Sentences with phrase «volleys of»

He sent volleys of personal attacks on the AG and failed to get consumer sympathy from his sellers.

Vacated in haste after viewing approaching Scottish armies and volleys of flaming arrows.

In R. v. Forcillo, 2018 ONCA 402, a Toronto police officer, Forcillo, fired two volleys of shots at a young man, Yatim, who was brandishing a knife on a Toronto streetcar, threatening passengers, and acting erratically.

And while tempers can certainly flare, volleys of insults and dramatic shouting - matches between opposing counsel are generally not tolerated.

As the Post spews forth ever - mounting volleys of falsehoods on its FP Comment page in its shrieking campaign against the «Copenhagen Catastrophe», it is worth reviewing the history of the Post's climate hysteria, whose roots go right back to the newspaper's founding in 1998.

It's true that Bolt's impact has been multiplied by the activities of the keyboard militia of aggro deniers who fire off volleys of abuse to the «warmists» he rails against.

Often, the commentary here and elsewhere threatens to devolve into extended volleys of retorts, particularly when anonymous contributors are involved, some of whom are so relentless that their ideological foes sometimes allege that they must be getting paid to do what they're doing.

Skull and Bones sounds like it could be a lot of fun: Tim described that demo as «charging around the sea, swinging your ship about to deliver spectacular volleys of cannon fire, and using your ram like an enraged narwhal» in his E3 preview, and that absolutely sounds like my kind of nautical videogame.

What follows is a fast - paced experience where enemies enter from the top of the screen and unload volleys of bullets at you.

Raise enemy infantry with powerful volleys of mortars!

From basic rabble to archers, knights and even dragons (these can actually be controlled by the player and can be used to dispatch tactically placed volleys of flaming death upon your foes), your army can become quite large and multi-faceted, which is just as well really because at the end of a number of days the apocalypse kicks off and you have to lay the final smackdown on the forces of evil and unpleasantness in order to win the scenario.

Dodge and weave through incoming laser blasts and mortar shots while returning your own volleys of attacks.

Snake drops a few of his assailants, then hops aboard the helicopter, laying waste to many of the base's key structures by firing volleys of lead into conveniently - placed red barrels (when will those baddies learn?).

Naval battles will see you steering ships, trading volleys of cannon fire with your foes, and boarding their ships to engage in hand - to - hand combat.

Normal melee attacks can be strung together in volleys of strikes, and be used in conjunction with the combo attacks for each weapon to create a truly awe - inspiring dance of destruction.

The left shoulder button can be held to loose volleys of rapid - fire shots, but, if you ease off the trigger for a few moments, you can charge up a more powerful blast, which is a neat way of dispatching larger or immediate threats.

The darts can be blocked relatively easily, as can the volleys of yellow discs.

During the trip you will see natural caves, sculpted caverns, and terraces with volleys of very steep stairwells that were shaped out of the natural rock formations by the Incas.

Christmas Eve, 1805 Sleet pierced the air like volleys of arrows.

It's not just the surprisingly loud exhaust that lets out machine gun volleys of pops and bangs from its twin tail pipes: it's the boosty, muscular mid-range that makes you want to call BS on Hyunda's official 6.1 sec 0 - 62mph time for this thing.

The warm affection for foibles, the lightning - quick volleys of verbiage, the screwball forward plunge of the montage: So much of what made Frances Ha special is right here, too.

Pitt's conviction in the role of Beane, once a rookie player with potential that never developed into success, turns the volleys of negotiations over trades and verbal showdowns over his unconventional ideas into dazzling drama.

In the new study, the scientists concluded that natural trillion - times - per - second vibrations in the STO travel up into the iron selenide film in distinct packets, like volleys of water droplets shaken off by a wet dog.

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.

But after a few volleys of contradictory accounts on TV and Twitter, the details are becoming clearer.

Now for most parents they might get hit with a few volleys of rain, perhaps some hail.

Unlike many players who have grown up with the big game, he displayed a full repertoire of shots — half volleys of a delicacy reminiscent of Vincent Richards.

The battle of the bumper stickers between conservatives and liberals in the late «60s and early «70s predictably was fought from such Sunday school formations; evangelicals, fundamentalists and charismatics fired volleys of «Christ is the Answer!

An audience - wide volley of heated but thought - provoking questions ensued.

That raised the question of where Western countries go from here, after a volley of strikes denounced by Damascus and Moscow as at once both reckless and pointless.

My tweet set off a volley of responses with the general sentiment being it's a practice to be avoided.

Lately pharma execs have been taking yet another volley of criticism over drug - pricing practices from Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio — and plenty of others — without offering much in the way of a defense.

A volley of 62 shots was sounded in Hyde Park and near Tower Bridge to honour the arrival of Princess Charlotte.

But they have refrained from targeting Assad's government, apart from a volley of U.S. missiles last year.

After a volley of filings and rebuttals in the case, both sides appeared Tuesday in U.S. Federal District Court in New York City to make their cases.

A volley of misconduct accusations has trashed White House doctor Ronny Jackson's reputation — and demolished his chance to lead the Veterans Affairs Department.

Indeed, Canada is already bracing for another volley of duties on billions of dollars worth of lumber exports — an industry that has enjoyed only brief interludes of free trade since the late 1980s.

The launch of a volley of protectionist measures by the Trump administration, which mainly target China but impact entire East Asian regional value chains (not to mention many other US trading partners, most notably Canada), appears to have galvanized negotiations among third parties.

A volley of words threatens a trade war between PRC leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Kazimir, Slovakia's finance minister, launched a volley of criticism at his Greek counterpart, releasing months of pent - up frustrations among the group at the political novice.

Zora Folley had Liston cowering and covering from a volley of combinations.

A group of Russians chant after launching a volley of bottles up a street pic.twitter.com/OOyV 5prfjF

Alabama's offense sputtered against Washington, and any Twitter search for «Lane» during the game would have shown a volley of tweets asking why the Tide weren't feeding running back Bo Scarbrough more often.

So the Bearkats with a «K» are locked into action with Florida State in the opening volley of the best of three super regional series at the Seminoles» home park.

A volley of barbs hails through the boards:

Hugo Lloris made a crucial block with his legs to prevent substitute Andre Ayew from snatching the points for West Ham but, despite a late volley of shots in a manic 30 - second spell that saw us try to force the issue, it ended 1 - 1, making for something of a subdued feeling at full - time.

At the 1976 Conservative conference, Michael Heseltine fired a volley of attacks on Labour, calling it «a rabble of political extremists» and «a one - legged army limping away», mimicking their imagined marching orders: «Left!

Our European counterparts unsurprisingly reacted a day later with a volley of counterthreats.

President Donald Trump drew a fresh volley of criticism from across the political spectrum yesterday for not explicitly denouncing the white nationalists at the center of the violence in Virginia.

Seeking to turn the tables on Republican incumbents, Senate Democrats on Thursday plan to release a volley of statements blasting GOP lawmakers for taking votes in favor of tax and fee increases.