Sentences with phrase «going against major»

The pair were closely bound together through their relentless pursuit of producing dynamic new works through figurative painting, going against the major art trends which claimed the end of representational art.

The Glazer brothers know they can not gamble with a top four finish or going against the major will of the fans — it is just a case of whether to make the change now, or see if they are any signs of improvement at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday.

Not exact matches

Once again, Major is going against the grain to say yields will fall even further, though the Fed has maintained that it could raise short - term interest rates this year.

(Sure, a bunch of people will give up using FedEx — one of the few major companies to hold its ground against the boycott — but are they really going to boycott two dozen companies, and suffer that much disruption of your consumption habits?

That goes against the grain at some major online merchants, who treat their security measures as a competitive advantage.

A company or an individual that we have a connection with suddenly has a major direction change that really goes against what they used to stand for.

«We still think the dollar is probably going to be relatively soggy, at least against the majors, probably against the emerging economies to a significant degree as well,» Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, said.

A bunch of ex-employees of major technology companies — former Facebookers, Apple - AWOLers, Googlers gone rogue — have set up a new non-profit dedicated to fighting back against the technology giants they built.

To make sure we give the broadest possible view of program quality, then, we've stacked our rankings up against those published by other major organizations and broken down which factors go into each.

Now if Fed decides to exit or even taper its QE policy, it will give rise to a highly bullish trend in US Dollar Index which has already gone higher against its major rival currencies.

A major catalyst, especially in emerging markets, was the conviction that the Fed was not going to hike base rates in the immediate future against a backdrop of low inflation, weakening job gains and global economic uncertainties.

Each company seems to be going back and forth, making claims against their rival app company in what appears to be the first major public spat between the ride - sharing apps.

The ride - hail company is not only going through a complete overhaul of its culture and governance, it's also navigating a major self - driving lawsuit brought against it by Alphabet, and it lost more than $ 700 million last quarter — though that's down from more than $ 900 million.

Their hierarchy has always been the major source of embarrassment for the Church... dating back to the little fiasco with Galileo (which took them 400 years to finally acknowledge)... up to the current scandals... along with their current views on gays (which, like Galileo, goes against the empirical data now known).

Investing in major capital projects perhaps goes against the conventional wisdom in a recession, but CDG knew that in order to improve the business, the basic infrastructure had to be in place.

Australia's major banks are going to struggle to counter the proposition put by banking eminence David Murray that they should hold more equity capital to protect taxpayers against future financial shocks.

The Hassad company went on to buy another 12 major farming properties spreading across Victoria, NSW, Queensland and Western Australia, competing against local buyers and raising questions about whether Australia needed a foreign land register and whether regulation of foreign investment was sufficient.

In fact Smudger, who scored the opening goal against Liverpool in the final game of the season in 1989 that gave Arsenal our most dramatic title win ever and inspired the book and film Fever Pitch, thinks that the resilience the current team showed at the Britannia Stadium proves that this squad is capable of going all the way and adding another title to our history of major honours.

Carolina holds the edge in nearly every major statistical category, but haven't fared well at home against the spread this season, going 2 - 5.

Tottenham aren't going to want to see any of their top players leave this summer, but with the pressure of being unable to match wage offers from rivals coupled with their track record of failing to win major silverware, it could all count against them if United really do come knocking.

If a little kid can do that, just imagine what's going to happen against major league hitters.

Played in Community shield, Crystal palace, this match, will play against Everton, was probably going to play against Besiktas again... Thats WAY too much playing time, and Wenger wouldve just been making the same mistake as last season where he wore Ramsey down to the core, and he picked up a major injury.

We have already had the bonus of seeing Alexis Sanchez overcome the knock to his Arsenal and play for Chile and now the news that our creator in chief Ozil is going to be okay to line up against Pep Guardiola's team is a major boost to our hopes of getting back on track and finishing in the top four spots to ensure another Champions League place.

Injuries are of major concern but more importantly when the game is not going how you expect you don't leave it till the final ten minutes to change the dynamic, and you don't field your best 11 against the lesser teams (unless you don't trust the players on the bench, in which case you should sell them) sometimes I wish he was as brave as mourinho who is not afraid to take a player off at half time if he thinks it provides him with a better chance of winning.

He went 23 — 4 with a 2.07 ERA, won the pitching triple crown (wins, ERA and strikeouts), set a major league record with 13.2 strikeouts per nine innings, did not allow a home run in any of the 293 at bats against him with a runner on, permitted only three leadoff walks to score (he walked the first batter only six times in 213 1/3 innings) and struck out 37 % of all batters he faced.

We'll take 482 total yards, two touchdowns and no major errors in prime time against a top - 10 team, but let's not assume the Noles are going to roll up points like that against just anybody.

As impressive England have been, coming up short against the top national sides has been their achilles heel, especially at major tournaments which makes Tuesday's game against Italy vital for the confidence of the team going forward.

After Barcelona crawled over the line with ten men to earn a point away against Celta Vigo, the league leaders will be pleased to keep their hopes of going the whole season unbeaten alive despite major squad rotation.

I personally find him a bit lazy in that department, so if he really want to win the league without anymore major signings — or indeed with major signings — he's going to need to look at that, especially against Chelsea, United and City.

Going into Tuesday's game against Real Madrid, the major theme was whether or not Juventus could gain revenge for their 4 - 1 loss in the UEFA Champions League final in Cardiff last June.

He went into a sudden - death playoff against his great friend Sergio Garcia at The Masters, only to miss out on winning a second career major.

So the loss against the Reds has given them a major setback in the Premier League title and they go into the next round of matches sitting in third place, but ten points behind leaders Chelsea.

Fast - forwarding, events took a different turn when in Tamale, the major protagonists against whom lots of negative campaigning went against, went on to win the elections.

Campaigners against legal aid cuts won a major victory today, after the court of appeal allowed a case to go ahead on the impact of the reform on prisoners.

They had some major FERC rulings go against them and didn't like where it left them.

He had a characteristic response: «There's much to think about in what the comrade has just said and what we've got to do is to connect this with all the other struggles now going on, the nurses, the miners, [insert any major strikers], the Greenham women, and those in the wider world, for jobs, disarmament, against apartheid... [continues for several minutes until weirdo is forgotten.]»

Fayose governor challenged the DSS to tell Nigerians those who sponsored the Tuesday protest in Abuja by a group that called itself National Support Groups for Good Governance, (NASUGG), saying «When protesters went round major streets in Abuja on Tuesday, protesting against Governor Wike, where was the DSS then?

Following the major trend of Texas's 2011 redistricting cycle, Democrats immediately railed against the Republican plan for not giving enough representation to minorities, even going as far as calling the map illegal.

«I was a minister throughout every day of John Major's government and I know how much that government was weakend by colleagues constantly going into the division lobby and voting against the government in the 1991 - 1992 period.»

Finally, after the party realised that Duncan Smith's leadership was not going to work, there was Michael Howard, elected unopposed because he could hold his own against Tony Blair, but fatally weakened, as he now admits, by his role in the Thatcher and Major governments.

«The two major contenders have what I would call «near - equal» followership, so allowing them go against each other will snowball into trouble.

But, I didn't know how great my results were until Dr. Howayeck told me I had 2 major risk factors going against me — I am a woman of Southeast Asian descent.

Long story short, we were supposed to go to a major nightclub (not exactly my scene), but thankfully, things somewhat worked against a few of us and myself and three of our ROCKSTAR reporters ended up just going to get milkshakes and cheese fries.

Regular awards - watchers will know that the NSFC is generally the most highbrow of the critics» groups, as well as the most independent - minded — last year, they went wholly against the Oscar grain, giving Best Picture to «Waltz With Bashir» and four major awards to «Happy - Go - Lucky.»

The Movie: This movie had one major thing going against it — it was based on a Disney theme park ride.

While Ephron has been paid homage, either directly or inadvertently, in nearly every major rom - com since 1989, valiant efforts have been made to go against the queen's precedence, especially for those with an anti-love axe to grind.

The decreased need for a compelling adversary reached its apotheosis two years ago, when the major superhero movies just went ahead and pitted their superheroes against each other.

Then again, when you take into account that it was going up against «The Godfather: Part II» in almost every category, it doesn't sound so blasphemous, even if both movies lost major awards to other competition.

We have a ways to go yet, a backlash to either endure or fight against, a potential precedent buster, and two movies that were celebrated far and wide, neither of which has won a major award.

He's asked to defend the spy and help organise the return of the American pilot, but that becomes a major sacrifice for the lawyer who now faces a struggle against some angry citizens who aren't going to let him forget it if they let the «traitor» out of jail.