Sentences with phrase «set by some rivals»

Earlier than expected exits from the League Cup and Champions League were undoubtedly disappointing setbacks, while they haven't been able to keep up the pace set by rivals Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table.

The Red Devils remain in the hunt for silverware with the FA Cup and Champions League this season, but they haven't been able to keep up with the pace set by rivals Man City in the Premier League title race.

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Ford has done the majority of bits better than the competition, and some are even way ahead of the benchmark set by its rivals.

The Amaze has a quirky dashboard and it simply can't match the standards set by its rivals.

Its construction falls short of the standards set by rivals; its RT software is frustratingly limited; and it is too...

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Target could set itself apart by offering something its rivals didn't: clothing and kitchenware with panache and low prices.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

Those qualities have only been set off by posher rivals like Starbucks.

But as Coach reined in its prestige - sapping ubiquity, hired a hot fashion designer in Stuart Vevers and ramped up the caliber of its bags, as exemplified by its pricey but coveted Rogue line, it has been able to command ever higher prices, and more crucially, set itself apart from rivals like Michael Kors (kors) and Kate Spade (kate).

Netflix has also set itself apart from its rivals in video streaming by spending billions on original programming such as «Stranger Things,» and «The Crown.»

Supporters in the five states set to vote on recreational marijuana had a war chest of $ 30 million as of Oct. 20, compared to just $ 6.6 million for their rivals, according to campaign finance data collected by the nonpartisan site Ballotpedia.

Since the start of the year a bill has been proposed in America's Congress to block the government from using telecoms equipment made by Huawei and ZTE; and Mr Trump has halted the takeover of Qualcomm by Broadcom, a rival chipmaker, on national - security grounds, for fear it would give China the edge in setting standards for 5G, a wireless technology.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is unlikely to set an output target when it meets June 2 as it sticks with Saudi Arabia's strategy of squeezing out rivals, according to all but one of 27 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

Anglo - Dutch rival Unilever, which this year rebuffed a $ 143 billion takeover bid from Kraft Heinz, has set a goal of 20 percent for its underlying operating profit margin by 2020.

In the early 2000s, Expedia was unseated by Booking.com, a rival online travel site that let hotels set commission as low as 12 %, compared to the 25 % fee charged by Expedia.

A Rogers TV subscriber who has the company's new $ 25 Starter package — the «skinny basic» bundle mandated by new federal rules — could add the Sportsnet channels for $ 18 a month, or Sportsnet and rival TSN together for $ 25, plus the cost of a set - top cable box.

On the one hand, the enterprise of copying, correcting, translating, and publishing texts — the business of scholarship; on the other, the enterprise of delivering to the Church an intact Old Testament and a New Testament that conforms to the mind of Christ: this involves setting the boundaries of the canon by choosing and rejecting among rival testimonies, selecting the best text of each canonical witness, suppressing additions and interpolations, suppressing mistranslations, and so forth.

Mathematicians now settle into one of the four rival hammocks set up by formalists, intuitionists, logicists and pure set theoreticians and, once in, find it very difficult to get out.

The Australian food businesses owned by Chinese company Bright Food Group are set to form a large part of its initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange, but the company has ruled out making a rival bid for Treasury Wine Estates to expand the operations further.

The shortage, exacerbated by the big LNG export plants off Gladstone in Queensland that have been set up during the past few years, has fuelled plans for two rival LNG import projects for the eastern seaboard of Australia, by AGL Energy in Victoria and the Andrew Forrest - backed Australian Industrial Energy in NSW.

Murray Goulburn's decision to offer dairy farmers a lower - than - expected milk price has set the scene for a major upheaval of the dairy industry, as rival processors weigh up whether to break ranks and exact further pain on the besieged co-operative by offering a higher price.

The stunning setting is rivaled only by the quality of the dining experience.

The Gunners are set to take on Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, and we were supposed to be boosted by our rivals having injury problems in key areas, but it is now us who has our own issues.

Chelsea, who sold Matic to rivals Man United for # 40M earlier this summer as per the Express, are set to make another offer for Drinkwater of # 25M after the Blues saw their first offer of # 15M rejected by the Foxes, according to the Telegraph.

Chelsea could be set to undercut Premier League rivals Liverpool in the race to sign Borussia Dortmund midfielder Ilkay Gundogan by offering the German giants Ramires in a swap deal, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Los Blancos currently trail league leaders Barcelona by six points after 13 games, with their 4 - 0 home defeat to their rivals on November 21 setting them back and seemingly signalling the end of the road for Benitez.

Bernie Ecclestone has said that he won't be setting up an F1 - rivalling championship having been removed from his position by the new owners of F1.

The Honey Badgers scheduled nine games and are looking for two more, but at least one of their games — a showdown against vaunted John Curtis Christian in River Ridge, La., ranked fifth nationally by Rivals and set to be televised by ESPN on Oct. 19 — is in jeopardy because the Louisiana Athletic Association mandates that its schools play teams recognized by their respective states.

While the Frenchman looks set to make a cut price bid to sign the 26 - year - old in January, he will be rivaled by both Manchester United and Liverpool, who also have their own defensive problems.

If you by the way the Arsenal transfer rumours have been progressing during the summer then it looks like our London rivals and the current Premier League title holders are set to step up their attempts to sign our England international star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, who is one of a number of Gunners that have enetered the final year of their current Arsenal contracts.

this complaining about wenger gets nausiating, i know these type of fans will want the next manager out, then the next... everyone is a Klopp fan but no one want to mention his 16 th place in the relagation zone, our team is competitive, yr after yr, our wage structure, set by the board is lower than the oil rich rivals who can buy who ever they want, we do alot with less, and yet find a way, I do nt agree w every move of wenger, but i do nt want to support a classless dildo like jose either

That in turn would make him the highest - paid player in the world as it would easily surpass the wages of the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, and it would see him link up with manager Gus Poyet with Shenua desperate to avoid being outdone by rivals Shanghai SIPG who are set to swoop for Chelsea's Oscar.

Then on the 11 hour coach journey back to the hotel I heard some more which were soon to be rivalled by the set wheeled out on the long flight back to Heathrow.

As written by the Daily Mail, Barcelona, who were thrashed 5 - 1 by bitter rivals Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup this week, had hoped to have wrapped up deals for both Coutinho and Dembele by now, but due to Liverpool and Dortmund being difficult to negotiate with, other options are now set to be pursued by the Spanish side.

Premier League rivals Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are set to deem West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino as too expensive, report the Mirror, with 18 year - old Birmingham City forward Demarai Gray the next player to be considered by both clubs as they look to add pace and quality to their frontlines during the January window.

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Zinedine Zidane and Real Madrid were absolutely flying along this time last week, having just put Espanyol to the sword to equal the La Liga record of straight wins set by fierce rivals Barcelona and continue the 100 percent start to the new domestic league campaign.

One eye will surely be on Tuesday's Champions League qualifier with Club Brugge, but with City and Chelsea set to meet on Sunday, there will be even further points dropped by some of our main title rivals this weekend, with the prospect of three points at Villa Park all the sweeter.

Both of the North London rivals are keen on his signing as a result, with the player's price tag set at around # 10 million by his club according to talkSPORT.

With a 2 - 0 away victory over Espanyol, Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid equaled the record set by Pep Guardiola's Barcelona on the doorstep of their great rivals and will look to set a new benchmark of their own with potentially awkward but still very winnable games against Villarreal and Las Palmas up next for Los Blancos.

Pulisic insisted last month that a move from Dortmund to rivals Bayern Munich — following the trend set by Robert Lewandowski, Mario Gotze and Mats Hummels — was not in his plans.

Antonio Conte's side arrived at the home of Spurs off the back of thirteen straight wins in the Premier League, chasing a record of fourteen straight wins to beat a record set by Spurs» North London rivals Arsenal.

Jose Mourinho's men are setting their focus in Europe this season after already being left far behind in La Liga by their arch rival Barcelona.

There were plenty of interesting match - ups drawn during the latest fifth - round pairings, with runaway English top - flight leaders Manchester City set to face Wigan Athletic in a repeat of the 2013 FA Cup final, in which the Sky Blues were stunned 1 - 0 by their local rivals.

Instead, policy appears to be set by the American national security bureaucracy, which sees Russia as a rival and adversary.

He reveals how the Service Chief were set at odds by the system, almost as rivals in the making, with responsibility diffuse and authority ambiguous.

In an idea very similar to that proposed by Iain Duncan Smith, the public services policy group will say that parents should have the power to set up new schools to rival those of local education authorities:

The ballots for the Conservative party leadership close today, with David Cameron set to beat rival David Davis by as much as two votes to one.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox got an earful in Western NY last week (AKA Paladino Country), where he traveled in hopes of building a donor base to help build a GOTV program to rival the effort already being set up by the RNC.