Sentences with phrase «as swatting»

In some cases, implementing a system makes as much sense as swatting at a mosquito with a sledgehammer.

Those people can then be targeted with harassment, such as swatting (sending a SWAT team to someone's house by sending in a false report), or threatening messages.

But then, minutes later, as SWAT officers were storming Pulse, she blithely went back to pushing for the release of her favorite terrorist, with a photo of her embracing him.

As we view the unrelated strands of their lives, the patrons are suddenly and dramatically brought together when a lunatic with a gun opens fire on the diner, as a SWAT team attempts to bring him down and restore order while protecting the lives of the people inside.

Fincher's excellent at whatever the film needs — Freeman sulking around because he's a lonely old cop and it's what lonely old cops do, Pitt doing a chase sequence, even John C. McGinley's glorified cameo as the SWAT commander has some good procedural sequences — but he doesn't actually have a real vision for it.

SWAT: Global Strike Team (now known as SWAT for this review) is a first person shooter with a difference.

Aren was trained in patrol tactics, and explosive detection as well as SWAT K9 operations.

Oddly enough this strikes me as being a weaker version of Door Kickers, a tactical game where you play as a SWAT team.

Progressing from left to right, players take control of their beardy protagonist as he swats down a variety of different monsters through use of both his sword and a variety of different spells.

I'm interested to use a global reanalysis data to force hydrological models such as SWAT for a meso watershed with sparse hydrometeorological stations.

A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building.

Not exact matches

George Herman «Babe» Ruth was a star pitcher in his early career but achieved his fame as «The Sultan of Swat» by hitting 714 home runs and driving in 2,213 runs in 22 seasons between 1914 and 1935.

As streaming has taken off, swatting has become an increasingly common practice among online gamers and internet trolls, with several high profile incidents over the last few years.

(In one 2014 episode, a SWAT team entered, raided, and searched a man's office while his webcam was streaming — the camera caught and broadcast the officers throwing the man down to the ground as the room he was in was searched.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters)- Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a teenager, two security officials and a family friend said.

Steve Ward, who spent seven years as an officer with the Seattle Police Department and six with the city's SWAT team, says he founded Seattle - based VieVu in 2007 to protect officers against unfounded civilian complaints.

It's a request that Enbridge chief executive officer Pat Daniel swatted down Wednesday as «without merit,» and one analyst said was unlikely to succeed.

Yes, Hindu thinkers such as the first Hindu missionary to America Swami Vivekananda have argued against caste, and the Indian Constitution outlawed caste - based discrimination, but the caste system, both ancient and religious, will not be swatted away so easily by either reformers or legislators.

Swatting them away seems unlikely as their carapace is as strong as iron, plus they travel in swarms that are louder than a herd of stampeding horses.

«The opponents of enforcing immigration law and supporters of amnesty for illegal immigrants are using this as an emotional issue, raising this phony idea that a nun ladling out soup to an illegal alien is going to be wrestled to the ground by a SWAT team,» he said.

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The defender actually swats the arm as Buechele is passing, it's a godamn miracle it wasn't a fumble, that tackle is definitely collapsing and has completely lost leverage on the play.

As you press the blocker back with your «long arm,» the pass rusher continues around the corner, and at some point, he releases off the block by swatting the blocker's outside hand with his, then going right into a rip move.

A loquacious raconteur endowed with total recall, he is able to talk for what seems almost ever about such long - forgotten players as Moses Solomon, «The Rabbi of Swat,» a slugger the Giants brought up in the»20s to lure Jewish fans into the Polo Grounds, and one - armed Daily, a Cleveland pitcher back in the»80s who used to get into fights on the field and chop away at his adversaries with the stump of his left arm.

He was drafted as a 17 - year - old, and he didn't stop hitting until he was 40, reaching the majors when he was 21, and methodically swatting his way to 500 homers.

Couples keeps his, the better to swat at the ground as he goes.

Fullmer is a swarmer, a clincher, a dervish of awkward fury who throws punches from all angles of unorthodoxy and is as hard to swat as a fly in a hot room.

As if they need a second dong - swatting man child playing in their Little League-esque stadium.

(2) Also, I don't think it suits G Neville when he starts to talk as if he was one of the hard men of football, he looks and sounds like he was a swat / twat in the classroom.

The same exact goal could have happened much sooner in the game, as similar situations occurred with Schalke's wing - backs running at BVB's at full speed, swatting the buildup of the Black and Yellows.

Watch as Manolas barely kept Rossettini onside, then watch again as Rüdiger lets him waltz past him... then, watch again as Wojciech Szczesny swats at the ball like a toddler chasing fireflies.

Elsewhere Barcelona and Real are swatting aside teams, while Bayern obliterate fellow German clubs as a plucky Dortmund do their best to keep up.

As you baby's hand - eye coordination develops, they can reach out and swat things with increasing accuracy.

Of the more than 1,300 moms we surveyed, 81 percent were spanked as kids, but only 49 percent of them choose to swat their own kids.

As in anti-tobacco efforts, anti-corporal punishment activists have started squeezing spanking from the public sphere, shrinking the number of places where it is acceptable to swat a child.

Baby play gyms encourage babies to use that ATNR in a functional manner as they lay on their back and begin looking at and swatting at the toys!

And in that moment, I wondered, had I been a parent who believed in spanking as an act of discipline, would I have given my son a quick swat on the back side and thought it a teaching moment?

He advises that for such «offenses» as dropping or playing with food, trying to hold the spoon that a parent is using, or banging on the tray, a child must first be swatted on the hand, then isolated in the crib if it recurs.

Scott notes that, depending on a child's individual temperament, Ezzo's recommendations appear to either work brilliantly — meaning that the child essentially gives up and stops protesting completely — or leave parents incredibly frustrated as to why, no matter how many times they «swat» the baby, she still won't use good «highchair manners.»

There are some wonderful vignettes, such as the black boy straining to listen to the Cup Final commentary on a parked police car's radio, as typically arrogant white police officers try to swat him away.

As the outside world proceeds to withdraw its combat forces from Afghanistan, and rushes to reconcile with the Taliban to smooth along an exit, it can learn a valid lesson from Pakistan's experience with the Taliban in Swat Valley.

As a reporter with a Pakistani newspaper, The Nation, I covered the rise of Taliban in Kandahar and its spill - over into Pakistan's Swat Valley in the mid-90s.

As a volunteer for the Rural Outreach Center («ROC»), Susan is a part of the SWAT team and works with ROC social workers who make initial connections with families in need of assistance and then train volunteers, like Susan, to provide follow up.

The ex-comptroller and mayoral candidate refused to swat down rumors that he is mulling a bid against Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, even as he put another batch of rumors to rest by endorsing his own congresswoman, Grace Meng, for re-election.

Hasan had as much right to be upset as anyone, but he dealt with Starkey like a man swatting a particularly irritating fly.

De Blasio has swatted down suggestions he apologize as a way to mend his conflict with New York City's police force, but the calls for a mayoral mea culpa keep coming.

The chancellor shook his head, shrugged his shoulders and muttered little responses to himself, but increasingly looked as if he wanted to violently swat Balls out of existence.

Whether it was my time as a road patrol deputy, firearms instructor, SWAT Commander, or Undersheriff for 13 years overseeing the jail, I have always met every challenge head - on with professionalism and integrity, and this election will be no different.

Are there mentors out there who, as we sit for hours pursuing scientific excellence, not knowing how much we don't know, will swat us, when our attention wonders and our eyelids droop, with appropriate firmness and kindness, with the bamboo rod of mentorly advice?

Mosquitoes have pestered mankind for as long as we've had the wits to swat them.