Sentences with phrase «of powerful strikes»

Don't expect to be given the same quarter with Smough and Ornstein, who attack simultaneously with a barrage of powerful strikes.

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I've spent a lot of time in commerce over my investing career, and I think the ability to build new brands is powerful but I'm struck by the percent of the market that Amazon owns.

Last year a number of companies created powerful, pro-female ads and videos designed to inspire, motivate and strike an emotional chord — an appealing approach that seems to be winning with women.

Citing InSight Crime's coverage of the case, Olson pointed out that the Kingpin List designation had «struck a powerful blow» against the family's criminal network, but also that it had generated uncertainty among the clients and employees of the family's businesses.

In late December, he said, he had been struck by a strange, disturbing phenomenon — a powerful beam of high - pitched sound that seemed to be pointed right at him.

Washington is a unique combination of striking nature, a thriving arts culture and powerful industry that makes it a desirable location to own a home.

Low borrowing costs have been 1 of the 2 powerful tailwinds (the other being strong earnings growth) propelling stocks higher since the 1st quarter of 2016, so a reversal of that tailwind would be a striking development.

Striking the fiduciary rule down could make it, in the words of Obi - Wan Kenobi, «more powerful than you can possibly imagine.»

There is no creator of the universe and no god could have made this, nothing is that powerful, if so, strike me down now!!

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever to strike Mexico has killed at least 32 people, toppling houses and businesses and sending panicked people into the streets more than 650 miles away.

When Christians searched the Old Testament for texts bearing on the Resurrection they would be struck by Psalm 16:10: «Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy loyal servant suffer corruption», This prophecy was a powerful weapon in the armory of Christian apologetic.

But one day hence will a one - party dictatorship or an all - powerful leader strike down these structures of freedom within the movement, like later Lenin crushing the soviets or Robespierre leading the chapter - societies to the guillotine?

The Dutchman was pleased to receive a tweet from Wayne Rooney congratulating him for his powerful strike against Australia — referring to him by his club nickname of Batman, in a play on words around his first name — and said he would root for his Man Utd club colleague for the Three Lions in their vital Group D clash.

There were shades of Arjen Robben, too, as the classy defender cut inside onto his left foot and unleashed a powerful strike that whistled past the crossbar.

After a long period of West Ham pressure, Izquierdo picked up the ball on the left - hand side of the field and cut in onto his favoured right foot and unleashed a powerful strike into the top corner past a diving Joe Hart.

Additionally, his ability to unleash powerful left - footed strikes from distance made it reasonable to believe he could hit the back of the net regularly enough under the proper guidance.

Jonjo Shelvey's powerful strike distance rolled agonisingly wide of Lössl's right post, before a Matt Ritchie low, clever cross wasn't latched upon by the arriving cavalry of Newcastle forwards in and around the six - yard box.

Andrea Pirlo, conjurer of a long powerful strike that sealed victory for Juventus against Atalanta this evening in Turin, commented on...

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

The Arsenal striker however struck a powerful header after a well delivered cross by Santi Cazorla on Saturday, scoring what was to be the only goal of the day and the winner for The Gunners at The Hawthorns.

The striker's run was found by Wilfried Zaha's direct surge into the Town half, and Schindler once again proved his solid defensive credentials to perfectly position himself in the way of Benteke's powerful right - footed strike before it could potentially trouble Jonas Lössl.

It had just been confirmed that three minutes of stoppage time would be played when, following a cross into Palace's penalty area which came back out off James McArthur, the Serbian met the loose ball with a powerful strike from 25 yards that Hennessey had little chance of stopping.

Absolute powerful strike that went off the crossbar - his fourth goal of the evening and Man City's fifth of the game.

With the home defense backing off, Fekir smacked home a powerful strike from the edge of the penalty area in the 25th.

That vision has given us a striking, powerful book of 75 images and essays that remind us never to forget the perspectives of the children in any discussion of LGBTQ families.

What really struck me was how feminised the Labour policy agenda has become, and what powerful evidence it provides for the shift in perspective that comes from having a significant body of women at the top of the party.

«Her politics are horrendous, but she's struck a chord with people - «I'm a maverick, I'm not part of those powerful people» - and people identified with that.»

But I was struck by the inability of powerful Conservatives such as George Osborne, or even the prime minister, to move the home secretary an inch.

The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to about 350, the government has said.

There are speculations that Mr Ibrahim Mahama, a powerful businessman who owns a chain of companies, including Engineers & Planners, possibly struck the deal to meet the president when the two met at the inauguration of African football legend, George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah, President of Liberia last week.

Meantime, the State Department struck a deal with the UN to make it harder to import the chemicals used in making fentanyl, a powerful artificial opioid that was responsible for 60 percent of Erie County's opioid - related deaths in 2017.

Minutes after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Japan at 2:46 p.m. local time on 11 March, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings that were broadcast on TV and radio.

The U.S. strikes that brought nuclear destruction of those two cities also thrust the world onto a new trajectory — one that led to the terrifying development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb and the ruinous arms races of the cold war it entailed.

At the point where this powerful jet strikes the bubble wall, it «fractures» the liquid, releasing energy in the form of light, says Andrea Prosperetti, an internationally respected expert on the mechanical properties of bubbles.

(Reuters)- A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands on Sunday morning, triggering a tsunami warning that was later cancelled, according to U.S. government agencies, and there were no immediate reports of damage.

Some meteor strikes in Mars's past were powerful enough to propel pieces of the planet's crust at speeds greater than escape velocity, some 3.1 miles per second.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

The study also throws cold water on a second objection to the impact hypothesis: Scientists have thought that rock melted by the powerful strike would have simply filled in the basin and erased any record of its effects.

The nc - AFM microscopy provided striking visual confirmation of the mechanisms that underlie these synthetic organic chemical reactions, and the unexpected results reinforced the promise of this powerful new method for building advanced nanoscale electronic devices from the bottom up.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexicon — Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms on record, struck Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday with destructive winds that tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts.

SHORTLY after a powerful tornado struck Mayflower, Arkansas, on 27 April, storm - chaser Brian Emfinger flew a drone over the ravaged town, capturing dramatic aerial images of a wide swathe of wreckage, even as emergency services were flocking to the scene.

The other idea is that lightning is sparked when cosmic rays, powerful bursts of energy from space, deliver particles with enough energy to launch a strike.

Known as «superflares,» the space weather events were thought to be roughly 10 times more powerful than any solar storm that has struck Earth since the advent of modern civilization.

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.5 has struck northern Afghanistan, with reports of tremors being felt in India and Pakistan.

Capturing a quarterback in action, this powerful image features a football player's silhouette against a field of striking colors.

In this age of internet and long - distance dating - this letter from Vickie struck me as powerful Hello.

One of the most powerful of the mutants, Magneto (Ian McKellen), believes that Kelly's words are the first volley of a battle that will turn into a war, and he intends to launch a preemptive strike for mutantkind - something to head off the struggle before it begins.

The powerful film from director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) and writer Guy Hibbert is a nail - biter as characters argue over the rules of engagement and the legality and morality of war in making a decision about a drone strike in Kenya that targets the Al - Shabaab militant group.

The game's combat helps too; you'd be surprised how tactical you can be with only a couple of different sword strikes and a truly powerful counter.

Because of the nature of the Long Sword's Triangle attack, it's a very powerful weapon for striking areas some of your other hunting companions may not be able to hit such as the monster's tail or wings.