Sentences with phrase «only as a defeat»

Not exact matches

Prior to Thursday, only seven FTSE 100 companies had failed to secure approval of their remuneration report and the two defeats within hours of one other will undoubtedly call to mind memories of the 2012 AGM season, referred to as the «shareholder spring» due to a spate of revolts relating to executive pay, some of which engendered CEO resignations.

So when front man Jason Lytle sings «might as well give up, old friends,» on the album highlight «Rear View Mirror,» you can only sympathize with the timid high - pitched admission of defeat.

But, to make the claim that «Only those things which can be objectively and empirically verified are true» is to make a self - defeating claim because the statement itself can not be objectively or empirically verified as being true...

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

If, as many seem to think, neo-Darwinism serves as a valid «design - defeating hypothesis» at the level of human reason but is rescued from any ultimately improper conclusions only by the intervention of theology, then it seems that my expansive definition is fully vindicated.

We easily regard as the defeat and regression of the Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a state which has always existed, even in the so - called good old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope and love of God and men.

However, in the work of William Faulkner, perhaps the only 20th - century novelist worthy of standing beside Hawthorne and Melville, the southern sense of defeat has been deepened into a genuine apprehension of tragedy, not so much by dwelling on the actual military defeat as by an unsparing delineation of the triumph of rapacious commercial values that followed it.

It is about a minority that wants not only tolerance but affirmation, to which end it will exploit a host of emotions (guilt, sympathy, fear), magnify the most extreme examples of vitriolic attacks as representative of all opposition, and try to silence» not rationally defeat, but silence» all arguments not in keeping with its desired goal.

that's one of the big ruses on this blog: acting as if only religion does that, so then one can readily dismiss it — not realizing that argument is self - defeating.

To fault Osama bin Laden and to blindly follow Christian clergy advocating total submissiveness and loyalty to any political favoritism, is not only completely illogical but also self - defeating, as Bush - Cheney and the Republican / Tea Party has consistently proven.

The imam refuses to relocate because it will only be seen as defeat to the Muslim world.

Not only through the ministry of his words and works, but through his death in apparent defeat and the triumph of his resurrection to be with us always as a Living Presence, God has acted for our healing.

... Only God's power can defeat our Sin, but part of what God's power does is release the personal power he has given each of us as creatures in his image.

Aborting large numbers of children is now a standard part of our National Health Service and accepted by many as normal - defeating this horror is only possible by prayer.

The kingdom of God would come, to be sure, as a consequence of a decisive act of God, for only God could defeat the supernatural powers of evil which opposed his rule and only God could release the tides of spiritual power which would give the new age its character; but the kingdom of God was to be a kingdom within men's hearts and within men's world.

Only God, we will recall, is viewed by Cobb as being present within all other actual occasions, as entertaining the ideal aim for each newly concrescing actual occasion, as «the ground of being, the ground of purpose, and the ground of order» (CNT 227), as the principle of guidance, and as the one whose universal aim for the «ideal strength of beauty» (CNT 180) of the universe is never finally defeated.

It is thus comfortable precisely because it has «gone through many waters» which have not defeated and can not «drown it»; it is «terrible as an army with banners», not because like such an army it uses force, but because it is in itself the only really strong thing in the whole world and in human experience.

Compassion and concern for the Jewish peopie as a whole, pastoral interest in the defeated nations and in the victors who stand in great moral danger characterize the Church which responds to the God who not only creates men but also their societies.

Ever since the motu proprio was published -(interesting, incidentally, how everyone now speaks of THE motu proprio, as if there had only ever been one of them)- and it was clear that the bishops hostile to it were not going to be allowed to get in its way, the battle moved to the next set of trenches: those dug by the increasingly desperate proponents of «the spirit of Vatican II», who had so far seemed generally quiescent in defeat, but who had in fact been looking for a casus belli all along.

He is critical of the way they defeat self - learning (the only real learning) and stifle creativity by their built - in coercion and by seeing the student as the passive, dependent recipient of the «knowledge» transmitted by the teacher.

With Steven Gerrard missing there is a belief that the side aren't functioning the way they should, but this week's penalty defeat to Besiktas is the club's only loss in Gerrard's absence as they picked up wins over the Turkish giants in the first leg as well as Crystal Palace, Southampton.

If you consider spurs as big club than we have fallen for real.barcelona are also dominating but what counts is a win.in football you only celebrate wins, so stop trying to look for a positive in a defeat accept and how big teams think (winning mentality) @goonsquad8

The Birmingham defeat was very painful especially as we had been dominating the game only to concede in comical fashion.

Emmanuel Adebayor the only player to earn semi-significant praise as Pochettino suffers first defeat as Spurs head coach.

I don't know... 3pl trophies in 20 seasons, no champions league, only made to final once in 18 CONSECUTIVE seasons, not resected like fergie was in his time, has never defeated jose mourinho even once in his lifetime even after maureen makes fun of him like hell (my God,6 - 0 in his 1000 game - > what a shame), an 8 - 2 loss at old trafford (only reason he bought players otherwise that season would have been hell), been rated as one of the wealthiest clubs but we still have mediocre first team players like giroud, welbeck etc (before u slam me first answer this - > would they get into bayern, barca, madrid, manure, mancity, psg or even chelsea starting 11 cz we rank the same with them financially)?????.....

Chelsea only drew and they are probably going to be our biggest rivals, so as long as we get back to winning ways quickly, this defeat should not mean a lot.

Bring on Liverpool... We can only get better as we defeat them come Monday Night at the Emirates...

My dad was also, I believe, the only coach to defeat all 11 teams that are currently in the Big Ten, having beaten Northwestern as the Miami (Ohio) coach in» 95.

It is no secret that Arsene Wenger hasn't been happy with our Arsenal defenders this season as he has complained so many times about their errors after defeats this season, and it only takes a quick glance at the «goals against» columns in the EPL table to see that we have a real problem on our hands.

They defeated Team Less (as the only non-Top5 Team)..

Come the other year when Arsenal went the whole season without a defeat in the Premier League, Barcelona were attracted by Marc Overmas and Emmanue Petti, the two joined Barcelona, they played few games, and sometime on the bench, as a result Emmanue Petti decided to go back to England and joined New - Castle and always regret leaving Arsenal, then the other year it was Alexander Hleb, he was the best dribller in Arsenal team, he went again to Barcelona, he was never given some games, I think he only played few games as a sub, and his carrier was destroyed by Barcelona, then come Henry, he again went to Barcelona, he played some games but not like he used to do at Arsenal, he was not looking like a star player anymore, he decided to go to America, then there was Fabrigas, he joined Barcelona again, since he was one of their juniors, I think he played for two seasons, and supporter used to booing him, he decided to come back to Arsenal, by then Arsenal had already resplaced him with Ozil, and he joined Chelsea, then come Alexander Song, he pushed to go to Barcelona, he was always on the banch, and never been on first eleven, then he ended up regreting joing Barcelona, and wanted to go back to Arsenal, but normally Wenger do not take players who pushed themselves to be out of Arsenal, lastly there was Vermuleen, he went to Barcelona and ended up not playing at all but when playing for Arsenal they used to be star players.

We have only won one of our last 8 visits and our 3 - 2 defeat there last year was taken very badly by some of our travelling supporters, but Arsenal bounced back and we fought our way into the Top Four as usual.

I am waiting for the boss» press conference and his Gunners update before I do my own Halting Ambition Gunners Starts that will not only put paid to the Reds CL ambition, but also avenge the 5 - 0 defeat we suffered at their hands last season as the Gunners give them a dose of their own medicine at the Emirates stadium by also beating them at final whistle as AFC 5 - 0 Liverpool.

Although Chelsea have a good recent record against us, the fact is that they have only been playing catch - up, as Wenger's overall record against our neighbours reads as 19 wins, 19 defeats and 16 draws.

Strange.People here are now glorifying Coquelin as if he is a different player after the loan spell.Coquelin is playing just like he was playing before he was loaned out.I always wondered why he wasnt played.I never understood why.i never recall him having a bad game.The only player that shone in the 8 - 2 defeat by Man U.

The game kicked off shortly after Alexis discovered that the deal that had been agreed was not going to happen after all and although we can only guess how he felt, the Chile defeat stands out as a real shock.

By selecting the best players which excludes the likes of Czech and Mustafi.They are the common denominators in virtually all the away defeats to sides below Arsenal in the league.I am not a lover of stats but these are the facts which Wenger chooses to ignore.There is absolutely no point in strengthening other parts of the team for example by replacing Wilsh ere and continuing to play Czech and Mustafi.A team is only as good as it's poorest player and in Czech and Mustafi we have two of the poorest exponents in their positions in the Premier League.

Not only did van Gaal's troops fall to defeat, they also lost Luke Shaw for six months as the defender suffered a double leg break.

It appears to me that there are too many players who are only here for the inflated wages on offer, yet they contribute very little to the teams performance.It's like playing as though we had players sent off what did Ozil contribute to yesterdays defeat Alan Green commented during his commentary is Ozil playing?

and wenger is being a t ## t now you can not start the transfer window with sanchez and end it with a f» ing wellbeck i will be dissapointed if we get that desperate only big name striker now would be cavani but no point even saying it, we all know he thinks he has brought enough typical frustations for us gooners why can we challenge the big teams for the big players suarez to barca, I would of been happyt with balo liverpool, costa chelsea, if they do falcao united wich is a complete joke if he is happy going to united he would have been happier coming here with ucl and all, lewandowski bayern, its all a joke we better get a reus or something of equal measure you cant buy sanchez and place him as a striker when you need him as a winger if defeats the purpose we either get another winger or a striker.

Former Celtic midfielder Massimo Donati scored the only goal of the game as Juventus fell to an opening match defeat at Bari.

As for Aguero, he hasn't been the same since he returned from injury either, he played a few games and only scored one goal in the 4 - 1 defeat to liverpooh and then he got injured again, I don't think that he will cause us any problems on Monday, I doubt that he will even play the full 90 minutes.

Would also integrate Dan Crowley into squad and recall Serge Gnabry from WBA loan, as Pulis thinks he's not good enough, and has given him only 13 minutes in total COYG We can bounce back from his defeat

However, interestingly as reported by The Independent, not only are Coutinho and his representatives ready to admit defeat in their bid to push through a move to Barcelona, but they're pointing the finger of blame at the Spanish giants.

Only one defeat since the end of October tells the story, as does one goal conceded in their last seven games.

So far it is looking like Petr Cech will be Arsenal's only high - profile signing of the season, and after our embarrassing defeat to West Ham it was looking debatable as to whether the predictions that he would gain us 12 points a season were to become true.

The defeat, in which the English champion won only a single round, and that by a shade before Marciano had warmed up to the slaughter, has installed Cockell as a national hero.

Over 25,000 were in attendance at the Brondby Stadion as Agger could only make the bench and was unused as his side fell to a shock defeat to Randers, despite having the likes of Johann Elmander, Teemu Pukki and Thomas Kahlenberg in their side.

Thus far Man United's only signings of note have come in the form of England teen Luke Shaw and Spanish midfielder Ander Herrera and arguably neither of those additions could be termed as «Marquee» captures and Louis van Gaal will be as desperate as ever to bring in a player of note having seen his side slip to an opening day defeat to Swansea City.

City are the only unbeaten team in the country this season, and as time goes on more and more pundits will start to wonder if they can replicate that famous Arsenal side of 2003/04 that went the whole campaign without a single league defeat.