The idiomatic expression, "a
call to arms," means an urgent summons or appeal for action.
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When there is a
global call to arms, the uplifting escape that movies can offer is a necessity and the unique insight that women provide is essential.
The term «innovate or die» has been used often to sum up the
necessary call to arms for companies in rapidly - changing industries.
We've all heard the old adage, or
perhaps call to arms, about making lemonade when life hands you lemons.
The Harvard Medical School researcher has sent more than 50 such
calls to arms in the last decade or so, asking conference planners to redress the balance.
But Spielberg's film — which alludes to the coming of Nixon's presidency - ending scandal in a coda — triumphs as an energizing
call to arms against any political tyrant who'd deny journalists the right to speak truth to power.
The reward is one - cost Hero Power, so the deck always has a play for turn one and it is also able to use all of Paladin's most powerful cards, such
as Call to Arms and Sunkeeper Tarim, as they all happen to be even - cost cards.
Following the incidents at Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook, the National Rifle Association (NRA) added one more demand to the mix when they
issued calls to arm teachers (Weatherby, 2015).
The proposal follows Trump's
call to arm teachers in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, last month.
High Performance Learning is an authoritative and eloquent
call to arms which offers hope to all parents and all children and young people.
It was hard to ignore some of the «major» works there — Lee Krasner's 6 million dollar painting at Paul Kasmin, Sam Durant's
call to arms at Blum & Poe, and Yayoi Kusama's infinity room at Victoria Miro, to name a few — but I tried my best not to get distracted.
There will never be a better time to save the planet — Medium —
call to arms by futurist Alex Steffen.
When called to arms due to injury, infection or disruption in homeostasis, these minuscule cells mobilize and transform into debris digesting cells capable of sounding the alarm to draw more immune cells to the afflicted site.
Yet because the only way these outlaw martyrs can reclaim their freedom is to nobly strike back against a society characterized by male - propagated sexism and objectification — in one of many instances of overkill, a truck driver, besides simply gesturing obscenely to the women, even has mud flaps with silvery nude women decals protecting his truck's tires — Thelma & Louise «s
feminist call to arms winds up sounding woefully simple - minded.
«Gears of War: Judgment»
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It's the coward's
call to arms because it's much easier to hate believe the words other people tell you than to form thoughts of your own.
Whilst having such a high profile figure highlighting these kinds of legitimate issues will no doubt be valuable to the left, Brand once again offers no alternative aside from a
vague call to arms for revolutionaries.
Locally, the scene is more mixed, some constituencies, wards etc, are more active but communications remain
essentially calls to arms to get leafleting, canvassing or help to keep a local amenity open (hospital, post office, library - delete as appropriate).
To cap it all, OREDOLA, JCA, admirably summed it up as follows at page 110 of the judgment: «Even though the order for the conduct of a fresh election after the nullification of a previous one is not an entirely new process that can be likened to starting on a clean state, nevertheless, it is also not the case of a
fresh call to arms or a scenario of clarion call of «to thy tents O Isreal».
A day after his controversial
call to arms set off intense debate over the role of armed citizens in maintaining public safety, Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum is standing by his statement encouraging all properly licensed handgun owners and off duty police officers to carry weapons.
In fact, though we loathed the January Financial Times column penned by famed VC Michael Moritz, who suggested U.S. companies follow China's lead, his
underlying call to arms was probably, gulp, prescient in its own way.
Now in its ninth season, this year's marketing push centers around the new Santa Project, a social
media call to arms asking consumers nationwide to post Santa belief - related photos, messages or videos on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube under #SantaProject.
The
bands call to arms, their greatest song ever — the one that everyone knows the words to, but every time still feeling the same way as they did the first time they heard it.
~ Quickly my polarized, evangelical Christian and Atheist brethren, you have been
called to arms yet again!
The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a
generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.»
There is a
perennial call to arms to fight for what is good, to fight for goodness and truth, for God and the salvation of souls.
Since 1918, clause IV has been regarded as an anachronistic shibboleth or a
timeless call to arms, depending on a person's view of public ownership (that is the people, through the state, owning large parts of the means of production, distribution and exchange in the economy).
He expressed concern about «untrained» gun - licensed civilians, as per Ulster Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum's
recent call to arms.
Mr Spencer says: «We obviously will have an
immediate call to arms and we already have sounded out our donors already, in the event of an election, can we count upon you?»
In the face of chronic viral infections such as hepatitis and HIV as well as certain types of cancers, CD8 T cells become less effective over time until they
ignore calls to arm.
And the collection therefore picked up where her June menswear presentation left off, with a
similar call to arms.
The creator of FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE has returned with an epic movie that's unlike anything he has done before — an eye -
opening call to arms to capture the American Dream and restore it in, of all places, America.
I hated the look of the two main Avatars, I thought the script was anemic - far too much exposition, the
whole call to arms was ridiculous and I couldn't deal with the damsel in distress.