Sentences with phrase «than one's opposition»

We need more than opposition to what we are against.

Nonetheless the effort to construct a witness community based on unity and identity rather than opposition and oppression can itself have critical consequences in a society based on opposite principles.

The main objective here is to score more points than the opposition in 12 minutes.

In writing romantic suspense, I've learned that love is stronger than any opposition.

He pledged that if the ruling coalition parties receive fewer votes than opposition parties, the government would step aside and hold new elections later in the year.

The party always tend to perform better against the incumbent government than the opposition.

He said that it is not enough to be a good team, but you need to work harder than the opposition.

He made us do things faster than before, faster than he opposition.

Our team today, as it stands is weaker than our opposition, who are spending money to strengthen even more.

Let's hope this latest match fixing scandal nets some of these people, getting sick and tired of worrying about officials than the opposition.

It is telling that the government has more public debates than an opposition thinking deep and hard about its past and future.

The analysis found that committing one fewer turnover than the opposition presented a 20 percent gain in winning probability.

Teachers are split, but probably more because of accountability anxieties than opposition to rigorous academic standards for kids.

And we're always better prepared than the opposition.

Constantly beating the same dead horse when the team is doing very good (I am not saying brilliant because that's Citeh, Chavs territory usually these days) is not making you any better than an opposition fan.

Gallup polling on favorable or unfavorable views of both major parties has found neither party has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percent).

The relation is more a polarity in which each pole supports the other than an opposition in which they exclude one another.

It is well known that when Leicester won the Premier League last season they recorded less overall possession than the opposition in many games.

However, as the weekend's win against Deportivo La Coruna helped to demonstrate, we shouldn't aspire for our goalkeeper to have more touches than the opposition players, nor should we aspire to involve them in our play outright.

Even though Theresa May is more popular than the opposition leader, she needs to please the Eurosceptic and Pro-EU members within her party.

Perhaps Redknapp's policy of aiming to score more goals than the opposition is working then, but tightening things up at the back could do no harm.

The Saints have also, picked up more points than their opposition in their last 5 league games with a total of 10 compared to Tottenham's 9.

«The only way a 25 percent party who received a quarter of a million few votes than the opposition can stay in power is through the selective and hyper - partisan drawing of district lines,» Shafran said.

The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.

The team knowing it has to fight for 90 + minutes and bring discipline and shape for that period or the team that tries to «out - play» and «out think» their opponent and as a result appear to play two gears slower than the opposition and gets over-run.

«If I had a team that was worth # 200m playing against a team that was worth less than # 20m and we never won that game, I'd be doing my best to divert it away from the fact that I had 10 times more value on the pitch than my opposition number had and couldn't win the game.

The aim of the game for each team is to get the ball into the elevated baskets at either end of the court more times than the opposition, while preventing the opposition from scoring at the same time.

This team looks a bit more physical and a bit more ready, more advanced physically than the opposition we had the other night.»

Bilic says that the players are working hard on the training ground but to a man they look slower and less fit than any opposition we face.

Van Gaal respects the opposition attack more than the opposition defense; midfielders don't burst forward.

Genoa are winless since the 15th of December, but they are still a better team than their opposition here and look value at 6/5 to win.

Juve were disappointing, to say the least, against a Milan side that while not as talented was certainly more tactically drilled than their opposition.

But Birmingham are far leaner than any opposition they have faced all season., although the Blades have won three of the previous four meetings in Sheffield.

Leicester won the league last year in a manner where they invariably had less possession than the opposition during games.

Utaka did set up Nwankwo Kanu's winning goal in the 2008 FA Cup final against Cardiff, but he ended up haunting Portsmouth rather than opposition defenders.

We appear to have now turned into the equivalent of Blackpool a few years back, trying desperately to score more than the opposition due to the fact our defence have more holes in it than Oscar Pistorius» next girlfriend.

In this way, the legislative advantages of ruling parties, which enjoy far more sticks and carrots to enforce discipline than opposition parties, helps to explain the failure of the Kenyan parliament to defend democracy.

President John Dramani Mahama, on Sunday, took his campaign to the Upper East Region, with a call on people of northern descent to come out in their numbers on December 7 to vote hugely for him and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), not because he is a northerner, but because the NDC has developed the north more than the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

I think it is probably less of a vote winner than opposition to the Iraq war and top - up fees in 2005, or even the penny on income tax for education in 1997/2001.

The overall finding is simple — the GOP's standing relative to the Democrats on both measures is worse than any opposition party in the sample.

That's about the point that Labour can win more seats than the opposition, due to the British electoral system's inbuilt bias.

It is a mediocre result, with far more in common with those oppositions that have gone onto defeat than those oppositions who have ended up winning the next election.

Bearing in mind that incumbents always receive more coverage than opposition politicians, the ratio was much more pronounced when the Conservatives were in power in 2012.

The gluten debate continues, often with more venom than opposition parties at election time.

Note that while support fluctuates depending on the wording, no matter how Harvard asked the question there was still more support among parents for school choice than opposition.

This is a similar trend to the finding that opposition to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is much higher than opposition to universal healthcare.

«One thing is clear from Education Next's poll released today: despite the wording of the questions, when looking across the board at the dominant forms of educational choice options like charter schools, vouchers, and tax credit scholarships, this poll finds more support for these programs than opposition.