Sentences with phrase «majority is in play»

and Martin Frost (D - Texas)-- both of whom chaired their party's respective campaign committees — agreed that the House majority is in play although they disagreed about likely Republican pickups in a joint appearance on the ABC / Washington Post «Topline» program today.
«We absolutely believe the majority is in play and with Democratic women leading the way we can get that majority back,» Schriock said.

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In 1996, when Kasparov played IBM's Deep Blue, the majority of human viewers were rooting for Kasparov to win.
More than 40 % of Flint residents live in poverty, and the majority are black, which raised the specter that both poverty and race played into why their concerns went unaddressed.
There are some exceptions, Strand notes, but in the majority of cases, a license is required to play music in your business.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which hasn't played much of a role in the fiduciary debate because the vast majority of its clients aren't affected, stayed neutral.
Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.
To be sure, from the days of the Exile on, the majority of Jews lived not in Palestine but in foreign lands, where they were played upon by alien customs and ideas, and in such a situation continued fealty to the ancestral faith was far more a matter of individual choice than it was in the homeland.
It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has made a compelling case for the creative and culturally dynamic role that religious minorities can play, even in societies where the majority of people deeply oppose their religious inclinations, as was the case for much of the history of the Jewish people in....
However, it's much less common to talk about the role that white and majority churches played in and profited from American forms of slavery.
And it appears that many voters may be swayed by this argument that the most important issue in play is holding onto majority control.
For the most part, the filling of the macaron is where the majority of the flavor play comes in because the shells should not be altered too much or they may not turn out quite right.
Jack was poor for the majority of the 2013 - 2014 campaign in his preferred position, was then played out of position wide in an effort to be played into form (at the expense of the team mind you) and that's okay.
to be honest i think it is unfair to judge a player on just one game also i read somewhere that morata would rather join either chelsea or man united because of his past relations with both manager, concerning his goals scoring ratio it has to be mentioned that the majority of his appearances came from the substitutes bench which makes it more difficult for any forwards to score regularly, we all know the benefits for a player to play week in week out.
majority of of who play for those clubs are mercenaries and morata is no different, and to be honest I highly doubt it that wenger was in for him.
It would need to be something like: «This metric and previous metrics above show that Andy Reid has gotten league average play out of his QBs while here in KC, with the vast majority of those plays belonging to Alex Smith, and this holds true for the 2016 season as well.»
Klopp has had to play James Milner out of position at left - back for the majority of the time that he has been in charge of Liverpool, and while the stalwart has done a commendable job, the German tactician needs to bring in a natural in that position to really kick on.
United, in 2001 - 02, slumped down to ninth in the table and crashed out of both domestic cups; City, while they've played appallingly in quite a few games and been on the end of three genuine hidings, go into 2016 in third place, a mere three points off the lead, and with the majority of their tricky away games already behind them.
I'm not sure how the majority of people have deduced that his absence is the issue given that — 1) he barely ever played as a cm and 2) his role no longer exists in the new system.
I just wish people would stop listening to them because the vast majority don't have college degrees, they're not intelligent people, and aside from playing a sport / being attractive / singing / acting, they'd almost all be unemployed in the real world.
Because porter plays in a system where the ball is in Wall or Beal's hands for the majority of the game.
Mesut Ozil was the man creating the vast majority of our goalscoring opportunities last season, but with the new system in place with Alexis playing centrally, he has this year been chipping in with his own goals.
These circumstances, plus the fact that the volatile Snyder (or The Cookie Monster, as the majority Nabisco stockholder is sometimes known) could even imply that McAdoo, a man who works as hard in practice as in games, who plays more minutes and shoulders a bigger burden than anybody in the NBA, was a loafer, made the suspension a landmark in the history of dubious decisions.
I'm not even kidding; baseball's really hard, and Tebow has demonstrated that he's better at it than the vast majority of baseball - playing humans in our world.
Ofcorse it is, the injuries are to be blamed for all Arsenal problems.This year it is the injuries, last year it is the injuries and the year before that it is the injuries.It is really shame for a club like arsenal to give excuses for their problem on injuries season after season after season.According to the manager, the players and the majority of the fans, the problems has nothing to do with the fact that the club did not strengthened the most problematic area in the team, DM and CBs; it has nothing to do with the fact that players were played out of position; and it has nothing to do with the fact that Wenger's tactical inability (for games like Liverpool 5 - 1, Chelsea 6 - 0, City 6 - 3, Everton 3 - 0, Andrelechet 3 - 3, Swansea 2 - 1).
One player mention (Monreal) what happens when players get too familiar with each other, they get comfortable, complacent and lack hunger, because the majority lack competition in the squad and also some playing are base on favoritism, so some position are safe guarded by not buying proper players for that position or buying none at all.
Why buy players like Jonny Evans who has clearly past his best, played the majority of his football, that 10 years at Arsenal main rival and enemy Manchester United, and is still committed in helping Manchester United resurrect their past dominance in the League.
Pogba is a midfielder He has been playing in a 2 man midfield for the vast majority of the one and a half years, and suddenly he can't?
why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in
The team has lost the vast majority of games this season when Beal has played > 38 minutes, and I fully believe that his abysmal shooting in the 4th and especially the last five minutes all season is the result of Brooks running him into the ground, and not from Beal not being «clutch.»
With our quality in midfield that's not really a game the majority of teams will be willing to play against us.
And Illinois Basketball sure should absolutely expect more than what it was getting under the end of the Bruce Weber, and it became obvious that Zook wasn't going to provide.500 play, which is something he didn't even do the majority of the time in Champaign.
The defender started France's friendly match against Denmark on Sunday evening, and despite playing the majority of the contest, was replaced in the dying minutes in some discomfort.
Given these high powered offenses and the indoor playing conditions, it isn't surprisingly that the majority of bets have come in on the over.
Welbeck needs to be give a decent run in the team as a striker before fans can start judging remember he played out on the left for a majority of games for man u and got very little chance to play as a striker hence thats why his goal scoring record looks nothing special but that can change with us he has good pace technically very good and i personally think he will do a good job just give him a chance!
«I felt last year, I played the majority of games in pain and not 100 % right and I was battling through up until Christmas.
By the time he turned up the sideline, the majority of Auburn's admins, coaches, and players were unable to see the play develop, resulting in us standing on the field by the numbers, trying to catch a glimpse.
A semi-naked Diego Costa appeared to be in charge of Operation Soak Conte, while the majority of his teammates opted to play the role of cameramen on their mobile phones.
The majority of the players are no longer Young Guns, who are yet to have a run in the Premier League, Wenger can no longer play the youth card.
This tells me Clifford is still holding firm on the 3rd spot, since Trace will play sparingly and Clifford will get the majority of the snaps, at least starting in the second half.
Cavani hasn't had any major injury scares in the majority of his playing career so it's clear that you have a Ligue 1 bias.
A majority of pundits believe that Wilshere has not kicked on from his early promise as a teenager, however, seeing him in recent matches show that he is a player still with ability but needs regular playing time to get to the very top.
He got thrown in at the deep end last season and played 30 games, the vast majority of which he was better than decent.
At the time of publication, there had been 108 interleague games played and a majority of public bettors had taken the AL team in more than two - thirds of these games.
The base of the midfield is probably the most crucial selection for us, with different tactics being used for different opponents, but which pair should play in the majority of matches.
@Jonestown1 Erm I think you'll find in the majority of games in Cazorla's first season with us which was 2012 - 2013 he mostly played down the middle.
The 24 - year - old is yet to score a league goal for the Blues this term and spent the majority of last season playing second fiddle to Diego Costa, while he is now behind summer signing Alvaro Morata in the pecking order.
I'm sure majority of us cant remember what group they (Chile) played in last Copa America edition.
Tge fact is, in a majority of the snaps in ANY game, any given player will not be making a play on the ball.
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