Sentences with phrase «superpower from»

Domesticated since the dawn of man, they've been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives.

China has been a documented superpower from as early as the 3rd century.

Fox has debuted the first official trailer on MTV for Chronicle, a faux - documentary style found - footage flick following three high school friends who gain superpowers from a mysterious substance they find, and the repercussions that arise when they use those powers.

gave us a superhero with a pretty silly mythology — involving intergalactic travel on a rainbow bridge and ice monsters and plenty of familial angst played in cumbersome costumes — surrounding him, but then the film — kind of bravely, in retrospect — practically abandoned the world and exposition it had established, exiled its protagonist from his home world, and removed his superpowers from the equation.

Thor gave us a superhero with a pretty silly mythology — involving intergalactic travel on a rainbow bridge and ice monsters and plenty of familial angst played in cumbersome costumes — surrounding him, but then the film — kind of bravely, in retrospect — practically abandoned the world and exposition it had established, exiled its protagonist from his home world, and removed his superpowers from the equation.

Not exact matches

Netflix description: «A single mom must hide her young son's superpowers to protect him from exploitation while investigating their origins and her husband's death.»

In our annual Winners & Losers issue, Canadian Business has compiled a scorecard of the year that was, from South Korea's emergence as a global superpower to Canada's sorry state of municipal politics.

This infographic from Socially Sorted highlights seven elements, or «superpowers,» to consider when planning, creating and sharing infographics that get shared and drive traffic on the visual web.

Towards that end, those three cloud superpowers alone spent roughly $ 31 billion last year to extend their data center capacity around the world, according to the Wall Street Journal, which tabulated that total from corporate filings.

However, the P9's dual cameras do imbue it with superpowers other smartphones can't touch, most notably the ability to make very convincing wide - aperture images of the sort we typically expect from DSLRs with specialized lenses.

Conspicuously missing from the document, says Adams, is any treatment of how the US will have to adapt to a rapidly rebalancing world, with China a rising superpower, and other nations such as Turkey increasingly playing an independent role.

The consistency with which the American executive system recruits top people compared to our «fused» system, in which cabinet members are chosen from among MPs, is one reason why the United States has made the long climb from peripheral outpost to the world's sole superpower.»

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In Mystery Men, a movie from a few years back, William H. Macy, Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria starred as a trio of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers.

The transition from a superpower duopoly, in terms of military power, to a world monopoly, however, has had, among other effects during the 1990s, that of destabilising the fragile balance upon which the international multilateralism of the United Nations had been able to function, well or badly, during the 1960s and 1970s (following the «defrosting» and decolonisation, both the results of social, cultural, democratic and national struggle).

God is called upon not as a unilateral superpower but as a relational force, not an omnipotent creator from nothing, imposing order upon chaos, but the lure to a self - organizing complexity, creating out of the chaos.59

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Too bad these christians are so greedy that they only use this god - given superpower to declare absolute knowledge on a blog instead of using it to help us learn more about the past and where we came from.

On the contrary it is the visible force and migration laws of the superpowers that keep the land hungry persons from the empty space of the world occupied in the days of colonial expansion.

It is the visible force and migration laws of the superpowers that keep the land - hungry people away from the empty spaces of the world which were occupied in the days of colonial expansion.

Rather than viewing upheavals in Central America in isolation from those in the Middle East, for example, observers are inclined to ask how both may reflect debt patterns in the world economy or the competition among superpowers for energy supplies or the arms race.

The debilitating impact of pervasively exploitative Western colonial rule and superpower domination over the past two centuries is strangely missing from his analysis.

Instead, it once again went to war pumped up on our own propaganda — especially the conjoined beliefs that the United States was the «indispensable nation,» the «lone superpower,» and the «victor» in the Cold War; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen, possessing as it did — from the heavens to the remotest spot on the planet — «full spectrum dominance.»

Thanks to her superpowers, Wonder Woman kicks a lot of male butt — it's a war, after all — but it's clear from the beginning that she's a goddess, not a girls - can - do - anything - boys - can - do «role model» (no spoilers here — the film drops hints early on that Diana is of divine parentage).

Benedict Rogers from CSW said: «We hope she will raise these cases and urge China that if it wants to be a global superpower, which it clearly is in the running for, it needs to uphold human rights for its own people.»

Ironically, the country which grew the fastest into a status of superpower was the Soviet Union, which went from being a country that was completely destroyed at the end of the second world war, to a super power from 1945 to the mid fifties.

Korean theologies have directly or indirectly supported the division of Korea, the violation of the integrity of creation, and the division - based psychoses and insecurities that have resulted from this violation and from the manipulation, intervention, and invasion of foreign superpowers.

They view the world from the perspective of the elite of the world's one superpower.

stayed with the Roman / Greek stuff, you were no different from any ancient civilization and thus would not have risen as the superpower.

I want mean and clean antioxidants from the mean and clean superpowers and I will take them local when I can get them and ramp them up with the imports.

It has delicious, creamy - nutty flavour, and is a serious glow food, nourishing your body from inside out with its ancient superpowers.

What's truly sad is that Arsenal are IMHO only a couple of really good players away from being genuine title contenders, regardless of how much the Superpowers spend yet puppet master Wenger and the mustached Mercenary Kroenke will never spend the necessary money.

With the return of Alvaro Morata and the youthful talent of Marco Asensio, the Benzema move away from Bernabeu to possibly Arsenal may not be exclusively ruled out and a draw between both European Superpowers (Arsenal and Real Madrid) would ignite the interest in the French forward.

Not blessed superpowered manna from heaven.

Because, as your own subsequent question points out, China is (or, at least, in 1950s, was) a more acceptable superpower, unlike Russia; or for that matter a lot further from becoming a superpower, acceptable or not.

It has good relations with the superpowers and has benefited from this.

Early this week, top U.S. negotiator Todd Stern was pressing for more substantive concessions from the two emerging superpowers.

Obama frequently defended the National Security Agency (NSA) and its signals intelligence work and posited that as the last remaining world superpower, the U.S. has a responsibility to gather intelligence from sources around the world and share such information with its allies as part of its peacekeeping role.

They file past a relic from a turning point in Qian's life — and in China's rise as a superpower: a framed ticket from his 1955 voyage from San Francisco, California, to Hong Kong in China aboard the SS President Cleveland.

The 32 T superconducting system is made from two primary sections, an outsert section delivering 15 Tesla in a 250 mm wide bore magnet developed by Oxford Instruments Nanoscience (OINS) using advanced Low Temperature Superconductor (LTS) materials operating at 4.2 Kelvin and an insert section delivering 17 Tesla in 34 mm cold bore developed by our colleagues at NHMFL using advanced High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) materials manufactured by Superpower Inc..

This smoothie's superpowers will give you energy, satisfy your sweet craving (from the coconut water) and make your gut happy — all at once.

A wear - it - day - and - night moisturizer with serious superpowers — antioxidants, omegas, and ultra-hydrators for healthy, lit - from - within skin.

After a disastrous visit to the comic book store, Milo Powell decides to save kids from being all «overwhelmed and downtrodden and stuff» by becoming a superhero and using novelty items as superpowers.

He's also got to help fight off the evil army descending on Hogwarts for a battle royale, take a ride on a dragon, trip into a back - story vision to learn more secrets from Snape and Dumbledore, remind Ginny he's still into her and get the wand with the superpowers.

Young mutant Firefirst (Julian Dennison, all the way from New Zealand where he starred as Ricky Baker in The Hunt For The Wilderpeople), is laying waste to the school with his uncontrolled superpower of hurling bolts of fire from his hands.

Rick (YouTube's iBeShucks), the only roommate with a grain of common sense, misses out on the superpowers and must now spend all his time preventing his super-powered roommates from destroying the house, the city, the world, and any hope he might have of meeting a nice girl and moving out.

The comedy comes from a place of pain, and Ryan Reynolds» ability to flip between both registers so effortlessly is a superpower few actors possess.

That latter sequence is the movie's funniest, featuring a variety of cameos (including a blink - and - you'll - miss - it one from an uncredited movie star), as well as a punch line that's exactly what one would expect from a superhero team that includes a member with absolutely no superpowers.

These aren't normal kids turned into superpowered gods; they're a little removed from society and the rest of the world to begin with, particularly Victor Von Doom.

Nichols casts his muse Michael Shannon as a father on the lam from seemingly everyone when it's discovered that his young son possesses potentially dangerous superpowers.