Sentences with phrase «to bring the world to one's knees»

Poppy, tired of being a recluse and hungry for respect, brings the world to its knees by lacing her products with a toxin that will quickly and painfully kill her customers (but not without publicly shaming them first), whereupon she makes the President of the United States (Bruce Greenwood, in full heartless bastard mode) an offer: issue an executive decree legalizing drugs (thus making Poppy a legitimate businesswoman), and she'll release the antidote to her product.

You're not just a Jedi in KOTOR, you're a secret amnesiac badass who brought worlds to their knees.

In the hubris of the boom no one was prepared for the economic bubble that brought the world to its knees with the Great Depression.

People are what have brought this world to its knees and will eventually destroy this world completely.

But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father's legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)- who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war.

Set in the near future, Christopher Nolan's film depicts a time when an agricultural crisis has brought the world to its knees and a team of explorers are tasked with a mission to journey into the universe to find a new home for humankind.

Set in the near future, the film depicts a time when an agricultural crisis has brought the world to its knees and a team of explorers are tasked with a mission to journey into the universe to find a new home for humankind.

The Big Short tackles fraudulent behaviour head on, demystifying the baffling financial crisis that brought the world to its knees.

But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father's legacy.

But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father's legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)-- who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war.

James McCullen (Ecceston, 28 Days Later) plays both sides of the fence by selling these WMDs to NATO, then organizing with a world criminal army called Cobra to steal them away to engage in terrorist activities that will bring the world to its knees.

But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father's legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)» who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war.

A psychotic businessman has brought the world to its knees.

You're the last hope of saving a doomed world, resurrected from the «void» by an unknown voice in your head who goes by the name of Father (who brilliantly sounds like James Spader playing Ultron) It turns out that Mothr, an advanced A.I who has brought the world to its knees and of course you must help take her down.