Sentences with phrase «while struggling against them»

Featuring a massive selection of DC Super Heroes and Super-Villains, Injustice 2 continues the epic cinematic story introduced in «Injustice: Gods Among Us» as Batman and his allies work towards putting the pieces of society back together while struggling against those who want to restore Superman's regime.

Featuring a massive selection of DC Super Heroes and Super-Villains, Injustice 2 continues the story from the previous game as Batman and his allies work towards putting the pieces of society back together while struggling against those who want to restore Superman's regime.

Indeed, he particularly fears coming out about his attractions while struggling against them, which would get him labeled a repressed homosexual, the gay - basher who himself is queer, the gay kid who thinks it's just some disorder.

Not exact matches

While the company amassed an army of fanboy followers over much of its history as the underdog in the epic struggle against the «evil empire» (Microsoft), it's perhaps understandable that haters are now popping out of the woodwork.

While the sale was a struggle — Skype's founders launched a legal battle against eBay that put the deal in peril — the real work for the new owners is just beginning.

While the world has made incalculable gains in the struggle against mosquito - borne diseases, new challenges — like resistance to artemisinin treatments for malaria — are now threatening to turn back the clock.

While Facebook is still struggling with the debacle, the development in a major lawsuit filed against it in 2015 has only increased the problems for the Mark Zuckerberg.

I have been struggling with this question for several years now, and while I am not ready to claim I have a «solution» (nothing but pride would make such a claim), I do have a theological hypothesis which will be tested against Scripture.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

«Throughout this and other gay - marriage campaigns, some queer activists have expressed their own discomfort about feeling obligated to fight for an institution about which they feel ambivalent while other essential battles — against HIV / AIDS, homelessness, domestic violence, and general discrimination — struggle for money and media attention,» wrote Deirdre Fulton in the Portland Phoenix.

Another congregant, who said she chose not to read any news coverage of the trial, struggled with her own internal conflict, saying she trusted that the jury had made the right decision while holding out hope that Sandusky did not really abuse the boys who testified against him.

Some of us, feeling the need for a name that would primarily indicate the struggle against sexism that is part of our daily bread while also helping us identify one another in the trenches as we fight for our survival within different Hispanic communities and in society at large, have called ourselves feministas hispanai.

But while we continue to struggle against these sinful temptations, what has been given to us in Christ Jesus is liberation from the shackles of sin that claims us as its own.

While the Psalmist seems to believe that his enemies are people of flesh and blood, further revelation from the New Testament reveals that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this age, and against spiritual forces of wickedness (Eph 6:12).

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».

But while the second half of the season saw the Gunners win away against Man City and Manchester United, it also saw us struggle to beat lesser teams like Newcastle, QPR and Burnley.

we might but not the point... we are struggling again against a third tier european team while kidding ourselves that this is the season when we finally put aside the decade of failure... giroud ramsey jenks gibbs at the end of the day are mid table quality

Two of our wins have come against teams really struggling in Stoke and Newcastle, while our goal return compared to the amount of possession and chances created is less than impressive.

A few key contributors really struggled on the offensive side of the ball as their leading scorer and the leagues second leading scorer, Sterling Williams, was only able to muster 12 points against a very stingy Team Harlander D. Michael Halusek was able to put up 17 points while Chris Hicks chipped in with 10, unfortunately that just wasn't enough to get them past a very determined Team Harlander.

He struggled with his shot against Toronto but averaged over 12 assists per game while Marcin Gortat and Bradley Beal handled the scoring.

David Ospina's howler against Swansea City on Monday condemned the Gunners to a rare defeat, while the Colombian has only been playing due to the struggles of Woijech Szczesny.

Houston just dropped two straight to the Memphis, while San Antonio has struggled against elite teams all year.

He generated Heisman buzz while completing 19 of 22 passes against Texas in the 2015 opener, but he struggled against Virginia the next week (7 - for - 18), then broke his ankle and was lost for the season.

It's to be expected if he doesn't deliver such is his importance to Jose Mourinho's side, and he has particularly struggled in recent outings having been replaced at Tottenham and Newcastle, while he came off the bench in the game against Huddersfield sandwiched in between.

Theo, Danny and Alexis can all play on either side or in the middle although they struggle sometimes against some oppositions while playing through the middle.

We struggled to beat and score against the poorest Chelsea side in a long time while every other team was dismantling them.

The Liverpool boss confirmed that Andy Robertson has overcome a knock he sustained last time out, while Jordan Henderson is likely to get the green - light to feature having suffered a knock of his own against Porto along with Georginio Wijnaldum who had been struggling with an illness.

It would have been interesting, for the FA cup neutrals at least, if Arsenal had reached halftime without scoring against Lincoln City, because up until THeo Walcott did score the opening goal in first half stoppage time we had struggled for fluency and penetration while the visitors were looking confident, solid and dangerous.

Khabib didn't exactly look unbeatable in there.2 rounds of control and low damage, 3 rounds of struggling for take downs and letting his jab carry him while making a lot of defensive untechnical pullbacks against someone who was looking for a big one punch and refused to even parry or move from the jab.

While Mourinho struggles in the big games, managing just one goal in his last ten away games against fellow top six sides, Manchester City have already beaten Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal this season by a 9 - 1 aggregate scoreline.

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.

While Man City may well have opened up a sizeable gap that is unlikely to be made up between now and the end of the season by any of the chasing pack, Chelsea still have to play for second place, and their supporters will be in good spirits for the New Year after such a commanding display, albeit against a struggling Stoke side.

These guys struggled against Leicester and even Burnley for while.

Houston struggled early and got benched in favor of the lefty redshirt freshman; Hornibrook held on for a while, but the two began splitting time in November, and Hornibrook suffered a head injury against Minnesota.

While Arsenal have often struggled in our away games against the Potters, the record against them at home is exemplary, with 14 wins in a row in all competitions.

While he appeared to be over what looked like a minor shoulder injury, Luck admitted in 2017 that the shoulder problems he's still struggling with first started with that September 2015 game against the Titans.

While I don't want to be pernickety of his defensive errors and the struggles he has endured against the likes of Demba Ba, Kevin Mirallas and Eden Hazard — a handful of players who have investigated Chambers» ability — it is something he needs to work on.

This is one of the most balanced formations and in my opinion I think it's only second to the traditional 4 -4-2 flat.We played the best football while using 4 -2-3-1 but of late, with this 5 -2-3 or 3 -4-3 (depending on how you view it) we've been struggling even against smaller teams.Arsenal is a team that is really rely on triangles for incisive short passes but honestly with 3 -4-3 (or 5 -2-3) you just can't form the triangles.That's why struggle against mediocre teams like Stoke, Leicester.I noticed the same thing while we were playing Sevilla in Emirates cup friendly.

Saturday sees the Gunners take on a struggling AFC Bournemouth side at the Emirates Stadium and there is no doubt that the boss will be fielding a strong and Arsenal side as possible as it is vital that we add another three points to those gained in the opening game against Leicester, while also getting the home fans back on side after a slow start and a frustrating transfer window.

Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cincinnati Bengals: Both of these AFC North contenders are coming off a rather uninspiring Week 13 that saw the Bengals edge out a victory against the lowly Bucs, while the Steelers lost to a struggling Saints team at home 35 - 32, in a score that was nowhere near indicative of the play.

And while Cleveland's Fausto Carmona has the upper hand in his matchup with the struggling Daisuke Matsuzaka, Boston's Curt Schilling (3.34 ERA, a 30 - to - 4 strikeout - to - walk ratio since coming off the disabled list on Aug. 6) is an even bigger favorite against Jake Westbrook.

They were struggling to alternate between Hinton and Wolford, and while things got better when Hinton injured his knee against Delaware, gains were short - lived once better teams started showing up.

Perhaps most frustrating though is their inability to look a threat away from home against their direct rivals as they've struggled against Liverpool and Chelsea in recent weeks, while they weren't much better when they secured a 1 - 0 win over Tottenham at Old Trafford last month.

While underdogs struggled, betting against the public proved to be a successful strategy.

Southampton are coming off a nice draw against Liverpool while Everton struggled just to get a point against Swansea.

Wisconsin at Michigan St (Saturday 12:00 pm ET) Michigan State has certainly exceeded my expectations and got a huge road win at Notre Dame last week, while Wisconsin struggled at home against Georgia State.

It's a critical lesson Cleveland Browns fans learned on Sunday while watching their team struggle once again to do anything against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

And while some were impressed with Wanyama's showing against Brighton on Tuesday (Football.London awarded him a match rating eight out of 10, while Efan Ekoku - the former Premier League striker turned BBC Sport commentator - described him as «outstanding»), many Spurs fans are struggling to agree.

Yet, while the first team labour outside the Champions League qualification places, struggling even to summon up the spirit to compete against our fiercest rivals in what remains of a disastrous European campaign, Warren Joyce's Under 21s go from strength to strength.

While they have struggled on recent visits to Turf Moor, of the six times that they have been drawn against Burnley in the FA Cup (seven matches in total), the Lilywhites have won four of them.