Sentences with phrase «de force for»

As unbelievable as it sounds, especially compared with the latest software updating speed of certain industry veterans and market leaders, HMD Global is on the verge of completing its Oreo tour de force for 2017 Nokia smartphones.

It was also a tour de force for the artist, whose work previously has largely occupied the territory of drawing installations, with sculpture as a secondary part of his production.

Bearing little resemblance to the mid-80s 2D NES original bar the main character's get - up and the Greek mythology theme, this is a tour de force for the 3DS, showing just how good a console it can be if you play to its strengths.

It's a tour de force for your ears.

That's not to say it's any less visually stunning or satisfying behind the wheel — Gran Turismo has long been a technological tour de force for Sony's hardware, and GT Sport carries on the brand's legacy for painstaking realism and attention to detail.

As an engineer, he was often regarded as a tour de force for Mercedes - Benz between 1956 and 1987.

Gary Oldman is an actor known for disappearing into his roles, and playing George Smiley, a spymaster known for being able to disappear into the background is a tour de force for him.

The film is a tour de force for Damon, whose innate likability and everyman qualities make him an ideal hero.

Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, collaborators on the Oscar - winning 2007 comedy Juno, have re-teamed on Young Adult, a dark comedic tour de force for Charlize Theron and a film which looks and presents better than it may actually truly be.

Bryan Singer is an American filmmaker, writer, and producer who has been a tour de force for nearly 20 years.

A Cold War spy satire with an amazing cast that sometimes reminds you of an Ealing film, Our Man in Havana is a tour de force for Alec Guinness.

Otherwise, this is rather a tour de force for the ladies, with Leia, Rey, Rose, Dern's Admiral Holdo, and even a cameo from Lupita Nyong» o's Maz Kanata all vital to the proceedings.

127 Hours is 90 minutes of raw power and a double tour de force for Franco and Boyle.

2001 is a subtle tour de force for the actor.

It's a powerful, disturbing crisis of faith drama that takes on the raiments of a thriller, and a tour de force for the understated acting of Ethan Hawke.

Fearing what he dare not say aloud (under the deadly custodianship of supercomputer HAL 9000) and then daring to go where no man has ever gone before, Dave is a subtle tour de force for the actor.

This will be your tour de force for the day!

In total, she tallied four first place finishes on the day at the West Alameda County Conference finals on May 11, further cementing her status as a track tour de force for 2013.

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Our main message is that developing a theory of time allocation and occupational choice is important for understanding the forces that shape gender differences in labor market outcomes,» the researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Toronto and Princeton University write.

«Once implanted in surrogate mouse mothers, the embryos developed normally — except for the fact that each mouse was growing a rat pancreas» [or heart, or eyes], said the Salk Institute's own news analysis — which, incidentally, called the Salk team's paper a «tour de force.»

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board was busy acquiring everything from real estate to power, oil and gas, and future royalties in a cancer drug, Venetoclax, while the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec joined forces with Suez to buy General Electric Co.'s water and process technologies business for US$ 3.4 billion.

Consumer Reports magazine named Tesla's Model S the best overall new car for 2015, calling it a «technological tour de force.»

Among the most notable recent examples is Rockstar's «Red Dead Redemption,» a game the New York Times hailed as a «tour de force» for its ability to submerge players in a complex and believable world.

So developed and multi-faceted has the retail OTC derivatives industry become over the last decade that the prime brokerage element is considered a tour de force, and has been for quite some time.

In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.

The bishop chosen for the task force was one of the few known to be sympathetic to reconsidering church teaching on sexuality, and a de facto quota for homosexuals was created and filled.

Indeed, it requires a difficult tour de force of imagination for the modern mind to grasp the ideas of man's inner nature characteristic of Biblical religion.

No one accepts responsibility for a de pressed or anxious work force, a useless or poorly made product, or Superfund toxic sites that will cost millions of dollars to clean up.

So obvious, therefore, does it appear to us that suffering is woven into the very fabric of creation and that the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, that a difficult tour de force of historic imagination is demanded if we are to understand the Old Testament's point of view.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

Who would have imagined, fifty years ago, that much of American liberalism, rather than making the moral and political case for deposing a genocidal maniac, would find itself in de facto alliance with the status - quo forces in world politics?

Rynders also launched his own successful wine consulting business, and in 2010 he created Tour de Force Wine Company, which provides custom winemaking services for its clients.

About Ted Reader Ted Reader is an award - winning chef and food entertainer, who's parlayed his passion for food into a culinary tour de force that includes more than a dozen cookbooks, shelves of food products, live culinary performances, TV and radio cooking shows and appearances as well as culinary demonstrations, a catering company and teaching.

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Manchester United are reportedly refusing to negotiate any potential transfer deal for David de Gea with Real Madrid, forcing them to look elsewhere.

But if you want to take about incredible stats look no further than Kevin De Bruyne who after the disappointment of a failed spell at Chelsea — thought whether this was the fault of him or Jose Mourinho is up for question — has gone on to be a quite spectacular tour de force in the Bundesliga.

Michigan DE Chase Winovich on Air Force's resiliency: «I feel bad for the terrorists those guys are eventually going to go up against.»

Even after his tour de force against No. 24 Oklahoma last Saturday — Moschetti threw for 382 yards and four touchdowns and ran for a team - high 64 yards and another touchdown in the Buffaloes» 38 - 24 upset victory — he deflected credit.

In sympathy with her brothers, Raymonde wore armbands under her clothes, ones bearing the Cross of Lorraine or the letters «FFI» standing for «Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur,» associated with the armed resistance, despite the obvious danger should a German soldier discover the fact.

After her tour de force performance for the junior national team, Parker arrived on Tennessee's campus to begin her life as a college athlete.

Things looks settled for Sporting Clube de Goa and if players play to the plan of the coaches they will be a unstopable force.

After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.

«We've dramatically reduced the overuse and abuse of stop - and - frisk, initiated a comprehensive plan to retrain the entire NYPD to reduce the use of excessive force and to work with the community, reduced arrests for minor marijuana possession, and given officers body cameras to improve transparency and accountability,» de Blasio said.

Both the Chief of the Air Force, Air Marshal Karl Müllner, and the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, Hellmut Königshaus, supported de Maizière's initiative.

It is difficult for me to parse the sentence in Geneva -4-A3, but SCOTUS in the Hamdan decision seems to believe that the phrase «those placed in hors de combat by -LSB-...] detention» is a modifier of «persons taking no active part» and not a modifier of «members of armed forces», because SCOTUS held that this Article applies to Osama bin Laden's driver, who was detained in Camp X-ray.

A member of the NYC Panel for Educational Policy appointed by de Blasio was forced to quit last week after voting against the city's plans to close several schools.

In late 2013, then Mayor - Elect Bill de Blasio and Brooklyn Democratic Chair Frank Seddio joined forces to help clear the way for current Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to get elected.

In a failed effort to ring fence Ms. Olatoye from losing her post as a result of this lead crisis and other failures of leadership, the de Blasio administration forced Brian Clarke, a senior vice president for operations, and Jay Krantz, a director of technical services, to resign.

After a superficially worthy iteration of that now trite sentiment of British politicians, public intellectuals and commentators that national pride needs to be «reclaimed» from the «small - minded» and the «racist», the following 21 pages provided a tour de force in national chest - thumping that could barely do more to put its small - mindedness and contempt for the rest of the world front and centre.

Saying taxpayers shouldn't be stuck with the bill for $ 13.6 million in legal fees to defend against City Hall corruption investigations, a new lawsuit seeks to force NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and several top aides to pay their own way.