Sentences with phrase «pawn which»

There is only one pawn which players take turns moving.

Before the final dice rolling of the round the player with the least resources gets granted the Kings Envoy pawn which can be used during any productive season to either take the same action twice, including one blocked by an opponent, or to let you build two buildings rather than just one.

Children should never be pawns which each divorced parent uses against the other.

Court justices have become little more than pawns which are exploited by political partisans and special interests.

The sad thing in both cases is the mothers wanted the kids to side with them and used them as pawns which damaged them irreparably.

Not exact matches

(Geez, which philistine's work were they trying to pawn off?

Operation Pawn Storm is distinct from other politically - inclined threat actor groups because of its attack methods, which include the following:

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

What is clear is that McDougal is no longer content being a pawn, and that the larger game, in which men can control and benefit from women's stories, is beginning to change.

The reasons why one should sell the cat, pawn the mother - in - law, and use the proceeds to buy gold are well known: the Fed is printing money faster than you can read this, which will result in inflation; the government is borrowing like a drunken monkey, so the dollar will be devalued; this will debase all currencies, so the only thing that will save you is the shiny metal.

And so even when Roiphe's husband pawned her family's silver and pearls and charted a crass course of negligence — abandoning her for four days even on their honeymoon — Roiphe still diligently typed up his manuscripts and kept their home on Park Avenue, which her mother gave them.

We've all been there: that sad, downward, ice - cream - fueled spiral in which love seems to be nothing more than a miserable game in which we are all pawns with no chance...

We've all been there: that sad, downward, ice - cream - fueled spiral in which love seems to be nothing more than a miserable game in which we are all pawns with no chance of success.

If - these men will begin to speak with one another not as pawns on a chessboard but as they themselves in the chamber of human reality, a tiny seed of change will have been started which could lead to a transformation of the whole situation.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

After nearly four hundred years of the kingship the Judean people still refused to be regarded as pawns in the game of power politics; they had far - reaching rights — even against their kings — which they would not surrender.

I must give myself away as a pawn through which the whole world is redeemed... and with this my own body I must experience, for the sake of all beings, the whole mass of all painful feelings17

This school is at best a bit player which the Conferece of Catholic Bishops is using as a pawn n its efforts to highlight this issue.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

lf they are treated as pawns to serve ends which he alone or his ecclesiastical superiors have chosen, the minister will soon encounter a psychological barrier of diminishing leadership returns.

I think of Mr. B., a respectably dressed stranger who came to the parsonage door with a convincing story about needing a loan to redeem his tools which he had been forced to pawn during a prolonged illness.

By pointing a wooden toothpick on which the pawn is impaled, you can move the pawn onto any one of six surrounding hexagonal spaces.

Pawns can become queens when they reach the coveted red center space, which Glazier aptly calls the «bloody throne» because so much royalty perishes there.

stop buying into the rhetoric coming from the Arsenal PR team, according to Coq there wasn't any locker room issues with Sanchez, beyond the issues created by the uncertainty surrounding his possible transfer, which was caused by the club... like I said many times before Wenger and his propaganda machine created those stories to justify Sanchez's inevitable exit, much like they did many times before... I can only hope that the fans at the Emirates don't give Wenger a moments peace at tomorrow's game... stop being pawns and voice your opinions loud and clear

In recent weeks, Arsene Wenger has indeed advanced his pawns towards Aubameyang, which constitutes one of its priority targets for the upcoming summer transfer window.

@JJ Pawn — well argued, with the exception being we as arsenal support are suffering at various levels which is why at times certain criticisms are vented unrelenting or at times acidic.

Taylor is merely a pawn in a larger conflict between the proactive ICC led by Luis Moreno Ocampo, who is eager to secure Saif's extradition, and Libya's interim government, which is reluctant to turn over the most prominent living symbol of the regime it overthrew.

«This generation of African media practitioners has to be the generation that refuses to be either victim or pawn, and accepts to travel down the path of genuine popular empowerment, which represents the strongest guarantee of our independence and sovereignty.

The head of the State Police, Joseph D'Amico, blindsided Gov. Andrew Cuomo with his abrupt resignation, which was fueled in part by his being used a pawn in the rift between the governor and Mayor de Blasio, sources told The Post.

Brindisi and state Sen. Joe Griffo (R - Utica) sent a public letter to Cuomo criticizing the move, in which they said the governor was using students as «pawns in a political game.»

The head of the State Police blindsided Gov. Cuomo with his resignation — which was fueled in part by his being used a pawn in the rift between the governor and Mayor de Blasio, sources told The Post.

I am very kind almost to kind at times which dosn't work too well like a business for a pawn broker X3 I try to be myself and keep in contact with my friends and family.

life savings, pawned jewellery, sold her car and took out loans to pay the costs, which were transferred into accounts in Ghana.

MGS 2's premise — players take the role of a man who turns out to be little more than a pawn in an attempt to create super soldiers by simulating Snake's adventure in Metal Gear Solid — is fascinating, but it also means that on many levels this is just a rehash of the previous game... which in itself amounted to a 3D recreation of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

A new international poster has debuted for director Edward Zwick's upcopming chess drama Pawn Sacrifice, which features Tobey Maguire as the legendary American chess player Bobby Fischer.

Ahead of its release next month, two new clips have arrived online from director Edward Zwick's chess drama Pawn Sacrifice which details the legendary 1972 match between Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) and Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber).

Some eight months after its premiere at TIFF [read our review here], a first poster has arrived online for Pawn Sacrifice, which stars Tobey Maguire as legendary chess player Bobby Fischer and chronicles his 1972 «Match of the Century» against Russian rival Boris Spassky (Leiv Schreiber)... «It was dubbed «The Match of the Century,» and -LSB-...]

We saw a poster earlier this month, and now the first trailer has arrived online for Pawn Sacrifice, director Edward Zwick's (The Last Samurai) chess drama which details the legendary 1972 match between Bobby Fischer (Tobey Magure) and Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber).

A woman grown into her full power, with season 2 spanning from 1956's Suez Crisis through to 1963's Profumo affair, and yet those words have rung false within the halls of The Crown; a series which sets out to capture the portrait of a sovereign, but consistently relegates her to the role of mere pawn in the lives of others.

Coincidentally, he used to date Emily, which makes him the perfect candidate to be used as a pawn to blackmail Denning.

It's not much of a surprise when the hero learns he's been a pawn in a global conspiracy in which his boss is a major crook, or proves diplomacy (like everything else these days) is no longer what it used to be.

It's also worth nothing that she's the one female character, with the possible exception of Soledad O'Brien playing herself, who isn't used in the film as a pawn or hostage, which is about all we get from Amy Adams «Lois Lane (who's apparently as addicted to stilettos as Bryce Dallas Howard in «Jurassic World»), Diane Lane «s Martha Kent or Holly Hunter «s all - too - brief turn as a Kentucky senator who squares off against Luthor.

Over the last few movies, which I've seen but don't remember except as a confusion of several franchises identical in my mind, Tris and Four have apparently discovered they're pawns in a game — A GAME, I tell you — involving their genes.

Wayne Kramer is the director of the «Pawn Shop Chronicles», which has an epic cast including Paul Walker, Kevin Rankin, Elijah Wood, Brendan Fraser, Vincent D'Onofrio, Thomas Jane, Matt Dillon and Lukas Haas.

In this wonderfully stylized mixture of sex, pornography, voyeurism, gore and overwhelming suspense, in which he makes the audience totally immersed in the bulletproof story and the occasionally overtly creepy atmosphere with the generous help of his main character, shaped into a helpless pawn we can so easily project ourselves onto, Brian De Palma offers us one of the most distinguishable pictures of the decade.

But, of course, in truth, we've seen a growing trend in which politicians have used teachers as pawns or even scapegoats in a terrible game of political pandering and maneuvering.

What stands out for me aren't so much the characters — protagonists Nailer and Nita are complex and believable, but many of the supporting characters are sketchily drawn — or the plot, which has a familiar shape — shipwrecked rich girl rescued by gutter rat, flight from bad people wanting to use rich girl as pawn, a big fight, a hairsbreadth rescue — but the meticulously detailed, multi-layered post-climate change world in which the action takes place.

To shorten this already long story, the bits of jewelry ended up being solid karat gold which we were able to pawn for $ 89!!

They also have a vehicle pawn program which lets you get more money, but they keep your vehicle until you repay them.

If you have adequate emergency savings, you can use these funds so that you don't have to pawn your wedding ring, obtain on a payday loan, or rack up credit card debt which could exacerbate the predicament you are already in.