Sentences with phrase «more than your adversary»

Not exact matches

He became a second fiddle to the film's other villain, Sandman, who proved to be more menacing than one of Spidey's most beloved adversaries, a crime that Spider - Man fans simply couldn't forgive.

Their joint statement came after the conclusion of a historic one - day bilateral summit aimed at achieving peace between the longtime adversaries for the first time in more than 60 years.

Responding to threats real and imagined — and the report documents both kinds of dangers — we adopted methods «more ruthless than the enemy,» as a major 1950s policy statement advised, and our adversaries became ourselves.

Satan means «adversary» and is more of a title than a proper name and it can apply to anyone that impedes the path of another, namely in regard to a spiritual path.

He was more «orthodox» than many of his adversaries.

Begin understood that the world is a messy place in which the use of force is sometimes necessary for survival, and Gordis sees Begin's view as more sophisticated than that of his adversaries.

For Catholics during this period, the church had seemed a more formidable adversary to intellectual prowess than local clergy of the Protestant churches — congregational, presbyterial, or episcopal — had seemed to their coreligionists a century earlier.

The Scottish manager retired from his post at Old Trafford in 2013, after more than 26 years in charge and on Friday he paid tribute to his French adversary.

Teams having a bogey opponent is common place in football, someone they encounter problems with more times than not when it comes to clinching maximum spoils, although few can moan about Blackburn Rovers being their nightmare adversary.

(Pigeon, Casey and Chris Grant) have been adversaries of the Erie County Democratic Committee for more than a decade.

Just she herself had more than 150 % votes than the sum of all candidates of the adversary coalition.

Cuomo is a more skilled tactician than Silver's last gubernatorial adversary, Eliot Spitzer, but the speaker is a master at political chess.

In finding novel ways to commingle church and state, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, has carved himself a niche as a more inclusive kind of liberal, one who is willing to embrace religious groups rather than treat them as adversaries.

From the bigger perspective of the overall city budget, Minority Leader Willie Pabon praised Stewart for making progress despite inheriting a massive deficit and a council with more than a few political adversaries.

There's so much more than can be done and should be done, because it's not fair to the citizens of this community to have a board that is fully owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the (teacher) union that is its chief adversary.»

That means that no ciphertext gives an adversary any more information about the scheme than any other.

Yes, he remains «The Incredible Hulk» more than 30 years after the world got to know him as Arnold Schwarzenegger's main adversary in the 1977 cult film «Pumping Iron.»

Cormier (19 -1-0), would like nothing more than to avenge his only loss, to this most aggravating of all adversaries.

While some heroes receive more screen time than others, everyone has their moment to shine, even though their adversary turns out to be one of the most relatable Marvel villains yet.

While the role doesn't require Palance to do much more than speak unnervingly softly and look imposing, he does those two things superlatively, and makes a suitably devilish adversary for the film's near - saintly hero.

But after taking a detour to expose their online adversary, their search is interrupted by an unseen assailant whose attack lands them in the custody of Wallace Damon (Laurence Fishburne), a doctor who seems to offer more questions than answers.

As the monsters are naturally more interesting than their mechanical adversaries, Day's character is our much - needed portal into the world of the Kaiju, and his dexterous performance — along with the few glimpses we get of the monsters in broad daylight — are highlights.

Where Doctor Strange falls short is in the recently troublesome superhero «big bad» and despite the presence of esteemed actor Mads Mikkelsen (who sadly has become a bit of a villain typecast in recent years), the purple eyed Kaecilius, who wants nothing more than to meet a world destroying entity is anything but the adversary the unique Stephen Strange deserved, while the previously mentioned nature of this following the playbook origin story isn't breaking much ground in the way it tells the story of a man at his lowest finally realising his true potential.

But for a series that features, by its own description, a «master manipulator,» «Evil Genius» feels more like a confused, unwitting pawn than an adversary worthy of taking on the challenge to uncover the truth.

While an understanding between Blocker and Yellow Hawk might be in the cards, that does not mean the former still does not see his former adversary's way of life or cultural traditions to be far more primitive than his or Rosalie's are.

Before the authorities or more adversaries arrive, he quickly explains that her life, too, is now in danger and that her odds for survival are far better if she sticks with him than attend her little sister's (Grace) Beantown wedding as planned.

In a political climate that seems more hostile than ever, Kate Mara and Ellen Page want to prove that even entrenched adversaries can find hope in one another.

Although districts and charter schools are more often cast more as adversaries than collaborators, there are a few outposts challenging that dynamic.

However, when it comes to a hugely important area of public policy, pensions, the unions are more often allies than adversaries with investment...

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years — as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues — Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller - coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

Nothing is more pleasurable in this game than whistling while near an enemy and seeing your fellow assassins come from anywhere and stealthily take out a few adversaries.

Awful camera angles are possibly an even more formidable adversary than the COBRA forces you'll run into at every turn.

Even on higher difficulties, adversaries are killed quickly, meaning threats come from a multitude of enemies more - so than any super tough one.

Metal Gear's given tragic deaths to many adversaries, but Vamp's plucked at our heartstrings more than most.

Likewise, there's nothing like battling an honorable foe only to have your teammate (s) slash in from nowhere — dealing more damage to you than your adversary.

You and your squad will be up against various mechanical adversaries who want nothing more than to see you reduced to ashes.

The chance to befriend 15 Wicked Yo - kai, who have previously only appeared as adversaries — now giving a total of more than 300 playable Yo - kai

Ranging from photography to drawing to installation, the more than four dozen works in the exhibition include: critically acclaimed videos by Marilyn Minter (Green Pink Caviar, 2009) and Kate Gilmore (Between a Hard Place, 2008), who credits Minter for teaching her to «be bold, honest and to never, ever relax»; a new large - scale sculpture by Marianne Vitale (Double Decker Outhouse, 2011), who says seeing Hungarian flimmaker Bela Tarr's 7 - hour epic Sátántángó confirmed her need to be an artist early in her career; and the latest project from Lisa Kirk (Backyard Adversaries (Ashes to Ashes), 2011), who sees a «sublime level of alchemy, the act of making work that is not only inspiring, but is revolutionary» in David Hammons» Fly Jar (1996).

Red Teaming Law # 29: Your adversary is never completely wrong, and you are never more than partly right

Historians who tallied the casualties resulting from the Indian wars and massacres north of Mexico found the Amerindians inflicted more casualties upon their adversaries than were inflicted upon themselves.

My impression was that her presentation was intended to be more of a vehicle to criticize her adversaries than to talk about uncertainty.

It has been my experience that federal court judges are more than willing to allow you as many requests for admission (FRCP 36) as you need if their purpose is to encourage a recalcitrant adversary to admit that documents you plan to use at trial are authentic or kept in the regular course of business or constitute past recollection recorded.

[89] And what goes for discovery and disclosure needs must be approached having regard to the proportionality principle that means that a litigant — and more precisely his or her advocate — must be re-cultured to accept that the adversary system needs far less in procedure than a perfectionist and sometimes obsessed advocate might wish for.

The parties focus their attention on the areas of disagreement more in the light of resolution than as adversaries.

Far from native title agreements being a vehicle for a partnership between government and the traditional owner group to attempt to break the cycle of Indigenous disadvantage, they often represent nothing more than a settlement of a legal claim by adversaries.

Our culture has changed, so that now more than ever we strive to reach this potential, and not settle for life with our closest partners as adversaries or distant friends.

Do you feel more like adversaries than loving spouses?