Sentences with phrase «point lead against»

In the 1st District, Republican incumbent Lee Zeldin holds a 15 - percentage point lead against Democratic challenger Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton supervisor.

«The results of that effort can clearly be seen in the 24th Congressional District as voters have shifted dramatically and now support Katko — who had been trailing by eight points — giving him a 10 - point lead against the incumbent,» Greenberg said.

The wealthy Orman, who made a fortune in a private equity partnership, has opened up a seven - point lead against the 78 - year - old Republican incumbent in recent polls.

Schumer saw his lead among independent voters fall from 25 points against Gary Berntsen to seven points, and a 27 - point lead against Jay Townsend fall to 16 points.

A YouGov poll in January 2012 also howed Ken Livingstone with a small two point lead against then then Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, only for the Labour candidate to go on to lose.

Washington did blow a 17 point lead against the Texans, but are showing serious signs they can contend for the division title this year with Dallas struggling.

Team Darcy came out to a hot start in Week 5, taking a 17 point lead against Team Clark in what seemed like 5 minutes or less.

Lispcomb: The Bisons almost blew a 32 - point lead against Florida Gulf Coast in the Atlantic Sun final, but hung on to win the game and earn their first ever bid to the NCAA tournament.

The Falcons, in the midst of blowing a 25 - point lead against the Patriots, were clinging to an eight - point lead with just under five minutes in the game.

He's got as much as a 10 - point lead against real estate magnate Donald Trump, according to some polls.

Not exact matches

The S&P / TSX composite index was up 17.31 points to 12,757.81 as investors wondered if the United States will end up leading a military strike against Syria, which it accuses of using poison gas against its own civilian population.

Against the Falcons, Brady threw for a Super Bowl record 466 yards as he led the Patriots to victory after being down by 25 points well into the third quarter.

«Jamie Dimon has been the one who has led the charge in order to say, «Nope, no more regulation, fight back against regulation, call the regulation un-American, try to resist, try to put loopholes into regulation, hire an army of lobbyists,» Warren said in an interview with CNN's «Starting Point.»

And that is the point of my argument; the standard theological version of process philosophy — Whitehead with God — leads me to ask such questions, leads me to wonder why such senseless, absurd disasters have plagued us at every step of our history, and this counts strongly against the centered version of process metaphysics.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

This conclusion also leads to a more general point about the nature of culture that is consistent with the previously mentioned criticism leveled by Zaret against the idea of abstract values legitimating practical ethics.

As Charlotte Allen has pointed out in these pages («The Holy Feminine,» December 1999), the struggle against one's inclinations that is necessary for the Christian life led women to take on «manly» mortifications and men to adopt «womanly» virtues such as charity.

This was the point of Pope Pius XI's encyclical of 1928, Mortalium Animos, in which he warned against «pan-Christianity,» fearful that this would lead to a vapid faith, absent distinctively Catholic dimensions.

This may be a more charitable reading of Nestorius than the facts warrant, but it points to a continuing concern of Protestants: Granted the legitimacy of doctrinal development, including the Christological clarification that led to the councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, where are the checks against exalting the Virgin so high that her son is obscured?

Joan was then allowed by the king to lead the French army against the English as the city of Grisans held by the French was under heavy siege, on the point of losing the battle.

Chelsea do not play until Monday and hopefully they will find the trip to Stoke as unhappy as the Gunners did recently, but Man City have just gone into a 3 - 0 lead at home against Crystal Palace and that puts the reigning EPL champs level with Jose Mourinho and his players and a hefty 13 points ahead of Arsenal and a massive 18 points ahead of Liverpool.

The three points against the Merseyside outfit ensured that Mourinho's men maintained their seven point lead over Manchester City at the top of the table.

The Lightning extended their lead atop the Eastern Conference and Atlantic Division to six points over idle Boston, which has played two fewer games and is 2 - 0 against Tampa Bay this season.

Brett Hull's controversial foot - in - the - crease OT goal won the Cup for Dallas in Game 6 of the final against Buffalo, but Nieuwendyk got the Stars there by scoring a league - leading 11 goals, and 21 points, in 23 postseason games against Oilers, Blues, Avalanche and Sabres.

With Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid both winning — the former 3 - 1 at Espanyol, and the latter 4 - 0 against Eibar — Barca's lead at the top of the Spanish top flight has been cut to three points over Atleti and four over Zinedine Zidane's Real.

You can't keep giving up 120 - plus points every night and blowing big leads against some of the worst teams in the league and continue to insist that everything is fine, LeBron or no LeBron.

The Drexel Dragons led by as many as 18 points in the first half of Sunday's 2012 NIT Tournament second round game against the Northern Iowa Panthers.

Their top 3 scorers all had 22 points in this one and that balance helped lead to the Win against last season's Runners - Up..

He leads Team Reisner in scoring and led his team once again in that department with 28 huge points against a very solid Team Purimetla.

A few key contributors really struggled on the offensive side of the ball as their leading scorer and the leagues second leading scorer, Sterling Williams, was only able to muster 12 points against a very stingy Team Harlander D. Michael Halusek was able to put up 17 points while Chris Hicks chipped in with 10, unfortunately that just wasn't enough to get them past a very determined Team Harlander.

Luke Pastina led them in scoring with 18 points in their Game against Team Tehensky, which they came up just 2 points shy in.

They were leading by double figures at one point against # 1 Team Maione.

Captain Jon has a very athletic group, and even though their record wouldn't indicate it, they're actually leading the League in Points Against Per Game.

Against Stanford, led by Reid Travis, he scored 12 points on 6 - of - 15 shooting, but had nine rebounds and five assists.

Barcelona top La Liga and will extend their lead to four points with a win against Real Madrid, going some way to sealing another league title at the Nou Camp, and will be high on confidence after comfortably knocking Manchester City out of the Champions League.

yes sir youre right at some points, but chelsea will beat all top4 teams at home, and do nt lose any games against them away, and we drew our home and away games with top4 teams, then chelsea will have a 15 point lead or more..

Last March, in a game against archrival Brigham Young that would clinch the regular - season conference title, the lanky forward scored 38 points, including 16 of 16 from the free throw line, to lead Utah to a 96 - 85 win.

Moreover, when it came time for Indiana to suck»em up in the final minutes against Syracuse, Knight desperately needed Indiana's best athlete since Isiah Thomas to overcome the Orange's Sherman Douglas (20 points, 7 assists), who had outquicked the Hoosiers for seven straight Syracuse points and a 61 - 56 lead with 7:22 left.

Missouri: The Tigers showed an epic second - half turnaround, scoring 48 points against the Bulldogs, who lead the SEC in scoring defense and field goal defense.

It was the first win in seven tries against Louisville for the Orange (26 - 1, 13 - 1), and they were led in scoring by one of the best bench options in the country, C.J. Fair, with 13 points.

LSU came in 7 - 0 when leading at halftime, but protecting a five - point halftime lead against a team like Kentucky was going to require a better performance down the stretch.

Wenger still started the season trying to bomb forward against our opponents leading to some silly points dropped.

Based on his game - winning efforts on Sunday against Alaves, it arguably doesn't make much difference to Messi anyway as he continues to lead Barcelona's charge for major honours this season as they remain the La Liga title favourites with a healthy 11 - point lead.

With Dallas leading the Nets 56 - 54 on March 13, Howard initiated a half - court trap against point guard Stephon Marbury, forcing Marbury to surrender the ball.

His replacement, four - star sophomore Cardale Jones, led the Buckeyes to 101 points and nearly 1,100 yards against Wisconsin (No. 18 in Def.

Pittsburgh had scored 17 straight points to take a 24 — 21 lead early in the fourth quarter — if you haven't been in Heinz Field when the Steelers overcome a 14 - point playoff deficit against their AFC North archrivals, imagine a magnitude - 5.2 earthquake — but the Ravens were threatening.

As for current Premier League leaders Chelsea, Antonio Conte has revealed that Eden Hazard has an issue but he's not too concerned about it and so the Belgian should be fit to feature against West Ham United on Monday night with Chelsea likely to be hoping to restore their ten - point lead at the top of the standings.

The runaway League leaders Chelsea are 8 points ahead of us, and 5 ahead of Liverpool in second place, but a win tonight will mean that it is virtually impossible for Arsenal to catch up against an 11 point lead.

If we win against stoke then we will regain a 2 Point lead over Leicester and maintain a 3 points lead over man city..