Sentences with phrase «of early battles»

The quick - pace of early battles soon devolves into fights that last far too long against enemies that can feel frustrating to deal with.

Beatriz Otero, a veteran of the early battles for dual - language education in D.C., and founder of DC Bilingual Public Charter School, said she's pleased that dual language is catching on, but worries that Latino students could get left behind.

The quick - pace of early battles soon devolves into fights that last far too long against enemies that can feel frustrating to deal with.

«The revelations of the past six months that have coalesced into the Time's Up and #MeToo movements have had us thinking a lot about the opening salvos of the sexual revolution and the heroines of those early battles for equality in the workplace and the bedroom.

In Built on Love we re-live some of the earlier battles, and become uncomfortably aware of how any group or individual who tried to speak up for marriage and for parental rights experienced being marginalised, ignored, or openly insulted both by officialdom and in the media.

He teams up with the venerable though retired knight of earlier battles, Obi - Wan Kenobi (brilliantly played by Alec Guinness), and together they become the hope of the empire.

«The Current War,» Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's exploration of the early battle over electricity with Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, will also be on the docket.

While the review of Skylanders Swap Force is underway, let's look at some of the early battle arenas, based on an evening's play among adults and some adult beverages.

Not exact matches

Both Washington and Arnold were heroes of the American Revolution early on and fought many battles together.

The reason might harken back to a control battle with one of Snap's earliest investors, venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners.

In other words, the young upstart who made millions by predicting the collapse of the old guard owns a property made iconic in the tale of a battle between a young upstart and the old guard, on the eve of an earlier financial collapse.

Hitachi is also betting on the acquisition to ready it for battles with formidable Chinese rivals such as the $ 130 - billion behemoth CRRC Corp that was created earlier this year from the merger of mainland state - owned train manufacturers CSR and CNR.

Apple has been casting itself as a protector of user privacy in recent years, particularly earlier this year when it battled the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a high - profile case involving accessing encrypted data stored on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

This puts the stakes of the dispute on par with other epic early - days battles such as the one between Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Winkelvoss twins.

Citron, Kickstart readers will remember, is the firm that waged a long battle against Herbalife (which it called a «ponzi scheme») and made a fortune betting against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, of whose management and accounting practices it was an early (and very loud) critic.

Earlier this year, a family member was nearing the end of a heartbreaking battle with cancer.

The battle began after Depp launched a $ 25 million lawsuit earlier this year against TMG, claiming «gross mismanagement» of his affairs.

Or, you might provide the financial support that ensures that favorite really does make its way to your local grocery store, instead of losing the battle of early - stage entrepreneurship despite having a great product.

Leaked audio recordings said to be of Russian mercenaries in Syria capture expressions of lament and humiliation over a battle in early February involving US forces and Russian nationals.

Early in the war, most soldiers simply wore what they had, whether that was a state militia uniform, frontier dress (as seen here in the 1777 battle of Saratoga) or even their regular clothes.

In early February Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas battled hurricane - force winds and 30 - foot waves, and the same ship is again facing severe weather, forcing an early return to its New Jersey port.

Likewise, the Holocaust museum in Cape Town is excellent, and history buffs will love the Anglo - Boer War Museum in Bloemfontein, and a tour of the early Zulu battles and historical sites in KwaZulu Natal.

Example: Army veteran Jose Rodela received the Medal of Honor earlier this year for his valor during an 18 - hour battle in Vietnam in September 1969.

Since early in the six - year - old Syria war, Hezbollah's energies have been focused on propping up President Bashar al - Assad in alliance with Iran and Russia, throwing thousands of its fighters into battle against Syrian rebels.

The battle between traditional forms of media and their emerging, newer counterparts is hardly new, developing into a rather recurring phenomenon ever since radio first posed a threat to print in the early 20th century.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce unveiled a plan earlier this month to raise the gas tax by 25 cents — five cents a year for five years — a move the group acknowledged would be an uphill battle.

Speaking of «the lifestyle,» one of the biggest turnoffs I had to battle during my dates early on was telling women that I lived at home with my parents to work on my business.

Front - line ladermen and women are usually young, and the stress of battling the flames makes this a job with a relatively early retirement age.

The upcoming «Call of Duty: Black Ops 4» game was also reported to get a battle royale game mode earlier this week.

Debt - ceiling battles have scuttled previous attempts to build and subsequently maintain this stockpile, so when the debt ceiling was suspended in early February, the Treasury ratcheted up issuance out of the gate as soon as they got the green light.

Over the past century, monetary policy strategies have evolved in response to changing realities, from the panics and depressions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve to the Great Depression, from Bretton Woods and subsequent battles to contain inflation to the dominance of inflation targeting today (Williams 2014, 2015a).

Still, despite giving President Obama credit for helping steer the country out of the recession, economists say he still faces an uphill battle to burnish his economic legacy before he leaves office in early 2017.

That was settled earlier this month when the government agreed to pay him compensation — reportedly $ 10.5 million — rather than pursue what officials said would have been a costly court battle that the government had no hope of winning.

BUFF has been battling an age old issue for retailers, unbridled early growth at the expense of quality.

In late 2002 and early 2003, the global organization — recently spun off from Bass Group — faced bloated overhead costs in the competitive hotel industry, experienced a decline in business and vacation travel because of the worldwide economic downturn and the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), underwent a brand name change (from Six Continents), and battled a hostile takeover attempt by British entrepreneur Hugh Osmond.

Earlier figures covering January marked an important milestone in the region's battle against deflation, showing all of the monetary bloc's individual member states had recorded price rises for the first time since February 2013.

(If that sounds familiar, it's because the same argument was made twenty - five years ago in the early stages of the battle over legalized abortion.)

Realizing early on that the Catholic Church would be ill - served in the coming battles with secularism without an ability to draw on her own best treasures, Migne devised the scheme of publishing, in uniform format, the entire extant corpus of early Christian literature, much of which was still in manuscript.

A battle has been joined that is reminiscent of an earlier episode in church history.

The struggle between consumer religion and the Christian faith is a battle at least as old as that of the prophets against Baalism or the early church against the divinized Roman Empire.

The book will reportedly follow a battle between Morgoth, the utmost evil force in the early age of Middle Earth, and the sea - god Ulmo.

Conservatives (who are often early modern liberals in outlook and temperament) sometimes look fondly at the purifying effects of «severe struggle,» substituting economic for natural battle.

Evangelicals are jittery, fearing that Lindsell's book The Battle for the Bible might herald a new era of faculty purges and organizational splits — a replay of earlier conflicts, this time rending the evangelical world asunder.

Seifert represents the school called «phenomenological realism,» which builds on the work of the early Edmund Husserl and does spirited battle against the legions of «transcendental idealists» (i.e., subjectivists) who fight under the banner of Kant and his sometimes improbable allies.

Earlier today, the University of Mississippi removed the Mississippi state flag from its campus because of the banner's Confederate battle emblem.

Today I understand that I am in fact battling in my mind to move beyond that first level of forgiveness [which I described earlier as one where you do not wish the other party harm or seek revenge].

But he approves of it in the case of a physician who» knowingly facilitated» the suicide of a patient whom he had treated for a long time, knew well, and who had convinced him early on that she preferred to die rather than go through a long and losing battle with cancer.

Earlier this month, the BBC claimed Sir Cliff Richard has spent «grossly unreasonable» amounts of money of court costs - money the corporation could be liable to pay if it loses the legal battle.

In an earlier book, What Went Wrong, published shortly after September 11, 2001, Bernard Lewis outlined the gradual triumph of Western science, technology, ways of making war, learning, and culture over Islam since the naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian league decisively defeated the Turks.

at the age of 35 after a life long battle with addiction that began at a VERY early age.