This is all to say that I'm sympathetic to any audience member who might have scoffed at
the dramatic end of Avengers: Infinity War, the latest and largest of Marvel's ongoing cinematic universe, in which the supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin) fights for control of the all - powerful Infinity Stones.
Not exact matches
Below is an interactive timeline
of the
dramatic fight over Dell that ultimately
ended up with the PC maker back in the hands
of the man who created it.
Some
of the show's most stirring
dramatic arcs (including Lane's departure at the
end of season five) occurred because trust between two principals was breached.
A break - up for GE would spell a
dramatic end for one
of the U.S.'s oldest and largest conglomerates.
«We feel the excitement over «Abenomics» is now priced in, and the Bank
of Japan has yet again shown it will do nothing
dramatic to
end deflation,» he said.
The Algerian army carried out a
dramatic final assault to
end a siege by Islamic militants at a desert gas plant on Saturday, killing 11 al Qaeda - linked gunmen after they took the lives
of seven more foreign hostages.
We had overtimes,
dramatic endings, blown leads, unforeseen heroes, the
end of epic championship droughts, and some
of the biggest comebacks in sports history featuring athletes who will go down as some
of the greatest ever.
In describing these
dramatic cutbacks, Flannery failed to shed any light on the
end of GE's tunnel.
The best way for Bombardier to avoid
dramatic scenarios will be to make sure the CSeries gets certified by the
end of the year, as expected.
However, the
dramatic year - long decline in U.S. drilling activity is taking a toll on production, causing U.S. crude stockpiles to decline for a record ninth consecutive week, with a drawdown
of 2.34 MMbbl reported for the week
ending July 15.
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «
dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «
end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction
of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way
of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few
of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.
The
dramatic and protracted downturn in the oil price has been posited by many as heralding the
end of fossil fuels.
While any announcement is likely to cause a
dramatic response from the financial markets — all the more so because few markets seem to be pricing in the possibility
of a change in tack at the moment — we don't foresee a quick
end to the ECB's asset - buying program.
The president made the announcement at the
end of a
dramatic day following an evening phone chat Wednesday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, followed by another call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
After a tumultuous start to the year, bitcoin is set for a
dramatic surge in value by the
end of 2018, according to David Drake, the crypto commentator and founder
of investment firm LDJ Capital.
A.W. Tozer offers a broader perspective, saying many Christians find much solace in believing in God's creation
of the beginning and in His preplanned
dramatic grand finale at the
end, but that not much thought is given to the present.
In a
dramatic turnaround from his election campaign calls for the 16 - year war to be brought to an
end, Trump unveiled a new south Asia strategy designed to prevent a Taliban takeover
of Afghanistan, target Islamic State and al Qaida and stop mass terror attacks in the USA.
The series comes to a
dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion
of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records
of this dark land».
Because Troeltsch, at the beginning
of this century, was keenly aware
of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its
end: the collapse
of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity
of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence
of a profound global pluralism; the central role
of practice in theology; the growing impact
of the social sciences on our view
of the world and
of ourselves; and
dramatic changes in the role
of religious institutions and religious thought.
Consider a partial list
of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number
of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization
of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation
of faculty members during graduate education, the
dramatic rise in the percentage
of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost
of higher education, the development
of a more litigious society, the legal
end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.
Case in point: the previous season
ended with Barney's surprise romantic Playbook play to win Robin's hand in marriage, resolving months» worth
of dramatic irony about what he was doing with her coworker, and serving up the narrative fulfillment we'd all been waiting for.
This is movingly portrayed in a
dramatic scene at the
end of the Fourth Gospel, where Peter meets the risen Jesus on the lake shore, after a night's fruitless fishing.
We are reaping the results
of the
dramatic changes that took place in 1989 with the
end of the cold war...
The
dramatic end - time scenario
of believers being snatched up into heaven is an incorrect interpretation
of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 - 17, Wright said.
Yet this decisive step, which may or may not have a great emotional accompaniment and which may come with
dramatic suddenness or by a succession
of gradual steps, is never the
end of the road.
The raising
of Lazarus is thus not a sign
of the coming resurrection at the
end - time, but a symbolic and
dramatic description
of Christian experience, in which Christ, by his life - giving word, delivers a man from an existence which is virtual death, and raises him to a quality
of living which can properly be called «eternal life».
The scene which
ends act one is the most
dramatic and revealing
of the play.
What appears to be happening is that multiple strategies are emerging out
of the current trend and contemporary practices, taking into account the urgent need to find solutions given the
dramatic situation in which hundreds
of millions
of people in the world find themselves and which risks
ending up in collective suicide.
If Jesus expected his own
dramatic return and a cataclysmic
end of the world, and it did not happen, then he was in error at a crucial point in his message.
In the
end, Saul's
dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus is worth telling only because
of what he did afterwards.
The eschatological message is taken one - sidedly to mean the prediction
of the
dramatic events
of the
end of the age, the prediction
of the destruction
of the world.
That gives the cake a
dramatic look because some
of the chocolate has gone over the deep
end, but the layers
of the cake are still front and center!
Winning the
dramatic Le Mans 24 Hours back in June kicked off a run
of four straight victories, and even though Toyota has started and
ended the year strongly, it hasn't been enough to stop Brendon Hartley, Timo Bernhard, and Earl Bamber from securing the drivers» championship with a round to spare after finishing second in Shanghai.
The reasons: Canseco is playing hurt and playing badly; Dave Henderson, the team's clubhouse firestarter and one
of the most
dramatic postseason performers in the game, won't return from his Aug. 24 arthroscopic knee surgery until the
end of September, at the earliest; and starting shortstop Walt Weiss is on the disabled list with a strained right side.
An upset
of Michigan scored some brownie points, but this was a strange team that flashed
dramatic upside at the beginning and
end and became unreliable in between.
we will once again have a average team, will have a
dramatic run in the middle
of the season, then get beaten by average teams and at the
end glorifying ourselves for making it in top four.
There's been plenty
of talk about Paul Pogba's situation at Manchester United in the last few days, with some fears that he could be coming towards a
dramatic end to his time at Old Trafford.
A tense,
dramatic and typically eventful
end to what has been a pretty mad year
of F1.
Jari - Matti Latvala makes the move across to Toyota for 2017, following VW's
dramatic exit from the WRC at the
end of this season.
The 1985 San Marino Grand Prix had a bizarre and
dramatic ending when most
of the drivers left in the race at that point ran out
of fuel in the closing laps.
But when the 72 holes
of the 26th Masters Golf Tournament
ended in an unprecedented three - way tie last Sunday afternoon, and when the three players concerned turned out to be about the most
dramatic combination
of personalities there, it was hard even to be surprised.
Everyone is so
dramatic, at the
end of the day we can only start x1 and have a squad
of 25.
It's not quite as
dramatic as it sounds as we've only played three away games since then but it's still a barren run
of 335 minutes which surely needs to
end if we're to pick up a third title in five years.
The Chicago Cubs, a franchise with over a century's worth
of pain and suffering, finally
ended the Curse
of the Billy Goat and won the World Series in
dramatic fashion last year.
But the
dramatic race in Brazil
ended our hopes
of this result and ultimately brought into doubt the team's ability to race in 2017.»
For at the
end of this
dramatic second classic
of 1970, there was Personality, under a furious and effective ride by Eddie Belmonte, holding off Old Blood and Guts himself, My Dad George, to win the mile - and -[3/16] ths run by a neck.
Of course, the video features Laurens Vanthoor's dramatic crash that ended the GT World Cup race (which he, strangely, won) and the huge airborne shunt from the F3 qualifying race (to name just a few of the clips
Of course, the video features Laurens Vanthoor's
dramatic crash that
ended the GT World Cup race (which he, strangely, won) and the huge airborne shunt from the F3 qualifying race (to name just a few
of the clips
of the clips).
That match saw a whopping five goals in the second half, including two from City in the final 10 minutes to make the
end of the match incredibly
dramatic.
The Dutchman was crucial to United's title victory during his first season at the club, but saw his form take a
dramatic nosedive toward the
end of his stay.
O'Dowd's Utah - bound guard Naseem Gaskin knocked down one
of two free throws to set up the
dramatic ending.