Sentences with phrase «won a losing battle»

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This year, the innovation battle will be won and lost in the K - 12 classroom.

Just don't win the battle and lose the war.»

While the rise and fall of opportunist Pilbara iron ore aspirant Cazaly Resources Ltd has won and lost sharemarket punters millions of dollars, its battle for the Shovelanna deposit is destined for the courts for months, possibly years.

Still, for opponents of violent games, it's a battle won in a lost war.

The company said in February it was losing more than $ 1 billion a year in China's red - hot ride hailing market, where it is battling large local incumbents to win customers.

So if your social extensions resulted in thousands of people clicking on your ads but no one actually buying anything from you, you would win the battle but lose the war (more specifically, you would be making money for Google but not for your business).

Move, a News Corp. subsidiary, operates realtor.com, which is battling to win back consumer traffic that it's lost to Zillow and Trulia in recent years.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Here's a clue: when it comes to investing, they don't mind losing the battles, confident they will win the war.

Obsessing about CTR without regard for conversion rate, for example, is just one example of winning the QS battle but losing the search engine marketing profitability war.

Take some time to analyze the SERPs because this is where a big part of the battle will either be won or lost.

Where cultivating relationships in whale accounts is concerned, the battle really is won or lost before it's ever fought.

Such a tactic will allow the critics to win the battle, but lose the war because it concedes the Modern outlook.

And trusting your singleness to God is a battle that can be won or lost many times a day.

You're points are invalid; Gar marriage is not won, it's a waste of time in our political system but it's not a battle or argument that has been won or lost.

This is not something the Atheist will win but sometimes a losing battle still needs to be fought.

For how do we know how many valiant battles such a person may have fought and won before he loses that one particular battle?

Albert Shanker and the American Federation of Teachers may have won some of the battles in Brooklyn, but they lost the larger war, as American liberalism, forced to choose between maintaining its classic emphasis on a race - blind society and keeping pace with the new black militancy, eventually chose the latter.

Everyone's fighting a hard battle that they're losing — and winning is staying in the battle.

I fought, and at last I began to win more battles than I lost.

It is a perfect example of where the government won the battle but lost the war.

As for using it to condemn gays it always has it just that a man from the APA decided to lie and distort the truth, thats the problem moron.You side with man and hope he wins, well he may win the battle but he will lose the war.

He may win the battle but lose the war.

Though Blankenhorn believes his side won the battle in the late 1980s and 1990s over whether marriage is key to children's well - being (many now agree it is), he fears losing the war.

Physical scars from battles won or lost invoke pity and attention, and so of themselves help the healing process if one is fortunate enough to be surrounded by loving people.

The winning or losing of a battle is explained by the comparative strengths of the armies, by the tactics of commanders and the actions of troops, not by the favorable or antagonistic intervention of God.

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

As the battle progresses, the Black Knight loses both arms and both legs, and through it all, he still thinks he is going to win.

It does not matter whether they win or lose a particular battle.

We lose the battle because losing is the only way to win.

There is a revolution afoot in mental health that has two fronts: First is a massive effort to win a battle that mankind has been losing through the centuries.

«You may win some short term battles, but you are destined to lose your war.»

Eventually the priest is executed; the lieutenant has won the battle against him, and yet since the influence of priest and priesthood remain, the lieutenant has lost the battle for the people's loyalty.

[When I moved from the Carolinas to Massachusetts for school] most of the white Southerners at the time could recite long lists of battles lost and won and argue over...

The first is a massive effort to win a battle that mankind has been losing through the centuries — the provision of humane, effective treatment for the mentally and emotionally disturbed.

Paul puts the mind first because that is where the battle is won or lost.

After spending the first 20 - something years of his life in a constant battle with his weight, and then nearly losing both his legs while on deployment as a US Marine, George has learned the tools to win at life through his own experiences and battles with Anxiety and PTSD.

While Apple Inc in May lost a battle for the use of the «iPhone» trademark on leather goods, Facebook won a dispute against a local beverage manufacturer that had filed in 2011 to label certain foods and beverages «face book».

After enduring an absolutely awful stretch of basketball during which they lost 14 of 15 games, Atlanta has now won four straight and is battling with the Charlotte Bobcats for the seventh seed.

If you indeed think of this as a five - way title race, Louisville will have the most say in the battle, win or lose.

Arsenal won the match 2 - 0, but there is no doubt Alexis lost this battle with Tuanzebe, who made a promising Premier League debut as United manager Jose Mourinho rang the changes to keep his main men fresh for Thursday's big Europa League semifinal.

After losing the second set 7 - 6 on a 7 - 5 tiebreaker, the world's ninth - ranked player battled back to win the next two sets, 6 - 4 and 6 - 3.

mets can do a good job on a good day all we need to do is to pack the midfield because that is where the battle will be won and lost

Mesut is in the centre though, and that is where the battle is won and lost with it being so crucial.

sure that is where battle is won and lost.

The battle is won and lost as they say, we need to treat Middl with respect.

@RSH what I was trying to say is that it takes more than world class players to win you the league.In many instances the mentality factor far outweighs the quality when the team is playing on the Wenger.With Wenger I don't see us having a strong mentality.We might have even lost the battle before it is fought.Trust me there's a higher chance w» ell not win the EPL if even Wenger made all the right signings.You know why?It's not because of the so called quality of other teams but we will be the cause of our own downfall this season again.

There is no big advantage to winning one battle if you lose the war anyway, which has happened in our last four meetings with Bayern.

You can never completely know a new coach's fit within the culture of the program ahead of time, you don't know which recruiting battles he's going to win and lose, etc..

Arsenal have lost their last two away league games, and they were games they'd be expected to win against two sides (Bournemouth and Swansea) involved in the tight battle to avoid the drop this season.