Sentences with phrase «fighting chance taking»

If the audience was going to believe I stood a fighting chance taking on a superhero, I was going to have to physically match the size and power Henry Cavill had dauntingly established in Man of Steel.

Not exact matches

With the ousting of former potty - mouthed CEO Carol Bartz, the long - in - the - tooth Internet corporation looked like it had a fighting chance at relevance earlier this year when it hired former PayPal president Scott Thompson to take the reins.

The hijacking that's taken place means I absolutely have to identify with dems in order for my idea of social justice to stand a fighting chance.

But the new rules for 2017 represent a chance for someone else to hit the front and take the fight.

Big Sam has indicated that he will play reserves, but Wenger will not be taking any chances by tinkering with a winning side and is expecting Sunderland to give us a fight.

WE need a Costa type striker (Nothing wrong with Giroud) who can score by making his own goals apart from taking clear chances, Additional creativity to fight for OZIL (No disrespect but for 42M he has not proved to be a game changer in Big games — Better players even cost less e.g Costa, Hazard - HE MUST DO MORE) and Cazorla position.

He fought his way back up for a while, beating Curtis Parker in 1984 to take the USBA middleweight crown, a minor title, but enough to start talk of a fight with Hagler, and an opportunity at a really big win, a chance to grab the titles that mattered, those administered by the WBC / WBA / IBF and The Ring.

The match in question, sometimes referred to as the «Battle of the Bridge» for the fighting that took place on and off the pitch, featured Chelsea overcoming a 2 - 0 deficit to tie the game against Tottenham and deprive the Spurs of their last chance to stave off Leicester City in the Premier League title chase.

Also there's a precedent with Klitschko fighting in Moscow where he received quite an unwelcoming attitude towards him and that was a pre-war RU - UA relationship, I can bet they will not take any chances here.

When a player is fighting to earn a place in the team and then through injury he gets his chance, I don't think it is fair to take someone from another position to stick in ahead of him.

I was in town reporting on brain damage in fighters, and had met a fellow at a kickboxing fight earlier in the week who mentioned that he could take me to The Money Team mecca itself, and I, like a brawler capitalizing on opportunity in the midst of bare - knuckle madness, jumped at the chance.

After the fight Frankie DePaula dourly refused to take a shower — on the sound theory that he had not had a chance to work up a proper sweat.

It was a typical cup game against a team who comes here to fight and take their chances, with us trying to score.

Red Bull will be hoping for some better luck this season despite car number 13, and the new rules for 2017 give the team a chance to properly take the fight to Mercedes.

i don't think now is time to take chances, i hear Man - U will spend 350 million pounds in the next two years Chelsea who is already a full squad and still toying with the idea of buying Messi, City will sell few deadwood and buy big and we are thinking of signing 38 year old striker, i love TH but come on guys we are suppose to be fighting back to greatness and catch up to Europe's elite, Man - U is linked wit every player we the Arsenal supporters are asking for and guess who will buy them.

Instead of predominantly betting on favorites, most people think all tournament teams have a fighting chance and will simply bet the underdog and take the points.

Imagine how much less stressful things would be, for you, me, and everyone else, including the team, if all agreed that (a) we should be fighting for the league this year and (b) in football it takes time until it becomes clear whether we will or not and, finally, (c) we'll try support the team in the manner that gives them the best chance of success until then.

Similarly, if you have a conflict with your child at home and you go into another room and take ten deep breaths — that's a seven second inhale, seven second hold your breath, seven second exhale — and you think positively while you're doing that, like «How can I best handle that situation, how important is this to me, how can I make this work without fighting,» you'll have a much better chance of resolving this situation effectively.

Having your husband take a hot shower before sex might give those girls more of a fighting chance.

«But when the Tories got in I felt the need to fight and I was working with the poorest people in society, the most vulnerable, the most voiceless, and I thought if you've got a chance to get on the other side of the table and bang your firsts you should take it.»

Paladino's money, his strong ties to the state's growing Tea Party movement, and his penchant for catchy, if over-the-top rhetoric — «I'll turn Albany upside down and take out the trash» — gives him a fighting chance to defeat the cash - strapped Lazio.

And given that Paul Ryan has just been elected as Speaker of the House promising to «take the fight to the Democrats», and Tea Party members are already angry at the GOP leadership about the budget deal, I think there's a significant chance that of a Shutdown threat.

Perhaps he thinks the votes are there, or maybe he would just rather take a chance and at the very least know exactly where he stands for the fight going forward.

Rather than placing ourselves in a «fight» against climate change, or lament a lost Eden, we should take the chance to rethink how we live, says Mike Hulme

Future bleaching events are inevitable, but there are a number of important steps that we can take, locally, nationally and internationally to give the Great Barrier Reef a fighting chance.

Though antibiotics are sometimes necessary in order to fight off serious infections and help people recover, it's also the case that taking antibiotics, creates the chance that the number of good bacteria in your body becomes significantly lower than the bad bacteria (30).

Most of the time people will simply keep lowering carbs and pushing, but with it being 4 weeks from a show we don't have time to take any chances that his body is stalled out and fighting us, so we opt for a TKD approach.

Mayweather for as long as I've observed his fights is very quick at adjusting to his opponents style, up until he has a good feel for his opponent he takes no risks mitigating the chances of getting caught.

I'm not saying only the most attractive individuals will find love, but those who take care of their physical appearance have more of a fighting chance than those who don't.

TJ Dillashaw offered to take on DJ at flyweight once his planned bout with Cody Garbrandt was scrapped, that fight would have given Johnson the chance to put a credible name on his resume and break the record in style.

It is true that men are usually apprehensive of a strong and successful woman and this constant endeavour of yours to reach the pinnacle of success can come between your love life and that is why have taken it upon themselves to give you a fighting chance to get your loved one into your life.

Liquor salesman and part - time prizefighter Chuck Wepner gets the chance to take on Muhammad Ali in a highly publicized title fight, launching him to sudden fame.

In this case, mankind's been pushed to the brink of destruction by monstrous entities known as Aragami, and only the God Eaters have a chance of fighting back thanks to their God Arc Weapons — weapons taking the form of massive hammers, pointy spears, oversized swords, and so on.

Take all of these missed thematic opportunities, throw in a plot setup that's been rehashed too many times to count (criminals on death row given a chance to fight for their freedom to the delight of millions of viewers), and let Neveldine and Taylor toss in every stylistic flourish they've ever imagined, and there is really no end to the brain - drain until one walks out of the theater.

Writer - director Coogler (who directed Jordan in the excellent «Fruitvale Station» in 2013) takes a chance in revisiting so many familiar and beloved touchstones from previous «Rocky» films, from the training sequences to another journey up the stone steps at the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the introduction of yet another colorful, seemingly indestructible champion — this time one «Pretty» Ricky Conlan (Anthony Bellew), an undefeated, undisputed light - heavyweight from Great Britain who is getting one last fight before he's off to prison.

Between microtransactions, a too - early announcement of a season pass, and another dark take on the DC Universe, Injustice 2 didn't stand a chance right up until it delivered in every way a fighting game should — even overcoming the poison of loot boxes.

But they've got no chance when a street - fighting ex-cop takes on both sides of a fierce turf war.

That means if you can fight him from far away, or block his slow attacks when he gets close, you have a pretty good chance at taking him down and winning the game.

And if you still want that publisher, be sure to get the contract written in your favor, taking the above into consideration, fight for your book and your chance at success.

(count the number of submissions folks who look in the mirror each morning and scream «F**K!!!!» and that should give a pretty close estimate) It seems like publishers would do better by giving the «winners» they've picked a fighting chance, by promoting the heck out of them and taking the grunt work off the authors so they can focus on providing a better MSS next time around.

They do it to make a subsistence wage from their work, retain copyrights, circumvent censorship laws, get books into print within months instead of waiting years, keep their books in print forever instead of a few months, make revisions rapidly, fight political oppression, maintain creative control, get paid in a more timely manner, be able to distribute their works globally, publish highly specialized works that may not prove profitable, and take a chance on making something daringly different.

Third, he wanted to take the fight straight to the megabanks on too - big - to - fail, making Wall street defend against structural reforms it opposed, at least to increase the chance that other provisions opposed by the banks, like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, would pass.

You will have to be intentional with your finances if you ever want a fighting chance to make it to financial freedom, but it doesn't have to take 40 - 50 years of slaving away for The Man before you have the option to retire.

Either way, the courts are likely to be looking to close cases that have no chance of success and in the few cases that have taken place so far, those attending were allowed to continue yet those who didn't show up had their case thrown out, so you should go along if you want to fight.

Dr. Pitcairn felt the same way, and thought she had a fighting chance, so we decided to take her in and start rehabilitation to get her back to health, right away.

I disagree strongly with dog fighting but if by any chance in a dog exposition or somewhere else were a tibetan mastiff to take on a CO which... [Read more...] about Tibetan mastiff vs Caucasian mountain dog?

Or - an aggressive male may try to breed a female right away and if she is not receptive she will fight him and in most cases, any chance of a mating taking place will end right there.

The event gives everyone in the community a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against a disease that takes too much.

These are women who have taken a chance, shaken off - stereotypes, fought adversity and broken the glass ceiling in their respective professional fields paving their own ways.

- Eevee has been added as a pro wrestler on the official New Japan Pro-Wrestling website - Eevee's special moves are listed as Baby - Doll Eyes, Take Down, Double - Edge, Extreme Evoboost - Eevee's entrance theme is Eevee Kaeki Song - Eevee became a wrestler to find out the chances of Eevee evolving - Eevee will fight pro wrestler EVIL on April 1st