Sentences with phrase «of dogfighting in»

As the nation becomes more aware of dogfighting in our society due to Michael Vick's indictment, many local animal organizations are also trying to combat this horrible crime in their own local community.

The Humane Society of Greater Birmingham broke up the World Series of Dogfighting in 1935, though the alleged dogfighters escaped.

As one pitman bragged to Benno Kroll, who wrote a superb account of dogfighting in the November 1979 issue of Geo: «My dogs die with their tails up and wagging.»

A recurring visual of dogfights in a cloud of dust harken back to the days of classic cartoons and the unbridled violence that we've always found so comical in animation.

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These side missions are all great, ranging from dogfights in your Jackal space - plane to undercover sneaking missions inside of enemy ships.

Herbalife, the company caught in the middle of a hedge fund dogfight, says it's doing just fine, thanks.

Responsible for saving and rehabilitating thousands of animals each year, The HSUS and its global arm Humane Society International travel across the country and the globe to help animals in need from puppy mills, dogfighting, neglect and natural disasters.

The reaction of the preacher Fr Tetzel, a friar priest of the Dominican Order, to the Theses, which were in his hands before the turn of the year, was to turn the whole thing into a legal dogfight; he took the battle into the enemy's country and denounced the author to Rome.

Arteta is certainly very talented, despite getting on in years, and will be hoping to get chance to impress Arsene Wenger before the season ends, but with the dogfight Arsenal are in with Man City and Man United for second place means that he is unlikely to be risked at the moment as the club has a whole host of talent in midfield right now.

Rafael Benitez's Newcastle side are just four points above the relegation zone right now, and as usual it is going to be a dogfight right until the end of the season with just 5 points separating 13th and 19th in the table at the moment, with just 8 games to go.

Middlesbrough are not exactly safe from an end - of - season relegation dogfight and the Jeremie Aliadiere blow is certainly a kick in the teeth.

With Liverpool and Tottenham facing each other, while Man United face in form Watford and Man City travel to Bournemouth, all three points for Arsenal should see the table looking much better for us next week, so come on you Gunners, get this win and get out of the top four dogfight.

As a matter of fact in 2013/2014 season three of Man City's first four losses were to Cardiff City, Aston Villa, and Sunderland, teams that spent the season in a relegation dogfight.

On April 6, Norwich City got lucky, as «three of the other four sides involved in the relegation dogfight lost.»

War, on the other hand, was very much in, and while the majority of the First World War was a muddy, depressing exercise in imperial hubris and mechanised slaughter, dogfights came out the other side with their reputation enhanced.

In 1952 The Times — which has the double advantage of being both the British newspaper of record and the only archive to which your correspondent has immediate access — predicted that «There should also be something of a dogfight at the head of the Third Division (South)», and then in 1964 noted that «the dogfight at the head of the Fourth Division continues»In 1952 The Times — which has the double advantage of being both the British newspaper of record and the only archive to which your correspondent has immediate access — predicted that «There should also be something of a dogfight at the head of the Third Division (South)», and then in 1964 noted that «the dogfight at the head of the Fourth Division continues»in 1964 noted that «the dogfight at the head of the Fourth Division continues».

Back in the day, a dogfight was just what it sounds like: «A battle between two dogs» according to Webster's 1828 Dictionary of American English.

Despite this, from Manfred von Richthofen through his arch-enemy Snoopy and on to Maverick, the mythology around flying aces and their swooping, diving, duels in the sky has invested the notion of the «dogfight» with an unshakeable glamour, and the sense that here is a feature of war that can perhaps be viewed as unambiguously fun.

The fact of the matter is that Tottenham are currently in 7th place in the League, and if they stay there, which is highly probable, then they NEED Arsenal to beat Aston Villa on Cup Final Day to ensure that the Spuds get their usual Thursday night dogfight.

There is a school of thought amongst many Arsenal fans that, although we are up challenging for the title right now, Wenger's teams have a consistent history of dropping away from the top and ending up in a dogfight for third or fourth place.

Michael Vick was in prison serving a sentence for a dogfighting conviction, and the team was reeling after head coach Bobby Petrino slid out of town in the middle of the night, letting players know he was leaving with notes in their lockers.

Champions League runners - up to relegation dogfight in two years... With over half of the Bundesliga season having gone Borussia Dortmund sit bottom of the table following an embarrassing home defeat to 10 - man Augsburg.

Never fear, they — or their likes — will be doing simulated «dogfights» for the public's enlightenment and their own amusement and perpetuating the glory of these old crates that were our wings in that era.

Even in Spain, his career existed on the fringes of the first and second divisions, his teams constantly embroiled in promotion and relegation dogfights.

The Black Cats have been pretty poor in their home turf with just two victories all season but playing in front of their supporters could offer them the impetus to stay alive in the relegation dogfight.

The prospect of Moyes versus Hughes in a late season relegation dogfight is unlikely to be the beautiful game's finest hour (and a half plus stoppages.)

Stoke City and Manchester United both sit in rather different positions in the Premier League table at this current time, Stoke's years of uncompromisingly physical football appear to have caught up with them as Tony Pulis» men have found themselves slipping down the table since Christmas with the Potters now fully involved in a relegation dogfight.

While they lurch at the wrong end of the Championship, facing up to a dogfight in terms of their second tier status, the jet - heeled youngster is showing flashes of star potential as an offensive player.

None of them were in a position to challenge for a European place, and none of them were likely to be involved in the relegation dogfight.

Leicester City are currently without a manager as they sacked Claudio Ranieri at the end of last week, after a tumultuous season sees them well and truly in the relegation dogfight.

We are just one of those cluster of teams in mid-table that doesn't have the capability to challenge the top six, but have just enough to keep clear of the relegation dogfight.

They will be desperate to record their first win of the season and not get embroiled in the relegation dogfight so early.

The Conservative candidate in Poplar and Limehouse is caught in the middle of an unholy dogfight between George Galloway's Respect party and Labour.

It is only in the context of de Blasio's and Cuomo's dogfight that New Yorkers can truly understand Emmy award - winning actress Cynthia Nixon's entrance into the New York State Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Called Taranis, the wedge - shaped, 8 - tonne stealth jet will be able to fly regular drone missions in regions of conflict — but it will also be able to seek and destroy enemy aircraft in dogfights.

As the birds merged, pairs of gulls and crows broke off their straight flight and engaged in dogfights, making tight turns trying to attack one another.

It's the violent end of an alien dogfight, with one spaceship destroyed in mid-air and the other turning and vanishing into space.

Players command more than 30 of the most powerful jet fighters ever conceived and battle for air superiority in massive dogfights in the skies above

The dogfights take place in a variety of environments, which feature weather effects, seasonal changes, and

Directed by Peter Berg, follow a crew of gamers — including Michael Phelps and Danny McBride — as they escape the frustrations of Earth and launch into intense dogfights, zero - G combat and classic boots - on - the - ground action across the solar system in this epic new installment in the Call of Duty franchise.

It lacks the polish of similar games like House of the Dying Sun and doesn't have multiplayer dogfights like EVE: Valkyrie, but what it lacks in professional touch it more than makes up for with ambition and a strong core design principle.

Michael Vick after entering a guilty plea After he was named in a very - detailed, 84 - count Federal indictment for hosting dogfights in his home, for funding the entire operation, and for executing losing pit bulls by means of lynching, drowning, electrocution and body slams, MichaeI Vick retained a Dream Team of five, very high - priced attorneys, masterminded by Billy Martin, the same hired gun who recently represented former Dick Cheney hatchet man Scooter Libby.

While that's a welcoming return to a franchise that prided itself on World War II dogfights, it beats more to its own drum in the first of this «Anthology» series.

It's the same in every Lego game, but somehow I feel it more acutely in the middle of what should be a tense dogfight.

In comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much iIn comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much iin which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much iin the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much it.

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His new owners — an opportunistic band of hoodlums led by a shamelessly evil fellow named Beauty (James Remar)-- transform him into a savage warrior in illicit to - the - death dogfights that allow them to prosper.

Years of hard work and finding her niche as an actor has turned Mendez into one of today's most versatile performers; since «Dogfight» she's played Elphaba in «Wicked» and broke hearts in last year's drama «Significant Other,» totaling six Broadway credits.

But in the interest of «cutting to the chase,» Johnson decided in the editing room to construct a new opening, one that starts with the Resistance evacuating D'Qar and moves right into a dogfight and bombing run.

Also present in the footage, according to Miller's description, are Chewbacca, General Leia Organa, and Finn, as well as scenes of an X-Wing in a dogfight aboard a much larger ship and numerous locations.