Sentences with phrase «strike against the couple»

Walter Kissinger has made a defensive strike against the couple suing him for $ 3 million in unpaid wages and damages.

Not exact matches

«This would give Russia the ability to deliver a guaranteed small - scale strike against a target of choice; if coupled with an ability to penetrate missile defenses, Moscow would also retain the option of launching a successful single - missile attack,» the Jane's Intelligence Review report said.

The adoption bill permitted homosexual couples jointly to adopt and in another strike against the status of marriage also allowed unmarried couples to adopt.

With Arsenal playing Liverpool this weekend, here's a look at some memorable Gunners strikes against the Reds, including some absolute beauties from the legendary duo of Thierry Henry and Robert Pires, as well as a couple from flops like Andrey Arshavin and Julio Baptista!

Then just in the last couple of months, Forlan's strike delivered a 1 - 0 home leg win for Athletico against Liverpool in the semi final of the Europa League, equalised in extra time in the away leg for Madrid to reach the final on the away goals rule then scored both goals to beat Fulham in the final.

For this reason, couples are now considering couples therapy before the arrival of a child, according to this Wall Street Journal Blog article a sort of preemptive strike against possible problems in the future that could threaten an otherwise secure relationship.

«Through DOMA, the federal government is actively discriminating against legally married same - sex couples, and it is right for the state to come to their defense by seeking to strike down that law in court,» he said in a statement.

Instead of trying to go through the rigors of chemotherapy again, she decides to concentrate on the choir... Aside from its saccharine plot, «Song for Marion» already has a couple of strikes going against it.

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams strike comic gold — or at least silver plate — as a hyper - competitive game - crazy couple whose suburban couples gaming party goes way off the rails when an equally competitive globe - trotting / high rolling brother to the husband (Kyle Chandler, cast against type) comes home, initiates a murder / kidnapping mystery game that is in turn hijacked by real hoodlums who play for keeps.

In other words, Couples Retreat is just another hyper - conservative dick flick (all told, Walter Chaw already wrote the pre-emptive strike against this movie with his review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall) that instead features thirtysomethings in Nehru jackets who flounder at the suggestion of their own nudity and wait accordingly for the «LAUGHTER / APPLAUSE» sign to stop blinking.

For the average American buyer, the Focus ST has a couple of strikes against it.

It starts off with a couple of strikes against it: you can't play it if you don't own the base game, for instance.

While City Council is busy voting against modern Pedestrian / Cycling bridges, Urban Repair Squad quietly struck again a couple of weeks ago.

Also in the last couple of years, Justice Mosley, in NOV Downhole Eurasia Limited v. TLL Oil Field Consulting, 2014 FC 889, considered whether a pleading ought to be struck that referred to the file history to defend against infringement arguing that a feature added during prosecution and appearing in each of the claims did not exist in their device.

That's why a growing number of twosomes are going into couples therapy as a preemptive strike against the tough times that will inevitably hit... and to learn how to keep the good times flowing.