Sentences with phrase «in scorched earth»

These are divorces where each spouse hires a «pit bull» attorney, they both engage in a scorched earth strategy, and they try to win at all costs, even as both of them tend to lose.

In Scorched Earth, the detritus of Leimert Park is repurposed to represent a shameful episode in US history: in Bradford's hands, the paper fragments tell other, deeper stories.

Your objective in Scorched Earth is to destroy the other tanks on the field, and players take turns firing projectiles at discreet angles and velocities.

In the Scorched Earth DLC, players can explore the strange desert island which is brutally hot, and water is scarce.

There are also hidden clues regarding Ark's lore in Scorched Earth, as well as 50 new items to craft and brand new creatures to interact with.

She should just keep quiet and go away instead of engaging in a scorched earth policy.

But he never departed significantly from his core strategy, nor joined in a scorched earth assault on the party's past.

It totally sucks to be in scorched earth, but I don't grow in faith and trust when everything's running smoothly... it's when the winds are blowing and the storm is raging — that's when I'm forced to look outside my own understanding and trust in the plan.

Not exact matches

But in every one of these transitions there's been hew and cry about how jobs are going to be lost, there will be widespread unemployment, this scorched earth of despair, and it's never come true.

In a billion years, for instance, a swelling sun will scorch our food chain, boil our oceans and extinguish life on Earth as we know it.

But what may be a popular scorched - earth, federal - provincial approach in Alberta risks becoming a bridge - burning one for Scheer's federal Conservatives.

This strategy failed miserably: in part, because the Speech contained absolutely nothing that would indicate he had a visionary strategy for the country; in part, because the Speech was anything but Conservative; and in part, but more importantly, because he decided, for some unknown reason, to take a scorched - earth approach to «eliminating» three senators.

Our God is in the business of bringing dead things back to life, so if we want in on God's business, we better prepare to follow God to all the rock - bottom, scorched - earth, dead - on - arrival corners of this world — including those in our own hearts — because that's where God works, that's where God gardens.

«Although this group is portrayed as a minority, those who do not want a winner - take - all, scorched - earth policy, are a majority in Synod,» he said.

Even where these virtues of the One who alone is the only perfect atonement are wistfully alluded to in Kiefer's work, his constantly interjected reminder that all things are completely subject to the same corruption that Hitler brought upon German culture so overwhelms his visual field that nothing remains except scorched - earth, dead gods and the shattered ruins of the Third Reich.

We can try pruning away the patriarchal elements of American evangelicalism or we could try a scorched earth approach, she says, but the most effective thing we can do is participate in the life - giving and subversive act of planting new trees:

More likely, it'll happen in a few biillion years when the sun expandss rapidly as it depletes its» hydrogen fuel, and the earth is scorched.

Martyrdom, in the twentieth century, became inevitable in the context of totalitarian orders which quench the spirit, sow death and scorch the earth.

Nebraska may have come to Norman with the best rushing attack in the nation (395.6 yards a game), but the Sooners countered that with a scorched - earth defense that had yielded only 65.2 yards a game on the ground.

The Cubs went scorched earth last season, becoming just the third team in the 2010 decade to win at least 100 games.

Day's scorched - earth policy, under which he has won four tour events in his last six starts by a combined 16 strokes over his closest challengers (six each in his last two), enters the season - ending Tour Championship on the strength of the first five - win campaign since 2013.

President Obama who represents the reasoned Pro Government forces in Washington, DC, has attempted to make reasonable and painful concessions to the «Anti Govs» who are being allowed to blackmail our President with this outrageous and obstructionist scorched earth policy in their war against Pro Gov. forces.

A «scorched earth» approach to dealing with people holding opposing views, including Cuomo's fellow Dems, isn't going to work in the long run.

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But even though Cuomo may stand bloodied and bruised, whether from his own failings or after what is expected to be a scorched earth primary, he has a campaign warchest of $ 30 million and counting, far surpassing any candidate in the field on either side.

With scorching temperatures and a mind - numbingly slow rotation (one Venus day lasts 243 Earth days), Venus was already a contender for weirdest planet in the solar system.

Earth would be scorched if it were so close to the sun but Proxima Centauri is a much smaller, dimmer bulb — a red dwarf star, the most abundant variety in the Milky Way.

During eruptions, they might be able to collect even stranger microorganisms that live in the scorching depths of Earth's crust.

The objects are not, however, Earth - like: They circle a pulsar, the rapidly spinning core of an exploded star, and are bathed in a scorching bath of radiation that renders life impossible.

Most recently, SITU Research built an interactive platform for Amnesty International that organizes and visualizes their 2016 investigation and evidence of scorched earth and chemical weapons campaigns in the Jebel Mara region of Sudan.

February was the second hottest on record for the planet, trailing only last year's scorching February — a clear mark of how much the Earth has warmed from the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Aside from Earth, Mars and Titan represent two of the most promising targets in the search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, while even scorching - hot Venus may have the right conditions to support life, according to new evidence.

Axe plans a scorched - earth defense against the public attack on his company - threatening his relationship with Wendy in the process.

I doubt he'll go this hard every time out in his career 2.0, but he probably at least had to scorch as much earth as he could on the first try, in order to break out of that hard candy shell he'd encased himself in over the years.

Inspired by actual Cold War plots, «Air» is set in the not - so - distant future, where chemical warfare has scorched Earth, making its surface uninhabitable.

Keanu Reeves returns as Neo, the man who a handful of faithful followers think may be the only hope for saving the few humans left on — or should I say in — the scorched Earth, all residing in the underground city of Zion.

And Harley is, hands down, the single biggest piece of collateral damage involved in this scorched - earth, soul - killing

I rather expected Stone, the maker of «JFK» and «Natural Born Killers,» to adopt a scorched - earth policy toward Nixon, but instead he blames not only Nixon's own character flaws but also the Imperial Presidency itself, the system that, once set in motion, behaves with a mindlessness of its own.

Director Volker Schlöndorff had already made three feature films (including his influential 1966 debut, Young Törless) by the time he tackled this project, casting a twenty - four - year - old Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the role of a booze - soaked, womanizing poet who goes on a scorched - earth bender across the German countryside.

Jasmine, we learn in a toggling flashback structure that also feels fresh to Allen's style, is fleeing the scorched earth of a broken marriage to a Bernie Madoff — like fraud, Hal (Alec Baldwin), a swindler of fortunes.

The director and his crew had nearly a year of pre-production to imagine this scorched «or rather, freezer - burned — earth and the film's movable social microcosm in all its details.

Scorched Earth will open in 9 U.S. cities and one in Canada this weekend.

Scorched Earth shot over six weeks in Vancouver.

In the vast world of Alrest, players will discover both peaceful and aggressive wildlife of all shapes and sizes wandering among giant plains, winding caverns, frozen kingdoms, scorched earth and sandy beaches.

These include Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, which portrays Winston Churchill scheming in darkened chambers during the same Battle of Dunkirk that Nolan depicts; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which features a scorched - earth performance by Frances McDormand as a mother grappling with her daughter's murder; Phantom Thread, director Paul Thomas Anderson's largely unseen drama about a 1950s fashion designer played by Daniel Day - Lewis, in his final performance on screen; and The Post, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham during the battle to print the Pentagon Papers.

I liked the last Star Wars film quite a bit, and this new one looks pretty good too, but, really, they are Death Stars of cinema releases; vast, planet - sized pieces of machinery issuing scorched - earth marketing campaigns from which other distributors shrink in terror.

TEACHERS UNION SIDES WITH CHRIS CHRISTIE AND TRUMP ALLY: Even as the race to replace Gov. Chris Christie gets underway, the largest teachers union in New Jersey is mounting a scorched - earth campaign against an unlikely foe — Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney.

In fact, NYSUT, which Iannuzzi has headed since 2005, has waged a scorched - earth campaign against New York charters for years, dipping into a billion - dollar war chest to do so.

Jim stepped in as chief news readers again this week as he and Bryan took on news about Kickstarter's pledge change, Amazon's scorched earth policy in Australia, and your new favorite self - publishing metaphor.

There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts — it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched - earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes.