Sentences with phrase «sparring between»

It is really cool to see some sparring between you guys as you both invest fairly well but with totally different styles.

Understood in these terms, the endless sparring between Justices Scalia and Thomas and Justices Breyer and Kennedy makes so much more sense.

Telgemeier keeps the surface story popping and zippy, even through the constant sparring between the awkwardly adolescent Raina and her firecracker younger sister, a relationship that will prove profoundly familiar to many readers.

The latest round came in October after Time came out with a story onVergara v. California and the sparring between reformers and the Big Two unions over teacher quality reform that featured the headline Rotten Apples and included a cover photo of an apple about to be smashed by a judge's gavel.

He said the sparring between Wells and Tenney is the opposite of what voters and the country want.

The debate over seniority comes after several weeks of sparring between the mayor's and governor's offices.

After months of sparring between union and nonunion groups, the City Council on Wednesday approved a construction safety bill that will require workers to undergo at least 40 hours of safety training.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who agrees with Miner's criticism of Cuomo, said the public sparring between them is something new to the governor's administration.

After a year of mostly verbal sparring between New York City officials and the president, the Trump administration's plans to scale back infrastructure plans and social spending and an immigration crackdown are poised to hit New York — the president's home state — where it hurts.

Although many years ago now, I recall the sparring between Richard and Stanley Hauerwas, the authoritative pronouncements of Peter Berger, and on and on.

It is widely believed that sparring between the United States and Germany over currency values was a significant contributing factor to the 1987 stock market crash.

In particular, the sparring between Senators Cruz and Rubio, both of whom are now vying for the number two spot following Ben Carson's implosion in the polls, showed how political leaders need to use guile and their wits to win.

On one level, it is a friendly spar between two close brothers and competitors who respect one another's skill.

Elsewhere there are antagonisms and sparrings between shapes whose true nature is left unstated, and sudden lashing of caked or viscous pigment whose inspiration is again no longer in nature but in something in the nature of paint, or of the feeling that takes hold of a painter when he attacks it.

Not exact matches

Unless this is a conversation between friends who are used to sparring with one another sarcastically, you're not likely to come off as very funny (or indeed, very helpful) by dispensing wisecracks.

This WBC welterweight title bout between two former Olympic gold medalists didn't need verbal sparring to sell tickets, but media darling De La Hoya, 24, and the underexposed Whitaker (left), 33, obliged anyway.

As well as the verbal sparring and not so subtle digs between the Arsenal boss and his counterpart at Chelsea, there is a very important game of football to consider.

It was an attempt to make peace between DA Vance and Cuomo, after the two sparred over whether Vance should be conducting a probe into Schneiderman's alleged conduct.

Despite the stunning recording and the heated exchanges over stop - and - frisk, the most fireworks occurred between council members themselves, who sparred with each other throughout the hearing.

COLLEGE POINT — A two - hour meeting Tuesday between Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and leaders of the five police unions, which have been sparring with City Hall about the administration's treatment of police officers, ended without a resolution, according to Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch.

The announcement quickly turned into a sparring match between the two lawmakers on one side and a host of individuals who don't like talk of a hybrid solution on the other side.

The two men have sparred over substance, silliness and everything in between: public housing and private workout routines, homelessness and topless women in Times Square, taxing millionaires and euthanizing a deer, a Legionnaires» disease outbreak and state troop deployments, schools, snowstorms and the subways — even naps.

Their guy - centric sparring is so effortless, a direct product of their characters and the relationship between them, it seems almost inconceivable that it originated in a script.

The film jumps between the terrorist - hostage standoff and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's (Lior Ashkenazi) cabinet deliberations, and nearly every exchange of dialogue sounds like sparring blocks of Wikipedia - like information, with career Israeli politicians summarizing the past few years» worth of events to each other for a presumptively ignorant audience.

You get to see Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) sparring off with Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), which obviously results in a pissing contest between two massive egos.

Additionally, the dynamics between Lee and Wong is observed on the sidelines by a Caucasian martial arts student named Steve McKee (Billy Magnussen, «Bridge of Spies») whose devotion to the sparring 24 - year old instructor is only hampered by his blinding attraction to a vulnerable Chinatown waitress (Qu Jingjing) at the mercy of her seedy employer (Xing Jin) looking for payback.

It also shakes up the story in other ways — for instance, characters don't just verbally spar, but physically as well — adding another layer to the relationships, especially between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.

There are also hilarious exchanges between Mattie and a local horse trader, and later Barry Pepper (as Ned Pepper) joins in with some top notch verbal sparring.

Get your first look at Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, a sparring session between Charlie Hunnman and Rinko Kikuchi and an elbow rocket in Guillermo del Toro's upcoming sci - fi action movie.

Howard presents the fateful interview that helped secure Tricky Dick's legacy as a verbal sparring match between journalist and interviewee, turning what could have been a flat series of conversations into a genuinely tense procedural.

And in one of the variously skilled ways that the film folds recognisable tensions into its forever - evolving highwire act, continual mileage arises from the sparring match between Kevin (Lamorne Morris) and his partner Michelle (Kylie Bunbury), who lets slip that she once slept with a celebrity but won't reveal who.The circle widens out to include not just some notably impolite baddies who seem to be liking the game a bit too much but a hilariously weird next - door neighbour (Jesse Plemons, pictured above) who doesn't take to the notion that the game might be happening without him.

In Broken Arrow, the classic Melville - Woo themes are not so much developed as simplified into a «friendly» sparring match between the two male leads, hero Christian Slater and villain John Travolta.

What they got in those brief minutes at the end of each program was less debate than verbal sparring matches between two erudite intellectuals attacking the political philosophy and public record of the other and they were out for blood.

But the film never loses sight of the significance of Ali's command of the media, particularly in scenes between Ali and Cosell, the old «strange looking white man» who becomes the boxer's on - air verbal sparring partner and off - screen confidante.

There's a clever bit of character building that occurs in the verbal sparring matches between M and C, too — we see M's sense of honor and order and C's inability to care about people either as individuals or collectively.

It's a tremendous intellectual sparring match between the two, all about religion and philosophy, yet it starts innocently enough with an enquiry about Marcus's social life.

Crude humor in this film contains frequent references to male anatomy, sexual sparring and mild innuendo between the animals that includes comments about breeding, cross dressing and interspecies relationships.

ABC Chief Paul Lee told reporters Saturday that things were contentious there for a moment between his broadcast network and FX, as the two channels sparred over title similarities on shows «American Crime» and «American Crime Story.»

Indeed, perhaps the centerpiece of the picture is an extended dialogue sequence between Marcus and the dean (Tracy Letts) that is dripping with beautiful verbiage and electric sparring.

We see a documentary about the professional rivalry and growing friendship between Ebert and his late sparring partner Gene Siskel, whose nationally syndicated television show brought film criticism into many homes and inspired a few generations of film lovers — myself included — to watch movies with a critical but appreciating eye.

The trio spar with care and the delicate game of cat and mouse that mounts between them is almost always giddy goodness of the board game variety.

He and I probably agree on 90 percent of the issues, though we have sparred at times over the federal role, the balance between «excellence and equity,» and sundry other topics.

Still Not Fessing Up Save for the back - and - forth between Andy Rotherham and Michael Petrilli, inside - the - Beltway education sparring tends to be done politely in dry language (and more viciously during drinking sessions).

A clever feature engineered into the second row is the middle jump seat, which can slide forward independent of the outboard positions; this enables better parental access to wee ones who are buckled in there, or conversely, it effectively creates a barrier between sparring siblings.

As its name intended, the little town of Vredendal, which borders on the southern tip of the Namaqualand region, is named after a peace settlement that brought harmony between two sparring parties.

Whether it be hitting a heavy bag, tossing oversized tires around, or sparring / working out with your camp, UFC Undisputed 3 limits the amount of extra stuff a fighter must do in - between fights.

The solo exhibition is the result of a unique relationship between the designers and the Museum, where the Museum occasionally assumed the role of sparring partner as well as that of co-producer.

We see this regularly in the sparring that occurs between two heavyweights, the American Tort Reform Association and the American Association for Justice (the former Association of Trial Lawyers of America).

I just wrote yesterday about the difference between life insurance underwriters and doctors when it comes to how they view information and another on popped on the scene today that could be an interesting bit of sparring.

Unfortunately, all sorts of accusations are often hurled between sparring exes during ugly custody battles.