catalonia, which has battled for its separate rights from Madrid for more than a century.

If your material situation gives you more resources than being surrounded by armed fighting and lacking an internet connection, you have advantages over him.

Marino was under fire after reports emerged that he'd boosted a law that eventually made it harder for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to freeze certain suspicious shipments, which critics say made federal efforts to fight opioid abuse more difficult.

Apple has been ordered to pay more than $ 500 million in a long - fought patent dispute against the University of Wisconsin - Madison's patent - licensing division.

Still, the fact that the little guys can now have access to technology similar to even the biggest corporations at least gives them more of a fighting chance.

The Chinese government financed nationwide studies into cockroaches» medical value that, after more than two decades of laboratory investigation and clinical trials, had discovered or confirmed dozens of disease - fighting proteins and biochemical compounds with huge potential value in medicine.

Look for more money to be given to the Canada Revenue Agency to fight offshore tax evasion, an investment that has so far helped the CRA reap millions in extra tax dollars while at the same time achieving the aim of discouraging tax evasion by Canadians.

Workers» rights advocates have fought for more effective methods for hotel employees to report and protect themselves from inappropriate behavior from guests.

Considering the time I otherwise would have wasted perusing a convenience - slash - bookstore and fighting for an outlet at the gate, the productive pre-flight hours knocked a few hundred more dollars off my flight's exorbitant cost.

To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

However, in the last two years, the practice has decreased (falling down to just 30 percent of purchases in 2013) as businesses have found more effective ways to fight back.

Finally, many states provide an earned income tax credit (EITC) that is extremely important in fighting poverty, and this too would be more difficult to implement under a payroll tax system.

In any case, full source code would be even more valuable than the traffic key in the Lavabit case, and the industry would go to extreme lengths to fight for it, Binnall said.

The civil war in Syria has been raging for more than six years as rebels fight to oust Assad, a brutal authoritarian who has terrorized Syrians for years.

For me, the benefits of having a nice set of knives with which to cook was less about the time and effort it spared me (which was noticeable), and more about how enjoyable cooking was when it felt like I wasn't fighting the food to get it made.

Now union activists across the country are pressing companies for more in a campaign known as the «Fight for $ 15,» which has successfully spurred cities and private companies to establish higher wage floors.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have tended to agree on major issues when it comes to energy, such as calling for more clean energy and supporting aggressive plans to fight climate change.

In the post, Feld, a long - time advocate for a «Startup Visa» to allow more international entrepreneurial talent to come to the U.S. to build businesses and create jobs, remarks on just how hard the current administration has fought to keep the program from going into effect.

«I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man - hating,» she said.

By the time fighting ended in July 1953, more than 34,000 U.S. forces had been killed.

Shares in Subiaco - based internet service provider iiNet fell by 11 per cent after it reported a flat interim profit and said competition had become more aggressive in the fight for broadband customers.

Asper took a break from the pre-UFC 129 fan expo to talk to me about why he thinks mixed martial arts» mainstream time has come, why he's back in the CEO seat again, where he hopes to lead Fight Network and more.

The privately - held company has a fighting - based reality show — with more in the works — and is planning to expand to Asia and the Middle East.

Rank - and - file North Koreans inculcated with propaganda would fight on, perhaps even more savagely, after Kim died.

It is still not clear to me, but the company had only raised less than $ 2 million and after more than a year of fighting against a larger company, and after many hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally settled out of court.

I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits, but this has become much more common.

A deal would put the combined company in a better position to take on U.S. industry leader AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc, and also give it more scale to fight growing competition from Netflix Inc, Apple Inc and other digital outlets.

And if it's not done right the first time, we'll have to go back and fight for it some more.»

Despite acrimonious relations between Russia and the United States in recent years, experts on cyber security in both countries say their law enforcement agencies and private firms had been working together more closely behind the scenes to fight financial fraud and other crimes committed online.

«I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight,» Kalanick said in a statement to the Times.

«I have spent my adult life fighting for the public good, fighting to make life a little bit easier, a bit more fulfilling, better for people,» she told a cheering crowd of supporters Thursday night.

Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.»

But in round two, Frazier would go to the mat five more times before the fight was called.

«Jamie Dimon has been the one who has led the charge in order to say, «Nope, no more regulation, fight back against regulation, call the regulation un-American, try to resist, try to put loopholes into regulation, hire an army of lobbyists,» Warren said in an interview with CNN's «Starting Point.»

Expectations had run high for Twitter since the messaging service, which for years had fought to revive growth in users, surprised Wall Street in the second quarter by signing up 24 percent more people globally.

Its brand has become synonymous with Kleenex and other household products when it comes to fighting deadly allergies; in fact, the EpiPen enjoys a near - monopoly on the market with annual sales of more than $ 1.3 billion and nearly 90 % U.S. market share in the space.

As John Manley, president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and former deputy prime minister, noted in a speech last fall on «Canada's Decade of Opportunity,» much of what the protesters fought for — from higher taxes on the rich to more jobs to reining in of banks — has already been achieved here.

To some extent it's the marketing equivalent of fighting fire with fire, and this focus on «more» has led to more watered - down content being posted more often.

Despite having to fight city by city to get stores built, Adam & Eve has opened 53 units in 24 states, with up to 400 more coming in the next 10 years.

But, if you do have to fight a few enemies, the combat feels more like «Bloodborne» than «Batman.»

The U.S. is a much bigger market than Canada, so there is more business for the taking — but banks will have to fight for it.

After fighting began, the quartermaster general recommended several changes to make the uniform more practical, and suggested a layering system in 1943 that would keep troops warm during the cold European winters, standardized as the M - 1943 field ensemble with cap, four - pocket field jacket, detachable jacket hood, field trousers and service shirt.

More than 100,000 people have died in Mexico due to clashes between drug gangs and the state since the previous government sent in the armed forces to fight the cartels in late 2006.

On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 more American troops to bolster Iraqi forces, including into Anbar province, where fighting with Islamic State militants has been fierce.

Among Canadians who would be affected by a restriction on religious clothing and symbols, more say they would fight the ban than accommodate it.

You don't have to fight your competitors for their audience; working together can often be much more efficient.

I would have picked fewer petty fights with my peers in the organization, because I would have been generally more centered and self - reflective.