Sentences with phrase «than the opponents in»

Does a man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent in the election really have the political capital to carry on like this?

They've had more FTA than their opponents in 55 of their 77 games so far and average 25.4 / game compared to opponents» 19.5.

You all know the saw about any team can beat any other on any given night blah blah blah, there really aren't any easy games in this League anymore... All true, but if ever there was a series the Pens looked several levels better than their opponent in the Playoffs in this the 3rd go around for the Mike Sullivan Penguins it is this series.

In something like 50 % the matches we have played the last couple of seasons, we have seemed less motivated than the opponents in at least one half.

Olympiacos are only slightly better than their opponents in the group standings, having already suffered losses against Arsenal and Marseille prior to their win over Dortmund.

The Baggies look to be this year's over-achievers with a style of play that has seen them record less possession than their opponents in every single game they have played this season in the Premier League.

Loser: Joe Sestak Despite barely losing to Toomey in 2010, Sestak has raised less money than both his opponent in the Democratic primary and the Republican incumbent.

And on top of that, he said, he's running a very different campaign than his opponents in the party, visiting all 163 towns in the 19th Congressional District.

It's definitely a blow to Rice, who gets the lowest billing of all the AG contenders and is definitely snubbed more than her opponents in this editorial.

Here, you'll face enemies much tougher than any opponent in the single - player campaign, making cooperative play with up to four local or online comrades a necessity.

Now take these four characters, give them all bombs, and throw them into a grid based arena as up to eight player characters compete to blow up more other players than their opponents in either.

The point is to control more territory than the opponent in order to summon an end boss, and to do so players must defeat enough enemies in a sector to summon aggressors — the area's captains, and then defeat them to win the territory.

Not exact matches

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.

In the month leading up to Notre Dame's first trip to the national championship game in more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, AlabamIn the month leading up to Notre Dame's first trip to the national championship game in more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, Alabamin more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, Alabama.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponentIn 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponentin the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

The challenge devised by die - hard opponents of the law, often derided by critics as «Obamacare,» relied on four words -; established by the state -; in the more than 900 - page law.

In fact, when you line up Ryan against his direct opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, you can see two versions of the same person — at least in that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never lefIn fact, when you line up Ryan against his direct opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, you can see two versions of the same person — at least in that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never lefin that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never lefin their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never left.

His opponent, Republican Beth Grossman, had spent more than two decades in the DA's office and ran on her experience with the position.

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

In fact, throughout the election season, it has appeared that Republicans have fielded more attacks from their supposed friends on the right than their political opponents on the left.

In a negotiation, the seller needs to view a potential customer as a partner rather than an opponent.

But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of fossil fuels, shale extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.

With more than 145 million votes cast, the popular vote looks to be around 48 % -47 % with Trump defeating opponent Hillary Clinton in the more important electoral college.

Trump's move bore out a warning from Allergan CEO Brent Saunders late last year, as many in the industry assumed that the newly elected president would be kinder to pharma than his opponent Hillary Clinton, who'd laid out several proposals for controlling drug prices.

This would lead to an arms race, in which political parties work to create partisans faster than their opponents.

Jana Lynne Sanchez says she's brought in more than a quarter of a million dollars, while Republicans» first place primary finisher, Ron Wright, trailed his opponent and went $ 137,000 in debt.

Supporters of an FTA with China, meanwhile, are more likely than opponents to agree that it would give Canada a competitive edge in the global market, whereas Canadians who are uncertain about China's economic prospects tend not to support an FTA with China.

For one thing, it's heartening to see the Republicans stand fast for a change and actually follow through on something their constituents have demanded and expected from them, rather than caving in the face of criticism from their liberal opponents in Congress and the press.

Opponents counter that the TPP is far more than trade deal — it is an unprecedented set of rules created to increase the profits of transnational corporations and grant them extraordinary powers to override governments that enact legislation in the public interest.

So his strategy is to get the focus off himself, as LBJ did (and Nixon did in 1972) by demonizing his opponent as less than decent and real dangerous.

Senator Orrin Hatch, who had been a co-sponsor of the Chafee bill, emerged as one of the mandate's most implacable opponents in 2010, writing in The Hill that to come to «any other conclusion» than that the mandate is unconstitutional «requires treating the Constitution as the servant, rather than the master, of Congress.»

Governments demonize their opponents in war so that their people view the enemy as less than human.

, in the name of your creator, who created man from a clot...», [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FUTtKFH-KU] so rather than quoting what the terrorists quote (who BTW are misleading muslims and opponents alike, by reading verses out of context), use your logic, use your intelligence, read and understand.

Opponents of government introduced an amendment reversing that disparity, and the final version of the Bill contained a compromise in which the pressure to guarantee new seats to the industrial constituencies was more evident than hostility to the rotten boroughs.

More obviously than in other parts of the Synoptic Gospels there is much material which is evidently a casting back, in the form of a narrative about Jesus, of the thought and experience of the Church in later years, and of its controversies with opponents.

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

«44 This statement exhibits an mischaracterization of Bergson so extreme it defies words; if ever there was a more persistent opponent of Descartes» conception of natural science than Bergson, I do not know who it might be — with the possible exception of Bergson's process blood brothers — Peirce, Dewey, James, Whitehead and Hartshorne.45 In Lowe's defense it might be said that the eight or ten books that do the most to establish just how non-Cartesian, and indeed revolutionary Bergson's view of science was were all published after Understanding Whitehead.

In America, the MAJORITY says what goes, and more Americans believe in God than the opponentIn America, the MAJORITY says what goes, and more Americans believe in God than the opponentin God than the opponents.

You want answers to life's aggravating questions yourself, and you are obviously not yet in possession of those; I can't help but wonder whether or not this article was written precisely to provoke those you see as your opponents, simply to challenge them to give you something higher (you are the one who is searching, it seems)- than you have received through your own beliefs.

Nevertheless, I believe it is inaccurate for Calvinists to attempt to appropriate the words «grace» and «reformed» for their own system of theology, especially when, in my opinion, many Calvinists know less of grace than their opponents, and numerous others have stopped seeking further theological reformation.

I have great respect for your range of knowledge Nathan, and for your depth of feeling — but your in your last post I finally sense a brother with who I can disagree, rather than an opponent whom I must overcome.

He said that Paul's statement that he went to consult the Jerusalem leaders, «lest somehow [he] should be running or had run in vain», (Galatians 2.2) meant more than that he feared his opponents might seriously interfere with his work unless they were checked.

Nothing shows more clearly than the contrast between the death of Socrates and that of Jesus (a contrast which was often cited, though for other purposes, by early opponents of Christianity) that the biblical view of death from the first is focused in salvation - history and so departs completely from the Greek conception.

The opponents of Christianity who already in the first centuries made the contrast between the death of Socrates and the death of Jesus saw more clearly here than the exponents of Christianity.

The question is here raised in its exegetical aspect, we turn to the Christian aspect, I would venture to mind my critics that when they put in the forefront, they do, the particular manner in which they wish themselves and their loved ones to survive, they are involuntarily giving grounds to the opponents of Christianity who constantly repeat that the faith of Christians is nothing more than the projection of their desires.

«Martin Luther was the first Protestant, and yet he was more Catholic than many of his Roman Catholic opponents,» Pelikan quips in the first sentence of the book.

And so, after a long afternoon's journey into night, butting our heads against first one goalpost, then the other, we had to admit that the opponent wanted the game more than we did, that in fact they had more guts, and as the sensible team we were, we began to take ourselves out of the chaotic field «with honor.»

In one debate with his opponents, Jesus accuses them of trying to get eternal life from the scriptures rather than from Jesus himself, to whom the scriptures all testify (John 5:39 - 40).

76ers fans may have thought they had this game and series in the bag, but the Heat are proving much tougher a playoff opponent than they anticipated.

Of course, when you go to play at the Emirates against Arsenal, always in your mind is to try to win and play better than your opponents.