Sentences with phrase «sort of ally»

That Victor thinks she is some sort of ally against the work Stefan Rahmstorf is ridiculous.

She is the sort of ally that comes in handy.

Alcohol poses as a promoter of sleep — and it does deliver on some promises — but it is a sneaky, undermining, dream - stealing sort of ally of sleep: more... Read More

Not exact matches

«There are people that want to try to paint the United States and its allies like Australia as being against China in some sort of rerun of the Cold War,» Turnbull told reporters.

For three years, rival forces in Iraq have had a common enemy, and that made them allies of a sort... in theory, at least.

But the compound word for «helper» here — ezer kenegdo — suggests a sort of military ally, or a partner in a difficult task, and is most often used in Scripture to describe God, who is not generally regarded by patriarchalists as a subordinate.)

Karl Barth understood this well when he wrote: «Strange as it may seem, it is still true, that those who fail to understand other churches than their own are not the people who care intensely about theology, but the theological dilettantes, eclectics, and historians of all sorts; while those very men who have found themselves forced to confront a clear, thoroughgoing, logical sic et non find themselves allied to each other in spite of all contradictions, by an underlying fellowship and understanding, even in the cause which they handle so differently and approach from such painfully different angles.

One who during the war spoke before all sorts of audiences about the Allied cause and associated measures of relief, must question that.

But one of the most important things he did as my breastfeeding ally was to sort of take the backseat in parenting.

Turkey is (sort of) a Russian ally.

The talks were described as still in the preliminary phase, one person said, and come as an array of Democratic officials and allied groups — including de Blasio himself — has threatened to back primary challengers to the five I.D.C. senators unless they agree to some sort of rapprochement.

And if the result of this revolt from the right is more Democrats in the state Senate — or even a Democrat - controlled chamber that will undoubtedly pass all sorts of liberal legislation McGuire and his allies abhor... well, he's OK with that.

But, if one assumes realpolitik has a significant presence in New York's Legislature and there's pressure to come to some sort of compromise ethics agreement in this year's budget, it's easy to imagine a scenario in which lawmakers prefer to burden their allies rather than themselves.

But the Allied statesmen who gathered at Vienna to sort out the consequences of nearly two decades of war neglected to provide a jailer, or even an effective network of informants to keep them apprised of Napoléon's movements.

I believe a lot of this is called «motivational interviewing» and nurses and other allied health professionals typically are better equipped to do this sort of counseling than doctors.

Namely because the DVD player broke, so my Ally McBeal DVDs are out, and the other series» on Jess» hard drive mostly involve crime or some other sort of zombie / blood / hospital related things - all of which I can not handle.

After this encounter, there is all sorts of politicking on both sides to become allies because the empire doesn't want war with the highly militaristic society.

Allied is unusually linear, after the initial setup: Max is told he married a German spy in Marianne; against orders and behind Marianne's back, he sets out to disprove it.2 The apologist urge is to call it a maturation of Zemeckis's style, to tell a story so simply and economically (even if we've kind of been here before with Cast Away), but the film feels conspicuously underdeveloped as opposed to streamlined, to the extent that the big reveal seems as if it was decided on a coin toss; it's easy to imagine the opposite outcome without any sort of retrofitting to accommodate it.

Initially Schafer gives Seal a seemingly dull, repetitive task: Turning his new plane into a spy craft of sorts, flying all over South and Central America to photograph military and paramilitary groups, both allies and potential enemies of the United States.

While wading through on the outskirts of the city filled with Cranks who haven't descended into the rage - filled madness of the virus, Thomas and his allies come across an old friend - of sorts.

Sola winds up being Carter's closest ally after Tars; he's put into her care immediately following his entrance into Thark society, and she winds up going from being his guard to ultimately becoming a sort of sidekick and companion.

The cast is blue ribbon â $» Allison Janney, Ciarà ¡ n Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Lerner, Ally Sheedy, Charlotte Rampling and a very sharp Paul (Pee - wee Herman) Reubens â $» and Solondz» talent for depth - bomb comedy, the sort of delayed revelation that comes as a muffled detonation after you'd stopped listening for one, saves the enterprise from terminal self - flagellation.

Through programs of this sort, the district has been able to make valuable connections with local businesses; when issues such as levies and bonds arise, district staff members feel that they have allies in the business community.

I came across a great post by Ally Carter about the sort of changes stories often go through during a book - to - film adaptation.

In any sort of business transaction where there are multiple parties at the table, be aware of who is allied with whom.

Plus, being new to the investment game, you're going to have questions, and Ally Invest has real - world answers via its Trader Network, sort of like social media for self - directed traders to share their practical advice with each other.

A search for national 5 - year CD rates, sorted by APY, gives (on 18 December 2010) EverBank 2.66 % Stonebridge 2.65 Bank of Internet 2.54 Discover 2.45 Ally 2.40 USAA 2.40 First Internet Bank of Indiana 2.40 Did the rates really fall that much in 3 months?

At www.alleycat.org/BuildAShelter, you'll find instructions on how to build your own Alley Cat Allies» inexpensive do - it - yourself wooden shelter, as well as Feral Cat Shelter Options, Alley Cat Allies» list of shelter ideas from organizations and individuals all over the country sorted by ease of set - up.

He's contentious because he sort of shifts roles in the game between Kain's ally, his arch-enemy and his most powerful weapon.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

As a result of using a peer - to - peer system rather than dedicated servers, being summoned or summoning allies for co-op play is entirely based on luck and times when you decide to play, and you can just forget about trying to have friends join your games to help, as players are sorted to random player clusters with no way to choose who you can summon.

It's also worth noting that the allied AI will always rely on the players cues to do any sort of work.

The skill tree has been expanded to feature all sorts of new skills including a double jump, ally summons, and a spectral glaive that dishes out heavy attacks.

This time around, it adopts a sort of narrative, where players control Allied soldiers trying to recover art from Nazi thieves.

The latter was a method of using the Gameboy Advance to play as an ally of sorts, dropping bombs on enemies and flying around.

Continuing in resurrecting elements from Kirby's past, Star Allies also finds a means to bring in a sort of successor to Kirby 64's ability - combining mechanic.

If you tap a compatible amiibo (sold separately) during single - player mode, you can get all sorts of handy advantages, including ally characters and useful items!

People in those days spoke of allegiances and allies — the Cedar Bar was sort of like the Malta Conference!

My allies and I intend to deliver the sort of in - depth coverage we can not find elsewhere.

Amongst those who don't understand the science (which is most people), AGW scepticism has for a long time been associated in people's minds with a hard core political point - of - view of the sort that that thinks Pres. Obama is allied to terrorism, the world being taken over by neo-Marxists etc etc..

In particular, a new speech crime created by the law will target — as the government explained it to a Senate committee — those who «actively encourage some sort of unspecified action should be taken to do something bad against Canadians or our allies, or to do something to support extreme jihadism.»

All Risks includes - fire and allied perils, house breaking or theft, burglary, breakage because of accidental outer mean and any sort of electrical or mechanical breakdown.

Several weeks ago — Larry Kudlow and Neil Cavuto were adversaries of a sort, but also allies in the field of cable news financial punditry.

Pharmacy technicians in Ohio was the ONLY allied health position that did not required some sort of state certification.