Sentences with phrase «tilt against»

Ever one to tilt against windmills, I embarked on a series of weekly writing tips at my former firm, with a view to improving the written communications of lawyers and students with each other and with the non-lawyer public.

The more extreme deniers are quite happy to tilt against the Keeling curve, with the most ludicrous and nonsensical arguments.

Try to be careful because this master of manipulation will use the head tilt against you.

But whatever the details and the fine print, history will judge yesterday was the turning point when Labour unfurled its old battle banner for social justice and the Conservatives chose to ride full tilt against it.

Dale recently had a tilt against the appointment of several ex-Labour Cabinet Ministers, and Douglas Carswell wrote a tongue - in - cheek blog post headed «Government appoints MP adviser».

The fracking ban was a political calculation, made possible by Cuomo's re-election and public opinion polls that now tilt against it.

With Trump in office de Blasio will always have large currents to tilt against.

Of course, the race could still tilt against Walker despite his slight edge in the polls in recent days.

For Sunday's tilt against Manchester United, you'll be hard - pressed to find many people willing to bet West Brom or the draw — currently more than 80 % of moneyline bets have jumped on Man United.

The Raiders turned the ball over in the fourth quarter of their Sunday Night Football tilt against the Dolphins.

The receiver was forced out of action in a Dec. 8 game against the Green Bay Packers and missed the Week 15 tilt against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Kansas City Chiefs are locked into the No. 4 seed in the AFC playoffs, which makes their Week 17 tilt against the Broncos a game with no postseason implications whatsoever.

The No. 2 seed gets a seven - game tilt against a Grizzlies team no one wants to meet in the playoffs, a Clippers team that's long had a chip on its shoulder from untimely post-season injuries, an up - and - coming, defensive - minded Jazz team with nothing to lose, or an emotionally charged Thunder squad featuring Russell Westbrook.

Wide receiver Brandon Marshall says he knows this week's tilt against the New England Patriots will be arguably the biggest game he's ever played.

At the same time, underlying shifts in the economy have again shifted the interest group politics — these days, manufacturing workers are a small share of overall US union membership, so the original impetus for the Democratic tilt against trade is going away.

His tilting against the windmills of pluralism will, I fear, in this postmodern age offend radical feminists or the disciples of Derrida much more than the «fundamentalists» (broadly meant) who are his targets.

They perhaps stand more in danger from a class of intellectual «wreckers» who might even find some comfort in Luther's tilting against the dragon of Reason.

The prophet tilts against the enthusiastic performance and perpetuation of formalized, regularized, prescribed outward acts of piety when these are unsupported by qualities of justice and righteousness.

No longer does the ice seem tilted against the Oilers in all games.

Tory policies have tilted against women since 2010.

South Dakota's legislature is strongly tilted against abortion rights, which makes passing restrictions fairly easy.

A charter school network's plan to double in size over the next few years could reignite a war over classroom space in New York City — only this time with the ground rules already tilted against the mayor, thanks to a new law passed in Albany this spring.

I've now had chance to sit down and play with the election results and the picture is as bleak for Labour as Stephen paints — for various reasons, the electoral system has now tilted against Labour in the same way it was tilted against the Conservatives at the last few elections.

So, how could Cao possibly win in a seat this tilted against him?

In the second video, captured by a different fighter jet under undisclosed circumstances, an object surrounded by a «glowing aura» seems to fly tilted against heavy headwinds in defiance of known principles of aerodynamics, accompanied by audible exclamations from the fighter jet's crew.

I believe that personalization could be a big help in winning the «engagement» battle — isn't that one windmill we have all tilted against for years?

But while the election clearly shifted the balance of power on the board, the situation changed again after the Broad plan was leaked, with the school board tilting against charters.

Yes, the political debate is very much alive, but it remains tilted against choice.

The economics are definitely tilted against Netflix.

I know, no one can do market timing well, but at present, the odds are tilted against risk.

In our presentation on how artists use community last week, I talked about how, in 1867, Claude Monet saw that the fine art business was tilted against artists who were doing original, innovative work.

In 1867, Claude Monet saw that the French fine art business was tilted against artists who were doing original, innovative work — so he got together with a group of then - unknown artists (like Degas and Manet) and they put on their own art show, outside the French mainstream.

In these playful, environmental works, such as spinach and banana (2013), Estna arranges her paintings in various positions, tilting them against walls, hanging them, and placing them on their sides; she often extends patterns to fabrics heaped on the floor and small spheres placed on pedestals, or drills holes into canvases so that light shines through them.

If, in their judgment, the most likely alternatives are already under investigation, and the balance of likelihood of unconsidered alternatives with their financial resources tilts against further funding, then their proper course would be to not fund.

It is no wonder a that a sharp legal mind like Melanie Aitken's tilted against ORE..

Not exact matches

Video has emerged as a marketing mainstay of Internet business but unaffordable «fast lanes» would tilt the playing field against emerging companies.

From a risk - management perspective, therefore, the asymmetry in the conventional policy toolkit would lead me to expect policy to be tilted somewhat in favor of guarding against downside risks relative to preemptively raising rates to guard against upside risks.

With Cohn stepping down, the revival of «globalist» as a term of derision against him raises the prospect that Trump intends to fill vacancies with «nationalists» and take a more protectionist tilt from here on out.

The right policy in the near term should be tilting as hard as possible against recession as argued in the first blog in this series.

But with conservatives tilting hard against the FBI, it's not too far of a leap to suggest that Hogg is just a patsy for the FBI's nefarious agenda.

Against this backdrop, while investors probably shouldn't abandon the U.S. market, they may want to consider tilting their stock portfolios toward sectors and geographies offering relative value.

That's a tough sell at a time when public opinion has tilted sharply against cutting taxes on the rich, and when a low unemployment rate and Federal Reserve interest rate increases have eliminated the case for fiscal stimulus.

American policy - makers have justified their counterrevolutionary stance on the basis of the threat of international Stalinism, and these rightist regimes — even though they may have been distasteful — were preferable to leftist forces which tilted the balance of power against our side.

Judge Noonan says that when weighing «the claims of Congress» against the claims of religious liberty, there should not be «a tilt in favor of Congress.»

The Kentucky Wildcats are hosting their first - round tilt in Lexington, and they have the early game against the Ohio Bobcats.

Will need to see them play against better competition (I mean, our April schedule has been tilted towards playing the dregs of the league), but good teams beat the teams they're supposed to beat.

Following the tilt at Virginia, only two of its remaining games are against ranked opponents, with both coming at the end of the season at home.

That said, the last time New England lost in the playoffs, they made two early mistakes (a first quarter missed PAT kick, and a second quarter Brady interception that set Denver up on the Patriot 16 yard line) that tilted the game against them.

Kansas State did the hard part against Auburn, shutting down the Tigers» run game and tilting the field in their favor.

Of course the odds against any particularly combination appearing at random are immense (2 multiplied by itself 999 times) Try it on your calculator and see how far you get before your calculator goes on tilt.