Sentences with phrase «former martial»

A former martial arts instructor, he holds bachelor's degrees in music and computer science from Westchester University, and a juris doctor from Georgia State University.

A former martial arts instructor, he holds bachelor's degrees in music and computer science from Westchester University, and a juris doctor from Georgia State University.

Author, paralegal, former martial arts instructor, former certified nursing assistant, former bookstore manager — I've worn many hats in my life but writing has always been my greatest love, besides my child of course!

Hoping to retire to a quiet and more peaceful life a former martial arts master finds himself pursued by his former master and a skilled detective.

In conversation with Ronald Steiner, a doctor specializing in sports medicine and one of the few Ashtanga teachers to be authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and Janosh Steinhauer, an AshtangaYoga Innovation teacher and former martial artist, I search for answers to these questions.

Not exact matches

Before that, the former boxer and mixed martial arts fighter was spreading the gospel of pizza around the world, first with a traditional California chain he called Knockout Pizza, and then with a brand called New York Style Pizza, which he launched in China.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Chris Hedges, a former war correspondent and author of War Is a Force Which Unites Us, describes the seductive quality of martial power as a narcotic that can provoke in whole societies a self - righteous delirium.

Lifelong martial artist, combat sports fan and former amateur fighter from Florida with a 7 - 2 kickboxing record.

Former World Wrestling Entertainment Superstar CM Punk has signed a multi fight deal with mixed martial arts company the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

In Judith Thompson's new play three women - an American soldier facing a court - martial for prisoner abuse and torture, a British former UN Weapons Inspector exposed as a BBC source, and an Iraqi woman trailed by Saddam Hussein's secret police - contemplate events in Iraq.http: / / www.traverse.co.uk /

The path to the legalization of mixed martial arts, or MMA, in New York got a major boost earlier this year in the form of the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The Film House is trying to sign star Gina Carano, a former mixed martial arts fighter who has starred in several movies, to be in «The Opium War.»

I'm an artist, a former contortionist, a college graduate, a gamer, an otaku, a movie buff, and a martial artist (knowing taekwando and jujitsu).

With the help of Irving, a former mixed martial arts champion, Danny devises a scheme to bring justice and innocence to his family's name, if he can get out of the cage alive.

An all - encompassing and behind - the - scenes look at women's mixed martial arts sensation Ronda Rousey as she prepares to defend her STRIKEFORCE ® Women's Bantamweight title against No. 1 challenger and former champion Sarah Kaufman.

Kara Hui and real - life martial artist and former Peking Opera student Sharon Yeung Pan-pan are a pair of cops hunting fugitive triad leader Kenneth Tsang, who's come back to Hong Kong from Japan to shake up the underworld, bringing with him a tough and muscular female bodyguard (real - life powerlifting champion and «Girls With Guns» superstar Michiko Nishiwaki).

Who: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison and Nick Nolte What: The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament — a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother.

Language: English Genre: Action / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Gavin O'Connor Actors: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte Plot: Returning home to train with his father, an alcoholic and former boxer, Tom Conlon will make in the world of mixed martial arts, even if that path puts him in direct competition with his older brother.

It's right in tune with the cinema of paranoia and conspiracy that bloomed in the seventies while also jumping on the martial arts craze with Caan taking on ninja warriors as well as his former partner (Robert Duvall).

She is a stealthy martial artist, a former fashion model and longtime X-Man.

Screenwriter Goyer attempts to start new discussions, but gaps form, and Snipes comes off more as a former character - actor, now focused on his love of martial arts, and as an executive producer, concerned with the full exploitation of the Blade franchise.

The youngest son (Tom Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nick Nolte) returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament — a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother (Joel Edgerton).

Captain America, is joined by the former spy, martial - artist, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson, Hail, Caesar!

As the titular bad - ass, a former CIA agent with a reinstated license to kill out to avenge the death of his brother, Michael Jai White combines a deadpan - comic screen presence with enough martial artistry to make a fight scenes work on a more visceral level than pure parody.

Hugh Jackman plays a former prizefighter and full - time screw - up trying to make ends meet in a near future where human martial arts have been replaced with robot combat.

Well, after being passed over for the CIA director gig in favor of the conniving Sen. Lockhart, the former spy is unhappy with his job at a defense contracting firm, Total Security Solutions, and still experiencing martial discord with his two - timing wife, who is pressuring him to keep the lucrative gig.

Butler: «I «ve done a lot of action films, but we really had an amazing stunt team on this one, former Navy SEALS and martial arts experts, so I was constantly practicing my moves and loading guns.

In this, she is assisted by a motley group consisting of Rebel intelligence agent Cassian Andor (Diego Luna); his reprogrammed Imperial enforcer droid, K - 2SO (voiced by Alan Tudyk); a blind warrior - monk, Chirrut Îmwe (Donnie Yen); his shaggily martial companion, Baze Malbus (Jiang Wen); and a former Imperial pilot, Bodhi Rook (Riz Ahmed), who has defected to the rebels.

The spunky, rebellious Sister J, a former actress and trained martial arts expert, is being confronted by someone obnoxious who has recognized her.

The former military intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks has spent the last four days in a Maryland military court, undergoing a hearing to determine whether or not his case will proceed to court - martial.