Sentence examples for obvious penalties from inspiring English sources

Only the most obvious penalties could be called against them, so they began to get away with more and more, until the standard of what was allowable had moved.

The trouble with all of us, he believed, is that when we were young we never knew anybody who could or would tell us any of the penalties of making it in the world on the usual terms: "I don't mean just the pretty obvious penalties, I mean the ones that are just about unnoticeable and that do really lasting damage, the kind the world doesn't even think of as damage".

Chile themselves were denied an obvious penalty when Cristian Zapata hacked down Alexis with four minutes to go.

It might have been accidental but it was an obvious penalty and Agüero scored confidently from the spot.

Its players looked to have an obvious penalty kick when Dempsey seemed to be clearly tripped just before halftime, but Aguilar did not call a foul.

And once again, some crucial decisions -- an apparently obvious penalty denied to Arsenal and moments later a bizarre free kick gifting Porto a goal -- led to a furor of accusation against the referee.

2.55am GMT 42 mins Big obvious penalty shot as Dempsey is tripped in the box after the keeper has flapped at a ball and missed completely, and Miller (who else?) has tripped the US captain.

To their credit they weathered the storm and when it blew itself out they could easily have had at least one more goal, Marshall denying Cissé with a point-blank save and the referee, Kevin Friend, refusing them what was an obvious penalty for handball by Andrew Taylor.

"The first one is an obvious penalty, nothing to say, but the second one is very, very dubious," said Villas-Boas.

The visitors had the better first-half chances, being denied an obvious penalty when Lowe's goalbound lob struck Mark Ellis's arm.

Warnock added: "I said to Brendan, 'I hope it's the most obvious penalty that you've ever had not given', and we just had a laugh, both of us".