Sentences with phrase «as a mercenary for»

After meeting their end in a mechanized gladiator arena, four robot criminals - Auto, Max, Strobo and Trog are fished out of a junk pile, rebuilt and recruited as mercenaries for a mysterious organization of android adventurers.

Getting by as a mercenary for hire, Wade is enjoying life until something unexpected comes along.

After a falling out with his previous employer (due to questionable morals) as a mercenary for hire he begins working as a freelancer.

Characters who aren't so easily aligned to one side or another could serve as mercenaries for hire, able to be utilized as a supporting character, much like the companions in the Diablo series, allowing you to further utilize the franchise roster and catering to some of the fan base.

Players took on the role of a former Jedi who works as a mercenary for the New Republic.

Not exact matches

«I could not reconcile that the most expensive products I would put in my home, that would serve as the backdrop for all these memories, were served up in this mercenary, transactional environment,» Stuart says.

And who can forget how the National Post, Pravda of the Harper Government, functioned as a virtual recruiting agency for Canadian mercenaries to serve the Kurdish cause?

And I think all atheists everywhere should revel in the mercenary nature of Christmas (now far more Jewish / East Indian in its execution than anything else) and its exposure of «faith» as a conduit for greed, judgment, and repression.

As for Hezekiah, the terrifying splendor of my majesty overcame him, and the Urbi and his mercenary troops which he had brought in to strengthen Jerusalem, his royal city, deserted him.

He is a mercenary with no love for Arsenal, he is happy to sit on the bench so long as he gets paid an exorbitant wage

As for calling him mercenary you can bet that Man U will still show more ambition than us and go after more world class players to show they are ambitious, where Wenger only reacts once we lose a player instead of adding to help keep them.

If he doesn't accept the generous contract offer that we offer him, which will make him a very rich man, and just signs for someone else for more money then he obviously doesn't want to play for us and will be thought of as just another mercenary player like RVP, Nasri, Hleb etc. I'm sure that what we offer him will be very good and the stalling to sign is just his agent angling for the highest offer so that his cut will be more.

Ivan G has slowly and precise began the process of rebuilding the back room teams.This will bear fruit.We can compete in the transfer market - but only to a level.The level we are at will still allow us to outspend many many of our closest rivals in both this country and in Europe.Players sign for money of course.But most are not the greedy mercenaries like Sanchez.Most will sign for THE MANAGER every bit as much as THE CLUB.

As was the case seven years ago, the loss of our Premier League status should help us to rid ourselves of any self - interested mercenaries who think they're too good for the division they've landed us in — leaving us with a core of players who actually want to play for the club and understand the privilege of doing so.

These individuals are alleged to be controlling hundred of NPP social media mercenaries who serve as conduits for these reported fabricated stories.

The NPP has insisted that the three were neither «mercenaries» nor «terrorists» as being alleged by some officials of the NDC, but were experts who were only training bodyguards for Nana Akufo - Addo and his running mate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

Saying that members of the state Legislature were acting as «mercenaries,» Bharara said the charges accusing Stevenson of drafting legislation in exchange for money that would aid co-defendants Igor and Rostislav «Slava» Belyansky, Igor Tsimerman and David Binman, were a violation of his «core duty.»

It would mean a lower standard of living for future retirees, reduce the ability to recruit individuals who see public service as a career and create a mercenary mentality where the commitment to public service no longer exists.

Unlike a film such as Spielberg's Munich, where it is easy to feel sympathy and empathy for the Mossad agents led by Eric Bana, where you admire the craft of what the filmmakers created, it is impossible to empathise with Meinhof, who it is clear from the start is way out of her depth and the mercenary Ensslin.

As Putin stated in the video clip, the IS terrorist are mercenaries who get paid for what they do.

This was even as the Governor warned the opposition party against importing into the state hoodlums and mercenaries for the purpose of unleashing mayhem during the coming Osun West Senatorial by - election.

On November 9 2015, viewers of TV3 media listened with utmost incredulity, one that has never been experienced for decades, primitive comments from a sad, slow witted and an uncultured mercenary of Akufo - Addo identified as Agyei Bawuah, former ambassador to Japan when He stated «It's better for NPP to lose 2016 elections without Afoko».

From Évariste Galois, the genius who laid the foundations for modern group theory before dying at 20 in a mysterious duel, to René Descartes, who wrote «I think, therefore I am» after a career as a mercenary, the personalities chronicled here expose a side of mathematics far removed from its usual staid reputation.

The historical setting is a wonderful excuse for gorgeous costuming, lush British countryside settings, and - of course - incredibly romantic scenes as the sisters try and find love in a society that sees marriage as mercenary.

Inspired by a popular video game that was released in 1986, screenwriters Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Sztykiel assemble a scenario that enables Dwayne Johnson to be heroic as he endeavors to save his best friend George, with the help of Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), who formerly worked at the evil company run by Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman), and Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a mercenary who begins working for the evil company and then is tempted to the side of the good guys.

Willem Dafoe stars as Martin David, a mercenary hired by a mysterious biotech company to hunt for the last remaining Tasmanian Tiger.

This may sound like a weakness, but Corbijn and his screenwriter, Rowan Joffe, play coy for a reason; it's the nature of their hero's mercenary occupation, as a craftsman of weapons for assassins, that he reveals as little about himself as possible.

And with the Deadpool movie, starring Ryan Reynolds as the fourth - wall breaking mercenary anti-hero, out next February, it's a sensible time to put the game out for sale.

She started out as a mercenary but is now a member of the X-Men and uses her awesome athletic abilities and formidable skills as a markswoman for good.

Erik, aka'd as the mercenary Killmonger, has well - written reasons for his grudge.

Gemma Arterton makes for a feisty princess, and Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina (as a government - hating mercenary) give droll, high - energy performances.

But Gates, we learn, is basically a mercenary who'd rather make his fortune by plundering other people's programming genius (such as his purchase of DOS for $ 50,000 from an unsuspecting programmer) and selling it with a little smoke and mirrors to the highest bidder.

Ryan Reynolds plays the wise - cracking anti-hero, who began as Wade Wilson, a mercenary - for - hire who kills and threatens people for profit.

Available now through the PlayStation Store, the DUST 514 Mercenary Pack grants closed beta access, 40,000 Aurum and a host of in - game items for $ 19.99 USD (a $ 50 value), all of which will remain intact as DUST 514 rolls into the Open Beta.

As a bonus, PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive a 50 % discount on the Mercenary Pack for Dust 514 during the beta event.

As captured in a recent Reddit thread, the highly - respected Supreme Court Justice was pictured among other prospects for the Merc with a Mouth's squad of deadly mercenaries.

Ryan Reynolds will star as the wise - cracking mercenary «Merc with a Mouth» who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and volunteers himself for the Weapon X program.

So in this action strategy game, there is an emphasis on Musou tactics as players transform into a mercenary which requires them to fight for one of the two factions as they build their power and wealth to become a true contender.

Deadpool 2 is poised to be the launching pad for the X-Force movie, which will likely include both Deadpool and Domino, as the two have been key members of the mercenary unit in the comics.

He manages to get his own sensibility into the tale of black ops mercenaries in a culture of betrayal and retribution, with James Caan as the contract killer who returns from a crippling injury by sheer force of will and the desire for vengeance, and he stage some terrific set pieces to go with Caan's brutal odyssey.

Deathtrap is slightly less passive than many tower defence games as the main character — which can be a mercenary, sorceress or the currently unavailable marksman depending on whichever class is selected at the outset — can wade into battle themselves and start chopping up kobolds for fun and profit.

The pre-code era was famed for its films that pushed the envelope of sex with racy suggestiveness and Skyscraper Souls just oozes with lust and overflows with affairs, but the mercenary business dealings are just as forbidden here.

Harlow plays Hollywood superstar Lola Burns, a not - so - thinly veiled riff in her own persona (in one scene, she's called in for retakes on the Red Dust rain barrel scene, certainly one of the real - life Harlow's most famous screen moments), and Lee Tracy is pure mercenary drive as an unscrupulous publicist who actually enjoys the torment he puts her through as he manufactures scandals and breaks up romances with his con - man shenanigans.

The best of the bunch is Across the Wide Missouri (1951), a frontier western starring Gable as a trapper in Indian country who marries the daughter of a powerful chief for purely mercenary reasons and ends up falling in love with her.

It's based on a DC Comic, and stars Ms Delevingne, Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Joel Kinnaman as members of a gang of mercenary super-villains who fight crime for ulterior motives.

Recent Blu - ray and DVD releases include: «Riverdale: The Complete First Season,» which promises David Lynch and delivers «Peyton Place» in its depiction of the shadows and scandals of small - town life with characters taken from Archie Comics; Ronin (1998) directed by a once occasionally great director, John Frankenheimer, involves mercenaries working for unseen paymasters trying to steal a case with unknown contents; Aretha Franklin: Divas Live, on this 2001 VH1 broadcast, released as a DVD / CD set, Franklin opens her concert with «I Can't Turn You Loose» backed by a horn - powered rhythm band that echoes the excitement of past triumphs; and Heal the Living finds people with no apparent relation to one another drawn together by an accident.

Mutant Chronicles (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Futuristic sci - fi adventure revolving around a couple of soldiers (Thomas Jane and Sean Pertwee) serving as corporate mercenaries who assemble a band of intrepid warriors to defend the planet when Earth is invaded by an evil race of necromutants.

The plot follows Reynolds» badass mercenary Wade Richards as he's diagnosed with terminal cancer shortly after falling for Vanessa (Homeland's Morena Baccarin), a fellow badass mercenary who can match him quip for quip.

Also, as you search for your companions on this dangerous island, Lara soon discovers that this uninhabited island is actually the home to a group of cutthroat mercenaries.

The multiplayer is nothing to sneeze at by the way as there is a lot of fun to be had there too, whether you play in the mercenary warfare mode which is a free for all of death or the Guerilla warfare mode which is head to head in a team based deathmatch setting with the ISA and the Helghast going at it.