Sentences with phrase «than the opposition in»

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

Perhaps I should be more explicit: win every game (by conceeding less and scoring more than the opposition in each game) over the course of a season and we would be in a better position.

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

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

Not exact matches

New natural gas pipelines do not face the same kind of opposition as oil pipelines because the product is a gas and, in case of a leak, it escapes into the atmosphere rather than fouling waterways and soil.

Some opposition lawmakers oppose the deal, saying Murdoch, the owner of The Times and The Sun newspapers, would wield too much power if he had full control of a pay - TV group present in more than 12 million British and Irish homes.

In response to demands from the main right - wing opposition party, Les Republicains, the rollover of emergency rule was extended for six months, to late January 2017, rather than the three months proposed by Hollande's government.

Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has stated repeatedly that the party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's election.

The philosopher king's welcome Harper received in the U.S. was far warmer than his treatment at home, where the PM had, three months earlier, barely averted a coup by the opposition parties.

There is one business leader who is really more than a business leader and whose entire vision of the future stands in opposition to Trump's: Elon Musk.

In an environment where the opposition can regroup and take the advantage in a heartbeat, indecisiveness is considered a fatal flaw — worse than making a mediocre decision, because a mediocre decision, especially if swiftly rendered and executed, at least stands a chancIn an environment where the opposition can regroup and take the advantage in a heartbeat, indecisiveness is considered a fatal flaw — worse than making a mediocre decision, because a mediocre decision, especially if swiftly rendered and executed, at least stands a chancin a heartbeat, indecisiveness is considered a fatal flaw — worse than making a mediocre decision, because a mediocre decision, especially if swiftly rendered and executed, at least stands a chance.

With a somewhat hamstrung and less - than - competent opposition the Harper government was able to push through legislation which brought some shifts of income in favor of higher income brackets.

With the deficit outcome for 2010 - 11 expected to be much lower than projected in the October 2010 Update, the Harper Government has more than enough financial room to «buy» the support one or two of the opposition parties.

I wrote in July that the agreement was in more trouble than the Canadian government would admit, noting that opposition from any national or regional government could kill CETA altogether.

«I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition.

Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaskin Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaskin Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaskin October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to DeripaskIn [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

When Alberta's Legislative Assembly reconvenes in the next few months, for the first time since 1982 the title of Official Opposition will given to a caucus of MLA's representing a party other than the New Democrats or the Liberals.

In other words, opposition is linked specifically to China rather than to a general anti-trade stance.

* Matthew Guy: the state opposition leader will have little to attack politically in this budget other than big spending.

I support the NDP government's decision continue investing in public services and much - needed public infrastructure projects rather than slashing - and - burning, as the opposition conservative would do.

The NDP folks are nice and will do a good job in government; they will actually work rather than loll around in the house of corruption avoiding the questions of the opposition parties as I noted when I went to the legislature to present my banned self to my MLA — Mr. Mandel.

I challenge the Wildrose and the opposition to show exactly how they would run the province and country any better than our current government in less than ideal times.

The fringe right - wing website is more of an opposition group than a media organization and is seen to be closely allied with «alt - right» organizers in Canada and the United States.

Despite the growth plan's preference for multi-family housing, such projects can now take more than three years to complete, double what it was 15 years ago, because of a surge in required documentation, out - of - date municipal zoning bylaws and residents» opposition to high - rise projects, according to development lobby BILD.

We, the Seoul Bitcoin Meetup, the largest bitcoin community in South Korea, founded in 2014 with more than 1600 members, would like to voice our staunch opposition to this November's proposed hardfork.

TransCanada Corp.'s cancellation of the Energy East pipeline leaves Canadian oil producers more dependent than ever on the Keystone XL and Trans Mountain proposals, two projects facing ardent opposition in their own right.

No contemporary novelist has been as consistent in his opposition to the more pernicious aspects of modernity than Dean Koontz.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

Populist conservatives in swing constituencies don't have to attack the intraparty opposition anymore than is absolutely necessary to make their point.

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

But I guess it's a convenient dismissal, rather than examining what those in opposition have to say.

Or, as the French Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain put it nearly a decade later, «There is nothing more illusory than to pose the problem of the person and the common good in terms of opposition,» for in reality, it is «in the nature of things that man, as part of society, should be ordained to the common good.»

He reserves his most ferocious verbal assaults for «zealots» like Nellie Gray; he attacks Phyllis Schlafly («Why anyone paid any attention to this lady is one of the mysteries of the 80s»); he turns on Carl Anderson, who perhaps more than any other single figure in the Reagan Administration was responsible for the success of Koop's confirmation process, and berates him unmercifully for his opposition to the condom solution for AIDS.

We account for this apparent discrepancy by realizing that the term «Satan» in Hebrew is a title given to something or someone, which is in opposition, rather than to a particular person himself.

The opposition of these types was evident in the reactions of my friends to stories other than their own.

The idea of an alternative Davos has an intrinsic interest: it shows that there is opposition, it shows that other voices exist, of which many represent effective resistance, than those talking in the temple of liberalism.

If you are not experiencing opposition in this life as a Christian than you need to take another look at the truth that the Bible and Christ taught... Jesus was a revolutionary figure who opposed the society and people that he lived with... He was not a person who was sugary sweet... and He didn't tell people what they wanted to hear... as Scripture says, the path to heaven is narrow and Few choose it... the road to hell is wide and most are following that path.

I have a suspicion that sexism plays a more significant role in the religious right's fierce opposition to Hillary Clinton than some would like to admit.

A religious life wrought out in the face of opposition has more tenacity and depth than one which follows a drifting current.

He must learn more than ever before to bear his own responsibility within the concrete Church and not in a basic, though secret opposition to her, and to cope also with the historical conditions of her doctrine and practice in freely given obedience.

This can not be understood by someone to whom his own opinion always seems to be more important and true than that of another or of a community, and who thinks that he can achieve the full development of his personality only in opposition to a community.

The Chicago School of Theology made much of its opposition to philosophical idealism; but its strategy of thought in transmuting evolution into something other than mechanistic naturalism was actually dictated and directed by the vestigial remains of its own personal idealism.

In the face of such tremendous opposition perhaps having understanding of such things might be more of a tremendous burden than a privilege.

Counterforce networks — often made up of faithful individuals in opposition to institutions, systems and oppressive governments — may have much more influence on the future than we can foresee at present.

Rather than being in opposition, uniqueness and universality arose together.

By the time you got there, the opposition was well orchestrated and finely tuned, and in less than a week your leader was strung up, and you were smart enough to head for the hills.

Christians can be much clearer in their opposition to the reduction of the value of natural things to their price than about the intrinsic value of animals.

Today we might be inclined to juxtapose this more individualistic exploration to the social gospel, but at the time I think it was generally felt more as a division of labor in the process of bringing Christianity relevantly into the twentieth century than as sharp opposition.

The radical opposition of Grace to nature in classical Protestantism has resulted in a Western civilization that despises our humanity and ignores our responsibility to practice stewardship rather than exploit our natural resources.

Less than artful Democrats can accomplish a lot in the absence of any genuine conservative leadership and one myth being advertised by Democrats I actually wish was true is the existence of focused and organized opposition on the part of conservatives who demand, if nothing else, a transparent national debate.