Sentences with phrase «lost early battles»

Schembechler's first squad lost early battles to a great Missouri and on the road to Michigan State.

Not exact matches

Or, you might provide the financial support that ensures that favorite really does make its way to your local grocery store, instead of losing the battle of early - stage entrepreneurship despite having a great product.

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.

Earlier this month, the BBC claimed Sir Cliff Richard has spent «grossly unreasonable» amounts of money of court costs - money the corporation could be liable to pay if it loses the legal battle.

I lost a good friend of mine earlier this year after a long battle with cancer.

Earlier this year, Murray Goulburn ran hard in the fierce $ 500 million takeover battle for listed rival Warrnambool Cheese & Butter, but Mr Helou lost out to Canada's Saputo.

In the centre of the field is where this battle will be won or lost and one expects Klopp to get his midfield players to not sit on their lead from the first leg, but rather look to kill the tie off early.

Sadly, on September 4th, 2006, Giacinto Facchetti was taken from us far too early at the young age of 64 after losing his battle with pancreatic cancer.

Gave away a penalty early on after losing the ball and then committing a foul trying to get back, and he never really set his stall out to help win the midfield battle.

Blackburn haven't won a home fixture since the opening day, when beating Everton 1 - 0, but a battling effort against Chelsea last weekend, losing 2 - 1 in spite of taking an early lead through Benjani's first goal for the club, should give Sam Allardyce's player the confidence to repeat the effort levels as another workmanlike performance on Saturday would make them difficult to oppose.

1 - 1 at half - time, both sides battled it out to 3 - 3, before Newcastle, who had lost to Manchester United 4 - 3 at Old Trafford, just days earlier, started to tire.

We've never played the Dons in their current guise, apart from when our Under - 23s lost 4 - 3 to them in the Checkatrade Trophy earlier this term, but have enjoyed many battles with the original Wimbledon over the years.

Momentum largely lost out to better organised trade unions in the earlier round of selection battles in the seats Labour must win but the faction's discussing internally how to improve its success rate.

A statement on his website revealed that the 62 - year - old, who spent the last decade of his life protesting in Parliament Square, lost his battle with lung cancer early on Saturday morning.

Answers in Genesis has had a hard time finding a site, having lost an earlier zoning battle because of opposition from scientists and secular humanists.

The only senator who responded directly to Wicker was Specter, a passionate NIH advocate who is serving out his last weeks in office after losing a primary battle earlier this year.

Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an affectionate return and tribute to the early days of Saturday morning matinees and cinema, with comic - book archaeology hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battling the Nazis while searching for the sacred Ark of the Covenant - the first in a very successful trilogy of films.

All through the early part of the race they were doing battle — at the National Society of Film Critics, Get Out lost by just one vote.

The Angelina Jolie films from the early 2000s felt like relics even as they were being released thanks to the way she was forced into fight a losing battle with a style of filmmaking more suited to elevating co-stars Daniel Craig and Gerard Butler to the A-list than figuring out how to make Lara Croft a robust heroine.

So, you can return to the town from a dungeon at any time (and go back easily), losing a battle will only see you getting sent back home (you don't lose money or items), battles are easy early on before getting more difficult at the mid-way point (if you don't consider attributes), and event scenes can be skipped or fast - forwarded.

It is no exaggeration to say that the battle for literacy is largely won and lost in early childhood.

Apple has been battling it out in court ever since and lost their final appeal earlier this year.

The world lost a talented storyteller when 71 - year - old novelist Kent Haruf died earlier this month, after a battle with cancer.

However, almost a year behind schedule, the Aakash risks losing the early advantage it once had, as there are already a host of tablet PCs battling it out in the low cost segment.

Earlier today I was on Bloomberg Radio's Taking Stock with Pimm Fox and Carol Massar talking about my new book Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (hardcover or Kindle, 240 pages, Wiley Finance).

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

Unfortunately, Riley lost his battle with cancer earlier this year.

Three drones shot down; pigeon shooters quit early EHRHARDT, S.C. ---- Losing three video drones to gunfire, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) nonetheless believes it won what might be termed the Third Battle of Broxton's Bridge, South Carolina.

To sum up, the battle system in Lost Sphear is a highlight, providing a mechanism to deal damage to multiple foes in tandem, as well as having free movement to dodge attacks gives you the feeling of invincibility in your early battles.

This can lead to some early bouts of frustration, but they can be alleviated by sticking with the «Beginner Battle» mode (which keeps you progressing even if you lose) until you get the hang of it.

«We had many, many battles early on and lost,» creator Matt Bozon told Girl Gamer.

When I played Eclipse a few weekends ago for the first time I could tell early on that it is the kind of game I will enjoy for the engine building, but then lose spectacularly for my lack of tactical acumen when it comes to battling.

Earlier this week I was in the LFS mailroom engaging in a battle of wills with the copy machine (I lost) when in walked Mike *, a solo attorney who does mostly business litigation.

In early 2017, it lost a legal battle with Huawei and was fined $ 11.6 million after it was found to have infringed on Huawei's 4G technology patents.

And if (or more likely, when) Google brings the app to iOS, Apple may lose the precious «infotainment» system battle very early in the game.