Sentences with phrase «pitted against father»

Divorce litigation is an adversarial proceeding where husband is pitted against wife, mother is pitted against father.

And have no doubt, when people fight in the Unified Family Courts, a husband is being pitted against a wife, a mother pitted against a father.

Mothers are pitted against fathers.

Not exact matches

Like increasing numbers of low - income mothers and fathers, Ms. Navarro is at the center of a new collision that pits sophisticated workplace technology against some fundamental requirements of parenting, with particularly harsh consequences for poor single mothers.

The latest pits his 61 - year - old daughter, Shari Redstone, whose relationship with her father had run hot and cold over the years but who's recently worked her way back into his life, against two of her father's longtime friends and lieutenants, Viacom board member George Abrams and C.E.O. Philippe Dauman.

It's your father, the Devil that starts all the wars, pitting blood against blood.

And that's the guarantee our Heavenly Father has lavished us with — He's defeated everything this world could ever pit us up against; we're carried by His strength.

They had pitted us against each other, just as Thatcher had done with the working classes: brother fought brother, and father died.

The script written by Leslie Dixon, one of the prime generators of the decade's many high - concept, low - humor chuckle fests («Mrs. Doubtfire,» «Outrageous Fortune,» «Look Who's Talking Now»), pitted Hawn's pampered rich - bitch princess, who ends up with amnesia after falling off her yacht, against Russell's struggling widower carpenter and father of four.

The overarching stories, pitting T'Challa's father - worship against Eirk's rage over colonialism and personal betrayal, are well told.

The film pits the tenacious Shaun (Gabrielle Union) against burglars attempting to steal a safe full of cash from her recently deceased father's (Damien Leake) sprawling Malibu ranch house, which is equipped with cameras, automatic locks, a drone, and a high - tech control room.

Pitting mech against mech and father against son, the epic showdown will test this fierce but undisciplined team of modern - day ninjas who must learn to check their egos and pull together to unleash their inner power of Spinjitzu.

Worse still, Susan is only a pencil - sketch of a character, a device to pit father and son against each other romantically and to redeem Henry's pedophilia, first mentioned in the trilogy's inaugural chapter.

Although the latter film managed to locate the interconnected depth of two seemingly - unrelated horror icons (the sins of the father as an invasion of the mind pitted against the unrestrained id, crying out for Mommy), Bride of Chucky only acts as the final confirmation that, even when injected with po - mo humour, Chucky isn't too interesting a character on his own.

But when a local murder is linked to the sunken treasure of a lost Spanish galleon, he's drawn into the investigation by an idealistic deputy and pitted against the powerful town patriarch, outside criminal agents and his own father.

The main Avengers fell apart during Captain America: Civil War, with fan favorites Tony Stark's Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Steve Rogers» Captain America (Chris Evans) pitted against each other, forcing the remaining members of the Avengers to choose sides; the Guardians defeated Peter Quill's father, Ego, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Trapped in an impossible game of life and death, and pitted against a power - mad father's raging grief, Andrei and Anna must avoid the whispers and watchful eyes of those who will say or do anything to save themselves.

Naturally, Doc and Graciela's profession pits them against the book's one true villain, a conniving priest named Father Killen, who has gotten wind of Graciela's healing powers and wants to «save» her from misusing her gift to help girls in trouble on the South Presa Strip.