Sentences with phrase «led by a loser»

And watching Rooney play so poorly on # 300k a week added insult to injury — hard working individuals have scraped money together to fly to Greece, only to watch a hopeless team led by a loser.

Not exact matches

We want to be led by winners, not losers.

As NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman leads the NHL into its latest war of revenge against Jerry Moyes for trying to recoup his losses by attempting to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to the outlaw buyer, Jim Balsillie, it is well to remember that his triumph in the courts over the now three time loser didn't change one ugly fact: the Phoenix Coyotes still lose huge sums of money every year.

In the first game, the Squires, led by Charlie Scott's 46 points, snapped the Colonels» 10 - game winning string with a 138 - 132 victory on the loser's home court, and, in the return game, the Colonels gained their 10th consecutive road victory by beating the Squires 118 - 115.

But with four minutes to go Alessandro Abbio retrieved Italy's lead with a three - pointer, and the Yugoslavs, whose training was complicated by the war over Kosovo and who came to Paris desperate to prevail against a field made up largely of teams from NATO countries, wound up 71 - 62 losers.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

The Liberal Democrats, led by Britain's deputy prime minster, Nick Clegg, have been the big losers.

LOSER (pending final outcome): Anchorage mayor Mark Begich, once leading (very) senior Senator and seven times convicted felon Ted Stevens by 15 %, now losing 47 % to 48 % with 99 % of precincts reporting.

The Times chooses to lead its report of the poll by highlighting the Populus finding that most Labour voters have decided that Brown is a «loser».

Written by its star (who shrewdly insisted that he himself play the lead), this Oscar - winning hit is the ne plus ultra of underdog movies, the story of every guy who's been pegged a loser so many times that he believes it.

Roberts will lead Just Jim, which revolves around «a teenage loser whose life is turned around by the appearance...

The third season of writer Noah Hawley's TV version of Fargo will be led by Ewan McGregor - who'll play the dual role of Minnesota parking lot magnate Emmit Stussy and his loser brother Ray Stussy.

On the other hand, the behavior of the «losers» or the «crowd» can be easily observed by taking note of certain leading behavioral indicators (the odd lot theory, for example).

The responses of sea urchin larvae to ocean acidification may be influenced by habitat type, and may also be species specific, leading to the suggestion that some species are more robust to ocean change stressors than others (i.e. «winners versus losers»)[68].