Sentences with phrase «rather than bullets»

Your character has a «gun,» but it fires portals onto walls rather than bullets, and is used to navigate the environments.

A few years ago, ambitious writers sparked the indie publishing revolution, a war fought with words on an electronic page and brilliant marketing rather than bullets.

Resumes for federal government positions extend well beyond one page and focus on detail and depth rather than the bullet points and brevity of ordinary resumes.

Not exact matches

Rather than being a silver bullet, it is presented as?

Because most recruiters are liable to scan your resume rather than read it word for word, utilize bolding, bullet points, and other stylistic devices to make the resume easier to skim.

Steve, I notice that, rather than saying «not me» and then speaking about your own experience (you, personally — not bible - speak and bullet - point doctrine), you instead focus on her assumed shortcomings.

But what if you were to put the question this way: «When soldiers are firing against demonstrators, would it be better if they used rubber bullets rather than metal?»

The big question is why Coca - Cola Amatil didn't bite the bullet earlier, when signs first emerged that the challenges in the beverage market were structural rather than cyclical.

Sometimes I find one on sale rather than the other and didn't know if it was just better to bite the bullet and keep both on hand.

If the current state is what wenger has to offer, as a fan I will rather bite thhe bullet and get a coach who has fire in the belly, rather than sit back and watch helplessly!

The lecture and roundtable that we're hosting with the OII promises to offer a fascinating insight into how we can tackle the problem of online safety with a combination of industry regulation and self - regulation, innovative technology and education, rather than a single silver bullet solution.»

In one desperate attempt to dodge the bullet the government has turned to outsourcing which rather than solve problems merely moves them.

I mean, I don't know about you, but I'd rather die relatively quickly (~ 2h, max, for the majority of fatal bullet wounds) or lose a limb than die because I'm coughing so hard my lungs shred themselves (mustard gas) or because my muscles, constantly triggered by uncontrollable electrical impulses, use up all the oxygen before my brain can (VX).

Our current strategy suggests that we'd rather see toddlers fleeing tear gas and rubber bullets on the Macedonian border than offer to take them in from another European country.

It might not go down very well, but not all benefits are universal — I think Labour needs to bite the bullet and do what makes economic sense to most people rather than stick to vague arguments that «if the rich don't get it, they won't want it given to the poor»

Rather than block bullets, however, the vest is designed to simulate the feeling of being shot.

Rather than retreat, the soldier stands tall as bullets ping off him harmlessly.

Dr Staffell said: «Fuel switching is no silver bullet, but any opportunity to reduce emissions in years rather than decades deserves attention.»

«Rather than trying to develop new individual «bullets» that target single microbes we are attacking the biofilm that protects those microbes by literally tearing down the walls to expose the microbes living behind them.

The best shape, the pair found, would have a bullet - like body rather than the elongated tube seen in commercial planes.

Just remember, he adds, to «eat a variety of healthy foods, rather than focus on one magic bullet.»

Sometimes I find one on sale rather than the other and didn't know if it was just better to bite the bullet and keep both on hand.

I'm pleased I bit the bullet & went for it sooner rather than later when it would be even harder to change.

Rather than with a hail of bullets or whiz - bang haphazardly edited action sequences, the lead character of Sarah defeats the villain with smarts and intelligence.

Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp...

You arrive in town, decide whether or not you're going to give bullets to the locals, and then do your best to kill rather than satisfy your enemies» hunger for brain meat.

Rather than examine his characters, Fleischer just gives the audience more bullets and more bodies as the characters all start at such an extreme level that, short of growing super powers or actually attempting to set up their own mafia, they just can't do anything more.

Sometimes in a greenhouse full of orchids and other assassins who, rather than icing their target at first sight, kindly wait for someone to make an egregiously expository speech before pulling out their guns and commencing a hail of bullets.

Parents should be aware that there are a few other scary scenes — hunters shoot Elliott several times (with tranquilizer darts rather than actual bullets, thankfully... but still), Elliott gets sick and is captured, and then later many of the humans are endangered in several different ways — but I can't stress enough how sweet and pure and joyful this movie is overall.

If only every Arab - Israeli conflicts could resolved with Biblical wisdom rather than with bombs and bullets!

The studio's plan now is to shift focus towards the second phase of the marketing effort, which will likely include an official poster that unlike the recently removed teaser poster, will highlight the actors and the comedy rather than a neighborhood watch sign with bullet holes in it.

Rather than focusing on bullets traded and blows landed with shaky, «immediate» handheld photography, director Gore Verbinski relies on the pleasures of unexpected motion occurring within a static frame: a character falling off a train to land on an unseen horse, or our dynamic duo finding themselves swinging in circles after the chains on their hands get caught on an overhead cable, or, most famously, Tonto bridging up on a ladder in the «middle» of a fight between the Ranger and William Fichtner's Butch Kavendish.

I wouldn't mind this change if it was advertised as a platformer and bullet hell game rather than a simple platformer.

Nobody does unhinged quite like Foster, and this is easily Pine's best work in years, but the movie ultimately belongs to Bridges as the devilishly funny, veteran Texas Ranger who would rather go down in a hail of bullets than be forced into retirement.

The stakes are higher in Stalin's universe, with verbal blunders met by bullets rather than Iannucci's favoured (and very English) punishment of stinging, crippling embarrassment.

Rather than choose, he assembles the family in their living room to let fate decide — by blindfolding himself, spinning around, and firing a rifle until one unlucky family member takes a bullet.

Towards the end however, Triple 9 starts killing off its characters left and right, but you are more concerned with which high - profile actor will eat a bullet next rather than which character is about to die.

Rather than using one or two long paragraphs, break the content into smaller chunks of one to three sentences or use bullets to emphasize key learning points.

Ministers should look to these rather than fixating on independent and grammar schools as the silver bullets to school improvement.

Using technology is not a «silver bullet» to help pupils learn and should only be used if it has a «clear pedagogical purpose» — rather than for the sake of using it.

It's resources like this that can turn a school around rather than seeking a non-existent silver bullet solution.

[Circling back to Common Core,] the problem is the Common Core has been associated with testing rather than the deeper learning it was intended to promote... The Common Core is not a silver bullet, and it's not the only thing kids need for a good education, but it does have the potential if done right to move schools to routinely thinking about critical thinking and problem solving rather than rote memorization.

Her latest piece is part one of a multi-series takedown of those who use fiction rather than facts to fancifully present the term «school turnaround» as if it was a magic bullet.

A good example will tell a story in miniature, rather than comprise a blurted - out list of bullet points.

Standard formats generally use bullet points and phrases rather than full sentences.

If you find that you are in a situation where you could take advantage of this no - tax Roth IRA conversion maneuver year after year, realize that it might make sense to bite the bullet earlier rather than later.

To be honest, fleas are a tricky pest to completely eliminate, which is why it's better to combine a few of the most effective flea treatments rather than look for one magic bullet solution.

They also say the game is far too willing to funnel you into gauntlet runs, forcing you to get from A to B under a hail of bullets rather than focus on the tension that should be at the heart of the game.

So it filled its weapons with multicolored ink instead of bullets, and it scored each round based on how much ink there was on the battlefield rather than how many «kills» each team accumulated.

In Super Mario Advance 2, diagonally - fired Bullet Bills are also changed to this design, and they flap their wings rather than maintain a static image like ordinary Bullet Bills.