Sentences with phrase «opening salvo for»

The Monday Morning Opener is our opening salvo for the week in tech.

The Last Dog's debut of # 252,000 from 279 cinemas (and # 276,000 including previews) compares unfavourably with the opening salvo for Vega's own Women of Mafia back in early March (# 552,000 and # 571,000 including previews).

The Post's UK debut of # 2.15 m compares favourably with the opening salvo for Bridge of Spies in 2015 — which likewise combined Spielberg and Hanks, and began with # 1.68 m including # 206,000 in previews.

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

Not exact matches

Not even the opening papal address contained the salvos against liberation theology that the conservatives had hoped for (despite erroneous impressions to the contrary given by the New York Times), and the Puebla documents, though a mixed bag, gave ongoing support to the major concerns of this theology, particularly in the emphasis on the need for the church to make «a preferential option for the poor.

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.

Keylor Navas made an easy save, but the opening salvo belonged to the team more regarded for their defense than their offense.

The bill is the opening salvo in a debate over extending mayoral control, which the Republican - backed Senate is expected to support for 12 months.

The statement from Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif amounts to an opening salvo in what is expected to be a heated and expensive campaign for the Westchester County Senate district vacated last week by County Executive George Latimer.

Indeed, in many ways the budget process this year has been similar to ones in years past, except in one crucial respect: Mr. Cuomo's opening salvo, his executive budget, proposed shifting to New York City nearly $ 500 million in costs for the City University of New York system and requiring City Hall to contribute a larger share of the payments for the federal Medicaid program.

Main also asked of Alexander, to «stress to the unions that this is not the opening salvo in further negotiations» and at present there is a «realistic opportunity to come up with a long - term solution for the 25 - year period that would be best for the taxpayer».

Senate Democrats plan to hold a test vote on a bill that would give small businesses tax breaks for boosting payrolls, the opening salvo in a long - anticipated election - season fight over which party's tax cut plan is more likely to help spur job creation.

Leti Chief Scientist Barbara De Salvo Will Help Kick Off ISSCC 2018 with Opening - Day Keynote: In Addition, Leti Scientists Will Present and Demo New Technology for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting February 8th, 2018

«The revelations of the past six months that have coalesced into the Time's Up and #MeToo movements have had us thinking a lot about the opening salvos of the sexual revolution and the heroines of those early battles for equality in the workplace and the bedroom.

GQ magazine provides entertainment, comment., reviews, culture news, sport GQ Rules for modern men Your opening salvo on Tinder is the most important bit.

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.

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.

«Kiss my shoe» is her opening salvo, and the complicated gender and class dynamics between them make for a heady affair marked by reversals of social hierarchies.

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.»

The fighting is chaotic and merciless, where the life of a young man who has trained for months and travelled thousands of miles to fight can be extinguished in a split - second by the opening salvo of machine - gun fire.

For another, I have a feeling the negotiations with Hatchette are just the opening salvo in what looks to be a long battle between Amazon and the publishers caught colluding with Apple to price fix.

So Michael Steven Gregory's opening salvo this past Friday night was a call to arms for authors to get into the driver's seat — don't be afraid to consider self - publishing.

How about this for an opening E3 salvo?

Of course, some massive titles like Titanfall and Watch Dogs will not be among the opening salvo, but those queuing up for an Xbox on day One will not be short of choice, so we've picked out 10 titles that have already piqued our interest.

Last week, the artist Richard Prince fired an opening salvo, returning a $ 36,000 payment for an artwork depicting Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, owned by her family.

Quint Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of LIGHTENING, the sixth solo exhibition for Roman de Salvo at Quint Gallery in the past twenty years since 1995.

Open Plan: Michael Heizer is organized by Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator Donna De Salvo and Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research Carol Mancusi - Ungaro.

Then, on Friday, Max Mara took hosting duties again alongside the Whitney director Adam D. Weinberg and chief curator Donna De Salvo and Piano, sponsoring an opening night extravaganza for more than 3,000 guests.

In this video, Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator Donna De Salvo and Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research Carol Mancusi - Ungaro discuss how the Whitney's fifth - floor dramatically opens up to artist Michael Heizer's 1970 installation Actual Size: Munich Rotary, which is part of the experimental five - part exhibition Open Plan.

Prior to working at the Whitney, De Salvo served for five years as a Senior Curator at Tate Modern, London, where she curated such exhibitions as Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970 (2005); Marsyas (Anish Kapoor's 2003 work commissioned by Tate Modern for its Turbine Hall); and Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis (2001).

Last Wednesday, gallery owners Dana Salvo and Dawn Southworth, along with Director Kristen Zeiser, opened their doors to 16 Lincoln children for an interactive art project.

«The game changer is the space,» said Donna De Salvo, the Whitney's chief curator, standing in one of the raw galleries on a recent wintry afternoon as workmen were erecting walls for the opening show.

Open Plan was conceived collaboratively with Donna De Salvo, the Whitney's deputy director for international initiatives and its senior curator; Christopher Y. Lew, associate curator; Scott Rothkopf; Jay Sanders, curator of performance; and Elisabeth Sussman, curator of photography.

The launch will be the opening salvo in its three - stage push into the global market for residential PV inverters.

A physicist posted on WUWT: Plausibly, these [Edward Markey] press releases are opening salvos in a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation, a topic upon which the Heartland Institute's web site maintains numerous on - line position papers (for example, a Google Search finds hosted on the Heartland Institute website «The Statute of Limitations Under RICO: Rotella and Beyond»).

Given that the Navy has been making plans for «ice - free» operations in the Arctic since at least 2001, their June «Northern Edge» exercises may well prove to be just the opening salvo in the future northern climate wars, with whales, seals, and salmon being the first in the line of fire.

And his latest project is likely to bring that spotlight even more into focus: A 24 - hour reality TV event that will delve deeper into climate issues than anything yet attempted on the silver screen.It will be the opening salvo from his newly formed Climate Reality Project (a sort of rebranding of the Alliance for Climate Protection), and according to the New York Times, it will go something like this:

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