Sentences with phrase «serves as a spy»

He served as a spy in World War I and made a bid to become king of Albania.

A stuffed doll serves as a spy from another dimension.

Before beginning her teaching career, Colleen served as a spy for the NSA.

Not exact matches

But Charlie Spies, who served as counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, said Giuliani's comments must be weighed against Trump's history of aggressively protecting his corporate and personal reputation.

But Charlie Spies, who served as counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, said Mr Giuliani's comments must be weighed against Mr Trump's history of aggressively protecting his corporate and personal reputation.

Mr Rushbrooke said Sir Cliff had been left with «no option» but to take legal action and told the judge: «What we are talking about is using TV cameras to spy into someone's home at the time when their target is in the most vulnerable position imaginable and then serve it up to the British public as the most sensational story imaginable.»

Worry about Communist spies and sympathizers was dismissed as «McCarthyism,» referring to Senator Joseph McCarthy who did so much to discredit the cause that he claimed to serve.

From early on Brown's expeditions for fossils had served as a smoke screen for occasional sojourns as an intelligence agent and corporate spy.

Our attempts to spy on these animals serve as the zoological equivalent of what Tollaksen terms «strong measurements» — the standard type in quantum mechanics — because they are anything but unobtrusive.

Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and Buscemi's memorable appearances in such big budget efforts as Mr Deeds and both Spy Kids 2 and Spy Kids 3 - D: Game Over served to remind audiences that Buscemi was still indeed at the top of his game, perhaps now more than ever.

Stark most recently served as senior VP of publicity but, after 20 years at the company (when it was formerly known as DreamWorks Studios), has worked on so many of the company's multiple Oscar nominated films such as American Beauty, Gladiator, The Help, Bridge of Spies, and The Post.

She joined Spy Hop in 2010 after serving as the Associate Director of Artist Relations at Sundance Institute since 1998.

She particularly excels when working with Paul Feig, as films like Spy and the Ghostbusters remake deftly show, but when she takes direction from husband and screenplay collaborator Ben Falcone, McCarthy's talents are wasted on formless star vehicles that don't serve any purpose beyond further exposing McCarthy's popular presence.

The Spy is being written and directed by Gideon Raff, who also created Prisoners Of War, the Israeli TV show that served as the basis for Homeland.

That, at least, would have pitted a female president against a strong female villain (an over-generous way of describing Poppy, who's like one of the perky Red Lobster zombies from Robin Comisar's twisted «Great Choice» short), whereas this is just bonkers and might actually serve best as a send - up of past spy movies.

For those who thought, as I did, that «Mr. and Mrs. Smith,» the Brad Pitt - Angelina Jolie spy vs. spy slugfest, was way too brutal for its britches, «Duplicity» will serve as an antidote.

«The Enemy Within» In this fast - paced, spy - hunting thriller, Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter) is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison.

Noah Oppenheim is adapting this biography, which alleges the legendary magician also served as a British spy.

Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies) will pen the pilot and serve as an executive producer, with Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland) handling directing duties.

Josh Charles leads a group of preppie jerks who basically serve as Statler & Waldorf, spying on the camp and commenting.

A whole narrative thread with Michael Stuhlbarg's Hoffstetler serving as a covert spy also serves little purpose in the grand scheme of the film, only really establishing the era's geopolitical stakes.

A second pair of spy kids, arrogant Gary (Matthew O'Leary) and Gerti (Emily Osment) Giggles, have their familial allegiance tested by their rogue agent father Donnagan (Mike Judge — yes, that Mike Judge), serving as a smart parallel to the Cortez family's bliss.

The Toyota Tacoma is due for an update in the next year or two, and new spy shots of the international market's Toyota Hilux pickup could serve as an indicator of what to expect from the next Tacoma's styling.

We saw the spy photos earlier this week of the Corvette Stingray working out at Milford and now Chevy has made it official with the announcement that the 2014 Corvette Stingray will serve as the official pace car at the 97th running of the Indianapols 500.

Once recruited, child soldiers may serve as porters or cooks, guards, messengers or spies.

Witches were accused of being able to transform themselves into black cats, considered to be witches» «familiars», an «animal - shaped spirit or minor demon believed to serve a witch or magician as domestic servant, spy or companion.»

As a media entrepreneur, he co-founded Spy magazine and Inside.com, and served as editor - in - chief of New York magazinAs a media entrepreneur, he co-founded Spy magazine and Inside.com, and served as editor - in - chief of New York magazinas editor - in - chief of New York magazine.

Some works concentrate on small groups of animals while others serve as finely drawn «I Spy» collages, as he incorporates camouflaged toads and birds into lush, textured gardens.

On the one - hand, there's a real emphasis on the gritty «one - off» nature of the tiny, stretched and stapled oil paintings that serve as the work's covers, and the even smaller Frank Sherlock poem that is secreted away in the back of each painting, tightly folded into a rectangle like spy data and tucked behind a hatch.