Sentences with phrase «pawns in»

If there is baggage with the ex, the children can be pawns in the game of «sink the new marriage».

When parents use children as pawns in their divorce, the psychological consequences can be devastating.

Bill C - 560 is a modest attempt to address some of the concerns and recommendations made in that report and, in particular, the rebuttable presumption, which takes children out of the equation as pawns in the battle for gain by adversarial parents.

Emotional wounds the spouses inflicted upon each other during the marriage cause the pain, anger, and disdain to flare right back up during a custody case, and the children are pawns in this rehashing — or escalation — of old marital fights.

The passing of this (solid) bill would deter the practice of innocent children becoming pawns in the judicial system and its cottage industry composed of attorneys, court appointed child reps, GAL, psychologists, etc..

Children are not fought over or used as pawns in a cruel game of chess between parents.

Your children are not pawns in a game of revenge.

Nevertheless, it can be possible to achieve a measure of respect and sanity during the whole process if you remember that it is always more then simply the parents who are involved in the process, and that some very vulnerable children are often pawns in the whole drama.

In Divorce Court, the children often become pawns in the parents» fighting over child support payments, and are pitted by one parent against the other to attempt to gain some advantage in the courtroom battles.

The temptation sometimes is for one or both partners to «use» the children as messengers or pawns in an adversarial situation.

A Chinese electronics maker confirmed that its DVRs and internet - connected cameras were used as pawns in Friday's massive DDoS attack.

To mitigate against employees unwittingly becoming pawns in a fraudster's scheme, it is important to properly train and refresh staff on detecting and preventing fraud and implement appropriate cross-checks.

I also expressed discomfort at the way it was promoted, seemingly making the bloggers who contributed essays pawns in expanding TechnoLawyer's membership.

Shame on these parents for allowing their kids to be used as cheap publicity pawns in the climate debate.»

So were the scientists innocent victims and pawns in all this?

In chess, the King may move only one space in any direction (except when castling), while all other pieces might move more than one space (pawns in their first move, and if they have achieved opponent's home row by exchanging for any previously captured piece of their color).

Interestingly, there's another coal - dependent state that's never gotten around to adopting an RPS where schoolchildren are also being used as pawns in the battle between science and the status quo.

The characters depicted by Josh were but hapless pawns in the international game of intrigue that started about four decades ago.

People are pawns in a process.

The evening at Swiss Institute will unfold according to the rituals, choreography and aesthetics of color field painting and strategy games, in which human - scaled objects become pawns in activating their own function as sculpture.

It's why they are used as pawns in this illogical argument.

It is the mortal races that suffer, as pawns in the Kohan's eternal game.

You wonder if the developers decided to include a mute option for the pawns in this port.

The Syndicate, a legendary criminal fraternity with pawns in play all over the globe, has turned its eye on the Saints and demands tribute.

The other two Pawns in your party can be swapped to suit your changing needs.

Take out more Egg Pawns in your way and jump into the Cannon at the back.

Check Into Cash offers title loans or title pawns in the following states, and plan to add more states in the coming months.

Visa last month accused Walmart of using consumers as pawns in its battle over merchant fees with its threat to ban the popular credit card.

However, title loans differ from title pawns in that title loan lenders allow you to drive your car while pawnbrokers keep your car during the duration of your title pawn.

After the Jaguar destroyed his world, former CIA operative Mercer Broderick targets the faceless cartel boss using the Equalizers as pawns in a deadly game to avenge the murder of his beloved wife and child.

He believes authors should publish everywhere saying, «Amazon plays indie authors like pawns in its greater battle to harm other ebook retailers.»

Then why are they letting themselves be turned into pawns in the eReader and eBook Wars?

Someone has noticed Langton's connections to the major players in the Border disputes, and has recruited him in their bid to control the hierarchy of the Border families - someone who would use the lovers as pawns in a game of war.

As if Natalie's tantrums and social issues weren't bad enough, the warden's pesky daughter concocts scheme after scheme to get access to Capone and the rest of the Alcatraz kids are unwilling pawns in her game — Moose and Nat included.

the judge asked, irritated, lifting his nose from a muddle of pawns in the center of the chessboard.

But at the same time, it's not fair for Amazon to use their Associates as pawns in the fight — I don't depend on the Associates program for my main income, but I'm sure that there are many who do, and this is a serious blow to them.»

Too many of them were innocents, pawns in the fight between political, social or religious enemies.

Unknown to them, they've all become pawns in a demented and deadly game staged by an Entity who's waited nearly two centuries to exact revenge.

And that secret endangers their lives because a dark entity, who's waited two centuries to exact revenge, has made them pawns in a demented game.

Clark School and its students, parents and teachers are pawns in the game being played by the corporate education reform industry.

In April, Chancellor Tisch insinuated that the growth of the opt out movement was the fault of the dispute between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state teachers» union, making roughly 200,000 families pawns in a labor dispute.

House leadership made our kids pawns in Florida's miserable backroom school «reform» game.

Kids and parents are mere pawns in the power games played by these education agencies and these two - faced Sheff plaintiffs who claim to care about children and families.

And we refuse to be used as pawns in corporate reformers» «parental choice» game.

Parents should not be forced to sit idly by and watch their children be used as pawns in a struggle over money.

First, I thought to myself that the charter operators were cynically using children as political pawns in their own campaign to promote their cause.

Her history suggests that teachers have largely been pawns in the games of others; if teaching is to become a professional field organized around common norms and standards, then practitioners and their representatives need to exert professional control over it, as we have seen in other domains.

«I feel like we are pawns in a political game.»

And this is true of all the «supporting characters» who are treated more or less as pawns in the film, to give Knight people to react to; Keri Russell, Sean Bridgers, Jacob Lofland, and especially Gugu Mbatha - Raw.

The rest of the actors are just pawns in the story, but Vera Farmiga does add some depth to the thankless role of Stevens» sympathetic handler.