Sentences with phrase «sparring partner for»

Can you tell me something more about what type of conversations you have, is it always work related or do you also discuss your private lives, do you use each other as a sparring partner for ideas, do you share artistic doubts and insecurities that you have?

The Z Fighters are training for the Cell Games and the player must choose a sparring partner for his or her character: Goku or one of the other playable characters in the mode.

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

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.

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.

Dern is a fabulous sparring partner for Harrelson as Pippi, as detailed and worthy of her own narrative for all her prickly micro-shifts and fuck ups.

An even more welcome surprise is how the film's women are given their due, with Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps proving a more than capable sparring partner for Day - Lewis's bratty 1950s dress designer, and the great Lesley Manville commanding her scenes as his imperious, but not unkind, sister.

The Advisory Board acts as the sparring partner for the Steering Committee and the secretariat advising on a range of issues but most notably on the selection of opportunities for the report.

They also were, you could say, sparring partners for Deep Blue.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

I think you could get a better manager for less but who, with any professional pride would step into our set up and not demand a serious budget each year or a sparring partner (DOF) to see we get the right players or put up with an owner for whom winning is irrelevant?

With no qualifiers to play, hosts Russia have been desperately looking for sparring partners to prepare for the 2018 World Cup — even playing a friendly against club side Dynamo Moscow in September 2017.

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.

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.»

And our exclusive NY1 / Baruch College poll finds that this summer hasn't been particularly good for Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval ratings, especially compared to his frequent sparring partner in Albany.

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.

But Osborne has already appeared alongside another of his former sparring partners, ex-shadow chancellor Ed Balls, to campaign for remain, with Balls arguing that the issues at stake in the 23 June referendum mean party politics should be put aside.

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 results were worse for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the governor's fellow Democrat and frequent sparring partner.

For Lesser had a rapier - sharp mind, and a single false move was enough to leave his sparring partner impaled and wriggling.

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!

Dastan is framed for it and must go on the run, accompanied by Tamina, who is already his verbal sparring partner and will therefore soon become his love interest.

Jessica Chastain (Oscar - nominated for her role in THE HELP) and Joel Edgerton (Tom Hardy's sparring partner in WARRIOR) have...

He and ex - girlfriend / verbal sparring partner Blake Lively make for a gorgeous on - screen couple, but neither are really given much to do other than look wondrously at the CGI.

«It was really fun to be your sparring partner and thanks for making me a better actor.»

Jessica Chastain (Oscar - nominated for her role in THE HELP) and Joel Edgerton (Tom Hardy's sparring partner in WARRIOR) have reportedly signed up for a double - feature film project, chronicling the disappearance of a woman from two different perspectives.

It's the older, top - billed leads who manage the heavy lifting: Though she's encumbered somewhat by her French accent, Mirren is superb at both projecting an air of hauteur and expressing the vulnerability beneath it, and she brings out a similar mix of pride and feeling in Puri's Papa, an excellent sparring partner whose stubbornness and drive to succeed never come at the expense of his love for his family.

As young starting painter Johns was close friends with Robert Rauschenberg; they shared together studio for several years and were mutual sparring - partners for each other.

For instance, defence tactics sees the player attempting to block head and body shots from a sparring partner in which you must reduce your opponent's landed shots to less than 5 within 30 seconds, while range striking tasks you to hit your sparring partner inside the designated range to accumulate 300 points within 1 minute.

Old habits die hard in gaming it seems, as former Xbox boss Peter Moore couldn't resist taking a swipe at one old sparring partner this week, expressing dismay at the ongoing delay of Sony's Home service for PlayStation 3.

This game is fun as hell, the exhibition mode is fun (with friends), classic fights are a good way to get someone who wasn't into MMA interested in it (e.g. me) Career mode is fun but the problem is that you don't age is kinda dumb to be honest, you're «CRED» has no real purpose other than to get you new equipment, sponsors, sparring partners and opportunities to increase your «CRED» the controls are confusing to someone who's never played a game like this A.K.A me but I'll give it credit for innovation, you can go to training camps which upgrade you're striking and grappling which gives you new moves, their is a few exploits in the game No. 1 if you manage to get all the sponsors you can use them in create a fighter (which by the way has a decent enough amount of options) you can put all of the sponors that give the most cred and get everything easily and I mean everything No. 2 when you go to a training camp all you have to do is watch two demonstrations by the camp fighter and you have full stamina No. 3 any fighter you can beat within a minute of the first round you can beat a few times and shoot up the ranks, the music is good but you'll soon get sick of it and turn it off cause it repeats itself soo often, they didn't add intro walks, music and cage entries which would've made you feel more like an actual UFC fighter, but overall its a fun game but there's a few missed opportunities and not many fighting styles to choose from but rent it if you are curious about the game.

For this volume, Buchloh (once described by former Museum of Modern Art, New York, curator and current Dean of the Yale School of Art Robert Storr as, «the artist's longtime sparring partner») returns to the fray, and, along with Beate Söntgen and Gregor Stemmrich, offers critical insight on this iconic oeuvre.

Florida solo Georges spars with Mac - user Ben Stevens, partner in Stevens - MacPhail in Spartanburg, S.C., and author of the blog The Mac Lawyer, over which system is better for the legal community.

Dr Welp has been behind reducing external legal expenditure by more than 60 % while building an internal legal department, an experience which taught her the importance of presenting legal risks and cases as a business case: «For lawyers it's key in order to be seen as a sparring partner and adviser to the management to talk their language and connect your goals to theirs».

The path of yoga teaches us that we are responsible for our own energy no matter the circumstances (in this case, a triggering sparring partner).