Sentences with phrase «playing for points»

Southampton is a struggling side and is currently in the relegation places and Burnley will be playing for points.

You know you're not playing for points, but that continuing to move, learn, and network means getting the high score.

And we are definitely not going there to play for a point just because it is an away game, not according to Gabriel anyway.

We wait until the 80th minute when we have to score and there's no point sitting back because if we don't we're only playing for a point anyways.

If Chelsea play for a point and take one, then job done once more.

Until silly free kick holding much better than chambers but inexperience will eventually show... Ramsey did nothing and with coq and elneny the midfield is solid but lacks quality... Is Wenger just playing for a point?

Our passes were tentative, we were unsure of ourselves, nobody had a clue how to go forward and create — and we basically came to Stoke to play for a point.

Both teams are hoping to put pressure on the runaway leaders Man City so the three points today are vital for both sides so I am sure that Mourinho will not be coming here to just play for a point.

In their position, with games fast running out, they surely will not sit back and play for a point as they really need to win most of their final games to stay up.

I have heard some ridiculous excuses when we lose and they keep getting more ridiculous every season, one guy said that we went up to liverpool to play for a point so its 1 point loss not 3 haaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! what rubbish, especially when we were telling all who would listen that we spanked the pool at our place so we should just nick this one, all of a sudden its a point, ridiculous!!!! Wenger also came out and said that the result was an accident, i guess the one up at city was as well.

You play for points, making it a zero - sum game (winner take all, like rock - paper - scissors).

Another notable change is that the bonus stages are entered at the end of each level only after collecting a hidden planet - shaped item in each of the two stages; it is played for points and star - collecting, a feature unique to this version.

Not exact matches

Films like J. Edgar and The Aviator (for which he got a Leading Role nomination) require him to play a single character through many stages of his life, never allowing the actor to fully inhabit characters at a single point in time.

With just your voice, you can pull up photos from your Google Photos library, make video calls with the Google Duo service, and, notably, play YouTube videos — potentially a big selling point for these devices, given Google recently yanked support for YouTube from Amazon Echo and Fire TV devices.

For users who like to play music on a background tab, the change allows the music to play: As long as the user focuses on the tab at some point, the autoplay will continue to run unless the tab is closed.

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

Physical retail is that necessary point of differentiation for retailers and brands to win against pure play threats like Amazon.

Access to private plays for accredited investors has increased, and some advisors use this as a point of differentiation for their practice.

In years to come, a lack of real income growth is likely to remain problematic for many Americans, but Soros is right to point out how a much maligned trend may perversely play to our advantage in the short - to medium term.

There were also high points, such as playing for an audience of 10,000 in Bhutan on a month - long tour in the Himalayan kingdom, and being nominated three times at the 2009 Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards.

Other common traits of companies on the list point to a level playing field for co-workers across career stages.

It's a potential pain point if your play schedule doesn't include breathers for the system to gulp down electricity.

Averaging 35 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, plus a steal and a block every game, KD appeared to have found basketball nirvana, and took home the Finals MVP for his breathtaking play.

Far better, at least from the bank's point of view, is to have the government step in and re-level the playing field for everyone — providing, of course, the changes don't take too big a bite out of profits.

However, he points out that if executed properly, leveraging the popularity of Tiger long after his playing days could be key for the golf industry just as the NBA used Jordan to elevate its business.

I worked as a journalist for The Financial Times in Silicon Valley and I remember even back then that if you played along and if a story followed a company's talking points you were fine.

But on the last play of the game, as the Raiders tried to lateral the ball in desperation, chaos took over, and the Eagles were able to recover the ball and run it into the end zone for a 19 - 10 lead with the extra point pending.

When customers ask for advice on hydrating drinks that don't trigger blood sugar spikes, he points them toward BioSteel, which he discovered while playing in an indoor adult soccer league.

To get to that point, you've got to be willing to play the long - game, rather than constantly looking for short - term wins and gains.

«It's a tough, tough racket to play consistently,» he said, pointing to the difficulty of getting good content and the competition for quality productions at festivals like Sundance.

He says there were several issues at play: for one, Zhang had been the point person for investors, and in his absence, his co-founders reportedly struggled with their new responsibilities.

They may not be the most romantic locations your city has to offer, but if you play it right, you could win points for originality.

They also point out that screencasting — where you record video and audio of what you're doing on your computer so that someone else can play it back later — is a fabulous way share a new feature you're working on, for example.

Van Dreunen says the challenge Nintendo faces is in gaining vertical control, where Miitomo operates as a single point of entry for games played across mobile, console, and handheld devices.

Playing in his second full season in the NHL, he recorded career - highs in goals (25) and assists (51) for 76 points which ranked him 13th overall in league scoring.

Bloomberg Gadfly points out that some large oil companies are trapped between pure - play E&P s and the absolute largest oil companies, offering up a rather unappetizing opportunity for investors.

Moving averages play a very big role in our daily stock analysis, and we rely heavily on certain moving averages to locate low - risk entry and exit points for the stocks and ETFs we swing trade.

A supply curve is an ordered list of all the oil production opportunities globally, sorted by the cost of extraction or, probably better for this example, the potential free - on - board price at a global trading hub — take every oil play in the world and ask what it would cost delivered to the US Gulf Coast as a starting point.

At this point, the Wii U's best hope for a solid 2015 are its older games: people are still playing Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 8, and these games are still helping Nintendo move consoles over a year after their respective releases.

I personally don't think that GMOs are anything to be afraid of, at this point, so that, for example, is playing into a trend.

Bitcoin can play an important role in the evolution of money remittance as we know it, and BitSpark feels it is the best direction for the company at this point.

At some point, though, things changed — to the point where the Fox sitcom, which aired its 100th episode Tuesday night, was able to replace its star entirely with another character played by Megan Fox, to cover for Deschanel's maternity leave.

This point has been raised by the Pembina Institute, in their report on How Albertans Could End Up Playing for Oil Site Mine Reclamation.

You'll need to parse them for relevance and ensure they don't take important terms out of play in your campaigns — but this represents a good starting point.

Coach Erik Spoelstra's halftime grievance of the Heat not playing with enough intensity in giving up 71 points was another way of saying Nike Blazers For Sale never turned on

By Downgrading Daddy, Moody's will have something to point to when the next round of congressional hearings into the practice of pay - for - play ratings agencies takes place (which better be soon).

Their stocks are also the starting point for many investors seeking capital appreciation, but the area is largely ignored by income investors, in favor of more traditional dividend plays.

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In addition, pure - play broadcasters are valued from 6 - 9x EV / EBITDA and one could argue that MEG deserves a valuation closer towards the mid point or higher for its peers when factoring the disposal of newspapers and accounting for the high quality locations of its key stations.

But if you are the kind of person who dreams of business and first class travel, or someone who occasionally has to book an expensive flight with little advanced notice, then it might be worth it for you to play the travel rewards game with frequent flyer miles and hotel points.