Sentences with phrase «death battle for»

The Herald coverage of the WR AGM said Jean's characterized the WR's struggle with the NDP as a life or death battle for Alberta but put a different spin on the WR's battle with the PCs — it was «a principled check on a wayward dynasty» and urged the WR to make the PCs feel welcome.

Not exact matches

A lengthy battle to determine accountability for the deaths of three Western Australians in Zambia has uncovered a labyrinth of confusion and concealment, and highlighted the risks of operating in Afr

Cover Story The U.S. Marines are looking for the few, the proud — people who can scale walls, strike hard with lightning speed, and make life - or - death decisions in the heat of battle.

Pardon me for being skeptical, but hope is often an elusive and fleeting feeling when you've spent nearly a decade battling to keep a child from succumbing to death by overdose.

With gang culture on the rise and 26 teenagers stabbed to death in the capital last year, we meet the Christians battling for peace

The only thing he can do is to admit that he is acting so out of his own fears and emotions (not to defend oneself in battle is difficult, more difficult than to accept a death sentence calmly); or else he can say that he is fighting for others, not to save his own life.

Recently, for example, planeloads of American fundamentalists have been travelling to Israel to view the site, Megiddo, where they believe the great clash among the nations will break out, and the battle of Armageddon will bring to an end the world as we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old world.

With gang culture on the rise and 26 teenagers stabbed to death in the capital last year, we meet the Christians battling for peace More

In the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, we discover that this battle for justice has been won.

But, what is almost more saddening, situations (and the articles highlighting extreme examples, naturally excluding the other entirely peaceful side of Islam) like these will only polarize the West against the Islam in an unending cyclic battle that has degraded to petty insults and complete hatred for one another (these comments are perfect proof, i.e. calling the other «barbaric» or «incompetent», or my favorite, say «death to be you»).

It's a song about a soldier in Vietnam longing for his girl safely back home in his city while he fears his own death in battle.

Against this morality, Socrates, in Plato's Phaedo, insists that warriors who die for the city out of fear for their own death or the death of others in the city, or fear of loss of honor, are sacrificially trading a lesser fear of dying in battle for a greater fear of shame, loss of nobility, and the loss of the city itself.

For more than a century after Alexander's death Egypt maintained dominant political control of Palestine although until the turn of the century (301 B.C. at the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia) that control was sharply contested by the Seleucid rule.

Paul's whole conception of man — his creation in God's own image with the law of God written in his heart, his losing battle with a demonic enemy, the shameful captivity in which he is now held and the doom of death which awaits him — this whole conception, as well as the despair of one who awakes to the realities for which the conception stands, is expressed in the words with which Paul ends what we know as the seventh chapter of Romans:

This might be no more than a battle over semantics, were it not for one very real stumbling block: the interim period between the death of individuals and the general resurrection of the dead.

His death is the nobly lost battle that is prelude to final victory in the war; when the resurrection comes and others take up the struggle for justice on Christ's behalf.

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Brienne finished him off after the battle, her long awaited revenge for the death of Renly.

The usual productive fervor of their manager, which is so often one of their greatest assets, for once cost the Borussians, leaving them with an uphill battle in what many are calling the Group of Death.

«Battling over Birth is a critical and timely resource for understanding black women's birthing experiences in the United States, a country where black women's lives — and the lives they create — are at much greater risk of death and injury than those of non-black women... By distilling the common and diverse threads from over 100 black women, the BWBJ researchers have woven a multi-faceted tapestry that reflects what black women view as important and central to optimal birth experiences.

In ancient times, the death of a leader in battle would mean slavery or worse for the defeated side; likewise, in a presidential - style election battle if Cameron were caught with his trousers down, or suffered a catastrophic failure in authority, there are 303 Conservative MPs whose careers depend on him.

A leading government watchdog called Thursday for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office to reveal who was calling the shots while DA Ken Thompson battled cancer before his death.

The statement also averred that though Dr Ekwueme finally succumbed to death after battling with old age related illness, he had a glorious exit, having lived for 85 fulfilling years.

«Lauren bravely and openly discussed her battle with cancer, and her death is a loss for the entire New York family,» the governor said in a statement.

Dick Dadey of Citizens Union, a leading government watchdog group, called for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office to reveal who was calling the shots while DA Ken Thompson battled cancer before his death.

His death on March 30, 2017 occurred after he was sober for 20 months, and after he battled addiction for seven years, his mother said.

If the project moves forward (the script is still being written), the drama will center on a scientist and her former mentor as they battle for control over the human genome, the culmination of which could mean life or death for the entire human race.

Desert societies, with their far - flung members tending goats and camels, are classic spawning grounds for warrior classes and the accessories of militarism: military trophies as stepping stones to societal status, death in battle as a guarantee of a glorious afterlife, slavery.

Rapid advancements in the molecular diagnostic testing of lung cancer have led to new treatments and greater hope for patients battling lung cancer, the most common cause of cancer death worldwide.

When you consider that every day is a battle between life and death — for your cells — you must fight back today and WIN the battle raging inside your body.

While searching Las Vegas for the man who killed his famous father — a wrestler known for his trademark tiger mask — Chuji Kurenai (Bruce Locke) is drawn into an underground world where brutal fighters battle to the death.

The nasty Hogwarts alumni has prepped his Death Eater troops for battle on the grounds of his alma mater in the notion that all resistance to his rule of the wizarding world will fall away here with the deaths of Hogwarts» great defenders, Harry and his tenacious friends.

With dogged determination, the producers continued onward with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), at which point fans finally flocked to the series, rallying behind the film's crisp space battles and the melodramatic tête - à - tête between Shatner and Ricardo Montalban.Shatner had to wrestle with his advancing age and the deaths of several characters in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the actor got to indulge in his more whimsical side, which has since characterized his career.

They battle the purple - faced cosmic death lord Thanos (a computer - created giant voiced by Josh Brolin), who has been making menacing sideline appearances at the edges of the series for years.

Haunted by nightmares and guilt - ridden about deaths she feels responsible for, Tris impulsively cuts off her hair, giving herself a Jean Seberg look in preparation for the Joan of Arc - type battles that are to come.

After the death of his royal father, a young lion returns to battle his scheming uncle for the jungle throne.

Feng has been busy rounding up the world's best ping pong players to compete in a battle royale to the death for his own entertainment, but Randy is rusty in his skills.

The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.

The Hunger Games films veer off into a different direction with Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people of Panem in terms of whether they want to stay with the oppressive regime led by the Capitol and President Snow (Sutherland, Horrible Bosses), or whether they're going to join the revolution and fight for a new way of life.

Born anew was the uber - sadistic Governor from the comics, who is known for actually raping Michonne, cutting off Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) hand and storming the prison in a battle that actually lead to Lori's (Sarah Wayne Callies) death.

Four specific movies: Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Predator, Alita: Battle Angel, and Fox's untitled Marvel project slated for March 2, 2018.

The Death of Stalin By Lauren Kaminsky History becomes cathartic farce in Armando Iannucci's comedy - all - star retelling of the political backroom battle for succession in postwar USSR

The plot in a nutshell: Kable (Gerard Butler) is a death row inmate, given the opportunity to battle for his freedom on a game called «Slayers,» which is aired around the world to the enjoyment of millions of viewers.

In the first of a series of lengthy action sequences, Max is chained to the front of an enemy car driven by Nux (Nicholas Hoult), a fighter with a death wish who later becomes an ally, while Furiosa, who has a mechanical arm to compensate for an amputation, is attempting to flee from and / or destroy that car — as well as an assortment of others (including one containing Joe's battle music, featuring a most dedicated guitarist).

There's Autolycus (Rufus Sewell), a man who most often resists his temptation for wealth and gold to fight the good fight alongside his fellow man; Atalanta (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal), a woman warrior no man would ever dare to cross; Tydeus (Aksel Hennie), a hideously ugly man born in the midst of battle who knows only violence and bloodshed; and everyone's favorite off - his - rocker prophet, Amphiaraus (Ian McShane) whose visions of his own death are not so impending as they are enlightening and help him in battle each and every time.

With «The Hunger Games» hitting cinemas lots have people have been talking about the origins of the idea for a teen death match with many citing the influences of a cult Japanese film «Battle Royale».

Veteran action - RPG players well schooled in the mechanics of their favorite genre face a bit an un-learning curve in Monster Hunter, because the usual tactics of leveling a character and squaring off against an enemy for a frantic battle to the death will not be rewarded for long.

Mon Mothma was the rebel leader in 1983's «Return of the Jedi» known for her awesome hologram battle presentation on how to destroy Death Star 2.0.

The reasons for this are not hard to surmise: Action in Roth's books tends to take place in the mind, where endless internal monologues of self - justification and loathing battle in equal measure and open ruptures of feelings on sex, identity, life and death.

The young warrior and reluctant revolutionary Katniss Everdeen returns to the arena for another battle to the death in this second film of a series adapting Suzanne Collins» «Hunger Games» book trilogy.