Sentences with phrase «on a chessboard for»

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Why do corporate lawyers and lawyers for «people» move past each other in the legal system like bishops of different colors on a chessboard?

At the end of the 19th Century, Lord Curzon, the then British Viceroy of India, described Iran and its Arab neighbours as «pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for the domination of the world».

With the polls showing the Conservatives and Labour firmly stuck in neck - and - neck position, they are playing on multiple chessboards in a desperate scramble for votes.

Run deep, custom analysis on years of official NBA data for NBA Chess is a two - player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8 × 8 grid.

But Gen persists and eventually gets his way, spending the money Ariki gave him for lodging on new chessboards and other supplies, even if it means having to sleep outdoors.

So the film's chessboard is set up for a seriocomic treatise on cheating, with Ali, the youngest and most trenchantly cynical also the one who's most easily shocked.

They can glance for five seconds at a complex mid-game chess position of 25 pieces, perform an intervening task of some sort, and then reconstruct the entire chess position on a blank chessboard without making any mistakes.

The Mexican artist is known for many kinds of work: from drawings on skulls and whale skeletons, to moulded clay hearts and chessboards filled only with knights.

LAMA would like to thank the Billy Al Bengston Studio for their assistance in cataloging this work Photograph of Count Dracula at the Chessboard on display in the Frank Gehry designed exhibition, «Billy Al Bengston,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968, Photograph Courtesy of Billy Al Bengston Laboratory

For ten years his studies focussed on chessboard squares, perfect mathematical calculations and flashes of intuition.

It appears to have worked as well for him in the legal world as on the chessboard.