Sentences with phrase «early skirmish»

Early skirmish gameplay also means upgrades to specific troops feel more important.

teachers» strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education — stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations, dilapidated schools, angry teachers, underserved students.

In an early skirmish in the prolonged battle over net neutrality, Martin as FCC chairman joined with Democratic members to censure Comcast Corp. for improperly interfering with customers» web traffic.

The early skirmishes have been dispiriting, to say the least.

The film stars Mel Gibson as a widowed South Carolina plantation owner who's reluctantly drawn into the early skirmishes of the American Revolution.

Not exact matches

Robert Wiseman Dairies announced earlier this week that it is to provisionally slash the amount it pays for UK dairy farmers» milk, a move which will undoubtedly lead to further price skirmishes in the UK milk market, as Tom...

Johnson has been shortlisted for The Long and Winding Road, the third volume of his multi-award winning autobiography which covers his early political skirmishes as a trade union leader.

A minor political skirmish broke out on Thursday when the Orange County Legislature's Democratic leader lobbed a few public criticisms at County Executive Steve Neuhaus, accusing the Republican of taking credit for national or regional economic gains and short - changing Democrats in his upbeat State of the County address two days earlier.

Such hotlines are less common, for example, in Central Asia, where many nations trace their modern independence to the early 1990s, or in the Middle East, where a tit - for - tat skirmish between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian hackers broke out just last weekend.

In a 2011 paper in Antiquity, the team suggested that the man sustained a wound early in the battle but was able to fight on for days or weeks before dying, which could mean that the conflict wasn't a single clash but a series of skirmishes that dragged out for several weeks.

More interesting is the story of the festival as a symbol of alternative living and political protest, its frontline position between authority and dissent represented by policemen running across fields and skirmishes with travellers in the early 1990s.

The Russos handle the action with growing assurance and impressive range, shooting the early fight scenes with an almost «Bourne» - style handheld intensity, in contrast with the more classically framed skirmishes that follow.

Translated to English by the team at SnoopyCool, this manga chronicles Samus» early life with the Chozo and her first skirmishes against the Space Pirate threat.

It's not a revolutionary take on gathering materials, but it does shake up the formula enough that early scouting phases are a necessity, and fighting over Banks mid - and late - game after all the oil fields have run dry makes for some exciting flashpoint - style skirmishes.

We've already sent a message to all of you through the earlier campaign's message board but we'll be 100 % clear again: the previous Kickstarter campaign does NOT include Adventure Mode, and it only accounted for a small fraction of the cost to make Skirmish.

While single player mode will be limited only to skirmish, tutorial and a campaign teaser during Early Access, the full game launch will include an extensive campaign mode with a rich story and many more features that will be announced closer to the release date.

Gilfilen is the opposite of a casualist — clearly she likes a good skirmish — and her new paintings look terrific — bolder and more challenging than earlier work.

The project infrastructure began in February 2007 and activities commenced immediately after the post-poll skirmishes in early 2008.

Skirmishes over funding for renewable energy research are just the latest battle in a saga that stretches back to the early 1980s — years before the public became widely aware of the climate threat.