Sentences with phrase «wall against the world»

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The discovery could pit Japan against China to be the world's largest producer of the materials, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Canada's move to take the U.S. to the World Trade Organization over its abuses of globally agreed rules, made public Wednesday, is a clear signal that the NAFTA exercise is up against the wall and that the U.S. is preparing to trigger the six - month withdrawal notice.

We are continuing to have this insane debate because we continue to beat our heads against the wall hoping that some kind of magical solution that no other country in the world has ever thought of will drop down out of the sky that allows us to keep the for - profit model and still deliver care to all.

And molecular biologists around the world bang their heads against the wall.

This church, this community, was once my whole world until it took the questions I offered with trembling hands and smashed them against the wall.

I know that sometimes it feels like beating your head against a wall trying to work with people that don't live in the real world.

Small wonder that America's movies and music and television shows make us enemies in traditional societies around the world — and small wonder, too, that many cultural conservatives, despairing of their country's future, embrace withdrawal from the world into a narrow, well - defended Christendom, where their families and their faith can be protected from the lowest - common - denominator swill that washes against the walls outside.

Jan 04,2016... Plastered against the seaside wall of a southern Italian mountainside are four of the world's most r...

Plastered against the seaside wall of a southern Italian mountainside are four of the world's most romantic retreats

In 1998 he captured the attention of the World's sporting press after curling a free kick around the wall and past his opposite number during an international against Argentina in Buenos Aires and in 1999 he became the first goalkeeper to score a hat - trick in the history of the game (for Velez Sarsfield against Ferro Carril Oeste).

Whether or not the footballing world believed they had a chance, Juve themselves knew what they were capable of with their backs against the wall.

Soon, I feel her pushing against the wall of my vagina, her door to the world.

Occupy Wall Street was a gim me issue for progressives around the city and the world, but in the neighborhood surrounding Zuccotti Park, it was a thorny situation in which free speech and assembly rights had to be balanced against the need of residents not to be disrupted, and Menin led the effort to forge a compromise resolution at C.B. 1.

When I first used to work in Westminster in the late «70s, you've got to remember there were very, very few places where people did interviews... 15 years later, with wall - to - wall 24 - hour news and the constant soundbite world, I think that finding a way to subvert the soundbite world is a duty for all of us and it's quite difficult... As somebody who would never argue against more outlets, one of the consequences we have to cope with is that people are trained up earlier and more efficiently and more boringly to avoid being interesting, avoid getting to the point.

War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race Edwin Black, Four Walls Eight Windows, $ 26 James Watson, the codiscoverer of DNA's double helix, thinks the world would be a better place if there were fewer stupid people.

Painted on the gallery walls are big questions that sound a lot like the ones the art world has been grappling with since allegations emerged against Close:

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the The Occupy movement is an international socio - political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world.

The highly competitive (and sometimes highly unfair...) A.I. will make you want to bang your head against the nearest wall, but this game truly shines when you play with friends, create a Club and start enjoying online this beautiful racing world Evolution Studios has created.

Ned is taken from his birthday party where he literally smashes a laptop against a wall to turn off the naked image of Laird's posterior and dropped in a world where Laird creates new technology and applications, which is his everyday life.

BALL STREET STUDIO: Sony Pictures TV Studios / Showtime TEAM: David Caspe (w, ep, sr), Jordan Cahan (w, ep, sr), Seth Rogen (d, ep), Evan Goldberg (d, ep) LOGLINE: Set against the events of October 19, 1987 — aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in U.S. history — it's the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue - blood, old - boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world's largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley's birthday party and the glass ceiling.

After years of struggling against the Kaiju, the world leaders decide instead to build a security wall around the main cities.

The real - life story of a high - stakes poker organizer who got mixed up in a world of celebrities, Wall Street thugs, and mafia goons, Molly's Game has a lot going for it, not to mention a few things going against.

I'm walking the convention floor when I see the big - time boast in giant tan script against a stark black wall: The Most Powerful Hypercar in the World, 1,800 hp.

In Steven Kelliher's secondary world only a handful of walled towns remain as the last bastions against the night, and the dwindling population of Emberfolk struggle to defend their secluded homes from the Dark Kind.

The rickety architecture of Casco Viejo is a world heritage site, and feels like a microcosm of the region: narrow alleyways with children kicking footballs against the wall, Panamanian men playing cards, complete with Panama hats.

The main villa is an architectural masterpiece of polished coral stone floors, carved pillars and dramatic archways set against an artistic counterpoint of native blue bit stone walls inlaid with seashells from around the world.

After building a series of traps and walls, Fortnite's can venture out into the world and go on the offensive against the mutant horde.

Select an acrobatic janitor and clean up the world by dashing off walls and ceilings in a race against the clock.

When up against the wall with the memory budget and a huge world filled with characters and moving intractable objects, we came up with new tricks to squeeze the most out of the resources we had available.

Michael Consoli - Against the Wall - Explore a beautifully rendered and mysterious world set on the side of an infinite vertical surface, while trying to return to your village located miles above the starting point.

It's you against the world as you dodge walls, spikes, and a whole host of other obstacles using a simple A button press and some quick moves with the left control stick.

It showed a perfectly white arena, giving the user the opportunity to define it by throwing big globs of black paint everywhere, which spattered convincingly against walls and acted as a sort of acrylic sonar to guide the player through the world.

In Anthem, players control characters known as Freelancers, who are tasked with not only exploring the surrounding world but also defending civilians against any threats that lurk beyond the fortified walls.

I didn't find it uncommon to hit a wall against the game's most challenging creatures, but thankfully by the time I did I had unlocked new abilities that allowed me to explore more of the world.

Sheets of paper pressed insistently by her pencil up against windows, walls and doors become heavily material objects, while things in the world — windbreaks, found photographs, a fireplace — are redrawn as artworks through subtle alteration.

Eventually, after decades in the wilderness with paintings stacking up four deep against the walls of her Manhattan flat, Neel summoned sufficient courage to approach art - world figures.

It allows «conversations» to emerge between similar pieces, like an inspired grouping of three of her mattress castings: the ochre one, made of rubber, Untitled (Air Bed II)(1992) propped sideways seems watchful, while its reddish resin sibling Untitled (Amber Bed)(1991) slumps against the back wall as if drunk or knackered; meanwhile, their black companion Untitled (Black Bed)(1991) lies flat out, as if scorched and dead to the world.

The parallel, lesser - known history is what happens when they stay in and work against the four walls of the studio — beyond just portraiture, fashion, or product photography — experiments surveyed in MoMA's «A World of Its Own» exhibition last year.

2007 «Amateur World: A Contemporary Art Exhibition,» Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China «Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists,» Arario Gallery, Beijing; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China «Unpredictable: New Photography from China,» Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, CA «Against the Wall: Contemporary Chinese Artists,» Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada «On View: Selections from China,» Fortune Cookie Projects, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY «Shouting Truth: A Contemporary Art Exhibition,» Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China

Postcards From The Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, US New York / New Drawing 1946 - 2007, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, ES Monuments With A Horizon Line II, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, DE Desenhos [Drawings]: A-Z, Museu da Cidade, Pavilhão Preto, Lisbon, PT The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT A Bit of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Performatik 09, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek and Performatik, Brussels, BE Regift, The Swiss Institute, New York, US Cut & Paste, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK Down To Earth (Ceramics), Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE Double 40 Jahre Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, MMK, Frankfurt, DE The First Stop on the Super Highway, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi - do, KR Feedbackstage, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions For The Future (curated by Isabel Carlos), Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, UAE Two in One Contemporary Art from Witte De With & De Appel, Christie's, Amsterdam, NL 40th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA Écritures Silencieuses, curated by Herve Mikaeloff, L'Éspace Louis Vuitton, Paris, FR Carnival Within - An Exhibition Made in America, curated by Sabine Russ, Gregory Volk, Uferhallen, BE Espèces d'Espaces, Yvon Lambert, New York, US Take The Money And Run, Brouwergracht 196, Appel, Amsterdam, NL Double Participation, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Main, DE Beginnings, Middles, And Ends (cur.Gianni Jetzer), Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna, AT Dematerialised: Jack Wendler Gallery 1971 to 1974, curated by Teresa Gleadowe, Chelsea Space, London, UK Time As Matter, MACBA, Barcelona, ES 15 Years of Collecting Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE Artist Rooms Tate St Ives Summer Season, Tate St.Ives, UK Au Pied De La Lettre, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Chamarande, FR Art - Athina, Galerie Hubert Winter, Faliro Pavillion, Athens, GRSerralves 2009 The Collection: An Exhibition in Three Parts and Permanent Works in the Park, Serralves 2009 - The Collection: Passage through the First Part of the Exhibition, Serralves Museum, Porto, PT Serralves 2009 - The Collection: Videos and Films in the City, 74 Rua Cândido dos Reis, Porto, PT As Long As It Lasts, curated by Tom Eccles, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Close Encounter, Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden, NL When Ideas Become Forms 30 Years of Gallery, La Galleria, Venice, IT; Galerie Dr.Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, IT The Poetics of Space, curated by Anja Isabel Schneider, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, FR Zidovi na Ulici / Walls in the Street, multiple locations around Belgrade, RS Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949 - 78, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US Time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE This World & Nearer Ones, curated by Mark Beasley, Governors Island, New York, US Recontres International Paris / Berlin / Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE Turning Some Pages, screening A House is not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles, Négrons, FR Printed Matter, Learn to Read Art (Aprender a Leer Arte), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, ES Collection History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, MOCA, Los Angeles, California, US In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 - 1976, curated by Christophe Cherix, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Memory Labyrinth.

In 1982, at the documenta 7 exhibition, Haacke exhibited a very large work that included oil portraits of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in 19th - century style, facing on the opposite wall a gigantic photograph of the demonstration against nuclear arms held earlier that year — the largest demonstration in Germany since the end of the Second World War.

Minimalist sculptor John McCracken seemed like an artist without relevance by the time of the go - go»80s, but now his peaceful and refined jewels lean against the wall as a quiet haiku in a punk rock world.

Nigoghossian intends these works for outdoor display, and accordingly conceived of the exhibition as something that strains against its containing walls, pushing towards the outside world.

Guston's main point at Boston University was that the state of things in 1966 was very different from the original experience of the Abstract Expressionists around 1950 when, in his words, you felt as if you were driven into a corner against the wall with no place to stand, just the place you occupied, as if the act of painting itself was not making a picture, there are plenty of pictures in the world — why clutter up the world with pictures?

(This approach was tried in Mosley, when the News of the World's legal team, no doubt realising that the writing was on the wall, attempted to shoehorn the story into a matter of public interest by arguing that the sexual activities involved, constituted assaults under the Off ences Against the Person Act 1961 and as crimes were therefore matters of public interest.

He's on the cover of Time Magazine, named one of the hundred most influential people in the world, and campaigned against corruption, especially corruption on Wall Street over his career.

When iOS 11.3 becomes available as an over-the-air update this spring, AR apps will be able to place virtual objects against walls and doors, as well as recognize irregularly shaped objects in the real world.

Attack on Titan is a popular anime about a world in which humanity lives in walled cities to protect against gigantic carnivorous monsters called Titans — and it'll be an Xbox and PC game in August.

Visitors to «Within These Walls» encounter a picture of everyday home life that emerges against the backdrop of American history, including such touch points as colonial America, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, the industrial revolution, and World War II.

But overall, the aesthetic is shaped by the information available out in the world: for instance, televisions are thinner and lie flat against the wall, so now it doesn't make sense to have the couch pushed up against the other wall --- that's too far away.