Sentences with phrase «running against his past»

Romney has been widely criticized for running against his past - against what he did at Bain Capital and as governor of Massachusetts, and against his prior views on abortion and health care.

Not exact matches

You may have missed this, but over the past two years, as Musk has been running Tesla and SpaceX, he's become the world's most prominent proponent of action against climate change.

When charted against past gold bull markets, the present one looks as if it still has a lot of room to run.

After hitting a 6 - year high against the U.S. dollar in 2017, it appears the euro bull run may be coming to an end, pulling back nearly 4 percent against its rival over the past three months

As Bitcoin and Ethereum continue their record - breaking run over the past few weeks, we'd like to take a moment during this euphoria to explain the dynamics of runaway markets and how to protect yourself against transactions you might come to regret.

A born again Christian that has a felony past of attempted robbery, 2nd degree murder, incest and terrorism is running for president against a known atheist that has no criminal past.

Because the same media managers were at war with the fundamentalism of the religious right in this country, the reporting and commentary tended to become a running polemic against undifferentiated «religious fanaticism» that threatened the secular assumptions of Western elites who had been miseducated to believe that religion is a vestigial phenomenon from the unenlightened past.

He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.

And a Jew was running for president, and some disaffected Jewish people hacked past Jewish computer systems against Jewish teachings and entered names in order to increase hatred for Jews and make a «public stink.»

Still, there is a certain awkwardness here, for the argument just presented runs against those three passages in Process and Reality where Whitehead does speak of direct prehension of the distant past.

PG — I'm not sure we have a starting PG on the roster, would really like to see DJ run the second unit and match up with the Quinns of the NBA rather than the Curry's and Pauls SG — Green has moved into that unfortunate professional athlete phase of «living off past laurels» and should not be resigned SF — Not gonna even speculate PF — LMA is good to go C — Unfortunately stuck with Gasol who is unplayable against the top tier playoff teams

His explosiveness continued on Sunday against the Washington Redskins when he blew past everyone on a punt return and ended up running backwards into the end zone for the last 20 yards.

His trilogy against Okada is a classic and I'd also recommend anything from his past two G1 runs, or from the tournament for NJPW's U.S. title belt last year.

We have Giroud putting crosses in from the left and hesitant full - backs playing centre half, who let guys run past them as they pray for an offside flag, and when we miss early chances up front teams know they can bank up against us.

If we had had his gritty steel running through our team on other occasions then we may have been a little better at coping with the more brutal tactics some teams used against us in the past 10 years or so.

The eight top home run hitters over the past five years — McGwire, Sosa, Albert Belle, Vinny Castilla, Juan Gonzalez, Ken Griffey Jr., Rafael Palmeiro and Mo Vaughn — have a combined career average of.107 against Martinez, with just one home run (by Gonzalez) in 84 times at bat.

Looking at things from an Arsenal point of view I definitely agree with Arsene Wenger's suggestion that the penalty awarded against the Gunners today was a soft one and that Moussa Dembele was looking for it when he ran into the box and into three Arsenal players that he was never going to get past.

Totally agree Chris.He is now well past his sell by date and defeats like have suffered against Bournemouth and Swansea are not only embarrassing but unforgivable.The results were bad enough but the performances are now all too familiar against theses lower ranked clubs.To expect us supporters to be blinded by League Cup Final and only a couple of decent performances so far this season is misjudging our feelings about his position This is a very well educated and intelligent man who can have no doubts about our attitude and utter disgust for him.He has allowed for us to make this personal now and he is deluded if he thinks e can collect another years salary out our expense.He knows his control is slowly being wrestled away from him and that really says it all.Ivan G is taking control and Wenger will be raging inside with this.Did he seriously expect things to continue until he felt it was time to just walk off into the sunset?Well he now knows his time at OUR club is fast running out.The day can't come soon enough for me.

They have become our bogey team over the past couple of years so it is very important that we beat them, not only to end this horrific run of results against them but also to boost our chances of a top 4 finish.....

Overall, Fournette is the highest - rated back in the Levitan, Bales, and SportsGeek models in large part thanks to his matchup against a Bills defense that has allowed a slate - high 1.7 DraftKings points above salary - based expectation to running backs over the past 12 months.

If you remember Bellerin's concussion against Chelsea — it was Walcott's man that ran past him unmarked and unchecked for the header.

I remember Chamberlain running past 3 - 4 defenders for fun against the likes of City and Chelsea when he was still new, but now he can't even run past one, likewise Sanchez was all over the field creating chances when we first signed him but now he's been restricted to the left to accommodate a severely limited striker.

He was one of the highest graded players against the run in 2015 according to PFF, and graded out as solid the past 2 years.

Though Roma had only won one of their past 13 matches on their travels in the competition, beating Basel in 2009, they were hopeful of ending that run against Qarabag, who had been humiliated 6 - 0 at Chelsea in the opening round.

The abuse we've suffered for this exact same thing in the recent past - this run of form you're have and will continue to go through over the next couple years - will be weaponized and used against you, from us, if the media will predictably fail to do the same.

The stage was set against Liverpool as Martial received the ball out wide and ran at Škrtel, moving one way and then the other, before shimmying across the defender with ease and calmly slotting past the goalkeeper.

It is a quite remarkable record for a team fighting against relegation, papering over the wide cracks of an away run that's seen just one point collected from the past 15 games staged outside of East Yorkshire.

ALONSO: Chelsea defender Marcos Alonso and midfielder Ross Barkley on Monday took part in a training session after having missed the past three matches, while David Luiz and Tiemoue Bakayoko were absent in the run - up to the Champions League game against Barcelona.

The Senegalese frontman has started the Toffees» past two games against Leicester City and Arsenal and pointed to the 2 - 1 win over the Foxes as the benchmark to return to winning ways and build a run of results.

Arsenal, however, are a strong away team this year, and are in a better run of form over the past month or so, although they looked pretty limp against Southampton on Tuesday.

KEY FACT: Brighton have only won one of their past nine games against Coventry MATCH ODDS: Brighton 1/3 Draw 17/4 Coventry 11/1 bet365 Pick: Under 2.5 goals @ 4/5 GRAEME SAYS: Coventry's run will come to an end here... 3 - 1

The equaliser, then, came against the run of play at the end of the half, with Aaron Ramsey sending in an excellent cross for Olivier Giroud to head past the on - rushing keeper.

This will be Antonio Conte's first experience of Camp Nou as a coach, though the champions of England are old hands here, on a run of eight games without defeat against the Liga leaders, and undefeated in the past four trips to Carrer d'Aristides Maillol.

The writing had been on the wall, though, before Arsenal's run of bad results, a run that was slightly arrested by a straightforward 3 - 0 win against Dinamo Zagreb, and watching Arsenal over the past few weeks, it is hard not to think that after Mesut Özil, the most important member of Arsenal's midfield is not the now - absent Francis Coquelin but Aaron Ramsey, who enabled the unconventional midfield pairing of Cazorla and Coquelin to win matches without Arsenal being entirely convincing or dominant.

Central New York and national Republican leaders have been trying for the past six months to recruit a candidate to run against Maffei.

Any ex officio member of the Executive Committee (District Leaders, past president) who runs against a VID slate or endorsed candidate will forfeit his / her seat on the Executive Committee until the next annual vote for Executive Committee members.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

Hahn, who has flirted with running for office several times in the past few years, including a bid for State Senate against State Sen. Toby Stavisky (where she was passed over for the GOP endorsement which went to JD Kim), has already started bashing Peter Koo calling him clueless and accusing him of being in the pocket of developers at a recent meeting hosted by the Queens Village Republican Club.

She criticizes Maragos for his past positions as a Republican against abortion and same - sex marriage and for taking campaign contributions from county vendors when he ran for comptroller.

Biviano is running a catch - up campaign against Jo Anne Simon, district leader for the past decade, and Pete Sikora, legislative director for the communication workers union, to replace long - time Assemblymember Joan Millman.

And while the borough has had several uncontested elections in past years, the Democratic party nominated medical marijuana advocate Dylan Schwartz to run against Joe Borelli for the South Shore City Council seat and retired engineer Rich Florentino to run against Steven Matteo in the Mid-Island Council district.

Gioia has said Paladino has been to many Republican fundraisers in the past and received money from him during the gubernatorial run against Cuomo in 2010.

«But where she once was brushing up against the magic 40 % number that could get her past a run - off, the wear and tear of the campaign, and possibly the addition of Weiner, are taking a toll on the front - runner,» Carroll added.

He won't face his two - time political nemesis, Emily Cain, who ran against Poliquin in each of the past two cycles but is now the executive director of EMILY's List.

In this past Primary, Adriano Espaillat threw his support for a women, Carmen De La Rosa to run for Assembly against Guillermo Linares.

When Espaillat ran against Rangel in the Democratic primary this past June, he spoke openly, but selectively, about the possibility of becoming the first Dominican member of Congress in the United States.

But here's 3 reasons why Gibson might have a better shot at being elected than the past two Republicans who ran against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Rob Astorino and Carl Paladino.

Pruitt, one of Trump's controversial cabinet picks, has in the past worked to file lawsuits against the agency he is now running on the behalf of coal, oil and gas companies, according to The New York Times.

The neighbors holding signs kept smiling as cars drove past and honked in support of Katko, who is running against Democrat Colleen Deacon from Syracuse.

And today, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, also expected to run against Paterson, is expected to announce that he has a campaign chest of... (drumroll)... $ 16 million, with $ 6 million raised in the past six months.