Sentences with phrase «sparring partner with»

Honestly, a man of your intellectual stature and prowess in logic needs a sparring partner with whom you are more evenly matched.

Not exact matches

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?

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.

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.

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.

Steven Weinberg, who shared the Nobel with Salam in 1979, is a regular sparring partner.

Washed - up former boxer Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) hasn't had much luck «managing» a string of beat - up bots until he hits it big with Atom, a sparring partner machine that improbably becomes a champion contender.

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.

You start the run up to each fight by signing up to a gym that specialises in a specific fighting discipline, and can then choose to train and improve your attributes, learn new moves and perks, spar with a training partner who's emulating your upcoming opponent, or promote your next fight to drum up hype and attract more fans to your brand.

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.

Composite of Elizabeth Banks as «Gail» with John Michael Higgins as her sparring partner «John» in the three Pitch Perfect films.

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.

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.

Given more partners to spar with, his ridiculous dialogue and commentary continue to amuse.

Early passages provide Ms. Dickinson, and actress Cynthia Nixon, with a roundelay of able sparring partners.

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.

The «Dead Rising» team was our sparring partner when we created «MT Framework», while this time around with «Panta Rhei» it was the «deep down» team.

Hello Neighbor — Hands - On A practice round of cards down the back of a tavern by the hearth; going bumper - to - bumper with a virtual sparring partner on the rocket - fuelled pitch of the future; setting a Zerg Rush against an unsuspecting bot following its pre-programmed build order to a T: since time immemorial, video game -LSB-...]

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.

On AI advancing the legal profession: «Think of the systems you build with AI as a sparring partner or smart colleague.