Sentences with phrase «league in the world in»

La Liga is believed to be one of the best leagues in the world in terms of football talent.

Not exact matches

Activision Publishing has the $ 3 million Call of Duty World League launching in 2016, an expansion of the publisher's five - year commitment to eSports.

Facebook has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to show 20 of the league's games live this season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world of live prograLeague Baseball to show 20 of the league's games live this season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world of live prograleague's games live this season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world of live programming.

«The World League pro leagues in North America, Europe, and the Asia - Pacific regions is important for that growth.

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

After losing out to Bell for FIFA World Cup rights in October, CBC's executive director of sports, Jeffrey Orridge, whose network had also lost out on rights to the Canadian Football League and Canadian Curling Association, told The Globe and Mail, «It's a challenge for the sports media landscape in general, to sustain these types of levels, what rights are currently commanding.»

World Atlas notes that the island was decided to be Danish territory by the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations in 1933.

Ivy League sociology professor and provost Robert Nisbet's 1971 The Degradation of the Academic Dogma recounted how huge government grants since World War II were degrading universities» purpose of knowledge, scholarship, and reason in favor of self - serving pursuits of creating centers and institutes.

Fortune has developed the Fortune Fantasy Sports Executive League, a fantasy sports - inspired tool that lets readers pick their dream C - Suites from some 90 of the world's top executives in nine different corporate functions.

The study looks at the first - team pay for 348 teams across seven different sports in 18 different leagues around the world.

However, despite public fear and criticism of Steinbrenner's controversial decisions, eventually he led the team to an amazing comeback, with six World Series entries between 1996 and 2003, and a record as one of the most profitable teams in Major League Baseball.

More significantly, Syria is in league with Russia (the world's largest oil producer) and Iran.

With so many competitions and leagues in soccer it's sometimes difficult for one player to take dominance over the world's most watched sport, yet over the past 12 months, Ronaldo has made his status undeniable.

FuboTV is currently a one - stop shop to stream matches from some of the best soccer leagues in the world.

Kovalchuk leads the KHL, the second - best hockey league in the world, in points this season.

Retirement was the objective when she cashed out but the word reaching Briefcase is that she is applying her skills as a micro-biologist in the world of fine wool farming, an industry also in recovery though not one likely to put her back in the $ 100 million league.

Watch Riot Games host the world championship semifinals of League of Legends in New York City last October.

The 1994 Major League Baseball strike that cancelled the World Series caused a massive drop in attendance the following season.

Headquartered in Cologne, Germany, and with offices in New York City and Los Angeles, ESL operates leagues and tournaments such as the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM), ESL One, ESL Pro Series, and the StarCraft II World Championship Series.

Velloso says his team is working with companies such as Riot Games, the Tencent (tcehy)- owned developer behind the most popular eSports game in the world, League of Legends.

And while he probably wasn't happy to be paid by like the 73rd best player in the league when he's clearly in the top 5, that's how the world works for professional athletes.

This is still a factor three lower than a popular sport such as basketball and a factor twelve lower than the most commercial league in the world, the NFL.

A World Series showdown between the 104 - 58 Los Angeles Dodgers and 101 - 61 Houston Astros appeared inevitable when they each won their first two games in the respective league championship series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other plans.

NBC Sports Group possesses an unparalleled collection of television rights agreements, partnering with some of the most prestigious sports properties in the world: the International Olympic Committee and United States Olympic Committee, the NFL, NHL, NASCAR, PGA TOUR, PGA of America, USGA, Churchill Downs, Premier League, MLS, Tour de France, French Open, Formula One, IndyCar and many more.

Washington, D.C., is incorporated, Joe DiMaggio makes his major - league debut, the Sears Tower becomes the tallest building in the world, and the first spam email is sent, all on this day.

In his article for Bloomberg Business Ranjeetha Pakiam takes a look at China's recent accumulations in gold and how the country now compares in the world league table on gold holdingIn his article for Bloomberg Business Ranjeetha Pakiam takes a look at China's recent accumulations in gold and how the country now compares in the world league table on gold holdingin gold and how the country now compares in the world league table on gold holdingin the world league table on gold holdings.

Michael Serbinis is no stranger to competing in business in markets around the world and knows first hand from the success of Kobo, to his current venture League, #HowWeCanWin.

4) «Embrace the target» After getting to the National League Championship Series in 2015, the Cubs» goal for 2016 was nothing short of winning the World Series.

Liverpool FC, one of the biggest football clubs in the world has reached the Champion's League final after playing (in the words of their own manager) «crazy» football.

Brilliant minds of the order of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, John Von Newman, W. Ross Ashby, and Stafford Beer, among many others, provided the conceptual structures for the multidisciplinary methodology of the systems approach.2 Incredible advances in computers, in league with sophisticated instruments of systems analysis, play an ever increasing role in shaping the life style and the world view of contemporary society along the lines suggested by systems theory.

«The hatred for Israel and Jews has been unleashed once again, and some editorial cartoonists in the Arab world are turning the flotilla incident into a cause célèbre and an opportunity to attack the Jewish state and people,» said Abraham H. Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League.

Third World poverty is caused chiefly by kleptocratic governments and private interests in league with governments that make market exchange unprofitable.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring againsworld order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring againsWorld court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

In the 1980s, the Japanese American Citizens League, in its quest for reparations for the World War II — era detention of Japanese - Americans, resisted the temptation to challenge the federal government in court, and instead lobbied Congress to form a nonpartisan fact - finding commissioIn the 1980s, the Japanese American Citizens League, in its quest for reparations for the World War II — era detention of Japanese - Americans, resisted the temptation to challenge the federal government in court, and instead lobbied Congress to form a nonpartisan fact - finding commissioin its quest for reparations for the World War II — era detention of Japanese - Americans, resisted the temptation to challenge the federal government in court, and instead lobbied Congress to form a nonpartisan fact - finding commissioin court, and instead lobbied Congress to form a nonpartisan fact - finding commission.

One successful player in the Valley said recently that he wants the church to compete in the big leagues of cyberspace with the «Yahoos» of the world.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The history of the failure to defend the law of nations in the League of Nations in 1931 (the invasion of Manchuria) and in 1935 - 36 (the invasion of Ethiopia) is recalled in terms of the most disastrous consequence — World War II.

«We, in Britain, languish at the bottom of a rather shameful league table for family stability amongst the whole of the developed world.

The Anti-Defamation League lashed out Friday against what it called «deeply offensive and hateful caricatures of Israelis and Jews» drawn by cartoonists across the Muslim world in the wake of the Gaza flotilla incident that left nine dead.

You're in league with quite a few world renown tyrants on that one.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

He, Brooks Robby, and the rest of the O's waltzed through the American League, then flew to Los Angeles as underdogs to the mighty Dodgers in the World Series.

After service as an Army officer in World War II, he was playing shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League when he was signed to a minor league contract by «The Mahatma,» Branch Rickey, a cigar - chomping Methodist and the Dodgers» general maLeague when he was signed to a minor league contract by «The Mahatma,» Branch Rickey, a cigar - chomping Methodist and the Dodgers» general maleague contract by «The Mahatma,» Branch Rickey, a cigar - chomping Methodist and the Dodgers» general manager.

This Eastern attitude and understanding of religions enables us to appreciate why the first - and second - generation disciples of Max Müller in Asia were such enthusiastic advocates of the World Parliament of Religions and similar endeavors, and why some of them, such as Radhakrishnan and Anesaki, found their way into the International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations, and later into UNESCO.

Other participants in the Further With Food collaboration include the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Feeding America, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the National Consumers League, Natural Resources Defense Council, the World Resources Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund.

The Los Angeles Angels joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1961 and have since gone on to win 10 American League Western Division Championships, host three All - Star games and capture the 2002 World Series Championship.

In turn, it's no surprise that there is concern over his future, although he's certainly enjoyed a successful stint in Spain with a La Liga title, three Champions League trophies and the FIFA Club World Cup now to his namIn turn, it's no surprise that there is concern over his future, although he's certainly enjoyed a successful stint in Spain with a La Liga title, three Champions League trophies and the FIFA Club World Cup now to his namin Spain with a La Liga title, three Champions League trophies and the FIFA Club World Cup now to his name.

«They are [the Premier League club I would like to play for], because they play the best football in the world.»

I am of the belief that when you have an opportunity to sign a world class player and one of the best at his position in our league you should go gor it (aka Van Djik).

The Premier League is the best league in the League is the best league in the league in the world.