Sentences with phrase «times than the opposition»

The aim of the game for each team is to get the ball into the elevated baskets at either end of the court more times than the opposition, while preventing the opposition from scoring at the same time.

Not exact matches

Gallup polling on favorable or unfavorable views of both major parties has found neither party has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percent).

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.

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.

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.

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...

Even now dismal possibilities lie ahead — upheaval, anarchy, violence; it may be the League of Nations spoiled by opposition, apathy or treachery, and the whole world going on with this military business, using all inventive genius for destructive ends and making a worse hell of it all than the Stone Age a thousand times over.

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.

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.

Any opposition that a heliocentric view provoked at the time was due to a lack of scientific evidence and was from fellow natural philosophers rather than Church authority.

Scholarly, ascetic, an experienced administrator, by his vigorous attempts at reform he might in time have overcome the stubborn opposition, but he died after less than two years in office.

Opposition was aroused in conservative circles, but so much of what was written was obviously from reverent scholars, constructive rather than negative, completely devoted to Christ and His Church, that in time general assent was given by the majority of thoughtful churchmen to the more moderate conclusions.

Giroud misses more than he hits, Walcott has NEVER delivered his expected talent, Welbeck will NEVER be the striker to score 20 goals a season Coqellin will NOT go a whole season injury or suspension free, Sanchez and Ozil WILL have down period during the season, all teams have these problems to a greater or lesser degree but most of the top teams will address these problems and players either inprove or are sold and replaced with better or at least more consistant players, NOT Wenger he keeps doing the same thing over and over with the same players and he expects a different result but gets the same outvome time and time again, yet its ALWAYS someone else's fault be it the Ref or the linesman or the opposition or bad luck or whatever and whoever and its NEVER the fact that HE has done nothing to change the situation and LOOKS LIKELY to not change it next time around.

The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.

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.

If people think Chelsea just settle for a point all the time they should check and see how many matches Chelsea and the previous Milan team win with far less chances and possession than the opposition

LSU: For the first time since their season opener, the Tigers held the opposition to fewer than 70 points.

They'd rather wait for the one time it fails so they can bash You blame the manager for being favourist yet a fellow blogger praising a player he previously bashed is called being two faced You kill Ramsey for a blind pass attempting to enter the opposition final third yet you won't blame Sanchez for turning over the ball in a pointless dribble with three free team mates You kill metersacker for deflecting a shot into his own net but won't touch kos for getting out of the way of a shot he could have sufficiency blocked You claim with no substantial proof that arteta, mert, Ramsey, can not lead arsenal anywhere substantial yet they have each at a point been a massive cause for stability and progress when called upon Even after reading this comment, you will ignore the fact that kos was awful until partnerd with mert, our defensive mid with song leaked more goals than the one with arteta and we've struggled to win without him at least until late last season.

Well he's completely wrong on the timing issue, in all the years I have been watching football, referees have never stopped the game in the middle of a corner / direct free kick in the oppositions half, and I'm sure he's watched more football than me.

... he played there against crystal palace, Everton 2 season ago and it was a disaster... our build up is majorly done closer to d centre circle than d oppositions box... that's y girouds hold up play is vital... either we go with dat path or we look for a striker who is lightning quick (so when we make d final pass, it doesn't get wasted), uses both legs to shoot on sight, with good accuracy... playing Sanchez, who is not very good with his back to goal as a 9 is useless and though fast, holds on to d ball a lot tryn to get d best angle to shoot... we need a striker who is very intelligent with d timing of his runs... too bad Walcott is as intelligent as a sheep, cld have been d perfect cf...

I thought people here were debating about two or three seasons back why he should be our top striker.When I thought the Monaco match was the icing on the cake to show how average he was it seems just like Wenger we» will never learn our lesson.Now people our okay with him being a super sub which is debatable.Giroud was a super sub in games last season because he wasn't played when he was supposed to.He's not your ideal super sub because he very hardly creates but rather requires people to create for him.Most of the time super subs are the one's who tend to create the chances and open up spaces in the opposition defence.West ham are ready to pay and hence we should demand more from them.We can then use the money from his sale on far better players.Given the same seasons, time and chances a lot of average strikers can do better than what he did.This is because Arsenal create a lot of chances and it just needs someone who can finish.Goodbye!.

Both Flamini and Coquelin too many times sit too deep allowing the opposition time and space to run at them with pace giving themself no other options than to foul players and pick up yellow card.

OK we have the resources and we don't spend as much, but surely now would be the best time to go out spend the dough on the players we really need and have the ability to challenge rather than stay financially cautious yet again and allow our opposition to improve again and outstrip us in the coming years.

And third, though far more than merely a striker is my personal all time favourite player, for pure poetry in motion and freakish ball skills, Dennis the Opposition Menace Bergkamp.

«If I had a team that was worth # 200m playing against a team that was worth less than # 20m and we never won that game, I'd be doing my best to divert it away from the fact that I had 10 times more value on the pitch than my opposition number had and couldn't win the game.

Yesterday's match Flamini played 76minutes without making any tackle or interception but Immediately Coquelin came in he won a few tackles and made good interceptions, that shows you the difference between the two DMs.Flamini hardly goes for any challenge unless the opposition is in our penalty box.Whereas, Coquelin is never afraid to stand in opponent faces and make tackles and he does it with good timing no wonder he receives less yellow cards than Flamini who is reckless.

He spends more time outside and away from the opposition penalty area than inside..

How often after a defeat we listen to Arsene Wenger talk about focusing on the next game, well he had three days to focus on what went wrong in the cup final and more than enough time to correct it, yet against the same opposition the same result, but Arsene Wegner continues to talk about players lacking in confidence, the mental strenght and all the usual excuses made by Arsene Wegner, so how does the all seeing all knowing wise one explain Wigan Athletic and Liverpool beating Man city, well my advise to Arsene Wegner is if he really understand the word focus he would F --- k — Of ---- Cause — U ---- S --- t. WEGNER OUT.

Only at times, mind, given that they made such hard work of beating such modest opposition, but still it feels like progress... The fervour of the celebrations reflected the nature of England's victory, in a back - and - forth game, rather than the significance of the goal.

He also dribbled past opposition players 64 times - more than any other defender - and had the second best pass completion ratio of any Premier League full - back.

There were times he proved his doubters wrong but all too often a kamikaze Flamini was more likely to be found in and around the opposition area than shielding the back four.

If you can pass the ball in the oppositions half more times than them it means that you are on top of the match and have a great chance of winning.

For Genius like Wenger it is more about beating yourself, so being better each time than you were before, until you get to perfection or being the best you be can, rather than tactically exploiting opposition weaknesses.

The best players in the world are able to pass the ball more times in the opposition half than your typical footballer and are what sets them apart.

The Citizens barely have to try most of the time to beat tough opposition, so should be more than comfortable in this game.

Rather than thinking about the Child's Hierarchy of Needs and the Mother's Hierarchy of Needs as being in opposition to each other, I'd rather look at how they can meld, how we can meet our needs together, and how I can create a village for the times I do need an out.

In 2016, 79.2 percent of votes on bills received fewer than 10 votes in opposition in a body that had 148 members during the busiest times of the year.

At the same time, the 5th Senate district has traditionally been a sleepy race: No one has spent more than $ 40,000 for an election there, and often Marcellino has faced largely token opposition.

Leech's win was hailed as «historic» signifying the first gain for any party in Manchester other than Labour for the first time in six years and provided the city with its first opposition for two years.

Cuomo referred to marijuana as a «gateway drug» less than a year ago and, at the time, announced continued opposition to recreational marijuana.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

Relief that it hasn't lost more council seats when this is the first time for more than 30 years an opposition didn't gain is the low expectation of a stalled party.

By the time the votes were counted, all 36 opposition candidates put together had less votes than Obiano.

After lambasting Nana Akufo - Addo for what the big - time entrepreneur terms as the New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate's woeful lack of «wisdom» to be elected President of Ghana — he has yet to inform us about the level of President Mahama's wisdom, if any at all, that qualifies this grossly incompetent Ghanaian leader to be reckoned as a better presidential material than the man he claims to have intimately befriended for quite a while now — Alhaji Asoma Banda now says that what he actually meant was that the three - time NPP Presidential Candidate lacks the requisite wisdom to unite the membership of the country's main opposition party, and therefore Akufo - Addo logically lacks the wisdom to become President of Ghana (See «Nana Addo Has No Wisdom to Unite People — Alhaji Banda» TV3Network.com 12/24/15).

Most accounts say Thatcher's experience as a junior Pensions minister and Education Secretary was negligible and affected very little - as PM, she preferred to refer to her time spent as an Opposition spokesman than to her time in government.

The long - time opposition figure also ran in the 2007 election, which was followed by violence fuelled by ethnic divisions that killed more than 1,000 people.

If Plaid can present an effective opposition in the Assembly their time may come a lot sooner than people think.

When it comes to local elections, we have quite high expectations of what oppositions should achieve because we basically say, if a party looks as though it is potentially regarded as an alternative government, it should be doing very well in local elections, even better than you would expect to do in a general election in 12 months» time.

According to the Financial Times, a vote on the renewal of Trident could also be brought forward after 23 June in a bid to force Tories to focus on the Labour opposition rather than the rancorous EU campaign.

Opposition also marks Jupiter's closest point to us, and the planet appears brighter in the night sky than at any other time in the year.