Sentences with phrase «of holding her ground»

The Liberal Democrats showing signs of holding ground.

Unlike Chris Redfield (Resident Evil), Sebastian (The Evil Within) is not trained for this lifestyle and is much more cautious leaving players to adjust Sebastian in his new environment, but also giving you the ability to flee from a fight instead of holding your ground.

Chances are that Apple has taken into consideration some pre-production version of the Galaxy Tab, though either way, the above does not stand a good chance of holding its ground.

Brigitte's armor engineering capabilities make her a stalwart support hero, capable of holding her ground in combat while also providing healing and armor for her allies.

What I said was essentially that rather than see a complete collapse in Copenhagen, in which nothing at all got done and would have been a huge backward step, at least we kind of held ground and there wasn't too much backsliding from where we were.

Not exact matches

If you can do three rounds of this and feel like, «That was hard, but if I really grind and hold on, I can get through 10 minutes,» then great: Do the 5/5 with the thrusters at 95 pounds.

Subiaco - based Australis Oil & Gas has held its ground on its ASX debut, following completion of a $ 30 million initial public offering earlier this month.

Willie Walsh, then BA CEO but now CEO of parent company IAG, held his ground, angering unions by spending millions of pounds on hiring staff to cover for striking crew.

(Sure, a bunch of people will give up using FedEx — one of the few major companies to hold its ground against the boycott — but are they really going to boycott two dozen companies, and suffer that much disruption of your consumption habits?

There's the cheese - stuffed patty, a patty that holds Reese's peanut butter cups inside, and a 50/50 burger patty that is made of both ground beef and bacon.

All outgoing flights were halted, and arriving planes were held on the ground at their point of departure.

Among assets listed as exploitable in the relaunch of the exchange, the document lists Mt. Gox's valuable domain name holdings, its high public profile, and the Bitcoin Café Mt. Gox was in the process of opening on the ground floor of its previous office space.

In September, he held a press conference with reporters on a Sunday to talk about the latest version of Autopilot, which uses a radar system that he claims could have prevented Brown's accident, which may have been caused when the Autopilot system failed to detect the tractor trailer because of its high ground clearance.

«Today, however, China is fielding an array of conventionally armed short - range ballistic missiles (SRBMs), as well as ground - and air - launched land - attack cruise missiles (LACMs), special operations forces (SOF), and cyber warfare capabilities to hold targets at risk throughout the region,» the report said.

Overall though, US and European brand names lost some ground to Asian carmakers, which held 46.3 percent of the US market in February.

He also held multiple senior leadership positions at HSBC in Cards, Auto Finance, Retail Banking and Wealth Management where he specialized in building new lines of business from the ground up.

Confronting the claims that agro-tech is being held back because of a lack of openness to change by traditional farmers, the incubator tries to help entrepreneurs understand the needs on the ground.

Under his leadership TNT rose to the forefront of Corporate Responsibility via a ground - breaking partnership with the UN World Food Program and ambitious CO2 reduction targets from its Planet Me initiative, holding multiple - year top - ranking positions in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index

US Treasury yields are stable, holding on near their recent highs, but as sentiment improved the USD sold off against most of its peers with only gaining some ground against the safe - haven Yen.

William Elder has been in since the ground floor on RXR Realtys growth into one of the most active privately held real estate firms in the New York City area, and he now manages that firms New York City headquarters.

Upon request, Startup Grind will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information that we are aware of.

Most of the major averages are at record high ground, and this may hold some psychological significance with retail investors and will likely be the subject of media coverage.

When the U-3 unemployment rate suggested that the economy was approaching full employment, Chair Yellen held her ground and directed market participants to look at broader economic indicators for signs of labor market slack (please see: Yellen's opposition to following «simple monetary policy rules»).

It's had this sort of terrible trajectory straight into the ground and it's basically halved over two years and now it's one of those stocks that everybody hates because it's one of those stocks that everybody held a couple of years ago and I remember how badly they've all been burnt on the reason for buying two years ago was that it had this kind of stellar earnings growth that fat toad and the earnings have basically been falling since then that looks like they got to continue to fall for another 12 months two years.

Above - ground gold is held in the form of jewelry (50.5 percent), private investments (18.7 percent), government reserves (17.4 percent), and various industrial applications (13.4 percent).

What if the new factor of digital metals become wildly successful in the coming years and adds to the already strong demand against finite above - ground holdings?

We try to accomplish this by keeping our intrinsic value estimates grounded in data, research and analysis, and a long - term understanding of the qualitative business fundamentals to guide our buy, sell, and hold decisions.

Anthony Borges, 15, is credited with saving the lives of 20 students, holding his ground in doorway by using his body as a barricade.

When the arms of the condemned on a cross are held above parallel with the ground, it prevents the condemned from breathing fully, and causes a slow asphyxiation.

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

Rather, it is a set of Lochner - like expansions (in my judgment) of the Founders» understanding of natural rights (which itself may be the correct understanding of Locke, or not, and which, to necessarily complicate things even more, itself was usually moderated in practice by most Founders holding elements of the communitarian - classical view) that is the real ground of my distinction between the natural rights conception of liberty and the economic autonomy conception.

I also think many of the the views he tries to shame us into accepting are very naive and do not hold the moral high ground he seems to believe they do.

Godless: We might could come to common ground over what we both hate — and then go our separate ways, or, better: maybe even hold hands and explore together all the variants and variations, differences and diversity of that fundamental... what shall I call it: mis - conception?

I hold that it is grounded in the unchanging nature of God.

In Smith, the Court interpreted its First Amendment decisions as holding «that the right of free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a «valid and neutral law of general applicability on the ground that the law proscribes (or prescribes) conduct that his religion prescribes (or proscribes)»» (id.

«It marks not only the place I hold as the Church of England's first woman Bishop and the sign of hope that may be for those who aspire to break new ground, but also the continuing fruitful dialogue between faith and learning and our shared endeavour to be beacons of possibility.»

So the only remaining conclusion is that the «eternal objects» have their ground in a supertemporal entity, in God, who «conceptually» holds within God's «primordial nature» the totality of possibilities for creation.

I see him as someone who is holding tightly to his view of gender roles because he has already given up a lot of ground that his spiritual fathers claimed to be true.

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

In general it lost ground in areas where Islam held the reins of political power.

Thus, God's time is seen as overflowing, holding together and enveloping all other times.41 The imagery of God as Ground or as Womb explains how our time, which is like that of the growing seed or fetus, is enveloped or held together or suffused by God's Time.

: Funny how Creationism is the oldest theory of origins yet it still holds its ground today» This is just sad.

[2] You've probably all heard of King Leonidas and his 300 Spartan warriors who held their ground against the invading Persian army of over 240,000 men.

People who consider and can see the logic and possiblity of both are moving more toward the middle ground which generally holds more truth than the far right or left sides of an argument.

Funny how Creationism is the oldest theory of origins yet it still holds its ground today.

In the pluralist dialogue where myths are critiqued, love will emerge as that absolute, and I will find «that I can not love [my neighbor] as myself unless I take my place on the one bit of higher ground that will hold us both — unless I love God.

No doubt the church has been right in acknowledging the deity of Christ and the Incarnation as the fullest measure of the divine revelation of which human nature is capable; though it should be pointed out that the church as a rule undertook to stand fast and to hold the ground of the traditional, historical faith, enshrined in the New Testament, and — as the histories of dogma make clear - only took over metaphysical definitions which had already been hammered out on the anvils of logical and exegetical disputation.

For one thing, that Whitehead's God is in no sense the ground of finite being, as Neville holds, is by no means undisputed.

He refers to meetings his office has held with global warming groups and says «such gatherings can create an environment of dialogue and common ground for common action on climate change,» and he urged that such gatherings be expanded.

If you believe in the forgiveness of Christ, you no longer have any ground to hold someone's past against them.