Sentences with phrase «sparring partner»

She's not just a fine sparring partner for Cruise, but maybe the heart of the picture, lending its terrific spy games some emotional stakes.

However, instead of starring opposite his old sparring partner in a new Batman movie, he'll actually be center stage in a Suicide Squad film.

Canada's Saputo is set to line up against old sparring partner Murray Goulburn and other milk processors in United Dairy Power auction.

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.

A frequent sparring partner of Ways and Means Chairman Denny Farrell during floor debates, Hayes pointed to the passage this year of a state budget with no tax increases.

«Getting rid of Carl didn't fix all the problems that exist in the district, but it certainly helped the board in the sense that you don't have someone who is constantly being a disruption and not working cohesively with the rest of the board,» said Board Member Sharon Belton - Cottman, a frequent sparring partner with Paladino.

I view the development team as a kind of sparring partner when it comes to developing an engine.

Ben Spielberg is one of my favorite sparring partners on education policy.

We're placing more expectations on our relationships than ever before — we want our partner to be our best friend, our lover, our intellectual sparring partner, maybe our co-parent — while simultaneously investing less time and energy in the relationship.

On the opposition benches, your former sparring partner Ed Miliband, whose father caught the last boat to Britain when the Nazis invaded Belgium.

The 100 - minute animated feature, a sequel to the 1995 Street Fighter II: V television series, follows mainstay Ryu as he encounters longtime sparring partner Ken, faces his inner demons, and eventually challenges his nemesis, Akuma.

Online play lacks automated matchmaking, but a simple lobby system enables you to find sparring partners the old - fashioned way.

But rest assured that if I invite in any other sparring partners over the course of this exercise, I will take care to choose ones who are substantially less persuasive.

Most important of all is Micky's other sparring partner, older brother Dicky Eklund (Oscar - winning Christian Bale), a friendly but unreliable man fixated on his knockdown of Sugar Ray Leonard fifteen years earlier and struggling with a serious drug problem.

Silverman speaks highly of sparring partners like Donohue and McFarland.

Canada's Saputo is set to line up against old sparring partner Murray Goulburn and other milk processors, as an auction for Victorian milk processor United Dairy Power gets under way.

The European parliament is not going to be an easy sparring partner.

David Miliband has offered an olive branch to his former electoral sparring partner Ed by revealing that his brother could win the general election in 2015.

Rather than making a push to give this power back to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a regular sparring partner of the governor's, Cuomo said he would «appoint separate Inspector Generals for both SUNY and CUNY [who will] review contracts and hiring for both improper and illegal actions.»

The «Pulp Fiction» alum has a new sparring partner for this one.

You can't have Gleeson without Brian Cox, his old sparring partner from Troy.

Filmmakers including Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Martin Scorsese (also an executive producer here) speak to the specific contributions Ebert made to their careers, Scorsese tearing up as he remembers a tribute Ebert and his TV sparring partner Gene Siskel organized for him in Toronto at one of the lowest moments of his personal and professional life.

In a battle of superlatives, the 7 Series and S - Class make fine sparring partners.

Anxious to show off, Sonny quickly used up his meager supply of sparring partners by knocking one out and breaking the rib of another.

With our hero now somewhat mobile and detoxed enough to keep his thoughts lucid, Paul makes a much better sparring partner for the increasingly insane Annie.

In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute - force persuasion.

Draken bought 21 of them from the Czech government for $ 770,000 each and spent another $ 500,000 per jet on upgrades to make them worthy sparring partners

Of 12 players on his team, the bottom five didn't play — they were just sparring partners.

In Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), Kevin DeYoung, the senior pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, and Ted Kluck, a sportswriter who has written for ESPN, are quick to admit that they «don't think of our emergent sparring partners as «the bad guys.

And not as a perpetual temptation or sparring partner so much as a badge of honor, proof that we're intellectually rigorous, honest, and thoughtful — not the mindless automatons the world thinks we are.

«For a while the Denver police pulled him over every day,» says Ray Schoeninger, a former Liston sparring partner.

The thing he finds hardest to master in his three - and - a-half-hour daily workouts with sparring partner Johnny Gray are combinations — and he hasn't learned them yet.

His chief sparring partner, Kevin Kelley, reportedly called the fight a «mismatch.»

These days Hamed's toughest sparring partners are seven -, eight - and nine - year - olds.

Inside the ring, Carbajal, the little man of La Mancha, the newly acclaimed Manitas de Piedra («Little Hands of Stone»), is steadfastly belaboring sparring partner Abner Barrajas as club members in racquetball attire cheer him.

McNeeley's manager, the millionaire Harvardman Peter Fuller, himself an old college boxer and sometime sparring partner to McNeeley, recently described his fighter as «a straight stand - up guy with a good jab, a good left hook and a fair right.

Jimmy Ellis, his days as Muhammad Ali's sparring partner far behind him, crashed home an effective right hand to win the WBA version of the heavyweight championship and, finally, a chance at better paydays

While often the black boys unload freight or work on the docks during the day, then spend long dreary hours in the gym at night, the white fighter is «romanced» — no job, no fights over his head, the best equipment, expensive sparring partners.

He has plenty of tools to aid his progress, namely sparring partners like Brenden Johnson (NorCal No. 3 at 120), Eli Blake (sixth, 138), Jed Campos (18th, 152) and Noah Blake (second, 160).

Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved in New York politics in recent years, calling for more funding of public education and stumping for Cuomo's frequent public sparring partner, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

But the Chancellor and his former sparring partner put their differences to one side for one day only as they joined forces in a hangar at Stansted airport to argue for remaining in the European Union.

The senator notably made a video in which he and his frequent sparring partner Liz Krueger smoked a joint and reenacted the love scene from «Lady and the Tramp.»

Ms Harman had the perfect sparring partner in the form of PMQs veteran William Hague, who continues to stand in for David Cameron despite his palpable lack of deputy status.

Balls said he respected Osborne, his old Commons sparring partner, for facing down the Eurosceptics in his own party, comparing it to his own decision to refuse to back joining the euro when Labour was in government.

The same word could apply to her nemesis and dinner - party sparring partner, a rich and powerful real estate developer with the slightly too on - the - nose name of Doug Strutt.

When Gong's old sparring partner sets a trap for Yuya, the only way Gong can save his friend is to forfeit his duel and get tossed from the tourney!

The heart of the movie is set at the Post, where the paper's executive editor, Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), with his urbane rasp, aristocrat - in - shirt - sleeves mystique, and a bite more forceful than his bark, and Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep), the paper's wily socialite patrician publisher, square off like a couple of sparring partners who won't let the fact that they're on the same side stop them from taking a punch.

Like a lot of adolescent protagonists in modern coming - of - age films, Christine talks too often and too blithely, but Marion is a formidable sparring partner: «How did I raise such a snob?»