Sentences with phrase «while legions»

And while legions of visitors are drawn to Portimao annually, seemingly magnetised by the sublime beaches, local seafood delicacies or indeed, the noted culture on offer, many more are taken in (and in numerous cases, return) courtesy of the clement weather readily discovered in this famous stretch of Portugal.

Today, higher quality large cap growth stocks are fairly valued while the legions of mediocre companies trading at high teen P / Es on bloated margins are where the overvaluation is centered.

Wonder Woman, the most popular female superhero of all time, sat on the sidelines while legions of Batman and Superman (and Batman + Superman) continued to see release.

I have seen hordes of American poor whites packed in single houses begging the landlord for mercy month after month, while legions of Indians strolled down gleaming Seattle streets, patronizing malls and coffee shops and enjoying the fruits of high civilization in the deep of a recession.

But while the legions of so - called cord cutters are growing rapidly, it remains an open question just how interested they are in having access to the dozens of channels available on cable TV.

Not exact matches

While Homejoy said its cleaners typically earn between $ 17 and $ 20 per hour, the questions raised about the employment practices of sites that use contract workers are legion.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

While this particular message may look benign, there are legions of people coming up with far more underhanded and clever ways to scam you — and those threats are not all online.

Yet while Gillman appears to have shafted his employees, legions of creditors, and possibly even his associate / investor, it's not clear that he will suffer personally.

And that's a scenario that, while seemingly far - fetched, would devastate the legions of Canadian businesses that depend on smooth trade with our neighbours to the south.

While the social customer ecosystem in the B2C market space is still legions ahead of B2B, it behooves B2B executives to not fall prey to the false sense that the comparative differences means they have to pay little attention.

While his detractors are legion, it is clear that he worked within the mainstream of Christian orthodoxy and the tradition from the Church Fathers to the medieval era to the Protestant world of his own day.

Corporate communicators in your mighty legions, The Onion has your number: New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It Let Someone Else Report On This Bullshit NEW YORK — While millions of young, tech - savvy professionals already use services like Facebook and Twitter...

The discovery clears the way for breeders to develop wheat varieties with the disease - and pest - resistance traits of other grasses, using a legion of genetic tools that can reduce crop losses and pesticide use while foregoing the cost, regulatory hurdles and controversy of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

This meal plan says to eat before the workout but other stuff I have read by you says to workout in a fasted state while taking the proper legion supplements.

Even in the Land of the Dead, you only exist so long as you are remembered, and while this is no problem for Ernesto de la Cruz, whose mansion is piled high with the offerings of his legions of fans, it's a pressing issue for Héctor, who is wracked with periodic spasms as his second and final death grows closer.

While a certain remove is usually what one seeks in a documentary — Moselle occasionally asks questions to keep the subjects explicating — The Wolfpack doesn't ever delve quite as deeply as it functionally could, leaving a legion of unasked questions, and even more unanswered.

While taking on legions of shambling undead with Morgan's fists was a genuine high point, it's not enough to make up for the fourth - class experience that Riptide is.

With the film being a reboot rather than a straight remake, it looks set to introduce a whole new generation to Max while satisfying the legion of original fans.

The most obvious difference between Galaga Legions DX and Galaga Legions is that where the previous game only let you shoot vertically while using satellites that fired horizontally to reach otherwise inaccessible enemies, the upcoming game is a dual - stick shooter.

Playing Lancaster Dodd, the cultish leader of The Cause, Hoffman illustrates the charisma necessary to recruit a legion of followers while also depicting Dodd as a man, «a hopelessly inquisitive man.»

There are some enjoyable bits scattered throughout, but while that may be enough to please the legion of fans who invested hours upon hours into «World of Warcraft,» average moviegoers unaffected by that sort of fan service will see «Warcraft» exactly for what it is: just another bad video game film.

Those legendary roles have endured with legions of filmgoers while new fans have been won over by his tyrannical Soran (the destroyer of Capt. Kirk) in Star Trek: Generations; his Machiavellian Mr. Roarke in «Fantasy Island» and his comically - pompous professor Steve Pynchon in the critically - hailed CBS television series, «Pearl,» starring opposite Rhea Perlman.

The Etrian Odyssey series has been around for a while and has a legion of followers.

It's centred on a UN representative Gerry Lane's attempts at escaping the escalating epidemic of the swarming legions of the undead, while on a mission to source it's origin and finding a cure.

Having spent the last four or five years deep in the world of «Harry Potter,» making mad bank for Warner Bros. while delivering movies that have more than satisfied the legion of fans around the world, director David Yates and the studio are at an interesting crossroads.

Galaga Legions DX will put a shiny finish on Galaga Legions, while Aero Cross sounds like a remake of Namco arcade classic Metro - Cross.

So, it is an important task on hand for the Learning and Development department that faces legion challenges while imparting the same.

Since its launch, Volvo's XC90 luxury SUV has won acclaim from legions of satisfied customers while receiving many awards internationally.

The Mini Cooper and its various derivatives have garnered legions of fans since hitting the US market in 2002, and while the Mini name is no longer a particularly apt descriptor for the brand's offerings, the current F55 / 66 generation that debuted in 2014 has remained a popular choice among those looking for a smallish fun car.

While listening to Zoe Keating's «Legions (War),» Jill Sobule's «Cinnamon Park,» and Tricky Pixie's «Tam Lin,» we noted that layers of sound weren't as separate as we'd like, but the audio did have some depth to it.

While the school of non-reflective eReading device lovers like myself can continue to proclaim love of the devices, the camp who prefer a legion of hybrid devices have their reasons to celebrate technological advances by leaps and bounds.

While he can't match the banks in resources or legions of experts, his advantage comes when clients consider «who is the person that's really integrating everything together?»

While the 48 - year - old Mexican - American amassed a legion of ardent fans globally over the Dog Whisperer's eight - year run from 2004 to 2012, he also drew a fair share of detractors who panned his methods.

At the marine reserve of Cabo Pulmo, you'll find large schools of fish and legions of eels, while islands such as Espiritu Santo near La Paz are home to playful colonies of seals and giant sea lion rookeries.

Arkham Horror is the kind of game that is horrifying in both the right way, through its powerful theme that mixes elements of horror and light comedy that can stem from the mayhem, and the wrong way via it's legion of cards, tokens and frequently confusing rulebook that aims to teach a complex and sometimes unintuitive set of rules, all of which manage to successfully hide that thematic strength for quite a while.

The successor to the NES needed to offer more power and better software than these upstart competitors while simultaneously maintaining the adoration of the legion of gamers who had grown up with Nintendo's 8 - bit console and now — quite rightly — demanded more complex experiences.

Arcade games like Pac - Man CE and Galaga Legions successfully brought classic games up to speed while still offering something new.

So while Fallen Empires: Legions and the browser - based Tribes game might be out of the equation, we've got a MMOG version of Tribes on the horizon as well as the Tribes - inspired Firefall coming.

Basically, all you do is runs round almost aimlessly while hacking away at legions of enemy soldiers.

While that isn't wrong per se, what it's created is a legion of fanboys who have long since transcended the term of fanboys.

As for ICO HD, it's nice, but I'll never play it again and would've much rather preferred Shadow of the Colossus HD, while Galaga Legions DX isn't something I can say I'm excited for.

The camera gets stuck every once in a while, and a duel - friendly perspective doesn't really bring any benefit when you're fighting legions of enemies most of the time.

Kill the horde of Skull warriors and collect the ectoplasm to set up towers and defenses whenever the magic stones light up: CATAPULTS, to throw flame to the enemy; BARRICADES, to block the attackers in their path; BARRELS, to shoot fire arrows and explode them in the middle of a skeleton legion; POISON PLANTS, to hit the warriors and slay them slowly while they walk... There are diverse types of magic energy to use at war: LIGHTNING, to defeat targets with metal or steel armor; FIRE, to burn light armor troops and blow up the exploding barrels; ICE, to turn your victims into ice cubes and slow them down; POISON, just one drop and the victim will succumb little by little to its toxic effects; STUN, to shoot and make their heads spin and leave them stupefied; EXPLOSIVE, to send everything flying with its strong TNT head... Use all with the different kind of arrows and do individual, radius or multiple damage.

Her hometown of Mumbai was ravaged by a dark matter plague and she joined to help her vow for revenge on LEGION while searching for a cure.

Despite all the flak that the Dynasty Warriors series and games of similar ilk get, there is something quite cathartic about absolutely mowing through legions of armies while controlling a lone character.

Yet, while Sonic and several other core hits were responsible for selling a legion systems, there was also a range of other cracking titles among the Genesis» hundreds of releases.

While not an outright terrible game, Shinobi Legions looks painfully dated, and the core game is sloppy and uninspired.

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be legions of lobbyists out there for innovation (and energy efficiency, for that matter), while there are potent forces fighting on the side of coal companies and utilities, financial institutions eager to trade carbon credits, manufacturers and retailers of today's consumer products.

Teamster, teacher, auto and service employee unions are paying their own employees minimal wages and benefits, and sacking them for trying to unionize, columnist Deroy Murdock chronicles — while preparing to pump $ 50 million and legions of campaigners into ruling class Democrat reelection campaigns.