Sentences with phrase «as powerful a pull»

The story that has pulled me through Assassin's Creed III — and it's as powerful a pull as any videogame story — is the real story of America, outside the textbook beats of this game's facile historical perspective.

Not exact matches

Enormous wealth is what allowed Woody Johnson to spend his seven years of college drinking and pulling pranks and still emerge as a powerful, respected individual.

Pull down the idols of the tribe, debunk the status of the proud and powerful, desanctify the saints and desecrate the holy places: as the blinding sunlight of their glory fades, the gathering dusk reveals a hundred thousand points of lesser light each with a glory of its own.

Which means you and I serve as a faith - based anchor, pulling the powerful entertainment juggernaut back toward a moral center.

And then, surprisingly, Mefferd pulled the accusations off her site and apologized, even as her part - time assistant producer resigned, citing «an evangelical celebrity machine that is more powerful than anyone realizes.»

To an extent that has been true, as the talisman pulled off two exceptionally powerful free kick goals in the opening group games.

By understanding the powerful and often conflicting forces at work as you take on fatherhood and a family, you'll increase your prospects for pulling through and coming out the other side a stronger man, with a stronger marriage, and a family that makes all your efforts and sacrifices incredibly worthwhile.

Infants of mothers with an oversupply of breastmilk (or more accurately, an aggressive milk ejection - and I think you have both oversupply and a powerful milk ejection or just one) will often choke and sputter at the breast, and pull off and reattach themselves to the breast as they attempt to control the flow of milk.

But as activist groups continue to pull back the curtain on the techniques that make this cheap food possible, Americans are raising their eyebrows and voicing their concerns to surprisingly powerful effect.

The resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer had left Silver as «the most powerful man in Albany,» and he pulled the plug on congestion pricing by refusing to even hold a vote.

Pulling a powerful potential enemy to your side is a political triple axel if you can land it — but utterly infuriating to committed liberals (The arrangement eventually sputtered as Cuomo tacked left, and Dicker retired last year.)

I was just a researcher without money, connections or crowd - pulling charisma, moved to action by the election of Donald Trump, a powerful climate change denier and anti-vaxxer, as US president.

Just as water from the middle third of the contiguous United States flows toward the Mississippi River, Tully found that galaxies across about 500 million light - years of space flow toward a previously discovered enormous and dense region known as the Great Attractor because of its powerful gravitational pull.

As the universe evolved, the expansion following the Big Bang initially slowed down due to gravity's powerful inward pull.

The oil «pulls» the bad bugs from under your gums and in between your teeth as though they are being drawn to a powerful magnet.

Correspondingly, the five phases that can be described between these positions are as follows: (1) the first pull happens between the ground and when the bar reaches knee level and is initiated by knee and hip extension; (2) the transition happens when the barbell is between knee level and the power position and involves a shift in the position of the body relative to the barbell, which involves a brief period of knee flexion and is therefore referred to as the double knee bend (Enoka, 1979; 1988); (3) the second pull is the most powerful phase of the lift and occurs while the barbell is between the power position and the lifter is in triple extension; (4) turnover occurs as the lifter quickly drops down under the bar from the triple extension position to the catch position, in a deep front squat; (5) recovery into the standing position occurs as the lifter stands from the catch position to upright.

Double Kettlebell Snatch Exercise This powerful movement will build tremendous upper body pulling strength as well as core and posterior chain power.

Even though the trapezius comes into play at the end of the second pull with a powerful shrug and at the beginning of the catch phase to assist the active pull under the bar, the trapezius is activated from the moment the Power Clean movement is initiated as a stabilizer.

And whenever blondes are cast as dangerous, powerful women they rarely pull it off convincingly as a raven haired actress.

He lived in dreary, rainy London, pulling off heists arranged by other, more powerful men, while his wife Dee Dee (Amanda Redman) worked as a porn star.

The extraordinary thing about Pride is that, underneath the mainstream presentation and heartstring - pulling manipulation (which never feels hokey, since it's largely based in fact), it quietly expands the horizons of queer cinema: Gays are portrayed not as frail victims, but as powerful heroes and defenders, and they aren't sexualized in the slightest (sex and romance are virtual non-factors).

There's something fundamentally powerful about the film's (and book's) understanding of humankind as the push - and - pull between enslavement and freedom, though the directors are better off expressing its themes in a flurry of gorgeous images than in the overly explicit voiceover narration.

My favorite thing about good films is the fact that I'm completely engrossed in the characters and the situations, it feels as if I've been pulled into the screen and breathe the same air as them, and when bad things happen I feel something powerful.

In a terrible scene where Black families are showcased like cattle, based on their strength and health before being sold into slavery, Paul Giamatti makes a brief but immensely powerful impression as a slaver trader, who has no qualms about pulling families apart.

And originally the VFX supervisors envisioned individual environments for each beast inside the suitcase, but Rowlings suggested that wizard Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) would have to be as powerful as Valdemort to pull that off, so they scaled it way back.

And looking back at this very recent history, it's also incredibly powerful to see the now famous political personalities James Carville and George Stephanopoulos as they pull off a major upset to get Clinton elected.

It won't do so though, if — as players — we're forced to spend hours desperately and frustratedly trying to figure out portions of the game while the curtain is gradually pulled back to reveal that the Great and Powerful Oz is merely human.

Imagine them on their cool smartphones, pulling up a powerful, simple checklist as they work on their choreography and look up the lyrics that come after «Oompa loompa doompety doo...»

This test car's eight - speed automatic transmission isn't as involving as a manual» box (at least you have the option) and you do need to anticipate a brief hesitation every time you pull a paddle for an up or downshift, but it does help you to wring every last drop from the powerful and torquey motor.

The V - 6 is plenty powerful, but I would be more interested in the EcoBoost four - cylinder, as it should pull in better fuel economy with only a minor power sacrifice.

The new T6 four - cylinder is a technological marvel that combines both turbocharging and supercharging to provide a powerful yet fuel efficient engine that pulls like a strong V - 6 or mild V - 8 while still achieving an EPA - estimated 31 mpg on the highway in the 4,037 - pound, AWD luxury sedan known as the S90.

Its processor has been upgraded to the same quad - core affair that powers the mighty Samsung Galaxy S3, and RAM has been upped to a whopping 2 GB, pulling the Galaxy Note 10.1 ahead of the Asus Transformer Infinity as the most powerful Android tablet available.

The phone is powerful enough to run the whole system and can pull double duty as both a business and personal device.

What people say isn't the same as what they do... and today, when people pull out their own wallet, they tend to buy something cheaper than an EV, or else the biggest / most powerful vehicle they can afford.

Bull or bear markets can last for months, and even years, and 90 - 95 % of stocks are powerless to resist the pull of such a powerful rip current — almost inevitably, junior resource stocks rise & fall as one...

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Designed so that the entire system syncs hourly with most established practice management systems, ALLYDVM's powerful solution pulls data such as client contact information, reminders, and any «associated» household pets directly from the practice's own management system, and organizes it to flag problem data.

Rottweilers must also be trained not to pull on the leash, as they grow into very large, powerful dogs dogs!

Boerboels are be powerful enough to excel at competitive weight - pulling, but they have also had success as docile therapy dogs who have a soft spot in their huge heart for children.

Jane Frey is an assault ops specialist with her primary weapon of choice being a shotgun and a revolver as a secondary weapon, while her special abilities include Leash which holds enemies within a gravitational anomaly; Void knocks down enemies in the path of a powerful bolt of energy; Choose of Slain allows Jane to pull an enemy closer as other enemies are pushed away; and Equinox forms a kinetic shield around Jane that protects her from incoming damage by reflecting incoming projectiles.

Kay Rayner is a close quarters combat specialist who carries a Epirus V - 7 Bow as a primary weapon and an Eclypse Katana as a secondary weapon, while his special abilities include Pull Enemy that utilises a telekinetic ability to pull closely situated enemies toward him while inflicting damage and incapacitating enemies for a period of time; Throw Enemy is a powerful telekinetic attack that inflicts serious damage to enemies and flings them away; Devastation causes a massive amount of damage to all close by enemies through a powerful ground hit; and Zeal produces a huge bonus for melee attacks in addition to a simultaneous protective aura around Pull Enemy that utilises a telekinetic ability to pull closely situated enemies toward him while inflicting damage and incapacitating enemies for a period of time; Throw Enemy is a powerful telekinetic attack that inflicts serious damage to enemies and flings them away; Devastation causes a massive amount of damage to all close by enemies through a powerful ground hit; and Zeal produces a huge bonus for melee attacks in addition to a simultaneous protective aura around pull closely situated enemies toward him while inflicting damage and incapacitating enemies for a period of time; Throw Enemy is a powerful telekinetic attack that inflicts serious damage to enemies and flings them away; Devastation causes a massive amount of damage to all close by enemies through a powerful ground hit; and Zeal produces a huge bonus for melee attacks in addition to a simultaneous protective aura around Kay.

Other games that try to emulate the growth of an unseasoned character don't pull it off with quite the same aplomb as Tomb Raider does — by the end of the adventure, Lara's transformation into a powerful heroine is noticeable, and feels natural.

And as the game progresses, your party will gain further abilities to manipulate the battle — a move to pull units forward or sideways, or the power to lay traps, for example — while the enemies also up their game, some immovable, others more powerful when arranged in a certain formation.

The voice cast seemed a little off to me at first, but it grew on me as the game goes on, with certain characters pulling in surprisingly powerful performances by the end.

Claw of the Wicked is incredibly powerful as it pulls an opponent entirely out of position.

As you are [embodying] a powerful ape, and you are darting in and out of the cover points, and you're wielding the machine gun with one arm, you know, pulling yourself around.

Two characters can link up and perform stronger attacks, and eventually you'll learn the ability to pull off powerful S - Break attacks as well.

We are also treated to new and even better Ultra Combos, some might not be as flashy as the other Ultra's we are used to pulling off in Street Fighter IV but they are just as deadly and powerful.

Its energy is quite wonderful, as is the powerful push - pull of its tones.

The move to the wall proved integral, as there he could experiment with the effects of gravity as it pulled paint down the canvas, producing a powerful directional layout.