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league

A league is a group of sports teams that play against each other. Rodriguez won the American League most-valuable-player award in 2003 and 2005. The chances of your son making the National Hockey League are close to zero. He spent the summer driving around Texas, watching minor league baseball games. They played in this year's league championship, but lost by six points. They could win and finish as the best team in the best league. A league is a group of people who have joined together to promote a similar idea. The League of Conservation Voters is one of the largest and most political environmental groups in the country. If you are not in the same league as somebody else, they are much better than or different from you. The Toyota Corolla is not even in the same league as the beautiful new Jaguar. If you are out of your league, you're trying something too difficult for you. If you are in league with somebody, you are working with them, usually in secret and for a bad reason. A league is a distance of 4,828 metres on land or 5,556 metres at sea.

league

an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action unite to form a league an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)

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Simple sentences

Our team has topped the league this season.
Japan seceded from the League of Nations in 1933.
My son practices with his Little League baseball team every weekend.
She's out of your league.
She's an Ivy League graduate.
He's way out of my league.
She's way out your league.
Tom is way out of your league.
Tom's team is the worst team in the league.
She's way out of your league.
He's way out of your league.
You're not in her league.
The Champions League is a competition which is difficult to win.
It's still minor league but in the not so distant future they'll be coming to a place near you.
If you're gonna get into the Evil League of Evil, you have to have a memorable laugh.
She's way out of my league.
You are way out of your league.
You don't have to go to an Ivy League college to get a good education.

Movie subtitles

Pastia, tavern keeper, in league with the smugglers.
Play it up big! Major league!
Unless it had seven-league boots. it couldn't get to the Bedlington Hotel. 150 miles from Falden Abbey.
So it was you behind the Red Headed League.
Imagine asking me to lead the Pure Prairie League.
You're batting out of your league.
Baby, you and me don't play in the same league.
These dear ladies of the Law and Order League are scouring out the dregs of the town.
I've invited the ladies of the Law and Order League.
Third Avenue girl in the major league at last.
You're in league with wretched Foley.
Are they still in the league?
I thought I'd have a chance last night but when I walked into the League of Nations with two sparrows under my arm.
I hate their women, too, especially the big-league blondes.
Major league!
I dreamt you were a great success at the League of Nations.
I came into the League of Nations, dressed in the most striking Paris gown.
Finally, I came back to the League of Nations.
Art, music, history, the League of Nations.
It's out of your league, pal.
I'm sure not going to Texas now. Imagine them asking me to lead the Pure Prairie League.
Is she in league with Tyrone?
Well, then, where does Jarvis come in with his Purity League?
Stourton of the Lytham Liberal League.
Now, John. last time, your mother had the Decency League investigate my place.
Yeah, that's the idea, but that's just bush-league money.
I had the same lawyers as the League of Nations. Oh. I'm entirely free.
Primrose League.
Anti-Vice League?
Don't get me mixed up with no league that rubs out innocent little bakers and.
He's head of the Voters League.
I am travelling on a League of Nations passport.
My father was a major-league umpire.
I think you're in league with the devil.
It is known that it is improper to appear without the boots before the ladies' eyes. Begging your pardon, madams, they are seven-league boots.
If you'll drop this Junior League patter. we may get the conversation down where it belongs.
I beat him when they came and played us in the league.
Right in the major league.

News and current affairs

Arab League officials approved the proposal.
Crown Prince Abdullah's initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
A League of Democracies?
By implicitly bypassing the UN, and dividing the world into two armed camps, the League of Democracies would increase the danger of war.
But we don't need a League of Democracies to do this.
By subjecting trade relations to embargoes, sanctions, and tests of democracy, environmental standards, and human rights, the League is likely to retard the growth of trade, and thus the chance for poor non-democracies to catch up.
But if that is the League's purpose - and I see no other - then it is a danger to peace.
That is why the League of Nations approved the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child in 1924, and why the international community adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.
Then the Arab League met to follow the Gulf states' lead.
There is even a league table of the world's funniest jokes (I did not laugh much).
Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and acquisition league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.
A ranking prepared for the City Corporation in London shows New York and London still neck and neck at the top of the league.
The Arab League has endorsed a similar proposal.
PRINCETON - On February 1, the United Nations Security Council met to consider the Arab League's proposal to end the violence in Syria.
The renminbi is by no means in the same league as the SDR basket's four incumbent currencies.
In the mid-1990's, and again in 2002-2003, reconciliation between Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) and the military junta seemed to be in the offing.
In other words, the League's main purpose is to marginalize Russia and China in world affairs.
It is full of faults, which need to be corrected. But we don't need a League of Democracies to do this.
The only purpose of the League of Democracies seems to be to legitimize war-making by democracies - in order to spread democracy!
Moreover, Sein initiated a dialogue with Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), about a transition to civilian rule.
LONDON - There was a time when league tables were to be found only on the sports pages of newspapers.
Bank league tables have been with us for a while, and now tend to be based on capital strength, rather than asset volume, which is an improvement of sorts, but still not very meaningful.
There are school and university league tables, rankings of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility, tables of happiness indicators by country, and tables that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.

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