Sentence examples for lightweight before from inspiring English sources

Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal manager who formerly coached in Japan, called the Japanese national team "quite a lightweight" before the tournament.

McGregor expressed his desire to hold both titles at once, allowing a No 1 contender to emerge in the featherweight division while he competes at lightweight before returning to 145 lbs to defend the crown he won in Las Vegas last Saturday night.

The 29-year-old was a season finalist and went 2-3 in the UFC as a lightweight before dropping 10 pounds to the featherweight division.

If you have worked with lightweight embossing foil before, beautiful designs can be made using this as the wrap around the candle.

Reigning European champion Cordina squeezed past Ireland's David Oliver Joyce in a quality lightweight bout, before Buatsi overcame another Ukrainian, Oleksandr Khyzhniak.

Mosley (29-0), arguably one of the top five fighters in the world, retained his International Boxing Federation lightweight title before a crowd of 4,062.

In the closing moments of 2014, Manchester's Anthony Crolla was just a month away from fighting for the WBA world lightweight title, before suffering a fractured skull and broken ankle as he attempted to apprehend burglars.

Hanks, too, started in lightweight comedies, before growing into more mature everyman-ish parts and advocacy: both men are outspoken on the debt they owe to the US military.

For their part, Democrats, gleeful that their president enjoys a double-digit poll lead over Mr Romney on foreign policy, were painting the Republican as a diplomatic lightweight long before trouble flared in Libya.As the row grew, a sort of clarity was offered by Sarah Palin, the conservative movement's instinct-channelling collective id.

Announced last year by Stephen Hawking and Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who has put $100m into funding the first five years of the project, Breakthrough Starshot's goal is to develop chips with a weight of roughly one gram and fit them to a lightweight sail before propelling them through space with a 100-billion watt laser.

Former three-weight world champion Linares, 31, made one more defence of his WBC lightweight belt before he was forced to vacate because of inactivity.