Sentences with phrase «at a foe with»

Despite how basic gameplay generally is, when you're mashing at foes with a friend it's not as noticeable; you'll be too busy co-ordinating attacks or smashing down the damage - sponge bosses to think about how simple it all is.

The game's mouse and keyboard controls are tight and responsive, allowing the player to maneuver about the world while blasting away at foes with relative ease.

Not exact matches

The new main weapon results in balletic, almost rhythmic combat: Throw the ax at the enemy charging at you, summon it back, and start charging a major swing to take out the next foe before dodging out of the way, adding in a few flourishes of the ax, and then finishing off the bad guys with another sturdy toss.

«I was here visiting just a few days before the visit of President Obama, and I remember at the time there was much talk about Cuba strengthening relations with both the European Union and the United States,» Mogherini said, when asked by reporters about the Trump administration's partial rollback of a fragile detente between the old Cold War foes.

U.S. retail is at a crossroads, with brands and retailers still trying to decide whether e-commerce is friend or foe.

Najib is grappling with a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and popular anger over rising living costs, which have given momentum to the challenge from his 92 - year - old mentor - turned - foe, Mahathir.

At one point, in what appears a clever lawyerlike play, Pagels discredits Augustine's doctrine of the literal fall of Adam and Eve with the observation that it is hopelessly unscientific, and as a historian she feels compelled to add that Augustine's great foe, Pelagius, would also have had no use for science.

It is a long way from the gospel of Jesus in Galilee to the Gospel of John in the Hellenistic setting of early second century Christianity, at war on all fronts with an unbelieving world and not least with «the Jews,» who are now viewed as implacable and inveterate foes.

I'd like to get her speaking to some of our Catholic events and conferences here, and I will certainly be using this book in my own work at Confirmation classes and similar gatherings... and remembering its message when talking with friends (and foes!)

The folk tale of Samson, whatever else it may originally have been intended to teach, certainly expresses an ideal of the time; he was such a one as the writer wished he might have been: able to buffet and toss about his foes, to make sport of their retribution and plots, to take what he would, and to consort with harlots at his desire.

Al - Adiyat sura 100: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful By the snorting coursers, (1) Striking sparks of fire (2) And scouring to the raid at dawn, (3) Then, therewith, with their trail of dust, (4) Cleaving, as one, the centre (of the foe), (5) Lo!

They dispatched Costa Rican side Herediano with relative ease in the CCL round of 16, riding out a draw away before thrashing their foes at home.

The winner of the NL Wild Card Game will advance to play another divisional foe with the Los Angeles Dodgers waiting in the NL Division Series, which begins Friday, Oct. 6 at Dodger Stadium.

Tennessee finally made the move to cut ties after settling into the SEC East basement at 4 — 6 overall and 0 — 6 in - conference, but as far back as early October there seemed to be no way back for Jones, who entered the season with one of the conference's warmest seats and saw its temperature rise with each uniquely painful loss to a conference foe.

After the sort of performance we saw from Arsenal yesterday as we beat the Britannia stadium jinx and gave the old foe Stoke City a good stuffing, especially as it was a true team effort, there are plenty of Gunners who could be considered for the Man of the Match award, with the likes of Francis Coquelin, Ozil and Bellerin shining, but once again I have to give it to that man Alexis Sanchez, especially after his goal celebration seemed to suggest he was staying at the Emirates.

We need a starting attacking option at the level of Sanchez to seriously challenge foe EPL and cl... And have for 5 years Iwobi giroud Walcott vs Willian costa hazard is easy to see the gap in class but it is there even with Nolito aguerro sterling..

A little like Chelsea, Liverpool have recently bounced back to winning ways at the perfect time — Just before their Sunday showdown with their London foes.

England take on old foes Scotland at Wembley on Friday night, with three valuable points at stake on the road to the next World Cup in Russia.

-- Lynn Krogh, a former Pataki administration aide who worked until the bitter end with Paladino's vanquished GOP primary foe, Rick Lazio, and was widely praised for her vote counting operation that blocked Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting on the ballot at the convention.

With the reputation of elites at an all - time low, and politics seemingly more polarised than ever, who do the public now trust to manage the economy, and do they view business as friend or foe?

Another girl called Janet in Freetown, who got pregnant at the age of 11, said however that she is «done with schooling, and fears going back to be harassed by friend and foe alike.»

Pentagon officials are concerned that the president's plan to send the National Guard to the border with Mexico could be seen as picking a fight with an ally at a time when the military already has plenty of foes.

Now, with big - name foes like Rudy Giuliani taking a pass, the odds of winning are not that long at all.

In reality, the people at greatest risk from this old foe are those who have always been most at risk: the poorest and most marginal groups, those with suppressed immunity, and those who care for them — in Harlem, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and across the river in Newark, New Jersey.

The power to control living things and objects from a distance is a popular supernatural talent in science fiction and fantasy: Witches fling spells at foes and X-Men send chairs and tables flying with telekinesis, for example.

Researchers at the University of Texas (U.T.) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas noticed that mice used two primary methods to cope with defeat after being repeatedly pummeled by larger, more aggressive foes: Some of the weaker members withdrew, avoiding all types of social interaction for more than a month, whereas others rolled with the punches, so to speak, quickly bouncing back to their normal behavior.

Description: Pilots can also decimate their foes at extreme range with the heavy - hitting Gunship role, now made available for all players in Galactic Starfigher expansion.

An annoying part of the game is it seems your foes can dodge most of your blade attacks - besides brawling with a foe in that, at the same time more hostiles will just pull their guns out and shoot.

The basic gameplay of the Shantae is there, with Shantae still being able to whip her hair at foes, or transform and find secrets in levels with dances.

Duvivier, like Jean Renoir, saw the fatalism in his own nation at the time and infused his movie with the struggling existentialism of a nation sitting directly beside the all - powerful foe.

At first glance a genre focused on frenetic combat in which heroes can kill dozens of enemies with just a few blows and eliminate literally thousands of foes in each battle might seem a strange fit for a series better known for its slow - paced, turn - based, one - on - one combat.

Fans recognize Thor as handsome, ferocious, often less compelling than at least half a dozen fellow Avengers, but now he's more whimsical, with slapsticks, and more resourceful in handling foes.

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), two foes forced to put aside their differences, to team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, bent on creating nuclear weapons with the goal of world domination.

At first, The Evil Within 2 feels like it will follow a similar path, with an emphasis on exciting set pieces and chase sequences outrunning buzzsaw - wielding foes.

You'll be swiping like mad on one enemy with an exposed weak point then quickly rotate to cancel a tough foe's charged attack only to realise that another enemy is readying their attack at the same time and before you know it; your finger is cramping up due to the rather intense workout.

With a quick glance at the floor, you can determine where your team has been, where they're going, and where your foes might target next.

Kick can rain down on unsuspecting foes with an extra-fast kick, Dr. Shoals can redirect her kick mid-air, while Kenny possesses a Mokujin-esque ability to mimic other fighter's special moves at random.

At Lisbon airport, an American businessman is mistaken for a British secret - agent, by friend and foe alike, with hilarious consequences.

Using a similar engine to Dynasty Warriors, Tecmo Koei are developing a Zelda title where Link fends off dozens of enemies at a time, with previous bosses from the series fighting alongside smaller foes.

And beyond the nifty concept of frantically covering the ground and walls with ink (while «splatting» foes that get in your way), there are some intriguing ideas at work in Splatoon's four - on - four multiplayer modes.

When the stakes are at their highest, take to the battlefield with an army and conquer foes in tactical warfare.

Later in the interview, Brolin also revealed that Thanos» anger comes from a childhood deformity — which tracks with the comics, where Thanos had the «deviant» gene at birth, making him look like a member of the Eternals» long - time foe, the Deviants:

With sped - up storytelling, multiple narrators and jokey nicknames all round, it's familiar territory for the writer / director, even if purists will blanch at a super-buff King Arthur sassing his foes with sexist putdoWith sped - up storytelling, multiple narrators and jokey nicknames all round, it's familiar territory for the writer / director, even if purists will blanch at a super-buff King Arthur sassing his foes with sexist putdowith sexist putdowns.

If Fury's future - tech espionage world was an exciting, glamorous, and sleek world to visit, Strange's universe was somewhere you would never choose to go to except with a qualified necromancer as escort; it was at once airy and tactile, vaporous and fibrous, dream - like and the stuff of screaming nightmare (in fact, one of Strange's foes was Nightmare personified).

There are any number of enemies that can stun - lock a player into oblivion, and with up to eight foes being able to appear onscreen at once, encounters generally range from unfair to purely masochistic.

The Hyrule Warriors demo at E3 2014 had me beating back hordes of moblins, targeting lizalfos» weak points and running around a battlefield filled with friends and foes, without stopping once to check an item screen or solve a puzzle.

Donkey Kong, for instance, wields the Bwananarang - capable of hitting multiple enemies with a single throw - and can perform his iconic ground pound, which is handy for damaging foes at close range.

Nearly dead at this point, Glass begins relentlessly pursuing his betrayer, resulting in a miserable odyssey through extreme weather conditions and encounters with foes and friends, man and beast.

Educators are also encouraged to mingle with colleagues at Friday and Saturday breakfast discussions, «Social Networking: Why You Should and How to Make It Work for You» and «Mobile Technology in the Classroom: Friend or Foe,» hosted by ASCD Website Director Tim Ito and ASCD Website Editor and Producer Simon Cable.

Heroes are at their best when presented with a worthy villain, and Bendis» dynamic script reveals that with a foe like Diamondback the Defenders are in for a challenge that should test the limits of their individual abilities.