Sentences with phrase «sides of the war between»

Language: English Genre: Crime / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Martin Scorsese Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson Plot: Two detectives who go through the same training, and perform well are on opposite sides of the war between a big wig Irish crime boss.

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But a constant tug - of - war between 401 (k) plans and Section 529 college savings plans has ensued in investors» hearts and minds — and neither side appears to be winning.

Expect a tug - of - war between these sides of the equation.

The mixed sales results for its fiscal first quarter are likely to give both sides of the ongoing fight between P&G and activist investor Nelson Peltz ammunition in their continued war of words.

And a trade war would damage transatlantic economic ties at a crucial time when economic growth is picking up on both sides of the Atlantic and trade between the US and the EU is increasing.

From my view of being on the operation sides of companies as well as the innovative sides of companies I believe the methods help overcome the tug of war between the innovation engine and the operating engine.

While presumably cooler heads on either side should and will prevail, the war of words between «Rocket Man» and «the Dotard» risks allowing events to spiral out of control.

Adams's great enthusiasm for virtue during the Revolutionary War turned to skepticism and a reliance on interest in the following decade.25 Hamilton was never more than mildly intoxicated with the idea of virtue and rapidly became the greatest theorist of the interest - conception of the Republic.26 Though most in the founding generation kept some balance between the two sides, there was a perceptible swing toward interest by the end of the 1780s.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

Amid the strife of the Culture Wars and the heated partisan divides between Red and Blue states, one thing seems to bring together a great many Americans across both sides of the nation's secular / sacred divide: a deep, abiding sense of amusement and incredulity — if not outright contempt — for purveyors and supporters of the so - called «Prosperity Gospel».

If the scapegoat is relatively innocent (or at least, not completely guilty of everything for which they are charged), why does their death create peace between two warring sides?

Many of them, as in the Middle East, have taken on the character of «wars by proxy» between the superpowers, which have armed their sides in the struggle.

Fabregas first came up against Mourinho during his time as an Arsenal player, when his Chelsea side were one of their biggest rivals due to their competing for the same prizes on the pitch and the ongoing war of words between Mourinho and Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.

But it now appears that the Fluminense playmaker will not be the only player with that surname — admittedly spelt differently — that will be at the heart of a bidding war between English sides.

After a break of five games either side of the First World War, Billy's brother Elisha of Liverpool became Ireland's first choice keeper and remained between the sticks for 16 years.

Much like the infamous war between boxers Marvin Hagler & Thomas Hearns in Vegas in 1985, the two sides decided that attack was the best form of defence.

Political communism failed due to the policy of encirclement by the Western powers, a war of attrition fought through proxy wars - otherwise known as the Cold War - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sidwar of attrition fought through proxy wars - otherwise known as the Cold War - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sidWar - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sidwar between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sides.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

It has been speculated for some time that a Nuclear War between Russia and the United States would not likely start with one side surprising the other with a total launch (for one thing, it takes a few hours / days to properly fuel all of Russia's ICBMs... they not only by internal policy only have second strike capability... they also actually only have it.

Lamont's long list of grievances included being elbowed aside during Miliband's Beria - style takeover of the Falkirk selection process in 2013, [32] The process of selecting a new Labour parliamentary candidate for Falkirk began after sitting mp Eric Joyce launched a drunken assault (headbuttings, etc.) on fellow members of the House of Commons and rapidly descended into a turf war, with skullduggery on both sides, between the Mandelson faction and local union officials, culminating with Miliband's decision to call in the police to deal with his party comrades, only to be told there was insignificant evidence to launch a criminal investigation.

One description of a 1788 to 1798 battle between the Chinese and Vietnamese recounts that one warring side surrounded the enemy with fire fueled by rice straw and oil.

On the down side, caregivers described being caught in a tug - of - war between their devices and their children.

FROM THE PUBLISHER: On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars - on both sides of the Atlantic - serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political.

This describes someone with an unfortunate set of buck teeth.On Tuesday, the reality TV starlet shared this sneak peek (below) of their 25 days of Christmas starring none other than almost all the females of their clan!With Kimmy, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, grandma Mary Jo, and most of the grandkids featured, it wasn't hard to notice the only two missing: Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner!Legend tells that he lived on the Mason - Dixon line — the border between the North and South — during the Civil War.To avoid the draft on either side, Cooter decided to stay drunk throughout the entire war, making him ineligible for battle.They speculate it's a colloquial perversion of «cater - corner.»

The contradictions continue with 7 Days in Entebbe, a painfully leaden attempt to «hear both sides» of the war between Israel and Palestine vis - a-vis the 1976 hijacking of Air France Flight 139.

The performances are dedicated, but the camaraderie feels perfunctory, outside of a few ruminative exchanges between Hawke and Washington, whose characters were on opposite sides of the war.

Some of Morgan's best writing lies here, within a conversation shared between Elizabeth and the abdicated Edward; where he describes the nature of a ruler as, «half - people... the two sides within us, human and crown engaged in a fearful civil war, which never ends.»

Much of the time in between is spent on a dumb but enjoyable enough side plot aimed at the propaganda of war, involving Rogers donning the now - famous superhero outfit to hock war bonds across the nation.

In «Ghost Bird» (2009), director Scott Crocker crafts a surprisingly suspenseful tale as he follows the battle of experts on each side as well as the more fundamental tug of war between faith and empiricism.

One of the things the film is about is the use of media as a weapon: this war of propaganda between RBSS on one side and ISIS — with its slick Hollywood - style productions — on the other.

The war of attrition between religion and commerce for the loyalty of the American soul defines There Will Be Blood, while The Master enjoins the two sides into a unified con.

As part of the festivities, Boseman was brought on stage alongside Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr., and Feige confirmed that we'll actually get to meet his character as part of the storyline for Captain America: Civil War, where he'll be forced to take a side in the clash between Steve Rogers and Tony Stark.

Bresson, as many writers have noted, looked for spiritual grace in the most misbegotten places and creatures, but, for all its pleasant side trips, War Horse begins as an archetypal Spielberg film, and ends like one, too: the affirmation of a preordained connection between two kindred souls, and the cathartic relief produced by a last - moment rescue.

«The story is an origins myth, which turns into another war - of - the - worlds battle epic, this time between Earth and the dying Krypton, with Superman on our side.

The latest trailer not only depicts all - out war between the First Order and the Resistance, it also highlights the familial struggle within the Skywalkers, from Luke to Leia to Kylo Ren, as well as the battle between the Light and Dark sides of the Force through Rey and Supreme Leader Snoke.

The Russos succeeded again with «Captain America: Civil War,» an overstuffed 2016 sequel in which the Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and a new incarnation of Spider - Man (Tom Holland) were introduced, and the adventurers took sides in a conflict between Cap and Iron Man.

Finding himself caught in a Martian civil war between two human - like races trying to annihilate each other, he falls in love with the beautiful princess (Houston's own Lynn Collins) from one of the warring sides and helps them survive the menace of a devastating weapon given to their enemies from some strange mystical beings attempting to control the destiny of the planet.

Emily VanCamp is set to return as Sharon Carter in the first film of Marvel's upcoming Phase Three, Captain America: Civil War, and while she can't reveal too much about the upcoming Avengers showdown between Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), it's pretty clear whose side she's on!

Members of the other factions have started to form alliances and a war starts brewing between various sides.

For all the problems we may have with the idea of a black man fighting for the side that would continue to enslave his own people, by the end of the film, it's his character that reminds us of the bond between the Civil War and the cinema myth of the American West.

In the intervening period between then and now we've seen the Star Wars saga emerge from the dark side of Episodes I - III to once again become a force for good in the galaxy, with J.J. Abrams» hugely entertaining The Force Awakens and last year's action - packed Rogue One.

One morning last winter, a French class at Rockville Centre's South Side labored over vocabulary lists, like language students through the ages, while learning about the Alsace region, which was passed back and forth between Germany and France from 1870 until the end of World War II.

As budget season hits its stride, and the political war between charter and regular public schools is at high pitch, it is refreshing to find there are instances where the two sides get together for the betterment of the city's students.

Their contributions underscored the extent to which the race to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown, at least as far as campaign contributions go, is becoming a proxy war between competing sides on a range of issues affecting the growth and management of charter schools in the state.

He observes, «There is something very odd about this war of words between successful authors on different sides of a tectonic shift in the publishing world: it doesn't exist in many similar industries facing the same sort of technological upheaval.

But soon, a plea deal sends Barrera back to Mexico, and the bad blood between these long - separated men reaches a boiling point that sets off an all - out cartel war on both sides of the border.

Moving between the campus at Madison and the jungles of Vietnam, with side trips to Hanoi and Washington, the tale unfolds with a magisterial sweep that recaptures the war and its era, filled with moral ambiguity and moral conviction.

The truly hilarious thing about this sentence is that if Leonard is right — that Amazon is starting a «class war» between authors, then Leonard is deliberately siding with the «one - percenters» of the publishing world — the Turows, Prestons, and Kings, rather than the ninety - nine percent of authors who can only dream of the volume of sales enjoyed by those big - name authors.

This is the Ultimate Star Wars guide (Phantom Menace) that will tell you about all of the characters in Phantom Menace - all the dark sides, light sides, and everything in - between...

There is something very odd about this war of words between successful authors on different sides of a tectonic shift in the publishing world: it doesn't exist in many similar industries facing the same sort of technological upheaval.