Sentences with phrase «war with rival»

Self - made millionaire, Blavatnik — owner of the Warner Music Group, paid # 41million for 15 and 15b on the exclusive street in 2004 after a rumoured bidding war with rival Roman Abramovih and Lakshmi Mittal.

And sometimes, you need to start a full - on war with a rival agency.

Forge chemical trails to rich food sources, wage war with rival colonies, and avoid deadly hazards like spiders and giant human footsteps.

As you navigate through a bunch of islands, you'll also to control huge ships and go to war with rival pigs and even birds.

With his people scattered and broken by the lack of resources and a war with rival tribes, Takkar must reunite his people in order to take back the land of Oros and survive the many predators that lie in wait.

The decision came after Coles was taken to the commission on fears that the price reductions, which kick - started a price war with rival Woolworths, was engaging in predatory pricing which would affect dairy farmers.

This did not stop his organisation from engaging in bloody turf wars with rivals in the drug trade, particularly Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.

Tottenham are not planning to involve themselves in a bidding war with rivals Arsenal for Monaco's Thomas Lemar this summer.

Not exact matches

Earlier Wednesday, research firm NPD Group estimated that the industry's sales increased by 5 % last year, boosted by Star Wars toys — a property that is closely associated with Mattel rival Hasbro (has).

Only days before his ouster, Bannon reaffirmed, in an interview with a left - leaning political journal, his long - held conviction that the U.S. is locked in an «economic war» with China, and boasted of plotting behind the scenes to take down White House rivals who lacked the courage to join his call to arms.

Datastream's executives knew they could never win a price war with larger rivals or compete with their huge marketing budgets.

At its helm is a skinny, contemplative student of the world who revels in asking questions and couldn't be bothered by so trivial a pursuit as warring with the company's rivals.

The Beijing - based company has in recent weeks been in talks with bankers about the feasibility of tapping the public markets for cash in the second half of 2018, as it looks to amass a large war chest to fend off rivals in China and other countries, the people said.

With competition in the solar space increasing, SolarCity engaged in a pricing war with many of its rivals, a race to the bottom that hurt deal profitabilWith competition in the solar space increasing, SolarCity engaged in a pricing war with many of its rivals, a race to the bottom that hurt deal profitabilwith many of its rivals, a race to the bottom that hurt deal profitability.

In addition, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has had to deal with new price - war considerations, including the potential merger of its No. 3 and No. 4 rivals in the U.S. wireless telecom industry, and is also reacting adversely to threats of higher interest rates.

Satan bbjss was once God's loved son and the most handsome of all God's sons... Satan's downward spiral was his desire to be like God in every way which Satan could never be... Satan, along with all his brothers who found him to be their leader did rival God and God's faithful sons and war ensued... Satan along with all his northerly followers were cast out of their heavenly abode and sent to the celestial earthen plains to live among us humans... Thusly the fallen sons of God saw the daughters of mankind to be fair and they took from mankind all the women that they willed...

To give you an example of just how narrow minded they are when in power, Stalin was so obsessed with wiping out rival factions of communists and socialists and anarchists in the Spanish Civil War that he lost the wWar that he lost the warwar!

Moreover, earnest Christians fought the evils attendant upon the chronic wars between the rival dynasties and sought to check the exploitation of peoples by European conquerors, explorers, merchants, and settlers and make the contacts with Europeans accrue to the benefit of non-Europeans.

So possibly the purpose of this is to scared of potential rival, kind of like «We are no longer the «poor» Arsenal, we have resources to outbid most clubs, so don't even think about starting a bidding war with us».

The club's decision not to get involved in a bidding war with local rivals Manchester United for Alexis Sanchez despite long - standing interest, and even though Guardiola had previously worked with the Chilean at Barcelona, was another vote of City's confidence in their all - time top goalscorer.

«The party is riddled with infighting, proxy wars between rival camps and is run by an NEC that is not fit for purpose.»

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, armed with a $ 4.9 million campaign war chest and a double - digit polling lead over his nearest Democratic primary rival, is expected to cruise to victory on Tuesday, but not without a fight from four long - shot candidates.

Quinn rival Anthony Weiner, who entered the race for mayor with a hefty campaign war chest to begin with, plans to hold two fundraisers next week.

The campaign has been careful about such overtures in the past as it fended off criticisms from the left by her primary rival Bernie Sanders, who highlighted her 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War, ties to controversial Republican figures like Henry Kissinger, and warm relationship with Wall Street.

And as Cuomo prepares to run for a third term with a massive $ 30 million war chest and against what are expected to be little - known Republican rivals, 55 percent of voters are prepared to re-elect him, compared with 36 percent who prefer a generic «someone else.»

From 1918 until 1989, with the exception of the period of theSecond World War, the main priority of MI6 was the Soviet Union and the Comintern, with the Soviet intelligence and security services seeing MI6 as its main rival certainly until the 1950s.

Turkey has pretty much turned the kurdish areas into a war zone at times, with destruction of houses that rivals the Israeli occupation of Gaza.

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan's «real» campaign for state attorney general started with a war of letters with his newly minted rival, state Sen. Eric Schneiderman yesterday.

Yes, and David Dilks, who has written about Chamberlain, examines Churchill's relationships with political and social figures in the UK and US in Churchill and Company: Rivals and Alliances in War and Peace (IB Tauris, # 20).

Woolfe, who joined Ukip six years ago, said the party is «riddled with infighting, proxy wars between rival camps and is run by an NEC that is not fit for purpose».

Further historical investigations showed that the revolts disrupted attempts by Ptolemaic armies to seize territory in Mesopotamia through wars with their main rivals, the Seleucid Empire.

Further historical investigations showed that the revolts severely disrupted attempts by Ptolemaic armies to seize new territory in Mesopotamia through at least nine major wars with their main rivals, the Seleucid Empire that straddled parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, between 274 and 96 BC.

However, his plan is not to offer a hand at some form of global reconciliation, but an all out war that will destroy the west with Wakanda's stockpile of vibranium, an alien tech that can create weapons that rivals the strongest deterrents human technology can come up with.

In the first, Martinez played Michelle Miller, a housewife who aspired to a career as a fashion designer after discovering her husband's infidelity, and subsequently bore witness to the battle of wills between two rival designers at war with each other — Maria Gianni (Bo Derek) and Sophia Blakely (Morgan Fairchild).

Benedict Cumberbatch is attached to The Weinstein Company's rival project The Current War, with Cumberbatch to play Edison and possibly Jake Gyllenhaal as Westinghouse in the race to electrify America.

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

Collecting a team of rivals, he enlists Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup) and his right - hand man, Viscount Halifax (Stephen Dillane), for his war cabinet, along with his own stalwart ally, Anthony Eden (Samuel West).

When a turf war erupts with rival Bruce (Dean Daley - Jones, Mad Bastards), Daniel is caught in the middle of an increasingly violent and destructive tirade.

Thinking initially that the offenses are being carried out by rival Serbian gangster Papa (Bruno Ganz), Greven responds to Nils's attacks on minor henchmen with a preponderance of force, starting a gang war that lands Nils conspicuously in the middle.

If she's introduced as Shuri in The Black Panther, Nyong» o could be a powerful presence on screen, rival T'Challa as both a political candidate and skilled combatant, and act out the most shocking moment in Black Panther's history, which occurs during the war with Thanos.

It turns into your basic fable about warring street gangs, with a superman (Michael Pare) and his tough female accomplice (Amy Madigan) breaking into the headquarters of the rival gang and bringing Diane Lane back alive.

«Lincoln» Synopsis: Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin «s biography of Lincoln, «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,» the Steven Spielberg film stars Daniel Day - Lewis as the martyred president and follows the last several months of Lincoln's life as he faced violent opposition, on the battlefield and in the White House, as the Civil War gasped to a close, concluding with that fateful visit to Ford's Theatre.

«Day of the Soldado» reunites Alejandro with Brolin's paramilitary fixer, Matt Graver, until their joint effort to foment a war between rival Mexican cartels falls apart, resulting in a bloody game of cat - and - mouse, played with Blackhawk helicopters and high - powered weapons.

Based on a book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and directed by Steven Spielberg, the film revolves around the 16th President of the United States of America and specifically with his handling of the Civil War and slavery abolishment.

Since then, developer Criterion has made one spin - off — Burnout Crash — and Need For Speed: Most Wanted, as well as helping out with other games such as Need For Speed: Rivals and Star Wars Battlefront II.

The reveal happens midway through the film (much faster in the previews, alas), after John and Jane have each had a chance to demonstrate how they seduce men with their charm and good looks (every man wants Pitt to be his drinking buddy and Jolie to be his Madonna / whore), they're pitted against one another in a sequence that rivals the last hour of The War of the Roses in domestic deconstruction.

STARCRASH represents an early foray for the composer into the realm of science fiction and he would soon return again when he worked in 1979 on THE BLACK HOLE, Disney's attempt to compete with rival studios in the wake of STAR WARS and MOONRAKER, that year's entry in the James Bond series, which featured many science fiction elements.

Edison favoured direct current and Westinghouse alternative current, and it was a titanic war of personalities and ideas, which incidentally involved a gruesome minor battle, which this film tactfully passes over: Edison tried to get the rival AC approach identified (and stigmatised) in the public mind with the death penalty and the electric chair, whose frazzling executions were macabre and often bungled.

Such are the cases with «Adult Beginners,» helmed by Ross Katz, whose «Taking Chance» deals with a lieutenant colonel who takes on a greater appreciation of the sacrifices of our soldiers in the Iraq war and written by a husband - wife team whose comedy «Blades of Glory» focuses on two male figure skating rivals.

The dramatic changes in the Soviet Union touched off by the failed coup against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev focus attention on the inadequacies of U.S. textbooks and curricula dealing with America's former Cold War rival.