Sentences with phrase «skirmish on»

Each stage you skirmish on has a profile and a short blurb of history on the Guns of Icarus Website, but there's nothing there to attach you to the world in - game.

The two - hour skirmish on the downtown street course dispenses with such niceties as strategy, tactics, and patience.

«300,» starring Lee Byung - hun Having been captured by the Persians during a border skirmish on the eastern side of the Persian Empire — this brave warrior managed to escape west, where he hooked up with the Spartans and taught them some cool exotic fighting techniques.

If your preschooler gets into a skirmish on the playground or in daycare, talk about it.

Legislators will resolve their internal skirmishes ON THEIR OWN.

Despite winning last week's skirmishes on tax avoidance, Ed Miliband's prospects of becoming Prime Minister are fading.

Rival teams of hotel security guards skirmished on the property, and police were repeatedly called in to keep the peace.

They frequently skirmished on fares and threw excess capacity into markets in a bid to gain market share.

But The Banner Saga does try to put its own twist on things, hinging its skirmishes on a dual gauge system.

You can by all means have fun with your friends playing 5 hour skirmishes on a TRASH game - whether it's online or not has no grounding on whether it's good or not.

Battle Royale games can do something similar: have a sort of dungeon master watching the entire map, picking and choosing potential skirmishes on the map and directing the camera to focus on those areas.

Until now, Facebook was just running missile tests and fighting skirmishes on the frontier.

Not exact matches

After light skirmishes, the fleets found each other on the morning of May 7.

Thanks to Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Anne - Marie Slaughter and countless commentators on every skirmish in the mommy wars, the struggles and guilt faced by working mothers are extremely high in our collective conscious.

Nevertheless, this latest skirmish illustrates that, on a quest for global domination, the fiercely competitive spirit pervading two of Silicon Valley's most successful companies can even turn allies into enemies.

With US - led trade skirmishes opening up on multiple fronts, it's natural to wonder if the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is in jeopardy.

The skirmish between the US and Russia regarding Syria is making headlines, as the US is preparing to launch an attack on government forces in the war - torn country, according to Donald Trump.

More recent skirmishes materialized in the US targeting specific Chinese firms, and in China imposing a 178.6 percent deposit on the value of sorghum shipments from the US.

BEIJING Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said on Tuesday he is quite hopeful that despite the recent trade skirmish between the United States and China, the rhetoric will de-escalate.

I'm not going to weigh - in on the «trade war» or «trade skirmish» which has been generating numerous headlines lately, but instead I would like to focus in this article on the boom in global trade growth.

On June 3, he was killed during a skirmish with ISIS fighters near Kobani, a city in northern Syria.

DeGioia took no position on the question that started this latest skirmish in our ongoing culture wars: contraceptive coverage in health care.

The promoters of the ERA had the media, celebrities, and national - level politicians on their side, but Schlafly and her grassroots allies knew how to work the state legislatures where the ratification skirmishes were fought.

Jerry Falwell, preaching on Revelation 16:16 (December 2, 1984), said: «There will be one last skirmish and then God will dispose of this cosmos will destroy this — the heavens and the earth.»

Though there are many skirmishes yet to be won, the resurrection of Jesus is the inauguration of the rule and reign of God on earth and in our lives.

Religion News Service: South Carolina diocese defecting from the Episcopal Church The Diocese of South Carolina announced on Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it has disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church, escalating a long - running skirmish and setting the stage to become the fifth diocese to secede from the denomination.

In the latest skirmish in Australia's five - year - old milk war, some of the nation's most popular milk brands are heading to the Federal Court in a bitter fight over the rights to use the term «A2 protein» on their labels.

The Warriors could be short - handed against the Knicks on Wednesday if David Lee and Stephen Curry are suspended for their roles in a skirmish against the Pacers on Tuesday.

After a Knowshon Moreno fumble and then a flop by Asante Samuel that started a skirmish, the head ref announced a personal foul penalty on «number 93 (Ray Edwards) of the red team» (1:55 mark).

An unlikely source of fightin» words began the skirmish when Lee Westwood said last week that assistant U.S. captain Tiger Woods could have an «adverse effect» on the team.

How can some sportswriters still insist on rating Army over Notre Dame — in view of the November 9th skirmish?»

Finally the team is scoring goals again − they scored twice last time out, at home to QPR in the league, three on recent league skirmishes to Chelsea and Wolves, and another two at Arsenal in the FA Cup last weekend.

A territorial skirmish in the northwest suburbs has turned a 20 - acre tract of farmland on Lake Cook Road into a virtual battleground.

«The recent skirmishes between supporters of the NDC and the NPP cast a slur on Ghana's hard earned democratic credentials and image.

That's a stretch — but the skirmish nonetheless is putting the fight to set voting rules for the presidential election on center stage, eighteen months before voters go to the polls.

It also frees up Syrian resources to focus on its ongoing civil war, and frees up Iran's Hezbollah proxy army which is getting ready to harrass Israel in a mini conflict - perhaps with Hamas, which is also prepping for another Israel skirmish.

The upcoming battle is reflected on this list by the presence of Albany - centric lawmakers, who the mayor will need to get his affordable housing plan off the ground; real estate industry players, who will no doubt have their deep - pocketed say in the legislative skirmish to come; and the city officials who will lobby hard for tenant - friendly rent laws in the state capital, or cut a few deals that alienate their progressive base.

«The first major Unions / Momentum skirmish is already causing some disquiet within Labour's ranks,» we noted in a piece on Lansman's candidacy.

Success Academy suffered a defeat in a high - profile skirmish with New York City on Friday, when the state education commissioner ruled that the city could require the charter school network to sign a contract to receive funding for its prekindergarten program.

A minor political skirmish broke out on Thursday when the Orange County Legislature's Democratic leader lobbed a few public criticisms at County Executive Steve Neuhaus, accusing the Republican of taking credit for national or regional economic gains and short - changing Democrats in his upbeat State of the County address two days earlier.

With every Senate seat up for election this fall, both parties are seizing on the Long Island race as a pivotal skirmish ahead of the fall campaigns.

INEC had on Saturday postponed the election in the area following the electoral skirmishes that arose in the course of the exercise.

«The Tories fended off attacks on their plans to give married couples a tax break as political parties engaged in angry clashes over family policy... Mr Cameron renewed his commitment to the policy, saying he wanted to send out a message that «If you take responsibility, you'll be rewarded»... As family policy took centre stage in pre general - election skirmishes, Mr Cameron said supporting marriage was an important part of his plans to tackle Britain's «broken society».

In a 2011 paper in Antiquity, the team suggested that the man sustained a wound early in the battle but was able to fight on for days or weeks before dying, which could mean that the conflict wasn't a single clash but a series of skirmishes that dragged out for several weeks.

CNN plays continuously on the TV so employees can be alerted to a crisis — a flood, a North Korean nuclear test, a border skirmish — and quickly send orders to the satellite to capture pictures of a specific site.

In sun - scorched Arizona a regulatory skirmish has broken out over arrays of blue - black silicon panels on rooftops, threatening the local utilities that have ruled electricity generation for a century or more.

Now Christian Moni Bidin at the Catholic University of the North in Antofagasta, Chile, and colleagues have spotted what they believe are the glowing remains of this skirmish: six young stars on the fringe of the larger cloud, each part of a vast ring some 80,000 light years in diameter (arxiv.org/abs/1612.03072).

Just as Wall Street has degenerated into an overfocus on quarterly reports, Capitol Hill has an overfocus on this year's budget skirmishes.

Red Orchestra Series» take on Vietnam: 64 - player MP matches; 16 - player Skirmish; M16, M79, Hueys and Attack Helicopters; the AK, Double - Barrel Shotguns, Toe - Popper Mines, Tripwires, Tunnels and more.

After a few skirmishes with the Comanche, Blocker and Yellow Hawk exchange respectful glances, as if they don't already know of their respective formidability on the battlefield.