Sentences with phrase «made about an opponent»

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R - New Hartford) is getting backlash for comments she made about an opponent's family member.

He gestured toward the retirement of the «legendary» Margolis — who recently dropped her bid for the seat amid fallout from a disparaging comment she made about her opponents — as the impetus for his announcement.

Not exact matches

Your opponent will probably try to mislead you about certain aspects, so make sure you understand everything correctly.

Tillerson responded to the questions, along with others about Putin's opponents winding up dead, with what's likely to become a familiar refrain for the executive as more allegations about Russia come to the fore: «I do not have sufficient information to make that claim.»

Yet his opponents warned that his hawkish foreign policy views and negative comments about gay marriage and Muslims made him ill - equipped to serve as a diplomat or to represent the U.S. on the world stage.

While the president attacks 99 percent of his opponents by mercilessly strafing them in speeches, sound bites and tweets (and has a one - size - fits - all approach to firebombing Democrats, disobedient Republicans, Gold Star families, war heroes, etc.), Daniels fends off her online critics with self - deprecating humor, and has made a point of refraining from saying anything bad about the president himself — which has probably kept him from retaliating and going after her personally.

In fact, that this election became less about conflicting ideas for achieving the same goal (the common good of Americans) and more about making sure everyone knows your opponents» deep character flaws is axiomatic.

Think about this: none of Romney's opponents can make a critique of a state - level version of Obamacare that resonates even with REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS.

But it is the belief that we can reason about our differences and offer our opponents reasons to alter their beliefs in favor of those we regard as rationally more compelling that makes debate - public or otherwise - possible at all.

When pressed about the unfairness of disqualifying their opponents a priori, naturalists sometimes portray themselves as merely insisting upon a proper definition of «science,» and not as making any absolute claims about «truth.»

If you were on the pitch and you make back passes, lose the ball easily, don't charge down at opponent when in position, then you look at your manager / coach and he's seated, relaxed, not even bother about your abysmal display, the player wouldn't even be bothered to make any improvement

This was better from Wenger, any slight edge can make a difference, even if it is just mentally like giving you're lads a boost or the talking about it in media getting into our opponents heads more than it would've done otherwise.

All the talk of the last few weeks has been about Arsenal strikers coming and going Blah blah, but I think I can honestly say once again that Wenger should be doing something about our ageing comical defence, who regularly make schoolboy errors and gift goals to our opponents.

He joked about how being able to wear Jordan cleats on the field is even part of his gamesmanship — opposing batters are always trying to sneak a look at his shoes, so he'll make sure to pull the pants up and make a show of tying them, so his opponents are thinking about the kicks and not the next pitch that's coming.

To make sure opponents show up in Anchorage, the Northern Knights will pay their round - trip air fare, which will come to about $ 7,000 per team.

or simply trying to prove us all wrong again by showing that he could play just about anybody anywhere and win a game on the road against a top opponent; something he hasn't done in quite some time... regardless of the reasons, there is simply no excuse for the goings - on at this club... unfortunately it's unlikely that any real change will come without a dedicated effort on the part of those that feed the beast... our absentee landlord doesn't invest his own money into this club, so in order to force out Kroenke, Wenger and whatever other vermin currently haunt our hallowed halls we need to hit him where it really hurts... continually filling «his» stadium and the constant buying of endless merchandise, like one of the 58 different jerseys available over the last few years, makes us the greatest enablers of all time... have we no self - respect?

While Arsene Wenger is certainly aware of how Arsenal fans feel about a North London Derby, and it will certainly make this season a little less painful if we can beat the Tottenham at White Hart Lane, but Le Prof says it doesn't really matter who our opponents are, we simply need to win.

why did we play Welbeck in the striker's role... no one can question his heart but to have a player with such limited first - touch and finishing skills against such a game opponent with Lacazette on the bench is almost unforgivable... maybe it's because Welbeck tows the party line or maybe it's because Welbeck doesn't know anything but 100 % on the pitch, unfortunately neither of these qualities makes him a capable starting striker on a team with any real aspirations... I can only hope that he was being showcased for a move elsewhere, as there was some talk last week about some interest from Everton... if he moved on that would be the only silver lining of this coach's decision, but once again it wouldn't excuse this club for putting business decisions ahead of fielding the best possible team to secure 3 points at Anfield

Fast forward the beginning of this season and everybpdy is crying because it wasnt pretty... well to all whiners, an own goal does nt just happen, it has to be from pressure from opponents (any of the whiners complained about Kos record of own goals somee years ago... I defended him because it was pressure from opponents that made him made mistakes... well, its our case now, and I wont complain if we push to had to we get our opponents into making mistakes and give us the 3 points... ugly?

Arsenal are sitting pretty in third place in the Premier League with 8 games to go, and now that we have finally got over our losing streak we just need to carry on making sure that we win all of our games and not worry about our opponents, according to our new Number 9 Danny Welbeck, who opened the scoring against Everton yesterday.

To be honest Im tired of watching him throwing his arms about, puffing his cheeks and looking skywards like the gods are foresaking him, he gives up to easily, as does Ozil and Cazorla, if you watch carefully its actually quite disconcerting to see how close they are to an opponent and the ball yet how they make it look like they have no chance of getting a tackle in by keeping their distance almost deliberately, quite alarming.

Gjanni Alioski — 5 — Didn't do much, lost a fair tackle in first - half and made a huge deal about it, Leeds fans don't take well to that when the opponent clearly won the ball.

«Verona weren't in the contest in the first half and the guys showed that if we move the ball about quickly, we can hurt any team.In the second half, however, we weren't patient enough and the errors we made allowed our opponents back in the game.

Gibson has managed to keep his seat, but he remains a top target of the DCCC heading into the 2014 midterm elections, and his opponent, Democratic activist and political newcomer Sean Eldridge, is making the selfsame argument about the GOP congressman — that he leans too far to the right and in doing so is contributing to the dysfunction down in D.C.

Embedded tweets are now common in news stories about the Trump administration, and not just from him: surrogates, observers and opponents often make the cut.

We've been talking about the potential of Obama's rebuilt grassroots field operation here for a year, and now we're seeing some of its first fruits: just as in 2008, the data his field teams collect gives his campaign a much clearer picture of what's happening on the ground than his opponents, helping his team make strategic choices about how to allocate resources (of course, always assuming that the data is accurate!).

Make no mistake about it, you opponents of the death penalty.

When your brother's opponents want to make means meat out of nothing they go about saying some of these things.

He said Sharpton made an analogy about his decision to stick with an ally being much along the lines of President Obama's snub to Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio out of loyalty to his opponent, independent candidate Lincoln Chafee, who (as a Republican) crossed party lines to endorse Obama over GOP Sen. John McCain in 2008.

And he reckons his political opponents struggle to make out what he's on about too.

She also has an unfortunate tendency to use upbeat language to mask serious aspersions she is suggesting about her opponent ---- ones she apparently is unwilling to make directly.

«Anyone can make a mistake about who they appear on a platform with, we are not always responsible for what our political opponents say but if you do it time after time after time it is right to question your judgement.»

As for whether the by - election should be happening at all, three quarters of voters in the seat (including a majority of Labour voters) think Phil Woolas «did make false statements about his opponents and this probably affected the result», so rerunning the election was the right decision.

«My opponents want to make this election about the past.

«My opponent wants to make this campaign about the way this administration conducts themselves,» Martins said.

Woolas has since been stripped of his seat in parliament by a special election court, which ruled that he knowingly made false statements about his Lib Dem opponent, and suspended from the Labour Party.

The faux outraged mob have forced the resignation of a bag - carrier before now for making crap jokes about Her Maj on the grounds that his position in Parliament made it a scandal, and a couple of political opponents were having a slow afternoon.

Here's the full text of Cuomo's e-mail, which was forwarded by a reader (interestingly, it speaks in very general terms about the budget and «realigning» spending, but makes no mention of the deep education and health care cuts, which opponents say will lead to service reductions):

The governor was on tap to skip ESPA's big dinner, but ended up make an last - minute decision to attend the cocktail hour after his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, stunned the LGBT community by warning against the perils of children being «brainwashed» about homosexuality.

Bloomberg's 2009 opponent said he wouldn't have made a big deal about the mayor's ballot - security operation.

«It has been suggested that the recent complaints I've made about Mr. Hevesi to your office, to that of the Albany County District Attorney, and to that of the New York State Board of Elections are politically motivated and timed to damage my opponent's chances of reelection.

Democratic congressional candidate Colleen Deacon is calling out her Republican opponent, Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus), for not criticizing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over comments he made about Gold Star parents of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq in 2004.

A group advocating for the Child Victims Act is raising awareness about the measure in hopes of countering opponents of the bill... and perhaps making New York safer for kids.

The public made up their minds about both, quite early in their respective terms of office, without any help from our opponents.

The NY Post endorsed de Blasio's Republican opponent, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, saying: «Even if there were any doubt about who New Yorkers should support for mayor, last week's bombshell testimony by fat - cat donor Jona Rechnitz detailing how he purchased City Hall's favors makes the choice crystal - clear.»

That's thanks to a trove of emails from Democratic Party officials that were made public by Wikileaks, revealing exactly what the establishment thought about Clinton's erstwhile primary opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and the lengths to which they were willing to go to sideline him when they were supposedly staying neutral in the intra-party contest.

In a rare move, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last night responded to attacks his Republican opponent John Cahill made about his office's handling of Freedom of Information Act requests.

On Friday 28 May 2010, Woolas's Liberal Democrat opponent, Elwyn Watkins, issued an election petition against the result [40][41] under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, [42][43][44] which makes it illegal to make false statements of fact about a candidate.

«Steve Bellone isn't worried about the claims his opponent is making.

His strategy has been to make a distinctive Labour case for staying in the EU based on protecting workers» rights, while dismissing Tory «scaremongering» about the economic consequences and declining to share a platform with his political opponents.