Sentences with phrase «few good battles»

While there were a few good battles, they mostly got overshadowed by the poor final showdown with the Joker.

Not exact matches

There are few people better equipped to fight uphill battles and get things done.

Almost immediately after joining Uber, Whetstone turned toward her old shop, Google, as well as a few other Silicon Valley companies like Square, to fill out the policy roster for the ride - hailing juggernaut as it continued to mount political battles across the globe.

-------- Alice, if that is a reason to go after mustard, and apparently it is because you site it, well then, maybe, just maybe you can understand why I and a few others battle so hard with David.

Gutenberg worked so surreptitiously that the best documents we have about his business affairs and technological inventions are from the courts, where he battled unhappy investors who had tired of his many promises and few results.

Not nearly the same but i have been battling a injury for a few weeks now and the small pleasures of feeling better (or at least improvement) is amazing.

The aggressive and hyperactive takeover battle for WCB has seen the small dairy company's share price rocket from around $ 4 to close to $ 10 in only a few short months, with Lion keen to protect its sizeable National Foods business that owns a portfolio of well know cheeses and milk.

On the other hand, I did think that Ozil played better today than the previous few times I've seen him — he made some comment mid-week to the effect that he's there to provide the artistic side of the game and not to do battle, so maybe that's all we can expect from him.

I do believe that we have lacked a bit of steel over the last few years but players that can battle as well as having great ability are hard to come by and therefore the most expensive, so we are back to money.

We hope that both Teams meet up again in the Playoffs as Team Bulwa was without a few key cogs and the battle between Kyle Nelson and Nick Winbush may be the best one on one pairing in the League.

New in - race graphics showing sector times, the running order and the gaps between key battles generally worked well, though there were a few notable glitches.

They've always been a tough Defensive Team that battles continuously, and in the past few weeks they've managed to get better looks at the bucket.

Coq needs a partner (big box - box) to battle along side him (Carvalho, covers cb also) sorry for going on you know what i mean with a few top additions n better ambitions.

Disciplined in his role, he is very rarely caught out of position, he is strong in a tackle and seems to relish a physical battle His technical ability also developed over the course of the first few months of this season, and his passing improved along with his ability to twist and turn out of trouble, but of course what we had all been dreading came to pass..., Coquelin was injured vs West Brom, and has missed the last month, and is going to miss at least two more, I am of the opinion that we would be in a much better position than we are now if Coquelin had stayed fit.

You did your best in the scrimmages, battling the mile - high altitude, shooting from further away than you're used to, banging with the big girls by the basket, but the numbers game, and the talent game, and the size game, do in all but the very few.

With a few exceptions in the BCS era, the game has always been a battle of the best team from each conference, and outside the BCS National Championship has generally received the best ratings.

Here are some of the players which the two clubs will be battling over in the next few windows, each of them good enough to start from the moment they arrive.

Facing a team like Fiorentina that always seems to give Juve a good battle in the midfield the last few years, the important of Pogba being, well, Pogba is just that much more important if they want to have a positive first leg at home.

Pochettino's men were outshined and outwitted in almost every battle during the game and with them being second best at everything, it took just 16 minutes for the host's to take the lead after a dazzling few opening minutes.

His mini battles with Martial were well handled at times with a few shaky moments.

Chances were few and far between for both sides in a game that turned into something of a midfield battle, Andy Carroll had Liverpool's best chance in the first half and Robin van Persie had a great opportunity in the second half but it was Ramsey's unfortunate own goal and Suarez's last minute tap - in that clinched victory for Kenny Dalglish's men.

After an entire debut season battling a groin problem, Vermaelen had a much more meaningful contribution to the squad in his second campaign, but after a good start, the Belgian had a drop in form and saw very little playing time in the last few months.

Bolton will lose out in the battle for squad supremacy, with Tottenham's strength in depth far superior to Bolton's, but Owen Coyle can feel confident in the knowledge that his best starting eleven can be a match for most sides in the Premiership on their day, and they've proven this in recent fixtures; pushing Arsenal all the way in two defeated outings and then giving Liverpool a few scares at Anfield just a fortnight ago.

Roma battled Juventus for Alisson, and actually beat their Northern rivals to something for once; well, except for when Roma beat Juventus to Juan Manuel Iturbe a few seasons back, but in hindsight, that kind of blew up in their face like Daffy Duck.

As part of waging that ongoing battle, I've come up with a few ways to help instill good hand - washing practices in the under - 10 set.

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

NYSUT insisted politics played no role in its decision to honor Kennedy, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the teachers have been at war with her ex-husband, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and were one of the few groups to actually advertise against him during the budget battle (not that it did them much good in the end).

Scrappy Provenzano, always eager for a good battle, should be entertaining for the next few months.

You may notice fewer cravings for unhealthy foods, you'll have more energy for moving your body, aches and pains that used to plague you might disappear, you'll feel less tired, and chronic illnesses you may be battling may start to get better.

A few weeks ago I became obsessed with the idea of becoming a better dancer after watching the Tatums» hilarious showdown on Lip Sync Battle (definitely worth watching).

Well, not an actual battle of course (unless you count that time when another woman and I both reached for that double discounted clearance Italian leather bag) but I've worn them all day a few times and lived to tell about it.

Aaw, I hope your kids feel better soon: (We were all battling a bug for the last few weeks too.

In good shape physically, actually seeking to gain a few pounds stressed off me during the three year battle fought on my wife's behalf.

Another miracle of the film is how well it keeps up with the characters, using the Battle of Hogwarts to greet old faces and introduce a few new troublemakers (Kelly Macdonald makes a memorable appearance as the ghostly Helena Ravenclaw).

At its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock).

It does helm one of the best lightsaber battles in the franchise and there are a few fun fan service moments, but I don't have anything else nice to say, and I could rant for days, so I am stopping here.

-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters

A few critics also singled out Fox Searchlight's «Battle of the Sexes,» a well - received dramatization of Billie Jean King's tennis triumph starring Emma Stone, and «Darkest Hour,» in which Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill.

At first glance a genre focused on frenetic combat in which heroes can kill dozens of enemies with just a few blows and eliminate literally thousands of foes in each battle might seem a strange fit for a series better known for its slow - paced, turn - based, one - on - one combat.

Danny Glover, Hinton Battle, Sharon Leal, and a few memorable cameos (Jaleel White, John Lithgow, John Krasinski and original Dreamgirl Loretta Devine) all deserve credit for the depth they bring to the film as well.

Keeping track of all those units in the heat of battle is no easy burden, and illusions of grandeur will quickly deflate after a few attempts at blindly throwing troops into a well fortified enemy position.

While its safe to say that Dragon Ball FighterZ is the best looking Dragon Ball game, there are a few minor complaints I have when it comes to battle damage on the characters.

By now you should know very well what to expect from this initial home video release of Battle: first - rate picture and sound plus a few good extras with much more yet to come.

Rescuing him from the clutches of his misguided judgment and freeing the oppressed inhabitants (while avoiding being turned into stone by the wand - wielding queen), will require a little magic from Aslan... and result in a few battles between good and evil.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

A few good films of recent years that crossed my path in 2014: Mes séances de lutte (Love Battles, Jacques Doillon, 2013); Pelo Malo (Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, 2013); Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, 2013); Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Sam Fleischner, 2013); Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Miss and the Doctors, Axelle Ropert, 2013); Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Danis Tanovic, 2013); Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini, 2013); Palo Alto (Gia Coppola, 2013); El loro y el cisne (The Parrot and the Swan, Alejo Moguillansky, 2013); Elle s» en va (On My Way, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2013); Sebunsu kôdo (Seventh Code, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2013); La isla (The Island, Dominga Sotomayor and Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, 2013); Low Tide (Roberto Minervini, 2012); Finsterworld (Frauke Finsterwalder, 2013); «Singapore Panda» episode (Sun Koh) from Nan fang lai xin (Letters from the South, 2013); O Homem das Multidoes (The Man of the Crowd, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimarães, 2013).

YouTuber Swillo & Bimmy Question shared a few hours ago a video showcasing the Tales Of Berseria demo Battle Mode as well as other combo videos for Velvet, Rokurou and Laphicet.

Battles are also strike a good balance between offering a challenge without being unnecessarily long, allowing players to get in a few random encounters with some small amount of spare time.

Directed by Danish - born Janus Metz, it's one of a few movies this year that suggest the Toronto International Film Festival might as well temporarily change its name to the Tennis International Film Festival; the others include «Battle of the Sexes,» starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, respectively, and «Love Means Zero,» Jason Kohn's documentary about the legacy of star tennis coach Nick Bollettieri.

Directed by the Danish - born Janus Metz, it's one of a few films this year that suggest TIFF might as well temporarily change its name to the Tennis International Film Festival; the others include «Battle of the Sexes,» starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, respectively, and «Love Means Zero,» Jason Kohn's documentary about the legacy of star tennis coach Nick Bollettieri.