Sentences with phrase «during the story battles»

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Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

In this regard, the parable is a key to the ways in which we ought to be communicating «the Gospel» story today, for the parable provides a necessary corrective to the increasingly verbal, stultifying, and just plain boring Protestant theology that has developed during the last two centuries — «a battle over words and what they mean.»

Raskin also reported that not one story coming out of the six - week conference dealt with UNESCO's battle against illiteracy, its development of alternative energy sources, its educational programs for scientists and engineers, its basic research into food production, and scores of other accomplishments during 1980.

From the latter is taken the fascinating story of Joshua's commanding the sun to stand still during the battle of Gibeon in order to give time to rout the enemy completely.

Democrats and Republicans are mounting a fierce battle to shape voter impressions of Congress during August's political lull, convinced that they must define the story line of the 2008 congressional election before voters are swamped by the presidential campaign.

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night — about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder - to - shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

One such story came for Thompson a little more than a decade ago when Glens Falls Mayor Roy Akins Jr. remained in office during his lengthy battle with terminal brain cancer.

During this time, I spent a small fortune on dermo appointments and skincare products, wasted countless hours orchestrating the daily battle between my concealer and blemishes, cried a lot (true story), and put a ton of unhealthy chemicals on my face — harsh, kill - all - the - acne - causing - bacteria - there - ever - was chemicals.

HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun.

The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.»

However, backtracking in certain objectives is troubling and can cause frustration at times, besides that it has a solid story and pretty neat sticker elements during battles, but that's the only use

The frustrating controls and camera during battle can prove to be a blemish on the overall quality of the game, not to mention the repetitive nature of the story missions don't help much here.

SoulWorker's Key Features (during Open Beta) Include: Action - packed cooperative gameplay for up to 4 players, using the Soulum Sword, Mist Scythe, Gun Jazz and Howling Guitar character classes A dark post-apocalyptic setting with a captivating story and impressive cel - shaded animations Customize your battle style with personalized combos and abilities affected by a unique emotion system — madness, euphoria, vengeance and sadness Large PvE content with over 100 dungeons and a PvP Zone for massive battles

Battle Hymn, a psychological drama set during wartime, tells the story of Colonel Dean E. Hess, an Ohio minister who flew with the US Air Force in the Korean War during the early 1950s.

Digital Foundry says that framerate is locked at 60 fps during Battle Mode, though it dips to around 45 fps in Story Mode.

The character that you spent with during the story missions is the exact character that you take into battle against other players.

Based on a true story, Chastain plays Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from Brooklyn, who travels to the Dakotas in the early 1890s to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes), the famous Native American chief who defeated Col. George Custer and his battalion during the Battle of Little Bighorn.

The story is built around these multiplayer death matches, so you get an injection of story, building the Titanfall universe, moments before, or sometimes during, a frantic online battle.

The latest in the Guardian's watch on demand films is a brilliantly observed story about a musician — played by Paul Dano — who tries to connect with his small daughter during a custody battle

It covers the stories of six men who fought during the Battle of Iwo Jima during the Second World War, and has a strong cast including Jamie Bell, Robert Patrick, Ryan Philippe and Ken Watanabe.

For Ellen Paul Dano stars in this brilliantly observed story about a musician who tries to connect with his small daughter during a custody battle.

In 1973, in what may be the first instance of a comic book superhero losing a battle to save a loved one (outside of an origin story), Peter Parker's girlfriend Gwen Stacy died as Spidey tried to save her during a battle with the Green Goblin.

Musical themes during story scenes and boss battles can really intensify the drama while down - tempo selections provide a relaxed atmosphere.

Anyone who's dealt with elderly parents / grandparents battling to keep their independence and dignity during the final stages of their lives can absolutely identify with this story.

«Hacksaw Ridge,» Mel Gibson's latest high - minded cinematic massacre, tells the story of Desmond T. Doss, a God - fearing American pacifist who served as a combat medic during World War II and personally carried 75 wounded soldiers from the Battle of...

While I've not had any time during pre-release to play online against human opponents — my battles have been mainly against normal or higher AI in arcade, versus and story mode — I feel confident that I can at least make other players work for their wins.

«In Dubious Battle» is the story of the working class during the Depression, striking against an increasingly cruel establishment in ways that would lead to the formation of workers» rights, including a minimum wage.

During their adventure, players will experience epic boss battles and a branching story with diverging arcs and multiple endings.

School projects are specific to the local area and children have uncovered some fascinating stories: from discovering their school was used as a military hospital during the First World War; to finding out how local women battled for the vote a hundred years ago; to how the mining, fishing or cotton industry shaped their town.

Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional seventeenth - century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years» War, is forced to retire from the army.

Penguin Shorts will debut at the # 1.99 price and the nine launch titles will be A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin, a memoir of his days growing up in Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s; At the Hairdressers by Anita Brookner, a novella exploring issues of trust, betrayal and loneliness; Protection by Helen Dunmore, a story examining how far you would go to ensure your family's safety; The Happiness of Blond People by Elif Shafak, an examination of national identity and immigration; How To Set Up a Free School by Toby Young; How to Be a Rogue Trader by John Gapper; recipe title Perfect Christmas Day by Felicity Cloake; The Battle of Alamein: North Africa 1942 by John Bierman & Colin Smith, the first of a Great Battles series to be available through Penguin Shorts; and Great Battles: The Battle of Isandlwana by Saul David.

Set during the Trojan War, the ten - year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning.

A standalone holiday story A War of Gifts is set during Ender's time at Battle School from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author, Orson Scott Card.

War Brides is the story of five young women who fight a personal battle against the Axis powers during World War II.

Precious Cargo tells the story of a daring submarine rescue mission in the Pacific during World War II, when forty Americans and top secret Japanese battle plans were snatched off the beaches of Negros in the central Philippines.

All 300 years of Alamo history are vital to the story, but it is important to remember the Alamo's primary role is as a memorial to those who died in the 1836 battle during the Texas fight for freedom.

- Ophilia and Cyrus have been announced as the last two playable characters - Cyrus is a scholar working at the royal university who is an incredibly curious and knowledgeable person - Cyrus» Path Action is «Explore» which lets him find out hidden details and information about other characters - during combat, Cyrus can reveal the weaknesses of enemies and exploit them using fire, ice and lightning magic - Ophilia is a priestess and her Path Action is Lead, which allows her to guide characters to certain places by having them follow - in combat, she's a classic white mage - type who can heal allies, buff their stats and use light magic to attack the enemy - Ophilia can also call upon the character she's guiding to aid her in battle - character's special abilities are called Talents - Olberic can take hits in place of other characters in battle - Primrose, like Ophilia, can call upon the character she has charmed and have them aid her in battle - Tressa can sometimes find money simply by walking around the overworld - Alfyn can mix items to damage enemies or heal allies - Therion can unlock treasure chests - H'aanit can capture beasts during combat - your active battle party can consist of four characters, but you can swap them out with the other four characters at any time - even after you've met up with the other playable characters, you can still pursue each character's individual story - you do this by making them the «main» character of your current party

Tapping the touch pad displays a fully 3D map of the island your character is currently situated on, while vibration occurs when firing Zane's crossbow or performing certain attacks, explosions, collecting purple studs and gold bricks, alongside the light bar that remains a standard tone of blue during story mode gameplay, but produces a light shade of blue throughout battle arena matches.

It also would have been nice to pick which character to control during these battles, but since playing a character in Story Mode unlocks them in Conquest Mode, being forced to change characters does have its benefits.

-- A new full 100 - hour Japanese Tactical RPG for Android — Enhanced battle system including special chain skills, break and overkill — High level of freedom: explore the world to progress through the story in any order you wish — Use various actions to modify the battle field during exploration phases — Create over 200 different items and skills — Capture monsters and have them fight in your party — High resolution graphic assets — Support for touch & keyboard with key mapping — Xperia Play optimized

While some of these battles take place during the story, most of them aren't mandatory, but as they offered great rewards based on my performance and were fun to do, I did every single one of them.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including baBattles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including babattles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Going back to the story: voice choice for your protagonist only comes into play as a battle - cry; your character is silent during cutscenes, even when selecting one of two conversation options often thrown at you during key story moments, which is a bit of a downer when remembering how well the British localisation was handled in the first

Going back to the story: voice choice for your protagonist only comes into play as a battle - cry; your character is silent during cutscenes, even when selecting one of two conversation options often thrown at you during key story moments, which is a bit of a downer when remembering how well the British localisation was handled in the first Chronicles.

The absolute biggest misstep with Dissidia NT are the summon battles you can partake in during the game's Story Mode.

The story takes place during the events immediately following the destruction of the second Death Star during Return of the Jedi, and continues right up to the Battle of Jakku before the events of The Force Awakens.

The fluidity and ease of control during battles is what really makes the battle system in The Last Story unique.

Call of Duty: WWII's campaign tells the story of a soldier named Pvt. Ronald Daniels as he experiences some of the major battles in the second world war during a period of two years as part of the 1st Infantry Division, from storming the beaches of Normandy in D - Day and participating in Operation Cobra, to liberating France and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge.

You'll also be able to summon random heroes during battle by using special orbs that you can earn by beating story missions or purchase with real money.