Sentences with phrase «of much fighting»

The feudal system was declining and it was a time of much fighting in western Europe.

Not exact matches

I must fight my way through the seas of the world doing as much mischief as can, until my ammunition is exhausted, or a foe far superior in power succeeds in catching me.

The Viacom chairman and CEO may be able to fight the specific terms of his departure, but it seems likely he is not going to be around very long (but he stands to get as much as $ 83 million in compensation if he is terminated, according to his contract).

A Saudi - led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen has closed air, land and sea access in a move it says is meant to stop a flow of Iranian arms to the Houthis, who control much of northern Yemen.

Buffalo Wild Wings said it would have cost as much $ 6 million, or $ 5,100 per restaurant, to show that fight at all of its locations.

Too many inside jokes in front of employees have the potential to be awkward, but carrying over a fight from the previous night in front of your staff is much worse.

And brewers risk finding themselves on the «receiving end of anti-drinking campaigns focused on fighting obesity,» much like the soda industry has, Stirling says.

Because «Daredevil» had such extended combat sequences, much of their work involved weapons, blood, and lighting the fight sequences.

Its architects thought abolishing barriers to commerce and national boundaries could ensure Europe avoided the disastrous wars that it had been fighting, not just in the 20th century but for pretty much all of recorded history.

While that policy was a matter of necessity as much as principle, there were other places where Flaherty clearly let his convictions guide him: there was his elimination of income trusts; his ongoing fight to create a national securities regulator; and his efforts to rein in the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

He was ousted after questions about his official travel and amid an internal administration fight over how much of the medical care delivered to veterans could be outsourced to private insurers.

In early March, as rebels fought for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the price of the American crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100 for the first time since 2008.

Harnessing the power of entrepreneurs is much more productive than fighting it.

Now it is clear that much of that political in - fighting was due to boosters wanting to influence the process.

One of the company's largest shareholders, David Winters, fought to strike down a stock option plan that may greatly increase how much Coke's top executives are paid.

Much of the fight for inclusive hiring has focused on battling preconceptions that prevent interesting candidates from getting in the door.

Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

As John Manley, president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and former deputy prime minister, noted in a speech last fall on «Canada's Decade of Opportunity,» much of what the protesters fought for — from higher taxes on the rich to more jobs to reining in of banks — has already been achieved here.

But it's not just size that matters — the average cost of fighting fires per acre burned is also much higher than it was a few decades ago.

And over the years, it has gone to considerable lengths to protect the rights of its users to say pretty much whatever they wish, including fighting a French court case that was designed to identify users who posted anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks.

In Virginia, heavily favored Democratic incumbent Senator Mark Warner found himself in a surprisingly close fight against Republican challenger Ed Gillespie, with much of the vote counted.

Oh, and it'll fight off the horrible effects of sitting too much and keep you healthy too, of course.

Israel has been the flashpoint of much of the world's conflict for the past few decades and it's not inconceivable that it'll be the last place on Earth where fighting continues.

Investors fight to fund these much - celebrated, much - cited companies — the Ubers, Snapchats and Slacks of Silicon Valley — feeding them with more money than they can conceivably need.

Watch too much of that stuff and it puts your body into «fight or flight», creating stress even where none existed before.

Primed for economic combat, President Donald Trump set in motion tariffs on as much as $ 60 billion in Chinese imports to the U.S. on Thursday and accused the Chinese of high - tech thievery, picking a fight that could push the global heavyweights into a...

How much of your board or executives» time is devoted to discussing how to fight the future rather than embracing it?

You see, there's an entire subfield of computer science that can roughly be described as «pulling information out of things that look exactly like the Bitcoin transaction graph», and while these researchers haven't done much to Bitcoin yet — that's only because they're still fighting over the grant money.

While we've learned not to fight «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» extremes in zero - interest rate environments where market internals are uniformly favorable, we presently observe a situation much like the final peaks of the 1929, 1972, 1987, 2000 and 2007 bull markets, when those mitigating factors were not in place.

All these sore Core «bcash» name calling IDIOTS are exactly that... IDIOTS, it sickens me so much to see these morons deliberately fight against something that is beneficial for the whole world (people in it), to get rid of the corrupt and utter scam that private central bankers created, surely Blockstream and bankers must have hired these people to spend all day long harassing Bitcoin Cash supporters, putting out and repeating same shit propaganda over and over, so to get unaware people fall for it, and to trick them into thinking that they centralised Lightning network is scaling of Bitcoin... which is complete horse shit, and could not further from the truth.

Over much of 2008 the firm fought off losses by issuing stock, selling assets and reducing cost (issuing debt under such conditions became difficult to impossible).

That has meant that most schools outside of that group are just fighting much harder.

The closure of the company, however, seems to suggest it's not going to spend too much time fighting to clear its name.

But unlike in the personal computer or server market, where Intel and AMD fought for dominance (more truthfully, AMD tried to at least achieve profitability), or the smartphone market where Qualcomm has taken out competitors ranging from Texas Instruments and Freescale on the application processor side (leaving Apple, Samsung, Broadcom and Mediatek standing), this market has a much wider variety of players known for their embedded processors and microcontroller.

It is much tougher to be concerned about the ideological nature of life when you are fighting in a line to pick up an unemployment check or applying for a job.

When people choose to get a new loan to pay off old ones, it's pretty much a matter of «fighting fire with fire».

Ibrahimova said she was impressed with Kashuv for continuing to fight even though the establishment media were almost exclusively carrying the «really loud» voices of the pro-gun control side but «not so much the conservative side.»

«As an example of the power structure I'm fighting, AT&T is buying Time Warner and thus CNN,» Mr. Trump said Oct. 22 as the pact was announced, «a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.»

Come on, I have had debates with Atheist but I have also had to pretty much break up potential fights between two persons of Faith over an interpretation of a scripture.

Unfortunately, the fight for Raqqa destroyed much of the city through air strikes or gunfire.

@God2: let me rephrase that... obviously we have no chance of changing the others way of thinking, whether he is really happy with that only he can know and as much as I wish he would look away from it, I know there is very little chance... fighting with him is futile, so I do what I do best when a person like him becomes obvious... I kill them with kindness and hopefully prove in some small way that all Atheists are not bad.

All this terrorism and fighting goes much deeper to areas outside of the wars between nations and their roots.

Its amazing how much effort they take to fight against something they supposedly don't believe in... I guess the moral of the story is that it may be hard to defend the truth, but to defend ignorance like the atheists in massively more difficult and takes much more effort

Socially conscious millennials have spent much of their lives fighting for what they believe is right.

I very much agree with their fight to keep it out of the memorial.

That's exactly the fighting spirit so sadly missing from so much of the stylish literature on men, women, and marriage today, as «What Does Woman Want?»

Right now, Muslims are at war with other sects of Muslims and are killing with just as much zeal as when they fight with Jews.

This month he examines Steven Pinker's attempt to pick a fight with Leon Kass, Avery Cardinal Dulles» achievement, the influence of the Dalai Lama, and much else.

Just like you, I am still fighting and know how much power is in the name of Jesus.

Misogyny is alive and well, folks, and I think much of it is internalized even by those of us who want to fight against it.