Sentences with phrase «staging ground»

That's not all, it also has a 2 - stage grinding system to help improve speed and performance.

Syrian state television claimed that early Monday morning that airstrikes targeted an air base in Homs, a strategic staging ground for Russian and Syrian forces.

The exhibition acts as staging ground upon which accompaniment emerges as a usable model of practice.

Vancouver isn't just a tech staging ground anymore either, says Bill Tam, president and CEO of the B.C. Technology Industry Association.

Depending on how Astorino's election turns on Tuesday, the ad could be an early staging ground for how Democrats in New York, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will handle Republican opponents in next year's state - level races.

The strategic and word mechanics make this title an ideal staging ground for PvP, and its absence is a gigantic missed opportunity for Quarrel Deluxe.

As Call Me by Your Name, Get Out, and perhaps Mudbound are likely going to prove soon — and as Manchester by the Sea did last year — Sundance can be a good long - lead staging ground for an Oscar campaign.

This is one of the main reasons why Apple is creating an autonomous staging ground for all paid news content.

Another bird plummets and stumbles forward, fighting for a spot in the packed staging ground along those few miles of water still clear and wide enough to pass as safe.

The $ 23,000 grant will be used to create a «Disaster Response Staging Ground» at their 47 - acre property in Washington parish.

For the Red Knot, the Delaware Bay on the East Coast is a major staging ground during spring migration; it is estimated that over 90 % of one subspecies can be present in a single day.

The Fountain resort provides you with a luxurious staging ground for taking it all in.

With the increase of fossil fuel transport in recent years the yard has become a crucial staging ground for coal trains headed to Canadian export terminals and oil trains bound for Washington refineries.

Greensboro, North Carolina (CNN)-- The truck - stop hooker is no Julia Roberts, the trucker in the cab with her no Richard Gere, and this truck stop off the highway could not be any farther from Beverly Hills, the staging ground for «Pretty Woman.»

As long as America's enemies use that region for a staging ground, it is difficult to argue that U.S. forces should withdraw completely.

The government has firmly opposed Islamic extremists — though reportedly some extremist groups, including al - Qaeda, have used the country as a staging ground for attacks carried out elsewhere.

With last year's pageant kerfuffle over Carrie Prejean's announced opposition to gay marriage - a position she said is grounded in her Christian faith - the Las Vegas event is now officially a staging ground for pressing national discussions about religion in American life.

The track becomes a staging ground for... well, for anything and for anyone.

If sports have lately served as a staging ground for national discourse about concussions, domestic violence, child abuse, gay rights and racial sensitivity, it's because we have so few live, public spectacles around which discussion of any kind can take place.

Sports have served as a staging ground for national discourse about concussions, domestic violence, child abuse, gay rights and racial sensitivity.

So this is all the staging ground for a far more complicated debate during campaigns.

Many of us spent the weekend glued to Twitter, which was simultaneously the fastest source of news, a place to share in outrage and, unfortunately, the staging ground for the worst aspects of political debate.

It has turned into a proxy war between the USA and Russia, and in the process Syria is becoming a bombed - out wasteland that has precipitated a humanitarian catastrophe with unwanted refugees pouring into Europe and providing a staging ground for ISIS and other terrorist factions.

With the city using the parking lot where the market sets up as a staging ground for the ongoing Brooklyn Bridge reconstruction project, the Market will be open on Sundays beginning June 5th through Dec. 18.

Last week loyal Blairites Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn launched the Vision2020 website to debate the future of Labour policy, but commentators have speculated that the site is designed to be a staging ground for anti-Brown opinions.

The group is a coalition of organizations — including the Conservative Party, gun - rights organizations and environmental groups — who worry a convention would be a staging ground for potentially losing hard - won rights in the existing state constitution.

3) FBI visits Rockland twice — Rockland was the staging ground for at least two major FBI operations in 2013.

Animal studies have started to show that the microbiome, from its staging ground in the bowel, can influence the development of its host's brain.

Nation's fourth station will be a staging ground for a little - studied region of the ice continent

One of the monument islands, Palmyra, is a staging ground for climate and marine researchers.

Adult whale sharks were not seen at the site, which may serve as a «staging ground» for juveniles before they move on to regional aggregations of larger sharks.

Some of the savings from defunding the ISS would feed into NASA's return to the moon, chiefly a new lunar robotic exploration program as well as a «Deep Space Gateway» in lunar orbit that would serve as a staging ground for operations on the surface.

A Mormon from Utah, she introduced him to the state that would become his permanent home as well as a staging ground for his political activism and creation of the Sundance Institute.

Black Dwarf was dispatched to Wakanda so that Thanos and the rest of the Black Order could use the city state as a staging ground for the attack on Earth whilst secretly looking for Thanos» son Thane.

The generic plot device doesn't serve much purpose, either, other than to keep Jeanine busy and provide a staging ground for the special effects - heavy final act that puts Tris through a series of virtual reality simulations designed to test her aptitude in all five factions.

The makerspace being created in the library will be the staging ground for transforming the former woodshop classroom into the maker classroom that the students are hoping to create.

However, our chosen campsite turns out to be nothing more than a staging ground for horse trailers, so we make do and nestle our van in the back corner of the nearest parking lot for the night.

The hope is bringing back an iconic bookstore chain will draw more readers into the stores and hopefully act as a staging ground to consolidate the local physical book industry.

The official Kobo iOS app has undergone massive changes since it first debuted a few years ago and serves as their staging ground to test new features that eventually trickle done into other devices.

In the pre-dawn hours of May 12, Atlantic was the staging ground for the excited dogs as they boarded a private flight bound for Idaho.

For me that trip early on — seeing the poor as they were, doing something to make their lives better, building them a house — became a staging ground for determining what are worthwhile pursuits in this life.

The Adams River's mouth provides a staging ground for divers to suit up in the 60 + pounds of gear needed for the 54 °F water.

Quepos is often used as a staging ground to explore the rest of the Pacific Coast, including activities such as sailing, sport fishing, and surfing.

The original game's world may have felt small for some players, but it feels far too large when its only real purpose is as a staging ground for fetch quests.

2010 Staging Ground, The Horticultural Society of New York, New York, NY.

The studio is a staging ground for happy accidents — piecing experiences from the past to build a vision that I can endorse.