Sentences with phrase «as pawn»

They are in awe that their child is used as a pawn.

Studies show, it is often the parent that did not want the divorce and to «get even» they use the child as a pawn.

Since the Court makes decisions «in the best interest of children» it should hold parents accountable when they use their children as pawn against the other.

Courts should not support nor provide the forum for one parent to use a child as a pawn against another parent... severing the child's relationship with the other parent, potentially leading to a lifetime of psychological consequences.

Instead, one parent decides to use the child as a pawn, friend, and sounding board.

My ex is using my daughter as a pawn to hurt me and destroy my will.

You might also tap into what has happened in my case: brainwashed kids who now as adults have re-enacted their father's threatened revenge on me, using my son, their half brother as a pawn.

I see children as the pawn pieces in chess.

She is narcissistic and used their daughter as a pawn to get what she wanted, not caring what damage was done in the process.

In short, they do not use a child as a pawn to hurt the other parent.

Never use your children to obtain information about your ex-spouse, or as a pawn to get vengeance on your ex-spouse.

SSAC is working with state leaders to make parents accountable for using their children as a pawn and removing their children's rights out of hate and anger for the other parent or step parent.

One tweet linked to a story in Gateway Pundit that accused Hogg's father of coaching his son in peddling «anti-Trump rhetoric and anti-gun legislation,» claiming the FBI is using Hogg as its pawn.

The suit says North Korea used their son as a pawn in disputes with the United States.

one or both parents attempt to control and / or punish one another while using their child as a pawn

Deeply humiliated, her mother had even used Bourgeois as a pawn to keep an eye on things, pretending, all the while, that everything was normal.

Beyond: Two Souls (PS4): Ellen Page stars as a psychic protagonist whom you follow from a messed - up childhood to an equally fractured adult life as a pawn of black ops government programs.

Apparently, she didn't like being used as a pawn during Delita's political maneuverings.

I sat, half - crouched, my back pressed against the wall as the Pawn stepped to the corner.

Luckily, customization and combat is where Dark Arisen really shines, and given I was able to create my avatar as well as my pawn to fit a certain combat archetype, I was impressed to find the depth of customization I had in creating multiple builds to fit different scenarios.

They trace Aruba's development from a land of peaceful Indian origins to its fate as the pawn of colonial powers and its emergence as an acclaimed international tourism destination.

Tima Preiss, a psychotherapist in Fairbanks, said that sort of protection for pets also helps victims, and reduces the ability of the pet being used as a pawn.

When this happens, people tend to seek help from payday lenders as well as pawn shops.

A biography of the controversial fighter follows Liston from the mean streets, where he was a petty criminal, to the heavyweight championship and his life as a pawn of organized crime.

Like much of Eastern Europe, Poland endured a turbulent 20th century as a pawn in the match for regional supremacy between Germany and the Soviet Union.

What stands out for me aren't so much the characters — protagonists Nailer and Nita are complex and believable, but many of the supporting characters are sketchily drawn — or the plot, which has a familiar shape — shipwrecked rich girl rescued by gutter rat, flight from bad people wanting to use rich girl as pawn, a big fight, a hairsbreadth rescue — but the meticulously detailed, multi-layered post-climate change world in which the action takes place.

Renner, who spends the first half of the movie as a pawn of the character's search, does serviceable work in this section, but the screenplay still maintains its investigative mindset, meaning that character is still a pawn but one of forces seeking or aiding his destruction.

Penned by Brad Ingelsby («Out Of The Furnace «-RRB-, and set to be directed by James Marsh («Project Nim,» «Shadow Dancer «-RRB- the story follows a money hungry woman, whose life didn't turn out the way she wanted, who uses a man as a pawn to help land her high school crush in a get - rich - quick scheme.

She correctly identifies that Jonas's son is being used as a pawn, even if it's cruel to say as much to a panicked father, and manages to put a bullet into Quinn when he shows up to apprehend her.

Of course, it's possible that the character can be both concerned with the welfare of the soldiers and using their welfare as a pawn in his political strategy.

Tyrese Gibson has a few good scenes as a pawn shop worker, and I was expecting Mary J. Blige to have a much bigger role.

It's also worth nothing that she's the one female character, with the possible exception of Soledad O'Brien playing herself, who isn't used in the film as a pawn or hostage, which is about all we get from Amy Adams «Lois Lane (who's apparently as addicted to stilettos as Bryce Dallas Howard in «Jurassic World»), Diane Lane «s Martha Kent or Holly Hunter «s all - too - brief turn as a Kentucky senator who squares off against Luthor.

Katniss is no Bella Swan, able to disappear as a pawn between two otherworldly suitors.

Jenna Fischer («The Office») does well as their nice, neglected, normal sister who seems like the perfect match for Jimmy, despite being forced into acting as pawn / spy for her siblings.

A few scenes fleetingly mitigate the almost total dearth of laughs by injecting weird poignancy: a return visit to the stripper played by Heather Graham plays out an interesting idea about the passage of time since the first movie in 2009, and Melissa McCarthy livens up the picture in a couple of scenes as a pawn - shop proprietress with eyes for Alan, suggesting that maybe what the otherwise hopeless case needs is the love of a good woman.

From the director of «The Lives of Others» comes this taut thriller about a British woman (Angelina Jolie) who dupes an American tourist (Johnny Depp) into serving as a pawn in the pursuit of her former lover - slash - professional thief.

He escapes to a mountain where he encounters another swordsman panning for gold as a pawn in another villainous scheme.

Goodman, Melissa McCarthy (as a pawn - shop employee), and Heather Graham (returning as the character of Jade) also add a nice bit to the mix.

Richard Schiff offers up some comic relief as a pawn broker making Wahlberg's misery just a tad worse.

Seemingly with his heart in the right place, Lord Mountbatten is presented as a pawn for the real power broker in England.

Coincidentally, he used to date Emily, which makes him the perfect candidate to be used as a pawn to blackmail Denning.

In a career best turn, Vince Vaughn plays a drug courier who winds up in prison, where his bloodthirsty enemies use him as a pawn in a deadly game.

«The Return» treats him only as a pawn, one that allows for a convenient cliffhanger that has him being whisked away from Bellevue in the middle of the night by his former's lover, Astrid (Nina Hoss), last seen working for the German intelligence service, the BND, in season five.

A few light attempts at humor, particularly two scenes with Nick Frost as a pawn shop operator, don't gel with everything else.

«Alpha Dog» (2006): Yelchin found complexity and unexpected avenues into his role here as a 15 - year - old who gets kidnapped and used as a pawn in a true story of drugs and murder.

In actor - turned - director Raúl Arévalo's debut feature The Fury of a Patient Man, the mesmerizing Ruth Díaz was rewarded for her excellent performance as a pawn (to be sacrificed) in a sinister game of revenge.

I think when you use too much in your own — if you're a creative person at all, if you overuse yourself as a pawn in your own adventures to write your masterpiece, I think you end up bending yourself.

The fruits of their labor is this 1963 - based story that takes place in a U.S. government laboratory where a creature is being held as a pawn by American federal agents (Michael Shannon) and coveted by Russian spies.

At times, she is as scheming and underhanded as social studies teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), whose dislike for Flick culminates in him using unsuspecting jock Paul Metzler (Chris Klein) as a pawn in his vicious campaign to take her down.

The layers that he gives both of the Howards is impressive, but the empathy and affection one feels for our Howard that is being played, seemingly, as a pawn is enormous.