Sentences with phrase «terms of points against»

After 2 Games, they are 3rd highest scoring Team in the League and the 2nd best Defensively in terms of Points Against.

Not exact matches

His deep - value philosophy can be boiled down to four points: he's looking for high - quality stocks that protect against the downside; he wants businesses where short - term issues have caused investors to abandon the company; he wants to wait until valuations are «out - of - this - world» cheap, and he tries not to pay attention to macro issues like eurozone debt or Chinese growth.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

Gross pointed to the long - term success of the Total Return Fund, while acknowledging the tough year the fund saw in 2011, when it experienced significant net outflows after he bet against the bond market.

Were the Fed to attempt to hike short - term interest rates another 25 basis points, it would be moving against the tide of global central bank policies.

I agree with your points against muni's and corporate bonds for ladders though — in terms of expense and risk, which is why I avoid them.

I shall not delay the discussion here to defend Bergson against his critics, except to point out that what is frequently termed «irrationalism» in Bergson is precisely what he has in common with all modern disciplines that take the dimension of depth seriously.

I would also limit the term «shepherding» to those situations in which it is possible for the minister to concentrate on the healing, sustaining, or guiding of the person or persons, rather than having primarily, at that point, to protect the interest of the group or the institution as perhaps against that of the person.

If I were to argue against abortion the way you argue for it, I would point to late term abortions, regretted abortions, or the abuse of abortion by people who use it as a form of birth control, etc..

These guys too are near the top in terms of Defense as they are tied for 5th in the points against category, allowing just 64 points per Game.

In terms of domestic form, City couldn't be happier after a 5 - 0 demolition of Newcastle saw them take advantage of Chelsea's slip - up against Burnley and reduce the deficit at the top of the table to five points.

If you think about their fixture, they had a difficult start to the season, I mean they played against Everton and managed to beat them 6:3 on their home, they played City at the Etihad and they managed to take a point and they also played against Arsenal and took three points.So in terms of fixture it is the same as Arsenal.

We should be feeling confident after the second half performance against Lincoln City last weekend, but that confidence is likely to be fragile and with Tonly Pulis teams often causing the Gunners to misfire I think we have to look at the possibility of dropping points or even losing, but where would that leave us in terms of the top four?

Spurs have found the net 24 times in 14 Premier League outings so far this term, and while they have often impressed in offensive areas, they have dropped points against the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United after missing big chances.

I feel its good to experiment against the weaker teams, i do nt see Burnley offering much in terms of competition so lets go and get 3 points and hope tams in front us drop some more points.

«It is the one big, if you like black mark, against Arsene Wenger in these last 10 years in terms of why he hasn't identified an issue with these types of players -LCB- points to Coquelin and Cazorla -RCB--- because they can not win the league with them.

In terms of pure points scored and allowed, Arkansas did better in the second half than in the first on just four occasions this year, and two were against Louisiana Tech and Alcorn State.

Was not analyzing the Manchester ss and don't really care much there but from a footballing point of view and from the words of MR wenger I understand the logic I do nt read what the media thinks neither My comment above addresses the issues we face in comparison to the two previous seasons adding in our re enforcements The 22 million question «Are the Arsenal capable of achieving 85 point come next May???» I believed we were strong last year and said it here that the team was strong and together and used the very words that MR wenger used cohesion but as the season unfolded the cracks showed up at the very beginning when we lost to west ham and it got worse as we lost pole position and every thing around us came tumbling down by February last season here comes another important question did they know and understand what happened do they know what to do this term to avoid the very same faith well we wait and see Irregardless of what happens I will support Arsenal and will keep analyzing every match my way until May so Good luck Arsenal with your endeavors and hope you do well against Liverpool keep the fight on keep the heads up and give them a good beating

I'm not sure it makes much difference overall though, b / c when a guy gets 2 in the zone they back off, and against good teams that is usually when those teams have pretty good runs against us, making the cost in terms of point differential probably not much different than if the player sat.

The No. 2 seed Bearcats held a 22 - point lead with 11:37 left in the second half against a Nevada team that — working with a six - man rotation and barely two days of rest after an overtime win in Round 1 — would have been forgiven for looking up at the scoreboard, coming to terms with Cincy's penchant for squeezing the life out of opposing offenses and calling it a day.

At White Hart Lane last term, Tottenham took 18 points out of 18 against the division's bottom six - a group that included Swansea and Burnley - and that ruthlessness was key to their title challenge.

Atletico have accumulated just three points in four Champions League outings this term, and they are on course to play in Europe's second competition next year unless Qarabag help them out with a surprise result against one of Chelsea or AS Roma.

In terms of the title race, a draw at White Hart Lane was far from ideal for Arsenal against Tottenham on Saturday, with the Gunners now eight points off the top with nine games to go.

«We could have scored three or four goals but we didn't do it and we risked losing three points for immature mistakes that could have changed the game The only excuse I can find is that we played a very important game a few days ago against Arsenal where we spent a lot in terms of condition.

Everton have claimed 12 points from their opening 12 Premier League matches this term — but four of those have been taken from their two most recent outings, against Watford and Crystal Palace.

They done so by the skin of their teeth in previous seasons, but last season Bolton finished a clear nine points above the drop, with the teams results definitely improving in the second half of the season under new manager Owen Coyle, so there were promising signs from the Reebok club that they can do a lot better than they for the most part last term, when positive form was almost non-existent and despite some valiant and brave efforts against some classy opponents they just couldn't convert their courageous performances into points which would have propelled them up the Premier League and into a more respectable finishing position.

But the list stretches further back than just this term, especially their Stamford Bridge casualties, as Chelsea haven't dropped points in a league fixture on home soil since the middle of February, while they haven't even conceded a goal on home soil since the end of March, so just scoring against them appears a daunting enough task, let alone actually snatching points off the early pacesetters.

At one point, members of the crowd started calling on Cuomo to run for president in 2020 — a proposition he's sought to quiet and once against insisted he's running for re-election next year, seeking a third term.

«To the point where competition among the Oil Marketing Companies remains high, market price for both Brent crude and refined oil dropping in average price terms, added to the appreciation of the Cedi against the U.S. dollar, and increasing national fuel stock; the Institute for Energy Security (IES) believe that there is enough positive momentum and fundamental justification to move the prices of Petrol and Diesel lower on the local market,» IES said in a release signed by Gilbert Richmond Rockson, Principal Research Analyst.

Meanwhile, some of them have made useful statements while a few have declined even with the glaring evidences that were found against them in terms of material cash, documents and property recovered pointing to their compromise.

The AI will also serve as a point - in - time baseline against which future progress in terms of implementing fair housing initiatives will be evaluated and recorded.

In 1994, Pataki ran for Governor of New York against three - term incumbent Mario Cuomo, defeating him by a margin of more than three points as part of the Republican Revolution of 1994.

Mr. Barron, a former Black Panther and three - term member of the City Council, ran against Mr. Towns in 2006 only to lose by eight ten points.

And that turned out to be something of a high - water mark, in terms of the administration's public campaign against Indian Point.

Stony Point — Welcomed by community officials and residents, Governor Andrew Cuomo made an appearance at the New York Rising's first Stony Point meeting to mark the first steps toward a long - term, state - supported program to rebuild parts of the town and fortify it against future storms.

Wilson's article does point out some interesting initial evidence against the long - term use of antipsychotics in schizophrenia.

The scientists who argue against an addiction model of obesity make reasonable points, and I also fear that the term «addiction» comes loaded with unhelpful preconceptions.

In simpler terms, when the pressure of the body against the foam roller is sustained on the trigger point, the GTO will «turn off» the muscle spindle activity allowing the muscle fibers to stretch, unknot, and realign (5).

Courses that present the same body of content and grade all students against the same expectations regardless of their starting points tend to be inconsistent with a view of learning as long - term progress.

A prerequisite for monitoring long - term learning progress and meeting individual learners at their points of need is a picture of what long - term progress in a learning domain looks like — in other words, a «map» of the learning domain that can be used to establish where students are in their learning and against which progress can be tracked.

They will point to the long - term benefits for both pupils and society, and will argue against viewing SEL as merely a means of achieving better exam results.

In addition to the specific terms the author and publisher have agreed upon for things like the type of book, the advance against royalty amount and the delivery date, the standard book contract encompasses a lengthy number of clauses covering important points in a book's life cycle and an author's livelihood.

Many in the short - term online lending industry were surprised by the announcement, which seems to be in lock - step with the current administration's Operation Choke Point, an initiative launched in 2013 by the United States Department of Justice, whose stated intent was to «attack Internet, telemarketing, mail, and other mass market fraud against consumers, by choking fraudsters» access to the banking system.»

However, having said that, the main point is still valid: you can enhance the yield on just about any portfolio by writing near - term out - of - the - money covered calls against it.

It is against terms and conditions of American Express cards to sell your Membership Rewards points.

For those unfamiliar with the term, a Musou styled game is similar to the likes of Dynasty Warriors, and has the player ploughing through hundreds of soldiers to capture command points throughout the map while occasionally facing off against a similarly overpowered enemy hero or an enormous boss monster while the foot - soldiers watch in equal parts awe and horror and simply try and not get in the way of your whirlwind of directionless murder.

In terms of single player content, the game offers a «cup» mode, which functions as the traditional set of races where you compete against AI racers for points.

Nicholas Middleton: When you are in the middle of the process it's hard to separate out those decisions that go into making a piece... when I started painting after I left college, I didn't... well, I suppose I fought against the idea of just making a painting from photographic sources which looked like a photograph, so I used lots of strategies to disguise it, or to confuse it in a sense, making paintings which were more like collages, or reducing imagery to... well, I borrowed things from pop art to, I suppose, to complicate things, for a few years it felt like I was fighting against what I seem to be naturally quite good at, and then it reached a point where I just felt I didn't want to tie myself in too many knots in terms of the thinking which was going on behind the pictures and then just let myself just paint fairly directly from photographic sources.

To add briefly to my earlier point about the difference between short term CO2 growth rate fluctuations due to temperature changes and their inapplicability to long term trends, if we regress CO2 flux rate against temperature, it will show that a rise in temperature induces a change in flux rate in or out of terrestrial or oceanic reservoirs.

As Spencer points out, climate scientists have redefined the terms on poor electric engineers: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/04/when-is-positive-feedback-really-negative-feedback/ There are good arguments to be made against high positive feedback, but «instability» isn't one of them.