Sentences with phrase «losing the battle against»

«The government is too busy fighting against terrorism and the Taliban and is losing the battle against drugs,» he said in October, «but everything is interconnected.»

If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

Do you think Satan ever read the part, in the King James, where he loses the battle against God?

The RCC is in a losing battle against what they dub «the dictatorship of relativism».

I said:» «Do you think Satan ever read the part, in the King James, where he loses the battle against god?»

AMR Managing Director, Oliver Freedman, said the change could be attributed to public awareness of financial issues, including the future of the Masters brand, teamed with ongoing public discussion about whether it was losing the battle against Coles and Aldi.

He clanks around up front like a man who grew up believing that football was a game about missing the goal, has only just been informed of his mistake, and is losing the battle against his ingrained instincts.

I am a MFM and I must say that I am realizing everyday that the obstetric community, inspite of the lowest maternal and infant mortality rates in years, is losing the battle against untrained practitioners who are making a business and a mockery out of many susceptible clueless first time moms... unfortunately a lot of babies will have to suffer / die before things turn around.

-LSB-...] my house and I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle against hundreds of mismatched Legos.

My mother lost her battle against cancer when I was almost 9 years old.

Ever since, the cloth diaper has fought a losing battle against its more convenient (and more aggressively marketed) counterpart.

After years of fighting a losing battle against the state of New York over the taxation of name - brand cigarettes sold on reservations, many of the state's eight federally recognized Indian tribes are now manufacturing their own smokes.

Teachers and parents are losing the battle against the «porn version» of sexuality now «swamping» British life, Diane Abbott will say in a speech today.

Bellavia, who was passed over for the GOP nod in favor of Assemblywoman Jane Corwin and appears to be fighting a losing battle against her for the Conservative line, has not said whether he'll run as an independent if he doesn't get a ballot line.

Instead of the losing battle against poachers (23 August, p 6), would it not be far more effective to screen...

So far, however, the scientific facts have fought a losing battle against popular opinion — which values high - protein diets based on animal foods.

In 2006, Shelia Gannon was close to the end of a losing battle against acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a form of cancer that causes abnormal blood formation and a shortage of red and normal white blood cells and platelets.

So perhaps, if politicians were so concerned about the opioid epidemic as they seem to be, they might want to investigate marijuana as a safer alternative, rather than continuing to fight a losing battle against it.

The races of the Light have been fighting a losing battle against the Dark for.

Journalism has been fighting a losing battle against the internet, and the advertising industry, since the mid-1990s, and films such as The Post — which is timely on so many levels — show us once again just what has been lost.

Watching the expedition fight a losing battle against the worst case scenario is impressive.

It has a ridiculously overqualified cast game for anything in the way that good sports are when engaged in a losing battle against poor pacing and essential silliness; frankly, I don't have anything against silliness per se.

Toby Jones brings wry relief as Mason the company cook, fighting a losing battle against the uneatable, while Stephen Graham finds comradely warmth amid the gloom.

Steve Carell is unrecognisable — and wonderful — as the strange, sports - obsessed millionaire who lost the battle against his own demons with disastrous results

Toby Jones brings wry relief as Mason the company cook, fighting a losing battle against the uneatable

The main plot, set on the Cloverfield space station, has the crew fighting a losing battle against an alternate dimension to which they do not belong, victims of warped reality struggling to right itself.

The BD recycles the RePet commercial while replacing the isolated Trevor Rabin score / commentary with a slew of bonus features that unfortunately fight a losing battle against apathy for the movie proper.

I am not suffering from the effects of an underfunded school system or even fighting a losing battle against dissenting ideologies behind textbook material.

Twelve - year - old Alice never asked to become a cadet at the Emergency Earth Coalition school on Mars, but since Earthlings are fighting a losing battle against the Morrors (aliens transforming Earth to make it cold enough for their survival), she tries to do her part.

Unfortunately I think we're fighting a losing battle against «traditional.»

David Bowie, an iconic British rock star known for his bold innovations annd reinventions, lost the battle against cancer on Sunday, 10 January 2016 at 69 years old.

Also at level three, the monster is able to attack a location on the map that signals victory if destroyed, giving an alternate win condition from killing all the hunters thereby forcing them to fight the losing battle against their formidable foe.

The Allied forces fight a losing battle against the technologically advanced Nazi...

In Manchester she had lost another battle against her ongoing drug addiction and sought solace on the holiday island and a close relationship with Ari, the child she had given up at birth.

It was perhaps best expressed in the Old English poem, «The Battle at Maldon» by words set in the mouth of a member of a small retinue of warriors whose chief had been slain and who were in the process losing a battle against Vikings who were about to overwhelm them.

That sybaritic phase of my life ended when my wife began a six year, hi - tech, losing battle against cancer, her life ending just two weeks before the WTC disaster.

(I am past President of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and get interviewed a lot) I lost a battle against the Federal Government last year and was being drawn into another, and was quoted in Canadian Press:

According to an obituary by John Loomis, he lost a battle against modernism:

Official Clio Blog Cloud Adoption in the Enterprise and Beyond — A Rebel's Perspective I had the pleasure of reading an article by Matt Asay entitled: IT's Losing Battle Against Cloud Adoption last week.

Both closures come on the heels of research which clearly illustrates Bitcoin Cash's losing battle against rival SegWit.

Many nations are fighting a losing battle against poachers.

Preventative health services provide the front line for front line services in health; without this vanguard we will lose the battle against chronic disease in Queensland;

(MCT)-- Individuals waging losing battles against cellulite saw a rare beacon of hope last month, when the Food and Drug Administration cleared «the world's first and only» one - time laser treatment clinically proven to reduce cellulite by disrupting its underlying structure.

Not exact matches

BlackBerry has been fighting a losing battle for market share against its touchscreen competitors, which include Apple Inc. and phones on the Android operating system.

Dancap might have made $ 10 million during its five - year battle against the Mirvish musical theatre empire — but it lost $ 40 million in the process, leading to Dan's exit, both stage left and stage right this fall.

Keystone has become a can't - lose battle for the environmental movement, with activists staging frequent protests against the pipeline and California billionaire Tom Steyer funding major advertising campaigns to move public opinion.

He is also a free trade advocate who pushed hard against Trump's tariffs — a battle he lost, hence his exit.

For Uber, its intellectual property theft tug - o - war against Waymo might be a losing battle.

As women, we battle daily against the lie that we will matter just as soon as we lose 10 pounds, look like the model on the magazine cover, get our house cleaned, attract a man, produce a child, «have it all,» and achieve the American dream.

Their hostility to Ali was increased by the fact that there was scarcely an Arab family which had not lost some of its members to Ali's sword in fighting against Islam; for instance, three relatives of Mu`awiya were killed by Ali himself in the battle of Badr.