Sentences with phrase «fought against a lot»

Toxicity in popular multiplayer shooter Overwatch will likely never go away; but the developers over at Blizzard are about to make the fight against it a lot more obvious in the new Winter Wonderland patch.

Not exact matches

«We're used to saying Bell and Telus and Rogers (TSX: RCI) are big companies and they make a lot of money, but if they go up against Verizon — it's not an even fight.»

Despite its advantages in number of troops (many of them under - armed and malnourished) and artillery, the North has no real ability to fight and win a war against the South, though it could surely cause a lot of damage in a lost war.

Lost a lot of money and time trying to fight against the powerhouses for ranking with high competition keywords.

As soon as religious beliefs are no longer used to discriminate against disliked groups, or to impede science and education, a lot of atheists will probably cease fighting them.

More than likely, there's a lot of talk about loving each other, but not much about fighting against sin or fighting for each other.

His story sounds a whole lot like all the «I was once an atheist fighting against God's truth, but then I saw the light» stories circulating around Christian circles.

Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites, and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot.

So Abram and Lot realize that rather than fight against one another, it would be better for them to go separate ways.

He let out a sigh and gave me a here - we - go - again kind of smile because I do this kind of thing a lot — fight against the clock, I mean.

A trade would involve the Angels eating a whole lot of Hamilton's salary, but they're already on the hook for all of it unless they want to try and fight a battle (they would likely lose) against the MLB Players Association.

And that his Overeem fight camp was 5 round fight camp, he clearly has spent a lot of time being prepared, how much will it work against Stipe, we don't know, but i'm pretty sure he won't gas in first like many seem to think.

There are a lot of wonderful matches of theres on various streaming services, with my favourites being against CIMA, Eita & Masaaki Mochizuki and against Kenny Omega and the Bucks in Fight Club Pro, against Cassandra Miyagi, DASH Chisako & Meiko Satomura in Chikara, against Ringkampf and War Machine in Progress.

But yeah, I'd still do an MMA fight against Mickey Gall for a lot less than $ 500k.

A lot of criticism against him can also be attributed to the fact that the guys put on our left wing offer very little defensively It also can't help knowing that Gibbs is automatically chosen as soon as he is fit, rather than having to fight for his place.

well i know the guys in england belittle the spurs the whole time (the fans outside of england do nt really feel the hate, because in switzerland for example is the hate on chelsea muuuuuch stronger ^ ^) you got ta be real and accept that spurs are a top 6 team, and drawing against them isn't such the worst result and the «pundits» and a lot of guys here always bash arsenal that they don't have the title mentality to get a point from a win and a win from a draw, so i think in the years before, we would have well lost the game, so i am happy with the point, and the fight of the guys

I think for him to put on the performance he did against Golovkin and (most significantly in my eyes) avoid taking any clean shots even though he was squared up against the rope for half the fight says a hell of a lot about the mans defensive capabilities.

In a bizarre irony, the players» union — Don Fehr and Gene Orza and the lot — which had fought ferociously against drug testing, failed to ensure that the results from a 2003 survey test remained anonymous.

This game is of utmost importance, we need to play our strongest team available against a newcastle side playing with a lot of belief and fight!

And I did see a lot of «raving» or compliments (including me) for Giroud's fighting spirit against Newcastle.

Players like Rooney and Sigurdsson have the quality that means Everton will often win closely fought games against weaker or equal opponents, but just keeping it tight and organised will probably end up in a lot of draws too.

The former is more likely — which says a lot about the power of players in modern football — and, despite playing a Norwich side fighting for their lives who nearly claimed a draw against Liverpool, United will come away with a victory.

I hate to describe it this way, but I think a lot of families, especially those planning an intervention - free birth, write birth plans as a battle plan for what interventions they're planning to fight against.

Although this vegetable might make your baby a tad bit gassy, cauliflower holds lots of phytochemicals which are said to fight against cancer!

It is mentioned at one point that he spent his political career trying to improve the lot of the poor before he became obsessed with fighting against equal rights.

A source told The Telegraph at the time that Javid was «picking a lot of fights» and «rubbing up against the political sensitivity of Number 10».

-- Espinal stands with Bushwick residents in fight against rezoning application, by POLITICO New York's Janaki Chadha: City Council Member Rafael Espinal joined Bushwick residents Thursday in opposing a private rezoning application that would allow increased residential development on manufacturing lots in the neighborhood, including the construction of two nine - story buildings.

I had a lot of opportunities», Clegg will say, making no attempt to portray a childhood spent fighting against the odds.

Her own local fight against an anti-sleaze candidate would earn lots of unwanted national media attention and will undermine David Cameron's message that he has cleaned up the parliamentary party.

«This was a hard - fought race, we took a lot of knocks, we were up against a lot off odds, but I am proud of the race we all ran,» she said, trying to stress the positive impact of her campaign.

There are lots of government agencies that are not doing anything to support the fight against corruption.

I hope on their part, this will be done so that our country stays as part of the EGMONT Group that has a lot of benefits for our fight against corruption.

In his remark, Magu, who expressed gratitude to the team for the visit, stated that the existing relationship between EFCC and the Nigeria Customs Service had helped the Nigerian system in a lot of ways, in the fight against corruption.

Their lives are a lot less than glamorous and fun — they go through a lot of physical pain and experience a plethora of mental side effects from their drug - fueled fight against the most basic human needs such as food and rest.

There is a lot of data about bone broth healing cartilage, joints, and fighting against arthritis and similar afflictions.

She was spending lots of time in Kentucky, helping my sister and her hubby as he was nearing the end of his fight against brain cancer.

They face huge opposition — big corporations with lots of money and bad manners — and stand like a small but brave army of science soldiers fighting against a giant army of greed and more bad manners to promote the truth: without healthy oceans, our planet could not sustain life.

Not only are these scenes a lot longer and more expository than they need to be, but they give the sense of a film crew fighting against the material; the camera chases after the story, rather than grabbing it by the scruff of the neck like a proper adaptation would.

Like so many games, Skydrift offers a single - player campaign and an online multiplayer offering — the former option acts a lot like a training mode with AI controlled opponents filling in for the human opposition that you're fighting against online.

I'd run into McDonagh in the parking lot earlier in the day, shaken his hand (the dude's got a grip that would break a lumberjack's arm), and wished him well in his fight against Tim League later in the evening (as if he needed it).

Sure, there's a lot of funny lines in The Martian, but the harrowing tale of a man stranded on Mars fighting for survival against impossible odds doesn't exactly scream «Comedy,» and it sure isn't a musical (The Big Short, Adam McKay's financial crisis dramedy is similarly likely to be considered a comedy even if the shoe does not entirely fit).

From within means to be self - managed, self - financed, to move a lot, to hit much against the walls and against the government, and fight what does not leave you neither in, nor out.

Parents were pitted against teachers, principals and one another, leading to parking lot fights, bitterness, broken trust and lingering divisiveness.

Adonia wants to be a professional chef to exclusive clients and she's willing to do anything to get ahead in the tough industry, relationships be damned.When a crazy pop - rock star hires her company to cater the rest of her flagging tour, she joins a crew where each budding chef competes against each other for a spot on her cut - throat boss's exclusive first line.Adonia deals with everything from breakneck deadlines to a forced spa weekend while still cooking up to professional standards, keeping her temper in check, and fighting the building tension between her and her cute co-worker, Leah.Losing means being blacklisted from the industry, but winning could cost her something a lot more important - her self - respect.

This is mostly a fight issue, with the Avengers against supersized Namor, but we finally get a lot more humanity injected back into proceedings.

The more you fight against the inherent risk of being a trader and try to close your trades out early, before they hit your pre-planned stop, or perhaps not even use a stop loss because you are «sure» the market will turn back in your favor, the greater the chance of you losing a lot or all of your trading money.

So, instead of merely having a broad - based law against theft / fraud, and allowing the judges discretion for aggravating / extenuating circumstances, we create lots of little theft / fraud laws to fit each situation, fighting the last war.

Whenever the struggle against debt feels like it's too much, go read a personal finance blog and remember that there are a lot of people out there fighting the same fight.

There is a lot of money stacked against the dogs, and those with interests in puppy mills and those who want to perpetuate the ban on county wide sheltering are prepared to fight.

You'll get to fight against a bunch of major antagonists that Luffy trounced in the main series, except they'll be a lot stronger for some reason and possess an entire rainbow of health bars for you to button mash through.