Sentences with phrase «as legions»

As legions of bleary - eyed diplomats, environmentalists and lobbyists make their way home across the planet, you'll hear proclamations that COP 21, as the meeting was called, was a historic turning point, and a profound failure.

The appeal of Organic Abstraction extended the Abstract Expressionists, as well as legions of American and European furniture designers, including Charles Eames (1907 - 78), his wife Ray Eames (1912 - 88), Isamu Noguchi (1904 - 88) and the Finn Eero Saarinen (1910 - 61).

Poorly researched, minimal effort attention grabbers that often retread the same ground as legions of others beforehand.

The extra space wasn't enough to cope with the onslaught of visitors, though, as legions of fans poured in to celebrate their geekdom.

As cool as Shovel Knight was as a game, it's still just one game that's perhaps not as popular as legions of others without Smash Bros representation.

They're also far less likely to be shell - shocked when they take math or science classes in college, which is where we first see the gap between literacy - and mastery - focused educations as legions of students leave STEM - related majors.

A lot, it turns out, as legions of teens continue to watch fingerprinted DVDs of Se7en in darkened basements.

As legions of Zucker - punched Facebook users threaten to log out permanently, states attorneys from around the country — including New York — demanded that the social media giant explain the unauthorized use of personal data from millions of accounts to help Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Women are the superstars of this kind of collaborative philanthropy, and the importance of well - connected catalysts is growing as legions of new donors arrive on the scene, with many looking for guidance and community.

The sweep generated the largest number of busts in a single sweep in the city's history as a legion of 700 law enforcers flooded more than 100 spots in the New York City Housing Authority complexes in Williamsbridge.

Thorin Oakenshield has become obsessed with his reclaimed treasure as a legion of Orcs prepares to attack in Battle of the Five Armies.

Choose any three agents from a stable of twelve - each with different abilities - and take on a series of missions to take out a shadowy organization of super villains known only as LEGION.

A dearth of hurricanes is an extreme just as a legion of them is extreme.

Not exact matches

In the decade since Skype launched in Tallinn, the company has spawned legions of startups, venture capitalists, and executives known locally as the «Skype mafia,» offering emigrants (digital or otherwise) a built - in set of co-founders, funders, and partners.

Recognizable by her signature vivid - pink locks, Fried (or Ladyada, as she is known on the internet) is one of the dominant forces behind the maker movement — a legion of do - it - yourself - minded folks who create cool things by tweaking everyday technology.

So how do the traditional console giants such as Ubisoft, EA and Activision feel about the legions of new competitors?

As nice as it might be to get new hardware, Apple keeps its own cadence, regardless of what its legion of fans might wanAs nice as it might be to get new hardware, Apple keeps its own cadence, regardless of what its legion of fans might wanas it might be to get new hardware, Apple keeps its own cadence, regardless of what its legion of fans might want.

As for the legion of companies that produce things of questionable value, or that have amassed mountains of debt, they can expect the wind to go out of their sails pretty quickly.

The competitors» names will pop up, as there are legions of articles written online comparing every minute detail of every product: Pepsi vs. Coke, Target vs. Amazon, chihuahua vs. chow chow....

As growing legions of lovesick people around the globe search for their perfect mates and advertisers fall over one another to write him ever larger checks, he just kicks back and smiles.

Many business leaders see government as an enemy, and send out legions of lobbyists to influence laws in their favor.

He was a magnetic star who attracted legions of fans who had never played golf as the television boon exploded across the land.

The story ignited a firestorm among top creators and their legions of fans, illustrating that, even as old media mainstays may chuckle at a new wave of digital influencers, their budding economic and cultural clout has become no laughing matter.

Musk has won legions of vocal fans for his soaring vision and bold promises, from making electric vehicles mainstream to sending rockets into space as the CEO of SpaceX.

Her policy disputes with other regulators were legion; in leaked accounts, Bair was invariably portrayed as the problem.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

ie «conception» being when the zygote implants, (BTW a PROCESS, NOT a «moment»), in the endometrial wall), as opposed to the moment of fertilization, (also a PROCESS), when the gametes fuse)-RRB-, are legion, and all easily refutable.

Although the mainstreams of Christianity and Judaism long ago rejected it, what is sometimes described as «body - self dualism» is back with a vengeance, and its followers are legion.

And far from taking up the sword and calling angels to defend Him against His enemies, Jesus told His followers to put away their sword (Matt 26:51), and did not call legions of angels as protection (Matt 26:53).

For decades, the legions of Stalin's followers were able to depict themselves as fellow partisans in the good fight.

We're not thinking so much of Satan's legions as of the hordes struggling to find an accommodating sales clerk in Bloomingdales or the traffic circling the malls in search of a closer parking spot.

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

Second we can understand the consequences to our faith if the faithful Christ had been saved from the consequences of human distrust and betrayal by the sort of miraculous interference he himself knew to be possible: the twelve legions of angels of whom he spoke, who might have been Roman soldiers arriving in a nick of time to save Pilate from fear of insurrection, or who might have come in the form of a natural catastrophe which would have upset all the plans of princes and priests, or who for that matter might have arrived as superterrestrial beings — men from Mars.

It was not taken from Him and nothing that happened was beyond His control if He so wanted, He could have called a legion of angels to stop or commanded any number to help but He was faithful to the purpose He was on this earth for much more than I could say for someone such as your self.

The friends of the status quo (both houses of Congress, most of the national news media, the Hollywood patriots, and a legion of corporate spokespersons) already have made it clear that they prefer as little discussion as possible.

If, as citizens, we are told that it is our duty to hold conscience above the law, what collective conscience can save us from the sheer anarchy of a legion of individual consciences?

They were once legion, as they doubtless will be again now that Baylor is once again a power.

This is observed in the increasing legitimacy of «media» as a singular noun, which conjures up the image of a television supermarket, with hundreds, thousands, millions of screens all showing the same picture at once, with legions of speakers playing the same rock music, all promoting a film showing in hundreds of thousands of small identical theaters worldwide on the same day.

Surrealists, Beat poets, student revolutionaries, punk rockers, clever lycéens, and legions of the semi-educated who preen themselves on being thoroughly modern — as Rimbaud insisted we all must be — hold him in supreme reverence.

As you might recall, White's Lazaretto is basically a circus tent of goodies, with secret songs, a hologram of a dancing angel and alternative versions, so it's no surprise White's legion of fans want in on the action.

We are legion, as the demons say.

There is a precise description of the man's behavior as a result of his possession, of how Jesus expelled the demon, and how the demon when expelled exhibited his power and legion - like character by «possessing» an entire herd of swine and driving them into the lake.

«The book's wheat - free niche will win it legions of bread - eschewing fans, though recipes like colorful autumn panzanella salad and spiced pear and brown butter muffins promise to please gluten eaters as well.»

Pappy, as it's called by its legions of fans, is easily the most sought - after bourbon on the planet — and probably on Mars, too.

Perhaps a study into the birthplaces of the foreign legion would be equally interesting as would a study into the players who play at football league level.

Revered by a legion of fans who identify it as the distinct marking of a man they lionized when he was alive and whose legion has only grown in the 17 years ago since his passing.

The new odor, a commingling of the vapors of turpentine, rotten eggs and old oysters, comes from dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, the controversial and often illegally used drug hailed by a growing legion of amateur and professional athletes who view it as a panacea for many ills ranging from sprained ankles to tendinitis and ripped muscles.

After all, it's not like I'm a close friend: Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people (this isn't an overstatement) have known Ali better than I. And as he himself admits, his kindness has been abused in hundreds of ways by untold legions.

For every walk - on who elbows his way into the limelight and wins a scholarship, legions of others don't fare as well.

Unperturbed, legions of fans gathered outside the ropes to the right of the walkway with their sole intention being to rile up the U.S. players as they make their way to the golf's most epic opening tee shot.