Sentences with phrase «of a dogfight at»

In 1952 The Times — which has the double advantage of being both the British newspaper of record and the only archive to which your correspondent has immediate access — predicted that «There should also be something of a dogfight at the head of the Third Division (South)», and then in 1964 noted that «the dogfight at the head of the Fourth Division continues».

«Indeed, if Chelsea and Arsenal can build on their results from the weekend then we might even have the makings of a dogfight at the top of the Premier League table.

Not exact matches

During their stay, they spotted a couple of F - 16s dogfighting and snapped some shots at the jets.

Arteta is certainly very talented, despite getting on in years, and will be hoping to get chance to impress Arsene Wenger before the season ends, but with the dogfight Arsenal are in with Man City and Man United for second place means that he is unlikely to be risked at the moment as the club has a whole host of talent in midfield right now.

Rafael Benitez's Newcastle side are just four points above the relegation zone right now, and as usual it is going to be a dogfight right until the end of the season with just 5 points separating 13th and 19th in the table at the moment, with just 8 games to go.

Yes we have games against «inferior» teams coming up (of which we thought at home to Hull was the first) but to see us go on a massive winning run would be great, but I really can't see Chelsea or Man City slipping up enough for Arsenal to do anything but get into the usual dogfight for fourth place.

We have not yet played any of the big moneyed three and look at our season: a dogfight with a team who will finish mid-table, a loss to a team who will finish mid-table and humiliation against a team who is good but not great.

Stoke City and Manchester United both sit in rather different positions in the Premier League table at this current time, Stoke's years of uncompromisingly physical football appear to have caught up with them as Tony Pulis» men have found themselves slipping down the table since Christmas with the Potters now fully involved in a relegation dogfight.

While they lurch at the wrong end of the Championship, facing up to a dogfight in terms of their second tier status, the jet - heeled youngster is showing flashes of star potential as an offensive player.

Leicester City are currently without a manager as they sacked Claudio Ranieri at the end of last week, after a tumultuous season sees them well and truly in the relegation dogfight.

Jolie stages impressive action sequences throughout as she has a keen sense of how to maximize suspense and thrills particularly the dogfights and the lost at sea portions.

Finally in Dogfights of the Future, they take a look at what our boys in uniform will have in store.

In Season Two, they take a look back at the great fights of World War One, where dogfights began, through Desert Storm.

During the weekend at the PlayStation Experience conference, Ubisoft revealed that it's developing a new virtual reality experience called Eagle Flight, which could be described as a sort of Eagle flight Simulator where you fly around Paris performing aerial dogfights to protect your territory from other players in multiplayer and single player modes.

Some may scoff at this title due to its mobile origins, but it would truly be a shame for anyone craving a good dogfight to overlook Skies of Fury DX.

Right now, more than 200 dogs — most of them rescued from a life of dogfighting and now at our temporary shelter in Ohio — need your help.

Now, and historically, at the core of the breed's problems is dogfighting.

Apopka Police arrested 26 people Tuesday night who were either specators or participants of an active dogfight that was happening at a home on West 7th Street.

«I support pit bull rescue, but there has to be a group that goes farther and hits at the root of the problem. That is what we are doing by putting leaders in the dogfighting criminal underworld out of business.

Best Friends caregiver and vet tech, Betsy Kidder, shares her memories of working with and rehabilitating the Vicktory dogs, including fostering both Oliver and Shadow prior to their adoptions as well as narrating as Little Red played with Beefcake (another dogfighting bust rescued dog) at the park.

At just four weeks of age, Trio had her back leg bitten off when she was used as bait in a dogfight.

Jennifer Self - Aulgur, humane education coordinator for the Humane Society of West Michigan, regularly presents programs at a juvenile detention center, where more than 60 percent of the youth have seen a dogfight.

Continuing the powerful new series of investigative specials, which began with a look at dogfighting and the role of The Humane Society of the United States in combating it, Animal Planet aired Animal Planet Investigates: Petland on Monday, May 17.

We are grateful for the commitment and dedication from both the Costa Rican authorities and our partners at American Stafford Costa Rica to fight this cruel practice, and we look forward to increase our response to cases involving dogfighting, for the sake of the animals.»

The victim advocacy movement may yet regrow a bona fide humane movement rooted in representing «the voice of the voiceless,» as poet Etta Wheeler Wilcox put it in 1910, at a time when humane societies were the standard bearers for abused and exploited children as well as animals, and stood in opposition to slavers and the Ku Klux Klan, not in defense of the dogs the slavers and the KKK bred and used to intimidate racial and ethnic minorities, between staging fundraising dogfights.

A Siberian will climb fences, leap fences, dig under fences, wriggle under gates, even eat through fences, slip through doors and windows, slip out of collars and harnesses... all in the name of an opportunity to explore the world — and get into whatever trouble he or she can find: hit by moving traffic as the Siberian Husky has no street sense or homing instinct whatsoever, free to chase and kill cats and other small pets, get into dogfights, chase horses and cattle (thus being at risk for injury by kicking or being shot by livestock owners), find poisoned or spoiled meat, pick up ticks and other parasites.

Because of his perceived street value, the Federal judge who adjudicated the Vick dogfighting case (and authorized the placement of the Vick dogs with rescues), ruled that Lucas and 21 other «Vicktory Dogs» be released to Best Friends Animal Society with the condition that they remain lifetime - care dogs at the sanctuary, located in Kanab, Utah.

Best Friends received and rehabilitated most of the dogs seized from the dogfighting operation at Michael Vick's former estate in Virginia, including Mel, who was believed to have been used as a bait dog.

Today, Ubisoft announced its PAX West 2017 lineup, inviting fans to take down cultists via aerial dogfights, shootouts and more in an exciting demo of Far Cry 5, at the Ubisoft booth (# 605) in Seattle from September 1 — 4.

Our GoD: Factory Wingmen editor's choice review provides an in - depth look at how this latter - day space game makes dogfighting fun again, and how its ship design suite, progression and unlocks provide a compelling draw outside of battle.

But we appreciate everyone's eagerness to help out, so I'm investigating the difficulty of implementing «TEST UEC» now rather than waiting for the dogfighting module — the idea would be that everyone would get a certain amount of TEST UEC at different periods and could use the credits to buy items that would exist for a day in your hangar to check them out, try them on your various ships, walls and so on.

Dogfight 1942 then started ringing a few alarm bells following the revelation that it was originally supposed to be a full retail game (often a harbinger of doom), but after impressing us at E3 2012, concern was replaced by cautious optimism.

Witness in awe as fighters swoop past each other engaged in intense dogfights, as frigates launch a barrage of missiles and lasers at their foes and as capital ships unleash hell against an enemy's hull.

★ Arcade mode ▶ number of villains to defeat the boss of each stage and defeat the proceeds (Final Fight is not envious) ★ dogfight ▶ 6 people fighting at the same time on one stage!

Chris Roberts was on stage at the Star Citizen PAX East event, teasing more of the dogfighting module to backers.

We'll admit, few things in Battlefront 2 are as satisfying and exhilarating as dogfighting with other players and AI in Starfighter Assault, but much like the rest of the modes in the game simply chasing kills is actually a less effective way to bank the most Battle Points and XP at the end of the match.

Expect this game to get a major cut of the screentime at Nintendo's event, showing off some glorious HD dogfighting and co-op play.