Sentences with phrase «grandmaster of»

If you follow legal blogs at all, you know that Dennis is, as I referred to him in a comment on the post, the grandmaster of law blogs, so as you can imagine, I'm deeply honoured by and grateful for these selections.

He is a grandmaster of contract drafting.

If you love strategy games, Sega and Creative Assembly's Total War: WARHAMMER II is grandmaster of them all, offering control of an entire empire on the turn - based world map, and real - time control of soldiers in massive battles involving thousands of friends and foes.

Before being sent on your first mission together, The Grandmaster of the school gives you your final exams, which serve as the game's tutorial level.

caps the story of series protagonist (and grandmaster of intimidation) Kazuma Kiryu.

Jean Quintin of Altun, Secretary to The Grandmaster of the Knights of Malta Philippe Villiers de L'Isle - Adam, also featured the dog in his work.

«This model is not earmarked for production,» says Adrian van Hooydonk, grandmaster of the group's drawing board, about the CSL Hommage, his latest creation.

«I drove from Crewe to Silverstone on the motorway, and I averaged 28.4 mpg,» claims Brian Gush, grandmaster of Bentley's powertrain department.

Yesterday the Grandmaster of directing tried on glasses at an optical store.

Mick quickly realizes he's in over his head, playing chess with a grandmaster of a client, a hustler who may find himself out - hustled, disbarred or worse.

Ip Man (Well Go USA)-- Hong Kong martial arts star Donnie Yen plays the legendary Ip Man, teacher and grandmaster of Wing Chun, in this biographical drama (one in a long line of such tributes) based on the master's life during the Japanese occupation of China.

Jeff Goldblum, as the Grandmaster of the planet Thor finds himself in, making people fight in his gladiator - like ring, steals every scene that he appears in.

Director Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars) continues to grow as an animator, and this film will only add credence to the argument that Hosoda is poised to replace Hayao Miyazaki as the new grandmaster of Japanese animation.

I also set myself two secondary goals: to finish in the top 10 of the 36 - person field and to earn the ranking of Grandmaster of Memory.

Maurice Ashley, a 2003 U.S. Chess Federation grandmaster of the year walked from one board to the next, simultaneously playing six games.

He is also an international grandmaster of chess.

In a CNBC interview Thursday, Trump called Beijing «the grandmaster of all» when it comes to currency manipulation and free trade cheating.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

«U.S. multinational firms are the global grandmasters of tax avoidance schemes that deplete not just U.S. tax collection but the tax collection of most every large economy in the world,» said Edward D. Kleinbard, a former corporate tax adviser to such companies who is now a law professor at the University of Southern California.

With a combined career total of almost 80 years, SEEN and RISK are considered grandmasters of graffiti, fundamental in shaping the medium as it is known today.

Not exact matches

Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.

Anders Ericsson studied dozens of the world's top performers, from entrepreneurs to chess grandmasters.

The range of practice chess grandmasters invested in was huge, for instance.

That the contests are overseen by a Grandmaster played by Jeff Goldblum, easily one of the most underutilized actors in Hollywood, is a substantial bonus.

Turn one corner and you'll see hip - hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash's turntables, then turn another and find an 1848 edition of the abolitionist handbook The Anti-Slavery Harp.

The great American grandmaster Rueben Fine wrote of Capablanca: «What others could not discover in a month's study he saw at a glance.

As part of this late exercise in autodidactism, they suggested that I read various books — some of which were subsequently acquired — by formidable chess grandmasters including Nimzowitsch and Alekhine and others who left permanent stamps on the game.

Also like the grandmaster's primer, this book covers an impossible amount of ground in barely 300 pages — in this case, the most fundamental teachings of a two - thousand - year - old faith, written to address intellectuals and non-intellectuals, fellow believers and unbelievers alike.

I can forgive an Arsenal player who «allegedly» sucked off Grandmaster Flash, but not for meeting Mourinho in a hotel room to engineer a move to Chelsea... of for texting after an England game, «I hate the English.»

In 1981 he had lived at the apartment of Greek - born grandmaster Peter Biyiasas and his wife, Ruth Haring.

By a consensus of grandmasters, he had become the strongest chess player in history.

Looking out from the cover of national magazines that wild summer, he was depicted as a gallant cold warrior, a solitary American genius taking on and crushing the Soviet chess juggernaut, with its Moscow computers and its small army of grandmasters arrayed against him.

The Grandmaster going back to the scorephone days is 19 -5-2 with NBA Games of the Year.

Grandmaster Sports Handicapper Joe Duffy of OffshoreInsiders.com breaks it down.

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ESPN college football betting picks has LSU vs. TCU on a day when Grandmaster Sports Handicapper Joe Duffy has two Wise Guys led by Fox Sports 1 Game of the Year as part of a spectacular opening weekend.

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Grandmaster Sports Handicapper Joe Duffy nailed the Florida Gators and the one and only Bowl Game of the Year, fresh on the heels of the biggest non-BCS bet of the postseason hitting the ESPN Bowl Game of the Year on Virginia Tech over Tennessee.

Expert sports picks against the spread previews Western Michigan vs. Northern Illinois in a week that Grandmaster Sports Handicapper Joe Duffy of OffshoreInsiders.com says will be one of the great week of the year for sports bettors.

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An inmate tied with a U.S. Chess Federation grandmaster at the first official tournament at New York City's Rikers Island Jail Complex, where the game is part of programming designed to educate and reduce idleness.

Grandmaster Melle Mel (left) was one of the many legends honored at the Inaugural Windows of Hip Hop Element Awards.

U.S Chess Hall of Fame grandmaster Maurice Ashley is leading the new initiative with the help of nonprofit youth organization the Police Athletic League and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.

In the past we've had Grandmaster Flash, Chuck D, Professor Griff of Public Enemy, and this year Sha - Rock of the Funky Four Plus One More.

Corruption is wrongly perceived and limited to stealing whereas corruption has many feathers, many fathers, many mothers, many husbands and wives, many children and grandchildren, many players and grandmasters, and of course hundreds of thousands of cousins.

Public support is best fired up by appeal to the emotions of deadly combat, over which the amygdala — a center for primary emotion in the brain — is grandmaster.

There are only a handful of female chess grandmasters, and girls are less likely than boys to sit transfixed for hours playing video games.

Deep Blue, the IBM program that beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, and Watson, the IBM system that bested Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in the quiz show Jeopardy, were highly specialized collections of algorithms carefully handcrafted to their particular problem domain.

The parents of a chess player worked janitorial jobs at night and sold things on eBay to be able to afford a grandmaster coach.

Friedel does not think that a program running on a single PC will ever be able to reach the level of a good grandmaster in standard tournament play, where each player has two or more hours for the first 40 moves.