Sentences with phrase «as a staging ground»

The government has firmly opposed Islamic extremists — though reportedly some extremist groups, including al - Qaeda, have used the country as a staging ground for attacks carried out elsewhere.

If sports have lately served as a staging ground for national discourse about concussions, domestic violence, child abuse, gay rights and racial sensitivity, it's because we have so few live, public spectacles around which discussion of any kind can take place.

Sports have served as a staging ground for national discourse about concussions, domestic violence, child abuse, gay rights and racial sensitivity.

Some of the savings from defunding the ISS would feed into NASA's return to the moon, chiefly a new lunar robotic exploration program as well as a «Deep Space Gateway» in lunar orbit that would serve as a staging ground for operations on the surface.

A Mormon from Utah, she introduced him to the state that would become his permanent home as well as a staging ground for his political activism and creation of the Sundance Institute.

Black Dwarf was dispatched to Wakanda so that Thanos and the rest of the Black Order could use the city state as a staging ground for the attack on Earth whilst secretly looking for Thanos» son Thane.

The hope is bringing back an iconic bookstore chain will draw more readers into the stores and hopefully act as a staging ground to consolidate the local physical book industry.

The official Kobo iOS app has undergone massive changes since it first debuted a few years ago and serves as their staging ground to test new features that eventually trickle done into other devices.

Quepos is often used as a staging ground to explore the rest of the Pacific Coast, including activities such as sailing, sport fishing, and surfing.

The original game's world may have felt small for some players, but it feels far too large when its only real purpose is as a staging ground for fetch quests.

Housed in an elegant cast - iron building on Grand Street since 2006, José Freire's Team Gallery has been the one of the last holdouts of the SoHo art scene, using its off - piste location as a staging ground for exceptional shows that push boundaries in every which direction.

With galleries on two levels and 3,500 square feet of exhibition space, the Weston serves as a staging ground for the most intriguing visual art by local, national, and internationally recognized artists working in all media.

Nengudi likens the stretching of her sculptures» fabric to the resiliency of the female body and mind, and they have often served as the staging ground for performances incorporating actual bodies.

Her conceptualist and absurdist sensibility treats the white cube as a staging ground in which her work stands at the intersection of language, objects and bodies in space.

Now 78 years old, the artist — whose classic works, like Mirror Check (1970) and Vertical Roll (1972), present the body as a staging ground for feminist explorations of self — has largely absented herself from the proceedings, instead filling all four rooms of the pavilion with video projections of children and animals.

The exhibition acts as staging ground upon which accompaniment emerges as a usable model of practice.

Using institutional histories as the staging ground for complex proposals, the London - based Polish artist delves into the Walker's past, foregrounding the institution's early link to the lumber business in which its founder flourished while considering the forest as a metaphor for American democracy and freedom.

«In Nevada, federal authorities have ceded a 200 - square mile militarized zone on national park and range lands as a staging ground for further operations to challenge the legitimacy of public ownership.»

The results are important for theoretical reasons because they extend the literature on conspiracist ideation as well as on the role of the internet as a staging ground for the rejection of science.

The dining and living room officially feel «me» but our bedroom still comes across as a staging ground for shoes and dirty laundry;) I want to get to a point this year where I can come home to our master bedroom and feel settled in the decor.

Not exact matches

It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for 50 years — the global stage where next - generation innovations are introduced to the marketplace.

The tariffs, rather than checking the country's ambitions, will likely increase its confidence on the global stage, allowing Beijing to claim the moral high ground as a supporter of multilateral, open trade.

To the unsuspecting reader, it might seem that Altizer has in fact returned to his first stage, but for those who view Altizer's development as an ever - increasing awareness of the full implications of the dialectical method, Buddhism is now seen as the reversible (i.e., dialectical) ground on which a new radical Christianity can be founded.

As long as America's enemies use that region for a staging ground, it is difficult to argue that U.S. forces should withdraw completelAs long as America's enemies use that region for a staging ground, it is difficult to argue that U.S. forces should withdraw completelas America's enemies use that region for a staging ground, it is difficult to argue that U.S. forces should withdraw completely.

It is well known that Hegel could conclude his lectures on the philosophy of history by speaking of the last stage of history as our own world and our own time, but it is not well known that this apocalyptic ground is absolutely fundamental to his two most ultimate works, the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic.

I did make the point that life begins at conception, and that there is no ground of principle on which the embryo or fetus could be regarded as anything less than human at any stage of its existence.

(Anaheim is actually a variety of New Mexico chile, as are Sandia, Big Jim, etc.) These same green chiles are the immature stage of the New Mexico red chiles, which are used to make chile ristras, and when dried, are ground into red chile powder.

I chose to stuff the squash with ground turkey, as it is leaner than red meat and the subtler flavor lets the squash taste take center stage!

«At this stage Australian businesses continue trading largely as normal however, the political tension is clearly seeping into conversations, perceptions and business interactions Australians are having on the ground in China.

So, if you really are focusing on the customer delivery experience as part of your business model, it would be better to use forward staging with ground shipping everywhere in the country.

While I yearn to make recipe after recipe with spring ingredients such as asparagus and strawberries, the reality is that winter has decided to stage a sit - in, planting her bottom firmly on the ground and adamantly refusing to leave.

Also it was a bit crunchy I think because I didn't ground the Chia seeds and also I think the rolled oats needed to cook longer like in the same stage as the bulgur wheat.

The game that really mattered for both clubs was yesterday's game and look how that turned out.Not long ago in the knock out stage, bayern beat us 3 - 1 at home and then we beat them 2 - 0 at their ground but crashed out.Amazingly, people still talk about that 2 - 0 win as an amazing feat when the truth is bayern would never have lost that game if it mattered.

But also who wants to go to a club where so many «fans» are demanding the exit of the manager after winning as match, getting to the CL lucrative stages every year, winning 2 FA cups 2 years running, building a fantastic ground out of profits and never having been beaten in the league by their neighbour since taking the reins?

It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for more than 40 years — the global stage where next - generation innovations are introduced to the marketplace.

«This morning, as our volunteer Neighborhood Team Leaders opened 5,117 get - out - the - vote (GOTV) staging locations in the battleground states that will decide this election, they began to execute the final phase of a ground game unlike any American politics has ever seen.

These programs can be a critical source of support for you as your early - stage venture gets off the ground.

Scientists have to be able to hit the ground running, as innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries is a long and costly process, involving several stages of basic, applied, and clinical research, and often taking up to 15 years to complete.

Adult whale sharks were not seen at the site, which may serve as a «staging ground» for juveniles before they move on to regional aggregations of larger sharks.

This investment with the SFI Research Centre IPIC will enable us to combine our expertise and utilise Tyndall's state of the art facilities to develop ground breaking early stage technologies, which will not only have a huge impact on the future architecture design of large data centres, but will also improve the power and computational capacity of new consumer devices and provide robust sensing solutions in the autonomous vehicles and consumer device sectors as well as others.

I chose to stuff the squash with ground turkey, as it is leaner than red meat and the subtler flavor lets the squash taste take center stage!

The action sequences and fight scenes in the first two acts of the movie are equally impressive in their staging, taking visual cues from sources that include Coogler's own grounded boxing scenes in Creed, as well as many a James Bond film during a nightclub sequence right out of something like Skyfall.

The alien Wispâ $ ™ s featured in the game each have a unique â $ œColor Powerâ $ that, once freed, Sonic is able to absorb while speeding through the various theme park inspired planets. The Wisp energy enables Sonic to create new paths through the stages by drilling through the ground (Yellow Drill) for example, or speeding through the stage as a laser (Cyan Laser).

The actress and filmmaker made an appearance on stage before the prize for best actress was announced, and she referred to Cannes as Weinstein's «hunting ground.»

It isn't that post-meltdown Sheen lacks the charisma to anchor a picture, but that Coppola, on rockier ground with his second feature after the much more aesthetically bold and thematically rich CQ, is serving two masters: his own whimsy; and his obvious desire to stage a career intervention for his friend, recasting the actor's overexposed mania as hangdog sadness — probably the last thing anyone wants to see Sheen embody.

With each area being cordoned off from the rest of the stages, the pacing can feel a little off at times, with environmental transitions happening suddenly after a loading screen rather than dynamically occurring as in the Souls games, but this more concentrated focus on the levels also allows for condensed, goal based gameplay that is almost impossible to achieve in Dark Souls, which is certainly welcomed when you're short on time and just want to grind out a twilight mission or two.

With little in the way of story to worry about, Hyper Sentinel tasks you with taking control of a small side scrolling ship, as you enter numerous levels in an attempt to clear multiple ground forces, and eventually an end of stage mega boss — all for no reason other than to gain points and see yourself placing on the included worldwide leaderboards.

But all is lost as tow - truck hick Mater (voice of Larry the Cable Guy) takes centre - stage in a convoluted espionage scheme, meaning that Cars 2 stoops to the same mistaken - identity spy parody that children's movies have beaten into the ground since 1966's The Man Called Flintstone.

As the industry spins out of the late - summer film festival circuit, which annually grinds the gears of the season to life, this year's race is shaping up to be one of the most exciting ever observed in the early stages.

Closers would be better being retooled as a side scrolling action game played on a 2D plane, but with all of the complexity of an MMO when it comes to items and equipment, and none of the fun of a classic action game when playing through stages, you're best off forgetting about the drawn - out grind fest that is Closers.