Sentences with phrase «running your heads against»

Three years later a meeting ended with a division on a question loaded the other way: «Shall we run our heads against brick walls?»

Whether it's «something missing» or running your heads against the same argument wall, it can be really liberating to just call a spade a spade and fold your hand (a shoddy poker metaphor but just go with it.)

Not exact matches

«We would urge caution against EU - only measures that could run the risk of creating double taxation,» Chas Roy - Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), a group representing accountants worldwide, said.

Top allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Bannon, the head of the far - right website Breitbart News who pledged to run opponents against McConnell - backed candidates whom Bannon deemed not sufficiently conservative.

There's Cyber Shangri - La (all the hackers unplug, pack up their laptops, and head home), Leviathan (governments lock down digital borders and impose state regulations), Clockwork Orange (ransacking runs rampant), and Independent (companies and other entities police the Internet and fight back against their tormentors).

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

The charges against them have run the gamut, but treason and blasphemy have headed the list, just as they did for Jesus.

I get where you are coming from though, I read about metal axe heads floating on water, shadows moving while the sun is not, men running faster than horses and fifty armed soldiers falling dead when they come against one of Gods prophets, it goes on and on, an outrageous affront to any human intelligence, I mean come on!!

You're just like people who don't believe in unicorns, except you run around all day rubbing it in peoples» faces like it makes you a better person, and while people don't have the head to argue against you, secretly most people wish you would just shut up already.

They'll finish the season with head to head match - ups against the top Teams in the League which is a great preview for their Playoff run!

Often times against would - be wide runs, Robinson would set the edge from head - up on the offensive tackle, and if you know anything about defensive line play, you know just how hard that is to do from that alignment.

I also saw him as lined up in a 4 - 3 head up on a right tackle and split a double team with the right guard to make a tackle in the backfield against a toss iso on a pretty good running back.

Down three runs heading into the bottom of the 9th inning during Monday's game against the Oakland Athletics, outfielder Rajai Davis saved the day for Detroit.

CART never ran a head - to - head race against the Indy 500 again and the top teams and drivers began to return in 2000.

The Williams thumbnail: Kicked off UConn's team in 2013 for stealing a teammate's credit card and using it... enrolled in a tiny Brooklyn college trying to get his football career back... enrolled at Utah in 2015... Quit Utah's team in September 2016, telling head coach Kyle Whittingham he couldn't deal with the mental pressure he was going through... Returned to the team at the coaches» request a month later when three backs got injured... After a month away from any physical activity, he ran for 179 yards against Oregon State, and then, in his second game, he set the Rose Bowl stadium record for a college running back, rushing for 332 yards and four touchdowns in a Utah win over UCLA.

BOXING — PETE RADEMACHER, showing more doggedness than style, alternately backtracked and banged his balding head against the hard right fist of Zora Folley, went down twice in the third round, twice in the fourth, ran out of coordination altogether 75 seconds into the fourth, lost on KO (see below).

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.

Brown's own climb — to becoming Oklahoma's leading receiver headed into the Sooners» matchup against Georgia in the Rose Bowl, 30 miles from where Brown used to run roller coasters — has only been a little bit slower.

Pros: Good body control, creates a good catch radius despite an average frame and snags the ball away from his body, uses body to shield defenders from ball Understands how to find the holes and sit down against zone coverage Nuanced route runner, uses head fakes at the stem and on release where he also uses feet well to beat press Has special teams experience (though I never thought of him as a standout from the broadcast) Has experience running full route tree, from multiple alignments with multiple personnel packages

EARTH TO GUS Redskins quarterback Gus Frerotte was lost for the final three periods after head - butting a wall at Jack Kent Cooke Stadium while celebrating his touchdown run in a game against the Giants that ended in a 7 - 7 tie.

At week's end, heading into a three - game series against the Astros that began Tuesday night at Houston's Enron Field, the 37 - year - old Bonds had smashed or was threatening a slew of records (chart, page 41), including Aaron's mark of 47 home runs at age 37 or older (a record Bonds broke in early August).

A good performance against Arsenal looked set to be wasted after yet more careless defending, but a late Martin Skrtl header saved a point and gave the side a huge boost heading into a vital run of three winnable Christmas games.

Finally, if Wenger really cares that Arsenal go to the next level with Lacazette in the striker's role he will need to surround him with the proper kinds of players, those who compliment his skills and give him a legitimate chance to lead the line... if they can spread the opposing teams back line with Sanchez on the left and someone of consequence on the right (must purchase this individual), this would likely create some space for Ozil in the middle of the pitch... having 3 players who can not only create their own opportunities, but provide assists and make well - timed runs, could bring some much - needed directness back into our ticky - tack approach of late... unfortunately instead of making the tough decisions and spending the supporters money in the right places, we instead have wasted so much time bashing our heads against the same brick wall over and over again and expecting different results..

Against the Vols, Wuerffel kept his head and threw for 231 yards and touchdowns of eight, 17 and 30 yards, hitting a host of receivers who ran circles around the defenders.

Team USA showed precisely why they're the overwhelming favorite heading into the Olympics during their tune - up in Barcelona against Argentina, but they also showed where they'll be vulnerable — inside — during a number of Argentinian runs.

In a head - to - head player prop bet on which running back in the game will rush for more yards, Lynch is minus - 20.5 yards against Knowshon Moreno (plus - 20.5).

Michigan head coach Brady Hoke announced today that starting running back and backup defensive end, Fitzgerald Toussaint and Frank Clark, will not make the trip for Saturday's Cowboys Classic against Alabama.

That is not a good record top think about, but one big thing in our favour heading into this match is that we have only just ended an even worse run of games against Chelsea and, let's be honest, they are a much better team.

«You see Anthony do all the things [IMG head coach Kevin] Wright talked about on film, from the coverage to coming up and filling against the run,» Steve Wiltfong wrote.

In their last six at home against Spurs, Burnley have lost just the one game (W4 D1 L1) so actually have pretty good form running in the head to head on home soil.

Brede Hangeland put the Eagles in the lead at the Emirates Stadium much against the run of play on 35 minutes, but Laurent Koscielny headed home Alexis Sanchez's free kick from close range on the stroke of half time to restore parity for the Gunners (click here to read more).

UEFA.com runs through the last eight, taking a closer look at their form and head - to - head records against their potential opponents.

But they do have the head to head form running in their favour against Burnley and three of their last four losses came against Liverpool, Chelsea and Man Utd.

Our first edition of MLB Marketwatch this season didn't look too promising as our selection, Pittsburgh, faced a three - run deficit against Philadelphia heading into the bottom of the seventh inning.

Crooks» Jesse Lingard and Romelu Lukaku almost combined to grab an equaliser against the run of play though, with the Belgian heading narrowly over.

It was the hosts, however, who took the lead, completely against the run of play, when Jolean Lescott made most of some slack Arsenal defending as well as a howler from Mannone, to head home a Silva corner, to take the champions into the lead at half - time.

Chelsea have a great head to head record against Tottenham and they have gone W7 D7 L2 in their last sixteen against the Lilywhites and they won the last FA Cup semi-final between the two, which was back in 2012 when the Blues ran out big 5 - 1 winners on the day before going on to lift the trophy.

Ca n`t head, tackle, dribble, pick or receive a pass, cross, take freekicks or corners, but, oh yes, he can run fast and sometimes score goals against weak opposition, rarely against top teams.

Every team in top 6 have goal scorers that can turn a game on its head even against the run of play.

Nico Hulkenberg has come out against the driver head protection system dubbed Halo which Ferrari ran in testing today.

Completely against the run of play, van Persie headed in a Sagna cross, after escaping his markers.

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.

A boyhood Schalke fan, he headed to the Veltins Arena with a family member to see Schalke run out 2 - 0 winners against former club (and Schalke's fiercest rivals) Borussia Dortmund to tighten their grip on second place in the Bundesliga.

However, Marcos Alonso found the top corner from a 25 - yard free - kick on 24 minutes to hand Chelsea the lead against the run of play in the first half and after we'd finally scored a deserved equaliser on 82 minutes - substitute Michy Batshuay heading Christian Eriksen's free - kick into his own net - Alonso struck again with two minutes left.

Against the run of play United got a corner and Madrid defense perhaps slept for some period as Danny Welbeck broke away from his marker and headed the ball in the net much to the delight of travelling supporters.

As for your comment on my parenting advice, frankly, if you have numerous memories of running off against your parents express orders and into the path of danger, you were not nearly as level - headed as you claim and you probably lacked sufficient supervision.

Also: While Valesky isn't running against anyone, he hasn't gone so far as to actually run ON the GOP line, preferring to leave that to the IDC's head honcho, Sen. Jeff Klein.

A lot of GOP county chairs have been scratching their heads about the Conservatives» decision last Friday to give their line to little - known consultant Jay Townsend to run against Sen. Chuck Schumer and former Rep. Joe DioGuardi to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Former New York State Attorney General Oliver Koppell, running against IDC head and Senate Majority Co-leader Jeffrey Klein, garnered the endorsement of the WFP for the 34th district in the Bronx.

In a theoretical head - to - head match - up where Jeffries ran as an independent against de Blasio as a Democrat, Jeffries pulled support from 26 percent of city voters, to the mayor's 43 percent.