Sentences with phrase «losing the battle on»

fact is, you are fighting a losing battle on any Arsenal fan forum.

Jose Mourinho has rubbished any such claims in his post match interview citing the lack of any concrete information from the preliminary scans, but it appears that he is fighting a losing a battle on that regard.

Who is losing the battle on causing as much cancer as possible in as many people as possible just to keep themselves in business!

We have a Tory government because Labour lost battles on two fronts.

Dr. Lee was diagnosed with a second brain tumor early in 1994: he fought hard but he lost his battle on November 7th, 1994.

Sadly, Kaya finally lost her battle on December 27th, 2010, after 16 months of fighting.

He lost his battle on February 28, 2009.

But, in Arkham Knight, that line is rapidly receding, as the hero is fighting a seemingly losing battle on all fronts against Scarecrow, a mysterious new foe and his own psyche.

«They've lost the battle on getting legislation passed,» Inhofe said, adding that what Democrats could not legislatively complete the Obama administration is now doing through regulatory fiat.

We can lose the battle on climate change with horrendous consequences for all working people and their communities or we can act now to secure a stable climate with decent work for all, prosperity, and development.»

But your humble scribe may be losing the battle on this one.

This is moving FAST, and it appears we have already lost the battle on the Property Transfer Tax increase!!!

(I lost the battle on your fireplace BTW — hubs won with his pick.

Not exact matches

The dispute stems from 2015 when Elliott took on the Samsung Group, Korea's biggest «chaebol» family conglomerate, to oppose the $ 8 billion merger of two Samsung affiliates but lost that battle.

Cohn lost a battle with the «nationalist» wing at the White House led by Peter Navarro, President Trump's top adviser on trade.

On the worst day of his life, this Marine lost four of his best friends on the field of battlOn the worst day of his life, this Marine lost four of his best friends on the field of battlon the field of battle.

However, Kaepernick has also battled injuries in recent years (including some that caused him to lose a surprising amount of weight), can be overly reliant on the run, and inaccurate in tight windows.

controversial 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates after Elliott lost a proxy battle to block it, a South Korean government official said on Tuesday.

Andrew Forrest has lost his battle to stop Yarri Mining from being granted mining tenements on land near the mining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the Pilbara.

That's not to say that getting on the first few pages of the search engines is a losing battle for the humble Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)-- you just have to pick your fights.

Try to handle things that take more of your energy in the morning, so you're not fighting a losing battle later on in the day.

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.

On April 24, 2015, Elaine failed to woo investors and lost the battle to remain a director of the company she co-founded.

On May 3, 2003, the Old Man of the Mountain, New Hampshire's iconic symbol, lost its 10,000 - year battle with gravity and slipped from its spot atop Franconia Notch.

The ruling, delivered Monday, May 15, by U.S. District Judge William Alsup, put Uber on the losing end of the battle, slowing its plight in the race to dominate the burgeoning self - driving industry, which market analysts believe could be worth billions of dollars in the long run.

So if your social extensions resulted in thousands of people clicking on your ads but no one actually buying anything from you, you would win the battle but lose the war (more specifically, you would be making money for Google but not for your business).

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.

The irony was not lost on Geoff as, in this respect, his greatest spiritual battle came soon after his POW experience.

As Milosz looks at the names on the tombs, from his own «half broken inside» he begins to establish a communion with those buried there, musing ironically on the meanings of the names he reads: «Crazy Sophies, / Michaels who lost every battle, / Self - destructive Agathas.»

This is must reading for presidents and board members of colleges where the fight is still on and the battle not yet lost.

Believers, you are fighting a losing battle, history is not on your side.

Allowing terror and injustice to flourish unchecked is not something the Bible teaches and this lost Scribe is educated enough to know better, but is apparently too intoxicated by his spiritual pride to discern the difference between what Jesus tought about forgiveness, on one hand, and what he demonstrated and taught about actively confronting and battling evil, on the other.

Albert Shanker and the American Federation of Teachers may have won some of the battles in Brooklyn, but they lost the larger war, as American liberalism, forced to choose between maintaining its classic emphasis on a race - blind society and keeping pace with the new black militancy, eventually chose the latter.

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

Reverend Peter Ould who lost a still - born baby, gives his view on the tragic case of Alfie Evans - the 23 - month - old at the heart of a legal battle... More

On occasional dark days, I'm tempted to view my life as a losing, lonely 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.

As I step on the weight scale, I see evidence of losing the ongoing «battle of the bulge.»

On far too many days it's a losing battle.

Applicants may come under some threat of penalty if they falsely assert they have never been on the losing side of a pet custody battle.

But he approves of it in the case of a physician who» knowingly facilitated» the suicide of a patient whom he had treated for a long time, knew well, and who had convinced him early on that she preferred to die rather than go through a long and losing battle with cancer.

And a soldier that gets hit on the head a lot — even though he may live because he's got his helmet on — he's not going to be much use in battle, and very soon, he will lose his hearing, his sight, his ability to think, and probably will end up with some serious brain damage and maybe die prematurely.

As the years go on, and the Church continues to flounder in the West and to be split over fundamental questions of morality, Fr Holloway can be seen as a prophetic voice, whose message is becoming more and more urgent if we are not to lose the battle with atheism completely.

And the thousands of non-combatants, including women, children, and even livestock, that God commanded to be slaughtered because they had the misfortune to be on the losing side of the battle?

Where I part company with Lauritzen is where he suggests that in a democracy it is acceptable, after losing the battle to frame the law» the Senate having not once but twice rejected legislation to criminalize waterboarding as torture» to try to prevail on professional disciplinary authorities to punish those who choose, for reasons just as conscientiously held as his own, to follow a law he finds objectionable.

Perhaps the Kings and Chronicles accounts are both satisfied on the assumption that Josiah, forced into the battle by Egypt, loses his life in the fighting (Chronicles) and so, in a manner of speaking, at Neco's hand (Kings).

McIntyre was made for such an environment and quickly enrolled as a foot soldier on the losing side of the Armageddon - like battle for control of Princeton Seminary.

His death is the nobly lost battle that is prelude to final victory in the war; when the resurrection comes and others take up the struggle for justice on Christ's behalf.

Joan was then allowed by the king to lead the French army against the English as the city of Grisans held by the French was under heavy siege, on the point of losing the battle.

Some individuals lose weight, I on the other hand was able to reach «normal» range once again, after battling severe weight loss for years.