Sentence examples for bite in the final from inspiring English sources

With Emmanuel Eboue preferred at right-back to Bacary Sagna, the Gunners were certainly more offensive down the flanks, if without lacking any real bite in the final third.

Their play was characterised by misplaced passes, uncertainty in defence and a lack of bite in the final third.

The victory was rarely in doubt for Chelsea against a Monterrey side who showed plenty of endeavour but lacked bite in the final third.

Hazard and Marko Marin posed problems down either flank in a low-key opening, but Chelsea lacked bite in the final third and the longer the first half progressed the more content the Londoners were to concede possession to the home team.

To prove he had been bitten in the final, for instance, he ripped off his vest off so they could inspect up close, while proclaiming: "Look!

One pointed out that in the first half of last year the TV advertising market was only slightly down year-on-year, with the economic downturn really biting in the final six months of 2008, so the comparative year-on-year figures for later in 2009 may not be so bad.

Isringhausen, after a perfect ninth inning in Game 1, had both dugouts, as well as the raucous crowd, biting their fingernails in the final inning of Game 2. The A's had stretched a one-run lead to two in the top of the ninth by scoring an unearned run against Mariano Rivera, the best reliever in the business.

But even the "procedural document" bit the dust in the final minutes of a 4-week negotiating session that ended on 18 August.

Crean wanted another bite of the Final Four apple he'd had with Wade in 2003, and he was more likely to get it in Bloomington.

And Labor's accusation that the Coalition intends to privatise Medicare (it is actually considering outsourcing Medicare's payment system) is obviously biting and set to feature large in the final two weeks, with Shorten declaring the election a "referendum on the future of Medicare".

THAILAND is in the final stretch of a nail-biting election campaign, with only three days to go.