Sentences with phrase «though leading off»

A good first sentence in support of the scientific evidence on climate change — though leading off with «I know that there are those who disagree» with overwhelming evidence was not good.

Not exact matches

Numerous banks have seen tax write - downs in the billions in their fourth quarter results due to the Republican - led tax overhaul passed in December of last year, though the losses are expected to be one - offs.

Though plenty is going right for Grubhub, its challenge is turning an early lead into a durable competitive advantage strong enough to fend off rivals including Amazon and Uber.

Leading the way was the STACK shale play of Oklahoma where production jumped 17 % while output in the Delaware Basin skyrocketed nearly 50 %, though off a low base.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

So to the Exchange, and thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by agreement we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her.

Saban must have a bit of a bad taste left in his mouth due to the way his NFL coaching career left off, though, after leading the Dolphins to a 6 - 10 record back in 2006.

Since Jan. 25, the team has won nine of 14 games, though it's coming off a loss to the Washington Wizards in which it blew a 17 - point second half lead.

Even though the Chiefs had an 11 - point lead, Jones wasn't about to let up off the gas.

Though the Etihad Stadium brought in central midfield options in Javi Garcia and Jack Rodwell, the young Everton man is sidelined with injury and Yaya Toure is off to the African Nations Cup and this may well lead the Premier League title holders into making a formal offer for the experienced Roma man.

Diego Costa though had as solid a performance in the first half as he's had against any top opponent all season, knocking in a goal off an assist from Willian to get an early equalizer after PSG had taken the lead.

As do his playing partners, though Thomas, who entered the weekend tied with McIlroy at 2 - under for the week and just five shots off the lead of a trio of 36 - hole frontrunners, shrugged it off.

Anton Stralman came to his goalies rescue though and pulled the puck off the goal line to keep their 1 - 0 lead.

All game long the Bengals» offense struggled to find rhythm, and though the team had a chance to take the lead late, it just wasn't good enough to pull off an upset win, according to the SB Nation blog Cincy Jungle.

He was clearly faster though and pulled off a seriously nice lunge to retake the lead but as Albon tried to hold on it all went wrong and the two cars collided.

Though it's a bit off the pace, his Ligier is pretty efficient on fuel and tyres so just before he finished his opening stint two hours into the race, he found himself briefly in the lead before handing over to teammate Phil Hanson.

He came back, though, to give the Nets a 111 - 108 lead, with 1:37 left in the game, by canning a jumper after double - pumping David Thompson off his feet.

We had to come from behind though, as a big deflection off Per Mertesacker gave Benfica an early lead against the run of play, but not for long.

It's an endurance race though, and despite the Ferrari being spun off and the Mercedes getting penalised for the crash, as the race went on they fought their way back up to fight each other for the lead once more.

They don't look likely to return the favour though, taking an early lead against the Swans and dominating the game right from the off.

The Argentinean striker didn't need asking twice when a second opportunity came his way not long afterwards though, brushing off the challenge of Shkodran Mustafi before lobbing David Ospina to give Pep Guardiola's side the lead.

Felix, the Olympic champion over the shorter distance, had a slight lead coming off the bend but Schippers, who became the third fastest 200m runner in history in Beijing, overpowered her in the home straight and crossed the line in 22.12 to the American's 22.22, though Felix took the overall title by two points ahead of her Dutch rival.

Though the goals came after Theo was taken off, the strategy led to a number of great first - half chances for Alexis Sanchez, Ozil, and Walcott.

Given the chance to increase United's lead in first - half stoppage time the striker powered into the area with only Svilar to beat, though delayed his shot a fraction too long and allowed Rúben Dias to put him off his stride.

MU's sixth point kicked off a 6 - 1 run, though, putting the Golden Eagles up 11 - 7, and the lead bulged as high as six in the middle section of the frame.

From kick off it appeared Cech was aiming his goal kicks to our master of aerial ball control Theo, even though he made fair attempts to win headers, which led to attacks on either flanks.

It wasn't an immediate and complete turnaround, though, as the Golden Eagles had to rally in the second set after going down early, and then had to fend off a Georgetown run after taking a 21 - 15 lead late.

When it came down to it though, what ended up happening was that either the ball ended up being forced into him in the air when he was generally isolated of support, leading to a turnover of possession, or he dropped off 10 yards to receive it and played it back to where it had come from.

Even though the team hasn't played particularly awful in at least two of those matches, their inability to score goals and properly organize themselves on the field has led to a surge in frustration — which leads to emotional outbursts like Kelvin Leerdam's on Saturday when VAR encouraged the head referee to send the right - back off for violent conduct.

Atletico Madrid took the lead through Yannick Ferreira - Carrasco in 35th minute of the game and even though the match was being played at Vicente Caldrone, Atletico decided to sit back and hit Bayern on the counter attacks the move which paid off for most part.

With the score at 3 - 2 to Liverpool, the substitution summed up Brendan Rodger's intent to continue attacking and kill off the game even though his team were leading.

Also, even though the necklace is designed to alleviate teething pain, you should not allow your baby to chew on it because doing so might cause the beads to fall off, which could lead to a choking incident.

I was at the Liverpool Street Station end of the cordon, though I also looked to see what was happening in some of the smaller roads leading off Bishopsgate.

Cuomo signed off on a plan that will lead to the removal of roughly 34 miles of the historic rail corridor in the Adirondacks, though supporters of the Adirondack Scenic Railroad say they'll go forward with legal action to block the controversial project.

Leading off New York City's St. Patrick's parade season, St. Pat's for All is one of many parades that now include LGBTQ people — though not the one in Staten Island — but the parade that runs from Sunnyside to Woodside in Queens the first Sunday in March was the very first.

The research, led by embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, also reportedly sidestepped problems of incomplete and off - target editing that plagued previous attempts, though details could not be confirmed since the work is not yet published and Mitalipov has so far declined to comment.

It's allowing me to control lots of cortisol, even though it's not necessarily an ideal scenario, and I wan na highlight the fact that I have never preached that doing the Spartan triathlons all the time, and subjecting the body to masochistic feats of endurance, or climbing your own personal Mt. Everest is something healthy, but I think that one cool thing, if you can pull it off, and what's kinda leading to this discussion in the first place is, if you can keep yourself healthy, or as healthy as possible while living life as full as you want to live it, then I think that you can potentially tap into the best of both worlds.

The evidence always leads to one thing though, eating plants is extremely beneficial to health, living off of them entirely is ideal.

The title is GUITAR HERO, not BAND HERO (though they did, in their defense, release a crappier spin - off of the series called BAND HERO), so adding drums and a microphone in with the lead guitar and the bass guitar demolishes the title.

The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.

Kit Harington and Jeffrey Wright are both making the big leap to lead and I do think it will pay off for both of them, though Emmy winner Wright is clearly in a better position to do so than Harington.

A game cast quite literally gives the film their all but it's hard to ignore the ugly treatment its leading lady receives, coupled with a story that — though open to multiple interpretations — never rises above a pretentious and scummy tale of male exploitation of women, both on and off - screen.

Though the pat resolution is a bit of a bummer given some of the manic joy of earlier, the movie still leaves one with the delightful lingering image of all four leads, in multi-colored wigs, throwing down their best moves in a second - act dance - off that is the highlight of the affair.

When the action kicks off in Feud though we're in 1961 and both were now «has been» at least in terms of A list leading lady roles at 55 (Crawford) and 53 (Davis).

According to video intros courtesy of Stiller and Childress, pacing led to the unceremonious removal of a charming dialogue between Laney and Troy meant to take place on either the night of their graduation ceremony or shortly thereafter, while Michael receives a touching send - off in a sequence apparently cut due to sound problems, though it's plausible that Michael simply had the misfortune of being played by the self - deprecating Stiller, as suggested by the humiliating resolution to Michael's story arc in the final cut.

Listening to John Powell's music, though, leads me to realise that it's not that the scores are ultra-modern that puts me off all the nonsense dominated by drum loops and sampled strings which passes as film music these days - it's that the composers aren't very good.

That was a good one though perhaps it was a warning that Joseph Gordon Levitt was always going to try to «alter» himself in some way (face, voice, body whatever) for his future leading roles shaving off parts of his charisma in the process.

When they rape the wife of a veterinarian though, the furious husband decides to strike back with help from another buxom victim of the gang, leading to a violent stand off in the desert.

Throughout even this portion of the film though, the dynamic between the leads remains engaging and Phoenix gets to show off even further.

With San Andreas taking in more than $ 113 million globally upon its launch, the disaster film would seem to be a proven genre again, one that Roland Emmerich has parlayed to success several times, though they don't tend to lead to sequels, so this might be another one off.