Sentence examples for increase offense from inspiring English sources

Tackling and blocking rules were modified to increase offense and improve player safety.

Three players tied for last season's lead with 41 goals, and the momentum has slowed on most rules changes proposed to increase offense.

The general managers and owners will consider rules changes this summer to increase offense, including moving back the nets, reducing the size of goalie pads and forbidding goalies to steer and clear the puck when away from their nets.

(Ever-increasing offense is rare, too; only once has runs per game increased as many as five years in a row, from 1917 to 1922).

Two other statisticians who do consulting work with N.H.L. clubs, Kevin Mongeon and Mike Boyle of the Sports Analytics Institute, say that fights did tend to open up a game, increasing offense in the five minutes that follow.

Those minutes were spent with the interviewer, Lauren Green, asking Aslan to explain why a Muslim would write a book about Jesus — with Aslan coolly emphasizing his credentials and the non-Islamic nature of his argument — and then with Green asking variations on the Muslim question, to increasing offense and diminishing returns.

The lengthening of games is attributed to longer breaks between half-innings for television commercials, increased offense, more pitching changes, and a slower pace of play with pitchers taking more time between each delivery, and batters stepping out of the box more frequently.

"Every rule change I can remember is predicated first on safety and then to increase the offense.

In 1978 the N.F.L. expanded its regular season to 16 games and adjusted the holding and downfield contact rules to increase passing offense.

The proposed amendments to the insider trading guideline would increase the "offense level," which determines the recommended sentence, by two points if the violation involved "sophisticated insider trading," and four points if the person was an officer or director of a public company or affiliated with a brokerage firm or investment adviser.

In many ways the project has been an absolute success: Improved trust between sex workers and the police, due to a dedicated liaison officer, has led to an 80percentt increase in offenses and attacks being reported, with two rapists being jailed as a direct result of the scheme.