Sentences with phrase «maelstrom by»

Increasing defence by +60, style by +30, the shield will cut the power of Woosh, Crack, frigid breath, and Maelstrom by 30.

First, take custody and access battles out of the family law litigation maelstrom by having a statutory automatic mandatory joint custody and access regime in all cases other than those where (a) the parties agree in writing otherwise, and (b) there is, on a high accusatory threshold, evidence that one parent is unfit.

Though some might argue that the outsourcing movement that predated the Lehman collapse and the ensuing economic maelstrom by a decade was the starting point for this fiscal belt - tightening, legal fees came under frontal assault in 2008.

and psychological maelstrom by combing performance art, fiber, sculpture, poetry, and song.

Not exact matches

The Christmas Truce idea is beloved by many, beyond football fans, for its hint that, beneath the horror, British and Germans were just ordinary men cast into the maelstrom of unprecedented bloodshed.

Although the blindingly evidential etiology of the man's statements lay far outside these cloistered monastery walls, who, while being graphically illustrated by the utterly impotent insanity of this monkish maelstrom, I'd still bet this whole monk - world thing owes its very inception and existence to one woman and one woman only,, the woman who first broke the heart of some long - ago - loser, some cowardly imbecilic pre-monk who mistakenly sought refuge on a rock - strewn and fallow hillside long long ago.

The tendency of human nature, intensified by our commercial activity, is to make the life a whirlpool — a great maelstrom which draws everything into itself.

Even Karl Marx, according to Marshall Berman's puzzlingly rhapsodic celebration of life in modernism's «maelstrom,» confessed that modern experiences are characterized by «everlasting uncertainty»: «All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned» (All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity).

, a question deriving not so much from the Catholic tradition as from the dilemma of cradle Catholics caught up in the maelstrom of collapsing social norms and carnal yearnings unleashed by the sexual revolution of the «sixties, of which we can say, in Lady Bracknell's words»... I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?»

Is not this precisely the kind of spectacle to which we are now awakening (still without really believing in it); the spectacle of Mankind, suddenly shaken out of a deceptive inertia, being swept along ever more rapidly, by the current of its own proliferation and contraction, into the diminishing circles of a sort of maelstrom coiling irresistibly upon itself?

But he did say he's «making an appeal» that they consider moving in hopes of ending the maelstrom ignited by their project.

As it turned out, Miliband's carefully choreographed return to frontline political life provoked the merest flicker of interest — drowned out by the political maelstrom that engulfed the Conservative party after the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith, and the fatal terrorist attacks in Brussels.

found himself at the center of a maelstrom created by comments he made at a 100th birthday party for Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.).

The best way to explain this spike is from the swirling maelstrom below, where turbulent atmospheric waves must generate heat by crashing together like breakers on a windy beach shore.

Taking sides In 2003, Russell Gray and his then doctoral student, Quentin Atkinson, at the University of Auckland in New Zealand generated a maelstrom of controversy by claiming to have solved, by computer modeling, what has been described as «the most intensively studied, yet still the most recalcitrant, problem of historical linguistics», coming down on the side of Anatolia4 (see «Language tree rooted in Turkey»).

The images, taken last August by NASA's new Chandra X-ray Observatory and published in the 10 January issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, also mark the first time that astronomers have clearly identified freshly formed iron within the hot maelstrom of gas created by a supernova.

One reason Morris and a growing number of astronomers are mesmerized by the maelstrom at the core of our galaxy is that it doesn't fit neatly into any of the models that scientists have painstakingly assembled over the decades to describe the various types of «active» galaxies they observe.

Instead, I would go for the Maelstrom shells, which increases your basic attack range by 20 %.

Favreau gratifyingly prevents the film from becoming a mere maelstrom of CG effects by pushing the brothers» amusing bickering to the fore...

Lots of non-violent, non-gory but otherwise unsettling scenes worth mentioning: many «jump» scenes when people or objects startle others; we hear some noises during the night in many scenes (creaking doors and floorboards, screams, eerie whispers, doorknobs turning, pounding at doors) and doors slam shut as people run past them; we see eerie carvings and sculptures throughout a house, a maelstrom and sculptures come alive and scream and a skeleton sits up abruptly; a ghostly face is seen at a window and in a ceiling, windows become eyes, ghostly children are seen a few times (in one scene, a ghostly baby from a sculpture crawls under the sheets as a woman lies in bed) and a woman's hair is braided by invisible hands.

It's anchored by the gorgeous, raw - nerved Olga Kurylenko as a European immigrant living in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, caught in an emotional maelstrom of a marriage.

The initial rendered backgrounds were used as out of focus plates for close - ups which bought us time by getting 100 or so shots in the pipeline and allowed us to completely rethink and re-render the maelstrom for all of the wide shots.

Slow cinema lodestone Journey to the West comes across as Tsai's brilliant and clever attempt at auto - critique, as he places the contemplative fundamentals of his cinema (as symbolised by Lee Kang - sheng and Denis Lavant) into the frantic, chatty, unwieldy maelstrom of modern urban life.

The climax, in which the two rival ships battle it out during a maelstrom, is mighty impressive from a technical standpoint, but the viewer has long since dozed and lost interest by the time it rolls around.

The sequel, titled «Pacific Rim: Maelstrom,» will now be directed by Steven S. DeKnight and will star John Boyega, who will play the son of Idris Elba's deceased character from the original, and Scott Eastwood.

Wayne Blair)-- World Premiere Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek star in this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, about a secular Jewish family caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Prisoners is directed well, apart from its length, by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Maelstrom), from a sometimes nifty, sometimes turgid screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband), which features narrative twists and turns to keep the audience guessing as to what might have happened to the two young girls, and also who holds the key to the answer of their whereabouts.

Caught in the maelstrom, the Obama administration was unable to defend against a bipartisan move on Capitol Hill to end waivers altogether by enacting, for the first time since 2002, a new federal education law, ESSA.

The girl made this journey alone and unknowing, but soon she would whip the town into another kind of maelstrom, one that would make the river seem placid by comparison.

But perhaps you would be mollified just by taking a trip back to Wrothgar, where you'll earn double the items from crafting nodes, double the rewards from Maelstrom Arena chests, and double the reward boxes from daily quests.

As a direct result of actions performed by the expedition of the player's character, an intelligent entity has awakened in the depths of the underground complex — an unstable AI nicknamed Maelstrom.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds May Be Blocked by China PUBG Announces Xbox Game Preview Launch Date Maelstrom Meshes PUBG with Piracy

I suspect that was a common reaction when a prequel was forecast, and that maelstrom only worsened when it was announced development had been handed over by publisher Square Enix from creators Dontnod to an entirely new team at Deck Nine.

This is what faced players of Midwinter, a first person action and strategy game designed by Mike Singleton and Maelstrom Games.

By manipulating colored monofilament and other tendril - like materials, I mean to construct a kind of substantive ephemerality, an accretion of marks and their shadows delineating maelstroms of visual noise; a luminous expanse in suspended animation, conjuring microscopic activity, arterial systems, dust, and weather.»

Maelstrom is a 130 - foot long by 45 - foot wide monumental stainless steel sculpture and is the largest work to have ever been installed on the Met roof, New York City's premiere site for outdoor sculpture.

Like Aguilera, Mehretu seeks to make sense of 21st - century chaos, to draw lines around the modern maelstrom, and she does so by giving the chaos form.

Maelstrom — a vast web of stainless steel tree trunks and limbs weighing over seven tons and measuring 130 feet long and almost 50 feet wide — is the latest in a series of site - specific sculptures by the New York - based artist that have appeared around the city over the past several years (one of Paine's signature steel trees was installed in Central Park during the 2002 Whitney Biennial and, more recently, three trees occupied Madison Square Park in 2007).

Whether you wanted to escape the political maelstrom on American soil, save money by retiring abroad, spend more time in nature, or simply lust after idyllic scenery from the comfort of your arm chair, the following top 10 articles of the year offer something for everyone.

Those savings include (1) greater workplace productivity on the part of litigants whose stress levels would be significantly reduced by a reduction in the cost and the truncation in the time they spend in the litigation maelstrom, (2) less domestic upset for the same reasons, and (3) fewer visits to health care professionals for stress related issues again for the same reasons.

Since the stories featuring a former employee of Cambridge Analytica as a whistleblower were published last month, alleging that Cambridge Analytica — a data consulting firm that has been used by President Trump's campaign — collected information on millions of Facebook users without their permission, Facebook has received a maelstrom of scrutiny from government regulators, litigious users and shareholders and the media.

Cambridge Analytica is at the center of a media and political maelstrom, having been accused by Wylie of misappropriating the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

The most recent spark for this maelstrom is an apparent unintentional admission by the Tether PR team that the USTD is backed by other cryptocurrencies and not the USD.

Facebook has been caught in a medial maelstrom over its lax approach to data sharing; specifically over the Cambridge Analytica issue, through which it was recently revealed that Facebook users» data was being used by the firm with the intent to influence the 2016 US election.

And perhaps the biggest irony central to this current battle is that the complaint mongering and litigation that has brought about this industry maelstrom was not instigated by a throng of irate «Joe Consumers», but rather a couple of frustrated entrepreneurs who were told that if they didn't follow long established rules of conduct and professional obligation they couldn't reap the rewards they were demanding.