Sentences with phrase «battle against his mother»

Leighton Meester today won a long - suffering court battle against her mother.

Leighton Meester has won her court battle against her mother.

As Captain N, he led a team of heroes into battles against Mother Brain and her minions on a regular basis to keep Videoland safe.

Not exact matches

in their battle against the forces that bring disorder to the body, that enslave the spirit... God as mother - creator feels the same anger and judges those harshly who deny life and nourishment to her children.29

He is instead «the Lord God of Hosts,» as Mother Abagail, his prophet in The Stand, might put it, intervening directly in the lives of his people and demanding that they conform those lives to his will — whether it's the chosen few who survive The Stand's superflu and end up shepherded west to Boulder, Colorado, to form a new Israel set against the Babylon of Las Vegas; or the motley heroes of Desperation, King's finest 1990s novel, who coalesce around a «God - bombed» eleven - year - old to battle a demon called Tak, accidentally let loose in the Nevada desert.

My mother lost her battle against cancer when I was almost 9 years old.

After serving as a renowned social activist in South Africa, Mikaela's mother Lente - Louise Louw, fought a 15 year battle against a stage - 4 ovarian cancer.

Kathleen Hepburn's Never Steady, Never Still, a meditative portrait of a mother's battle with Parkinson's while her son comes to terms with his identity, is nominated for Best Canadian Film along with two other exceptional first features: Cory Bowles» Black Cop, a timely satire about an African - Canadian police officer who fights back against entitled white citizens, and Antoine Bourges» Fail to Appear, a quiet and precise study of institutional systems of support available for those on parole.

When the film begins they don't even know each other, but before long these two star - crossed lovers have to battle against Dorian's Machiavellian mother, played wickedly by «SCTV» alum Catherine O'Hara, and his loose - screw, murderous brother Angus, played by Jake Busey.

For a time this seemed like a two - way battle, with television and theater veteran Laurie Metcalf, nominated for playing a complicated but loving mother to a willful daughter in Lady Bird, facing off against Allison Janney, nominated for playing a complicated and never - loving mother to a willful daughter in I, Tonya.

And speaking of armies, I do have a problem with the logic of Kick - Ass» makeshift legion of do - gooders, nerds, and wimps holding its own against the Mother Fucker's army of professionally - trained killers in the movie's climactic battle.

This semi-autobiographical work follows 20 - year - old Ellen (Lily Collins), a young woman wedged between her warring birth mother Judy (Lili Taylor) and her stepmother Susan (Carrie Preston), with whom she lives while fighting a daily battle against her own body dysmorphia.

But the humanistic drama peaks in its pure representation of that age - old, man - vs - nature battle; flawlessly crafted scenes of storm surges and ice shifts, set against the epic real - world scale of the Himalayan landscape, instantly miniaturise the protagonists and put into perspective, both physically and metaphorically, the insurmountable task of surviving should Mother Nature dictate otherwise.

- Dragon Ball Fusions gets a third update on December 7 - a special quest that will be added - players go investigate a distortion in the space - time continuum, and quickly find out it's caused by Goku Black - trying to get control of all dimensions in order to annihilate mankind - quest includes a series of online challenges - offers special rewards to get - get something simply by participating (such as new characters) Challenge # 1 (December 7th to December 13th)- Challenge: battle against Goku Black (deal as much damage as possible)- Participation reward: Super Saiyan Trunks (Super)- Rank reward: Light Sword (a new special move for Super Saiyan Trunks (Super)-RRB-- Clear reward: new title (Mother's Spirit) Challenge # 2 (December 14th to December 20th)- Challenge: battle against Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegeta (defeat him as many times as possible)- Participation reward: Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegeta - Rank reward: Final Kamehameha (a new special move for Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegeta)- Clear reward: new title (Savior) Challenge 3 (December 21st to December 27th)- Challenge: battle against Fusion Zamasu (defeat him as fast as possible)- Participation reward: Fusion Zamasu - Rank reward: Holy Wrath (unlock a new special move for Fusion Zamasu)- Clear reward: new title (The One Who Felled God)

Players guide Isaac through randomly - generated rooms, killing enemies, gaining power - ups and battling hideous bosses, before coming up against his mother.

We closed the exhibition with the release of a book, not only as a catalog but also as an extension of the show in which the works are enigmatically linked to my mother's battle against her illness.

If your husband has spent years collecting «evidence» against you, and has won some early court battles (which it sounds like he has), then it's going to take time for you to be able to collect counter-evidence that shows that your ex is wrong and that you are, in fact, a good mother, not doing drugs, etc..

... After concluding his investigation, the evaluator found that mother had a «seriously impaired capacity for reality testing» and met the diagnostic criteria for a «Delusional Disorder of a persecutory (nonbizarre) type»; that the two older children had become enmeshed in mother's battle against father; that the children were not credible reporters because they were colluding with mother to generate false allegations against father; and that the extent of mother's enmeshment and role reversal with the two older children constituted a form of emotional child abuse.

Here, the trial court was entitled to rely on the findings of the parental evaluator that mother was suffering from a delusional disorder and that the two older children had been enmeshed in mother's battle against father, among other findings.

The mother tried to turn the kids against their father during the custody battle until the children told their mom to stop.

So when NOW argues against recognition of PAS by the APA, it's arguing, among other things, against a mother's ability to prove alienating behavior on the part of her ex-husband and gain for her more power in the ongoing custody battle.