Sentences with phrase «size up against»

If you decide to work with a mortgage broker, it's wise to look at how the loan offers from the broker size up against those you find on your own.

With boss raids being only a recent inclusion in the game, there is finally a way for regular Pokémon to size up against legendary Pokémon, and their powers can not be underestimated.

To see more on how USPS Priority Mail sizes up against private carriers like FedEx and UPS this holiday season, check out the charts below.

But the Observer did open up this year's list to elected officials, a departure from 2014, to take stock of some of the rising and falling stars whose names you might know, sizing them up against the strategists, lobbyists and industry types shaping the city in the shadows.

It wasn't until we sized it up against its smaller brother, the X3, did we realize how large its presence actually is.

Interested in how the new Huawei MateBook sizes up against the Microsoft Surface Pro 4?

Not exact matches

Playing against kids twice his size, he struggled to keep up.

What scouts like: With the size and strength to go up against any receiver, McFadden excels in press coverage.

Because once they heard how the people they were trading against were completely caught up in the mania and missing the bigger picture, it gave them the confidence to pile on their trade in even bigger size.

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

Anton Troianovski reports: «He also warned that Moscow would consider any nuclear attack, of any size, on it or its allies an attack on Russia that would lead to an immediate response — adopting Cold War - style overtones that appeared to ramp up Russia's posturing against the West and its allies.

The old farmer sized it all up, measured it against his rough - hewn view of providence, and decided it was better to be in church praising God than running around the cow pasture shooting buckshot into the night sky

Last season he banged in goals against our biggest rivals, became a very important part of our link and hold up play and showed that his work rate was outstanding defending from the front, covering at corners and a showing a deft touch that defies his size.

With Darrelle Revis, Brandon Browner, Devin McCourty, Patrick Chung and Logan Ryan (and maybe Alfonzo Dennard, who missed a few games early in the season dealing with a shoulder injury and was also a healthy scratch against the Bears last Sunday), the Patriots boast the second - best pass defense in the NFL, and match up physically with Broncos receivers of all shapes and sizes.

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

He was the tallest player in our conference, but against kids his own size he always showed up and had big games.»

I have a feeling that the Tottenham defenders would be happier coming up against the size and strength of Giroud rather than the pace, movement and direct running of Alexis, Ox and Iwobi so is that how Wenger will line Arsenal up?

While it may seem premature to start sizing up potential playoff opponents («I like our chances against the Cardinals,» one Braves player said last weekend, «but the Cubs scare me to death»), it would take a historic collapse at this point for Atlanta to miss the postseason.

He doesn't have the greatest height in the world at 6» 8, but his wingspan makes up for any size he lacks against bigger assignments.

And in McLaren and Renault, Force India will also be going up against two teams with much bigger budgets with McLaren's believed to be double the size of the Silverstone - based team's.

If your nipples rub up against the walls of the shield you either need to reposition it to the middle or size up to a 27 mm or larger.

See how your baby or young child measures up against other children in height, weight, and head size.

Place queen or king sized mattress on floor, pushed up against wall.

We compared this carseat and base against a few other carseat's on the market for sizing in the Escape and came out taking up the most room.

I purchased a narrow frame shelf on Amazon with the intention of propping them up against the wall but I (horribly) misjudged the length of the name and size of the shelf and so that was nixed.

I have been co-sleeping with my 5 month old son, in our full sized mattress (just moved the box spring away) on the floor, very few pillows (he sleeps at breast level), one blanket, the mattress is free on all sides except for the head which is up against the wall (I frequently push the mattress back up against the wall), tight fitting sheet, ect.

«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

A large crowd turned out in Chinatown last night to size up the four candidates running against incumbent City Council member Alan Gerson.

This JunoCam image, processed by citizen scientist Bruce Lemons, show a chaotic scene of swirling storms up to the size of Mars against a bluish backdrop.

Consequently, Moore's law — which predicts that the size of electronic components will halve every 18 - 24 months — could run up against a wall within a decade.

By the same token, some bodybuilders, maybe not all but still some, think that their size is enough to stand up against anyone in the ring.

When people or animals brush up against vegetation where ticks reside, these speck - sized critters hitch a ride.

He warns against scaling up the size of the needle for faster results.

When fat cells increase in size, they push up against the connective tissue, making the fat cells bulge out through honeycomb, giving that dreaded dimpled appearance.

As this free floating fat accumulates and expands in size, it pushes up against the skin, which gives the lumpy appearance and dimpling effect.

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

My usual size 6 fit fine, but once again I was up against a dress that tailed in at the shoulders.

I have heard that this top has wonky size runs — a friend of mine who is a 12 found a 10 that was cut to be bigger than the 12 she held it up against.

After deliberating on the size by holding the sweatercoat up against my body, I decided to try on a medium.

I date online almost exclusively and its really worked out niely for me.Not that Im against picking up guys IRL but non black men who are into plkus size BW (me) tend to be super shy and not sure they have a chance.And I have what you call perma bitch face lol But I date online and I usually only get messages from White men and then latino men from NY... lol not sure sure why NY but yeah lol So im almost 100 % sure my future hubbie will be met online.

«This is the only [new] moderate - size release this weekend [going up against] Guardians Of the Galaxy, which will appeal to an adult audience looking for something different.

Reese Witherspoon mugs it up shamelessly as Cooper, a hapless, pint - sized Texan police officer assigned to escort a Mexican mobster's wife to a court case in Dallas where she and her husband will give testimony against a notorious drug lord.

Every single one of us should be praising the complexity with which Dee fights against and humanizes Scott's movin» - on - up reductivism (that slapping scene, a scorching evocation of a mother marking her territory and asserting her right to be heard, is of a volatile emotional tenor only Tilda Swinton comes close to achieving), but the almost racist rumblings echoing from certain circles suggest that Dee's miniscule screen time is not just a point of contention but a point of active resentment (must be all those size queens rallying behind Blanchett), and may work against her and the traction she picked up since her SAG victory.

Here's a movie that so many, myself included, regarded with great prejudice, sizing it up as a cute jaunt that had to be seen along with the other year - end contenders, yet reeked of folly, diminished stakes, and outright opportunism, its attachment to a trilogy making excess seem like one more strike against it.

To give you an idea of how WordPress stacks up against conventional Learning Management Systems in terms of resource requirements, consider the installation zip file sizes for Moodle and Canvas, which are close to about 50 megabytes each.

The event celebrates the efforts of young upstanders across Los Angeles who have spoken up against injustices of all sizes.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan argued that U.S. results «must serve as a wake - up call against educational complacency and low expectations,» whereas ASCD's recent blog post detailing the scores explains that «this lack of growth is not surprising given the size and diversity of the country, as well as our decentralized approach to education improvement.»

Based on the new Ford Edge, the MKX is a bit larger than its European competitors, but sizes up just right against other two - row, front - wheel drive based competitors like the Lexus RX and Cadillac SRX.

While the Jeep Cherokee's price puts it up against the entire compact crossover class, at 182 inches in length it's sized between the likes of Honda's CR - V and Ford's Escape, both of which come in at roughly 178 inches in length, and Chevrolet's Equinox, at 187.8 inches.

Sitting in back with the front seat adjusted for an average - sized driver meant that our knees brushed up against the seatback.