Sentences with phrase «opening salvo»

FERC is unlikely to take up the proposal as written, analysts and former regulators agreed, but regulators currently at the agency have indicated they plan to address plant compensation and reliability questions — making the NOPR the Trump administration's opening salvo in what is likely to be a long and contentious regulatory battle over the future of the fuel mix and competitive electricity markets.

In a frankly remarkable opening salvo of images both sexually frank and gruesomely detailed, the stereotypical «pool boy» flirts with a willing Gilda, only to be disposed of mid-coitus by Otavio, fileted and served as the evening meal.

This, along with Tales from the Borderlands, are an exquisite opening salvo from Telltale, ushering in the third age of interactive movies.

Iloilo City — As opening salvo to its 8th General Assembly, MASIPAG held a one - day conference to highlight the important and central role of small - scale farmers in the development of genuine organic agriculture.

After Jose Mourinho's astonishing opening salvo with the press on Tuesday, today was the turn of his so - called nemesis, Pep Guardiola.

The proposal's release does mark an «opening salvo for discussions to begin,» Bishop said.

The restoration is «a good opening salvo that many in the planetary community support,» says Jim Bell, president of the Planetary Society, an advocacy organization based in Pasadena, California, and a planetary scientist at Arizona State University, Tempe.

All amateur pictures of me, a slut wife, fucking black men while my husband OPENING SALVO From the beginning of Operation Werewolf, it was clear that this was not for everyone.

«The sense of fun and sisterly affection that pervades the album makes it a winning opening salvo from an intriguing new group.»

It's a weirdly off - the - cuff opening salvo, but thankfully it turns out to be a scene - setter for the entire film rather than just a light comic prefix before the all the inevitable tussling, explosions and soul - searching.

The latest in 88 Films Italian line, Romero's outstanding opening salvo offers us an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's «The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar», highlighting the sublime Scream Queen Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog / Swamp Thing) as a scheming widow seeking to exploit the estate of her terminally ill husband.

The film often sags in the middle in comparison to its scintillating opening salvo and its powerful climax, but even at its weakest, Alex Ross Perry's newest always retains a baseline of interest.

Bronson was an unbridled beast, as evident from director Nicolas Winding Refn's blistering opening salvo, a character - defining blood - red depiction of Peterson pacing side to side, naked and covered in filth, inside a cage, his fury rising as he psyches himself up for forthcoming fisticuffs, which in Bronson typically arrive in slow - motion and staged to crashing classical music and opera or»80s synth - pop like the Pet Shop Boys» devilishly appropriate «It's a Sin.»

Gillies's opening salvo sparked a war of words.

They seemed to relish the burden, bringing the coupe from 130ish to 50ish before the right - left - right - left opening salvo of turns.

This is just the first in a big lineup of new hardware that's coming with Windows Phone 8, but it's a seriously impressive opening salvo.

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel's all - women opening salvo is unequivocally important and incomplete.

In fact, Monday's opening salvo brought with it not just AI news, but a series of sessions that covered the legal AI and automation field, brought together as an «AI Bootcamp».

It should be the succinct opening salvo following your personal contact information that, in effect, titles and targets your resume.

Not what you expect from Hollywood's opening salvo in the summer movie wars, but still... Mostow (Breakdown) has the look and feel down pat — he hired Das Boot's production designer Gotz Weidner to make sure — but U-571, for all its realistic bluster, feels vaguely hollow, a torpedo bay freighted with Sturm und Drang and little else.

Speaking of Wes Anderson, The Criterion Collection has just announced details on its November (delayed from October) opening salvo of Blu - ray Disc releases, and it's a doozy.

And then, I've seen the same entrepreneurs crushed (and / or pissed off) by some candidate who summarily rejects the proposal because (a) he read in some know - it - all book that you're supposed to always do that with initial offers and (b) he thinks it's just an opening salvo and not a first, best and last offer.

«I think it's a bit of an opening salvo,» the hotel chain chief told «Squawk on the Street.»

Let us be masters of body language and wizards of the opening salvo.

In fact, its opening salvo could serve as an excellent guide to handling most business crises, as in «Don't Panic!»

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 - Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters)- Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

The opening salvo was an attack on the DNC, carried out on American soil.»

With that in mind, the Huawei lawsuits could be the «opening salvo» of a new round of smartphone litigation, Brian Ferguson, co-chair of the patent litigation practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, says.

But there is genuine fear the EC fine could be the opening salvo in a grisly shoot - out, as regulators in Europe and elsewhere grow emboldened to punish American tech firms, and even meddle in their decision - making, in the name of fairness, privacy, or security.

Last year's crackdown on social media in China was merely the opening salvo of the Party's war on Western cultural influence and opposition movements.

Last year's crackdown on social media was merely the opening salvo of the CCP's war on the information revolution.

«The struggle for women to break in, to rise up the ranks and to simply be heard and acknowledged in male - dominated workplaces must end; time's up on this impenetrable monopoly,» says their opening salvo, a letter in the New York Times and Spanish - language newspaper La Opinión.

My fear is that the global trading system will start to crumble, and if that happens, this will just be the opening salvo in a much larger trade war in the world.

The investor group, which hopes to snap up Uber shares on the cheap, offered to pay $ 32.97 a share in their opening salvo, said people with knowledge of the matter.

The opening salvo was a cyberattack on the DNC, carried out on American soil.

Back to the opening salvo, it's a routine refrain: «My CEO wants to know why we're down and our peers are up.»

In an echo of the early February market meltdown, panic unexpectedly shook markets as President Trump unleashed the opening salvo in his war on trade at the end of last month.

The opening salvo in a potential war for the Orange County Register was launched in Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday, with an attorney for the owner of the Los Angeles Times calling for an «open sale process» for the rival, struggling newspaper.

«He's talking about the opening salvo of a trade war, and the opening salvo of a trade war is just a different thing than the modest protection of an industry.»

From the opening salvos of a trade war to a flattening US yield curve, a relatively benign economic outlook has given way to a more complex economic...

If so, then Damien Hoffman has just fired the opening salvo.

-- as the opening salvo in his description and defense of the church as the body of Christ.

The new rifles were not only able to continue firing after the opening salvo, but were deadly accurate as well.

in Monday's edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.

Neuhaus fired the opening salvo in the June / July 2000 issue of First Things.