Sentences with phrase «main rivals»

Further historical investigations showed that the revolts severely disrupted attempts by Ptolemaic armies to seize new territory in Mesopotamia through at least nine major wars with their main rivals, the Seleucid Empire that straddled parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, between 274 and 96 BC.

Further historical investigations showed that the revolts disrupted attempts by Ptolemaic armies to seize territory in Mesopotamia through wars with their main rivals, the Seleucid Empire.

That was far ahead of their main rivals, the Social Democrats (SPD), who received 25.7 %.

Mr. Davis and two of his main rivals - David Cameron and Liam Fox - were grilled for 50 minutes by a group of MPs who have formed a 25 - strong grouping called Cornerstone.

[9] Despite having less money than both his main rivals, Tonko won the primary on September 9, 2008 with a plurality of 40 % of the vote.

After mostly avoiding direct confrontations, Rep. Charlie Rangel attacked his two main rivals at the start of their second debate on Wednesday night.

This not only ingratiated Cuomo to many on his left, but also brought one of his main rivals - and a natural de Blasio ally - AG Eric Schneiderman, closer to Cuomo's hip.

His main rivals within the ruling Zanu - PF party are the younger Generation 40 or G40 group, which has Grace Mugabe's support.

If that is the case, Pataki's main rivals would be ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

Sir Menzies Campbell has launched a scathing attack on his main rivals in a speech at the Liberal Democrats spring conference.

An aide to a top ally of State Senator Adriano Espaillat — one of several aspiring successors to retiring Congressman Charles Rangel — is challenging one of his main rivals for the House, Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, for his job in Albany.

His growing self - confidence has led many senior Tories to believe he has taken a decisive lead over main rivals Boris Johnson and Theresa May in the battle to be Cameron's heir.

David Miliband attempted to shift the focus of the Labour leadership debate away from the Iraq conflict yesterday, after two of his main rivals criticised the decision to go to war in 2003.

The news is rather less heartening for the Conservatives where Labour are their main rivals.

Hirelings of Mr Rawlings are also firing back at his accusers, warning them to shelve their attacks on the NDC founder and focused on investigating how they «gifted» power to their main rivals or risk incurring their wrath.

His main rivals, Tory Craig Mackinlay and Labour's Will Scobie (right), say he barely visited the constituency before Christmas and accuse him of prioritising his roles as party leader and MEP.

One factor behind this evolution is that fact that the internet's main rivals as communications channels (general - audience broadcast advertising, phonebanking / robocalls and direct mail) are all gradually losing effectiveness as a result of a variety of factors including increased competition for viewer attention, cable channel proliferation, cell phone ubiquity, and overall junk - mail resistance.

But their frantic league form, coupled with the fact their main rivals have been handed reasonable ties in the sixth round, means they no longer head the market.

However, before all the excitement of the FA Cup Arsenal must first ensure they see to one of their main rivals for the title in Manchester City, the team they impressively beat 3 - 0 in the reverse fixture at Eastlands.

If everyone can see the weakness in our team more so our main rivals, and wenger goes ahead to defend the team then he is not the right manager we need more so going trophless for 4 seasons.

Just remember that I told you so, that in a few years time when our main rivals will be joined by the Spuds and W Ham and they are spending cash loads and we are not!

Having threatened to earn success on three fronts, including beating main rivals Guangzhou Evergrande on three separate occasions in the space of a month, their season's hopes of silverware now hinge solely upon next month's CFA Cup final clash with city rivals Shenhua.

To top it off, Liverpool, one of their main rivals for a top - four finish, will travel to White Hart Lane right at the very end of the month, immediately after Tottenham have given it their all against the Gunners and the Bundesliga outfit.

Another heavy defeat against their main rivals means that Real Madrid have fallen 14 points behind the table leaders.

Yet the statistics become even starker when compared to Arsenal's main rivals, especially Chelsea.

Of course, Barcelona are not just about the MSN as they possess world class players all around the pitch in Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets, Gerard Pique, Ivan Rakitic and Javier Mascherano among others and it can be said that the Catalans are significantly stronger than their main rivals in the Champions League such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Juventus.

It was a sensational season for Chelsea as they dominated the 2016 - 17 season of the EPL with the vast majority of the campaign for the team of Antonio Conte being spent at the top spot with very little opposition from any of their main rivals.

So Owen Coyle's men have a glorious opportunity here to not only enhance their claims for the Europa League, but to also apply some pressure on one of their main rivals for a top - six finish in Kenny Daglish's Reds, who face a difficult trip to relegation - threatened West Ham the following day and are by no means guaranteed three points.

So if you want to win some cash I would go to a betting and Australian online casino website and look for something else to put your money on if I was you, especially as the main rivals to Real Madrid winning group F are the German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and they are absolutely flying at the minute and won their UCL clash with Legia Warsaw 6 - 0.

Only three points separate Leicester, Arsenal and Manchester City at the top of the table and Wenger stressed how important it is for the Gunners to take points off their main rivals this season, starting with Manchester City on Monday night.

The Real Madrid main rivals, Barcelona, have blocked the Italian Serie A champions, Juventus from completing the summer transfer of the Argentinian star, Javier Mascherano.

They've had no such problems against their main rivals, though, and on Sunday they'll look to once again rise to the occasion when they welcome table - toppers Man City to Anfield aiming to repeat last season's epic performance in the corresponding fixture back in April, when Andy Carroll scored his first goals for the club in a comprehensive 3 - 0 victory.

Even more alarming is that they are sandwiched in between their two main rivals for a top - four finish, Arsenal and Tottenham, the latter a point clear of Kenny Dalglish's side with a game in hand while the former are only a point behind Liverpool after back - to - back wins.

Their battle will be made even harder by the quality which exudes from their main rivals, most notably Bayern Munich (4/1), Barcelona (5/1) and Chelsea (10/1) who have all the ingredients to win the 2014/2015 Champions League.

This is happening while Uefa's new Financial Fair Play rules are reducing the spending power of many of Arsenal's main rivals.

What Spurs have managed to achieve, on a budget and a pay structure that is substantially smaller than all their main rivals, is nothing short of miraculous.

Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain might have thought he was nailing his place in the team after an excellent showing at West Ham, but then his main rivals for a starting place both netted in Switzerland.

You might think I am being a bit presumptuous about Real Madrid having the Spanish title sewn up, as Los Blancos still have eight La Liga games to play and are only three points above our main rivals FC Barcelona, who we still have to play in the second El Clasico of the season.

Offering a very good seasonal performance for Dynamo Kyiv, Brazilian striker Junior Moraes (turning 31 next April 4), according to Ukrainian source Tribuna, has been targeted by main rivals of them, Shakhtar Donetsk.

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Boro do have a superior goal difference to their main rivals for relegation - Sunderland, Swansea City and Hull City - and take on Arsenal at home in the their match on Monday, 17 April.

Who da XXXX are Old Etonians??? Sounds like something from a StarTrek movie, I'm guessing that their main rivals were Kling - Ons Utd?

I know that Arsene Wenger still has to balance the books at Arsenal and so as long as the current ownership stays the same, the Frenchman is never going to have the sort of resources available to his main rivals like Mourinho, van Gaal and Pellegrini.

Both of them won the title when their main rivals were rebuilding (which does not makes them less worthy) and could not confirm after that.

Real, hungry, motivated, 21st century tactics managers — like all our main rivals have — think first about how to win games and understand that teams MUST have balance and shape; that defence MUST be sound, you must have fiercely committed players across the team and squad and you can not carry injury prone players year after year after long frustrating year.

Which other manager in the whole wide world benches his strikers when his team wants to go and play main rivals away from home?

While Arsenal may not have the financial resources of our main rivals Chelsea, Man City and Man United, we do have an edge over them in other ways.

But we stuffed them that day at home and they were our main rivals.

Our main rivals sure have more than one «world - class striker».

But once again this weekend Stoke were a shadow of that side as they meekly allowed Man City to win and score four goals without reply, just as they did against another of our main rivals Tottenham on Monday.