Sentences with phrase «lined up an ally»

Even if you haven't lined up an ally beforehand, you can often solicit one in the moment.

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In the second instance, the pastor also stood up to the bullies, but they succeeded in lining up enough allies that he was voted out.

Phil Moss was a good ally who knew what I was capable of and was responsible for changing me to a wide role which required readjustment to a fetch and carry responsibility up and down the line.

A key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has stepped up the personal attacks on Owen Smith by claiming that he is using «smear tactics» and copying Tory attack lines.

Opposition forces were in the ascendant, and the proposed switching of roles with Medvedev — with the sitting president lined up as the next prime minister — divided his political allies.

Maybe if Mr. Capel and his allies were less worried about protecting their housekeeping accounts — and were more focused on lining up every democratic vote in the senate — we could finally move forward on some of these other more polarizing issues.

Mr Brown said there was no substance to the allegations, but there are reports he is lining up Ed Balls, his longtime ally, for the post of chancellor in a post election reshuffle.

Ed Miliband and other Labour speakers have lined up to denounce Cameron for not securing allies at the summit.

Cuomo has lined up a coalition of allies in the labor movement, with groups like 32BJ among them.

Michael Caputo, a Trump - allied operative, tweeted that Astorino was «bluffing» and «can't» get his own supporters lined up.

While Grant's challenge to Kennedy is a proxy for the larger Democratic struggles against the I.D.C., it is also pitting Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz and his ally, Erie County Democratic chairman Jeremy Zellner, against a faction of Democrats lined up behind Kennedy that includes Rep. Brian Higgins and Buffalo mayor Byron Brown.

Republicans have been Cuomo's allies on tax policy, backing him up in 2011 when he renewed most of the surcharge but spun it as a tax cut, and Klein fell in line behind Cuomo in 2014 when the governor blocked an income tax hike in New York City.

We knew that Shelly Silver's allies would be working to elect Alice Cancel, so we're not surprised to see Margaret Chin lining up with the status quo to stand against reform.

News of Ravitch's potential candidacy is coming to light as talks on a major W.F.P. priority — public campaign finance — have broken down, and as the governor continues to line up labor leaders allied with the third - party to try and convince its state committee to support him.

With the help of the prison's chief trustee (Yaphet Kotto) and a compassionate ally (Jane Alexander), the warden effects some positive change, but powerful business interests line up against him when his ideas threaten their financial bottom line.

With this year already delivering a broad catalogue of games for everyone, Nintendo Switch owners can look forward to an increasingly expansive line - up in the coming year, with the launch of Nintendo - published games like Kirby Star Allies, Bayonetta 2, Dragon Quest Builders and a new game in the Yoshi franchise, in addition to big third - party games like Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus from Bethesda, Mega Man 11 from Capcom, PROJECT OCTOPATH TRAVELER (working title) from Square Enix, Shovel Knight: King of Cards from Yacht Club Games and Morphies Law from Cosmoscope.

Backing up T'Challa are a formidable line of women: his mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett, whose steely presence would be an asset to every superhero movie); younger sister Shuri (newcomer Letitia Wright); love interest / ally Nakia (Oscar winner Lupita Nyong» o, of «12 Years a Slave»), a Wakandan spy; and the all - female security force known as the Dora Milaje, led by the fierce Okoye (Danai Gurira, best known for TV's «The Walking Dead»).

It's a strong group, so everything seems to be lining up for Allied to be a real player capable of scoring multiple noms.

Frequent prison escaper Rocket hatches a plan for the four of them, plus new ally Drax (Dave Bautista), a muscle - bound widower hell - bent on vengeance, to bust out of jail en route to a lucrative sale of that mysterious orb to a buyer Gamora has lined up.

For those of you who haven't visited Naruto in awhile, our favorite trouble making ninja has grown up and is a full fledged ninja now, and recently in the story line the evil Madara has declared war, and an Allied Shinobi Force has been formed to combat them, Naruto being one of the keys here.

If you sign up to use the services of real estate agents from American HomeMiles, you will earn American Airlines AAdvantage miles when you buy or a sell home valued at $ 250,000 or more or complete a state - to - state move using Allied or North American Van Lines.

If you sign up to use the services of real estate agents from American HomeMiles, you will earn American Airlines AAdvantage miles when you buy or a sell home valued at $ 250,000 or more or complete a state - to - state move using Allied or North American Van Lines.

line can gather you up a maximum of 4 Pikmin allies.

The Olimar amiibo from the Smash Bros. line can gather you up a maximum of 4 Pikmin allies.

After all, when Tidus and friends go to fight, they end up in a turn - based world where enemies line up on one side of the screen and allies occupy the other.

Second, the designers set up the game to encourage multiple playthroughs — the player can ally with one of several different quest - givers, and following different quest lines will produce different endings.

As you gain more travel companions, you can choose which allies will fight alongside you by tweaking your party line - up.

Dramatic situations like the heroic mutt Shiro putting his life on the line against a billion giant bear mecha... funny sketches like the one during which Kabuki and his rival inexplicably turn themselves into various beasts, weapons, and structures in a hilarious game of one - up... tragic events like allies taking arrows in the back or crumbling buildings to the head in order to save your party... we don't need cinemas for such material to make a significant impact...

Despite the nearly unimaginable sums available to the global warming folks — despite their command of the media, the politicians in their thrall and the carbon profiteers lining up at the taxpayer's trough, Lord Monckton and his allies are winning.

The good news is that the decorating maven has some unlikely allies in the campaign: tech rivals Google (s goog) and Apple (s aapl) are also lining up against Lodsys in an effort to protect the app developers, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week filed an anti-Lodsys brief of its own.