Sentences with phrase «against the face of»

To fish, Akaji perches on an overhang that projects 15 feet over the water, so that each wave sweeping under him thumps against the face of the undercut, shatters into a curtain of spray and with a prolonged hiss rolls seaward again until its froth is overwhelmed by the next assaulting wave.

The first 10 minutes of the drama attempt to redefine the close - up; the camera practically pressed up against the face of its troubled lead.

In short, there are always ways to do things that go against the face of convention and the best part is that these ways are much more profitable.

Taking long strips of the moulding, using both glue and nails, place the crown moulding underneath the ledge, against the face of the batten to create a nice finished look.

Not exact matches

When you're up against a deadline or facing a tough challenge, do the people you work with know instinctively that they'll find you in the thick of the fight — pitching in, working long hours, and doing whatever is necessary to succeed?

A reporter for Infowars faced a verbal assault on the streets of Boston last week, when an irate onlooker unleashed a profanity - laced tirade against the site's founder Alex Jones and his claim that the marathon bombing was a «false flag» operation perpetrated by the FBI.

The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission is the latest setback for Uber, which is facing a divided board of directors and angry shareholders after an investor lawsuit was filed against the company's ousted chief executive.

Under Kalanick, Uber had run roughshod over regulators, faced accusations of rampant sexual harassment, and allegedly obtained medical records of a woman in who said an Uber driver in India had raped her (Uber recently settled a U.S. lawsuit that the woman had filed against the company).

On stage in Detroit, real estate mogul Donald Trump faced off against his three remaining Republican challengers in the presidential race: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida; Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas; and John Kasich, the governor of Ohio.

THE founders of Kinetic IT had little time to learn the ropes when they entered the information technology market almost 15 years ago, immediately facing off against industry heavyweights CSC, IBM and

A beaten - down technology stock faces off against shares of the world's largest company in tonight's Fast Money Madness challenge.

As a product of the comics pioneer Will Eisner, the character was often pitted against his archnemesis, the Octopus, a mastermind and master of disguise whose face was never shown.

«Some may object to the EU moving so aggressively against U.S. - based companies, but these authorities are at least trying to deal with some of the new competitive challenges facing our economy,» said the News Media Alliance.

Against this backdrop, China is facing a plethora of structural obstacles as it aims to transition its economy into one that is based on consumers from one that depends on exports and investment.

«Some parts of the family have very strong feelings against it, given the challenges that we face environmentally,» Schwabauer said.

Macy's and other department stores, such as JCPenney, are facing off against Amazon — and coming up short, with hundreds of closures in recent years.

They call it a «four position» carrier because in the chest face - in configuration you can use a neck and head support flap or fold it out of the way, so really it's more of a three position carrier, but that's not really a strike against it, just a matter of semantics.

After filing a lawsuit against Delta, the California Office of the Attorney General sent out approximately one - hundred letters to mobile app developers to notify them that they had thirty days to comply with CalOPPA or face a fine of $ 2,500 per download.

But when you balance the unpleasantness of using a tool that helps a child fart against the pain etched across your little one's face when he or she can't pass gas on their own, you'll be thrilled someone took the initiative and invented this thing.

He has never faced criminal charges, and the majority of the allegations against him stem from incidents that are decades old, well outside of the statute of limitations.

Your business will face a bunch of risks that it can't insure against, such as increased competition, declining margins, staff turnover, or the failure of a new product to make a splash in the market.

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit - in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

In one of Kilduff's studies, he had subjects face - off against a simulated opponent to complete a typing contest.

Facing off against Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom in the first inning on Monday night, Harper broke his bat on a pitch that he somehow was still able to hit out of the park.

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

«Given the nature of the charges against the defendant and the apparent weight of the evidence against him, defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison,» Ellis said of the former campaign manager.

Scheduled to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 26th, it has brought one of the best in boxing out of retirement, to face off against one of the best active fighters in the UFC.

Plus, in addition to these serious personal - development and business - boosting reasons for facing off against the likes of Everest, there's also one more important reason entrepreneurs often take up mountaineering, according to Ballinger.

Passionate protests against Donald Trump's presidency have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well - positioned to retain their grip on power in the 2018 elections.

For all the talk of EMC Federation companies being able to sell both with each other and against each other, it's hard to see how this will work in the field given that Team EMC faces prodigious competition from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) for these accounts.

Bono has become the very public face of the fight against AIDS.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

The face - to - face meeting between Moynihan and Holder is being pushed as the bank faces the possibility of a lawsuit from the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey against Merrill Lynch's actions leading up to the mortgage crisis.

Olivers Apparel's Terminal Tech Tee uses a revolutionary mesh design that's made from a combination of merino wool (against the skin) and polyester (on the face).

An IR camera snaps an image of these dots, which the phone uses to authenticate you against an already - stored image of your face.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

Akayed Ullah, 27, faces charges that include supporting a foreign terrorist organization, using a weapon of mass destruction and carrying out a terrorist attack against a mass transit system, according to an indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan.

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.

New World Health Organization director - general Tedros Ghebreyesus announced in a recent speech that Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe — who has faced allegations of human rights violations and «crimes against humanity» — would be a «goodwill ambassador» to the global health agency.

Theranos also faced allegations that most of its tests were in fact performed with traditional lab machines, not its proprietary Edison device, prompting potential sanctions against the company's CEO, Elizabeth Holmes.

A growing number of companies are trying to solve problems facing the education industry — and they're coming up against a unique set of challenges.

The FCC has faced enormous public backlash against both the repeal itself, and the agency's handling of the comment process.

What it's about: The middle «Lord of the Rings» entry sees Frodo and Sam get closer to Mordor and face off against the dark wizard Saruman.

The constant flurry of complaints between the two companies underscores how their patent battles aren't coming to an end anytime soon — even though both companies have suffered legal losses in previous face - offs against one another.

What it's about: The «Harry Potter» series ended with a bang, with Harry, Ron, and Hermione finding the remaining horcruxes and facing off against Lord Voldemort at the Battle of Hogwarts.

He has also come out forcefully against the National Security Agency's mass surveillance practices — all ideas that tend to fly in the face of standard Republican thinking.

Solo's team, the Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League, announced that the goalie had been «granted a personal leave» before the team faced off against the Portland Thorns on Saturday night.

Consider this conundrum in the gold market: The metal has traditionally been a good hedge against inflation, but it hasn't seen much demand lately even in the face of rising inflation fears.