Sentences with phrase «than adversaries with»

However, when it comes to a hugely important area of public policy, pensions, the unions are more often allies than adversaries with investment...

In today's high - tech climate though, technology should be considered as a potential mechanism to foster curiosity and enhance engagement with the natural world, rather than an adversary with which nature must compete.

Not exact matches

It also shows, contrary to Inherit the Wind, that he was familiar with Darwin, and may even have understood the evolutionary doctrine better than his adversaries, or at least had a better idea of what was really at stake.

Unlike his Dutch adversary, Klopp may not be a manager who seeks victory through smothering opponents with possession but he too requires a certain level of slickness from his players on the ball and coherency from his team as a group in order for his own tactics to be effective rather than wasteful and chaotic.

Teams having a bogey opponent is common place in football, someone they encounter problems with more times than not when it comes to clinching maximum spoils, although few can moan about Blackburn Rovers being their nightmare adversary.

From the bigger perspective of the overall city budget, Minority Leader Willie Pabon praised Stewart for making progress despite inheriting a massive deficit and a council with more than a few political adversaries.

SPECIAL FEATURES The commentary track, which features director John Milius and Schwarzenegger, is a hoot: They spend most of it alternating between a sort of masturbatory reverie -LRB-» That's a great shot»), play - by - play commentary -LRB-» Here's the scene with the giant snake»), and filmmaking insight (in casting Conan's adversaries, Milius made sure that they were all bigger than Arnold, so that viewers wouldn't see his victory as a foregone conclusion).

The single - disc DVD also includes the ten - minute «Larger Than Life: Adversaries,» with Mann and stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale discussing their characters and their research (actors love to show off their research — did you know Depp was born about 60 miles away from Dillinger's birthplace?).

Pacino at least can be credited with stretching himself and playing something other than an explosive mentor or adversary.

As the monsters are naturally more interesting than their mechanical adversaries, Day's character is our much - needed portal into the world of the Kaiju, and his dexterous performance — along with the few glimpses we get of the monsters in broad daylight — are highlights.

With no less than three primary adversaries facing our hero over the span of only about 100 minutes, the film feels overstuffed and rushed; once everyone is set up, the film is barreling headlong into its climactic stretch.

Before the authorities or more adversaries arrive, he quickly explains that her life, too, is now in danger and that her odds for survival are far better if she sticks with him than attend her little sister's (Grace) Beantown wedding as planned.

Unfortunately, they are often seen as the adversary themselves...» Students know that there is subjectivity inherent in teachers» grading systems, which supplies students with the ready excuse that when they perform poorly in a class, they can blame it on the teacher for being too hard or unfair, rather than taking responsibility for their own needs for improvement.

«It is important to learn to welcome reporters rather than treat them as adversaries; reporters often are looking for sources with whom they can work.»

The authors share their experience with this leadership style and document the sustainable results of transformational leaders working with teachers as partners rather than adversaries.

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years — as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues — Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller - coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

Progressing through «Doom» requires internalizing the patterns of one's demonic adversaries to such a degree that one responds to their attacks with precision rather than acting on dumb luck.

Planning is tactical rather than strategic, players must react in the moment to shootouts as they unfurl, with additional extra time to assess the situation if they are able to surprise their adversaries.

In the confrontations between the Euro - American colonists and the Amerindian nations, it was the Amerindian nations who tended to be better armed with firearms and other arms on frequent occassions than their Euro - American adversaries.

The commenters at WSJ Law Blog identify the usual suspects: pressure to meet billable hour quotas, stress caused by constant dealings with nasty judges and rude adversaries, inability to cut the golden handcuffs that bind lawyers to high - paying positions, worries about an over-saturated job market and burgeoning student loans and pangs of conscience at defending objectionable clients or having entered the legal profession for security rather than having followed one's heart instead.

We approach conversations with adversaries much differently than we do partners,» he explains.

Our culture has changed, so that now more than ever we strive to reach this potential, and not settle for life with our closest partners as adversaries or distant friends.