Sentences with phrase «weakening the side of»

This is weakening the side of the marginal communities in the conflicts between commercial interests and survival needs» -LRB-» Ecological Perspective of Development» in Development and Politics of Survival, pp. 71 f).

I don't think that the use of either phrase strengthens or weakens either side of the greater debate, rather we are trying to say exactly what we mean.

Not exact matches

The sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona was always going to leave Liverpool weakened up front and Daniel Sturridge's injury woes didn't help matters as Rodgers saw his side fail to secure that all - important top - four finish.

«You simply do not weaken your side when faced with a game you have to win to stand a chance of progressing in the Champions League.

Another interesting statistic in defence of Ozil, would be that football is a team sport, and that it's sometimes hard for certain individuals to perform at their normal level when you're playing in a weakened team due to injuries or because your team is a generally poor side.

As pointed out by Arsene Wenger, we had already qualified on at least two of those previous occasions and although we might have still had a chance of topping the group we fielded a weakened side.

Mourinho has already said he is going to prioritise the Europa League, and with the Arsenal game sandwiched between the two semi-finals against Celta Vigo, we could have a very good chance of facing a weakened United side.

Now Big Sam is saying that he is planning to field a weakened side because of their Premier League commitments but I wonder how much value Wenger is putting on it.

Luckily we are only playing a Championship side so we could still win with a weakened team, but he admits that he is desperate to win the trophy again and he feels the extra pressure of being holders.

That is not a priority and it is also a game we should win with a weakened side, so key players should be able to have a week of rest.

Well that was about as bad as we could have feared from Arsenal, as we lost to a Swansea City side weakened by a lot of changes as they planned for their next game which is a relegation six pointer with Norwich.

i really dn't like the feeling of playing a weakened side........

With Liverpool having so many injuries perhaps tonights game could be the easiest of the three, and Merson thinks all three points is crucial to the Gunners, although he expects Klopp's weakened side to raise their game for this.

We were forced to field a weakened side due to injuries, I'll give credit to AW for his belief in our second string players but had we lost last night a lot of people would have again addressed the issue of not buying cover in the summer and rightly so.

The Forest legend Gary Birtles, who played in both those massive Finals, thinks that Arsene Wenger will be wary of playing a weakened side at the City ground.

First of all, it wasn't a «weakened» Utd side.

Despite the importance of the match - up, United are supposedly looking at weakening his side, with a view to concentrating on the Europa League instead.

However as a result of fielding a weakened side, Arsenal have often slipped up in the final match, by not achieving the win that would definitely secure our place at the top of the group.

Jose Mourinho has claimed that he will be fielding a weakened side today, with the second - leg of the European competition to take place in four days, but he is known for his mind games, and he will not be coming here to give up his unbeaten streak without a fight.

From that POV, it probably wouldn't matter whether it was Thomas Dimitroff (the guy whose neglect of the defense led the team to have to do a complete rebuild in the first place) or some other guy with weakened GM powers, if you devote almost every high value pick for six years to one side of the ball, that side of the ball will probably get better.

The lack of conviction from our players was abysmal especially as Swansea put out a weakened side as they tried to save players for a crucial match the following weekend.

Look, as the Arsenal manager is so fond of saying, if it meant playing a significantly weakened side in a Wembley final that could see Arsenal and Arsene Wenger make FA cup history, then there is no way that Theo Walcott would be in the starting XI to run out onto the hallowed turf on Saturday evening.

Arsene Wenger may have an Arsenal injury list to cope with, including two of the forwards in his squad DannY Welbeck and Lucas Perez, but that does not necessarily mean that the boss will have to field a weakened Arsenal side when we go to Old Trafford for the big Premier League match of the weekend against Jose Mourinho and his misfiring Manchester United.

With the recent trend of top sides putting out weakened teams for their domestic cup competition, an act claimed to be devaluing the prize and taking away that cup magic.

There has been much made already about teams fielding weakened sides in last night's first crop of EFL Round Two matches.

That world record Pogba fee — added to other sales, such as the $ 13m received from Watford for Roberto Pereyra — did, however, mean that Allegri's net spend this summer was under # 15m, while simultaneously improving his side and weakening that of his rivals.

Even if he were to play a dramatically weakened side, it would still be prudent to claim that it's a «strong team» as to keep the selected players» confidence high, and make clear that pressure is on the first choice players for places in the remaining fixtures of the season.

Then you must consider that Cesc Fabregas replaced the injured Denilson after only 18 minutesâ $ ¦» Spurs Odyssey «Underestimating Tottenham — and Juande Ramos — was a big mistake, and it matters not whatever the Gooner fans say about «it was our kids», «we're not bothered about the Carling Cup», «good win but it has been nine years» â $ ¦ Last night Arsenal were HUMILIATED by a Tottenham side they thought they had the measure of, with a team weakened purposely by a manager with hamfisted tactics and an over-inflated view of his strength - in - depth.»

This morning, all the newspapers were talking about how Arsene Wenger would name a weakened team, giving a side of fringe players a shot at the highest level.

The Baggies (3.80 VCbet), though, have won the last four competitive meetings and with their unbeaten home record still in tact — 3 Wins and 2 Draws — will fancy their chances of inflicting another defeat on the Citizens, as they did in the Carling Cup earlier in the season when beating a weakened City side 2 - 1 at The Hawthorns.

There seemed to be no end to the poor run of form, as a weakened Arsenal side were beaten 2 - 1 in Greece by Olympiakos.

Arsene Wenger risked fielding a weakened side and paid the price, losing in the Third Round for the first time ever in charge of the Gunners.

On the other side of the equation, numerous leading public health advocates and organizations are strongly opposed to weakening school meal standards.

«Compromises have of course have been made on both sides, but those compromises have strengthened, not weakened us.

On the bright side, forecasts show that Hurricane Maria is weakening, with sustained wind speeds of 80 miles per hour, and is expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm by Tuesday.

Progressive activist groups angered over the IDC's siding with Senate Republicans are calling on Klein to resign, a move that could weaken the breakaway faction's cohesion and improve the chances of mainline Democrats gaining the majority in the chamber.

Some advocates on both sides have been calling for the two issues to be uncoupled, even though doing do would almost certainly weaken the chances of either passing before the 2015 session ends, thanks to the Senate GOP's staunch opposition to the DREAM Act and the Assembly Democrats» general dislike (following the teachers unions's lead) of the tax credit.

He thus not only controls the size of the House of Lords, but can manipulate its membership to strengthen the government side, and thus weaken the chamber's ability to scrutinise.

«It appears that what has happened is that they are dividing and... weakening the black vote in the west side of The Bronx,» Anthony Curry, who opposed Gibson in the state primaries, said at a public redistricting hearing in October.

China views the acquisition and effective distribution of data as crucial to its ability to optimize «materials, energy and information to form a combined fighting force» and to apply «effective means to weaken the enemy side's information superiority and lower the operational efficiency of enemy information equipment,» the report says.

Steven Pavletic, who heads the Graft - versus - Host and Autoimmunity Section at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, says the standard treatments — corticosteroids such as prednisone — «carpet bomb» the immune system, causing a host of side effects and weakening the immune response to potentially deadly infections.

While the vortex was weakened and pushed to the side of the Arctic during the last week of February, temperatures below the critical freezing point are still present as of March 9 (see figure).

While investigating the side effects of antibiotics and how bacteria can develop resistance to them, researchers from MIT and Harvard have found that the drugs can actually work against the body, weakening the immune system's ability to fight off the bugs.

While patients treated longer term with doxorubicin often develop cardiomyopathy — the weakening of the heart muscle — patients treated with Doxil do not typically develop the same side effect.

But these can weaken muscles as one of their side effects.

«I would have been willing to tolerate some of the side effects of glucocorticoid use (weight gain, reduced immunity, muscle weakness, weakened bones), but there was one side - effect I could not tolerate.

When the connective tissue separating the left and right sides of the abdominal muscles is stretched beyond what it can handle, this connective tissue (called the linea alba) weakens and the muscles separate.

Fluoride causes many, many side effects, weakening bones and increasing your chance of developing osteoporosis and cancer, yet it's added to almost every municipal water supply in the country.

The hosts are fielding a weakened T20 side... He kept the scoring down to singles until the last ball of the match was sent to the boundary by Chamara Kapugedera.

Lone Star is a solid film to be sure, but it might have been even better without some of the side stories and characters who, while providing well - drawn characters and interesting things to think about, serve to weaken the overall tightness of what is a good story to begin with.