Sentences with phrase «time as the opposition»

Jose Mourinho, one of the biggest exports of Portuguese football, will surprisingly face the biggest club in Portugal for the first time as opposition manager in a European competition.

Not exact matches

Premier Colin Barnett has voiced his opposition to The West Australian's proposed purchase of The Sunday Times as the competition watchdog raised concerns of its own.

Further, while the show's creators are quick to point out that late - night talk shows take time to develop, Comedy Central has high hopes that «The Opposition» can help return the network to its glory years as a political comedy powerhouse.

These factors will at times seem tangled; they will proceed in fits and starts, as the ambitions of an untested President interact with the interests of a recalcitrant conservative block, a determined opposition, and the will of a divided public.

The main opposition group — known as the Syrian National Council — told the NY Times that they've «recently received more powerful anti-tank missiles from Turkey, with the financial support of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.»

While the agency routinely approves such transfers as matter of course, AT&T and Time Warner would likely face stiff opposition at a time of growing public concern over media consolatTime Warner would likely face stiff opposition at a time of growing public concern over media consolattime of growing public concern over media consolation.

The news comes as the first time in 37 years of the GSS, Americans in opposition to same sex relations were in the minority.

Hale, who has known Harper for some time, describes the Opposition leader as «a pragmatic conservative.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

As a U.S. company, its pay vote is advisory, not binding; moreover the company's share class structure means that approval is effectively assured, with founders» Class B shares carrying ten times the voting power of ordinary Class A. Nonetheless, opposition has been bubbling up, with an amendment to the company's stock plan generating a 28 % against vote at the 2016 AGM.

He brings experience from his time as a Saskatchewan cabinet minister and a Calgary school trustee, but his religious connections and the accusations about allegedly politically - driven school announcements make him a lightening rod for opposition criticism.

He served as the Official Opposition Finance Critic for much of his time in the Legislature.

The Wildrose was always a very effective opposition, perhaps too ideological to have been chosen as a government last time, but they are not stupid, they have mostly recovered from the debacle of last December and they are still well financed.

In the New Left's opposition to the media, old bourgeois fears such as the fear of «the masses» seem to be reappearing along with equally old bourgeois longings for pre-industrial times dressed up in progressive clothing.

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...

Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.

While, at times, he talked as a Greek in setting flesh and spirit in sharp opposition, he always was thinking as a Jew; he was contrasting, not material flesh and immaterial spirit, but the natural man uninspired by the divine Spirit, on one side, and the spiritual man transformed by God's grace, on the other.

Pope John Paul II has at various times expressed his opposition to the practice, as have other Catholic leaders in Europe.

Although they have used feminist language at times, their opposition to pornography stems much more from their nostalgia for a «purer» America, and they disagree with feminists on crucial issues such as sex education and day care.

As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was taken aback, we know, to find his one - time ally leading the opposition to his financial program and condemning his interpretation of the Constitution.

Here we meet good and evil as primal moving spirits set in real opposition to one another, and here, for the first time, evil assumes a substantial and independent nature.

Almost all that one understands in our time as specifically modern stands in opposition to the awareness of one's fellow as a whole, single, and unique person, even if, in most cases, a defectively developed one.

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.

We must do what we can in response to the love of God, yet as those who know that the world in which we act will be, until the end of time, in opposition to that love.

For a long time, opposition to Roman Catholicism functioned in the minds of many Protestants as a mark of identity of their faith.

However, this opposition has to be understood in the context of the more general mistrust of science prevailing at the time, given the international climate of socialism, which it saw as a consequence of evolutionism.

Thus, in a series of works published in 1919 and the early 1920s, in opposition to relativity theory, Whitehead argued not only that the geometry of the world was uniform, but that «the properties of time and space express the basis of the uniformity in nature which is essential for our knowledge of nature as a coherent system» (R 8, 29).1 Furthermore, he held that this uniformity was actually discerned there (H 14).

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

And for a time in the late «60s opposition to the Vietnam war, seen as an example of technical reason gone mad, took precedence over everything else.

This opposition by the Amalekites, at that time, is given as a reason, that the men, women, infants and sucklings, sheep and oxen, camels and asses, that were born four hundred years afterward, should be put to death; and to complete the horror, Samuel hewed Agag, the chief of the Amalekites, in pieces, as you would hew a stick of wood.

Just as the policy of various ministries ranged over time from vigorous repression of the socialists to tacit encouragement of them, especially in their efforts to unionize the workers, so the policy of the Socialist party modulated from one of intransigent opposition to the entire «bourgeois regime» to one of gradual acceptance of the framework of democratic institutions.

As time went on a more optimistic note became discernible, chiefly in opposition to the false asceticism characteristic of the dualistic sects.

He seems fixated on the Jansenists as the chief force behind opposition to the French monarchy, at times exaggerating their importance while at other times deploring their only partial resemblance to Calvinists.

This structure, however, is not limited to them but rather extends beyond the primitive world and also comprehends, for example, the Supreme Being as defined by Robespierre at the time of the French Revolution in opposition to the cult of Divine Reason.

But as I, uh, endlessly researched (hey, that double IPA ain't going to drink itself), I discovered both bitter revelation and opposition: «I don't like IPAs,» I heard time and again.

«For the first time in my life as a manager in that game against Spain, we were getting a chasing for a while, and I found myself actually watching the opposition and appreciating how well they were playing.

Villa will be difficult, and Chelsea will rip us apart... remember they have players that can run — they will leave Mert for dead as most opposition player do — Kos cant bail hyim out every single time he screws up and is left for dead.

Iwobi recked my head last night he was weak and misplaced many passes he cant seem to control the ball its always running away from him he should not be in the middle in the middle you need good ball controllers with good eyes for passes long and short on the ground and above the ground >> > waterford yesterday were on top of us with no space giving to our players and we were scattered all over the place with no vision or leader ship too goals in the space of 3 minuets ok the first goal was a fluke but come on the second one???? and thats all what it takes to loose a match many times this season we cant play when the opposition seats in our face we have no cohesion or understanding we crumble away we need to start the game together as a unit a compact unit

The away fans go on to have the time of their lives in that corner of the Clock end, as our announcer extends a «warm and sporting welcome to the players, staff and fans of the opposition» while we endure a mellow atmosphere at best, and often the lack of enthusiasm passes through to our players, many of whom appear lacking of the heart and passion need to represent The Arsenal.

THIS IS THE LINEUP FOR ARSENAL HAD WENGER BEEN MORE TACTICAL IN THE SUMMER («AGAINST BIG OPPOSITION») WELBECK GIROUD SANCHEZ DIABY CAVARLHO RAMSEY GIBBS KOSCIELNY MERTESACKER CHAMBERS FABIANSKI i have been thinking about it for a long period of time and with the pace and strength in mid maybe we could have a decent shout at the title challenge but as we all know Wenger would hate this line up and put 4 CAMS for them, i think it is better we concentrate on drawing against big oOPPOSITION») WELBECK GIROUD SANCHEZ DIABY CAVARLHO RAMSEY GIBBS KOSCIELNY MERTESACKER CHAMBERS FABIANSKI i have been thinking about it for a long period of time and with the pace and strength in mid maybe we could have a decent shout at the title challenge but as we all know Wenger would hate this line up and put 4 CAMS for them, i think it is better we concentrate on drawing against big oppositionopposition.

Ozil carried on his recent scoring form with a great hat - trick after the Ox made it three soon after the restart, as the Gunners ran riot and cut the opposition to shreds time and again, with any little chance for them being snuffed out, with Coquelin and Mustafi excelling.

It's presumably the perfect opposition the Red Devils could be facing at this time with United winning six of their last seven home matches just as Burnley have failed to win in ten of their last 11.

Cech was still the MAJOR culprit as his decision was not just a timing mistake but a complete misjudgement of the situation to the fact he punched at below chest height BEHIND an opposition player.

He knows that he can run about all day long, harrying opposition and giving them hell whilst at the same time providing some sublime football coupled with even more sublime and necessary goals but, for all his efforts and his honesty towards the team and the club he see's as nothing more than the nearly men.

Their joy was short lived, as the home team were unable to clear the ball away from danger, allowing the opposition to equalise just before half time.

Nevertheless, given the nature of the injury, Spurs can't afford to take any risks with Kane regardless of the opposition, as the last thing that they'll want to do is aggravate the problem and see him forced to miss an extended period of time all because they tried to rush him back for the important showdown in Manchester.

For players like Alexis who can dance past a player or 2 (together) like nothing but we can't expect him to dance past 4 players every time, this happens more with Giroud as the oppositions midfield and defense can work closer together.

It was our duty to spot the opposition's defensive alignments, suggest plays to work against these defenses, ascertain as soon as possible weaknesses or faults in our own defensive scheme and recommend personnel changes from time to time to the head coach on the bench.