Sentences with phrase «pinning it down by»

LONDON, May 2 - World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the dollar's recent surge and expectations that a U.S. Forecast - beating results from U.S. tech giant Apple helped lift shares in technology shares worldwide, but with investor focus firmly on the Fed, equity futures were tipping only a marginally firmer...

The spark which, incapable of being pinned down by the naked eye, pins one finally inexorably to reality, the great unpinning: one achieves a dancing discipline, is fulfilled by a flying fatal freedom, achievement and fulfillment being gift and more than gift.

Therefore quick fullbacks are not enough to stop Salah and Mane, Arsenal should pin them down by threatening their defense with our attackers» runs.

Thousands of grounded migrants that arrived mid-week preceding Bird - a-thon were pinned down by the inclement weather, thus giving more than 600 stalwart Bird - a-thoners an opportunity to appreciate spring migration at its best.

He was pinned down by two police officers and she was taken away in an ambulance.»

If the LHC operates as planned, the Higgs will be pinned down by the end of 2012.

Ben Weiss at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues tested three meteorites that cooled a mere 3.8 million years after the sun began to form, a date pinned down by the ratio of their uranium and lead content.

2) Your spatial reconstruction procedure does not seem to be pinned down by actual observations.

But we'll start today by pinning it down by some simple steps.

Summary: Two soldiers are pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them.

Two soldiers are pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them.

It's nimble enough to never be quite pinned down by its familiar concept before eventually going out in a blaze of farce.

However, when Matthews is lured off his guard and badly wounded, Isaac moves centre stage as he finds himself pinned down by an unseen Iraqi sniper (loosely based on a real - life character called Juba, who was responsible for killing a huge number of Americans).

The most overlooked masterwork of 2017 — a minimalist war movie about a couple of American solders in the Middle East pinned down by an Iraqi sniper behind a ravaged wall.

«The Wall» — March 10th — follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them.

We see grown men pinned down by a child soldier.

Even more amazing is Burnett's magical teleportation from a precarious perch on a steep slope pinned down by vicious sniper fire immediately to a Byronic pose on the top of a mountain.

While the opponent was pinned down by the super I was able to get behind them and open them up with a back attack — basically they were stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The upcoming movie follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them.

The Wall, which hits theaters on May 12, follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them.

It's like being in school, pinned down by a monotone teacher; most of the movie gives off an almost irresistible urge to nap.

For instance, if you see a horde of zombies behind a gate directly behind a couple guys who have you pinned down by gunfire, you can find a way to unlock that gate from a distance so they can bear down on your enemies, allowing you to take out both groups of foes at the same time.

But «The Wall,» which features Aaron Taylor - Johnson as a U.S. Army soldier pinned down by a preternaturally accurate Iraqi sniper behind a crumbling wall and pro-wrestler-turned-actor John Cena as his injured superior officer, doesn't sound — at least on paper — like there's much room for innovation, let alone a movie.

While this carnage unfolds, CIA station chief Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), former CIA leader Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) and a band of Marines are pinned down by snipers in another part of Islamabad.

From director Doug Liman, the psychological thriller The Wall is a deadly game of cat - and - mouse that follows two soldiers (played with expert skill by Aaron Taylor - Johnson and WWE superstar John Cena) who are pinned down by an Iraqi sniper.

Not to be pinned down by genre alone, he shook the way we watch serialized television with HBO's celebrated first season of True Detective.

The Wall is a psychological thriller that follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them.

Directed by Doug Liman (Edge Of Tomorrow) from a script off of Hollywood's famous Black List of un-produced screenplays, The Wall presents America's protracted war in Iraq in primally simple terms: two U.S. soldiers fighting (and maybe dying) for reasons they can't articulate, pinned down by an enemy they can't see or...

Doug Liman's 2016 military thriller The Wall offers a similar premise to Downrange — a single - location thriller featuring a soldier pinned down by a deadly, omniscient sniper — but its execution is smarter, and it actually uses the concept to symbolize the character's inner torments.

One parent told us how his adopted son was pinned down by three teachers at primary school.

I propose that the first iterations of the next «big ideas» in education are not on this list, but rather hidden in attics, pinned down by thumbtacks, and trapped by refrigerator magnets around the world.

I've heard of dogs being pinned down by 4 or 5 veterinarians and techs in order to give the dog an exam, vaccinations, or other treatments.

There's not much good that can come out of this situation when one dog is likely to end up pinned down by the other one and could even be subject to an attack.

Second is that bullets leave trails, which is invaluable when pinned down by a sniper.

Pinned down by enemy fire?

Get pinned down by too many Germans or find yourself near an enemies grenade will quickly get you to the game over screen.

It's thrilling when you're pinned down by enemies or you find yourself in a situation where you need to react to avoid certain death.

At one point I was pinned down by at least 10 enemies so I used the rope to swing down into another section of the level while doing a vertical takedown, rolled into a cover position and completely changed the perspective of the firefight.

Female artists today are more likely to be able to say things out loud, but perhaps still run similar risks in the media and popular conceptions — being pinned down by categorical thinking about gender and identity.

Conrad was never one to be neatly categorized or pinned down by large institutions, or the mainstream art world.

This is not the case: it's a useful tool for some sorts of queries, especially if the query can be pin down by some few keywords.

Not exact matches

Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

«I'd see a dope kid walk by and if I knew he had some steez, I'd just pin him down and be like, «Dude, you need this.

By pinning down North Vietnam during the 1960s and»70s, he said, the U.S. bought much of the rest of Southeast Asia time to develop and ward off communism.

My question... is getting peoples insights into whether to diversify some more or something different altogether... there is simply so much time ahead of him, its hard to pin down a strategy, even the Vanguard Retirement 2065 is not far enough away to accommodate the time in front of him, he'll only be 56 by then, but I want to help him and set the strategy out before I shuffle off the mortal coil so he doesn't really need to think about pensions etc. as he grows up, comments / suggestions welcome... Cheers

Trudeau has been mocked by both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair for his refusal to be pinned down on his prescriptions for the economy.

It is time to pin down what we mean by «sacrifice».

By attempting to pin the resurrection down to something which it, in fact, was not, we are prevented from appreciating the full scope of what the Easter faith is pointing to when it affirms that Jesus is risen.

What Heidegger means by all this is difficult to pin down.