Sentences with phrase «of sparring partner»

Silly parodies of your sparring partner, really are quite dull - witted Steve.

The solo exhibition is the result of a unique relationship between the designers and the Museum, where the Museum occasionally assumed the role of sparring partner as well as that of co-producer.

Not exact matches

But second, and I think it's very important in the case of Trump, I think I selected the right sparring [partner].

The Advisory Board acts as the sparring partner for the Steering Committee and the secretariat advising on a range of issues but most notably on the selection of opportunities for the report.

Of 12 players on his team, the bottom five didn't play — they were just sparring partners.

Honestly, a man of your intellectual stature and prowess in logic needs a sparring partner with whom you are more evenly matched.

In Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), Kevin DeYoung, the senior pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, and Ted Kluck, a sportswriter who has written for ESPN, are quick to admit that they «don't think of our emergent sparring partners as «the bad guys.

And not as a perpetual temptation or sparring partner so much as a badge of honor, proof that we're intellectually rigorous, honest, and thoughtful — not the mindless automatons the world thinks we are.

On the other side of the fight is an old sparring partner, Michael Moore, who was an independent but also health minister in Carnell's government.

Dashon Johnson, one of Pacquiao's sparring partners, said he and others were sent home from camp early because Pacquiao could no longer spar during training.

Inside the ring, Carbajal, the little man of La Mancha, the newly acclaimed Manitas de Piedra («Little Hands of Stone»), is steadfastly belaboring sparring partner Abner Barrajas as club members in racquetball attire cheer him.

As an example of this I offer you Claude and Ty, good mates but verbal sparring partners and a sort of double act on Arsenal Fan TV.

Jimmy Ellis, his days as Muhammad Ali's sparring partner far behind him, crashed home an effective right hand to win the WBA version of the heavyweight championship and, finally, a chance at better paydays

His two years as Muhammad Ali's sparring partner were another sort of embarrassment.

He has plenty of tools to aid his progress, namely sparring partners like Brenden Johnson (NorCal No. 3 at 120), Eli Blake (sixth, 138), Jed Campos (18th, 152) and Noah Blake (second, 160).

Henry Dean, a former England international and sparring partner of Percy's, was instrumental in the Dark Blues record of 16 consecutive victories over their Cambridge counterparts during the 1980s and 1990s.

Due to the fact that it is considerably smaller than the Assembly, the Senate tends to work a lot more quickly, and has fewer late nights — though it certainly has seen its share of epic debates, thanks to Sens. John DeFrancisco and his verbal sparring partner, Liz Krueger.

Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved in New York politics in recent years, calling for more funding of public education and stumping for Cuomo's frequent public sparring partner, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Rather than making a push to give this power back to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a regular sparring partner of the governor's, Cuomo said he would «appoint separate Inspector Generals for both SUNY and CUNY [who will] review contracts and hiring for both improper and illegal actions.»

Ms Harman had the perfect sparring partner in the form of PMQs veteran William Hague, who continues to stand in for David Cameron despite his palpable lack of deputy status.

Even as he made a concession to one of his longtime sparring partners — public sector employees — Cuomo took a jab at his main rival in the state Democratic Party: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Even as he made a concession to one of his longtime sparring partners — public sector employees — Mr. Cuomo took a jab at his main rival in the state Democratic Party: Mayor Bill de Blasio.

But Osborne has already appeared alongside another of his former sparring partners, ex-shadow chancellor Ed Balls, to campaign for remain, with Balls arguing that the issues at stake in the 23 June referendum mean party politics should be put aside.

Washed - up former boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) hasn't had much luck «managing» a string of beat - up bots until he hits it big with Atom, a sparring partner machine that improbably becomes a champion contender.

Best buddies and sparring partners, Vince (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar (Antonio Banderas) are a pair of worn - out, over-the-hill prizefighters who jump at one last chance to work in the big time.

Like a lot of adolescent protagonists in modern coming - of - age films, Christine talks too often and too blithely, but Marion is a formidable sparring partner: «How did I raise such a snob?»

One of the most underrated movies of the 1970s, John Huston's gritty boxing drama Fat City stars Stacy Keach as an aging pugilist and a young Jeff Bridges as his up - and - coming sparring partner.

Dern is a fabulous sparring partner for Harrelson as Pippi, as detailed and worthy of her own narrative for all her prickly micro-shifts and fuck ups.

«Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and of course the extraordinary, my old sparring partner, Denzel Washington.»

And in one of the variously skilled ways that the film folds recognisable tensions into its forever - evolving highwire act, continual mileage arises from the sparring match between Kevin (Lamorne Morris) and his partner Michelle (Kylie Bunbury), who lets slip that she once slept with a celebrity but won't reveal who.The circle widens out to include not just some notably impolite baddies who seem to be liking the game a bit too much but a hilariously weird next - door neighbour (Jesse Plemons, pictured above) who doesn't take to the notion that the game might be happening without him.

But the film never loses sight of the significance of Ali's command of the media, particularly in scenes between Ali and Cosell, the old «strange looking white man» who becomes the boxer's on - air verbal sparring partner and off - screen confidante.

But rest assured that if I invite in any other sparring partners over the course of this exercise, I will take care to choose ones who are substantially less persuasive.

Composite of Elizabeth Banks as «Gail» with John Michael Higgins as her sparring partner «John» in the three Pitch Perfect films.

She's not just a fine sparring partner for Cruise, but maybe the heart of the picture, lending its terrific spy games some emotional stakes.

Jessica Chastain (Oscar - nominated for her role in THE HELP) and Joel Edgerton (Tom Hardy's sparring partner in WARRIOR) have reportedly signed up for a double - feature film project, chronicling the disappearance of a woman from two different perspectives.

It's the older, top - billed leads who manage the heavy lifting: Though she's encumbered somewhat by her French accent, Mirren is superb at both projecting an air of hauteur and expressing the vulnerability beneath it, and she brings out a similar mix of pride and feeling in Puri's Papa, an excellent sparring partner whose stubbornness and drive to succeed never come at the expense of his love for his family.

We see a documentary about the professional rivalry and growing friendship between Ebert and his late sparring partner Gene Siskel, whose nationally syndicated television show brought film criticism into many homes and inspired a few generations of film lovers — myself included — to watch movies with a critical but appreciating eye.

Early passages provide Ms. Dickinson, and actress Cynthia Nixon, with a roundelay of able sparring partners.

He describes his expertise as being able to tackle three types of problems: Successful schools wanting an outside sparring partner or coach to promote internal collaboration strategies; schools wishing to further develop specific sectors of their activities; and finally, schools that have more significant problems.

Ben Spielberg is one of my favorite sparring partners on education policy.

After delivering the debt collection papers to the financier, Smith encounters the man's two daughters, Flora and Tabitha Lovell, the former a novel - reading romantic belle of the ball, the latter a quick - witted troublemaker in whom Smith finds an appealing verbal sparring partner.

Heartache and the specter of revenge follow when sparring partners spend the night together two days before he weds someone else.

Elsewhere, every skill challenge has three difficulty levels including normal, hard and pro in which the player has to increase the quality of their performance such as blocking more shots or striking the sparring partner on more occasions to accumulate a lower or higher points quantity depending on defence or offence related skill challenges.

In Street Fighter 5, Ken has a new hairdo and a new style that pushes him ever farther along the opposite end of the spectrum to his long - standing sparring partner.

Old habits die hard in gaming it seems, as former Xbox boss Peter Moore couldn't resist taking a swipe at one old sparring partner this week, expressing dismay at the ongoing delay of Sony's Home service for PlayStation 3.

Hello Neighbor — Hands - On A practice round of cards down the back of a tavern by the hearth; going bumper - to - bumper with a virtual sparring partner on the rocket - fuelled pitch of the future; setting a Zerg Rush against an unsuspecting bot following its pre-programmed build order to a T: since time immemorial, video game -LSB-...]

The Z Fighters are training for the Cell Games and the player must choose a sparring partner for his or her character: Goku or one of the other playable characters in the mode.

This game is fun as hell, the exhibition mode is fun (with friends), classic fights are a good way to get someone who wasn't into MMA interested in it (e.g. me) Career mode is fun but the problem is that you don't age is kinda dumb to be honest, you're «CRED» has no real purpose other than to get you new equipment, sponsors, sparring partners and opportunities to increase your «CRED» the controls are confusing to someone who's never played a game like this A.K.A me but I'll give it credit for innovation, you can go to training camps which upgrade you're striking and grappling which gives you new moves, their is a few exploits in the game No. 1 if you manage to get all the sponsors you can use them in create a fighter (which by the way has a decent enough amount of options) you can put all of the sponors that give the most cred and get everything easily and I mean everything No. 2 when you go to a training camp all you have to do is watch two demonstrations by the camp fighter and you have full stamina No. 3 any fighter you can beat within a minute of the first round you can beat a few times and shoot up the ranks, the music is good but you'll soon get sick of it and turn it off cause it repeats itself soo often, they didn't add intro walks, music and cage entries which would've made you feel more like an actual UFC fighter, but overall its a fun game but there's a few missed opportunities and not many fighting styles to choose from but rent it if you are curious about the game.

Can you tell me something more about what type of conversations you have, is it always work related or do you also discuss your private lives, do you use each other as a sparring partner for ideas, do you share artistic doubts and insecurities that you have?

For this volume, Buchloh (once described by former Museum of Modern Art, New York, curator and current Dean of the Yale School of Art Robert Storr as, «the artist's longtime sparring partner») returns to the fray, and, along with Beate Söntgen and Gregor Stemmrich, offers critical insight on this iconic oeuvre.