Sentences with phrase «playing offense»

You can't even play a full online match anymore, given instead something called «VS Attack» mode, which limits you to playing offense - only two - minute spurts.

A typical attorney who self - identifies as an «employee rights» attorney will usually have much more experience (as compared to the typical attorney identified as an «employment attorney» or an «employer defense» attorney) with: (1) representing workers on a contingency - fee basis (where no fee is paid unless the case wins or settles) and offering risk - sharing fee arrangements generally; (2) playing offense, so to speak — analyzing, identifying and prosecuting specific legal violations (whereas employer - side attorneys tend to have more experience in broader - stroke compliance / employer - training matters, and reactive work in litigation that responds to claims they are presented); and (3) identifying with the «little guy» who has been harmed by a larger opponent, often having well - tested strategies that have worked while representing individuals against large organizations and wind up with good case results.

They generally aren't thinking about bringing claims that could make the corporation money — playing offense.

If Democrats had spine, they would stop playing defense and start playing offense.

That's our best chance of continuing to keep playing offense, even as we defend everything this administration wants to take away.

However Blitz: The League definitely favors the offensive side of the ball, and this is apparent both when you are actually playing offense and when you go to the other side of the ball.

Don't spend your time playing offense and trying to win.

You are playing offense, with no regard for defense.

Next year, Levesque advised, reformers should «spread» the unions thin «by playing offense» with decoy legislation.

However Blitz: The League definitely favors the offensive side of the ball, and this is apparent both when you are actually playing offense and when you go to the other side of the ball.

«The livers were resistant to tissue damage and healed better, which are two good things — like playing offense and defense at the same time,» he said.

«It's HIV going both ways, playing offense and defense,» team member Warner C. Greene of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology observes.

The 21st global economy requires playing an offense game.

«Instead of playing defense, the host is playing offense.»

But Republicans are also playing offense in swing districts in western New York and in Westchester County.

The seat is considered a potential pickup opportunity for Republicans, one of perhaps two districts the state Senate GOP is playing offense in this year, when more Democratic voters are expected to come out this cycle.

Republicans are playing offense in Democratic - controlled districts in western New York and Westchester County.

But Democrats in the Senate typically make gains in a presidential election years, and they are playing offense in districts on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley (Republicans want to flip a western New York seat as well as a district in Westchester County).

We pretty much know which party is going to be playing offense in Senate races in 2012.

«I love playing offense.»

The district is one of two races (the other being in western New York) in which Republicans are playing offense with Democratic - held seats.

Latimer faces Republican challenger Julie Killian in a district the Senate GOP's political arm hopes can be a competitive race, one of perhaps two districts they are playing offense in an otherwise challenging electoral year.

Yet it's Spitzer's temperament, even more than his biography, that truly embodies the city: He's restless, idealistic, and cutthroat at the same time, and always playing offense.

David Goldman / Associated Press Malcolm Mitchell will focus on playing wide receiver after playing offense and defense in 2012.

Jim Harbaugh sat down with Brad Galli of WXYZ on Monday where the Michigan coach was asked about his first win as Michigan's coach and the possibility of freshman Jabrill Peppers playing offense this season.

#Gators CB Jalen Tabor on Jabrill Peppers playing offense: «We have 11 Jabrill Peppers on our defense.»

Don Brown on Peppers playing offense too: «Doesn't scare me.»

With a 50/50 ratio, your investments are playing both offense and defensive.

So GE is playing offense with a 14,000 - employee software operation and a newly announced service that performs predictive analytics on anyone's equipment, not just GE's.

«Yet whenever I speak to a truly competitive company, that's exactly what they're doing — playing both offense and defense using the power of digital, using the power of technology.

To manage your own economy means you have to create money by playing offense in the marketplace.

The low threshold for success means she is free to play offense — as she did Thursday in the Maclean's leaders debate.

Related: White House Plays Offense: Says Immigration Reform Will Turbocharge Entrepreneurship

For example, Balin and Haddon explain why you should play offense rather than defense.

With all of that stated, one of the things that has a sizable impact on what play the offense runs against a defense is the pre-snap look.

«I was disappointed in our ability to play offense in the second half and that's been our downfall all year,» said South Carolina head coach Frank Martin.

Eagles 6, Falcons 3: Not a good throw by Matt Ryan here, but Julio Jones should play both offense and defense, tbh:

Kalis on Peppers for Heisman: We all think Jabrill could win the Heisman... You see a guy like Lamar Jackson and all he does is play offense

Although Peppers is headed to the University of Michigan as a cornerback, he clearly has the ability to play both offense and defense.

And Mahinmi can certainly replace Gortat on defense, but he would have to play offense too.

Jourdan Lewis said Monday that he wanted to play some offense and wide receiver this fall.

This won't come as a total surprise because it was expected he would do it last year, but it appears that Jabrill Peppers could be in line to play some offense next year.

McGriff prefers to play offense, and Florida State is recruiting him there.

The Falcons, meanwhile, are the best team at converting third downs and the third - best yards - per - play offense.

Everyone on the pitch plays offense and defense, and the number of each player signifies that player's specific position.

Bednarik played both offense and defense and in the closing moments he may have saved the game for the Eagles — and incidentally dealt a lasting blow to Giant title hopes — when he hit Frank Gifford with a crushing tackle.

Republicans hope to play offense with two seats held on Long Island by Democrats: Sens. Todd Kaminsky and John Brooks.

But Republicans in the Senate this year are still hopeful they can play offense in some areas this year.

The IDC, meanwhile, has suggested it will play offense yet again, with an eye toward the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat George Latimer at the end of the year.

Other progressive groups are looking to play offense, tackling critical political work in advance of the 2018 midterms.