Sentences with phrase «vast armies of»

The initial campaign will include the first chapter of the single - player experience where you face off against the righteous Emperor Stockington and the vast armies of his Sterling Empire.

But the young internet startups are all grown up now, and can easily afford to hire vast armies of lawyers and compliance experts who will help them avoid breaches that lead to massive fines.

BACK in 1995, Nicholas Negro - ponte in his book Being Digitalsuggested the greatest single obstacle to the roll - out of the information economy was the vast army of digitally homeless CEOs and senior managers.

THIS IS WHERE I NOW RAISE MY VAST ARMY OF FAST LEARNERS!

Not to be outdone, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday, organised an elaborate ceremony to unveil his own youth empowerment package: a row of kitted shoe - shine boxes to create a vast army of shoeshiners across the state.

The urine of a vast army of tiny fish, jellies and shrimpy things may play an important role in the ocean's nitrogen cycle.

And Megamind's vast army of floating mini-minion orbs look like sci - fi shad roe but turn out to be a battalion of peevish LEDs that constitute museum - quality airborne stagecraft.

Gru, his girls and his vast army of minions return in Despicable Me 2, the follow - up to the blockbuster 3D CGI feature that grossed more than $ 540 million at the worldwide box office and became the tenth biggest animated film in domestic history.

To compress the labyrinthine story into a sentence or two, the enemy is Saruman (Christopher Lee), who commands a vast army of Uruk - Hai warriors against the fortress of Theoden (Bernard Hill).

Mega publishers like Simon and Schuster and Random House could someday cede the midlist to a vast army of self - published authors.

It did well, however, with text from a website screen, and it did a fair job rendering our 1080p MP4 test video; overall it performed better than the vast army of Android 2.x tablets we've seen in the PCWorld Labs.

The vast army of believers in the Efficient Market Hypothesis seem convinced that NAV discounts don't exist, and never have.

Here you are on a mighty adventure, leading a band of fighters, scavengers and terrified refugees as they flee from the invading Dredge, a vast army of demonic, murderous stone warriors.

In the early days Piers mostly wrote it all himself, but these days he has this vast army of volunteers writing guest posts on PSFK's behalf.

There's no vast army of people and all the messy complexity they bring with them to worry about.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

And no regrets about having cut off the vast army of solar PV spivs.

This vast army of honest, hard - working real estate professionals is what real estate is all about.

Not exact matches

Thanks to the vast amounts of olive drab wool the Army needed during the war, uniform color varied from mustard green to brown.

Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others — the armies of heaven — praising God and saying,

And again one by one — more vaguely it is true, yet all - inclusively — I call before me the whole vast anonymous army of living humanity; those who surround me and support me though I do not know them; those who come, and those who go; above all, those who in office, laboratory and factory, through their vision of truth or despite their error, truly believe in the progress of earthly reality and who today will take up again their impassioned pursuit of the light.

Anyone who sounds aggrieved or — in the case of Solnit's enemies — more high - minded and principled can always summon an avenging army of supporters from the vast population of Internet - dwellers unwilling to spend more than five seconds trying to understand the dispute at hand, but endlessly willing to get a quick hit of that old self - congratulation.

In that city he encounters a «vast wheedling, suppurating army of the halt and the maimed.

The album's soaring lead single, «Skeleton Bones,» draws on Ezekiel 37's vision of The Valley of Dry Bones, where God creates a vast army from the remains of the dead.

This is surprising, since more than 140,000 soldiers of Irish birth served in the Union armies (with perhaps 40,000 on the Confederate side), the vast majority of them Catholic.

Ethnically, during the same period, there has been a vast and pitiless confusion of peoples, whole armies being removed from one hemisphere to the other, and tens of thousands of refugees being scattered across the world like seed borne on the wind.

In 1683, having dedicated his army to the Blessed Virgin, Sobieski personally led what was perhaps the greatest cavalry charge in history, driving a vast Turkish army from the gates of a beleaguered Vienna.

Thus the Putin regime deploys an army of internet trolls who, supplemented by bots, generate a vast amount of traffic on Facebook and Twitter, spreading lies and propaganda across the globe.

Then religion morphed into control of the masses (Roman Catholic Church) which ruled the known world and had vast armies.

Big brewers such as Lion and Asahi are no longer part of the Craft Beer Industry Association, with the army of small micro-brewers that has sprung up deciding to exclude them because their vast balance sheets were deemed to give them an unfair advantage, which didn't sit well with the small business entrepreneurs driving most craft beer companies.

The vast gallery, «Arnie's Army,» lined both sides of the 400 - yard first fairway several deep from tee to green.

JON: We should find as much dragonglass as possible and make an entire armory of weapons from it, as it's the only thing that can stop the vast undead army coming for us.

With the end of the cold war and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact there was a general expectation of a «peace dividend»: Finally, some of the enormous funds previously needed for the vast army could be redirected to more productive ends.

It will take an army of workers to reconstruct a vast swath of southeast Texas, including the sprawling metropolis of Houston, that was devastated by Harvey.

Ashwagandha is known as the «the herb that can support an army» thanks to its many vast array of medicinal benefits.

«Gelatin was universally acclaimed as a most nutritious foodstuff particularly by the French, who were seeking ways to feed their armies and vast numbers of homeless in Paris and other cities.

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From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

It's the 19th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it's the first to push to the wall, to the max, to the ultron the notion that the MCU really is a universe: a vast intermeshed thicket of comic - book icons, destined to be an army that's greater (in theory, at least) than the sum of its parts.

Armies swoop towards one another across a vast plain, each group displaying their own intricate maneuvers and battle strategies, wielding their own specific weaponry, making one think it could be a deleted scene from John Woo's «Red Cliff,» or that a fussy Middle Earth equivalent of John Keegan had been a consultant on the film, providing information on how the dwarf infantry worked, and how the elves moved in formation.

Shane Black, a bright, experienced screenwriter directing his second movie, is an anonymous leader of a vast technical army, and the film's saving graces are Downey's Stark, a charming neurotic; Rebecca Hall, an old flame who seems to have taken a wrong turn but is infinitely more engaging than Stark's tiresome current girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow; and especially Ben Kingsley, a big surprise in every sense as the villainous «Mandarin», his best performance since Sexy Beast.

An elite supervillain tries to steal the moon from the sky using his vast weaponry and an army of minions, but his evil machinations are undermined by three orphaned girls who see him as a father figure, despite his diabolical intentions.

One scene in which two huge armies face one another ends with no battle at all, after terms are successfully agreed by the leaders — while conversely the Battle of Hattin, in which Guy's vast forces were trapped and slaughtered by the waiting Saracens, is depicted only in its build - up and carrion - bird aftermath, with the actual killing left entirely to the viewers» imagination.

As indeed is Smaug's assault on Lake - Town, but Battle of the Five Armies only succeeds in bits and pieces, and overall feels less like a film than an enormously long episode in some vast follow - up adventure serial.

However, with a vast army and wealth at King Edward I's (McGoohan, Silver Streak) disposal, not all of the Scottish nobles are willing to go all in to fight for the freedom that Wallace seeks so tenaciously.

Wandering the galaxy, he assembled a small army of soldiers, mercenaries, and malcontents, as well as a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

She also reminded the authors in attendance of what a vast army they represent: «Thousands of people just like you are looking to find help to get your books published.»

For secrecy, it is draped in vast canvas shrouds that hide everything but its tail, which is that of the Army's familiar Redstone rocket.

I didn't want to focus on maximizing the usage of a singe troop or unit, I wanted to command entire armies and construct vast bases.

Ancestors Legacy is a historical real time strategy game set in the Middle Ages, during 10th - 12th centuries, and sees you taking command of a vast army as you storm through medieval Europe in an extensive series of campaigns.