Sentences with phrase «up against the failure»

Not exact matches

Failure and uncertainty are necessary structures for you to bump up against for the development of your own refinement.

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

But facing our failure should lead us to a keener sense of what we're up against.

I ask this because I've struggled with similar feelings throughout my life — processing various failures, weaknesses, and disappointments as practical signs that God is not for me, but against me — either toying with me, cursing me, punishing me, rejecting me, or choosing not to bless me for not living up to his standards.

That's all well and good, but don't you see how your failure to participate could bias those that do against anything you might bring up during the rest of the meeting?

I am not a fisherman myself, and some years ago my consistent failure in attempts to catch fish prompted me to think that I was not merely up against the operation of ordinary luck; instead it was my fate that was dooming me to catchlessness.

So you have the general organizational failures with prospects butting up against specific organizational failures when it comes to shortstops.

Most sincere AFC fan also knew failure to recruit durin d winter of last season meant the end of our title chance bt this season its crystal we could have won it had it been we turn up early, am sure most of the pundits wouldn't have bet against us had it been we led the table till this january as againts last season.

Incidents like his failure to track back and give any help to the defence in the buiold up to the contentious penalty awarded against Hector Bellerin at Watford on Saturday do not help the German, though, and only make it easier to believe the report by Metro that people at Arsenal are becoming very concerned about Ozil.

The only real negativity to Ozil's return has been his failure to stand up in the big games against Manchester United in the FA Cup and AS Monaco in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League at the Emirates.

Now that failure is coming home to roost, because Mathieu Debuchy picked up an injury in the game against Man City and, although we do not know how serious it is yet, it looks like the Frenchman will miss a good chunk of games.

Our failure against the unfancied French club Monaco is fresh in the memory again as the second legs of the tournament are upon us and maybe that is why our Big Effin German has brought up the topic in a statement on the Arsenal website.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

Theo is an expensive failure and to keep giving him the chance when he has repaid the clubs faith with being a bottler and acting as if he's a lazy git (watched him a number of seasons ago against Blackburn away and all he did was run up and down the wing without even calling for the ball to draw defenders away from the centre) I hate to say it but in my mind Alan Hansen was right when he said that «Walcott has not got a natural footballers brain» It infuriated me at the time but its been proven to be true I feel he's been collecting his money for too long without a result to justify keeping him in our employment.

5 - 1 at anfield countless 4 - 0 beatings at anfield, 6 - 3 at Man City 10 - 2 on aggregate against Bayern not to mention that disaster at Newcastle 4 - 0 up only to draw 4 - 4 what about the managers failure to strengthen areas that needed strengthen?

Players should learn how to move on from the past and play their game, that's something Wenger can't teach, but having said that if they can't learn how to overcome their psychological frailties after 2 years of constant failure against the same team then it's up to the manager to bench or sell the players and find a better ones who are willing to give their all to win.

Some people may term his time at the Santiago Bernabeu a failure but he was up against one the greatest club teams ever in Pep's Barcelona.

I ended up lodging a formal complaint against the hospital because they made me feel like a failure for just trying to find the best way to feed my baby.

The issue with this sort of wording (and thought process) is that it sets women up with doubt and it sets the doctor on the defense against the failure of the trial.

«Even after a state ethics report criticized him for covering up allegations of sexual harassment against a powerful assemblyman, even after a prosecutor said his failure to act might have put other women at risk, even after a number of editorial boards called for his ouster, Mr. Silver is still standing strong.»

The failure to fulfil the Tory pledge for automatic jail sentences for carrying a knife illegally and the fact the Human Rights Act still has not been replaced by a British Bill of Rights are certainly points against the Conservatives, but they were respectively scored by Ken Clarke and a Commission set up by the Prime Minister, so count as own goals.

Just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo was wrapping up his Q - and - A with reporters by railing against New York Republicans, calling out state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for failing to join Rep. Pete King in decrying the House leadership's failure to bring the Sandy disaster aid bill to the floor, the following statement from Skelos arrived in my in - box:

Another failure for the Liberal Democrats has been in relation to their pledge to deliver «a fair deal by cleaning up politics», following the 67.9 % vote against the introduction of the alternative vote system in the May 2011 referendum and the absence of the promised elected House of Lords.

Although the failure to reach a living wage agreement with the developer had been a key issue in the weeks of debate leading up to the City Council vote, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn cited traffic issues as integral to the decision to vote against the project.

Her failure to answer basic questions about fuel duty when up against Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight was such a train wreck it kept trending on Twitter well into the following day.

Ezekwesili, who emphasized the power citizens wield, maintained that unless Nigerians wake up and stand against the «failure of government» the country would remain the same.

Timothy Wu, a Columbia University law professor, is running against Hochul and is teamed up with Teachout in a campaign focused on what they contend have been Cuomo's failures to follow through on pledges to deal with corruption and campaign finance reform, among other issues.

Cameron is not whipping up the rage against Labour failure that one would expect.

But we also come up against our limitations there, battling against equipment failure, aching cold, and the frontiers of technology.

Hard knocks that happen at startup and go away quickly are a sure sign it is an early failure and oil related to a rod or main knock, piston slap against the cylinder wall and wrist pin knocks will persist after warm up and get worse with engine rpm.

A good old fashioned highway tune - up, not lugging the engine in city traffic and allowing the engine to reach operating temperature before running it hard or shutting it off are your best defence against rotary engine failure.

Just because it's the best BlackBerry doesn't make it the best smartphone out there, and its failure to make any serious adjustments for the better make it a less appealing option when it's put up against competition like Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone 7 devices.

The primary benefit of sweeping uninvested cash balances to a bank deposit program is to obtain FDIC insurance, which protects your cash against losses in the event of a bank failure (up to $ 250,000 per bank per account type and up to $ 1.5 million allocated across banks in this program).

This can be clearly observed in the changing nature of Zamano's business — Spain & Australia proved a bust, their US business is now in wind - down as Verizon and AT&T tightened up their policies, and even their Irish business is under serious threat due to Comreg's new Code of Practice (& the failure of legal challenge (s) against it).

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Release (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue the cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Re-Abandon (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue to cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

Failure of any pit bull dog at any time to wear an up - to - date rabies vaccination tag issued by a licensed veterinarian who administered the vaccine shall be prima facie evidence of the dog's lack of vaccination against rabies and subject such dog to immediate confiscation by the animal control officer.

The simple act of grooming pollen off fur after brushing up against certain types of lilies can cause severe acute kidney failure.

Holiday Extras End Supplier Failure cover protects travellers against the insolvency of hotel and travel companies up to # 5,000 per person.

If you are heading into a mission where you must capture the creature then you should read up on what it is weak against, create the relevant items and put them in your bag — failure to do so could mean you waste up to an hour trying to capture the creature with the wrong gear.

Rodney McMillian sets himself up for failure, the artists in residence in «Tenses» ride the roller - coaster, and Larry Walker is still up against the wall.

A segment of the Board of Trustees, many of whom resigned going back to 2008, the last bunch of which has resigned in June 2015, had an ideological bias against giving merit scholarships to children of the middle class, a bias that conveniently covered up their own failures of duties as trustees.

He may be down here with us little guys, feeling his way through the system, bumping up against its flaws and failures, like George Grosz or, more recently, Mike Kelley.

In addition to extensive trial experience, Hicks has had many successes in the Appellate Courts and was lead counsel in Crippen vs. Central Jersey Concrete Pipe, 176 N.J. 397, 823 A2d 789 (2003), in which a widow sued her late husband's employer for covering up its failure to correct violations found by OSHA in its equipment circumventing the statutory Workers Compensation bar to employee lawsuits against their employer.

For example, we have challenged inaction and insufficiently protective regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and we have challenged to other Consumer Product Safety Commission's failure to live up to a statutory mandate to provide protection against hazardous materials.

With the more event - based, traumatic injuries such as amputations and crush injuries, the cause is often related to poor employee training, lack of safety gear, and failure to implement proper lockout / tagout procedures, which protect against unexpected start ups while workers are performing maintenance on a machine.

Overall, the risk is that without targeted evaluations, set against well considered benchmarks and reporting on relevant indicators, policy failure may take some while to show up in the key, or «headline», indicators.

When I work with couples, I've taken to calling it the «Iceberg of Disconnection» — the ability we have as couples to hyper - focus on the tip - top jutting out of the water and then continue bumping up against each other due to failure to note the fuller berg below.

A «fixed mindset» assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens that we can't change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.