Sentences with phrase «skirmishes with»

The first European settlers in this area were Puritans, and they had frequent skirmishes with the Native Americans.

He and fellow environmentalist Mark Lynas have had a number of skirmishes with others from the green camp over the years over the issue.

Of course, this wasn't picked up by the peer reviewers because, as we've seen, they didn't have access to the Supplementary Information, but the IPCC's purposes had been served - the hockey stick found its way intact into the Fourth Assessment Report, unscathed by skirmishes with inconvenient statistical truths.

Are they engaging in pre-AR5 skirmishes with each other?

What did you learn from these skirmishes with conservative society?

It had previously belonged to Manhattan dealers including French & Company, which supplied works for the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers, and George Joseph Demotte, known for his legal skirmishes with various rivals, including Joseph Duveen.

Squad - based combat and weather - time effects result in more realistic skirmishes with the enemy.

I could never find people to play with and the resulting skirmishes with AI bots made the whole thing regretfully unenjoyable.

A massive, rambling quest ensues in which Noctis acquires his kingly powers, engages in various skirmishes with the Empire and its leading characters (who at times — suspiciously — appear to offer assistance to Noctis's party) and overcomes countless hurdles as he attempts to make his way to the island city of Altissia.

There are 40 + characters to choose from in the game, and you will use these in various tag - team skirmishes with battles that can range from one versus three to a mammoth three versus nine!

Skirmishes with other players offer more than enough action on screen and the manageable player number only serves to enhance the competitive nature of the game.

The game runs smoother as well, transitioning seamlessly from walking the streets to skirmishes with thugs and anonymous yakuza.

Large - scale PvP: Conflicts concern more than just simple skirmishes with players of the opposing factions.

The missions can be set up similarly to campaign missions, with secondary objectives to complete, or they can just be quick skirmishes with one ship against another.

Ubisoft breaks up the endless series of tactical skirmishes with some light exploration and environmental puzzle - solving.

Participate in large - scale battles in up to 16 - versus - 16 skirmishes with artillery barrages, helicopter gunships, repurposed commercial drones, air strikes, and drivable land transport vehicles.

Apart from that a new and improved combat system was mentioned, and there's now gang wars where you get to partake in street skirmishes with your gang.

After this they worked and fought alongside the British and were invaluable in the frequent skirmishes with the Spaniards.

As the next application deadline nears, states including Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Rhode Island have gotten into skirmishes with their unions over how to beef up their applications while still retaining union backing.

By next year Ms. Moskowitz, known for her attention - grabbing rallies and skirmishes with the teachers» union and Mayor Bill de Blasio, will have 43 schools; a proposal by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo could bring her closer to her goal of 100.

Christian soldiers called Templars provoke skirmishes with the Muslim Saracens and tensions are high.

A four - decade jump to 2015 finds Redford portraying Rather in Truth, a biographical drama about the anchorman's own skirmishes with CBS.

More interesting is the story of the festival as a symbol of alternative living and political protest, its frontline position between authority and dissent represented by policemen running across fields and skirmishes with travellers in the early 1990s.

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.

Male lemurs avoid skirmishes with other males by smearing their own scent over their tails.

Cuomo has even set aside skirmishes with state Attorney General Eric Schniederman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a Cuomo political consultant told The Post.

After a legislative session in which he was able to secure a minimum wage increase, a sizable tax class aimed at the middle class and a paid - family leave program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this summer has engaged in skirmishes with the Legislature over a variety of issues.

Even calm, cool, and collected moms will occasionally lose it and get into skirmishes with their frenzied daughters.

You can do whatever you want, but as a FOX employee (and a Dana / UFC puppet by definition), he can't just resort to childish Twitter skirmishes with UFC fighters, it looks pretty bad.

One of those heavyweights is Samsung — the Korean technology maker who has been locked in legal skirmishes with Apple for months, and is shaping up to be the tech giant's fiercest challenger in the smartphone market.

Skirmishes with the debt limit have led to economic uncertainty and damage in the past.

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

His failed marriages, most notably from fellow country music star Tammy Wynette, and his life - long skirmish with substance abuse, were always in the headlines.

This case of Wheaton College and its skirmish with political science professor Larycia Hawkins just took a new turn as the school has begun a «Notice of Recommendation to Initiate...

Griffin fired a loose ball off the back of Eric Gordon as the Clippers star was falling out of bounds, and seconds later, he engaged in a skirmish with Ariza that led to double technical fouls and an ejection with 1 minute, 3 seconds left.

Evertonian attentions swiftly turn to an all - Merseyside skirmish with Liverpool in seven days» time.

The administration's original proposal also opened another front in the mayor's ongoing public skirmish with Governor Andrew Cuomo, who took multiple opportunities to criticize the legislation.

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.

She bore witness to this herself in the occasional bruising skirmish with figures like Michael Gove.

Democratic County Executive Laura Curran may face her first skirmish with the Republican - controlled Nassau County Legislature next week when committees consider her request to borrow $ 45 million to pay a court judgment won by two men exonerated in a 1984 rape and murder.

«Again, if President Buhari isn't avoiding «a rumble in the jungle - like» skirmish with Governor El - rufai he would have keep - off Kaduna because for the past 36 months, no single peoples oriented project has been commissioned.President Buhari has gone to many state and Commissioned projects but hasn't commission a single one initiated and completed by Governor El - rufai despite much hype by his spin doctors and unproductive local and international pay - as - you - go conferences.»

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to have gained the upper hand and some new allies in his policy skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over how to fund pre-kindergarten, as the fight threatens to turn into an upstate downstate split.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo seems to have gained the upper hand and some new allies in his policy skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio over how to fund pre-kindergarten, as the fight threatens to turn into an upstate downstate split.

There is a minor skirmish with Nature in the form of a pigeon that flies in the window, a sad caricature of a Hitchcock bird as well as Poe's raven, which responds in the negative to the question, «Is there balm in Gilead?»

Even as we get more details about life during this endgame — a precious bottle of bourbon, a brief skirmish with marauding strangers — Shults is careful to develop his psychology in tandem.

Streep is carrying the political vote after her skirmish with President Donald Trump at the Golden Globes (and the Twittersphere), and Portman and Negga are both likely to have dedicated supporters.

Derrickson builds on Inception, topping its hallway skirmish with the addition of dimensional portals and — in the film's presumed Best Visual Effects clincher — twisting an entire metropolis into an M.C. Escher war zone.

He's got an ongoing skirmish with Halley, which is mostly about the rent money, but then she runs so low on cash that she starts to cross over into hooking, which renders her an outcast even inside this motel of outcasts.

The fact that over one - third of Success Academy's revenue goes to overhead costs instead of student programs raises skepticism in light of its most recent skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The Mid-Ohio round also marks the final skirmish with Aston Martin Racing before the two marques begin their battle at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.