Sentences with phrase «much as an adversary»

Not exact matches

This alarms North Korea's adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times as much as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.

We did not have much occasion to refer to C&C in recent years, but it was always there as a partner and adversary in conversation, and one always entertained the hope that it might one day recapture something of the purpose for which Reinhold Niebuhr, rightly, thought it so important.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

When adversaries stick it to you from outside the club, always trying to cause a stir within and among us and we have so called fans agreeing with these failed pundits who prolly do nt even have a voice in their own households, we like illegitimate children back up their unsincere arguments, hell Piers Morgan does it from a place of genuine concern, the AKBs and AOBs too, Fatboy gooner and NY gunner on here even and we are happy to have them but when we thoughtlessly indulge and endorse those who would rather see us fail by always coming up with.unsolicited advise especially without any reasonable bases, we are as much enemies of the club we claim to love, cutting of our nose to spite our face... shame again.

In addition to juggling the six primary superheroes from the first Avengers movie — and their many cohorts, including Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders)-- Whedon sought to introduce two new adversaries, the robotic Ultron (James Spader) and monocle - rocking Baron Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann), as well as three new figures with much more ambiguous motivations, Vision (Paul Bettany), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), and Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor - Johnson).

However, while Harris makes for an appropriately smart and menacing adversary, the loss of Rachel McAdams (only briefly seen this time) as Holmes's romantic foil proves to be a more sizeable step backward; while she was not the most comfortable fit in the first film, her chemistry with Downey was promising — which becomes all too painfully clear when neither Downey nor Jude Law (as trusty sidekick Dr. Watson) show much rapport at all with her ostensible replacement, Noomi Rapace as a gypsy who (platonically) joins the duo's mission.

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.

The sequel, while entertaining, isn't as revelatory and spends too much time being reverent to the original series despite a tremendous adversary in Benedict Cumberbatch.

In the opposite corner, Helen McCrory continues to prove Eva's worthy adversary, while Logan is careful not to present us with a CGI Devil or similar critter: the beast is, as it has always been, a figment of her personality, an internal force as much as an external tempter.

Among the adversaries of labor unions» politics and power plays, few inspire quite as much hatred from union bosses as libertarian businessmen - philanthropists Charles and David Koch.

It would be great to have Lex Luthor as the initial main villain only to discover that (dum dum duuuum) some much bigger threat is on the horizon, a threat that might even see adversaries like Superman and Lex joining forces.

In several situations I found myself checking behind me as much as I was paying attention to my adversaries in front of me.

As you can see below, one scan is pretty much dedicated to the Straw Hat crew and other other is more so on their friends and adversaries.

While it's quite possible to walk right by these areas, they offer physics based puzzles where the only adversary is the environment — though the ability to press a button to temporally illuminate key objects of interest ensures that players won't spend nearly as much time scratching their heads as with every other release in the franchise.

Yet there was just as much venomous protest from Gore's adversaries and the usual climate crisis deniers.

To some degree that's probably true, but surely even if the US just outspent China by 3 times, and other nations increased spending slightly, domestic and global security could be maintained — such as it is, considering the nature of modern military threats being so asymmetric in that non-state actors are just as much a threat as the adversaries of the 20th century.

Henry apparently finds that option too radical, and therefore unrealistic (to be sure, while it would be ideal for firms to develop alternative methods of charging for their services that eliminate the billable hour, the fact remains that law is a business and alternative methods of billing have to make economic sense given the nature of practice areas such as litigation where one's adversary has the power to determine how much time one will have to spend on a case).