Sentences with phrase «other big victory»

May's other big victory this week was to galvanize the support of the US, France, and Germany.

Not exact matches

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

President Obama called it «a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.»

Trump's tariff announcement and Cohn's subsequent departure represent a kind of double victory for Navarro, as well as others in the White House advocating for erecting big trade barriers around the US economy.

Instead, what we usually do, is invent other «sins» that we «struggle» so that we can make ourselves feel better about the small victories we gain over these fake sins while completely ignoring the bigger sins we harbor in our lives every day.

Treasury, which makes Penfolds and Wolf Blass in Australia, was among local stocks to experience a big bounce on the ASX on Thursday as markets factored in that the President - elect was likely to be pro-business, even if some of his other ideas were more controversial, after he clinched victory over Hillary Clinton.

At Princeton, narrow losses are recalled like big victories for other teams.

Two defenses match each other fairly well, but Ravens push special teams advantage on 49ers, and a big play in the second half from MVP Ray Rice gives Baltimore a 27 - 21 victory.

Even if Chelsea have a blip, and all the other big teams continue to be as inconsistent as they have been, can you really see Arsenal going on a run of consecutive victories, which is what we'll have to do?

The Colombian international is also a big - game player, netting in the Europa League final victory over Dnipro last season, and based on recent form it looks fair to say he would be a major upgrade on Balotelli and indeed on the Reds» other options in attack, with players like Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini also struggling, while Daniel Sturridge has had some injury concerns in recent times.

The Pats must beat not only the Dolphins this Sunday in Foxborough but also the Seahawks on Oct. 17 to tie Bronko Nagurski and Red Grange and Big George Musso and all those other Bears who ran up 17 straight victories in 1933 and» 34.

Last year, Ahmed surpassed the biggest historical benchmark in British F3 and became only the second driver in its history to register more victories than Ayrton Senna over the course of a British F3 campaign (the other being Jan Magnussen).

Other than JJ her biggest victory was what?

Fading the trendy underdog has been a profitable strategy in other sports, so don't be surprised if New Orleans gets off the schneid with a big home victory this weekend.

Right now, it remains murky just where the committee will place No. 9 Wisconsin despite Ohio State and Penn State losing, with No. 10 Miami winning big at home over Virginia Tech and other teams above the Badgers also scoring victories.

Smith and other members of a grass - roots organization working to create a park district scored their biggest victory to date on Friday, when McHenry County Associate Judge Haskell M. Pitluck validated the group's petitions, allowing the question to be placed on the March ballot.

Just days after Trump said he was moving on to other issues, senior White House officials are now saying they have hope that they can still score the kind of big legislative victory on health care that has so far eluded him.

NYC's Republican Mayor Bloomberg had a big victory, by a big margin, in November when Democrats were otherwise doing well in other places nationally.

BFD But it is a big deal in other parts of the country and that's why Cuomo will never get a national victory.

With a big New York victory behind him, Trump will be shifting focus to other states.

Supporters of Mayor de Blasio point to the Hizzoner's big margin of victory over Albanese and others — he won 74 % of the vote, the biggest percentage in decades — but then - city controller Bill Thompsons tallied 71 % in 2009, without the advantage of being an incumbent.

That's a very good thing to have a victory, and he has over his egg every morning, especially his breakfast, and he is incredibly vocal for other reason not just his diet but I can guess, helped with his linguistic skills also us just talking to him in terms of the practice that we used, now that we're here to talk about raising children, but he communicates very well at an early age and has a big vocabulary for...

And, as we travel the road to self - improvement we will overcome challenges, celebrate victories big and small and support each other through it all!

You might get really friggin» mad at each other — heck, you might (accidentally) throw an elbow or get knocked in the face — but you'll also get to celebrate the biggest victories and witness incredible growth.

Perhaps the biggest one of all was a startling come - from - behind victory that left me and a lot of others throughout our country both shocked and disappointed.

Big victories by Kasich, Walker, Haley, Martinez, Haslam, Snyder, Brandstad, Sandoval, and others — many of whom could make K — 12 reform a key part of their pitches to voters — promise to make the coming GOP primary contest compelling.

- 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

You can collect some bounty by building towers or destroying the Big Tower, but the real key to victory is to beat other players!

3) One other hard reality, hidden by squabbles over which side wielded a bigger portion of its giant war chest, alliances and person - hours toward climate victory or defeat, is that the issue has never had the salience that would be required to get anywhere near 60 votes in the Senate, let alone a simple majority.

Our biggest victories to date were saving nuclear plants in Illinois and New York, and is now fighting to save nuclear plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, California, South Korea, Germany and other states and nations.

GM's announcements are the biggest victories yet for CalCars.org and other PHEV advocates.

Its other big independent expenditure campaign victories were on behalf of Rep. Brad Sherman (D - Calif.)