Sentences with phrase «cowperthwaite stages the battle»

1520 While attending a summit between their countries, wrestling buffs Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England stage a battle royale (right)

The drawing for World Cup 2018 in Russia was done late on Friday and there were some interesting match up for football fans during the group stages battle.

Chelsea failed to take advantage in the first leg of UEFA Champions League knock out stages battle this midweek as Antonio Conte's men were held into a 1 - 1 draw by Barcelona at Stamford Bridge.

Italian side, Napoli won't be getting any easy ride on their attempt to get back into UEFA Champions League group stage battle this season as Rafael Benitez's boys must first face Spanish outfit, Athletic Bilbao.

Real Madrid got an advantage over their opponent, Paris Saint - Germain in the first leg of their Champions League knock out stage battle at Santiago Bernebau.

Taylor sits a point behind Van Barneveld following back - to - back wins, and the 16 - time World Champion is excited by what could be his final big - stage battle with Van Barneveld.

But sequels must always be bigger, faster, louder, whatever - er, and so of course director Jon Favreau (Elf) has crammed in more actionier stuff: more CGI guys - in - armored - suits fighting more CGI robot warriors in incoherently staged battles that range over air and ground.

Elegant and hard hitting, this superbly staged battle between the sexes is never less than intriguing.

Despite the usual strained stabs at topical social significance, Frakes maintains a brisk pace, staging the battle scenes with panache and undercutting the absurd techno gibberish with crass but leavening humour.

There's a certain charm in seeing the big lunk's ferociously staged battles with all manner of consonants and vowels, but even at just 75 minutes, getting through it proves a chore.

Gibson, of course, knows how to stage a battle or two and is the master at making his protagonist (often himself) suffer masochistic slings and arrows; no one does stylized sadism quite like Refn (well, maybe Tarantino — imagine him as the godfather, then).

As one would expect, it leads to a massive, expertly staged battle that would be silly (the sight of an ape wielding two automatic weapons while riding a horse) if it weren't so tragically avoidable.

Grandly - staged battle sequences that lead to the film's denouement are suitably exciting.

It doesn't, but for once, some of those diversions are effective, particularly when the film introduces us to a new incarnation of a certain web - slinging hero and offers an inventively staged battle royal between two competing factions of superheroes.

Armchair General — Won a Stage Battle by yourself against the AI without attacking (20 Gamerscore, Bronze Trophy)

Called Tears of the Hextadon, the DLC consists of two new Stage Battle multiplayer maps, Circle of Tears and Death's Fjord, created for the sole purpose of keeping Shafer busy, apparently.

Rounding out the already packed DLC, Brütal Legend's multiplayer will also get more robust with four new maps, each featuring a completely unique environment tailored to the Gods of Metal, with an in - game element of surprise that puts a strategic twist to every Stage Battle.

As legendary hero Usagimaru, you'll travel through 60 + mind - boggling stages battling ruthless monsters, rescuing helpless villagers and restoring order to the world.

You'll get some decent tutorials on the individual mechanics, but once it comes time to combine them all together in the game's massive «stage battles,» you'll probably feel quite lost.

They can also use any characters from the current or previous Disney Infinity set, allowing players to stage battles between Tinker Bell and Darth Vader, or races between the Lone Ranger (on a horse) and Lightning McQueen.

I'm not a huge fan of RTS games that aren't called Kohan, but the stage battles in Brutal Legend are very action - y and fun.

Rather than being an open world brawler, which it did decently, it featured one too many «stage battles», the RTS stages which went on forever and were so poorly explained that Shafer himself had to write a post on his blog, essentially saying, «No, no, no, you're playing my game ALL WRONG and the reason you're not liking my game is because YOU»RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT and here's some actual instructions,» which made the game more beatable but no less fun.

Eh, my beef with the stage battles definitely had to do with their quality.

With a dose of sly humor, Pousttchi's series pays homage to the champions of, respectively, Constructivism and Minimalism»» or perhaps stages a battle, Tatlin vs. Flavin, by piercing the steel structures of her «Double Monuments» with light tubes.

Krauss interprets Duchamp's work as staging the battle between geometrical optics and physiological vision.

Not exact matches

While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.

But as the day's final speaker, he couldn't leave the stage without blowing one more kiss at Ackman: Icahn disclosed that he has now asked his company for permission to take up to a 50 percent stake in Herbalife, the supplement company over which the two have battled so publicly.

President Donald Trump was sued twice on Monday over his plan to ban transgender soldiers from the U.S. military, setting the stage for more bruising court battles about a directive from the White House.

PepsiCo (pep) brands Doritos and Mountain Dew, for example, staged a lip - sync rap battle between actors Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman in a teaser released online.

One of the most trying times of my life happened six years ago when my mother lost her courageous battle with Stage IV colon and liver cancer six years ago in November.

But it's with great sadness that I announce to you today that my beloved husband has entered the final stages of his cancer that he has battled for 25 months.»

Or, you might provide the financial support that ensures that favorite really does make its way to your local grocery store, instead of losing the battle of early - stage entrepreneurship despite having a great product.

If you're suffering from advanced stages of cancer the best news your oncologist can deliver, apart from saying you're winning the battle, is that you're eligible for a promising new drug trial.

Detroit filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, setting the stage for a costly court battle with creditors and opening a new chapter in the long struggle to revive the cradle of America's auto industry.

Dancap might have made $ 10 million during its five - year battle against the Mirvish musical theatre empire — but it lost $ 40 million in the process, leading to Dan's exit, both stage left and stage right this fall.

Keystone has become a can't - lose battle for the environmental movement, with activists staging frequent protests against the pipeline and California billionaire Tom Steyer funding major advertising campaigns to move public opinion.

This is setting the stage for a battle over the other most valuable resource in the oil industry, Bloomberg's David We the writes.

Last week, we focused on the Honeymoon Stage — helping you harness your energy to gain momentum — and now we are preparing you for the battle.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

In the latest stage of the provincial government's battle against the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, it has asked the BC Court of Appeal to review four pages of proposed legislation that would amend the Environmental Management Act and address questions about the amendments's constitutionality.

Since the late 1970s, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs wrote the future of computers with a battle between the Mac and the PC on the main stage.

(If that sounds familiar, it's because the same argument was made twenty - five years ago in the early stages of the battle over legalized abortion.)

A Christian student has won the latest stage in his legal battle against a decision to throw him off his university course for expressing the biblical view of s...

He said: «Both of them were becoming war weary and wanted to find a way out and I think at long last after very bloody battles I think we're finally at a stage where we might see a truce holding to allow the politicians to do their work.»

He set the stage for an amazing prophecy, but, would the army of Cyrus invade Babylon without a battle as foretold?

These statements seem to correspond to the predictions in the earlier stages of apocalyptic that after the final battle there would be safety and stability for God's people.

And so the stage was set for the greatest battle in history.

Henry's divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, led the king to split with the Catholic Church and found his own church, the Church of England, which in turn set the stage for the English Reformation and for religious battles which lasted for centuries.

Then, as a young adult, I fumbled through an angry stage, one where I realized that after Joshua «fit the battle of Jericho,» God told him to kill every man, woman, and child in the city, and that coursing through some of my favorite Bible stories were the currents of genocide, xenophobia, patriarchy, and misogyny.

The final stage, by whatever name it is called, must include an awareness on the student's part that something has been accomplished — mastery of negative numbers or the route of march of the Greek mercenaries with Cyrus toward the battle of Cunaxa.