Sentences with phrase «tie than a win»

Not exact matches

We've actually lost or tied more wars than we've won and our economic prosperity has been on the backs of the poor and disadvantaged.

With a win they can finish no worse than a tie for 2nd.

It is questionable as to whether Norwich will be a tougher game than any of our Europa League opponents, so I really can't see Wenger changing a winning formula, especially in a home tie.

If still tied, the athlete with the fewest total failures wins, and if still tied after that the tie stands, other than for first place, which is normally resolved by a jump - off.

Blake's 9.69 time is faster than what he ran in London earlier this month (9.75; Bolt won gold with a 9.63), and ties him with American Tyson Gay for the title of the second - fastest human ever — only Bolt has ever run faster than their 9.69 (and he's done it twice).

The Golden State Warriors own the highest win total (66.5) in the league, which is ten games greater than the Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs, who are tied for the second - highest win total.

Baines and Monreal are tied for first on pass completion so the Spaniard is not just about defending, although it is clear that this is his real strength, with more blocks, clearances and interceptions than his rivals as well as winning an amazing 62 percent of his aerial duels.

Williams graduated from Grambling in 1977 and has maintained close ties to the school and to its living icon, Eddie Robinson, who has won more games, 405, than any other college coach.

Match Day one with a Home tie against Crystal Palace, a win on paper but seemed tougher than that though (eventually winning 2 - 1).

More than that we need to win 17 games at home, and tie with City and United.

The top 23 spots earn at least six figures, and depending on how many players tie near the top of the leaderboard, three or even four players could win more than $ 500,000.

If Phil Mickelson is to win his fourth Masters — and tie Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer for the second-most green jackets ever, behind Jack Nicklaus» six — he will likely have to find a few more fairways and greens this week in Augusta than he did in Houston.

Bookmakers are struggling to pick a favourite for the tie, with both sides available at bigger than 6/4 to win inside the 90 minutes, but you would have to say with home advantage we should be taking this down.

Could have been a lot more difficult but winning away at lyon might suggest that they are no pushover... Would seem easier than milan tie but who knows

In the annals of agony and ecstasy in sports it is difficult to do better than the Yankees» World Series win or Mark McGwire's going deep to tie Roger Maris with 61... or worse than the Shark's plumbing the depths at Augusta.

Displaying an outstanding overall team effort throughout the tournament, United won the tournament on penalty kicks after playing to a hard fought 2 - 2 tie in the Sunday afternoon Championship game versus the Folsom Red team, a very good team ranked 74 places higher than United in the statewide rankings.

With a win they can finish no worse than 8th and get all the way up to a tie for 4th.

Tied in 5th of the Standings with 38 points, these guys still have the capacity to make this season theirs, especially with one more game left to win than the four leaders (they have a double header in Hoops looming).

And we get more money from an FA cup home tie then you get for winning the carling cup, also liverpool still made more money than you from the epl even though you won the league.

We may have to score more than 3 goals if we are to win that tie which is asking too much for a manager who has never beaten a Mourinho team.

On paper this looks like a very difficult group for Tottenham but they are a better side than Dortmund and all they need is win their home ties and they should be alright to qualify.

Arsenal are W3 D1 against Swedish sides and even though they could have their hands full here away from home in the first leg, their experience in Europe is more than likely to see them win out in the tie overall.

But the Reds can do no wrong at the minute, and after gaining the upper hand in their UEFA Champions League Last - 8 tie with Chelsea, after earning a 1 - 0 win at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday courtesy of Wayne Rooney's fourth goal in two games, Sir Alex's men are hot favourites to maintain their rich vein of form by claiming a fourth consecutive win in all competitions on Saturday, when they play host to a Fulham side who have caused them more than enough problems in recent encounters to ensure that there is at least a small dose of apprehension within the Old Trafford terraces.

He has more money and establishment support and has deep ties in Schenectady, which is more important to winning the district than Klueg's hometown of Northampton (population 2,670).

But using projections based on recent polls, it says that even if either Ukip or the Lib Dems could tie with Labour on 20 %, the electoral system would mean neither would win more than 20 seats, with Labour remaining at 140 to 150.

By continually emulating, instead of innovating the METAL SLUG series, SNK PLAYMORE and DotEmu feel like their hands are tied when it comes to replicating the performance and precision of the Arcade originals; METAL SLUG 2 may not be the strongest of the originals, but it plays better on the iOS platform than previous releases and thus wins out by default.

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

You can generally get a tie or win against the CPU but human players create a bigger problem because they can knock you out early or can force a tie more than a CPU.

So much the epitome of stiff - upper - lipped Englishman - from his Darcy in the BBC's mid-90s Pride and Prejudice to his Oscar - winning turn as the tongue - tied King George VI in The King's Speech - he looks like he'd rather die than approach a mystic for advice.

Bridge Of Spies» Mark Rylance was a less - than - shocking Best Supporting Actor champ (against Michael Shannon for 99 Homes and Creed's Sylvester Stallone), with Kristen Stewart picking up another award for Clouds Of Sils Maria, winning over Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander and a tied Kate Winslet and Elizabeth Banks.

The San Juan - based FMPR, which has more than 32,000 members, has had ties to the 1.3 million - member AFT since 1965; the AFT won the exclusive representation of public school teachers in the U.S. commonwealth in 1998.

In sports, for example, professional soccer players are more apt to kick a tie - breaking goal when they are kicking to win — that is, to give their team the lead in a shootout rather than when kicking from behind in a shootout to avoid a loss.

Sophie McKenzie is the bestselling author of more than fifteen novels for children and teens in the UK, including the award winning Girl, Missing and Blood Ties.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

If it weren't for Brandon's close ties, games like Fez would not have been able to win IGF twice (even though games can not be submitted more than once for an IGF award, Fez's first submission win was technically a «prototype».)

You can generally get a tie or win against the CPU but human players create a bigger problem because they can knock you out early or can force a tie more than a CPU.

Based in Boston with family ties to the East End of Long Island, award - winning photographer, Dave Burns specializes in wildlife, travel, and landscape photography having photographically chronicled his journeyed experiences from more than 25 countries over the past 20 years.

Not only will there be digital party favors, but Lenski is offering visitors the chance to win more than $ 2,500 worth of prizes, all tied to helping an aspiring mediator jump - start a new ADR business.

More than other businesses, Indian developers and contractors are particularly reliant on ties with the government to acquire land or win contracts.