Sentences with phrase «brandishing guns»

Andy Warhol's 1963 canvas of two Elvis Presleys brandishing guns fetched $ 37 million, above its low estimate of $ 30 million and less than half of the $ 71.7 million Warhol record.

Strong, propulsive, dark lines form hypnotizing patterns and imaginative perspectives in depictions of churches, tunnels, trains, roads, farm animals, Madonnas, and men brandishing guns astride powerful horses.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia showed subjects one of two different slide shows — either a depiction of people brandishing guns or images of individuals who were obviously ailing.

The part the Dems are particularly interested in comes at the tail end of the report, highlighting a lawsuit brought against Grimm back in the summer of 2000 by a former NYPD officer who claimed Grimm brandished a gun and misused his FBI authority after getting into an argument with another man over a woman (Grimm's date, the man's estanged wife).

Grimm, a freshman GOP member in NY - 13, told the Staten Island Advance (his hometown newspaper) that the New Yorker story is «fiction» and denied the most damning allegations it contains — that he brandished his gun in the Caribbean Tropics nightclub and yelled: «All the white people get outta here.»

Underneath the surface of racial and sexual button pushing, behind the brandished guns and bared breasts, is a heart of pure, buttery cornpone.

The story follows a pair of brothers (Ethan Hawke's Hank and Philip Seymour Hoffman's Andy) as they collaborate on a scheme to rob their own parents» jewelry store, although the whole thing quickly goes awry after their hired goon (Brian F. O'Byrne's Bobby) brandishes a gun during the heist.

Smith doesn't embarrass himself, but he doesn't have the presence to carry an entire picture; that said, he has more than Fehr, who lacks believability either spouting clunky exposition or brandishing a gun or shovel in full action hero mode.

That sense of doom, at moments, helps you avoid the fact that «Miss Meadows» seems to have no agenda beyond depicting a mannered young woman brandishing a gun and teaching proper manners.

Last week, people protesting the removal of Confederate flags in New Orleans brandished guns, and at least one assault rifle, within range of a local school known for diversity.

Inspecting, exploring and indulging your curiosity is key to playing as Connor as when he eventually enters the rooftop and is faced with a frantic android brandishing a gun to the head of a young girl at the climax of the demo, he'll need as much evidence for making his choices as possible.

«For terroristic threats you have to brandish a gun or a gun lookalike.

There are all sorts of legal reasons to brandish a gun, and very few of them result in the discharge of a firearm.

The judge then imposed an added eighty - four months of sentence on top of the forty - six months — as required under the federal law that imposes a mandatory minimum sentence for brandishing a gun.

The one thing this setup can't protect you from is real world risks: threats from thieves, brandishing a gun to your head, threats from fire and flood damage, and threats from yourself.

Not exact matches

On screen, business development head Rick Belanger, brandishing a giant Nerf gun, states his top priority is «to take no prisoners.»

I find it so hilarious that anarchists are the first to hide behind the 2nd Amendment when their right to brandish their holy idol guns are threatened.

Has it made a difference or slowed the gunning down of young, unarmed black men who brandish mobile phones that officers mistook as firearms, resulting in six shots to the back?

In 2010 Kellner brandished a «smoking gun» which, he claimed, proved that liquor manufacturer Diageo had improperly worked on behalf of liquor stores trying to preserve their franchise.

Brandish your weapon and the next thing you know you're dead, killed by cops - or, why not, someone else with a gun - who think you're the one who is responsible.

This included allegedly menacing nightclub patrons with a gun, brandishing a butter knife at a House colleague, reportedly having sex with a woman in the bathroom of a bar in Brooklyn and threatening a NY1 reporter that he would hurl him from the Capitol building rotunda — a comment to which he appended the curious addendum: «I'll break you in half.

Mr Busia after the attack before he was taken to the hospital Within 20 minutes, 10 NDC vehicles branded with President John Mahama and Mr Opoku's posters arrived in the town with about 40 people brandishing machete and guns.

The new laws will make Cuomo the first governor in the nation to pass gun - control legislation following the massacre in Connecticut, and will help brandish his credentials nationally both as a progressive and as a leader who can get things done.

She wondered if embodiment could help explain tragic misperceptions such as the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo, who was killed by New York police officers who perceived Diallo's motioning to open his wallet as the brandishing of a gun.

Another man, brandishing a hand - held riveting gun, staples the reflecting surface to a section of frame.

Enter Robert Rodriguez, who assumes a shepherding role for «Predators,» questing to get beastly matters back on track, working from a script that understands the need for graphic violence, salty language, and burly men brandishing city block - sized guns.

So, he was ready when an accomplice (Griff Furst) posing as her berserk husband burst in brandishing a fake gun.

, with this tease of nearly every geeky trope possible: girls with guns and swords, seedy mafia goons, giant samurais brandishing Gatling guns, steampunk zeppelins, fire - breathing dragons, spaceships, futuristic cities, and enormous robots.

The tidal wave of action in the film's final act is rightly ridiculous at times (is anything more ridiculous than an ape riding a horse, brandishing machine guns in both hands?)

Cultural critics were busying themselves with lily - livered debates over the moral quandaries of Violence as Stylish Accessory in the wake of Pulp Fiction, fretting that good American audiences couldn't take a little gun - brandishing.

The rock influence is everywhere, from characters that literally use guitars and waveforms as weaponry, or a bandanna - brandishing character named Axl who most definitely isn't a «homage» (or complete rip off) of a certain Guns & Roses vocalist.

Though it represents the bulk of the action, there's more to The Gunstringer than just running and gunning, breaking up the action with chase scenes, cover - based enemy encounters, and sequences that have you brandishing a pair of auto - firing six - shooters, a shotgun, a flamethrower, a sword, or just your bare fists.

Players control the two of them as one, with Alex brandishing a chainsaw while Ash follows him around with guns.

With a dynamic country music score, 14 performers brandished cell phones, Starbucks cups and plastic machine guns as they explored consumerism, environmental abuse and body image.

Hardest to miss was Kevin Berlin's spectacle «Alien Invasion,» which found the PT Barnum - like Berlin herding a glam squad of 6 - foot - tall girls wearing little more than thongs, green body paint, antennae and brandishing light - up ray guns around the pavilion.

Can someone explain the meaning of this sentence on page 14 of the majority opinion: «As far as the law is concerned, the judge could disregard the Guidelines and apply the same sentence (higher than the statutory minimum or the bottom of the unenhanced Guidelines range) in the absence of the special facts (say, gun brandishing) which, in the view of the Sentencing Commission, would warrant a higher sentence within the statutorily permissible range.»

Students also plan to brandish protest signs and press lawmakers for stricter gun - control laws.