Sentences with phrase «lost the battle when»

Blackpool is set to be a tough challenge for the highly rated 19 year - old, who joined Chelsea from SPL giants Celtic in 2011, with former Birmingham City manager Lee Clark facing a losing battle when it comes to trying to keep the Seasiders in the second tier after a chaotic season that has been overshadowed by fan protests against the club's ownership.

In a sense, Pittsburgh lost this battle when it won the previous week's skirmish against Baltimore.

But why are we desperately losing the battle when it comes to Alzheimer's disease?

Hardly a losing battle when thousands are more healthy due to Dr Fung.

Do you ever feel like you're in a losing battle when it comes to your kids and nutrition?

Marvel and DC Comics may be viewed as equals in the publishing arena, but the latter is hopelessly losing the battle when it comes to their respective film divisions.

Bathrooms tend to be a losing battle when it comes to tidiness.

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.

Just try convincing employees to keep costs down when oil is selling at US$ 100 a barrel, he says — it's a losing battle.

One of the most trying times of my life happened six years ago when my mother lost her courageous battle with Stage IV colon and liver cancer six years ago in November.

Our prefrontal cortex loses out in the battle for our energy when high - stress is involved.

But somewhere in the heat of battle, when there seemed little to lose, when doing whatever it took felt more heroic than sticking to your guns, for one unfortunate moment at the 11th hour, it made all the sense in the world to ask, «Is this a prime minister?»

When companies are competing for top talent, those that aren't flexible are sure to lose the battle.

Here's a clue: when it comes to investing, they don't mind losing the battles, confident they will win the war.

Give us your survival guide - when you go through a painful divorce, you lost a loved one, you are battling cancer, your lost a job unfairly?

You're ilk has lost so many battles, this is one more added to that list and it's a wonderful day when that happens.

But just then, when all seemed lost, the Lord of Hosts would return to slay the forces of Gog and Magog in the most fearsome struggle of all time, the Battle of Armageddon.

What will be the battle they pick when this one is totally lost?

In fact, some of his greatest arguments with the soldiers / governments over the years have been over this very issue — the humans are afraid and so they want to kill the aliens while he wants to encourage life and cooperation (thinking in particular of the Ninth Doctor with Harriet Jones or even the battle of Canary Wharf when we lost Rose because of Torchwood opening the breach etc.).

When the outward battle is lost, and the outer world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interior world which otherwise would be an empty waste.

He spoke about the Burden Sisters inheritance tax case in 2006, in which two cohabiting sisters who had lived together in a loving and committed relationship all their lives lost a lengthy court battle to avoid paying inheritance tax when one of them died.

Nor do Muslims EVER lose a battle, even when they got trounced.

When God had given me some freedom, I liked the positive attention, but felt powerless to help those who were losing their battles around me.

When the cartel members throw down their rifles after losing a battle to the military, though unarmed, they are usually executed immediately.

[When I moved from the Carolinas to Massachusetts for school] most of the white Southerners at the time could recite long lists of battles lost and won and argue over...

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.

By the end of the 1920s, when Carl McIntyre left Oklahoma to enroll at Princeton Theological Seminary, most of the battles for denominational control had already been lost.

Plus, he can totally sense when he's fighting a losing battle and leaves the final decision to me.

I'm glad Wenger isn't a military general — he would consistently send in the cavalry into battle, while leaving his tanks and airforce in the barracks, only deploying them when the battle is lost and the horses are injured.

Vidal is a box to box he is not a DM and a DM we need... let me put it like this Vidal will try grab glory by getting goals (much like flamini) we will not take up true glory like Coquelin who knows his job is not to attack but to protect our back 4... not go for gaols but look hold up play when we are getting hit with a counter until the rest of the team get back into play... Someone who will get battered and bruised but not lose his temper or cool but instead battle get in good tackles and disturb the opponents Rhythm...

Gustavo — quality, should have guaranteed him first team football when we lost the transfer battle to the mighty Wolfsburg over that one.

I have said it here time and time again that Theo Walcott has everything needed to play as a striker except for strength and aggression.Theo Walcott will always lose the physical battle when his back is to goal.That is a huge concern because its reduces the potency of the attack.I would really hope he stays on the wing and Wenger should sign a Centre forward.You cant just be rotating week in week out just like that you need your players to play so they can find form.Theo should stay on the wing.

Even when they scored, we still felt like we had some momentum and we didn't lose that, we just kept battling and it paid off.»

When we initially set up our home theater I lost the WAF battle and ended up with a satellite / sub speaker system that looked good and sounded decent when we listened to them in the store but sounded terrible once we set it up at hWhen we initially set up our home theater I lost the WAF battle and ended up with a satellite / sub speaker system that looked good and sounded decent when we listened to them in the store but sounded terrible once we set it up at hwhen we listened to them in the store but sounded terrible once we set it up at home.

He loses all, except when there's no one to battle him.

I remember the reading game and seeing welbeck lost when losing every aerial battle.

@RSH what I was trying to say is that it takes more than world class players to win you the league.In many instances the mentality factor far outweighs the quality when the team is playing on the Wenger.With Wenger I don't see us having a strong mentality.We might have even lost the battle before it is fought.Trust me there's a higher chance w» ell not win the EPL if even Wenger made all the right signings.You know why?It's not because of the so called quality of other teams but we will be the cause of our own downfall this season again.

When Low realised that Germany were losing all their Midfield battles at the worldcup he called ozil to the corner and told him he will play on the right.

When you're trading half your roster and all of your assets for a superstar that A) doesn't want to be there longterm, B) is recovering from a potentially chronic injury, and C) has never won an MVP... maybe fighting that battle means you've already lost the war.

Paffett was battling Jamie Green on the quick run down to the hairpin when they clashed wheels, unsettling his Mercedes, causing him to lose control and hit the wall heavily.

Mertesacker is making a habit of coming out post-match and saying the blunt statements fans want to hear when the team loses, but his leadership in the heat of the battle is nowhere to be seen.

When Napoleon lost a general in battle and was asked who he wanted to replace said fallen general he said famously any general as long as he's lucky.

I knew immediately that when the battle and war were lost, that our dear old manager would claim a moral victory, having been the only team to have done a double against «the champions».

The world lost one of football's true greats on Thursday when Johan Cruyff lost his battle with cancer.

So it amazes me when Mr wenger suggest's that the lost to a weakened Utd team was some what exaggerated By the fan's «As if we were in a relegation battle!»

When I know that the battle is lost, I don't fight the battle.

That occasion was on 2nd May, exactly one year after to the day that he'd wrongly sent off Michael Duff and in doing so all but condemned us to relegation when that game at West Ham was lost 1 - 0 after we'd battled for so long with ten men.

However, Blackburn Rovers and Kean will be looking to get themselves out of the relegation zone, and it will surely be a battle which no party can afford to lose when the two teams clash on Saturday.

Bjarnason has brought a calmness to the centre of the pitch and has won numerous battles as well as the infamous «second ball» which we have often lost time and time again when others have played in that role.

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.