Sentences with phrase «into line of fire»

A surge protector throws itself into the line of fire, sacrificing its components again and again so that your devices stay functional.

The battles remain confusing and chaotic, and, despite the idea that you can choose your role as you fight, it can often feel like you're just another body being thrown into the line of fire, or taken out from an unseen enemy just as you finally get back into the thick of things.

A typical level will consist of standing behind a blind corner, popping your head out, and going back into cover waiting for enemies to run into your line of fire.

We found we'd be shooting at one bunch of bots and see them shooting at us, only to dodge right into the line of fire of another droid that was firing at the same time from a different direction.

Snagging someone with a grenade and then kicking them into nearby reinforcements, using the leash to pull an enemy that's too far away directly into line of fire (or alternatively into enemy fire) or guiding explosive sniper bullets around corners where foes desperately try to leap out of the way.

When you finally find a match, competing with real people is far more challenging since it offers a break from the tendency computer controlled enemies have of rushing into your line of fire when they've grown tired of their protective and frequently glitchy cover.

Sometimes they wander to odd spots or get themselves stuck, they have an annoying tendency to block your progress or wander into your line of fire, and they sometimes neglect to perform actions that they need to complete to move a level forward.

Upon being attacked your hapless crew will run around in circles, or more often directly into the line of fire.

Its primary weapon can push enemy ships away, perhaps even into the line of fire.

Three teenagers, Plexi Jata Solaris, Mona Deluvius and Yingjie Iffing are thrust into the line of fire in a war between dimensions.

It's not nearly as devastating as similar themes in Dirty Harry (mostly because it never actively throws us under the bus, or into the line of fire), yet it nonetheless raises the same problems about what we're willing to do and ignore when personal rage bubbles to a boiling point.

I have seen enemies run right into my line of fire and allies as well.

Countless soldiers have perished running into a line of fire to save an injured brother - in - arms.

(CNN)- Not wasting a minute, Democratic campaign groups in Congress are bringing Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan — which he's set to release Tuesday — into the line of fire, attempting to make it a wedge issue in the 2014 midterm elections.

«In particular, Sarah Brown — no, not that one — was thrust into the line of fire after PMQs yesterday and passed the test with flying colours.»

In the army, this means being the first one to storm into the line of fire.

Not exact matches

A few years after his first foray into illicit home brewing, Hindy's wife grew fed up with him working in the line of fire, so he came home and took a job with Newsday.

To bring cloud computing and the Internet of Things into full fruition demands a cybersecurity sea change — matching fire power with fire power against the bad guys — something along the lines Ellison proposes, and the sooner the better.

It is also a way to visually show where the revenue and cost lines cross, i.e. where we start to make a profit on each user or customer (which ultimately is what gets investors excited to pour more fuel on the fire), and where the «search for business model» crosses over into «execution of the business model.»

Some have literally jumped into the line of incoming fire, saving soldiers lives.

While much of his life and poetry find an adequate substitute in sensuous splendor, whether in «fire - fangled» lines of poetry or in the weather at Key West, these pleasures of the secular hedonist were, strangely enough, part of his gradual coming into the fold of the Catholic Church.

After a brief spell of sustained attack from City, De Bruyne was able to work his way into a shockingly large pocket of space between PSG's lines and fired home an absolutely gorgeous curler that Trapp was utterly helpless to stop.

He goes into a home World Cup qualifier, lines his team up in a formation and lineup that his team didn't practice, loses that game, then loses the second game, gets fired, and when his successor can't dig out of the hole he dug them into, he has the nerve to act like everything was under control!?!?

It has been him maturing as a man and focusing his tenacity and fire much more into his football, being a front line leader for the likes of the other Liverpool forwards Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling and co., giving more thought into team victories than individual accolades, Suarez has given the most he could this season by playing every game like his life depended on it.

Without directly criticising the Dutchman, Gill has instead called into question a number of their recent signings — many of whom were drafted in by Van Gaal — and also admitted in the same interview that a number two like Ryan Giggs might «have to go out and prove you have what it takes and that you can do it in the firing line.»

When bookmakers know their customers they feel comfortable drawing a line in the sand inviting recreational bettors of the $ 5 or $ 5,000 variety to fire into the market.

Mandelson had fired the starting pistol early and instead of everyone being pulled back into line, they were off as if the quicker they spun the better things would be.

But putting nuclear reactors into craft that will be in the line of fire is crazy, say critics.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

Fiez, who studies the neuroscience of reading, says those features may tap into how our eyes and brains process images: Neurons fire faster at the site of objects that display vertical symmetry — like human faces — and horizontal and vertical lines, which are common in natural landscapes.

But if you are unaware of the dangers of followup, you could be lured into the firing line.

Transgenic lines were prepared using microinjections into gonads of young adult N2 hermaphrodites as described (Tabara et al., 1999; Timmons, Court & Fire, 2001; Vohanka et al., 2010).

We're straight into the firing line with supersets of pull - overs and pull - ups, three sets of them in total.

The gamble in this endeavour is everything the Tristar camp has worked on must come together at the first time of asking because GSP has put himself straight into the firing line by choosing a tough fight.

This is the classic extreme sports series that preceded all others, Desert motorcycle racer; Larry Rosler; Smoke jumpers; are fire fighters and front line troops that have the initial attack mission of parachuting into burning forests and containing these fires until back - up comes.

However, this draws him into the firing line of the incredibly dangerous, Nigel, a psychotic gangster, who is back to town, determined to win Gabi's, his ex-wife, heart back.

However, due to a faulty gearbox that is no longer in production, Dusty finds he must give up the racing life, only to stumble into another line of work at a distant National Park when he seeks a certification in «fire & rescue» in order to save his airport from being shut down for inadequate safety standards, which would severely hurt the industry of the nearby town.

«Hotshots,» the film explains upfront, are an elite group of forest firefighters who are specially trained and certified to go into on - fire areas and establish a controlled fire line that the approaching inferno can not cross.

You will want to pay close attention to when Nergigante slams its head into the ground, this move is followed by the monster ripping its head out of the ground and firing a burst of spikes in a straight line.

Like Randi, who has dedicated a significant portion of her career to whipping would - be reformist Democrats into line, radical teachers union supporters opened fire on Goldberg's Twitter page.

Kindle Free Time, Amazon's parental control software built into its line of Kindle Fire devices, is being upgraded ahead of the holidays with additional educational features that will help the tablet

Amazon Kindle Freetime is free software that is built into their Kindle Fire line of tablets.

Amazon has priced its new Kindle line aggressively, upping the ante in the e-reader market and breaking into the tablet market with the Fire — a fully functional media tablet for half the price of Apple's iPad.

Kindle Highlights is a program that is tied into your Kindle e-reader, Fire tablet and the companies complete line of apps.

Now, in the fall of 2013, the Kindle Fire HD line of 2012 has morphed into the HDX — «Beyond HD,» as it says on the box.

Yet he had allowed Flowers, who was blind to the idea that anyone on his island could be a cold - blooded murderer, walk into a crazy man's line of fire.

The new Fire promises to incorporate Alexa digital voice assistant from the Echo line of products into the Fire 8.

Salman Chaudhry, mobile computing analyst at Context, also warns that it poses a threat to Amazon's Kindle line, because it will be positioned as a content consumption device — and so could cut into expected sales of the Kindle Fire tablets, launched in September.

If more people could have witnessed the Seminole County Humane Society fire last week, perhaps they would line up to get pets neutered or spayed.Accounts of dogs howling and barking as the flames seared them should serve as a haunting reminder of society's irresponsible attitude toward animal control.As unfortunate as the fire was, it is equally unfortunate that people have allowed their pets to procreate freely into masses of unwanted numbers.Of the 10,000 animals accepted last year by the Orlando Humane Society, 5,600 were destroyed.

Jump into the hot seat of a combat helicopter and fly behind enemy lines under heavy fire as you search and rescue hostages!