Sentences with phrase «on the defense when»

Jono Matasar proved to be a great weapon on defense when they switched strategies..

When Marc Gasol was a rookie, for instance, the Grizzlies were 5.8 points per 100 possessions worse on defense when he was on the court.

Hill was replaced by Ricky Rubio, another strong defender, and Gobert has been as good as ever on defense when healthy.

Like Atlanta's Deion Jones, Smith has the talent to be a matchup weapon on defense when it comes to coverage and has the speed and athleticism to make plays sideline to sideline, neutralizing some of the game's most effective offensive weapons.

That guy never quit and was a rod of energy on special teams and on the defense when he was in.

Not exact matches

Years ago, when street crime was frighteningly commonplace, the comedian Steve Martin joked that the best defense against a mugger is to vomit on your cash.

When critics have questioned whether upstarts like Snap or Spotify can take on Facebook and Apple, Tencent has come to their defense behind the front lines and strengthened their odds.

Whatever the cause, Williams opened defense of her Olympic singles gold medal with a patchy - at - times 6 - 4, 6 - 2 victory over Australia's Daria Gavrilova on Sunday, gesturing or yelling at herself as she often does when not all goes her way.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

When asked what would happen to deployed transgender military personnel around the world, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was «something that the Department of Defense and the White House will have to work together on as implementation takes place.»

For Kennan, the Reagan era was not «Morning in America», but a time when «the annual spending of hundreds of billions of dollars on «defense» has developed into a national addiction.»

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

Boeing, the world's largest plane manufacturer, tumbled nearly 4 percent putting the defense giant well on the way to its worst day since April 6, when the company lost 3.06 percent.

When Trump said, «Look, if NATO allies don't want to spend the 2 percent on defense, why should Americans be doing it?»

Defense lawyers said the shooting was an accident that happened when Garcia Zarate, who had a history of nonviolent drug crimes, found the gun wrapped in a T - shirt or cloth under his seat on the pier just seconds before it discharged in his hands.

Nick Foles proved he could still play with a steady performance against the Giants in his first start for the Eagles this year after Carson Wentz went down with a season - ending injury, and the Philadelphia defense proved they're still fearsome when they essentially won Eagles» Christmas game against the Raiders on their own.

When the Department of Defense or the U.S. intelligence community needs software to help complete their missions, WaveStrike is one of the firms they count on to help develop those tools.

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

Replacement ms windows are your best defense when it comes to saving on your power expenses.

This month, President - elect Trump annoyed some people when he criticized two top defense contractors on Twitter.

In fact, when the conversation turned to the Mercers, he cut it off, but not before he had offered a stern defense of his worldview, a reflective perspective on his time in the White House, and a cryptic glimpse of what he's planning to do next.»

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Then when Alice and Tiggy come to my defense you state: «Tiggy and preacherlady, you consistently hold fishon up as a great defender of what he believes, but you are blind to the fact that I generally ignore his beliefs and comment only on his attitude.»

Circular religious logic will still never fully justify the fact that religion asks for special rights and protections, which it gets, and then turns those rights and protections on other groups as a defense mechanism for when they are accused of discriminating... i.e. «We can choose who we accept and who we don't because of our beliefs... wait, what... how can you say you will not accept our religious organization, that's religious discrimination!»

I'm sticking with my analysis — which is basically Obama combined conservatism in the precise sense when it came to defense of entitlements with progressive libertarianism on the so - called social issues.

christ was beaten and cruxified on a cross bc he preached of being the SON OF MAN, the only what to get to heaven but gays who are living in sin and refuse to repent are accepted at work and everywhere they go and society cheers them on when they get married or when a state recongizes them, and anytime they are killed society comes to their defense, but i say to you, is will not be man that will judge them iw till

As for the ideologists who claim to know the way to a perfectly just society and who «build a case against God in defense of man, on whom can they depend when human activity proves powerless?»

When the Nazi officials on trial at Nuremberg argued in their defense that they had merely obeyed the laws of the state, public opinion quickly agreed that there ought to be a law proscribing such crimes against humanity.

He also refuses to take up Hartshorne's defense of the ontological argument (on the rather unsatisfactory ground that «when denying the ontological argument, I always feel like a fool») although he recognizes that it «lies at the heart» of Hartshorne's understanding of these matters (p. 64).

When Frei was writing on these matters in the 1960s, Barth seemed to many obsolete, like a man writing a great defense of Ptolemaic astronomy two generations after Copernicus.

One man in how many, after fulfilling the above prophecies, when he is oppressed and afflicted and is on trial for his life, though innocent, will make no defense for himself?

As our «defense» bill approaches $ 100 billion per year, we stumble daily closer to the time when this earth will no longer tolerate life lived as stupidly as we insist on living it.

Just because you can throw the football far and straight when there is no defense on the field, doesn't mean you are ready to quarterback in the NFL.

When this question was posed in the hearings on the Defense of Marriage Act, it produced, among the defenders of gay marriage, a show of bafflement.

As we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liars.

At the convention in Chicago that year, she spearheaded a hugely attended pro-Goldwater rally that targeted the «Compact of Fifth Avenue,» a platform agreement between the eventually nominated Richard Nixon and his establishment - Republican antagonist Nelson Rockefeller that Schlafly deemed a sellout on crucial elements of U.S. defense just when the Soviets seemed to be winning the arms race.

In 2013, when the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, I reflected on how Christians might live in light of the ruling, and much of what I wrote two years ago still applies even amidst this latest ruling.

Movies like Prince Caspian glorify the notion that, if we believe that God is on our side, we are justified in killing... especially when it comes to self - defense.

When military spending by U.S. allies is excluded, the United States is spending nearly twice as much on «defense» as the rest of the world combined.

It's always amusing when a religious person has to fall back on insults because he can't muster up an intelligent defense of his beliefs.

His relationship with Freud began in 1902, when he wrote a defense of Freud's book on dreams after it had been ridiculed in the press.

What I am against is the use of Scripture as a defense for the practice, especially when these passages are used to lay burdens of guilt on others if they don't give more, tithe more, and «joyfully» sacrifice more.

The dramatic development was one of several twists on a day when President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged the Rev. Terry Jones to call off the Saturday event, timed for the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

Even prospective claims can trigger this response, as when liberal voices on 9/11 instinctively rallied to the defense of Muslims against expected reprisals.

Yet, FEAR IS ANOTHER CHAMBER TO RELEASE A GUN INTO THE HANDS OF THOSE, WHO ARE GOING TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT FOR ITS ONLY MEANS OF DEFENSE, WHEN WE ARE FINDING THAT IT IS TOO LIKELY THAT A GUN IS SET ON A SHELF TO EVENTUALLY BE USED, WHEN IT IS CONSIDERED AS A WEAPON AGAINST FEAR.

But in Sherry Yard's defense, I think she was traveling in Asia when I messaged her on Facebook.

The purpose of the proposed rule on food defense is to protect food from intentional adulteration when the intent is to cause large - scale public harm.

What you wrote above is correct and I fully agree with it, however bear in mind that when Arsene Wenger joined the Club it had a ready made defense, assembled by George Graham, which was the England defence line in Lee Dixon, Steve Bould, Tony Adams, Nigel Winterburn as well as Martin Keown and on top of all this the England goal keeper David Seaman.