Sentences with phrase «like big victories»

At Princeton, narrow losses are recalled like big victories for other teams.

This felt like a big victory for me.

This speech felt like a big victory to get my friend and climate doubter, on my side for this speech.

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Suster, who is not a Snap investor but is a big booster of LA - based tech companies, said one of its unsung victories is a shift from brand advertising to cost - per - action ads, or ads that are meant to drive specific outcomes, like an app download.

(CNN)- Ask Dylan Thompson to name his career highlights, and fans might expect to hear about one of his big moments as South Carolina's backup quarterback - like the time he led the Gamecocks to victory over rival Clemson, or when he threw the game - winning touchdown with 11 seconds left in the Outback Bowl.

This experience, though I know is the norm for those who don't have food allergies and / or a history of disordered eating, feels like the biggest of victories for me, and one I don't take lightly.

From what I hear, tricking your kids into unknowingly eating vegetables like broccoli is a big personal victory in the parenting world.

For me though, the biggest thing about this match was that the manager was able to rest his key players like Alexis Sanchez and Ozil and pretty much all of the starting line - up that will take on Sunderland in the Premier League on Saturday and Arsenal still got the confidence boosting victory to set us back on track.

I wanted to know we could challenge the best to win, and I just don't think there is as much appeal in a victory against this liverpool team as there was last year, just feel like I'm waiting for that game where we turn up away from home against a big club and show them we can play and win

The Colombian international is also a big - game player, netting in the Europa League final victory over Dnipro last season, and based on recent form it looks fair to say he would be a major upgrade on Balotelli and indeed on the Reds» other options in attack, with players like Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini also struggling, while Daniel Sturridge has had some injury concerns in recent times.

The Ramblers like to play slow and grind out victories, so they're never going to have a big margin for error.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Quentin Croney, a three - year starter just like Roberts and McCall, also came up big in the championship victory.

Kudos to Food and Water Watch, which explains how the good guys won this time: «Given the enormous power of our opponents, like the big chicken industry and pharmaceutical companies who fought against us for three years, this victory is a real testament to the power of grassroots organizing.»

To predict how Ghana will look like on 13th September 2020, following a victory at the polls for the NDC on 7th December 2016, we first need to look at the biggest risks facing NDC rule on 13th September 2016.

The speech was equal parts victory lap for the off - cycle election success, touting of his first 11 months and a call to «think big» on issues like rebuilding the Tappan Zee Bridge.

While it doesn't look like comprehensive mandate relief is in the cards this year, local municipalities notched a big victory with the passage of a bill that will entirely shift payment for indigent legal services from the counties to the state by 2022.

«I feel like it was a big victory,» said Harig, who was greeted by applause at the BTF celebration Tuesday night in the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery.

The biggest victory for me was finding pants like this.

There «s not one big moment I can think of but small victories like getting a card, email, or phone call from someone saying I helped them, changed their life, or letting me know how much they enjoy watching me always makes me smile.

Movies like «Schindler's List» and «The Big Short» help us to understand huge, complicated tragic failures through the prism of small victories.

That's why legislative victories like those achieved in 2017 by charter advocates in Colorado and Florida are essential to ensure a level playing field (see «A Bigger Slice of the Money Pie,» features).

In 2002, the school choice movement received one of its biggest victories when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its landmark Zelman v. Simmons - Harris case declaring school voucher programs like those in Milwaukee, WI and Cleveland, OH constitutional.

Although the Gulf Coast of the American Southeast may not seem like the ideal testing grounds for the 2013 Jaguar XFR - S, the fastest production sedan in the marque's history, Motor Trend's Arthur St. Antoine made good use of the big cat's highway manners in an entertaining tour of the third coast, starting off at Sebring, the site of Jaguar's first motorsports victory in the U.S. in 1955.

With all the correct papers in place for 1964, the Giulia TI Super went on to win and win big, bagging class victories in international and national circuit races as well as bringing home the silverware in rallies, humbling cars like the Lotus Cortina and BMC's Mini Cooper.

Beginner's tip: The small victories turn into big victories, so do like I do and embrace the little things!

when a halo game got released it was like 300,000 for sony and like 560,000 for ms, a difference of 260,000 and a lot of people are saying there was a 5000 difference this time around, which basically means all of ms marketing money and the biggest game they got only managed to sell an extra 5000, if that's the case this is a victory for sony, sony have literally nothing coming out and only manages a 5000 loss and of course still wins globally maybe its only catching the first few days of ms success but a 5000 victory so far is nothing

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Some moves, like the backward somersault, initially seem superfluous; but when you pull one off just as you're about to deal a knockout to Big Boo... well, victory tastes even sweeter with a little extra sauce.

The feeling of never knowing what awaits you and the feeling of actually having accomplished something without having to button - mash your way to victory, but it all depends on what kind of gamer you are, if you are somewhat like me and grew up on adventure games then there is no question about it, you should definitely try out The Night of the Rabbit, however if you are new to the genre some of the puzzles might scare you off but trust me, if you take the time to truly explore the game you will know why this is a genre that needs a bigger audience.

While far from the resounding victory of last year's E3, Sony still had a decent show that included big titles like Destiny and Uncharted 4.

O'Neil said the exodus of wind spending that Payne bemoaned is a major victory for groups like FMM, who argue that erecting wind turbines is a waste of taxpayer and ratepayer money that will hurt Maine's economy by raising electricity costs while impeding tourism, Maine's biggest industry.

But between these two big - screen phones, the Note 8 eeks out the victory because of its better design, crisper and more colorful display and more useful special features like the S Pen and split - screen multitasking.

I realise it may seem like a victory of sorts but in effect the big blockers abandoned everything except the code,» he wrote.