Sentences with phrase «like firing squads»

«'' It was like a firing squad,» he told reporters from the hospital, where he's being treated for wounds.

Not exact matches

But the regulations first in line for the new administration's firing squad appear chiefly onerous to large corporations, particularly in industries like energy.

Saying that its safer than equity volatility is like saying death by a thousand cuts is safer than a firing squad.

The circular firing squad was already forming on Tuesday, as organizations like Express Scripts, a PBM, circulated their one - pagers to Hill staff.

Wenger has come under fire for his tactical choices and substitutions this season, but why have two such brilliant experienced players like Podolski and Rosicky (and Campbell I guess) in the squad — but fail to utilise them?

UTD's defense have left De Gea feeling like he is in a firing squad but he has managed to stop a lot of goals and save their sorry asses.

They are normally a dangerous squad but when they are firing from the outside like this, they are just unstoppable.

Getting our targets will take time and patience... and like the article said well enough... Arsene has started by putting on the fire and getting rid of the «deadwood»... now there isn't any facade of squad depth... now is when we buy or fail the season... and I am willing to bet we will rock the market... and at the end of the year, we will rock the leagues

If you believe creating an exercise habit is difficult, if you face the fitness lifestyle as though you were facing a firing squad, if you moan about how horrible it's going to be to all your friends, it will feel like punishment.

AWZ brilliantly switches things up by letting you go on the offensive, as you're forced to compile a squad of supply vehicles, robot - like crawlers, armored personnel carriers and even fire - spewing tanks before you then bring up a tactical screen where you have to plot different routes through the battlefield and then let them do their thing.

Based on Sean Flynn's GQ article about the first municipal fire department to become an elite «hot - shot» squad sent in to extinguish huge and deadly forest fires, this film starts out so safely square (and square - jawed), that it feels like a World War II movie about a colorful squadron heading to Normandy.

The boats ahead of us had stopped and everyone started snapping photos like they were soldiers in a firing squad.

Enemies types like the lumbering Muton or the powerful Commanders force you to change your tactics and pick your targets wisely, commanding your squad to focus fire for maximum effect.

This is particularly important in bigger modes like Conquest when taking points on the map will be much faster with a five man squad so it balances the disadvantage a squad can have when exposed to tank shell fire and aerial assaults.

Directing the squad is done through a radial menu from where you'll issue orders like defense, rush an objective, fall back and even call in artillery fire.

This unique third person shooter offers players the opportunity to pit squads of squids against each other with unique interactions like morphing from a biped who fires ink into a squid who moves through the ink they just fired.

Death pairs well with glamour: Think of Marlene Dietrich's prostitute - spy character in Dishonored (1931), as she applies her lipstick before meeting a firing squad; Bette Davis as terminally ill socialite Judith Traherne in Dark Victory (1939); or Divine's punk murderess Dawn Davenport in John Waters» sFemale Trouble (1974), where the actor soliloquizes from an electric chair like a demented starlet accepting her first, and final, Oscar.