Sentences with word «battleships»

Sure, the film features battleships — and the projectile that nearly hits Taylor Kitsch resembles the game's pegs — but being based -LSB-...]

As the name suggests, battle now is primarily on the Pacific rim, and while that gives a lot of opportunity for battleships to attack beach - heads or enemies to float upstream, t...

The players will also get to use some melee weapons such as shovel, sabres, trench clubs etc. and take control of vehicles like tanks, biplanes, battleships and ride horses.

Squadron - based dogfighting returns with fighters skirting the ground, huge space battleships, and one another in the familiar Arwing.

Does this fleet of battleships sink quickly?

It is this lack of farsightedness which informs the apocalyptic final vision, fields strewn with bits of broken battleships, depicting how the «beautiful dreams» he has created have borne terrible nightmares.

There are the awkward pauses and long stares between Mikael and Ana, and Chris shows himself to be trouble around alcohol, causing a scene at a party celebrating a gift of battleships from Germany to the Ottoman government.

Finally, Hasbro Family Game Night has had each of it's add - on games, including family favourites such as Battleships, Boggle and Connect 4 reduced by 50 %.

«Bomb» dropping has been a popular feature of recent aviation meets and enthusiastic reporters have given their imaginations full rein, with the result that cities have been destroyed, forts demolished and battleships sunk.

«The sunken PBY plane is a very important reminder of the «Day of Infamy,» like the [battleships] USS Arizona and USS Utah.

One attempt to use naval power in 1915 by the Allies ended in disaster: the attempt by battleships to force a way through the Dardanelles, the narrow seaway leading to Constantinople.

In the U.S. there was some alarm at the prospects of being unable to project power at sea should the nation need to go to war, and increasing effort was devoted to building the largest and most modern battleships in the U.S. Navy.

We've all heard children talk to themselves as they build Lego battleships or whip up imaginary pancakes.

The British company manufactured a radiation - absorbing carbon material that could hide battleships from radar detection but didn't know the physics of how it worked.

The Merchant Cruiser battle in the South Atlantic; Battleships Silent in Port; The Citizen Soldier, and more

All this awaits you — along with curious tales of bad animal romance, misunderstood mistletoe, battleships made of ice, the lab where it is always winter and much, much more.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 28, 1914 On this date 100 years ago Scientific American reported on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's most modern «dreadnoughts» — the largest and most powerful battleships in existance in 1914.

History shows that war technologies — be they knights» armor, battleships, or missiles — got bigger and more expensive until new weapons, such as guns, submarines, and computer hackers, undermined them.

«If the choice is tax rises or defence cuts, we should opt for the latter Main Cut aid and we can afford tax cuts, battleships, more police officers, cheaper trains and one hundred other impossible things»

Cut aid and we can afford tax cuts, battleships, more police officers, cheaper trains and one hundred other impossible things

Those who watched the speech last year might remember an animation of battleships with cut - out heads of «Commanders» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and with Cuomo wearing a Captain's hat.

So what's she going to cut to build her battleships?

«Right now the budget process is like ships passing in the night,» he said, as pictures of white battleships popped up along with cut - out heads of «Commanders» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and with Cuomo wearing a Captain's hat.

By the time the bombardment was over, eight American battleships were severely damaged or sunk, 188 planes were destroyed, and 3,691 U.S. troops were dead or injured.

Whole tomatoes will sink like old school board - game battleships and then burst during cooking, making juicy seeded pockets in the filling.

From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.

No battleships and bombers; but large, powerful nations can still play other games; such as cyber war and attacks on the other nation's currency.

Among the iterations of this co-branding arrangement are video games, figurines, and buildable battleships like the Millennium Falcon.

The third USS Colorado was the first of the Colorado - class battleships, serving in the Navy from 1923 to 1947.

Thursday is the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese assault on a US naval base that resulted in the deaths of 2,402 Americans, numerous injuries, and the sinking of four battleships.

Though a battle that featured pre-dreadnought ships, the Battle of Manila Bay involved massive steamships with large turrets and guns that were the precursors of those that would be seen on battleships in WWI and WWII.

Twenty - six Japanese ships were lost, including all four carriers and three battleships.

This is especially true when HMS Dreadnought was created in 1906, ushering a new era of battleships that defined the 20th century.

During World War II, employment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard peaked at 70,000 workers, who turned out all kinds of vessels, including battleships.

Movies based on games have always been audience favourites — Super Mario Bros. and Battleship are classics — so what could possibly go wrong?

US losses were extremely light in comparison — one battleship damaged, 130 aircraft destroyed, and a little over 100 killed.

«Play games (Scrabble, bridge, chess, Go, Battleship, Connect 4, doesn't matter),» suggests Xie (for a ninja - level brain boost, exercise your working memory by trying to play without looking at the board).

We altered that portion of the interview so candidates could instead pick between one of three problems to solve, to ensure that those unfamiliar with Battleship weren't negatively impacted — all with the hope of encouraging a culture of fairness and empathy.

Early on at Hired, part of our hiring process involved asking candidates to interact with a strategic board game similar to Battleship, popular in the United States.

He cut short his studies at Loyola University New Orleans to join the U.S. Navy during World War II, serving on the USS South Dakota, a battleship, during preparations for an invasion of Japan that never came to pass.

«It takes a long time to turn around a battleship, but they're incredibly dangerous,» says Mortimer Singer, CEO of retail consultancy Marvin Traub Associates.

This classic 1925 silent movie dramatizing the mutiny of a Russian battleship in 1905 led to it being banned in Nazi Germany and numerous other countries at the time of its release due to fears that it would cause a Marxist revolution.

Named after a German battleship, the bunker never saw military action.

It was recommissioned as the USS Pueblo in 1916 so the name Colorado would be available for the Colorado - class battleship.

But not every big - budget entry will be of great quality (cough, «Battleship») but they'll definitely all be entertaining enough to hold your short summer attention spans.

And they all have some common themes: all are sequels, reboots, or based on another story, film or game (we're looking at you again, «Battleship.»)

When we talked to Farhan Siddiqi a few months ago, he noted that trouble with making big changes at places like McDonald's — restaurants that serve unaccountably large numbers of consumers worldwide daily — is a bit like trying to turn a battleship around.

A few months after this particular conference I was back in Sydney to speak at another conference, and after I spoke, Gerard Minack, former chief strategist at Morgan Stanley Australia, gave his own presentation on the world economy and, more specifically, on the slow - turning battleship of expansion in the production of hard commodities.

By 1500 hours, three Albacores had found the Italian battleship and closed in.

Yet it continues as a core curriculum in most graduate business schools because that's what teachers have been taught to teach, and it's hard for this battleship to change direction» Frank Martin