Sentences with phrase «scorching the earth by»

Not exact matches

That deal has been jeopardized by the latest scorched - earth offensive on Aleppo, however, with American and Russian diplomats exchanging diplomatic jabs Sunday night and into Monday.

Hamstrung by rivalries and weakened by the «scorched earth» bombardment, the handful of eastern Ghouta rebel groups were steadily defeated and forced to accept safe passage to opposition - held territory at the Turkish border.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals» fight to take over Allergan, assisted by Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital, is among the scorchiest of scorched - earth takeover battles.

His scorched - earth tactics — leaking old contract demands, getting Papa John's to threaten the NFL, and coming after his fellow owners with a lawsuit threat — might end up having the reverse effect by alienating more owners.

Day's scorched - earth policy, under which he has won four tour events in his last six starts by a combined 16 strokes over his closest challengers (six each in his last two), enters the season - ending Tour Championship on the strength of the first five - win campaign since 2013.

While disappointed with the attacks, the Brooks campaign wasn't surprised by what it called Slaughter's «scorched earth» tactics.

The very fact that we are treated with such thinly - veiled contempt is exactly where this Party has gone and exactly why we are lashed to the opposition benches while this government pursues a scorched - earth policy, dismantling the country piece - by - piece.

The foam, made by Arsenal Medical, Inc., indiscriminately blocks the sources of the bleeding, almost like a scorched - earth campaign against blood loss.

An artist's rendering of an exoplanet with cloudy mornings and clear, scorching afternoons, exhibiting a cycle of phase variations that occur as different portions of the planet are illuminated by its star, as seen from Earth.

Inspired by actual Cold War plots, «Air» is set in the not - so - distant future, where chemical warfare has scorched Earth, making its surface uninhabitable.

Wes Ball's The Maze Runner: Scorched Earth is set to mainly feature a young cast, including Kaya Scodelario, Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie - Sangster, Ki Hong Lee and Will Poulter... but now news of an adult character has hit the headlines, and it's a villain to be played by famed GoT villain Aidan Gillen, best known for his role at «Littlefinger» on the show.

Director Volker Schlöndorff had already made three feature films (including his influential 1966 debut, Young Törless) by the time he tackled this project, casting a twenty - four - year - old Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the role of a booze - soaked, womanizing poet who goes on a scorched - earth bender across the German countryside.

Working class husband and father Curtis LaForche, played with sincere compassion and palpable anxiety by Michael Shannon, has visions of an Armageddon of Biblical proportions: black rain, Earth - scorching storms, birds gone mad.

Del Toro had earlier said he was surprised by Konami's «scorched earth approach.

These include Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, which portrays Winston Churchill scheming in darkened chambers during the same Battle of Dunkirk that Nolan depicts; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which features a scorched - earth performance by Frances McDormand as a mother grappling with her daughter's murder; Phantom Thread, director Paul Thomas Anderson's largely unseen drama about a 1950s fashion designer played by Daniel Day - Lewis, in his final performance on screen; and The Post, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham during the battle to print the Pentagon Papers.

And like most of my fellow 1990s kids, I was quite disappointed by the prequel trilogy, although I definitely don't have the scorched - earth hatred of those films that some people do.

It would be unfair to ask any other film to mix insight with carnage but again the Diablo Cody pedigree is built upon such knowing play with conventions; Jennifer's Body has the necessary structure to outdo not only Scream with the genre self - awareness but also Heathers with a look at the «scorched earth» dynamics of high school existence heightened by a string of murders.

'' and a truly pathetic campaign that depicts Russians as evil animals instead of people,» The stuff they did, scorched earth, hold the line or be shot by your own officers and troops is real, historic fact.

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, the soul of Minami Hirano is still deeply shaken by the earth - shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever.

Other people exhibit the flip side of the «scorched earth» approach, equally short - sighted and ill - advised, which is often expressed by a shrug of the shoulders and the declaration, «It's everywhere, what difference does it make?»

Witnessing the scorched earth policy applied to a dog by using a hand - made flamethrower isn't the easiest thing I've ever done.

These small, brown scorched - earth islands fringed with sandy beaches are lapped by the clear waves of the national park, where you may even see the dragons patrolling the beach or viewing you from a high rocky outcrop.

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If the negative response to Ark Survival Evolved's Scorched Earth DLC is anything to go by, then I'd say we've found our answer.

Join the artists Flora Kao and Leanne Lee in creating multilayered works of art inspired by the exhibition Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth.

With Anne Ellegood, Hammer senior curator, she was an institutional curator for the spring 2015 exhibition Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 — 1989 at the Hammer (organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York) and recently assisted Hammer chief curator Connie Butler with the exhibition and publication Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth.

At the Hammer, she organized Hammer Projects: Njideka Akunyili Crosby; Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 — 1989 (with Ellegood; curated by The Studio Museum in Harlem); and assisted Connie Butler on the exhibition and publication Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth.

For those growing fatigued by contemporary art's ongoing invocations of the Anthropocene and its attendant aesthetics of detritus and scorched - earth urban sprawl, Thiago Rocha Pitta's show «The First Green» offered something of a reprieve.

It didn't take long for the person behind the account to adopt a scorched earth policy in its takedown of key art world tropes: conceptual abstract painters showing at Bushwick outposts of Belgian galleries, pedestrian rabble - rousing headlines churned out by art blog sweatshops, people who ask «how the show was» only to hear about «how nice the space is,» Urs Fischer — et cetera.

Tutti Laying (2016), an alabaster sculpture of a breast on a red, yellow, pink and white pedestal, is inspired by Anthony Vidler's account of the ruins of Pompeii where a negative impression — a ghost — of a woman's breast was found scorched into the earth.

The whimsy of «Deimos» is balanced by a thought - provoking and somewhat discomfiting «Spiderman,» a stand - up comedy performance Bradford debuted earlier this year at his «Scorched Earth» exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Hughie O'Donoghue, «Scorched Earth» Marlborough Fine Art OPENS: March 15 This solo exhibition of new works by British artist questions the legacy of Vincent Van Gogh, with particular focus on the paintings Van Gogh made during the last two years of his life in Arles and St. Remy in the south of France.

«Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth,» Edited by Connie Butler with Mark Bradford, and contributions by Ann Philbin, Hamza Walker, Marlon T. Riggs, and Jamillah James, etal.

«Mark Bradford: Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank» was published last year and «Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth» (June 2015), a new forthcoming volume, captures his latest work exploring «the body and the performance of identity.»

First exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles as part of the larger Mark Bradford exhibition, Scorched Earth, Spiderman is one of only a few video installations by Bradford.

While Scorched Earth takes on enormous topics such as the AIDS crisis, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and the charged political atmosphere of the early 1990s, Bradford maintains focus by examining the spectrum between the macro (the nation at large) and the micro (the individual body).

The title of the show harks back to a previous piece — «Scorched Earth» is a 2006 map - like painting inspired by the war in Iraq and the 1921 Tulsa riots, when white mobs torched the city's prosperous African - American neighborhood.

LOS ANGELES — Visitors to Scorched Earth, Mark Bradford's exhibition at the Hammer Museum, are greeted in the lobby by a map that shows the US population infected with AIDS by state.

In 1977, Congress tried to close the loophole by requiring older facilities to clean up as soon as they underwent major modifications, but that just led to scorched - earth haggling over what counted as «major.»

By the end of the presentation, I realized we can choose between ongoing toxic particle spraying with imminent drought / famine and underwater cities caused by too rapid a warming when the skies are clear, or a scorched eartBy the end of the presentation, I realized we can choose between ongoing toxic particle spraying with imminent drought / famine and underwater cities caused by too rapid a warming when the skies are clear, or a scorched eartby too rapid a warming when the skies are clear, or a scorched earth.

By the way, in a previous blog post, I featured a different op - ed that Dick and I wrote in The Boston Globe in July of last year («Beware of Scorched - Earth Strategies in Climate Debates»).

It will cost you a small fortune in legal fees because of the additional — and unnecessary — work typically generated by these attorneys as part of their scorched - earth tactics.

A unilateral «scorched earth» withdrawal by the UK from the EU as suggested above (3 March 2015) would also leave the UK open to adverse judgments from the CJEU and possibly the ECtHR.

«Budget» was a foreign term, and law firms rationalized their «scorched - earth» approach by conflating it with «practice excellence.»