Sentences with phrase «in keeping their hopes alive»

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Sanders is depending on a victory in California on June 7 to keep his slim hopes for the Democratic nomination alive.

The surprising, often risky elements of both action and thought in a life profoundly marked by consistency of faith and hope keep interest in Bonhoeffer alive.

Hence, some of us continued our education in Western universities but kept alive our hope of being able to contribute to the efforts of articulating our Filipino identity.13 To what extent either group has been successful remains to be seen since, unfortunately, political and economic considerations have overshadowed the more cultural ones.

As Christians wrestle with what they should expect and where they should set their priorities for the future, the uncertainty of the times surely makes both perspectives important, in order to keep hope alive but expectations realistic.

Perhaps Paul's hope is that things will turn out as they do at the end of the book of Genesis, when Joseph presents himself as a blessing for his jealous brothers in the famous words: «You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day.»

Although God hated sin in man, He loved man and, following a plan which dated from the beginning of creation, gave man the law to keep alive the hope of salvation until Christ should come.

Just this past week, the mom was sick and the dad stayed home from work in hopes of keeping the kids alive for another day.

The Knights kept their hopes of an undefeated season alive by knocking off Memphis for the American Athletic Conference championship, setting up Monday's battle in Mercedes - Benz Stadium.

However, I have to disagree: «In other news, The Clippers are still clawing for a playoff spot as they host the Indiana Pacers at 2:30, and the Denver Nuggets hope to keep their dream alive against the Milwaukee Bucks at 7:00 p.m. Honestly, these are peanuts compared to the 4 - 8 seeding on this particular day.

In Week 9 we saw four different undefeated teams go down (Baylor, Boise, Nebraska, West Virginia), but the top teams including Clemson, Michigan, Ohio State, Washington, and Louisville all got wins to keep their playoff hopes alive.

United currently sit 16 points behind rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League after the Citizens» 5 - 1 win against Leicester, so a win here would be absolutely vital in keeping their slim title hopes alive for this season.

However, United will have to put that to the back of their minds as they still have quality options in all departments, and they know that they must win on Sunday to keep their top - four hopes alive.

Dallas knocked off Washington on Thursday night to keep its playoff hopes alive and is now 6 - 6 after posting the NFC's top record in 2016.

Pittsburgh kept its playoff and division hopes alive with a wild win in Buffalo that saw Le'Veon Bell score three touchdowns while Ben Roethlisberger threw three interceptions.

Georgia had won three of four to keep its scant NCAA Tournament hopes alive, but it will need to upset Tennessee again on Saturday and make a long run in the league tournament next week.

Should he sign as expected, the focus will have to quickly switch to Sassuolo on Sunday as the Rossoneri will be desperate to finish the campaign in positive fashion and keep their slim hopes of Champions League qualification alive until the last game of the season.

It is not really going too far to say that Arsenal v Galatasaray on Wednesday night is a must win game for the Gunners, at least if we are to keep our hopes alive of actually winning our UCL group this time and avoiding the likes of Bayern Munich and Barcelona in the first knockout stage.

Late goals from Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi helped to rescue Barca and keep their hopes of unbeaten season in the league alive.

The Ducks can boost their case by topping USC in Las Vegas, while in St. Louis, the Bulldogs will aim to keep their hopes alive by denting Tennessee's hopes for a two or three seed (7 p.m., SEC Network).

It means a win from this game is crucial if they want to keep their hopes of progression alive, especially with an away trip to Santa Fe lying in wait in their final game.

There is need for the Arsenal side to maintain full concentration at the back to keep their title hopes alive in the season.

The fact is that a draw is not really good enough today to keep our slim hopes of another season in the Champions League alive.

It was a handball and would have been hugely controversial but the Gunners made sure we had no complaint by going on to score another two, through Giroud and Alexis, in a very imprerssive show of fight and desire which really keeps the hopes of another top four finish alive.

Arsenal fans were not exactly enthusiastic about the signing of this unheard of young striker but that may be changing after he scored for the second game in a row to keep Japanese hopes of reaching the quarter - final stage alive.

Tottenham kept their title hopes alive by easing past Stoke City, as Harry Kane bagged a hat - trick in a 4 - 0 victory.

Not only does NU need to win to keep faint Playoff hopes alive, Ohio State might need to beat an 11 - 1, top - 10 Nebraska team in the Big Ten title game to have a shot.

The Niners kept their slim NFC West hopes alive and held off charging teams in the Wild Card race with an easy win over the Rams on Sunday.

Aside from a missed Mario Balotelli penalty, the hosts created numerous goalscoring opportunities, particularly in the first half as they pushed to keep their Europa League hopes alive.

Arsenal passed a massive test of our current credentials last weekend in a brilliant way, keeping our slim title hopes alive and taking a big step towards securing another season in the Champions League and improving on last season's fourth place.

However, the consensus was that the Vikings overpaid for Bradford in order to keep their playoff hopes alive this season.

The fact that we won our Champions League clash with them was fantastic for many reasons, because it kept our hopes of qualifying alive, gave the team morale a huge boost and it might also have sowed a seed in the Bayern players» confidence.

Burnley's relegation to the Championship, after just one season in the top flight, was confirmed at the weekend — with their victory over Hull City not enough to keep their slim hopes of survival alive.

Just keep winning and hope Wisconsin loses, in order to keep Big Ten West title hopes alive.

With a 3 - yard gain on third - and - 3, the Giants were able to run out the clock on the Miami Dolphins and secure a 31 - 24 win on Monday, keeping their flickering playoff hopes alive in the process.

After that distraction, the Italian tactician will undoubtedly be focusing on ensuring his side advance in the FA Cup this weekend and keep their hopes of winning silverware this season alive.

Sebastian Vettel started dead last in the Malaysian Grand Prix but put in an incredible drive to finish fourth and keep his title hopes alive.

The Pittsburgh avalanche rolled on, burying Cincinnati and keeping Steeler hopes alive, but there is tough sledding ahead, in the playoff drive

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Despite Notre Dame boasting an 8 - 3 overall record and # 22 overall ranking, the betting public is overwhelmingly in favor of Andrew Luck and the # 6 Cardinal covering at home and keeping their slim national championship hopes alive.

We need at least a point to keep our hopes alive and even if we somehow get all three, Olympiacos will most likely win and we'll need a victory in Greece which we haven't gotten in a few attempts (although mostly playing our second squad).

The Champions League match between Arsenal and the Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb at the Emirates this evening was already shaping up to be a crunch clash, with the winner probably keeping their slim hopes of qualifying for the next phase of the competition alive and also putting themselves in a strong position to at least stay in Europe and drop down to the Europa League.

Because they could do us a big favour by putting another dent in the armour of Jose Mourinho and Chelsea and keeping the Gunners» own slim Premier League title hopes alive.

Arsene Wenger needs to get his tactics bang on for when Arsenal face Swansea City in the Premier League tomorrow night and I reckon the Frenchman needs to make sure his Arsenal team do not go on all out attack even though we desperately need to win the match to keep our EPL title hopes alive.

The Red Sox are back in Boston and Fenway Park, hoping to keep their season alive with Doug Fister on the mound.

Bernardo Silva is enjoying a thoroughly impressive season with Monaco, helping his side to lead the Ligue 1 table on goal difference, albeit with a game in hand, as well as helping his side to keep their Champions League hopes alive with a 3 - 2 away win over Borussia Dortmund to give them one foot in the semi-final stage.

The team has scored just four total goals through three games in this tournament, and will need more offense if they want to keep their medal hopes alive.

Evergreen Park league officials say they decided to speak out despite the risk of being criticized in hopes of protecting the integrity of Little League baseball — a once small - town organization that's now worth more than $ 80 million — and keep their league, as well as others, alive.

The 26 year old says for them to keep their hope alive and well in their quest to replace Nigeria and qualify for the World Cup, they need to get a positive result against Nigeria in their back to back games next year.

That's a lot of caveats, but in order to keep their title hopes alive, they had to pull a victory against Everton, and they managed it.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue