Sentences with phrase «snapping at its heels»

But with rivals snapping at its heels, its shareholders should enjoy the temporary windfall from falling oil prices — before customers grab it all.

While Woolworths is hardly a basket case, it has a strong competitor in the form of Wesfarmers - owned Coles snapping at its heels and O'Brien and the board are under pressure to fix Masters and regain share from Coles.

He has that sanchez like snapping at your heels way of playing and he's 30 this year!

Form can allow for competition and it wouldn't be so deep that Nelson is totally forced out, we would have to rely on him for things like the League Cup or early rounds of FA cup as well as injuries and a reminder to the star players that there is a hungry youth snapping at their heels for gametime.

Everyone loves a tenacious, tigerish striker, hunting every ball, chasing defenders, snapping at their heels, gnashing at goalkeepers.

Crossing a ball to Walcott is like doing the crossbar challenge while an opposition player is snapping at your heels.

It is embarassing when every pundit says that breaking down arsenal is simple - snap at their heels, push and shove them and they lose their game.

Russia tend to come good in this tournament, and with the second leg at home (Kazan, September 1/2) will be favourites, but with France, Ireland and England snapping at their heels this should be a great series.

Of course, the Labour leader had problems of his own given that the Mail — with the Sun and the Telegraph snapping at its heels — had spent the entire week plastering the name of his party next to the word «paedophile».

The Liberal Democrats remain on a miserable 8 per cent, down from the 23 per cent they won in 2010, with the Greens snapping at their heels on 7 per cent.

After all, the human genome would not have been mapped so swiftly if the publicly funded Human Genome Project had not had Craig Venter's Celera Corporation snapping at its heels.

A rash of start - ups is also snapping at their heels — Instacart for groceries, Ice Cream Life for ice cream, and Postmates, Deliv, UberRUSH and WunWun, which will deliver anything you want.

The camera frequently tracks with Abdi from behind, suggesting the world he reluctantly inhabits snapping at his heels.

TV spinoff Absolutely Fabulous and action comedy Central Intelligence snapping at the heels of the family friendly animation The Secret Life of Pets

But M. Emmet Walsh would hear him snapping at his heels.

He's one of Ireland's most versatile film stars, but Brendan Gleeson is showing no sign of slowing down, especially now his actor sons Domhnall and Brian are snapping at his heels.

Johnny takes the politician for everything he has and heads out into the night to celebrate, although the past comes rushing out of an alleyway like a stray dog, snapping at his heels.

By dropping in the familiar 1.6 - litre DIG - T engine from the Juke, the modern Pulsar can now go toe - to - toe with the Peugeot 308 GT and snap at the heels of hotter hatches like the Kia Ceed GT.

You may have seen the car in last month's cover story, where it snapped at the heels of the new Cayman S.

The latest models live up to the line's illustrious reputation in every way that counts, upgrading technologies, performance, and fittings with exceptionally regularity to ensure that the Porsche Cayenne is always more than a few steps of ahead of the hungry rival models snapping at its heels.

Indeed, over the 20 + years Audi has been building A4s, the mid-sized sedan has always been snapping at the heels of the indomitable BMW 3 Series; just missing out on overall glory.

If I'm charitable, I guess they've got large / tax - free pension funds / offshore hedge funds snapping at their heels for the quickest / cheapest distribution process possible.

Herding breeds that are used as working dogs round up their livestock by running circles around them, keeping great eye contact, nipping and snapping at the heels, and barking to steer them in the right direction.

Regions Bank came out strong, snapping at the heels of Discover's No. 2 spot, just 13 points behind.

It's such a leviathan that MMOs are still copying it, it's still the benchmark for massively connected online experiences, even if the likes of League of Legends are snapping at its heels.

PS4 may be selling more units, but the Xbox One is snapping at its heels with every passing month.

One of the evolutions snapping at the heels of the console market in particular is that of app stores.

His enemies and kidnapers are snapping at his heels, and he has to find a way back to Earth while warding off the dangers that beset him and unravelling a fiendish extra-terrestrial plot that threatens the planet...

Kitsch is always snapping at the heels of whatever is fashionable and avant garde.

In New York today, you'll find big institutional advertising agencies, such as JWT, Leo Burnett, R / GA and DDB; you'll also find new upstarts snapping at their heels, like StrawberryFrog, Mother, Anomaly and Droga5.

A small firm with no in - house marketing department and neighbouring competition snapping at its heels may, with guidance, take a long, hard look at its positioning.

«Failing to keep on top of new innovations could see your career begin to lag, with younger, more dynamic employees snapping at your heels.»

Not exact matches

Midfielders will need to snap at players heels because Everton will bring an aggressive game, they'll need to be on it because Ozil and Henri will get targeted and won't be the greatest cover out there.

If we get it, there will always be a chance that we could add to that tally coz manure will have to attack to keep snapping at city's heels.

I seem to recall Dembele and a lot of other Tottenham players being caught numerous times in possession which did my head in.The everton boys were snapping at they're heels at every opportunity and winning the ball a lot.That's the way they like to play.Our tempo seems much slower and Dembele in particular doesn't like being harried.I don't think we covet possession of the ball enough like the top teams.We need to hate giving the ball away so cheaply.Also we need to support better the player in possession which we did not do against Everton.Sometimes we can be a bit too casual.Enjoyed the analysis.

We do have a very favourable run to finish the season and hopefully we have enough left in the tank to challenge for the cup and be snapping at Chelsea's heels should they slip up.

who took a tough gal snap with fellow attendees Ellie Kemper and in a halter Halston Heritage gown with gold metallic detailing and Aldo heels at the Glamour event in London.

Alongside international competitor OkCupid, local apps like TrulyMadly and Woo are snapping at Tinder's heels.

Three apples high, smurfs are little blue elf things that, when boiled, apparently give off a magic «essence» that baddie Gargamel wishes to gather, leading at the end to the second snapping of an all - powerful wand on the heels of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

In an apparent admission that live.com isn't quite snapping at Google's heels, the financial press are reporting that Microsoft has renewed discussions with Yahoo.