Sentences with phrase «at times battles»

Divine and demonic powers struggle for control; at times the battle seems to tilt in favor of the one side over the other.

Long, at the time battling with Paladino over the statewide ballot, laughed it off.

Not exact matches

At the time, groups of producers were mired in court and regulatory battles with the federation.

But at a time when the U.S. and Europe is fighting costly political battles in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, poking a country like Greece — which sits at the crossroads of these regions — could be far more expensive in the long run.

Sir George Sydenham Clarke, a British officer and colonial administrator at the time, wrote that «the battle of Tsu - shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar.»

Having taught at West Point, she told me that she researched and found that in America's times of bloodiest battles, enrollment at the Academy never reduced.

Hart was on the investigative Senate committee that looked into CIA abuses in the 1970s, and became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the spy establishment — just as Richard Nixon was secretly battling the CIA, the Pentagon, and corporate interests at the time that the Watergate scandal began to undo his presidency.

This comes at a time when Alphabet and Uber are entangled in a seemingly never - ending legal battle over trade secrets and patent infringement.

Move comes at a time when the food giant is battling sluggish demand as consumers shift to brands that are perceived as healthier.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

When you are gone for months at a time, the psychological battle becomes a big endeavor.

That is aimed at addressing a long time irritant — lengthy waits in line — but perhaps just as importantly, to give shoppers more reason to use the Walmart app, a key tool in the discounter's battle with Amazon.com (amzn).

At times, my body won the battle but I kept fighting the war.

«Our source said [«Call of Duty's»] Battle Royale mode may not hit the magic 100 player mark seen in other Battle Royale games at the time «Black Ops 4» comes out, but developers are working towards that number,» the Eurogamer report states.

We've battled for a long time at Wind, with the regulators and with the marketplace.

Kilgore, a former Netflix executive, and George Battle serve together on LinkedIn's board; Ann Mather and Anne Sweeney worked at Disney at the same time; Brad Smith is the chief legal officer at Microsoft, where Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings served as a director between 2007 and 2012.

This may seem obvious, but I can't tell you how many times I've gotten great service from the owner, only to have Battle - Ax Bertha at the front desk ruin any chance of a referral from me.

At the time, the newspapers of media magnate William Randolph Hearst started publishing made - up interviews and stories about invented battles.

At the same time, the number of smartphone users worldwide is expected to cross 2.1 billion, making the Apple vs. the FBI battle around the issues of encryption and privacy relevant to almost a third of the global population.

Sodexo's acquisition of Morris Corporation has pushed it up the ranking of big facilities management companies in Western Australia at a time when its competitors have been battling with the slowdown in large projects in the Pilbara.

EDG's players — when not doing yoga to stay limber — spend most of their time at the camp wielding virtual weaponry playing multi-player battle games like «League of Legends» or Tencent Holdings» (tctzf) popular «Honour of Kings.»

Kalanick's at times frat - like behavior over the company's eight - year history has come into focus in the past months, as Uber battles a public relations disaster that has led some customers to delete the app.

The revelation sparked a growing debate over Facebook's privacy standards at a time when the company was battling a noticeable decline in usage.

This could come at a time when Tim Hortons is battling a host of hungry rivals, from Starbucks to McDonald's to Subway.

Congress gave final approval to a giant $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that ends the budget battles for now, but only after late scuffles and conservatives objected to big outlays on Democratic priorities at a time when Republicans control the House, Senate and White House.

ROZZANO, Italy (Reuters)- Telecom Italia's (TIM) top two investors will face off for the first time on Friday as they put their battle over board seats at the Italian phone group to a shareholder vote.

You need to laser focus your efforts on getting the right message in front of the right people at exactly the right time — an uphill battle on the best of days, to say nothing of how tricky things can become if you're on a budget.

As we look back at 2013 — and forward to 2014 — we see that The Wall Street Journal, an innovative leader in the digital news business, seems to have lost momentum in its titanic battle with The New York Times.

The increasingly competitive global landscape comes at a time when Uber is hobbled by an empty C - Suite, boardroom battles and concerns about steep financial losses.

But she's also entirely unlike Trump in that she knows how to pick her battles — and knows which weapons to deploy at the right time.

Danielle Smith captured 90 % at a time when she was battling the extreme right wing of her party.

The soft trading update comes at a sensitive time for Godfreys, which is in a complex situation, because John Johnston's financing arm, 1918 Finance Pty Ltd, is the major lender to the battling vacuum cleaner retailer.

The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «secular humanism.»

What he produces is an anatomy of suffering the major axis of which is the irony that «battles over the value of suffering intensify in the contemporary world precisely at the same time people in ever greater numbers discard the notion that suffering is an inevitable part of human experience.»

The problem with your list is that if we take examples such as your first one, «European Colonization of Americas», it can viewed as a religious cause but with the growing trade battles at that time between European states we can say that it was a trade war that the native Americans got caught in the middle of.

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

If there would have been King Jesus foot soldiers at the time of the flood would the battle have been fought in a different way?

«I studied philosophy and law and then practiced law in big international firms in Amsterdam and Brussels for seven years before dramatic circumstances in my life brought me and my wife to consider an invitation from Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and Grand Chancellor of the ITI, to come to Austria to help him with building up and professionalising the ITI, which at that time had existed for only 7 years and which was dealing with serious financial problems and battling for its survival.

In this process neither has lost the battle, as is evident from the vigor of both at the present time.

The Sayyids ruled for a time after the Tughluqs, only to be supplanted by the Lodhis, an Afghan tribe which exercised authority until they were ousted by the Mughal invader, Babar, who defeated the last of the Lodhis at the famous battle of Panipat in 933 (A.D. 1526).

-- This institution will make every effort to battle such reprehensible fundamentalist violence to ensure that such horrors are not repeated anywhere (even if that means Muslims volunteering — NOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murderers).

Hal Lindsay, author of The Late Great Planet Earth, feeling sure he had got it right at last, announced the beginning of the end - times with the words: «The Battle of America has begun.»

That pattern runs counter to speculation that Catholics would focus more on hot - button issues at a time when Catholic bishops are battling the Obama White House over government - mandated contraception coverage.

If we can be slower to respond in anger every time a controversy unfolds, culture war battle is being fought or a joke gets made at our expense, we can actually be recognized for how we love.

It was particularly vital at those times in which man sensed the mystery of life and growth, namely birth, puberty, marriage and death, the sowing of crops, the spring lambing, the building of a new home, the going forth to battle.

At times the debate about religious language seems like a pitched battle between political camps of the left and the right.

At this time Niebuhr was driven into the mild socialism of the «Social Gospel,» but he soon began to do battle against what he called its naivete (its lack of understanding of the depths of sin in individual and society).

As we know God lives outside of time and the creator of time and is the alpha and omega, so to understand this is like Our God is looking at a chest board and moving his pieces into place, along the way battles are to be fought and conquered.

Sometimes I win the emotional battle and at other times I crumble.

That was an amazing feat, taking place at a time when the amendment's feminist and liberal supporters seemed to be in control of every American institution except the White House, but I was living in California at the time, and the key battles of the ERA had taken place in geographically and culturally distant states: Florida, Illinois, North Carolina.