Sentences with phrase «over pitched battles»

The hook also favors near encounters and narrow escapes over pitched battles, whereas the movie revels in brutal and bloody warfare.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, it's difficult to pit SEO and PPC against each other as if they were the only two contestants in a pitched battle over search.

But it's certain that if Tim Hortons had not entertained Burger King's offer, Ackman, an activist investor famous for his pitched battles with companies — whose stake in Burger King has already earned him an additional US$ 200 million on the takeover news — would have sparked an ugly shareholder battle over Tim's.

Worse, the lack of direction frequently led to pitched battles between Burger King's Miami head office and individual franchisees — an uncomfortable parallel with Tim Hortons» own fights with its franchisees — including a class action lawsuit brought by franchisees over a $ 1 double cheeseburger.

By JEFFREY BELL AND RICH DANKER There is thought to be a pitched battle raging within the White House over President Obama's pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term expires early next year.

But it was over the cost of the mission in Iraq where the Conservatives fought a pitched battle with Opposition parties.

Flamini has done ok this season his pass accuracy has always been over 91 %, he also was the best player on the pitch in the chelsea game he dominated the midfield battle (squawka)

I miss us winning the battles on the pitch rather than fancy, inefficient over playing of football with too much focus on being nice pros..

«Where two teams really went for it and was a battle all over the pitch.

Things haven't been going well for Borussia Dortmund on the pitch: despite the weekend's 3 - 0 win over SC Freiburg, they still sit 16th in the table, thoroughly embroiled in a relegation battle.

Considering the midfield is one of Juventus's strengths, it promises to be a very hard battle in the middle of the pitch that Juventus just might win superiority over, but if that will be enough for Juve to win the Champions League final is a different story, because as I said above, Barcelona isn't as reliant on the midfield anymore.

Running over the midfield might not be the most exciting battle on the football pitch, but it does help a team form a strong hold on the game.

on the game... I felt it was a game with total intensity, where two teams really went for it and was a battle all over the pitch.

Still, education remains a top - tier issue, even as the more pitched battles over charter schools, teacher evaluations and classroom standards for testing have been quietly de-emphasized in recent legislative sessions.

As the battle over President Obama's effort to overhaul the health - care system reached a fever pitch this summer, the three national Republican committees combined to bring in $ 1.7 million more than their Democratic counterparts in August.

Cuomo had tried to get the exchange passed in June, but the pitched battle over his same - sex marriage bill last year forced the administration to put the measure on hold.

The New York Road Runners club and its insurers have been waging a pitched battle the past four weeks over how much money race organizers will be able to reclaim in the wake of last month's canceled New York City Marathon.

In NYC, which is seemingly exhausted by a long - running construction boom, the number of pitched battles over new developments appears to be growing.

Amid the backdrop of a pitched battle over immigration on the national level, Assembly Democrats on Monday once again pushed for the passage of the Dream Act, a state - level bill that provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants.

And then there are issues like law enforcement and the pitched battle over policing.

UC, on behalf of several parties, has been in a pitched battle with the Broad Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, over CRISPR patents, and the new decision marks a sharp departure from the position of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

SpaceX announced last year that it plans to get people to the Red Planet by 2024, but the battle over what humans» arrival would mean for the search for life on Mars will probably reach a fever pitch this year.

It's usually a simple procedure, but some boss battles require you to find the right pitch and angle under considerable pressure, and it can be a bit of a headache, and frankly a bore, to attempt these same sequences over and over again if you should fail.

I will eagerly engage in pitched battles over what students should know, read, and grapple with, but standards?

Pitched and passionate battles over course content have made curriculum a third rail in many states.

Remember all those pitched battles and screaming matches over Common Core?

So far as I know, there have been no lawsuits, no pitched school board battles, no polarizing direct - mail campaigns over economics textbooks or curricula.

At stake were four seats on the seven - member Board of Education — and the direction of the school system, whose leaders have been in a pitched battle over the growth and oversight of charters in the nation's second - largest district.

The gallery is a pitched battle about painting versus drawing, figure - ground versus all - over composition; stained versus impastoed surfaces; mythic versus biomorphic forms; and who dripped first.

Given the current uproar over Canada's tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline as well as past pitched battles over expanded oil and gas production, I have a hard time imagining Congressional Democrats or their environmentalist supporters getting behind the idea of opening ANWR to oil and gas drilling.

In The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, Robert Burchfield recounts that an «unofficial war against certain uses of adverbs ending in — ly broke out in the late 1960s,» and that the most pitched battles have been over the nonstandard use of hopefully and thankfully.

With the data analytics firm battling headlines over a breach of Facebook users» private data as part of its work to elect Trump and over its now - suspended CEO's secret pitch of honey traps to influence elections around the world, the Trump team is once again deploying a «hardly knew»em «defense.