Sentence examples for skipping matches from inspiring English sources

A proud patriot, "Nole" Djokovic has never turned his back on the competition in the way Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and, more recently, Andy Murray have done by skipping matches in favour of concentrating on the grand slams.

When he started skipping matches and going off the rails, as Moran writes, "the problem was not just drink; it was whatever the drink was meant to drown out".

Though you wouldn't want to back a side whose skipper skips matches backing out with chronic back pain (even if you wouldn't back him to deal with back of a length deliveries from bowlers prepared to bend their backs and back their skills), the Aussies have to pick their men and back them all the way.

And besides, wouldn't most countries be supportive of their star player skipping a match against a minnow to be sure of making their presence felt when it was dearly needed?

When stringent conditions applied, such as skipping frequently matched patterns and PROSITE entries associated with false SWISSPROT hits [ 8], pfscan also has low coverage (see table 1).

That contrast in personas was reinforced Wednesday when Mickelson said he would skip the Match Play Championship on Feb. 17-21 in Tucson to take a family vacation that was postponed because of the cancer treatment schedules of his wife and his mother.

The 18-year-old has been criticized in Russia for skipping previous Fed Cup matches.

We found that the replaying activity is better than the skipping forward one in matching the semantics of a video, and that all interesting video segments can be found within a factor of two times the average user skipping step from the local maximums of the replay time series.

Mark Chamberlain, a former player and the father of the teenage forward Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, has said he will skip the group matches in Ukraine but may attend the tournament's later stages.

Donate a hundred and I will match you by skipping a glass of scotch.

Many big names are skipping the season-opening Accenture Match Play Championship in Australia (Jan . 4-7, including Woods, Mickelson and Westwood, who opted not to make the long trip.