Sentences with phrase «hostile crowd»

The ability to function before hostile crowds is one thing that separates merely good teams from unbeaten ones.

It was a more hostile crowd, which was fun actually.

This morning's meeting drew a large and, at times, hostile crowd of roughly 200 to the authority's headquarters on Liberty Street in Lower Manhattan.

If South Carolina is to remain undefeated on Sunday morning, it will have to execute at a high level despite the most hostile crowd in America.

People tend to believe that visitors will be thrown off their game by hostile crowds, but the true value of that edge tends to be overblown.

He is a movie and baseball buff, and he recalls the film For Love of the Game, in which Kevin Costner played an aging Tigers pitcher who blocks out hostile crowd noise with a mantra of his own, Clear the mechanism.

Memphis Depay will be up against the club he left in the summer, and will have a point to prove against a likely hostile crowd.

The exchange with heckling students was typical Mr. Macron, who during his presidential campaign often managed to turn initially hostile crowds in his favor by answering questions head on.

On two occasions, I have had the opportunity to speak to the annual conference of the Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education (CSOTTE), approximately 300 deans, associate deans, and curriculum directors — a tough and often hostile crowd for a reformer.

When you read his sermons in Acts, and the hostile crowds he faced, and how he took on angry Judaizers, lynch mobs, Greek philosophers, and Roman authorities, all with boldness and clarity.

No. 4: Another blood - curdling tale from the Book of Judges, where an Israelite man is trapped in a house by a hostile crowd, and sends out his concubine to placate them: «So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they rap.ed her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

However, in the world of Luke's narrative, Stephen preached to a hostile crowd.

Add a hostile crowd and this was a terrible main event.

Artur Grigoryants, head of the Russian Football Union's disciplinary committee, made the startling statement in response to questioning about why black players in the country were being handed bans for their reactions to the hostile crowds, that seemingly now plague the game in the country.

Hoping for an absolutely violent and hostile crowd.

Faced with a hostile crowd, Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino is likely to be relatively pleased to get out of Belgrade with a point.

The three points are what they need, but McIlroy felt duty - bound to deliver a celebration for his team, the hostile crowd, and probably his opponent to leave an impression on all heading to Day 2.

Only a venomous, vitriolic and hostile crowd will get these old coffin dodgers out of the club.

The Gators haven't lost consecutive SEC games in five years, but history may be no match for their injuries and another hostile crowd.

But the Euros come to Chaska with five rookies on the roster, how will they handle the hostile crowds in Minnesota?

so, you go away from home, w a line up of players who rarely play as a unit, to play a cohesive unit who play together all season, in front of a hostile crowd, and you leave no first teamers on the bench in case this goes bad?

Rory had been a similar maniac at Hazeltine, gesturing towards the hostile crowd at every waking opportunity, and reveling in the banter.

According to Gragnani, who was accompanied at the board meeting by his parents, Don and Donna Gragnani, the kids found a spot at Dundee - Crown High School in Carpentersville, but a hostile crowd of local kids forced them to leave, throwing rocks and bottles at them.

There are often good reasons for doing this - you're basically trying to drive a hostile crowd to boredom and apathy.

On again, off again: New York's «Common Core» meetings have been rescheduled after State Education Commissioner John King was severely criticized for canceling the events after he encountered a hostile crowd of parents and teachers at a Poughkeepsie forum.

Faso should be able to convey his views to even a hostile crowd, as he did at the library, without being tarred, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.

Earlier Tuesday, a hostile crowd shouted questions and made angry statements against proposed health - care legislation at a Pennsylvania meeting led by Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter.

This technique is used by professional athletes to deflect the negative energy of a hostile crowd.

There are few portraits of humanism throughout cinema more moving than in The Elephant Man, when Merrick proclaims to a hostile crowd of gawkers «I am not an animal!

As we prepared to chuck a fireball into a hostile crowd, the flaming projectile bathed our fingers in flickers of red and yellow.

As always, once you've reduced the hostile crowd to a heap of unconscious bodies, the last man standing gets dropped in spectacular fashion in slow motion with exaggerated audio, so you can hear his skull hit the pavement.

Representatives from Avvo, LegalZoom and Neota Logic faced a hostile crowd that wasn't trying to hear the many ways in which innovation was threatening their careers.

What do fingernails on a blackboard, making a speech to a hostile crowd, eating overcooked broccoli, preparing your tax return, and walking on hot coals have in common?