Sentences with phrase «from earlier fights»

Some activists pointed to the less public role in same - sex marriage ballot initiatives in 2012, a marked departure from earlier fights - such as California's Proposition 8 in which the church vocally supported the move to have same - sex marriage banned.

Not exact matches

Silicon Valley investor Shervin Pishevar, known for his early bet on Uber, said on Tuesday he was taking a leave of absence from his venture capital firm and the startup he co-founded to fight allegations of sexual harassment.

Early last week, UFC president Dana White announced McGregor had been pulled from the card of UFC 200 because McGregor refused to go to Las Vegas to promote the fight; typical pre-fight promotions like a press conference, filming a commercial, and other marketing events had been scheduled.

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However, most people don't realize that the Sisters» platinum - selling success was 10 years in the making: starting in the early 1970s, the band began a har - fought journey that included headlining every club within 100 miles of New York City, from New Jersey bowling alleys to Long Island beach bars.

The S&P MidCap 400 showed relative strength, as it fought its way back from early losses to post a 0.3 % gain.

Charo, his former classmate, said Cruz had earlier been suspended from Stoneman Douglas High for fighting — and also because he was found with bullets in his backpack.

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

The battle of the bumper stickers between conservatives and liberals in the late «60s and early «70s predictably was fought from such Sunday school formations; evangelicals, fundamentalists and charismatics fired volleys of «Christ is the Answer!

The early «60s, then, were a time when liberals fought against extremism from the right, even as they constantly repeated their abhorrence of communism.

Tooth & Nail Wines are estate grown blends highlighting renditions of James Audubon's art work from the early 1800s that provocatively shows nature's battle to protect, defend and fight for survival.

Early along he did that uncool stuff — got into a bar fight, changed the pronunciation of his name from DOR - sett to Dor - SETT (which is how a buddy said they said it in France), told folks he'd be quitting football after five years to go into acting full time, had «TD» painted on the doors of his Lincoln Continental.

Michael Emenalo, who recently moved from Chelsea to Monaco, is fighting to keep hold of the talented Portuguese tactician, who looks the early favourite to move to the Emirates Stadium if Arsene Wenger steps down this summer, according to the Independent.

Earlier today, two reporters claimed that they were being banned from covering the fight of the century between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

man, that first fight with GSP reminds me of how Amanda Nunes would blitz and overwhelm early and then fade from mid-round 2 onwards.

Tocco, Liston's old trainer from the early St. Louis days, prepared him for the fight against the man known as the Bayonne Bleeder.

Our player of the season so far?Certainly the most consistent.JACK AND OZIL CONTRACTS - just get them signed up for F *** S SAKE.Jack doesn't want to go anywhere and Ozil will have his choice of big clubs to choose from if allowed to be able to go on a free.How about giving out a statement of our ambitions (yeah right) and show were prepared to pay whatever it takes (up to the point of being ridiculous) to SIGN the best and KEEP the best» These two are the best we have so get them sorted early to send out a message of how serious we intend to be.AUBAMEYANG - So what if he has a contract.So did Sanchez.Offer the right money to Dortmund and the player and he will be ours.What is there to question over this deal?He is a proven goalscorer.We have just lost one.Get the deal done.GIROUD - Get rid of him to Dortmund if they want him either by selling or if it sweetens the deal just loan him till the end of the season.He was a back up when Sanchez was here and will be on the mix of back ups if Auba signs.He has a World Cup squad to fight for just to be considered so needs to be playing every week.We do not need him if Auba signs and would demand better than him if the deal fails to happen.Just get rid.JONNY EVANS - I'm not sure.Agree Kos needs nursing through games and we do not have consistent performers to come in if he is injured or rested mainly due to both Chambers and Holdimg not progressing through as much as we first thought and hoped for.Gooners have always been patient and supportive of the youngsters as they have come through but question marks to the whole coaching staff as to why these two seem to have stalled as much as they have done.Steve Bould - What do you do?You should be ashamed.

Early reports from TVKO, Time Warner's new boxing pay - per - view venture, indicated that the bout drew well in excess of the record 1.2 million homesthat had paid to see the Holy - field - Buster Douglas title fight in October (page15).

Quarry's best rounds came early in the fight, before Alongi's low left hooks took his legs away from him.

The Bulls - once again extremely short - handed without Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson and Richard Hamilton - fought valiantly, coming back from an early double - digit deficit to actually take a brief lead in the second half.

The Dogues moved up to eighth place in the division after the closely - fought win as they continue their improvement from their dreadful early start to the campaign.

then if we are lucky we might be able to find one from the next level down, or up and coming players who hopefully hit the ground running and get the goals we need, that is the unfortunate truth we have to face, we will have to fight it out with man u and others for these players and hope we can get someone in early.

The Argentine, who moved from Southampton earlier this summer, has not yet made any major signings for his squad, and will not want to lose a player as influential as Paulinho, though the north London club's lack of Champions League football could be problematic as they look to fight off interest from big clubs in his signature.

Walcott, however, reckons that the Gunners are now in a much better position to end that run, as he feels that we have sorted out the problems in every area of the team, including a better fighting spirit and attitude, which the speedy forward feels was highlighted by the way Arsenal came from behind and nearly won in our home clash with the EPL champions earlier this season.

In early betting, 72 % of spread bettors have taken Notre Dame which has moved the Fighting Irish from -4 to -6.5.

Wenger refuses to bring back Gnabry early, Telling the player to fight for his place at WBA, In other words wenger isn't willing to lose any money from this loan deal.

First up, the Women's blues fought from behind in a tense affair after conceding early with goals from Sile Johnson and Georgie Walton.

With Wenger wanting to fight on and still certain that he can inspire Arsenal from the biggest crisis of his tenure, it makes any early announcement that he is leaving impossible.

Sweden defender Alexander Milosevic was shown a red card for the challenge which led to Italy's spot - kick, but his team - mates fought back to level early in the second half when ex-Manchester City striker John Guidetti guided in from inside a packed penalty area.

The Reds had fought City in the early exchanges before going a bit mad with second - half goals from «the trident» of Mane, Salah and Firmino.

The Swans went behind to an early CJ Sapong penalty but fought back through goals from Kyle Bartley and Jordan Ayew to take a 2 - 1 lead

«His experience with Arsenal, playing Champions League football and fighting to get into Champions League positions, and winning FA Cups [made him the right player for Everton],» said Allardyce, who made Walcott his second Everton signing, following the capture of Turkey international goalscorer Cenk Tosun from Besiktas earlier this month.

Only two minutes earlier, Deeney appeared to have snatched the Hornets a hard - fought point from the penalty spot after Marcos Rojo had needlessly brought down Odion Ighalo inside the box.

The hosts have been formidable at home all season, the sort of side who always give travelling opponents a vigorous encounter in Lancashire, and so the Spurs chief desperately needs to see some character, some fighting spirit from his team much like when his side went to places like Stoke and Fulham earlier in the season and grounded out priceless away wins, as this morale - battering sequence of results is threatening to ruin what had been, up until the end of 2010, a fantastic campaign which promised endless possibilities.

Over the winter break, Leipzig fought off renewed efforts from the Premier League side to bring Keita to England early, in the hope that the Guinea international would lead them to a Champions League spot again.

Earlier in the season, Stoke fought from 2 down to draw at St James» Park with a late equaliser from Abdoulaye Faye.

Expect a Manchester United team led by Alexis, Pogba etc. to try to overpower Sevilla but the two - time Europa League winners won't go down without a fight and I sense an early goal from the visitors before United wake up and just do enough.

I have been a full time provider to my children and then during early retirement, a full time maid to my ex and constant fights and «conversations» about what I needed from our relationship, but with no results.

Five years earlier, frustrated by Harlem's seemingly intractable problems, Canada had embarked on an outsized and audacious new endeavor, a poverty - fighting project that was different from anything that had come before it.

The afternoon / early evening from about 3 - 7 pm when the kids transform into needy, hovering imps who enjoy nagging, screaming, fighting, and whining with anyone within a 100 foot radius is all the proof any parent needs of that.

If there had only been one of them, I might have been able to push through and get things back on track, but I was exhausted from fighting two and had to get up early to get my then 7 - year - old ready for school in the morning.

Countries in Europe, in contrast, which he leaned on U.S. military protection via NATO in the early days after WWII, and which lacked the resources to participate more directly in the Cold War, normalized a lower level of military expenditure, and refrained from making nearly as great an economic commitment to fight wars in the Afghanistan and Iraq as the U.S. did as a leader of those coalitions.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

«Gone from the public record is the ghetto kid who dreamed of Che Guevara and the Black Panthers, and pinned their posters up in the Wailers» Soul Shack record store; who believed in freedom, and the fighting which it necessitated, and dressed the part on an early album sleeve; whose God was Ras Tafari and whose sacrament was marijuana.

Indeed, de Blasio's campaign Twitter account pledged a fight for election reform: «We're going to reform NYS» voting access laws, because lack of early voting & same day registration is disenfranchisement, plain and simple,» read a tweet from the account sent out Tuesday morning.

In part, due to senators like Kirsten Gillibrand, that fought for gay rights and marriage - equality from the earliest days.

Previous polling has suggested that the Lib Dems could indeed do very well in an early election fought around the issue of Brexit, and I think that is the case (especially if they are the only explicitly pro-membership party and can win pro-European support from Labour).

Needing to beat the Potters and hope Southampton were thrashed by Manchester City — with a 10 - goal swing in the Swans» favour — to keep alive their faint hopes of staying up, the hosts took an early lead through Andy King but Stoke fought back to win 2 - 1 thanks to goals from Ndiaye and Crouch.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

The governor has been clear he has no plans to fight it, despite a letter earlier this month from the bureau asking him to reconsider.