Sentences with phrase «than fighting for»

Lovely pictures - I like how the red adds just a little something, rather than fighting for overall dominance.

Most African slaves and their descendants were more interesting in fighting against European powers, rather than fighting for them.

Rather than fighting for the right to emit ever more CO2 as their economies grow, poor nations should be demanding «the right to sustainable development,» he said.

Rather than fighting for himself, the Vice President chooses to delegate his work... which means you'll need to recruit people to fight for you.

Rather than fighting for survival against hordes of zombies or nightmarish demons while scrounging for ammo and precious health packs, the game instead sets players off on a journey deep into the darkest recesses of pain, sadness and torment.

Our guardians are more interested in Songlap than fighting for the rakyat to get good and safe cars that are also reasonably priced.

Rather than fighting for an increase in minimum wage for all, as both the St. Paul and Minneapolis teachers unions have done, for example, Minnesota Comeback talks about «schools as the unit of change,» where the lucky will land — through the wonders of school choice — in the right kind of life - altering spot.

Despite the benefits of social status on their reproductive success — higher - ranking females appear to have access to better food and higher infant survival than their low - ranking counterparts — the tendency of female chimpanzees to «wait their turn» rather than fighting for rank reveals the competing priorities males and females face when ensuring the success of their offspring.

Beddoes says: the UK benefits enormously from being part of EU, but rather than fighting for «concessions», it should use negotiations as an opportunity to «turn the EU into something better.»

They're more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

Not without going further along the road to becoming a conservative, reactionary party more concerned with power than fighting for its concept of the Good Society.

Other than fighting for elevators to get around because we had the Keenz (MommyCon did email that having strollers would make it harder..

Coincidentally, Redknapp was in charge of Tottenham Hotspur who downed the Blues from the Premier League back in the 2010 - 11 season, and they have since lingered with the relegation zone rather than fighting for the playoff positions.

AVB knows that is his job and, with Chelsea a mess and Arsenal faltering, Liverpool way off the pace and last year's surprise package, Newcastle, looking more likely to be fighting off relegation than fighting for the CL qualification spots, it seems more than likely we've the squad to do it.

Furthermore the FA trophy got undermined because teams put all their energies into qualifying for CL which offered more money rather than fighting for FA.

Only now, rather than fighting for their own personal glory, they fight for God's glory.

Rather than fight for His right to life, He went freely to His death, even to death on a cross (Php 2:8).

Come summer we need to get rid of: Szczesny (not up tap scratch) Ospina (he wants more first team and has made it clear), Debuchy (complains rather than fights for his spot Mertesacker (Old, no pace, retire) Walcott (Never been up to scratch) Giroud (not consistent enough) Jenkinson (not good enough as second string) Flamini (please just go) Rosicky (retire and will be missed) Arteta (retire he did try for us)

Campbell too wanted to leave, and asked to leave, he thought he'd be better off with a guaranteed starting berth rather than fight for his place.

Jonestowns primary argument when depth is concerned is the idea a player on the bench won't want to stay, going as far to say a player would prefer to go elsewhere and play each week than fight for a starting place at Arsenal.

@Admin It was Jack who decided to go to Bournemouth rather than fight for his place was it?

But this time, rather than fight for Second Division survival, Albion challenged for a second promotion and bought impressive new players like Mark Lawrenson for more than # 110,000.

I don't expect anything other than a fight for the 90 minutes.

on TV than fight for Portsmouth shipbuilding jobs.

Tristram Hunt is off to run a museum rather than fight for the soul of the Labour party.

So full time / full service Realtors should just abandon everything we have built over decades, leave it to the dollar store innovators and rebuild from scratch rather than fight for what we have built and invested our careers in?

Not exact matches

And FC Barcelona fights not only to win league titles — it has won Spain's La Liga two dozen times and many European championships — but also to maintain its unique culture within Spain's semiautonomous region of Catalonia, which has battled for its separate rights from Madrid for more than a century.

Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct.

In any case, full source code would be even more valuable than the traffic key in the Lavabit case, and the industry would go to extreme lengths to fight for it, Binnall said.

The civil war in Syria has been raging for more than six years as rebels fight to oust Assad, a brutal authoritarian who has terrorized Syrians for years.

For both Apple and Google, the fight for dashboards is more than just part of their broader turf war to bring consumers into their respective ecosysteFor both Apple and Google, the fight for dashboards is more than just part of their broader turf war to bring consumers into their respective ecosystefor dashboards is more than just part of their broader turf war to bring consumers into their respective ecosystems.

More than $ 516,000 in bonuses was paid out, including «knockout of the night,» «submission of the night,» and «fight of the night» — the latter going to Thamesford, Ontario native Mark Hominick, who picked up $ 129,000 for his (unsuccessful) shot at the UFC featherweight belt against Brazilian - born Jose Aldo.

She worked at Yahoo for more than a decade, fighting off a copyright infringement suit from Sony BMG, helping the company navigate issues of online privacy and working on deals like a Microsoft search agreement (which was just revised this year).

Rather than some other online services, which still require people to have a cable or satellite subscription to order a pay - per - view event, Amazon will offer the option to anyone willing to spend $ 64.99 for one night's series of fights.

One setback for these therapies which use the body's immune system to fight cancers is that they are, at times, more effective in certain patient pools than others.

West gave the character a squeaky - clean persona that was perfect for the kid - friendly show, but his fighting was less than desired.

It's been more than 50 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which mandates that men and women receive equal pay for equal work, but women are still fighting for compensation equality.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

Russia is thought to use military contractors in Syria rather than its military — experts speculate it's to maintain deniability for acts of war and conceal the true cost of fighting from the Russian people.

Recently, Nike made headlines for deploying AR to fight off bots that could buy out its inventory faster than the public.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

The U.S. is a much bigger market than Canada, so there is more business for the taking — but banks will have to fight for it.

This is the latest development in the fight for drivers of ridesharing apps to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors.

Eric Miller, a Washington - based trade consultant, thinks Trump is itching for a trade fight with China even more so than Mexico.

Develop a culture that makes it seem as though you and your team are fighting for something bigger than yourselves.

If they're willing to pay to watch a fight on TV, they'll be willing to pay for a feeling like they're at the fight with an experience that's better than if they had the financial resources to buy a seat at the arena.»

For instance, rather than get upset when the yard was locked down because of riot or fight, which caused me to miss my workout, I chose to work out in my cell instead.

The company reportedly spent upwards of $ 8 million fighting the proposition, which would have kept hosts from renting their homes for more than 75 days a year.

Being at war is worse for a currency than not being at war, whether you're fighting the world's financial authorities for legal validity, or engaged in a guerrilla skirmish as either aggressor or victim.