Sentences with phrase «stages set against»

Two additional stages set against the backdrops of Mount Rushmore and a harbor - based fighting tournament will also release sometime this Spring.

Not exact matches

MEXICO CITY, March 5 - Canada and Mexico on Monday pushed back against President Donald Trump's suggestion that steel and aluminum tariffs could be waived if they signed a new and «fair» NAFTA deal, setting the stage for a tense end to the latest talks to update the trade pact.

We decided to start our list with O'Reilly because his departure from Fox helped set the stage for reports against Harvey Weinstein — which, in turn, helped raise awareness around the #MeToo movement and kick off the reckoning around sexual harassment and assault that continues to this day, in Hollywood, Washington, and around the country.

She did this successfully, halting the war of attrition between the two and setting the stage for a united front, then worth $ 6 billion, against Uber's entry to the mainland.

We've wasted a lot of time setting the stage for yours with social democratic reforms and work against the religious oligarch in this country.

Hence, at this stage Altizer responds negatively to Heidegger: «Perhaps nowhere else does Heidegger so clearly reveal how his attachment to a traditional mystical form of the holy so deeply sets him against the historical destiny of our time, and so likewise does it set him against Nietzsche.»

Spain are set for pre-tournament friendlies on May 29 and June 1, against Bosnia - Herzegovina and South Korea, although at this late stage, it would surely represent a risk to take Costa should indeed del Bosque pursue with the former Atleti attacker.

He needs 167 more yards to set the mark, and under the circumstances, it's reasonable to think he has a shot against Atlanta in what figures to be a high scoring game during primetime on a national stage.

The Gunners were handed a major boost when the club revealed that the quartet were all set to feature in the game against the young Potters, in the latest stage of their rehabilitations.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

The defender is now set to come up against his old club Roma in this season's Champions League group stage, and says he is fully prepared from jeers and whistles from his old supporters, even though he is delighted to be returning to face them.

To this end I just want Arsenal to get a point against Bayern in the Emirates fixture, that way we would have set ourselves on course to progress to the knock out stages.

But they stumbled in the group stage, finishing second behind Romania, and that set up a knockout game against Argentina.

The stage is set and I even heard the commentator mention Giggs» wonder goal against us.

The stage was set against Liverpool as Martial received the ball out wide and ran at Škrtel, moving one way and then the other, before shimmying across the defender with ease and calmly slotting past the goalkeeper.

They did look set for the final at one stage, but a second half collapse in the second leg against eventual winners Atletico Madrid saw them crash out.

Despite reaching the semi-finals stage a draw set the Bianconeri to play against the current Champions league winner, Real Madrid.

England's tie against Ghana will be a perfect chance to see «what could have been» last year as England were to set face them in the World Cup knock - out stages if they had topped their World Cup group as expected.

Kane will be hoping to beat the previous England record set by Alan Shearer, who scored five goals at Euro 1996 as England were eliminated at the Semi-Final stage against Germany on penalties.

(And, in the long run, that makes for an «us against them» relationship that sets the stage for an unhappy home, particularly when the teen years arrive.)

It is not clear whether the union will stage a walkout on November 30th, when the much larger public sector strike against pension changes is set to take place.

Clyne and his supporters see the revote as a way for County Executive Daniel McCoy to wield more power and set the stage for the city of Albany election next year, which is poised to pit Mayor Kathy Sheehan against Councilman Frank Commisso Jr..

The stage is set for two competing centres of power jostling against each other.

As well as confronting another rejection from his party's MPs Cameron also faces humiliation on the world stage - beginning with a downgraded special relationship with the US, which is set to conduct missile strikes against Bashar al - Assad without British assistance.

«(IRBIL, Iraq — The stage was set Friday for a major sectarian confrontation in Iraq after the government and the country's most powerful Shiite cleric implored civilians to take up arms against Sunni militants — a move that would partially plug the ranks of the decimated security forces with religiously motivated volunteers.

The group stated that, they had water tight evidence to support their claim of a meeting held last week in Kumasi at the instance of Akufo - Addo, where Nana Akufo - Addo is said to have deployed Kofi Jumah, Amoako Tufuor and others to form mushroom groups with what the group described as «wicked purposes» in springing forth «outright lies» and «concoction of untruths» that will translate into setting the stage to blame innocent people in the Kufuor faction against the outcome of the 2016 elections.

Labour is set to vote against the Government's flagship Brexit bill when it reaches its final stages in the Commons this week, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

In the case of Syria, for example, an intense drought in 2006 and 2007 dropped crop yields, driving people into the cities and helping to set the stage for protests against the Assad regime that — when brutally suppressed — turned to revolt.

The brain signals at that stage are quite complex, set against noise that is difficult to dampen.

Their four - year efforts have made very significant progress in breeding for durable resistance against blast in rice varieties that are adapted for Africa, have set the stage for continental surveillance of the disease, and developed a robust collection of resources for outreach and awareness creation.

These rogue food particles bind with bodily tissues and the immune system begins an attack against our own organs, which sets the stage for conditions like IBS, Crohn's, colitis, thyroiditis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and arthritis.

«It was good to use that as setting the stage for possibility for what Lady Bird could be — and to be rebelling against.»

(2005), a British soccer drama starring Kuno Becker and Alessandro Nivola; Flushed Away (2006), a DreamWorks CG - animated picture about a mouse named Roddy who gets flushed down the toilet and winds up in a vermin - infested city called Ratropolis; and Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, a hallucinatory musical love story, set against the turbulent backdrop of the»60s, with countless Beatles songs providing the backdrop.The same period found Clement hard at work developing several stage musicals: Victoria's Secret, with a score by Paul Williams and Dave Stewart; Helen of Troy, libretto by Brendan Healy and AC / DC frontman Brian Johnson.

But living against the clock — eating late at night or working overnight — may set the stage for weight gain and chronic disease.

With Cap and a select few forced to effectively become rebels against their own government and friends, the stage is set for a conflict that will challenge loyalties, rip old connections asunder and change the Marvel Cinematic Universe forever.

But just in case you find the game too difficult, try playing on an easier setting as Dark Witch Music Episode: Rudymical has four available (Easy, Normal, Hard and Lunatic, but Lunatic can only be unlocked by beating every stage once), you can of course skip the 1 Player story mode and try out the split screen co-op mode instead, as you and a friend go toe - to - toe against the bosses you couldn't beat, armed with a single Joy - Con Controller each.

details Bergstein's chafing milking of her cash cow into an inevitable stage version, while a scored, animated photo gallery sets production stills against a pink background.

Mario Party 9, as with previous games in the series, sees up to four players competing against each other to collect as many Stars as possible on a large board game - style stage before the set number of turns runs out.

The difficulty level is set, by default, so that you don't have to bang you head against a vertical difficulty curve straight away but at the same time the lack of difficulty in the early stages takes away a little of the reward as you can just plough through it.

Such scenes set the stage for a civil war that pits the repentant Stark against the idealistic Captain America (Chris Evans).

The first, the standard def «Making of Amour» (24:42; more creatively titled onscreen «Love Scenes») gives us fly - on - the - set access to production, which surprisingly occurred on a stage against green screen, as well as remarks from Haneke and his lead cast members.

In the short term, you may get compliance from intimidation, although the odds are against this result, but in the long run you may lose the possibility of trust, reach a breakdown in learning and set the stage for a payback.

Performance managers should not set targets against all the points of the standards, but rather take a view of the development of their own school leaders in the context of continuous improvement and identify priority areas for the next stage, informed by the standards as a whole.

That was certainly true in 2010, when a voter backlash against Obamacare triggered a wave of Republican victories, especially at the state level, which in turn set the stage for major progress on education reform priorities in 2011 (rightfully dubbed «the year of school choice» by the Wall Street Journal).

This lesson plan shares resources from the Teens Against Bullying website to provide the basics about bullying, offer opportunities for discussion, and set the stage for continued learning.

The first question sets the stage for students» self - monitoring by helping them understand and articulate the criteria against which their work should be gauged.

The two - door compact would help the 40 - mpg Elantra compete more effectively against the rival Honda Civic Coupe, and as IL points out, the vehicle would also set the stage for an R - Spec offering, as well.

One could easily be forgiven for consigning Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series to the war novel genre, or perhaps even historical fiction, but the simple fact is that Kerr crafts some of the finest mystery novels in contemporary fiction, noir classics set against the multiple backdrops of WWII's far - reaching stages.

During the course of events I was surprised to learn that Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a whole army of Kindle devices that have set the stage to battle against the tyrannical reign of the Apple iPad / Barnes & Noble NOOKColor in the tablet market and other ebook reader competitors.

- Iizuka has received a ton of requests from fans to have their own original characters appear in Sonic games - while that couldn't happen, Sonic Forces» custom character recognizes that fan desire - the avatar was created with the idea of «making straight high - speed action» - this time the concept is that all three styles (Modern, Classic, Avatar) would be high - speed based - make selections for the face, mouth, body color, and gender of custom characters - each species will also have their own unique skills, such as wolves being able to pull nearby rings - you can't change custom characters in the middle of the game - there is some sort of feature that's unlocked after you've cleared the game once related to this - the new avatar style will have a speedy and rhythmic style like Modern Sonic, but also different vectors from Sonic - this includes differences in timing for pressing buttons, or the Wisps giving the avatar trickier movements - the story aims to depict heroes that would feel like Sonic - by controlling different characters, the devs hope to show a story that extends to explaining the world setting as well - the story concept has been «Hero Army vs. Eggman's Army» from the start - when wondering who should be made playable among the heroes, the idea came up for Classic Sonic - the character setting for the avatar is a civilian in an area occupied by Eggman who stands up and fights together with Sonic - during stages, you'll hear radio contact from partners like Tails and Amy - Sonic and the rest of the gang form a resistance to stand against Eggman's army, so they relay information from headquarters - boss characters like Chaos and Metal Sonic will appear in Eggman's army - details on the new character (Infinite) are being kept secret - the main part of the storyline is that Eggman gathers strong enemies in the past to form an all mighty army - some people might be wondering why Shadow is on the enemy's side, but they can find out more by experiencing the story - the team thinks Japanese fans are taking a liking to the serious story and character customization features - there were some struggles with the new engine in early stages, but now they've moved to a smooth development process - the team knew they wanted to bring the game to Nintendo's new console before they even knew it was the Switch - the Switch info came to them during the middle of the game's development - SEGA knew Nintendo fans would want to play Sonic's new game, which is why they personally worked to bring it to Switch - SEGA plans to show the game in Japan at Tokyo Game Show 2017 in September - the team is also working on providing new information, including news that would be unique to Japan