Sentences with phrase «dramatic battles over»

Though this round of naming seems to have gone off without a hitch, other dramatic battles over element names have been waged in the past, from the hundred - year - long battle over the element now called niobium to the Transfermium Wars of the 1960s.

On the Monday after the weekend when Amazon and Macmillan faced off in a dramatic battle over eBook pricing, I turned to James McQuivey, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, for his perspective on who won, what the stakes are, and what might lie ahead.

Not exact matches

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

With a dramatic Barclays Premier League weekend almost over, the race for the title, Europe and the battle for survival were all under the microscope whilst there was also three local derbies.

Kirk Gibson's two dramatic homers led the Dodgers to a 3 - 2 edge over the Mets in the battle for the National League pennant

On a dramatic day that saw the rancorous, two - year battle over Scottish independence end with the preservation of the 307 - year - old Union:

A dark comedy mixed with white - knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, GRINGO explores the battle of survival for businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) who finds himself in over his head after traveling to Mexico.

A powerhouse cast is featured in a dramatic film about the legal battle over whether to find in favor of the boxing champ in his appeal for conscientious objector status in the military draft.

Perhaps part of the problem is that the film's blu - ray cover promises air battles and action, and every moment of the film actually takes place on the ground after the battles are over, all in overly dramatic fashion.

Considering the victory of FIFA over PES anything is possible, and let's not forget that it was EALA's series that kicked off this whole dramatic battle zone FPS sub-genre in the first place.

Mr. Placitella's career has been commemorated a number of times in written works, including: Poison Pills, The Untold Story of the Vioxx Drug Scandal, Tom Nesi; Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen - Phen, Alicia Mundy; Civil Warriors, the Story of the Tobacco Litigation, Dan Zeigart; No Contest, Corporate Lawyers & the Perversion of Justice in America, Ralph Nader.