Sentences with phrase «latest skirmish»

The choices, including modern and abstract classics by such artists as Josef Albers and Mark Rothko, along with works by edgier names like Jasper Johns and Ed Ruscha, made news around the world — and launched the latest skirmish in the culture wars at home.

That controller battle is just the latest skirmish in a console war that's as competitive as ever.

In 2017, thanks to Battlefront II and a few others, loot boxes became the latest skirmish in a larger fight over how to make money selling games.

Consider your latest skirmish in Planetary Annihilation an appetizer.

This latest skirmish, being fought in a small town in Burlington County, once again puts the Christie administration on the defensive about the role — and cost — of charter schools in the suburbs.

The latest skirmish was last week's House education committee hearing where Chair John Kline (R - MN) sharply critiqued the Department of Education's (ED's) draft accountability regulations for proposing requirements he deemed best left to states.

In the latest skirmish, Jindal alleges that the Education Department violated federal law and the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by essentially forcing states to adopt Common Core.

Yesterday marked the latest skirmish in the battle over how to implement Title I of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which sends $ 15 billion from the federal government to school districts to help schools serving low - income students.

The latest skirmish came when Facebook banned the ACLU because it posted a photo of a statue it was defending.

The dispute is the latest skirmish in a fight over whether power plants fueled by wood should be promoted as climate - friendly, or discouraged for putting more carbon into the atmosphere and imperiling forests.

The missing books have prompted the latest skirmish in the long - running conflict between the government and parts of the country's academic community.

The battle between the two political heavyweights is the latest skirmish over education funding since Cuomo took office two months ago.

Steve Howe's 1991 comeback with the New York Yankees was astounding, which makes the latest skirmish in his battle with cocaine all the more confounding

In the latest skirmish in Australia's five - year - old milk war, some of the nation's most popular milk brands are heading to the Federal Court in a bitter fight over the rights to use the term «A2 protein» on their labels.

DeGioia took no position on the question that started this latest skirmish in our ongoing culture wars: contraceptive coverage in health care.

Green's speech is the latest skirmish between two close competitors, who have shared customers, drivers, executives and even lawsuits.

Nevertheless, this latest skirmish illustrates that, on a quest for global domination, the fiercely competitive spirit pervading two of Silicon Valley's most successful companies can even turn allies into enemies.

The latest skirmishes over hydraulic fracturing in Florida and California are, at their core, about water.

Like other weeklies of the time, the Scientific American covered the Civil War extensively, with a lengthy section of each issue devoted to reports of the latest skirmishes and assessments of the situation — including naval activities along the coast.

Not exact matches

A federal court deal this week ended the latest legal skirmish resulting from what the Environmental Protection Agency describes as the costliest inland oil spill in...

A federal court deal this week ended the latest legal skirmish resulting from what the Environmental Protection Agency describes as the costliest inland oil spill in U.S. history — and one of the largest.

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

Theology and social ethics are developed in the field, in the task of reconnaissance, and in the little skirmishes that every good reconnaissance group sooner or later runs into.

Griffin fired a loose ball off the back of Eric Gordon as the Clippers star was falling out of bounds, and seconds later, he engaged in a skirmish with Ariza that led to double technical fouls and an ejection with 1 minute, 3 seconds left.

While many RTS games focus on gathering resources, assembling overwhelming forces and building massive bases, Sudden Strike 4's missions throw a relatively small number of units and later, reinforcements, into some of WW2's most infamous skirmishes, under the command of superstar American, English, German, and Russian generals, each with the ability to strengthen a specific type of unit and usefulness in combat.

Aside from some few Indian skirmishes in the late 1800's the Battle of St. George's Caye was the last time blood would be spilt in anger over the country's sovereignty.

Seattle - based Gastronaut's latest Xbox Live Arcade game debuts on Wednesday, and the team has put thsemselves at the centre of a special achievement designed to encourage users to engage in multiplayer skirmishes.

It's not a revolutionary take on gathering materials, but it does shake up the formula enough that early scouting phases are a necessity, and fighting over Banks mid - and late - game after all the oil fields have run dry makes for some exciting flashpoint - style skirmishes.

This means that you can go through an entire major boss fight, where an Astral's help in whittling down a health bar would have been heartily welcomed, without ever having the option of calling upon them, but then later they'll make an appearance during some small - fry skirmish with a handful of imperial soldiers out on the open - world map.

Couch co-op will make an appearance as well with popular game mode skirmish coming into the latest game.

It might be that they're introducing some new modes as Skirmish seemed like a late idea and the other single player content was just trash in Battlefront.

If you want to see more, you can also check out the latest batch of 4K screenshots in English, more screenshots from the Japanese version of the game, a video featurette focusing on the characters, another from December about the kingdom builder feature itself, a longer gameplay video showcasing the skirmish mode, another semi-recent gameplay clip focusing on boss battles, one more gallery of screenshot and artwork, a trailer focusing on animation and visuals, and another trailer featuring the Japanese voice actors.

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Skirmishes over funding for renewable energy research are just the latest battle in a saga that stretches back to the early 1980s — years before the public became widely aware of the climate threat.

This is just the latest in series of patent skirmishes between Apple and Motorola, but it's the first new move since Google acquired Motorola in February 2012.

Later in the game, the party often acquires improved transportation that may allow them to avoid such skirmishes.