Sentences with phrase «points than their opposition»

The main objective here is to score more points than the opposition in 12 minutes.

Not exact matches

By Shadow of Truth from The Daily Coin: There is a trend, we can see a clear opposition is growing, we have more people moving toward our point of view than the Statists» views.

Populist conservatives in swing constituencies don't have to attack the intraparty opposition anymore than is absolutely necessary to make their point.

«Pacifism is opposition to war and violence, even to the point of allowing self - harm rather than a resort to violent resistance.»

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

Example in point: Opposition to embryonic stem cell / human cloning research: It isn't anti science to oppose treating nascent human life like a corn crop or manufacturing embryos, anymore than it is anti science than the Animal Welfare Act the proscribes what can and can't be done in scientific research with some mammals.

The problem with Arsenal is how we play, or adapt our play in matches, we've had good players up to the point where our squad looks better than the opposition, but we then loose dismally.

The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.

Yes we'd concede more, but the point is to score more than the opposition, not to avoid conceding.

I get your point mate.But in truth Ramsey is the CM and Xhaka is the DM according to our formation anf tactic.It's even debatable if Xhaka is capable of playing DM.I think Ramsey's tactical awareness is poor but he has every right to take risks and move into the opposition box.He's a box to box player.The only problem is Ramsey overdoes it.If we had a proper CDM the team would be more balanced.Now it's like we have two CM's playing in midfield and due to their poor tactical awareness we're always left exposed.I conclude by reminding people that Wilshere is better footballer and is more intelligent than Xhaka.It'll be better playing Wilshere and pairing him with a CDM than having Xhaka play there.He just gets to play over him becausr we signed him for # 35.

If people think Chelsea just settle for a point all the time they should check and see how many matches Chelsea and the previous Milan team win with far less chances and possession than the opposition

LSU: For the first time since their season opener, the Tigers held the opposition to fewer than 70 points.

Your 7 points assures the partnership of at least 23 points and leaves no more than 17 for the opposition.

They'd rather wait for the one time it fails so they can bash You blame the manager for being favourist yet a fellow blogger praising a player he previously bashed is called being two faced You kill Ramsey for a blind pass attempting to enter the opposition final third yet you won't blame Sanchez for turning over the ball in a pointless dribble with three free team mates You kill metersacker for deflecting a shot into his own net but won't touch kos for getting out of the way of a shot he could have sufficiency blocked You claim with no substantial proof that arteta, mert, Ramsey, can not lead arsenal anywhere substantial yet they have each at a point been a massive cause for stability and progress when called upon Even after reading this comment, you will ignore the fact that kos was awful until partnerd with mert, our defensive mid with song leaked more goals than the one with arteta and we've struggled to win without him at least until late last season.

The type of footballer who everyone wants on their team and no striker wants to come up against, Skrtel will take the ball and the man, rather than just the ball just to make a point to the opposition.

no need for 4th place junkies on this site to worry... chelsea were only 12 points better than us last season and have strengthened their first XI but we have taken their substitute GK who is class cost us a couple of points but can make that up against lower opposition, man city have strengthened and will probably bring in de bruyne but we cant compete with oil money anyway man utd?

Moreover the wins vs United, Monaco and City do more to detract from your point than bolster it as the pressure wasn't on Arsenal in either of those matches, it was on the opposition.

3 points is 3 points in that game of course but play the same way we played against more talented opposition, they will capitalize better than Sunderland did.

European teams will then set fixtures among themselves to earn points, rather than taking on African, Asian or South American opposition.

Now United are back in second place, two points better off than Liverpool, United's next opposition at Old Trafford at the weekend.

Granted, all of this is dependent upon a viable Labour opposition (which is a big ask at this point), but it should provide an incentive for that to happen rather than the opposite.

But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.

But critics pointed out that Mr Corbyn had still delivered the worst set of results by any Opposition party in more than 30 years.

But is the party really worse off than previous opposition parties at this point in the election cycle?

That's about the point that Labour can win more seats than the opposition, due to the British electoral system's inbuilt bias.

The government is receiving strong support from the opposition benches, which scrambled to point out Labour has called on ministers to strengthen rather than weaken the residence test.

The second point is that no new opposition leader whose initial rating was less than plus 20 has ever become Prime Minister.

He was then interrupted by a point of order, demanding he stop referring to the opposition as «you» rather than «honourable member» - an accurate but tedious interruption.

It was a point Gordon Brown brought up, saying: «I say in sorrow rather than anger, it is no use opposition for opposition sake.»

Opposition also marks Jupiter's closest point to us, and the planet appears brighter in the night sky than at any other time in the year.

Gibson assembles a handsome cast of notable supporting players, although some of them feel a bit too exaggerated to feel sincere, including a lazily administered change - of - heart for Doss» most vocal opposition played in tones of the usual masculine clichés by Luke Bracey (in a performance easier to fathom, at least, than his appearance in the all - around ill - conceived Point Break remake).

Opposition to the formation of Muslim clubs fell by 2 percentage points, while support jumped by no fewer than 24 percentage points.

African Americans expressed higher levels of support for vouchers than did the population as a whole (57 percent), but support also was 12 percentage points lower among those African Americans told of presidential opposition.

Overall, the percentage favoring vouchers was 11 points lower among those informed of the president's opposition than among those not so informed (35 percent to 24 percent, see Figure 4).

It is a sad irony, he believes, that opposition to testing is rising «just at the point when we are finally going to have a set of tests coming from the two testing consortia that promise to be substantially better than the state tests currently in use.

The five beat off the opposition of more than 100 runners to win by 17 clear points.

The margin of opposition to vouchers grows by 38 points among young adults and by 14 points among people in less - than - $ 100,000 households using the more detailed question, while holding essentially steady among seniors and among top - income Americans.

Notably, Hispanic support of the standards is 34 points higher than Hispanic opposition in this crucial electoral voting bloc.

President Obama has now succumbed to the firestorm in opposition to standardized and «high stakes» testing that has swept the country over the past several years, even picking up on the talking points — «Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble».

It's a war of attrition, but no matter what you do a match will never last longer than 20 - minutes, and that's because both carriers have a giant cannon that is fired at the opposition every few minutes, dealing a single point of damage.

Booker and Elizabeth encounter lots of opposition throughout the game and this is where she becomes more than the focal point of an escort mission.

Sure, you'll get points for kills, but you'll get even more points if you play the objective, and you'll certainly have more than your fair share of opportunities to engage opposition Guardians in the process.

In opposition to the RCA's curriculum, Moore carves this copy of a Madonna from the Victoria & Albert Museum directly rather than copying it with a pointing machine.

We could do a similar analysis on the Democratic side with Senator Saslaw, who draws at least token opposition in every election but has never won by less than a 17 - point margin.