Sentences with phrase «point victory over»

De Blasio has widely divergent relationships with the seven speaker candidates — the most distant being that with Harlem's Inez Dickens, whose opponent he endorsed in the September primary — but in debates each has been careful to acknowledge the «mandate» he earned in his sweeping 50 - point victory over Republican Joe Lhota.

But this time, Stirpe rode to a 10 point victory over Miller in unofficial results for the newly drawn 127th Assembly district.

The campaign of gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner boasted about his 64 - point victory over Whitman in Sunday's straw poll on their Web site and on Twitter.

It puts Ukip on course to trump Simon Hughes» 44 - point victory over Labour candidate Peter Tatchell in the 1983 Bermondsey by - election.

Stefanik told reporters last week in Plattsburgh she wasn't feeling vulnerable by the growing influx of challengers, and was proud of her margin in 2016 when she racked up a 35 point victory over Mike Derrick, a Democrat.

* Former Sen. Charles Schumer aide Daniel Squadron romped to an 8 - point victory over sitting state Sen. Martin Connor, who has represented Brooklyn and portions of the Lower East Side since 1978.

In a fiercely contested day the House of Lords took a slim 10 point victory over the House of Commons in the annual Lords vs. Commons clay shoot.

That same enthusiasm is what drove County Executive George Latimer to a 14 - point victory over Rob Astorino last November.

Tuesday night, Margaret Good won a decisive seven - point victory over Republican James Buchanan in the House District 72 special election.

That campaign, like most Democratic primaries in New York City and State, had been staked on getting the paper's backing, and a few days after he got it, Mr. Schneiderman eked out a 2 - point victory over Nassau County district attorney Kathleen Rice, even though Ms. Rice was tacitly backed by Andrew Cuomo and much of the Democratic Party establishment.

Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas performed far better than expected in a 16 point victory over Kate Murray.

However, since Clinton's 16 - point victory over Sanders in last week's New York primary, Clinton has turned her focus toward GOP front - runner Donald Trump and the Republican field.

A two - point victory over Miami and an ankle injury for Russell Wilson doesn't inspire confidence in the Seahawks.

Despite turning the ball over four times, Iowa State squeaked out a one - point victory over FCS Northern Iowa when quarterback Steele Jantz punched in a one - yard touchdown run with 40 seconds remaining.

What they got was a one point victory over a team most considered to be vastly inferior.

Oakland at San Francisco — San Francisco finally got their first win on the season with an eight point victory over the Raiders.

A one point victory over Team Gordon in a back and forth Hoops affair that was well - played and fun to watch.

They earned a 37 - point victory over Team SAM2 and obviously looked strong in the process.

Last night, the Warriors cruised to a 14 - point victory over the Hornets, easily covering the closing spread of -3.

Led by captain Adam McBraida's three individual victories, Oxford's men romped to a five point victory over their light blue Fenland rivals, with McBraida and Sam Trigg awarded the Achilles and Le Touquet trophies respectively.

«Our stand out moment of the month was finally taking the crown for the best team in Manchester with a nine point victory over the University of Manchester!»

Back in Week 2, Team Lalez secured a 20 - point victory over Team Malvin and will be looking for a repeat performance.

That means the Bengals» 18 - point victory over the Eagles is largely responsible for this 2 - point line move.

With just three games to go in the regular season, and back - to - back games against Ball State and Toledo, the Huskies will need to win over voters and pull off some style wins that will carry more weight than a 44 - point victory over UMass.

Then, after a desultory loss to the Chicago Bulls and a runaway 23 - point victory over Lucas» old teammates, the Royals, the Warriors set off on a brutal five - game road trip last week that had them playing in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Boston, Atlanta and Salt Lake — all in a stretch of seven days.

Texas A&M was coming off a 20 - point victory over a very good North Carolina team.

Taking emotion outof the equation, however, one is left to assess WAC champion Boise State (13 — 0) based also on a relatively weak regular - season schedule, which includeda seven - point win over Wyoming (6 — 6) and a three - point victory over San JoseState (9 — 4).

However, the Panthers are just two games away from a perfect regular season while the Falcons just broke their six - game losing streak with a 6 - point victory over the Jaguars.

Ohio State pulled off the two point victory over Michigan State on Sunday, 69 - 67.

In a six - day period the inept Pistons «stumbled» (oops, pardon me) over the hapless World Champion Boston Celtics and «fumbled» (I'm really sorry) to a 10 - point victory over the previously unbeaten Chamberlainian Philadelphia 76ers.

Tarik Black, playing 20 minutes and scoring 9 points during the Lakers 14 point victory over the Knicks, was +34.

Several Michigan commits had positive comments regarding Michigan's 36 - point victory over Rutgers on Saturday.

One of those was a thrillingly close one - point victory over Cambridge at home.

They got a 2 point victory over the talented Free Agent squad..

They began their postseason journey back in Week 1 with a very nice 20 - point victory over # 8 Team Schwartz.

During yesterday's Nebraska two - point victory over Michigan State, Nebraska's Walter Pitchford was ejected after throwing a hard - elbow in MSU's Matt Costello's...

After a hard foul by Ashton Pankey, he played only seven minutes in UNC's 16 - point victory over the Terps.

Griffin finished with 30 points and 15 rebounds in the Clippers 13 - point victory over the GSW.

As Northam cruised to his nine - point victory over Gillespie, I couldn't help but think that maybe it's time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling number of subscribers how to vote.

Kansas, however, escaped with three - point victories over the Purdue Boilermakers and the N.C. State Wolfpack before defeating the No. 1 North Carolina Tar Heels, 80 - 67, to reach this point of the tournament.

Not exact matches

After a series of electoral missteps and concerns over the special Senate election in Alabama, the party — and Trump — needs a victory it can point to ahead of the 2018 midterms.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

(Merely as a point of interest, consider that the average seat - advantage these six minorities held over their official Opposition was roughly 14, while the average number of months from their initial election victory to the next tilt was about 15.)

«The first settlers in this country were emigrants from England, of the English church, just at a point of time when it was flushed with complete victory over the religious of all other persuasions.

I'd point to a whole life of unremarkable moments and the ancient streets in Rome and the night sky and dead languages, to all of the ways we defiantly choose life over death, the ways that our everyday lives testify to the victory of God's dream for us.

Since you do not recognize these facts, you are stuck thinking like a child and basically planting a flag of victory over pointing out that «bananas are yellow therefore yellow crayons must taste like fruit».

End Religion summed him perfectly with these lines:... «Since you do not recognize these facts, you are stuck thinking like a child and basically planting a flag of victory over pointing out that», bananas are yellow therefore yellow crayons must taste like fruit»»...

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

Rick i struggled for over 20 years as a christian in the end i said whats the point of struggling i feel powerless and useless so i gave in to sin that did nt work either but i was so sick of struggling and seeing the same results i became more miserable and even more powerless in my struggle with sin.I decided one day no more enough was enough i needed to get my life back in order.That was years ago and it was a process over 5 years that God dealt with all those things in my life that needed fixing most days i just said to him Lord i cant do this i just do nt have the strength and he said thats okay you cant do it anyway just trust me.So now now i l know what it means to be an overcomer in Christ sin does not have the victory over me anymore because Jesus is my strength in my weakness.I know i cant live a christian life in my strength but i certainly can with Christ in me he is my strength and in him i am an overcomer.If this is speaking to others just want to let you know that you to can be an overcomer you do nt have to struggle or battle with your walk or feel miserable because you give in to sin there is a better way.Just admit that you cant do it and ask for his help for the holy spirit is in you and he is the one who helps us in our weakness.regards brentnz