Sentences with phrase «than the leaders despite»

You might've missed it unless you were watching NBC's final - round coverage, during which Tiger and Phil Mickelson got more air time than the leaders despite starting the day eight shots back.

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In other words, despite its well - known brand name, the company is dwarfed by industry leaders Wal - Mart, Kroger, and Costco Wholesal e, which control more than half of the market.

«Despite the professed wariness toward Trump among many high - profile evangelical Christian leaders, evangelicals as a whole are, if anything, even more strongly supportive of Trump than they were of Mitt Romney at a similar point in the 2012 campaign,» Pew stated.

(Despite leaders criticizing certain policies on immigration and foreign aid, a third of evangelicals, more than any other religious demographic, «strongly approve» of Trump's job as president, according to the latest Politico / Morning Consult poll.

Two high - profile political leaders — female friends despite party differences — are at odds over Nassau's plan to charge more than $ 1 million in fees to Little Leagues and other sports and nonprofit organizations that have used county parks for free for years.

«Thanks to the Super Committee's failure, our leaders in Washington are making things worse, despite the existence of a number of bipartisan and Republican plans that would more than deliver the necessary savings.»

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

What is sadly clear however is that, despite the high hopes of the youthful African population about the deepening of the continent's democracy, within that bubble of hope is a seed of corruption which is bound to deflate it sooner than later as the new leaders, such as Mr Nana Akufo Addo continue to find ways to scheme away the resources meant for their citizens

Mr Corbyn has refused to resign as leader despite more than 60 Labour MPs resigning their frontbench positions in an attempt to force him out and an overwhelming vote of no confidence.

Brian Wilson, a minister in Tony Blair's government, said the Labour leader's poll ratings were «somewhere between dire and disappointing» despite having been in the post for more than two years.

Despite all but a handful of MPs, the active support of the trade unions, the pleas of every former leader of the party and Alan Johnson's battlebus, more than a third of the party's electoral base jumped at the chance to quit the EU.

Despite the fact GOP leaders have called for him to quit and Conservative Chairman Mike Long has asked that he make a decision sooner rather than later, Lazio said «there will be a time» for him to announce his decision.

There are no examples on record of a British party winning a general election despite being less trusted on the economy than its main rival and with a leader not seen as the strongest candidate to become prime minister.

Despite having been prime minister for less than 2 months, David Cameron is potentially the best all - round leader of this country of the modern era.

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

Despite campaigning in person for Pete Sikora twice, the economist with the Communication Workers of America lost to Jo Anne Simon, a Democratic district leader, by more than a thousand votes.

Mr Corbyn has refused to quit as leader despite more than 60 Labour MPs resigning their frontbench positions in an attempt to force him out and an overwhelming vote of no confidence.

Pension forfeiture has been bogged down for more than a year due to an impasse over the scope of the proposed amendment, despite the arrest and convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

If anything his party is doing slightly worse than before he became leader... despite George Osborne's announcement of spending cuts... despite an average disapproval rating for the Coalition of 10 %... and despite unhappiness about Europe and crime from the Tory base.

Party leaders say that despite the relatively few Republicans registered in Hartford — about 2,600, compared with the more than 47,000 Democrats — voters should have a choice at the polls.

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Instead, Hoffman has triumphed over Scozzafava in public opinion polls, despite, not the local Republican Party, but local Republican Party leaders (a very different kettle of fish), who clearly misread the mind and mood of the electorate when they imperiously chose a candidate who is evidently closer to Nancy Pelosi in her ideology than to Joe Lieberman, let alone George Pataki.

William Hague's response to Petraeus» success was bland at its best and the Shadow Foreign Secretary was too ready to credit Sunni leaders rather than American policy for the halving of violence despite the connectedness of the two developments.

More than half of voters expect Jeremy Corbyn to survive as Labour leader, despite dire personal ratings

Paterson and legislative leaders were accused of steering the prior contract to politically connected AEG, despite state internal reports ranking the firm lower than other bidders.

From the bigger perspective of the overall city budget, Minority Leader Willie Pabon praised Stewart for making progress despite inheriting a massive deficit and a council with more than a few political adversaries.

Low - income workers have seen their pay raise delayed for more than a year despite the support of 80 % of New York voters and many business leaders.

doug jonson Hatlem, well after having he worse tory PM ever, and people not anting austerity anymore, and her humiliation on knife crime doubling despite saying it wouldn't when she cut police, or terrorism increase, when she cut community police or calling out the police federation they were crying wolf, saying her cuts would lead to having to have the Army on the streets, rather than cops, then it happened, we still didn't win and it was the second election defeat, on the trot a labour leader who denounced New labour has caused us

From Sarah Champion MP laughing at the UAF blocking Ukip leader Nigel farage form opening his Rotherham office, depsite the fact that Ukips increase in support in Rotherham was due to the Child abuse scandal, and labour ignoring it's smearing those who criticised the fact that labour tried to hide it, and then making capital by believing they were better than Ukip, because they alleged Ukip were trying to exploit it, despite Labour ourselves disgracefully hiding the scandal we'd caused.

Despite extensive efforts to develop practical applications for graphene and explore the exotic physics at work in its two dimensions, obtaining a usable sample is still more art than science, as Scientific American learned one slushy winter afternoon in the Columbia University lab of Philip Kim, one of our co-authors and a leader in the field.

Despite being a leader in the digital world, and mobile payments available on everything from petrol, to parking and café transactions, UK consumers have been slower than expected in using smartphone apps to pay for purchases.

Despite the royalty in his name and the movie's designation that he's more special than the rest of his team, Star - Lord is still not the leader of the Guardians, this family he's created.

Despite making such efforts, more than three in five (72 per cent) school leaders are not confident in their school's ability to generate additional income over the next 12 - 24 months.

Despite the smaller (i.e., than for teachers and teaching), yet still significant measured effects on student learning for school - based factors beyond the classroom — Hattie has calculated an effect size of 0.39 for principals / school leaders [3]-- research evidence has confirmed that «school leaders can play major roles in creating the conditions in which teachers can teach effectively and students can learn».

While not every state and local union leader falls into this category, an overwhelming majority do, despite an internal poll by the National Education Association which found that its rank - and - file is slightly more conservative (50 percent) than liberal (43 percent) in political philosophy.

Despite such controversies, Los Angeles school district leaders are poised to plunge ahead with their own confidential «value - added» ratings this spring, saying the approach is far more objective and accurate than any other evaluation tool available.

The plan is also likely to spur criticism for its use of about $ 10.3 million in one - time rather than recurring dollars for school textbooks and digital materials, despite long - standing complaints from districts and school leaders that classroom resources have fallen woefully behind in the last decade.

The Maruti Swift DZire is the leader of the compact sedan segment despite the fact that it offers much less than what the competition offers.

Climate change has never received the crisis treatment from our leaders, despite the fact that it carries the risk of destroying lives on a vastly greater scale than collapsed banks or collapsed buildings.

Despite some initial scepticism from his players, the leaders among his squad — those he describes as «sponges, rather than rocks» — eventually embraced this new data - led approach, taking their performance to a whole new level.

Interestingly enough, Tidal was nowhere to be found among the leaders of this chart, despite having more publicity than just about any company not named Spotify.