Sentences with phrase «of mercenaries who»

Jason Statham and Jet Li co-star alongside the brawny filmmaker as a group of mercenaries who undertake a near - impossible operation to overthrow a dictator in South America.

But once Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), the agency's most wanted rouge asset, is captured and brought to the secure retreat, it becomes overtaken by a sect of mercenaries who want the defector.

Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are a pair of mercenaries who act as Kate's superiors; Brolin's Matt is a smart ass calculating individual whilst Del Toro's Alejandro is cold, mysterious, and trigger happy.

They're an absolute team of mercenaries who always hit a patch of season where they play like it.

In reality, they have a bunch of mercenaries who are not gelling together well and are backed up by a ramshackle defence who are prone to errors due to the constant fear of being dropped for sneezing at the wrong moment.

Not exact matches

By aligning the individual's goals with those of the company, you will turn a mercenary (someone who works for the top dollar) into a missionary (someone who believes in and is loyal to the organization).

And who can forget how the National Post, Pravda of the Harper Government, functioned as a virtual recruiting agency for Canadian mercenaries to serve the Kurdish cause?

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ He says this is the nature of orthodoxy: â $ œone who presumes to know the truth does not look for itâ $ (p. 174).

The rule of the Arabs in Sind came to an end in 396 (A.D. 1005) when Mahmud of Ghazna sent an army of Turks and Hindu mercenaries under Abdu» r Razzaq to uproot the power of the Qarmati Ima'ilis, who seem to have gained considerable influence there.

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ He says this is the nature of orthodoxy: â $ œone who presumes to know the truth does not look for itâ $.

No one sympathizes with smug faced Conte and the Chelsea players who are a bunch of mercenaries.

majority of of who play for those clubs are mercenaries and morata is no different, and to be honest I highly doubt it that wenger was in for him.

Alex Texeira's European experience of which you speak is in the Ukrainian league - hardly immediately translatable to the Premier League, not to mention he is a mercenary who moved to the Chinese league on a # 150,000 a week.

We're the only top PL team who do not buy a whole new team every other year or sack their manager like clockwork, so we have a club mentality instead of a mercenary one.

Flamini is an absolute mercenary who was happy to sit on milan's bench for an extra 5 grand a week instead of play regularly for us having nailed down his place first time he was at the club...

IMO Sanchez will damage team spirit wherever he goes, now that he is clearly revealed to be an obscene mercenary, who despite his huge wealth and protestations of wanting trophies, has sold his soul to the devil for yet more wonga, if he goes to MOANINHO.

or some other mercenary like JosePep... The man built a state of the art Stadium for crying out loud... give him some credit... who else has done that????

«I remember a few years ago when a team loaded up like this,» says Panthers cornerback Eric Davis, who along with Sanders was a member of the San Francisco 49ers» mercenary - fueled Super Bowl championship ensemble in» 94.

He's a mercenary who only stays with the club for 3 years until he gets tired of it, or until his teammates get tired of him, and force him out.

I know there are a lot of mercenaries out there (Falcao, RVP, Remy) but there are also players who become so identified with a club and it with them.

In reality the kiss and the words of loyalty to the fans are meaningless because the player is a mercenary who when a better opportunity comes along, and this almost invariably means a higher wage packet, will move, kiss some other badge and declare his devotion to some other customer base.

As was the case seven years ago, the loss of our Premier League status should help us to rid ourselves of any self - interested mercenaries who think they're too good for the division they've landed us in — leaving us with a core of players who actually want to play for the club and understand the privilege of doing so.

These individuals are alleged to be controlling hundred of NPP social media mercenaries who serve as conduits for these reported fabricated stories.

The NPP has insisted that the three were neither «mercenaries» nor «terrorists» as being alleged by some officials of the NDC, but were experts who were only training bodyguards for Nana Akufo - Addo and his running mate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

And Ingarra, is perfectly willing to sell out any vestige of having candidates who embrace Republican values and principles to support these political mercenaries.

It would mean a lower standard of living for future retirees, reduce the ability to recruit individuals who see public service as a career and create a mercenary mentality where the commitment to public service no longer exists.

Unlike a film such as Spielberg's Munich, where it is easy to feel sympathy and empathy for the Mossad agents led by Eric Bana, where you admire the craft of what the filmmakers created, it is impossible to empathise with Meinhof, who it is clear from the start is way out of her depth and the mercenary Ensslin.

We know that the murky circumstances surrounding the «importation» of the South African security «experts» — who are nothing but incendiary fallouts from the mercenary exploits of a disgruntled sociopathic system — are still in contention.

«[Employers] know there's another class of staffers that are complete mercenaries, and that's most of them, and they will do whatever they can do to protect their boss at any cost, and they have no line,» she said, adding: «Showing a moral line is problematic, because it sort of flags you as someone who could, in a certain set of ethical circumstances, turn on the employer.

From Évariste Galois, the genius who laid the foundations for modern group theory before dying at 20 in a mysterious duel, to René Descartes, who wrote «I think, therefore I am» after a career as a mercenary, the personalities chronicled here expose a side of mathematics far removed from its usual staid reputation.

Light and darkness have each chosen a champion to claim the legendary stones: The sorceress of the cult of she - dragon has chosen Drakkor, a warrior and mercenary who travels with bandits and a corrupt stone of darkness.

You know the story: a mercenary - for - hire falls in love with an escort who eventually becomes his fiancée but it's derailed of a promised storybook ending when the cancer is eating up 3/4 of his body, so he decides the only option he has for his story tale ending is to undergo a radical experimental procedure that can cure him of his disease.

The heroes of both The Beguiled and Killer Joe are macho mercenaries who walk into Venus Flytraps.

Among the well - armed and highly skilled but no less peeved and panicked prey are a mercenary (Adrien Brody), an Israeli soldier (Alice Braga), a death - row killer (Walton Goggins), a Yakuza kingpin (Louis Ozawa Changchien)... and a geeky doctor (Topher Grace), who seems curiously out of place until it becomes obvious why he's been grouped with everyone else.

It probably doesn't help that Gerard Butler (Reign of Fire, Harrison's Flowers), who might possibly be yummy if he let his hair grow out of that unflattering buzzcut, doesn't seem to know what to do with the fact that his soldier - turned - mercenary Terry Sheridan is supposed to be attracted to Croft, with the result that this most often manifests itself as a desire to punch her.

Also: Winston Duke as a rival Wakandan leader, Danai Gurira as T'Challa's chief bodyguard, and breakout Letitia Wright as a spin on Ian Fleming's gadget guru Q. Oh, and Michael B. Jordan, the dynamo who made his bones with Coogler's Fruitvale and Creed and here brings a burning intensity to the role of T'Challa's main nemesis Killmonger, a mercenary who deserves far more screen time than he receives.

We also meet briefly Ulysses Klaue, a mercenary who intends to steal great quantities of the mineral, played rather fiendishly by Andy Serkis.

Armed with technology developed by his super-scientist sister, Shuri (Letitia Wright), and accompanied by his former lover, Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o), and the head of the military, Okoye (Danai Gurira), T'Challa travels to South Korea to capture an amoral mercenary named Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), who is selling vibranium on the black market.

Directed by, as the opening credits note, «One of the Two Guys Who Killed John Wick's Dog,» the first 10 minutes of «Deadpool 2» feature roughly the same amount of spectacular bloodletting as both that film and its sequel combined, as wiseacre mercenary Deadpool slices a gruesome swath through waves of villainous henchmen.

Inspired by a popular video game that was released in 1986, screenwriters Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Sztykiel assemble a scenario that enables Dwayne Johnson to be heroic as he endeavors to save his best friend George, with the help of Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), who formerly worked at the evil company run by Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman), and Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a mercenary who begins working for the evil company and then is tempted to the side of the good guys.

Searching for the men who murdered his family, a mercenary tracks an unscrupulous sheriff and a vicious gang of gunrunners across the Mexican border.

One of those infinity stones is held by Dr Strange, another by Vision (Paul Bettany), a third by a mercenary, and the fourth lies across a valley that calls for supreme sacrifice from the person who wants it.

Kindergarten Cop never feels mercenary in the manner of, say, «Look Who's Talking Too» or «Three Men and a Little Lady.»

The film features some of the earliest screen appearances of Emmy - nominated sitcom veteran Ed O'Neill («Married... With Children», «Modern Family»), playing a mercenary reluctant to go on the mission, and a young Jim Broadbent, who is lowly credited but instantly recognizable in a brief background role.

On an alien planet, a mercenary and his ragtag band of fighters struggle to survive against an onslaught of fearsome warriors who hunt them for sport.

From the Studio: Based upon Marvel Comics most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool.

Penn plays Jim Terrier, a sniper mercenary who, years after carrying out a high - profile assassination in the Congo and abandoning the love of his life, must chase demons from his past across Europe and reconcile with his lost lover.

Into the corpse - strewn fray swaggers wisecracking sea captain John Finnegan (Treat Williams), who boards the ocean liner with a group of heavily armed mercenaries bent on evacuating and sinking the vessel so its owner (Anthony Heald) can collect the insurance.

«Solomon Kane»: Writer - director Michael J. Bassett («Silent Hill: Revelation») tells the story of a 16th century mercenary (James Purefoy) who gives up violence when he learns that he is condemned to hell.