Sentences with phrase «own battleship»

Movies based on games have always been audience favourites — Super Mario Bros. and Battleship are classics — so what could possibly go wrong?

During World War II, employment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard peaked at 70,000 workers, who turned out all kinds of vessels, including battleships.

This is especially true when HMS Dreadnought was created in 1906, ushering a new era of battleships that defined the 20th century.

Twenty - six Japanese ships were lost, including all four carriers and three battleships.

US losses were extremely light in comparison — one battleship damaged, 130 aircraft destroyed, and a little over 100 killed.

Though a battle that featured pre-dreadnought ships, the Battle of Manila Bay involved massive steamships with large turrets and guns that were the precursors of those that would be seen on battleships in WWI and WWII.

«Play games (Scrabble, bridge, chess, Go, Battleship, Connect 4, doesn't matter),» suggests Xie (for a ninja - level brain boost, exercise your working memory by trying to play without looking at the board).

We altered that portion of the interview so candidates could instead pick between one of three problems to solve, to ensure that those unfamiliar with Battleship weren't negatively impacted — all with the hope of encouraging a culture of fairness and empathy.

Early on at Hired, part of our hiring process involved asking candidates to interact with a strategic board game similar to Battleship, popular in the United States.

He cut short his studies at Loyola University New Orleans to join the U.S. Navy during World War II, serving on the USS South Dakota, a battleship, during preparations for an invasion of Japan that never came to pass.

«It takes a long time to turn around a battleship, but they're incredibly dangerous,» says Mortimer Singer, CEO of retail consultancy Marvin Traub Associates.

This classic 1925 silent movie dramatizing the mutiny of a Russian battleship in 1905 led to it being banned in Nazi Germany and numerous other countries at the time of its release due to fears that it would cause a Marxist revolution.

Named after a German battleship, the bunker never saw military action.

Thursday is the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese assault on a US naval base that resulted in the deaths of 2,402 Americans, numerous injuries, and the sinking of four battleships.

It was recommissioned as the USS Pueblo in 1916 so the name Colorado would be available for the Colorado - class battleship.

The third USS Colorado was the first of the Colorado - class battleships, serving in the Navy from 1923 to 1947.

Among the iterations of this co-branding arrangement are video games, figurines, and buildable battleships like the Millennium Falcon.

But not every big - budget entry will be of great quality (cough, «Battleship») but they'll definitely all be entertaining enough to hold your short summer attention spans.

And they all have some common themes: all are sequels, reboots, or based on another story, film or game (we're looking at you again, «Battleship.»)

When we talked to Farhan Siddiqi a few months ago, he noted that trouble with making big changes at places like McDonald's — restaurants that serve unaccountably large numbers of consumers worldwide daily — is a bit like trying to turn a battleship around.

A few months after this particular conference I was back in Sydney to speak at another conference, and after I spoke, Gerard Minack, former chief strategist at Morgan Stanley Australia, gave his own presentation on the world economy and, more specifically, on the slow - turning battleship of expansion in the production of hard commodities.

By 1500 hours, three Albacores had found the Italian battleship and closed in.

No battleships and bombers; but large, powerful nations can still play other games; such as cyber war and attacks on the other nation's currency.

Yet it continues as a core curriculum in most graduate business schools because that's what teachers have been taught to teach, and it's hard for this battleship to change direction» Frank Martin

(On a side note, how is it that obvious toads like Battleship, John Carter, Jack the Giant Slayer and the three dozen other fairy tale reboots get greenlit without half - trying, while a beloved series attached to a major star with a massive fan base has to raise their own money?

With small steps, the battleship can become a hospital ship.

I could call some Navy friends, reactivate a battleship, and lob a 16 - inch shell from 23 miles away to take you out.

From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.

Romeny / Ryan announced their partnership last August in front of a Navy battleship, even though neither of them served one day in the U.S. military.

Whole tomatoes will sink like old school board - game battleships and then burst during cooking, making juicy seeded pockets in the filling.

Sure, CaJohn's Fiery Foods has enjoyed enough attention from the hot sauce blogs to fill a battleship, in the form of product reviews, trade show coverage, and being featured in other chilehead events and discussions.

Along the way, you will also get to visit the London Bridge and the Tower Bridge on the River Thames and also the Battleship HMS Belfast.

A Rose Bowl berth was being fought for in Tempe, and WTBS showed two losing teams playing Battleship.

By the time the bombardment was over, eight American battleships were severely damaged or sunk, 188 planes were destroyed, and 3,691 U.S. troops were dead or injured.

It's like getting a guaranteed ace with every poker hand, an extra submarine in Battleship, or playing as Oddjob whenever you please.

Pulford has obtained Wings Battleship Kelly from Pittsburgh and Pierre Plante from St. Louis, and along with Grant Mulvey and Jim Harrison they will do at least some of the boardwork and checking that Pulford demands.

His passing is woeful, he has 0 pace, the turning circle of a battleship and he can not cope if someone gets the run on him down a channel.

She is, and has been for years, the leading American breeder of steeplechase horses, and her Battleship once won England's famed Grand National.

His list of nicknames includes «Big Mike,» «The Battleship» and «The Bear.»

It's not like playing chess or battleship.

Hoping her son will be home for Christmas, she has purchased about a dozen presents — a scooter, a book, the game Battleship — which sit stacked on the stairs.

You can keep older kids entertained with travel versions of games such as Battleship or Scrabble.

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Battleship, a classic favorite that's been popular for generations, is the ultimate two player battle.

Battleship works well for family game night because you can form two teams, and older more skilled players can help younger teammates who don't yet know their letters and numbers.

Because I could never stray from my pumping station for long, on the rare occasions I left my house, I might as well have been going off to war between the diaper bag and that battleship of a breast pump I carted everywhere.

Making a point about the difficulty of turning the proverbial battleship once it's set on course, I said that «institutional change requires funerals,» a phrase my colleague loved.

Perhaps more importantly, these tools also teach skills, since you start with the plans and construct the machines themselves using local materials — and once you've done that, you're on your way to being able to build anything up to and including a battleship.

«Right now the budget process is like ships passing in the night,» he said, as pictures of white battleships popped up along with cut - out heads of «Commanders» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and with Cuomo wearing a Captain's hat.

At the end of the Red Room press conference, which was full of smiles and jokes — mostly by Cuomo — the governor broke out that battleship graphic from his budget address to remind the legislative leaders of what they had avoided.