Sentences with phrase «of vicious battles»

In saying that, Achilles and company did have a vast array of vicious battles across hugely different regions.

See the graphic illustrator's portrayal of the vicious battle from the Premier League match between Manchester United and Bournemouth on Saturday.

Not exact matches

That kind of love refuses to have vicious battles in the comments section of some blog or social media post — that love sits down over a hot cup of coffee and seeks to understand.

Killing enemy combatants in battles for self - defense and protection of the home country and executing vicious criminals by justice are perfectly acceptable and are commanded by God.

Assyria slowly succumbed to the vicious powers of the Chaldeans of Babylon, the Medes of the mountains of Iran, and the bands of Umman - manda (apparently Scythians) from the steppes of Russia; and the long death - agony of Assyria was finally ended in decisive battles of 612 and 610 B.C..

I would respond by breastfeeding, worried she was hungry (I was battling supply issues), and that created a never - ending vicious cycle of exhaustion.

Opposition finds Labour trapped in a vicious pincer movement between the Tory attack and the bluster of a motley crew of small parties, parliament being the focus of gladiatorial battles.

The battle for London's City Hall remained vicious and bad - tempered today, as Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone accused each other of fraud and indifference.

Today's primary marks the end of a long and vicious battle between fellow Democrats Reshma Saujani and Carolyn Maloney for Maloney's congressional seat.

You don't do it by creating this kind of vicious, sort of angry battle that's going on.»

Mr. Espaillat came just over a 1,000 votes of beating Mr. Rangel two years ago in a vicious primary battle that oftentimes seemed to devolve into a war between the black and Hispanic alliances in the quickly - changing 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem though Washington Heights to the Bronx.

The battle for territory in the Nigerian government is one of the most vicious fights in the corridors of power.

Part of the reason is that it quickly turns into a vicious cycle and these hormone imbalances continue to worsen each other — leaving you feeling like you're fighting a no - win battle.

But the crew of the John Paul Jones and their comrades engage the attackers in a vicious sea battle.

Set within the Kingdom of Wakanda, players will take the legendary Wakandan Super Hero and his sister Shuri on a dangerous mission within the darkest depths of their homeland, battling mutated creatures and arch-nemesis Erik Killmonger's vicious army.

Each section of the game allows Hiro to make use of one of 8 Invizimal characters that he can morph into — but only after he defeats them in a vicious quicktime event (QTE) battle (/ sarcasm).

SYNOPSIS: Skilled thief Jack, on the verge of leaving his criminal world behind, is drawn by pregnant ex-lover Karen into a battle against vicious crime boss Eddie, who wants her dead... If there was -LSB-...]

Its most epic images, of a great and vicious battle, are confined to scattered flashbacks in the first act, nothing more than fragments of backstory that reveal the cowardice and hapless achievement of the simultaneous praised and despised John Boyd (Guy Pearce), who receives a promotion for taking a Mexican stronghold but is quietly exiled to a remote, wintry California fort to serve out of sight.

«Preminger, a liberal director filming Drury's very conservative novel, shows us D. C. «s dirtiest linen in one of the nastiest, most vicious mud - slinging confirmation battles ever.

Monster Hunter puts you in the role of a — get this — hunter as you explore the countryside and battle vicious monsters in pursuit of powerful items and piles upon piles of loot.

In Pitch Black (2000), also known as The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black, antihero Richard B. Riddick — a convicted murderer whose eyes had been modified so he could see in the dark — fought off hordes of vicious flying shark - like shadow creatures on an alien planet while also battling the distrust and duplicitous behavior of his fellow crash - landing survivors.

«Given the vicious, and I use that word deliberately, tactics often employed by defenders of the status quo, reformers need to have absolutely extraordinary levels of stamina, patience, thick skin, and a willingness to do battle in dirty, muddy trenches every day.

The concluding novella, «Cockfighter,» is a triumph of storytelling in which a young girl witnesses her proud father's valiant but foolhardy and drawn - out battle against the local delinquent and violent hoodlum whose family's vicious stranglehold on the villagers has passed down unchecked through generations.

But now with the throne of the king empty, a vicious battle... Read More...

This eleventh book has all the charm, verve, humor, and conflict of its predecessors, as the good folk of Redwall Abbey go to battle against the vicious Marlfox family.

Mischief escalates into a vicious battle that will expose Nimona's mysterious past as well as the Institution of Heroics.

Taking advantage of all these tools is essential, as battles get downright vicious later in the game.

Set within the Kingdom of Wakanda, players will take the legendary Wakandan Super Hero and his sister Shuri on a dangerous mission within the darkest depths of their homeland, battling mutated creatures and arch-nemesis Erik Killmonger's vicious army.

A vicious duel with Hades, clambering up a Titan as he tries to swat you away like a fly, even the opening battle bests the high points of a lot of other titles.

Take Ben and his group of Omnitrix Aliens into battle against an onslaught of vicious enemies in a multiplayer co-op brawler mode

But no matter where you fight, Yakuza has some of the most stylishly vicious battling you'll ever encounter in a game!

Along the way, he'll explore an enormous open world, undertake a variety of exciting quests, do battle with vicious foes in real time and develop his abilities in a freeform skill tree.

Its colourful pitched battles against overwhelming alien hordes are rivalled only by the Serious Sam series in terms of size and scope, and realising the gap in the market, Vicious Cycle have taken the reins and given the series another outing.

Set on the medieval Europe - inspired Harlech Island, players will explore the many different and interconnected environments of the world around them while battling vicious enemies in real - time, utilizing various skills attached to the many weapons they find along the way.

Set in the Kingdom of Wakanda, players will take the legendary Wakandan Super Hero and his sister Shuri on a dangerous mission within the darkest depths of their homeland, battling mutated creatures and arch-nemesis Erik Killmonger's vicious army.

Create your own squad of soldiers and battle through hordes of vicious enemies in the decently sized single player campaign, and then take the fight online in the tower defense vs tower offence multiplayer mode.

The work's title is taken from Antjie Krog's literary account of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission — and expresses the artist's constant battle between the paradoxical distancing of himself from a prejudiced and vicious heritage and the acknowledgement that he can never be entirely removed from it.

Aside from a vicious battle for survival, the work is a dense battle between the representational and abstraction and proves that Cecily Brown is master in revealing the visceral possibilities of paint.

So there's potentially a vicious loop here, as resource - based battles drag on in the world's last bastions of biological bounty.

«When we developed the series, we immediately saw the parallels between the battle for power in George R.R. Martin's fictional world and the vicious fight for survival in the animal kingdom» said Geoff Daniels, executive vice president and general manager of Nat Geo WILD.

Created by Advanced Warfare studio Sledgehammer Games, Call of Duty: WWII takes players into the vicious European conflict during the last year of the war, and replicates many of the deadly battles that eventually led to the downfall of Nazism and Germany's surrender.

Create your own squad of soldiers and battle through hordes of vicious enemies in the decently sized single player campaign, and then take the fight online in the tower defense vs tower offence multiplayer mode.

According to Saltz, divorce mediation best protects children of the marriage because parties «don't have to go to court and it doesn't become a vicious battle».

More and more divorcing couples are trying to avoid the vicious cycle of ugly divorce battles by working collaboratively to draft their divorce agreement.

But Shakespeare killed off Romeo and Juliet at the end of the play so he wouldn't have to write about the contentious divorce settlement or mention the People Magazine cover describing the vicious custody battle over Romeo, Jr..

The use of the collaborative process is likely to help the parties get out of the vicious cycle of hate and revenge that tends to build up during nasty court battles as it takes them out of the adversarial court system.

An exaggerate notion of just how bad it must be can make us angrier at our spouses than we need be, more frightened for ourselves, and more susceptible to divisive advice that can lead to the kind of vicious, five - and six - figure legal battles we still see.