Sentences with phrase «of open warfare»

- Seize the Seas: Hiring privateers can damage enemy shipments and cripple their trade, but risks retaliation in the form of open warfare if you are caught.
The emails hinted at a mutual exasperation between the Miliband and Balls offices, although at nothing like the level of the open warfare during Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's time in office.
The Minnesota GOP is so deep in debt it has stopped paying the lease on its headquarters, the Iowa and Nevada parties are in transition after disastrous caucuses, and Ohio Republicans have been in a state of open warfare for months.
«The danger is that the kind of message that is being sent from these billboards will be taken not just by illegal immigrants but also by many people of settled ethnic minorities as being some sort of sign of open warfare

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This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.
After a delayed reaction to turmoil raging in the country, oil prices soared as open warfare between rebel forces — threatening a reconquest of the country barely...
Richard Wilner, writing in the New York Post, has the skinny on the opening verbal warfare in the battle of Carl Icahn vs Donald Trump.
In one pastorate it was close to open warfare with Charlotte, the organist, who saw herself as in charge of all of the musical aspects of worship services.
I don't think that there will be open warfare in the streets anytime soon, but I'm wary of the potential for rioting.
The Norwegian had previously held off taking over at Aston Villa in the summer of 2012, citing family reasons, yet took the plunge at a club with far less stable foundations, with Tan still vengeful against his previous appointment (Mackay), and in open warfare with supporters over the change of club colours from blue to red.
For any given elected position in the US each party will see a number of its own members engage in open and brutal warfare during primaries to become the party's nominee.
Israel is not waging open warfare on DAESH at the urging of the US State Department it is rumored.
The friendship between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his fellow Democrat and erstwhile aide at HUD, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, started as one of political convenience, but has slowly devolved into open warfare, the type of which few in New York have ever seen.
Open warfare broke out between Trump and CBS this week, with the president dismissing one of the network's reporters from the Oval Office — and late - night host Stephen Colbert firing back with a vulgar, 12 - minute rant.
While never the closest of allies, Cuomo and the party have engaged in open warfare recently after the liberal - leaning organization opted to endorse Cynthia Nixon, the actor and education activist who has mounted a spirited primary challenge for governor from the left.
The contenders for his replacement descended into open warfare and betrayal of one another in extraordinary scenes.
The undeclared race to succeed Paddy Ashdown as Liberal Democrat leader erupted into open warfare yesterday when the man in charge of party discipline was accused of breaking the rules and making a fool of himself.
There is no love lost; a state of more or less open warfare exists between these two extremes of the coalition, whether they brush up against each other on the doorstep or in the Commons» voting lobbies.
But that disagreement morphed into open warfare yesterday as Commission Co-Chair Kathleen Rice lashed out at one of the dissenters, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, all but accusing her of lying when it comes to the commission's ability — and willingness — to include anyone other than state legislators in its public corruption probe.
The long - simmering, often nasty, behind - the - scenes antipathy between Assemblyman Kevin Cahill and County Executive Mike Hein erupted in open warfare last week over Cahill's blocking of a sales - tax extension that Hein says could cost Ulster County governments some $ 25.6 million in revenue.
When the waters vanished around Vozrozhdeniya Island, a Soviet germ - warfare facility for open - air testing of anthrax, plague, and smallpox in the southern Aral Sea, U.S. officials in 2000 became so worried that they sent funds and experts to clean up buried stockpiles of the remaining lethal bacteria.
The study, published this week in mBio ®, an open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, highlights the advances in genomic sequencing that now enable precise tracking of bacterial strains used in biological warfare and terrorist attacks around the world.
Crowe opens the movie dramatically with scenes from the battle, demonstrating the trench warfare that was the fashion of the times, a fight lost by the Anzac powers of Australia and New Zealand, the battle lost but the war eventually won.
The move set off chaos in schools, which suddenly didn't know which tests they'd be using in the new year, and open warfare with Jindal's longtime allies in reform, including the state's top business leaders, a media - savvy education superintendent and a state education board that's now mulling a lawsuit — all of whom accuse him of playing politics at students» expense.
However, I do wonder if on the next - gen versions of the game the increased player amount will change from map from pleasingly open warfare to again having too much going on.
Having said that the idea of guerilla warfare in an open - world city does appeal to me, providing the developers are willing to allow enough freedom to players to make it work.
The Ghost Recon franchise has revamped itself yet again and this time the series is taking its version of warfare to the online, open - world arena with Wildlands.
You've seen the Resistance wage open guerrilla warfare in the war - ravaged outskirts of the Red Zone, while the KPA and American collaborators hide and control the city from the fortified Green Zone.
Leverage fully - dynamic physics - based destruction to improvise on the fly: blow holes in a wall or floor to set an ambush or escape, take out a staircase to stop your pursuers, or drive vehicles through blown out walls.; Evolving & Emergent Gameplay - Carve your path through an ever changing landscape as you improvise your combat tactics - mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives to defeat the EDF.; Epic Sci - Fi Setting - Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos; then tear through the fully destructible open - world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.; Multiplayer Combat - There is no place to hide when you put your guerrilla warfare skills to the test in a variety of highly destructive multiplayer combat modes.
Those who are so enamored of mass gun confiscation should try out their schemes in places like Washington DC, Detroit and Chicago, and see how many armed confrontations will result in which police shoot citizens, citizens shoot police, and the result is open warfare and a total breakdown of law enforcement.
With Chancellor Philip Hammond believing that the hoverboard was deliberately propelled into his shin by Raab as part of a Brexiteer conspiracy, the government descends into open warfare that May is unable to control — swiftly leading to a no - confidence vote.
The Harper government was in open warfare with the Supreme Court of Canada, convinced that the will of Parliament should take precedence over the Charter of Rights.
The meeting opened with presentations on the state of technology by three experts, including artificial intelligence researcher Prof. Stuart Russell and Mr. Paul Scharre, co-author of the 2012 US Department of Defense policy directive on autonomy in warfare.
The development of lethal autonomous weapons opens up a totally new perspective on warfare.
An open letter, signed last year by 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies calling for a United Nations ban on killer robots states, «Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare.
But despite the lack of open street warfare in London there's still no love lost between London's distinctive — and heavily regulated — Black Cabs and the Silicon Valley upstart.
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