Sentences with phrase «good battle at»

There was a 0 - 0 between the two of them earlier this season in a pretty good battle at the Metropolitano.

But we lost too and want to do return to winning ways ourselves, so it will be a good battle at the weekend.

Not exact matches

In an interview with Maclean's, Caira stated that future battles with competitors «are not going to be won, in my view, with who has the best strategy... The companies that will win will be the companies that can execute flawlessly at the store level.»

That's an internal battle as well, he acknowledges: «If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street.

No study like this is perfect, but we hope we've brought some attention to the perpetual battle among states for economic development, and answered the question we posed at the beginning: Why do some states do it better than others?

Because if your good people and loyal knowledge workers are seeing any of these eight toxic habits in action (the first four are about management; the rest are about the workplace), the leadership battle at the top may already have been lost.

Fortune's Steve Gandel takes a look at the bruising four - month battle between the chemical giant and hedge fund Trian, saying it offers a new window into whether shareholder activism is good for corporate America, or crippling it.

It argued that the latency arbitrage it is describing is simply a case of some firms being better at what they do and that CHX doesn't seem to like that because its preferred market participants are on the wrong side of this battle.

Being alone, or feeling that you are alone to fight your battles and go through challenges and experience failure is so difficult, at best, for most.

His efforts have at least stopped his company's steady decline in a highly competitive battle with low - price rival T - Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS), as well as bigger players Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T).

«As well, the failed attempt at a budget compromise by Congress and the President — the so - called Super Committee «Grand Bargain — was a $ 4 trillion battle plan over 10 years» worth $ 400 billion a year.

Another good example of this rare persistence in adverse situation was Bill Ackman who at the same battled mortgage guarantee company MBIA on their role within suprime mortgage business.

You need to laser focus your efforts on getting the right message in front of the right people at exactly the right time — an uphill battle on the best of days, to say nothing of how tricky things can become if you're on a budget.

In fact, looking at Amazon's impact in its current headquarters city is a good way for the 20 cities battling for HQ2 to be catch a glimpse — for better and for worse — of their own futures.

Soon - Shiong's best shot at winning shareholder approval for a buyout bid would have included a proxy battle, offering up his own slate of directors at Tronc's annual meeting next month.

William Ackman, the man behind Pershing Square «s activist battle with Target (TGT), appeared on CNBC this morning and did a reasonably good job at explaining his reasons for his challenge to the company.

They've still got an uphill battle to make sure that they meet the very stringent environmental conditions put forward in their partnership with the Squamish First Nation, but the proponents have respectfully engaged with First Nations, will provide job training and good, family - supporting jobs to local people, and will proceed in a way that minimizes climate changing emissions at the plant.

Falstaff at war is a parody of the other knights: too fat to be hoisted onto a horse, he spends the battle as a tubby suit of armor, waddling from tree to tree, justifying his mid-battle feint of death with «the better part of valor is discretion.»

While best known for their Renaissance - era dress uniforms - brightly striped, puffy - sleeved shirts and pants - along with their ceremonial battle axes, they are a formidable modern security detail, according to Widmer, who now runs the entrepreneurship program at the School of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America.

Stephen King sure understands it better than most Christians out there because he chose to be at the front row sweat of that battle.

If I may say, though, you can get contraceptives (meaning BAGS full of condoms) for free at the health dept.. This isn't a good battle - ground.

Catholics are always at their best when the battle - lines are clearly drawn.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

I am very well aware that the pro-life cause is, at its heart, a spiritual battle of cosmic proportions.

C.S. Lewis portrayed it best in the Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle: At the end, the dwarfs thought they had all the answers, so when they were sitting in the middle of Lewis's portayal of heaven, to which the faithful crossed through a stable, all they could see were the walls of the stable.

But the battle merely begins at that point, and we will mention several of those whose somewhat different and even later views seem to command a good deal of respect in various circles.

«Even after a good day of battling for purity of mind and body, there is still the feeling, when I put my head down on the pillow at night to go to sleep, that something is seriously wrong with me, that something's askew.»

The prayers include the Magnificat, the familiar «Holy Michael, Archangel, defend us in the day of battle...» and a rather good hymn which can be sung to the tune of Come, Holy Ghost and is specifically aimed at begging for protection on unborn children.

Hence the Modernists are not good defenders of the church against Humanism; secularism is at their very door and they are not strong enough to battle with it.

I explained that these good folk probably thought that, with war imminent, they'd lucked into a front - row seat at the Battle of Armageddon.

In spiritual battle, you don't want to say, «Well, I'm saved and secure forever, so I can lower my defenses, put down my shield, go live any way I want, and let the enemy take his hits at me — because «Hey, I've got my helmet on.»

The movie depicts a young and creative teacher battling what appears to be the unthinking authoritarianism of the school as well as his students» (at first) uncomprehending resistance to his teaching method.

At the center of this final battle between good and evil is an action - hero - like Jesus, who is in no mood to turn the other cheek.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

The battle between Light and Darkness — that is basically religious belief — That Light = Good, and that Darkness = Evil — That the god = Light, and that no god = Darkness — Maybe it would not be as confusing (to the point, at which, one needs to call the atheist hotline), if you just take the time to understand Light and Darkness --

In The Stand, King's magnum opus — or at least his best book, since he would probably give the magnum - opus nod to his bloated, interminable seven - volume Dark Tower saga — the survivors of a global superflu face off in an apocalyptic battle royale, but the superflu itself is an entirely human creation, a dark thing conjured up by the just - doing - our - job good men in the U.S. military and released into the world by simple human error.

Not nearly the same but i have been battling a injury for a few weeks now and the small pleasures of feeling better (or at least improvement) is amazing.

So much of this type of thing is happening in our food system at all times, where we are told we are getting A, while actually getting B. Of course, in today's world, it's difficult to be in the know about everything, and we have to pick our battles, but it's always good to have some of those veils lifted.

We battle Candida at my house and bread is our favorite thing - finding an exceptable recipe has been challenging (and expensive) this is really good - totally satisfies our bread craving!

In this truly unique event, taking place on Wednesday, July 15th at the Napoleon House, eight of the best male and female bartenders from around the country will battle it out and create original Mandarine Napoléon cocktails, with guests in attendance voting to determine their fate.

Prior to his tenure there, Battle oversaw kitchen operations at the 4 - Diamond Squaw Creek Resort in Lake Tahoe, as well as at Silver Tree Hotel in Aspen, Colorado.

Arsenal are currently in 5th place in the Premier League at the halfway stage, and although we are only 8 points behind the leaders, many Arsenal fans think we are simply not playing well enough to challenge for the title — and in fact may have a battle just to finish in the Top Four.

As a team we look very weak, Our midfield have no bite to them as we keep buying little fancy players but they are no good at tackling and getting stuck in, Santi for me this year do nt want to play maybe he is looking for a move!!!! Jack in in and out of games he is so inconsistanat, Arteta past his best and needs to be replaced, Wenger needs to look at the time and improve it, Last year we got Ozil this year we got Alexis but we are not using them to there full potental, Ransey is class but we can keep hoping for is magic to get us out of shit, Giroud for me is a waste of time we need a top top forward he battles away but he is far below the class we need,

Mason will have a lot to handle with the Spaniard bearing down at him with his tricky feet but the Englishman's tough tackling style is bettered only by his concentration and you'd expect him to give him a hell of a battle.

Arsenal will be battling for 4th place at best this season.

Next season is a top 4 battle at best.

If we get Lemar and Seri and possibly a CB, we can be contenders but so far I feel 3rd at best and it will be a scrappy battle for the Champions League places.

Couldn't do anything offensively and didn't battle well at all with Valencia or Fellaini.

A lot has changed in F1 this year — the cars look better, there's some brilliant racing and we have two teams battling at the front of the field.

They've always been a tough Defensive Team that battles continuously, and in the past few weeks they've managed to get better looks at the bucket.