Sentences with phrase «phalanx of»

High expectations, ballooning budgets, things that go creak (and crash and boom) in the night, a phalanx of strangers coming and going and limited access to those amenities you've grown accustomed to — like running water and working appliances — can get to anyone.

Preceding Mr. Martin like the bow wave of a supertanker was a phalanx of security types — mustachioed and resembling models at a hearing aid conference.

So as the industry juggles a phalanx of challenges posed by the still - fragile economy, Golder is primed for center stage.

If you were to walk into his apartment you would notice the phalanx of fans that are cooling his computers that are programmed to mine digital currencies each day without pause.

If people walk into their local phone shop and are confronted by a phalanx of Apple devices and a legion of Samsung ones, odds are that they'll end up buying one or the other brand.

HP has always had an aggressive phalanx of pop - ups pestering users about registering the computer, checking on the warranty status, and backing up the hard drive.

We may yet live to see the day when a comic regales an audience with his tales of woe regarding the airlines, big box stores and the like, and is summarily handed summonses by a phalanx of lawyers sitting ringside.

Because the internal approval process within law firms is usually so daunting, the larger mission of attracting clients with a compelling ad often gets lost in favour of meeting the immediate challenge of getting SOMETHING past the phalanx of independence - minded partners with veto power.

However, at least 18 states believe the Poitevent case carries direct nationwide significance, evidenced by a phalanx of amicus support.

Trudeau, and his newly appointed Justice Minister, Jody Wilson - Raybould, face a ticking clock on a phalanx of legal challenges and legislative amendments many of which require immediate attention.

Photo credit: Label Karen Stewart and Howard Brown, Jenny Hwa, and Linda Loudermilk are household names — well, okay, if you live in the kind of home where green togs regularly crop up in dinner conversation — but there's a rising phalanx of upcoming

But human rights also serve those who line up to exploit the ambiguities of human rights law armed with a phalanx of well - paid lawyers.

Overlooking everything (or so one hopes), a magisterial phalanx of burly fellows in dark suits, sporting ear buds and bulletproof vests.

And at a recent International Polar Year science conference in Montreal, Environment Canada's research contingent was accompanied by a phalanx of government media observers who monitored their colleagues» presentations and obliged the scientists to refer any follow - up queries to their handlers.

Obama's plan faces a phalanx of attacks from the political right, and legal challenges — which may take several years — could find their way to the Supreme Court.

Albania hopes to suck tourists ashore like an Illyrian Charybdis by turning its phalanx of coastal pillboxes

Alongside this phalanx of scholars is a cadre of individuals who bring more passion than formal training to the field.

Many of Smith's paintings are less political — subjective, transitory personal perceptions — but even in these works there may be an implicit social context — a bicyclist's viewpoint in a phalanx of cars.

I Wish It Were True, gained meaning as an act of collaboration between artists through the constructing of a monolith - inspired phalanx of some eight hundred found and dubbed VHS tapes and a rudimentary screening room — a social sculpture attuned to its context and audience.

Making his way into the crowd while directing the phalanx of photographers and cameramen trailing behind, he shook hands with the men and embraced every woman in sight, including his mother.

In «Two Bathers,» Park's figuration - which spurred a phalanx of imitators in the Bay Area - asserts equal claims to picture space on behalf of pure painting and of human reference.

And, indeed, this is an exhibition that opens up rather than whittles down, spinning off in a whole phalanx of directions.

Your main goal is to ascend through the floors of the titular company's tower to reach the Overseer, using a phalanx of clones with different classes and abilities to perform the task whilst you sit safely behind a computer screen, remotely controlling everything.

The resort's greatest asset is the beach club, which has a beachside café, complimentary use of snorkel gear and boogie boards, a phalanx of attentive valets, and 10 bales (bamboo pavilions) set on one of the island's most beautiful stretches of beach.

Slowly but assuredly, an army would assemble, moving resolutely like a phalanx of zombies toward me and that pie plate.

As its name indicates, it consists in the amputation of the third phalanx of each of the cat's toes.

The wealthy have a phalanx of helpers who they hire to reduce their estate (and other) taxes.

You might think a phalanx of loud cooling fans would be needed to keep such a powerful collection of components cool inside such a compact case, but the system uses a passive cooling system inside its aluminum chassis that allows it to operate in near silence.

Roberto Saviano lives his life surrounded by a phalanx of armed guards 24/7 and never stays in the same location for more than a few days.

From its phalanx of onboard safety features such as the Surround View camera and Road Departure Mitigation system, to the sophisticated all - wheel - drive hybrid model, Acura's RLX remains a technological tour de force.

A phalanx of optional equipment packages awaits customers for personalizing this Infiniti.

A phalanx of sensors too numerous to list warn you of any impending trouble coming from just about any direction — except maybe birds pooping on the roof (and maybe there is such a sensor, but we missed it).

The view out is pretty good and can be supplemented by a phalanx of cameras.

But Fletcher's soft start should not fool anyone: With his election, he has become one of the region's most formidable political forces, commanding a battle - hardened phalanx of unionists in desperate need of fresh leadership.

No phalanx of foundations and / or think tanks champions U.S. public education.

To enter this venerable Gothicstyle building, I have to make my way through a phalanx of policemen and be scanned by a metal detector.

To get the quality and numbers of new U.S. teachers we'll need, we must engage a phalanx of stakeholders who have a keen interest in the success of grow - your - own efforts.

Sitting across from us was a phalanx of highly - trained education professionals with advanced degrees and their lawyer.

Spencer is just one among the phalanx of teachers who have become online publishers in a personal or professional capacity by posting content on blogs and Web sites.

To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoods.

Jason Momoa may look the part as Arthur Curry / Aquaman, but he's reduced to doing little more than grunting and being flung around the place (one confrontation with a phalanx of baddies is lifted straight from The Return Of The King).

The shot that put me over the edge was Streep's Kay Graham victoriously walking down the stairs of a courthouse, past the admiring upward gaze of a phalanx of awestruck young women.

Publisher Katharine Graham leaves the courthouse after testifying on behalf of her newspaper, and a phalanx of young women watches her walk down the steps, in speechless awe.

In the pre-credits opening, as Major's body is created (one of several visual cues directly invoking the anime), she's surrounded by a phalanx of medical technicians kitted out with vital - sign - measuring holographic visors.

The scene that inspired producer Joel Silver to claim that the Wachowskis had raised the bar for special effects so high that «now there is no bar,» the sight of Neo fighting a phalanx of Agent Smiths looks exactly like a man fighting a computer program.

In one scene, Cole conducts a hostile takeover of the railroad company, literally shooting a fellow investor in the back, while the forces of the law turn the other way, distracted by a phalanx of strumpets led by a one - legged brothel madam played by — who else?

We'll be debuting them over the next few 24 hours and to get things started, here's a phalanx of eagles, along with Bilbo and Gandalf, adorning the first of them.

The movie reunites Butler with Christian Gudegast, who was among the phalanx of credited screenwriters on London Has Fallen and now makes his directorial debut.

That's when he's escorted by his dad and a phalanx of officers upstairs, to the chapel, and asked to work undercover, the stakes reflected in the religious icons and the deep - toned pews.

It's important to the movie's politics and myth - building that he is surrounded by a phalanx of women, among them a battalion of women warriors called the Dora Milaje.