Sentences with phrase «home advantage over»

Labour is determined to ram home its advantage over the Tories when it comes to the NHS.

To be honest, we could have done with a draw between Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiacos in the other game from our group this week, but the Greek team grabbed a late winner and will now have home advantage over the Croatians in their next clash.

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The retailer, looking to get any new advantage it can in grocery delivery over Amazon.com (amzn) now that its biggest rival has bought Whole Foods, is testing the idea in Silicon Valley only for now and restricting it to August Home customers who opt in.

Microsoft's critical advantage is that in our new connected world, where we get into strangers» cars, invite strangers to stay in our homes and buy things from strangers all over the world, nothing matters more than trust.

Here you have one major advantage over the home owner: You can open the account right away and begin collecting interest instead of piling up a lump sum in savings.

A little over 10 years ago, the HubSpot team took it upon themselves to coin the term «inbound marketing,» whereby marketing professionals take advantage of this new environment to reach buyers on their home turf.

If Canadian and American producers all have the same cost of production and transportation, this gives Americans a 20 percent incentive to choose American lumber over Canadian, thus giving American lumber a boost in competitiveness and a home - field advantage.

To point out its advantages over its more enterprise - focused competitors, Dropbox has launched what it calls the Home for Life strategy, in which Dropbox serves as the platform for other daily productivity apps.

If Canadian and American producers all have the same cost of production and transportation, this gives Americans a 20 % incentive to choose American lumber over Canadian, thus giving American lumber a boost in competitiveness and a home - field advantage.

Because financing for primary homes is cheaper, living in one unit gives you an advantage over other investors.

Rent in an executive centre offers a variety of advantages over traditional or home offices.

We currently service over 100,000 servicemembers and veterans who have taken advantage of the federal government's VA Home Loan program to buy or refinance a hHome Loan program to buy or refinance a homehome.

More formally, it is recorded of George Home, who became Bishop of Norwich in 1790, that he was accustomed to read over the solemn words of the service for the Ordering of Priests on the first Sunday of every month, on which practice his biographer observes that «the imitation of this example may be practiced with ease, and will be attended with advantage.

As Grant Brisbee pointed out on Monday, MLB finally got things right when it comes to World Series home - field advantage, and the seasons of the Dodgers, Nationals, and Indians are proof of that: Who has the top record does matter, and the Dodgers are, one game at a time, wasting the incredible lead for it that they had built up over the summer.

The Atlanta Falcons have an opportunity to secure a first - round bye and home - field advantage throughout the playoffs with a win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night at Ford Field.

Couture scored his NHL - leading 16th go - ahead goal six minutes into the third period and the Sharks improved their chances for home - ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs with a 4 - 2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night.

Home ground advantage a full squad to choose from and the motivating factor of protests should mean a walk over victory to Arsenal.

Home grown rule, German Spanish and Italian will obviously have advantage over their English counterparts.

One of the trends we have noticed over the years is that home field advantage tends to be undervalued in baseball, which can be easily explained.

They take on the defending Premier League champions, Manchester City, at the Emirates, and would want to harness home advantage to impede Man City's ambitions of getting over their shock home defeat Stoke City this past Saturday.

Sixers win a hard fought six or seven game series over the Wiz, due in large part to home court advantage.

Even if there is an advantage to not playing in Europe, which there may well be, we only have two group games left and our EPL games after those are against Bournemouth and Stoke City, both at home, so how do you see the title race going over the next two months?

I get ergs point you cant keep crying about refereeing decisions and tbh im not too bothered these things tend to balance out over the course of the season and its also part of the home advantage as that foul on mertesacker is definately a free kick at the emirates.

In the overall home field advantage race, the Dodgers remain in the lead but only by a 1.5 margin over Cleveland and 3.5 over the Astros.

It is a great club, always entertaining, with a brilliant manager — it is now worth over # 2billion but our home games have no home advantage.

Out west, the NL - best Dodgers won their 102nd game, moving their magic number to clinch home field advantage through the World Series to just one, over both Cleveland and Houston.

The Patriots would be favored in five of the six Super Bowl matchups and, assuming three points for home - field advantage, would also be favored over the Vikings on a neutral field.

With another win this Tuesday, the AL can lock up home - field advantage in the World Series over the National League.

Brighton, who have a very winnable home game against Wigan now have a four point advantage over Newcastle, and with only four games left, maximum points really are a must as Rafa Benitez's side travel to Portman Road.

The Hawks currently have the fourth - best record in the league, but they're 2.5 games behind the Pacers to move up a seed, so they're looking to beat the Knicks to ensure they stay ahead of the Boston Celtics, over whom they have a 1.5 - game lead, for home - court advantage in the first round.

If hell freezes over and the Arizona Cardinals (+16.5) upset the 49ers, a Seattle win would give them the NFC West crown as well as home - field advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

The Red Devils have been in the better run of form over the past week but Spurs should have the slender advantage in the game, having played their home matches at the national stadium this season.

Sadio Mane looked superb in the first period, as the Reds went into the break with a narrow advantage over the home side.

Wolves lead the way at the top, holding an eight point advantage over the Robins, but City are definitely a side on the up and with home advantage, can throw down a serious challenge.

Speaking before Brazil's 2 - 1 last - eight victory over Colombia, Low said: «They will have a home advantage.

Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook avenged a 2014 loss to Oregon with a 31 - 28 home win over the Ducks on Saturday night, giving the Spartans a strength - of - schedule advantage for any potential College Football Playoff bid, and putting a solid... more

Dependable, diligent and experienced — Ashley Young is everything that Mourinho looks for in his players and his delivery from the left will be crucial for Manchester United to leverage their obvious aerial advantage over the home side, on Saturday.

France are on home turf for Euro 2016, so that automatically gives them an advantage over the other 23 teams taking part.

For this first leg of the tie, over 2.5 goals at Betfair for 4/5 odds * (betting odds taken on January 13th at 6:32 p.m.) is a good place to start and overall in the tie, Villarreal are likely to shade things, especially with the second leg advantage back on home soil.

As an example, if you have done research and discovered that Lamar Odom has scored much better at home than he does on the road, you could possibly find a «Lamar Odom over / under x amount of points» bet on the day he has a home game and take advantage of that knowledge.

Throughout their recent 2 - 0 Bundesliga defeat at Hoffenheim, they were inexpicably reticent to flood the opposition box and in the 3 - 0 home win over a ten - man Anderlecht in the Champions League were astonishingly pedestrian at times, for long periods struggling to make their numerical advantage count.

The average home field advantage this season has been over 5 points compared to about 3 points historically.

United, though, are never far off the pace and a 20th successive home win in the Barclay's Premier League − what would also be their fourth consecutive league victory over Man City at Old Trafford − would see them erase Man City's two - point advantage and replace them at the summit.

She noted that she had made many of the recommendations in her 2006 book, Home Team Advantage, and, more recently, as part of MTI's SmartTeams program, and that the recommendations regarding process are more fully developed in the International Safeguards for Children in Sport, which MTI, as a member of a global coalition of 38 NGO's has developed over the past four years, and is now implementing worldwide.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parehome games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pareHome Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Brooke de Lench, Youth Sports Parenting Expert, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, has helped over 42 million moms and dads worldwide get the tools and information they need to make their child's youth sports experience safer, less stressful and more inclusive.

Prices are stable throughout the world and buyer's still have an advantage just about anywhere over home sellers.

Our # 1 pick is Coop Home Goods ($ 50 - $ 60) which has one primary advantage over all the others — you can adjust the amount of filling, customizing the pillow to fit your body weight, shoulder width, sleeping position and spine curvature.

But, because it is also true that a two - parent households typically have some significant advantages over separate, single - parent homes, it's worth asking: What if you could stay for the kids and lead your own life — possibly even having outside romantic relationships?

A trained, qualified staff is one advantage centers may have over nannies and home daycare providers, who don't always have specialized education.