Sentences with phrase «under siege at»

Filipe Pina, the producer of the upcoming PS3 game Under Siege at Seed Studios, feels a little bit differently.

Cicero might legitimately be cited in a «conservative» context because he lived in a moment when everything was «going to hell» and he was trying to preserve traditions under siege at the crashing of his own civilization.

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Restaurant owners who spoke to Fortune stood in solidarity with their immigrant employees who participated in the nationwide «Day Without Immigrants» strike, which organizers hoped would highlight their importance to the American economy and daily life at a time when they feel under siege following the election of President Donald Trump.

Musk should look at the team Trump has put in charge of the country's climate - and - energy future and draw the obvious conclusions: Valid climate science is now officially under siege, and sustainable or renewable energy sources are about to lose out big - time to Big Oil.

«In a world in which our attention is increasingly under siege, better focus makes it possible get more work done, in less time, at a higher level of quality,» the two write.

Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first got to know Romney through church in 1978 and worked with him for five years at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.

I will say this... Hodges» book, The Gospel Under Siege was at one time in my life hugely influential as was The Reign of the Servant Kings.

The Truman Show was a dystopian look at a fraudulent - utopia, a modern Greek tragedy about a baby not yet having left the womb, already condemned to the fate of an entire lifetime under the glare of thousands of cameras» 24 - hour, 7 - day - a-week siege.

At Denny's, Holyfield came under siege.

He succeeded in the trenches at Super Bowls and bargaining tables, but NFL union boss Gene Upshaw is under siege again — only this time he's butting heads with angry, hurting vets from his generation

Home defender Benjamin Henrichs, still to open his account for his boyhood club, drove an effort straight at Dortmund's under - siege Swiss goalkeeper as the half - hour mark loomed.

Finally, liberals were PRIMED to act — they've spent all August and part of September under siege from conservatives, at least judging from media coverage.

Maybe it is just the current label that is attached to «the migrant» that is suffering under the gloomiest siege of EU - UK relations and a migration debate that has reached, at times, new toxic levels.

But the pols lamented how the city seems to be under siege by the Trump administration at every turn.

«I am thrilled at the opportunity to provide a voice and forum for New York Democrats to speak out and take action on issues that are important to us — many of which are under siege by the current administration in Washington,» he said.

Under siege on multiple fronts and with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at her side, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz declared Thursday she's not afraid to stand alone on the Iran deal.

«Despite the mayor's restorations, the child care system at large is still under siege, with more than 14,000 child care slots lost in the last four years, and 7,000 fewer children from low - income families able to access care next year.»

At a time when many scientists feel under siege by proponents of intelligent design, the Dalai Lama's championing of science provoked polarized responses.

The science had long been under siege from other disciplines that chipped away at its claim to be the study of matter and its interactions.

Many senior dating over 50 sites promise love and perfect matches, here at Buzz50 Senior Dating we try to focus on you In 2009, another long - assumed gender difference in mating — that women are choosier than men — also came under siege.

Yesterday, we posted a chart that Josh Fischer at Snap Interactive (STVI: OTC BB) sent us based on analytics from their dating website Are You In 2009, another long - assumed gender difference in mating — that women are choosier than men — also came under siege.

Escaping after Richard is dispatched by an arrow to the neck during the last stages of the siege, Robin and company make their way to England under the guise of the deceased knight Robert Loxley (Douglas Hodge), long - absent husband of Blanchett's Marion; just prior to his death, Richard entrusts Robin with his sword to return to his father at the family estate.

That feeling of decay is Americana under siege and seething, bursting at its seams with malcontents in black leather (vampires or otherwise) and at war with the only marginally less appalling authority figures.

Director Peter Berg licks the story along at an efficient pace, imparts a powerful sense of a city under siege in the overhead camerawork, and wrings tears in a final reveal involving the actual participants.

Film Reviews: Copycat by Eleanor Ringel The Devil's Advocate by Richard Schwartz L.A. Confidential by David Sterritt L.A. Confidential by Cari Beauchamp The Mirror Has Two Faces by Leslie Rigoulot Murder at 1600 by Karen Jaehne Murder at 1600 by Leslie Rigoulot The Sunchaser by Lisa Nesselson The Sunchaser by David Sterritt A Time to Kill by Leslie Rigoulot A Time to Kill by Benjamin Ibrahim Under Siege 2: Dark Territory by Kathleen Carroll Under Siege 2: Dark Territory by Eleanor Ringel Partial Filmography: Copycat The Devil's Advocate L.A. Confidential The Mirror Has Two Faces Murder at 1600 The Negotiator The Sunchaser The Big Short The Revenant A Time to Kill Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

With lawyers under siege by disgruntled clients, Season 2 of The Good Fight will undoubtedly test the strength of Diane (Christine Baranski) and the rest of the team at Reddick, Boseman, & Kolstadshow.

It continues 2005's early obsession with home invasion and falling under siege in broken sanctuaries, and it uses mirrors, paths into the woods, and dark hollows with what at first appears to be an admirable level of Yeatsian «Stolen Child» smarts.

In the thirties, society was changing and westernizing at a familiar pace, but in the postwar world, as Ozu suggests in his inimitably respectful way, the old - fashioned lifestyle was under siege by commercialism, permissiveness, antimasculinism, and independent wives and daughters.

These included new unit abilities for three of the units (Sassanid Knight, Sergeant at Arms, and Whirling Dervish), new castle physics (e.g. castle walls now break apart realistically and come apart stone by stone when under siege), and two new pieces of siege equipment (the War Wolf and Mantlet)

Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma, edited by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Marcelo Suárez - Orozco and Utrecht University Professor Antonius C.G.M. Robben, draws on the work of anthropologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts to look at the complex, overlapping ways that societies and individuals come to grips with the traumatic effects of violence, humiliation, discrimination, and feelings of historical injustice.

Some insiders scoff at the notion that charters are under siege.

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At one time, the Bosnians were under siege by both Serb and Croat forces.

Some come up with overly generic names (Massive Action Game), some with unnecessarily long ones (Peter Jackson's King Kong The Official Game of the Movie), and some with ones that shouldn't be touched at all, as is the case with Under Siege.

She studied at the Byam Shaw art school and then the Slade, going on to create performance pieces such as Under Siege, and video installations such as Corps Étranger, featuring the footage shot inside her body; the latter earned her a 1995 Turner prize nomination.

Since taking over the position of artistic director at Dior Homme in 2007, KRIS VAN ASSCHE has taken a consistent approach to men's fashion at a time when the concept of menswear itself has been under siege.

Artwork on view at «Southampton Under Siege: The British Occupation of Southampton During The Revolutionary War» at Southampton Historical Society.

Among the main female protagonists that inspired this research are Balkis Sharara, Rifat Chadirji's wife who in 1979 carried copies of his works into and out of Abu Ghraib allowing him to author three of his seminal books while in the prison; artist Nuha al - Radi whose diaries of 1990/91 describe the dynamics in the lives of Baghdad's people beyond the news coverage; an unknown young woman who stands out in the festivities of the gymnasium's 1990 new year concert; Fahrelnissa Zeid who was herself an artist (most recently the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern) and the wife of the Iraqi Ambassador in London when Le Corbusier received a telegram confirming the approval of his first design proposal for Baghdad; poet Iman Mersal who paid a solidarity visit to Baghdad under siege in 1993; Zaha Hadid whose architectural drawings influenced the imagination of architectural students in the 1990s; and others.

Sir David Chipperfield has accused politicians of lacking courage and vision at a time when «ideas and principles are under siege» and said architecture has become «contaminated by cynicism».

It is under siege — though one would not think so were one to spend time at law schools as I have.

At the time of Bray, reproductive health clinics were under siege by anti-choice extremists.

When Homer, one of the most correct, as well as the oldest of human authorities, enumerates the other nations of Greece whose forces acted at the siege of Troy, he arranges them under the names of their different Kings or Princes.

At a time when the rule of law and democracy are under siege, the legal industry's ability to provide greater access to legal services is critical.

At a time when the rule of law is under siege across the globe, access to legal redress — machine / human / or hybrid — is critical.