Sentences with phrase «raise his game after»

Embed from Getty Images Per Mertesacker has urged his teammates to raise their game after a forgettable display on Tuesday night in the Champions League against Anderlecht.

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«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee wrote, «and demand some of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.

After conducting a review of its faith based programming, the network said it wants to raise its game across all religious output, reach as many people as possible and portray the diversity of beliefs and society.

It is not an easy fixture, though, even though Arsenal are coming off a shaky start to the new Premier League season after losing away to Stoke, so every Arsenal fan will be delighted to see that Arsene Wenger's team for the game at Anfield includes the Chile international star Alexis Sanchez, although Lacazette starting on the bench with Welbeck in the XI will certainly raise a few eyebrows.

From Texas they returned home but after 10 games in 10 days and all the travel involved going to Texas, the team was beat, and Jayla couldn't raise her arm.

Back to his best after a recent dip, Steven Gerrard raised his game for Liverpool as they took on Everton in the Merseyside Derby, scoring a stunning free - kick in the second half to cap an energetic display, which should have led to all three points for the home side.

Joe Torre was back in contention for the National League batting lead after a nine - game stretch in which he went 15 for 32 and raised his average from.313 to.343.

Thirsty for success after a hardscrabble start, brash Brad Keselowski raised his game in the Chase to take his first Sprint Cup title

The player raised further speculation over his future by appearing to wave goodbye to the Real Madrid fans after being substituted during the game against Sevilla.

Hill - Wood has commented on those who raised the banner after the West Brom game and called those people «ignorant».

I know after watching him go on a tear this year and receiving player of the month honors in March, all while coming back earlier than expected from a broken foot and one of the big reasons we defeated teams on the March to the FA cup he certainly more than anyone should raise his game this year.

After remaining eerily quiet throughout the week, sharp money hit the Iron Bowl and hit it hard as sportsbooks raised limits to game day maximums.

Notable protests from Sunday included the singer of the national anthem at the Falcons vs. Lions game taking a knee and raising a fist after the anthem, LeSean McCoy warming up during the anthem, and plenty of players around the league taking a knee.

One could forgive Manchester United fans for raising their eyebrows over the deadline day signing whose only game for the Trotters came in a 4 - 2 away defeat to Rotherham United where he was hauled off after 51 minutes with his side already 3 - 0 down.

After Jason Giambi singled home the game - winner for the Yankees in thebottom of the ninth, Upton raised his right fist.

On Feb. 11, 1978, just under two months after the crash, the Pittsburgh Steelers came to Evansville to play in a charity basketball game to raise money for the crash victims and their families.

Super-freshman Deandre Ayton heads into the tournament on a high after raising his game to a terrifying level in the Pac - 12 tournament, finishing with 32 points and double - digit rebounds in each of Arizona's final two games.

I really thought that the other players would raise there game after seeing Sanchez play, but it doesn't look like that effect is rubbing off a yet...

The four - time Ballon d'Or winner has raised his game to such a high level that fans expect him to perform at his best week after week.

«For him to be there on No. 18 after the playoff, it didn't really surprise me because I know his character, but it does speak volumes as to how he was raised and certainly how he conducts himself and how he puts the game in perspective.

Raise your hand if you projected the Patriots and Jets to have the same record after four games.

After the game, Gareth Southgate revealed the reason why Lingard was so angry is because Struna had raised his hands to Lingard.

once again we manage to concede when wev hav the lionshare of possesion and limited our opponents to 3 shots on target, am hugely dissapointed in nasri, ros, ramsey and edu who were fresher than most and just did nt put in the necessary work to get a result there, i hate to admit it but it looked like we thought the goal and the result wud look after itself because we are arsenal... maybe im wrong but at times i feel we are border line arrogant and then cant raise our game when we get sucker punched

The Liverpool FC players wore special shirts embroidered with poppies when Chelsea visited Anfield, the Reds signed their shirts after the game and donated them to the Royal British Legion to raise money.

«We have gone through a difficult phase, but in the last few weeks we have raised our game,» Toni Kroos told German media after the PSG clash.

Since the stalemate, questions have been raised over the Reds progress after securing just one win in the last eight games in all competitions.

He had come off during the fund raising game against Dagenham and Redbridge after «feeling» the problem again but there remain hopes that he will make it for the game.

Just after this defeat Tuchel's men have raised their form and have won for four consecutive games, scoring a lot of goals in the process.

Robert Freier, spokesman for the Oyster Bay Democrats, said Saladino's fee hike proposal, coming after a $ 1.3 million tax cut passed just before the November election, was «a shell game he played when he was running for election claiming a tax cut, and now he's raising fees after the fact to create a surplus.»

Instead of crying foul — after all, campaign contributions are fair game — I simply pointed out some of Sean's contributions and those of Senators Larkin and Holland that might have raised questions about motives for their support of certain recipients of Pataki - era economic development grants.

A tattoo artist, who is able to create the illusion of raised human nipples, has helped thousands of mastectomy patients come to terms with life after Free Fab Tattoo Artist 2 games for everybody!

After they play some table games, they go up to their suite, raise some drug and alcohol - stimulated hell, and have fun with a stripper.

(one game out at a time) needless to say that most likely help raise my opinon of this game (I brought it back the next day after i finished it) and got something new...

After a deftly timed flirtation with darker, edgier subject matter in last year's Baby Driver, plus an eye - catching appearance as Churchill's secretary in Darkest Hour, the 29 - year - old actress is raising her game with three female - led features that promise to position her as a British leading lady with international clout.

After several failed attempts to raise the money, Frost put up much of Nixon's $ 600,000 fee himself, and the game was on.

Because of the potential for rigging scores in order to temporarily raise them, OSPI eliminated the «Improvement» award the year after WAVA Monroe managed to game the system.

Corvette Racing has raised their game year after year, which is an impressive thing — whether it is in preparation and leading up to the event, preparing the car, laying out pits, practicing pit stops, the routines and schedule... the way the team studies itself and improve year on year is spectacular.

After ComiXology took in $ 19 million, Apple and others began raising their game as competitors in digital comics; even then, they were slow to move.

Doesn't matter how long you've been into dogs or how many you've raised «previously»... Breeding French Bulldogs was a whole other ball game which we learned that quickly... shortly after our first French Bulldog Litter.

While the announcement of Gears of War: Judgement, the fourth game in the series, at this years E3 came as little surprise to gamers, the fact that it would be set several months after Emergence Day did raise a few eyebrows.

Nintendo Co. jumped 9.1 percent, the biggest contributor to gains on the Topix, after Macquarie raised its rating on video - game maker.

- after the remakes of Terry's Wonderland 3D and Dragon Quest Monsters 2, Yuji Horii asked the team what should be next - the choices were Caravan Heart (GBA), a professional version of Dragon Quest Monsters 2, or a brand new game - the staff made the plot together with Takeshi Uchikawa (who is currently directing Dragon Quest XI)- the suggestion was to make the theme become something catchy, which lead to a science fiction vibe - Horii said «anything's alright as long as it's interesting» - the creation of the Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light helped build Joker 3 - fan feedback from the mobile game was used, which lead to monster stats being seen - the Reactor device lets you easily see all the things that occur on the field - the team had some trouble bringing together the ridable monsters aspect of the game, but eventually worked it out - the full game starts off with monsters that players can ride on land - you'll eventually unlock sea, air, and multi-jump land rising monsters - a «Big Air ride» was teased as well - by clearing the story, features will be unlocked that further modify monsters such as abilities and changing their sizes - Stealth Boxes which can not be found without using the Reactor only contains useful items that are optional - compulsory items that are needed to be found with the Reactor are placed in non-stealth locations - accessories can strengthen monsters, but monster strength is mainly determined from raising and combining them - features more offense - related content in the form of new spells and skills - new water - type spells are included - new skills added enable more detailed adjustments in versus, adding more strategic features - one of the items that can be bought with Communication Coins has the same effect with «Key of Encounters» - this lets players recruit monsters a bit more easily they've befriended before - since Communication Coins can only be obtained from multiplayer battles, it's completely optional - people who still do StreetPass but don't want to do multiplayer battles can still get them by combining monsters - DLC monsters are planned to be added regularly post-release until around Golden Week (April 29 — May 5)- - A national tournament is also planned, with more details coming later - carryover feature from Dragon Quest Monsters 2 that comes into play after the ending - players can bring up to 10 monsters which are ranked A or below from DQM2 to DQMJ3 each day

In fact the games tries so little to justify these repeat missions in the larger context of the narrative they they also just copy and paste the after mission report, which saw the characters raising questions that had already been answered hours before.

Last Friday Gamasutra's Mike Rose posted an in - depth study into the ethics of paying for Youtube coverage after questions started to be raised that prominent «Youtubers» are being paid to give favourable coverage to certain games.

The turn based strategy game, which is steeped in viking culture, originally came to be made after a remarkably successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2012 which allowed the team to raise the bar on production and development plans and saw the first game, The Banner Saga, launch...

After opening a new realm to players with last month's Game Update 2.0 — Asgard, Gazillion Entertainment's Marvel Heroes is raising the stakes again today with enormous battle zones raging acros...

A hard mode unlocks after clearing the game, which resets stats, and after hard mode is cleared, Inferno mode is unlocked, which removes the max level cap (35) and raises it to 99.

Live action role playing game, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, is looking extremely promising on Kickstarter after Ming's Eye Theatre (and their official publisher By Night Studios) raised over $ 70,000 for the project with still over two weeks to go.

Fellow European region gamers, raise your hand if an instalment in your favourite niche or cult - favourite JRPG series has arrived in your country nearly a year after its American release, and possibly more than a year after the Japanese release.

But as always, Epic games are raising the bar and blowing away its fans week after week.