Sentences with phrase «to root against»

Fans, and especially patrons, as they are called at the Masters, do not root against players.

Now he is often actively rooting against the team.

I never want to lose fans, or have people root against me.

The audience loves this opportunity to participate in my program and the universal feeling of rooting against a bad guy in a story.

We're never rooting against them, but it's safe to say we might be cheering for the giants in the more juvenile part of our brain.

While some of these organisms are harmful to roots by causing damage or even plant death, others are beneficial and enhance nutrient acquisition and protect roots against pathogens.

They will be a lot easier to root against going forward.

The fact that the toxin is close to the root tips could be an indication that the toxin not only protects the fungus but also the plant roots against predators.

It's hard to root against Death when the people involved are never brought to life in the first place.

I don't root for them but I sure don't root against them and sure as hell don't hate them.

As for Pool vs ManU — I always root against Mourinho, so there's your answer.

There's not a person in the crowd or media who roots against the two - time heart transplant survivor, and we all just want him to get that first win and stay on the PGA Tour forever.

I think we can all join together in rooting against the sequel Cinderella 2: The Red Wedding.

I like Dax Shephard, Kristen Bell, and Bradley Cooper, so I'm certainly not rooting against Hit and Run.

Bold, yes, and almost as dumb as rooting against Italy!

There's also a twist that you can't help but put your finger on; one of those twists that you actively root against happening for how ludicrous the reality of it would feel.

Where opinions likely differ is what to do about such hecklers who clearly cross the line from being annoying and obnoxious (we're looking at you, «Get in the hole» guy) to boorish and cowardly, like the guy who aggressively and loudly rooted against Thomas and then refused to own up to his churlish behavior when JT confronted him.

Chris Sale is a little easier to root against now that he is in opponent colors, but Q will be like Buehrle where I will always appreciate his efforts and wish him nothing but the best.

Also, I'm actively rooting against Anaheim (although it looks like they don't actually need my animosity to help them go down in flames), Colorado (sorry, icvstars), Minnesota -LRB-» nuf said), Boston (I just can not), Pittsburgh (no!)

I usually root against all non-Cal California schools.

Utley already has a ring, so no point rooting against another one as a bench player.

I remember rooting against it like a dummy because there was something arrogant about a rookie having that kind of immediate success, and I remember immediately realizing how stupid that thought was when Bobby Higginson's ball sailed over the fence.

They root harder and louder for some more than others, but there's never any active rooting against the other guy playing next to or on the same course as the one that may be your preferred choice.

But even though my fan - blood oath requires me to root against Kershaw, there's also a draw to the side of logic.

Eric Boggan, the best American table - tennis player in 25 years, lets his voice ring through the Sportzentrum in Bayreuth, West Germany until the 500 spectators rooting against him are quiet.

Always root against Philly.

«I'm rooting against Rios.»

I also don't want to root against Charlie.

I have never understood rooting against your team just so that your coach / GM gets fired, I don't care who the staff is, as long as they win.

One good thing about this years playoffs, it seems, is that I will get to root against houston for more games than usual.

He is Duke's modern day Christian Laettner, a player that brought the country together by rooting against him.

The crowd was done trying to root against Rory, and they showed their appreciation for his fourth straight birdie, and most elaborate celebration yet.

Many on the left are rooting against Reid, who is no Tom Daschle to the grassroots, and If Blanche Lincoln is threatening to block the President's top priority (and the top priority of the Democratic Party Platform since 1948), is anyone going to be shedding tears?

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and the University of Bern, Switzerland, have now demonstrated that a single compound in the latex protects dandelion roots against voracious cockchafer larvae.

REVIEW: I'd never root against Zach Braff.

At times, everyone in the audience almost begins to root against Moses.

Hard to root against Sandra Bullock.

The strangest part of this movie — the sixth to follow Tobe Hooper's iconic and still terrifying The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — is that it is very clearly rooting against its potential victims and for the chainsaw - wielding maniac known as Leatherface.

His work was so moving, he made the audience root against the humans and hope that primates would inherit the earth.

To be clear, nobody here is rooting against Time's Up.

I suggest to you that you argue for the sake of arguing against our profession because you are not a REALTOR for if you were how can you, sell yourself to a prospective client as such and be so firmly rooted against our profession?

This film fails so miserably don't be surprised to find yourself often rooting against the supposed good guy.