Sentences with phrase «on cutthroat»

But in a process invented in 1990 by a Minneapolis divorce lawyer burned out on cutthroat litigation, both spouses pledge to be honest and respectful.

Black Desert has the edge for those who want to explore a beautiful and detailed fantasy world, or those who want more natural - feeling gameplay, but EVE is a better choice for those who want to make their name on a cutthroat frontier and engage in politics on a massive scale.

With her debut crime novel, Flanders takes on the cutthroat publishing industry and spices it up with a bit of that Victorian - style macabre.

Insofar as I, Tonya touches on the cutthroat, money - soaked world of professional sports, the hypocrisy of Olympic Committee bureaucrats, and the cynicism of the various news media outlets, it contains some intriguing moments.

The series stars Dennis Quaid, Christian Cooke, Cary Elwes and Kate Bosworth and focuses on the cutthroat behind - the - scenes world of major art auction houses.

Meryl Streep was superb as a fashion editor of great ego and heartless ambition, whose career depends on cutthroat rivalry in «The Devil Wears Prada.»

Star - writer - director Mike Birbiglia (Trainwreck) shows no mercy in pulling back the curtain on the cutthroat comedy scene: When Ben Stiller drops by the gang's regular dive bar after taking in their show, these quick - witted adults make fools out of themselves trying to impress him.

On Geena Davis (a rare tangent into the living, precipitated by his memories of Oliver Reed on Cutthroat Island): «Perhaps in a long laundry list of ludicrous events I have witnessed on film sets, the one I most treasure is watching my leading lady having her makeup and hair assiduously attended to between each take of one scene.

Synopsis: Feisty Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) inherits her late buccaneer father's galleon and one - third of a map to buried treasure located on Cutthroat Island.

Synopsis: Feisty Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) inherits her late buccaneer father's galleon and one - third of a map to buried treasure located on Cutthroat Islan... [MORE]

Unfortunately, that is what happened, and it led to two myths about evolution that persist today: that there is a prescient directionality to evolution and that survival depends entirely on cutthroat competitive fitness.

I wonder if the recipe for the greek stuffed peppers you made on cutthroat kitchen will possibly be added sometime soon?

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Rely on reputation and gut instinct and you'd probably name a familiar list of Ivy league and top - notch technical schools, but new numbers offer some suggestions that may surprise you (and offer campuses with less cutthroat competition from bigger companies).

If anything, they see the current upheaval being about cutthroat competition that will hasten the onset of «grid parity» — the day when solar can compete on a level playing field against other energy sources.

But don't build a cutthroat culture where your workforce is always on the lookout for ways to sabotage their colleagues.

He argues that above all else, a cutthroat ranking system based on false proxies can end up creating incentives for questionable behavior:

Marketplaces are a double - edged sword; they provide incredible access to a large group of consumers, but the competition is cutthroat when you are competing on price and don't own your customers.

Today, she's called on to appear at more events than ever before, while raising the family she and her husband started after she'd spent years hunkered down in the cutthroat real estate world.

The bitterly contested Canadian coffee sector, on the other hand, is only getting more cutthroat, with McDonald's and Tim Hortons now offering espresso - based drinks.

Gaming juggernaut Nintendo was banking on this in December when it released Super Mario Run, its second foray into the cutthroat world of mobile gaming.

Douglas Elliman leads all residential brokerages on Long Island With $ 4.24 billion in sales in 2017, Douglas Elliman remains the largest residential brokerage on Long Island, even as cutthroat competition for top agents brings new challengers to the market.

In short, the debt taken on by the new company will loom over every operating decision Tim's makes, thrusting the coffee chain into uncharted territory where it must answer to a cutthroat private investment firm in faraway Brazil that never saw a cost it couldn't synergize.

Apart from the LBO still weighing down the company and operating in what can only be called a cutthroat market (if you go out of fashion you are done for), Claire's had embarked on a global expansionary campaign with very little regard to both the markets they were expanding into and especially if said markets could absorb 2,700 new Claire's stores.

Medline said Sobeys prefers to focus on margin improvement than «empty calorie» same - store sales, which are most easily achieved in the cutthroat industry through steep price cuts.

Gundry, a star of the Food Network show Cutthroat Kitchen, also appeared on the recent season of the cable channel's competitive reality show Food Network Star.

Cutthroat Kitchen hands four chefs $ 25,000 and the opportunity to spend that money on helping themselves or sabotaging their competitors.

Recently, Cheven debuted on Food Network's «Cutthroat Kitchen» and «Around the World in 80 Plates» on Bravo.

Recently, Cheven debuted on Food Network's «Cutthroat Kitchen» and «Around the World in 80 Plates» on the Bravo television network.

The Cutthroats, who have one of the most unique names in sports, went on to win the game in the shootout.

In the role of schoolmaster for the moment was General Bradley Gaylord, distinguished soldier in two world wars, currently chairman of the board of the Madison Fund, cutthroat practitioner of a racy version of English croquet (pronounced «croaky») to which he has drawn numerous addicts among neighbors on Cape Cod and the winter resort island of Antigua, B.W.I., and — not least among a variegation of accomplishments in a world of large affairs — amateur chef extraordinary.

Milliband should be saying that whilst Labour are not in principle against the EU, in fact, in principle, they are for it, they do not agree with the fundamentalist free market, cutthroat principles on which it is currently based.

In times of war and in the cutthroat world of crowded public gyms, the end justifies the means, you said to yourself as you jumped on to the machine this guy got up from to search for another plate.

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The various dating sites on offer are competing for your business in what's described as a cutthroat industry.

Then you have his other boss, Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron), a foul - mouthed, sex driven cutthroat who thrives on being offensive.

How Scott Frank finally got his cutthroat look at our frontier nation on TV — and why you shouldn't consider this a «feminist Western»

In 2000, writer - director Michael Almereyda took on the best of William Shakespeare, transposing the seminal tragedy Hamlet to modern - day Manhattan and the world of corporate cutthroats.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

Towards the end of the year, McConaughey also appeared in Martin Scorsese's drama «The Wolf of Wall Street» as cutthroat businessman Mark Hanna; the brief role was most notable for an on - set improvisation in which Hanna leads Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort into a humming, chest - thumping routine in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.

The eventual movie was made by the husband and wife team of Renny Harlin and Geena Davis and Black was originally reluctant to sell it to them, since they had to make one movie before they could begin work on «The Long Kiss Goodnight» — «Cutthroat Island.»

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The film is based on a story by Russell Adams published by The Wall Street Journal in 2013, titled «Tag, He's «It» for Another Year,» about a group of friends who have been playing a cutthroat version of the children's game for the last 30 years.

Red Water (August 17; 8 to 10 p.m.; TBS), with Lou Diamond Phillips as a Louisiana riverboat captain and Kristy Swanson as his scientist ex-wife, seems about to blame some of the carnage that occurs in this movie on an oil company as well as a bull shark, but then retreats to blaming Coolio and a gang of treasure - hunting cutthroats.

Veteran genre director Renny Harlin has definitely had his share of hits and misses during his long career, from the fan - favorite highs of DIE HARD 2, DEEP BLUE SEA, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, DRIVEN, and CLIFFHANGER to the critical drubbings of CUTTHROAT ISLAND, EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING, THE LEGEND OF HERCULES, and MINDHUNTERS.

Veep creator Armando Iannucci redirects his biting wit and affinity for savage infighting to a political environment even more cutthroat than Washington: the Moscow of 1953, when a cerebral hemorrhage put Joseph Stalin on his death bed and created a void of leadership within his power - hungry inner circle.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Documentary on DVD Suggests Early Start on College If you think the competition is fierce to gain entrance to the country's elite colleges, then you oughta check out the cutthroat tactics employed by parents of toddlers trying to get their little monsters into the country's exclusive pre-schools.

For their uncanny knack for predicting the stock market soon conveniently dovetails with his need for help on the job where he's currently caught up in a cutthroat competition for a top position with Johnny Whitefeather (Church).

Also, as you search for your companions on this dangerous island, Lara soon discovers that this uninhabited island is actually the home to a group of cutthroat mercenaries.

Co-written by Marc Norman (Cutthroat Island) and Tom Stoppard (Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Brazil)-- who, on this evidence, doesn't work in films often enough — the script moves quickly, making it a pleasure just to keep up.