Sentences with phrase «as a mercenary in»

Cutting a movie trailer may be primarily an act of salesmanship, as mercenary in its goals as a fast food commercial or a pop - up ad, but there is an art to it.

They belong to the «peoples of the sea» and were first defeated and then used as mercenaries in his personal guard by Pharaoh Ramses in 1350 BC.

Hire them as mercenaries in your own conflicts, but take care that they don't unify and trigger a new late - game crisis.»

Star Wars: Jedi Knight Mysteries of the Sith The plot of this game places the player in the role of Kyle Katarn, who made his first appearance as a mercenary in Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995).

At this year's media showcase we unveiled a new gameplay demo that offers a more intimate glimpse into Deacon's life as a mercenary in a world where almost everything wants to kill him.

Hire them as mercenaries in your own conflicts, but take care that they don't unify and trigger a new crisis!

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.

Sacred statues were adorned with golden ornaments that could be melted down in times of need to pay mercenaries (or perhaps pay ransom or tribute; see Oppenheim 1949), much as were the Winged Victory statues of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

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.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

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.

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ But if «truth» is in the Christian bible, and it has been studied and accepted as truth, what else is there to pursue?

How General Dayton's little army would respond is unclear, but it is probable that it would prove just as unreliable as the Fatah mercenaries who refused to fight Hamas in Gaza.

Would you not prefer to see Mourinho exposed as a mercenary that can only win titles by spending billions in the transfer window?

Jack at the moment is our shining light and he actually is loyal to Arsenal as we have been to him - he should not be offered a pay cut as someone may sneak in and turn his head — I would be gutted if we lost him, Alexi the little mercenary I couldn't care less but not Jack he is a top lad with fight in him.

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.

Theo Walcott who to my mind need to be offloaded as soon as possible in my humble opinion to keep a player who has clearly lost his bottle and who also quiet obviously negotiated a pay rise in a wholeheartedly mercenary way would be a real mistake in my book.

In Britain, Nasri is largely perceived as a symptom of the modern game's most objectionable ills: being overpaid, brattish and a mercenary.

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.

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.»

Karbo, since he was exposed plotting to import mercenaries into the country to disturb the peace of the nation as defeat stares NPP in the face, has been in hiding in his father's palace, in Lawra.

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

«[Employers] know there's another class of staffers that are complete mercenaries, and that's most of them, and they will do whatever they can do to protect their boss at any cost, and they have no line,» she said, adding: «Showing a moral line is problematic, because it sort of flags you as someone who could, in a certain set of ethical circumstances, turn on the employer.

But it does indeed attract helpers — in this case, ants that then serve as sugar - paid mercenaries in the fight against beetle larvae.

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.

Jean Reno is particularly enjoyable as Le Frog, playing an amphibious version of his mercenary assassin character in «The Professional.»

When Frank's hit goes awry and he ends up in the custody of U.S. Marshalls, the situation quickly spins out of control as a small army of loyal mercenaries draw their guns in a violent attempt to free their notorious compatriot.

The script, credited to Reynolds, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, finds the mutant Deadpool meandering his way to the X-Mansion and joining various X-Men members — including Domino (Zazie Beetz) and Colossus (computer effects plus the voice of Stefan Kapičić)-- as they try to protect an alienated, rebellious teen mutant called Firefist (Julian Dennison) from assassination by the Terminator, er Looper, er mercenary - from - the - future Matthew Cable (Josh Brolin, aka Young Nick Nolte Returned, playing his second Marvel character in less than a month).

Director Brad Peyton competently stages most of the action, from George breaking out of his sanctuary, to a canister retrieval in Wyoming, led by scarred mercenary Burke (a briefly used Joe Manganiello), that turns awry, to the film culminating in mass destruction of Chicago as the three animals, well, rampage to get to the sonar signal at the top of the Wydens» skyscraper headquarters and Davis safely crashes a helicopter.

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.

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.

Steven Seagal as back once again in his latest action movie The Mercenary: Absolution, which sees him as an ex-oprative being brought back into the field of action (presumably to punch people).

Adapted and Americanized from the 1974 novel by popular British author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), Dogs casts Walken as Jamie Shannon, one of several mercenaries making a narrow exit from war - torn Central America in the film's opening sequence.

Smartly weaving in the traditional origin tale with a revenge piece, Deadpool explains his previous life as mercenary Wade Wilson and why he left his fiance, Vanessa (a terrific Morena Baccarin, Gotham), to take part in an experimental procedure led by Ajax (Ed Skrein) in hopes of curing his terminal cancer diagnosis.

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The sneering bad attitude was already there, in Deadpool's previous human guise as Wade Wilson, a Special Forces soldier turned mercenary thug: «I'm just a bad guy who gets paid to f — up worse guys,» he announces.

Even as the perfect crime collapses in betrayal and the irrational impulses of human nature, The Asphalt Jungle is a model of elegant construction, street - level tragedy, and poetic justice, a film that both embraces the romance of the criminal code and acknowledges the mercenary impulses of outsiders and upstarts who have no code.

As played by Richard Boone (in his last film), Perry is a megalomaniac mercenary who makes Custer look like a humanitarian.

Get your fledgling mercenary company sponsored by some of most notable and notorious mercenary groups in BattleTech history and battle your way through the Inner Sphere in more than 40 new missions as you doggedly pursue more lucrative C - Bill payoffs.

(Forest Whitaker is well cast as the smalltime trainer who gives Billy a second chance; Curtis «50 Cent» Jackson less so as the mercenary promoter who proves there's no such thing as loyalty in boxing as long as there's cash money to be made.)

Whitaker will win the Oscar, although there are strong contenders, including Will Smith in an affecting role as a homeless dad determined to raise his son in «The Pursuit of Happyness»; Ryan Gosling as a crack - smoking but well - meaning junior high school teacher in «Half Nelson,» and Leonardo DiCaprio as a mercenary Rhodesian diamond smuggler in «Blood Diamond.»

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.

However, using the device alerts Skeletor as to its whereabouts, and once he has pinpointed its location, he sends a band of mercenaries to recover the key and ensnare He - Man, of whom he plans to make an example of in custody to break the will of any would - be heroes left in Eternia.

Reynolds and his costars - including T.J. Miller, who plays Deadpool's BFF Weasel, and Leslie Uggams as the mercenary's roommate, a blind elderly woman - discourse in the kind of dirty babble you'd expect from 16 - year - old stoners.

The Mercenary Pack gives players unlimited beta access, as well as in - game currency, skill boosts and exclusive gear.

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.

He's very charismatic in this film, as a version of Hercules who doesn't seem to be supernatural, but who lets the outlandish tales of his exploits flourish anyway, because it makes his job as a mercenary easier.

Synopsis: Stallone, Statham, Rourke, Lundgren, Couture and Crews return as hard - edged but noble mercenaries in the second installment of Sylvester Stallone's old - school action thriller, The Expendables.

Fight as a modern - day mercenary gladiator in The Club, an underground blood - sport in which ruthless killers try earn respect and infamy in deathmatches.