Sentences with phrase «of weak opponents»

He was the beneficiary of a parade of weak opponents, from Gordon Brown after years in office, to Ed Miliband, to Jeremy Corbyn.

We are actually quite frustrating to watch at times with endless useless passes around the box of weaker opponents.

Whether it was a by - product of a weak opponent or a legitimate return to top form, Jose Mourinho will undoubtedly be happy to see his players get a much - needed «W» before the end of the month.

Not our club, instead we have the pathetically transparent Gazidis spouting off about finances again, Wenger waxing on about Wilshere and Walcott after one decent outing, versus one of the weakest opponents we should face all year and the predictable reemergence of several former players propping up the usual Wenger favourites.

The Dynamo are one of the worst road teams in MLS, and the Earthquakes will want to take advantage of a weaker opponent and earn all three points at Avaya Stadium.

Not exact matches

Instead of arguing that the antitax case was weak, the clergy tended to dismiss their opponents as greedy and uncaring.

Stand firm, for it is you, and not your opponents, who are showing «active sympathy for the weak» (to borrow the Nietzschean phrase without adopting the Nietzschean critique); and you also, not your opponents, who are defending lawful law and the moral foundations of civilized society.

Paul actually quotes his opponents in 2 Cor 10:10: They say, «His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is of no account» (RSV).

One of his tendencies (and limitations) was to attack the weakest part of an opponent's argument but ignore the strongest or most compelling parts» a penchant that sometimes eroded his credibility, or at least made him less convincing.

Far far more talented players than jack receive harsher treatment than he does.He has weak ankles and opponents know this and make a beeline for them.Weak ankles are not a good asset if your a professional footballer.His only hope is a withdrawn role and even then he will have joined a long list of injury prone players.

The 1947 season had, in terms of winning percentage, the weakest slate of opponents in 99 years (since 1918).

In a nutshell, the problem with this approach is that if a team brings a strong player into a weak unit, opponents can quickly neutralize the impact of that player by double - teaming or playing away from them.

The relative strength of the two parties is also irrelevant... this is because even a weaker opponent can do serious or deadly harm, even to «big tough athletes».

However, A. For weakest opponents, I don't mind Mata in midfield (10) instead of Scott / Herrera B. For elite teams, I won't mind Mata as one of the front 3 [so we have 4 midfielders rather than parking the bus].

That isn't to suggest that cardio is a weak point for Covington, on the contrary, I get the impression (from the 3 - 4 Covington fights I've watched) that wearing down his opponent is generally a big part of his strategy.

For a program in need of confidence, so desperate for reasons to feel good about itself, Snyder scheduled the weakest possible opponents in non-conference slots.

And the Mats were playing in their backyard, at St. Mary's College, out to prove that what outsiders said about their «weak» schedule and «lack of challenging opponents» simply missed the mark.

A good things for us is with Alexis we have a player who comfortably to organize in both wings, he can switch flank easily and try to get the best out of the weaker of opponent's full back (he started on the right, but finish the game operating in the left in Palace game).

It is partly because of a weak defence, but the main problem lies in our midfielders ad offensive players, who simply don't defend aggressively, when the opponent has the ball.

This is a formation we should be using for most of the season to address our injury concerns, especially against weaker opponents.

I didn't watch the match last night as I was on the field playing I ran my heels off I was in their faces I was angry I got a well - deserved yellow and could have been sent off later on I intercepted a good few balls and assisted with 2 goals and won the match From the highlights and the analysis I understand the Arsenal were weak in midfield the Arsenal needs an enforcer someone just like me a motivator and in the face of the opponents a thorn in the side I also believe MR wenger was at fault we all knew we would be weak in defence the least MR wenger should have had is a strong fresh midfield after all we had a tough encounter with city + traveling why didn't he use Rosciky, Carzola and Campbell On a different note I like chamberland stature he is tall and has pace and energy why not adapt him to the defensive midfield position with clear emphasis to be in the opponents face The arsenal and Mr wenger need to wake up fast now we have this weekend to prepare for Chelsea if we believe we are title contenders

The Japanese were reedier, weaker and — if you'll trust the opinion of a guy who doesn't so much brush his hair as recharge it — worse dressed than their opponents.

Is a very good player to replace debuchy and jenkinson and I will like arsenal sell both players to fund to sign this Albania defender to improve our line defense in coming season and I want arsenal to let merterserker or paulista to leave for this young French defender Chelsea want to sell kourt zouma to replace them for good understanding defender and also look to replace monreal or Gibbs with Scottish defender Tierney of Celtic or mendy of Monaco, one of them is good signing for the next season bcos our exposed weak position of this season is right back and left back and this two position is our opponents work on it to destroy us in champion league and premier league too.

look at real Madrid midfield wealth.how would a striker (middle class) not score 20 + goals with such talented assisters assisting him in a league of three strong opponents and 15 weak opponents?

A mentally weak bunch could well have crumbled after dominating and then going behind to the opponents only effort on target, especially when their keeper seems to be having the game of his life.

Players like Rooney and Sigurdsson have the quality that means Everton will often win closely fought games against weaker or equal opponents, but just keeping it tight and organised will probably end up in a lot of draws too.

It seems unlikely that Keane did not sufficiently motivate his charges for such an important fixture, both in the context of Ipswich's season and given the opponents, so his players must shoulder a large part of the blame for such a weak display.

Though he hit his target against a relatively weak opponent, it remains an impressive personal feat for Ibra, and one that provides inspiration to future generations of strikers.

Alabama coach Nick Saban always bristles when asked, prior to facing a weak non-conference opponent, about the possibility of younger players seeing late action after the outcome has been decided.

That's troublesome against even the weakest of opponents, let alone against Lazio, the second - highest scoring team in Italy.

They are dismayed by the weak leadership of President Obama, and they know that my opponent would simply be a cheerleader for the President if she wins.

She's moved into the district from Brooklyn to run, has the endorsement of Bernie Sanders, and most people think she's a weak opponent for Heaney, but a stronger one for Faso, as she'll almost certainly highlight Faso's lobbying career as part of her pitch.»

He said the NPP has exhibited «a weak understanding of economic concept... they mix various concept as they go along and they pick and choose which one makes their case strong... so there's no consistency in the way our opponent have analysed the national situation.

Cuomo, with no Democratic opponent and facing what polls show is only weak opposition from any of three potential GOP challengers, doesn't have to announce his candidacy until his party's nominating convention in late May, so there's a chance he'll wait until then.

The upshot of facing such weak opponents was that de Blasio hardly had to break a sweat, either in his campaigning, defending his record or convincing voters that he had plans for a second term.

His Conservative opponents sought to make Mr Miliband's character an issue at the general election, constantly saying he was too weak and «in the pocket» of the SNP to be prime minister.

The researchers tested the participants» levels of enjoyment, suspense, perceived competence and performance concerns when they duelled against a weak or a tough opponent.

One high - profile opponent is Senator Ignazio Marino, who tells ScienceInsider that he doesn't see the point of having conducted an international search for the next ISS director if the outcome is a nominee with the weakest research background.

Suddenly you can barrel forward like a freight train to apply pressure; retreat out of danger with defensive jabs to keep your opponent at bay; and laterally weave to a fighter's weak side while simultaneously throwing a dangerous uppercut to their unsuspecting jaw.

To do that, supporters of charter schools also have to refrain from citing weaker evidence, which only serves to legitimize the use of inferior studies by charter opponents.

At that point, the most vocal opponents had read only chapters of Brevity that contained PG dialogue, so I cringed when I heard them express their opinion that only weak writers resorted to using curse words.

Also: two very detailed studies supporting a widely understood (though only rarely acknowledged among TNR opponents) pattern of predators: cats tend to prey on the young, the old, the weak and unhealthy.

Through every circuit, the difficulty of fictional opponents rise while you try and figure out their weak points.

Many of your opponents are based on real - life VF4 experts, but you'll always start out fighting weak - willed characters that are as easy to beat down as the Arcade mode AI.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

As players tire or gain the upper hand, though, their bars change sizes, making a weak opponent much easier to choke out than one on top of his game.

Even though his initial fatality was weaker than an AIDS victim, he still had some of the best opponent killing combos the original MK games had to offer.

At the expense of your Ultra Attacks being somewhat weaker, you're able to use both specials and mix up strategies against your opponent.

As is consistent with the series, the AI of opponent cars is weak.

The diplomacy screens could be slightly easier to use since it takes several of them just to get to where you want, like demanding a technology from a weaker opponent.