Sentences with phrase «which ups the ante»

By collecting stock in the game, players can also perform double and combination actions which ups the ante of the combat, allowing players to increase their artillery available on the enemies.

Director George Miller's cult hero Mad Max returned for the bigger - budget sequel The Road Warrior, which upped the ante in raw vehicular mayhem.

However, the smart shopper will invest in the larger 2.0 - litre engine, which ups the ante to 164 horsepower and 151 lb. - ft.

There's also the upcoming Range Rover Sport SVR, which ups the ante to 405kW / 680Nm and will hit 100km / h in 4.7 seconds from May.

Once completed, you can unlock a new game mode which ups the ante, making combat even more difficult.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag will be setting sail on next - gen PS4 and Xbox One consoles in addition to Xbox 360 and PS3, which upped the ante for the development team to create a next - gen open world to... Read More

Raid mode can be played with friends, which ups the ante.

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Should we discover a habitable ocean with the next Europa mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022, or even hints of life, researchers are ready to up the ante.

Wall Street had upped the ante for the quick - service brand, which has revamped its image following several years of market share declines.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

The Chilean upped the ante a bit last week by saying that he needs to be in the Champions League, which was a very thinly veiled admission that he wants out of Arsenal during the current summer transfer window and whether the boss can talk him round is questionable.

The Assembly Democratic conference, which is poised to release its one - house budget proposal, is upping the ante in the abortion rights debate in light of President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and return this controversial issue back to the states.

It's going to be a hard sell in the Senate's Republican majority, but that may just up the ante for deal - making on legislation for the rest of the session, which is scheduled to end June 16.

The Astorino campaign slammed Team Cuomo, (which, according to Erie County Democratic Chairman Jeremy Zellner, collaborated on the creation of this ad) for doctoring the photo, and then upped the ante by releasing a video this morning of Sean Astorino telling the governor it «wasn't very nice» of him to alter a photo of what was a treasured father - and - son moment.

Paladino and Levy's champion, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, have been battling back and forth over whether Paladino will get a chance to speak at the convention, with the candidate upping the ante yesterday by releasing a video in which Randy Credico did his President Nixon impression to criticize the chairman.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) engaged in a nasty, lone radio debate in her Democratic primary against upstart Reshma Saujani on Tuesday morning, in which the two traded barbs — but managed to up the ante after the event, as the incumbent literally fled from reporters and the challenger said she might not vote in the general election if she loses.

Lakewood, Colo., which has already surpassed Syracuse in terms of annual snowfall this year, is about to up the ante.

Further upping the ante, the committee's five Democrats threatened to release the full transcript of Mills's closed - door testimony, which lasted for nine hours, unless Gowdy gives them a reason not to.

«This report ups the ante on the pace at which these cases need to be identified and treated,» says Peter Small, a TB researcher at the Stanford Medical Center in California.

But what is quantum supremacy in a field where horizons are being widened on a regular basis, in which teams of the brightest quantum computing minds in the world routinely up the ante on the number and type of quantum bits («qubits») they can build, each with their own range of qualities?

Up the ante from regular plank, which gives you a core of steel, for power, strength and ease of movement.

You can also add more vegetables to your food when you cook at home, which ups the nutritional ante more.

Before the event, the star upped the ante on her outfit by sharing a Boomerang, which shows her from the back as she looks out a window in Toronto:

This latest set of features aims to up the ante in the highly competitive online dating market, which Heuss pegs is worth over a billion dollars in the U.S.

But new boy Christopher McQuarrie more than makes up for that with gasp - inducing action sequences that will have you holding your breath in sympathy with those getting pummeled: the opening sequence, in which Tom Cruise's IMF agent Ethan Hunt jumps onto the wing of an taxiing cargo plane and clings to its side as the enormous thing takes off beautifully ups the ante on Protocol's hanging - off - the - side - of - a-skyscraper stunt.

The MCU upped the ante with Iron Man 3, which is far from a typical Marvel movie.

Then you have cars which really ups the ante of the gameplay.

For that we can thank contemporary cinema's «torture porn» craze, which has seen movies in the Saw and Hostel series upping the ante for gore and imagining increasingly twisted ways to torment its characters.

If AMC's «Preacher» wasn't already insane, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are upping the ante with the forthcoming third season, which will already plans to introduce Betty Buckley as Jesse's wicked «Gran» ma» and Jonny Coyne as Allfather D'Aronique!

If AMC's «Preacher» wasn't already insane, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are upping the ante with the forthcoming third season, which...

Another highlight of this current game is that each of the 40 - playable characters have their own unique combos which really ups the ante of the replay value of this game.

The impatient can still watch the trailer, which cuts jarringly from the found - footage POV of the original Cloverfield, then jumps into outer space, where a severed arm crawls across the floor, stuff blows up, and Gugu Mbatha - Raw ups the mystery ante by begging an unseen someone to put a halt to whatever they're doing.

Though this time, to prove that modern times have upped the ante, hot irons are mistaken for hospital defibrillators (which is more painful than funny), but not even a chainsaw cuts through Curly's humpty - dumpty noggin.

Arguably one of the best superhero movies ever, X2 did wonders to up the ante after the first X-Men film, which Fox saw as a bit of a gamble.

We're hoping he'll up the ante yet again with his next feature, the espionage / Yakuza thriller The Avenging Silence, for which an intriguing (and surprisingly detailed) synopsis has already been released.

As if that isn't enough to process, Third ups the ante one more notch by blessing Fiona with a bun in the oven, which gives daddy - in - the - making Shrek a healthy dose of parenting anxiety.

He's also based on a real - life person, Nobel Prize - winner John Forbes Nash Jr., which severely ups the ante in the Oscar race.

It also upped the ante in the ongoing battle between the politically powerful union and well - monied charter schools — one in which charter schools such as Success Academy locate in black and brown low - income neighborhoods and continually outperform public schools in wealthier public schools districts.

Most state departments of education and school districts will say they've been serious about data for the past 15 years, especially since the introduction of the No Child Left Behind act, which considerably upped the accountability ante.

Ford has significantly upped the ante in the compact - car segment with its redesigned 2012 Focus, which has taken a giant leap in terms of looks and quality.

The base 3.7 - liter V - 6 makes 275 hp and 260 lb - ft of torque, while the twin - turbo EcoBoost V - 6 (a version of which is used in Ford Racing's Daytona Prototype race car) ups the ante to 310 hp and 400 lb - ft of torque.

Buying a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat from your local dealership will cost $ 60,990 after destination, but one bidder at the Barrett - Jackson Las Vegas auction anted up $ 825,000 for the very first production model, which bears a VIN ending in «0001.»

The SX Turbo, which gets larger brakes and firmer damping, ups the ante to $ 33,395, and its 2.0 - liter engine is rated at 240 hp with FWD and 237 hp with AWD (a $ 1,500 option on all trim levels).

For this 2014 version, Mercedes has upped the ante further, with a new platform underneath that enhances passenger space and boot space, which is now up to 1510 litres with the rear seats folded and has a wide, flat load bay area.

Upping the ante is the 577 - horsepower CLS63 AMG S 4Matic, which can bolt to 60 mph in less than four seconds.

Tata Motors, which has seen an uptick in its passenger vehicle sales with the trio of the Tiago hatchback, Tigor compact sedan and the Hexa crossover, is all set to up the ante with the rollout of the much - awaited Nexon SUV later this year.

The vast majority of customers will ante up $ 1,695 extra for the four - speed automatic, which also includes electronic stability control.

Based on the standard Golf R hatchback, which with its turbocharged 300 PS engine and 4MOTION four - wheel drive is hardly a shrinking violet, the Golf R 400 ups the ante considerably, with 400 PS and an extra 70 Nm of torque, making for 450 Nm in total, available from 2,400 to 6,000 rpm.

Tata Motors, which is seeing strong sales of its first ever compact SUV, the Nexon, has now further upped the ante with automated manual transmission (AMT) versions priced at Rs 941,000 for the petrol and Rs 10.3 lakh for the diesel (ex-showroom, Delhi).

GM has just upped the ante in Europe's battle for top hot hatch honors by releasing details of its new Opel - Vauxhall Hot 2012 Astra VXR, which goes on sale next year and is set to become one of the most powerful cars in its class and the fastest production Astra yet.