Sentences with phrase «while pirates»

Only 60,000 e-books are offered through licensed retailers, while pirates offer around twice as many titles, according to one analyst's estimates.

And while Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is determined to please us enough to ignore the flimsy story, it fails to give the audience what we really want.

While Pirates (1986) lacks much of what marks Polanski's best films in style and content, it does continue a career - long fascination with the balance of power, with master / slave allusions to The Fat and the Lean andVampire Killers.

While Pirates of the Caribbean sees Knightley play with the idea of the action genre, Domino sees her dive head - first into the idea, embracing it completely.

The betting world is relatively split on this matchup, as the Marlin's money line is -116, while the Pirates sit at +106.

While the Pirates faced No. 1 seed James Logan and won their first three playoff games by a combined 16 points, Berkeley cruised to the title game with an average margin of victory of nearly 14 points per game.

While the Pirates (3 - 3) were trying to fend off two toughies — Los Angeles and Cincinnati — from the Western Division, the Cubs (6 - 1) stormed to within a half game of the Eastern lead.

But while the Pirates failed to score in the ensuing seven innings, Philadelphia's Greg Luzinski belted a three - run homer, Richie Hebner hit a three - run double, and starting Pitcher Randy Lerch, batting better than he pitched, had two home runs.

The Dodgers had the day off on Thursday, while the Pirates played at home before flying across the country for tonight's game.

A crowd in Pittsburgh, watching the game on the Three Rivers Stadium video scoreboard while the Pirates played Sosa's Cubs, booed Harnisch for walking McGwire.

While Pirate Warriors 2 had its own original plot, Pirate Warriors 3, like the first game, follows the plot of the manga — starting at Luffy's first adventure and moving all the way up to the current Dressrosa arc.

While the Pirate is busting in the husbands house and leaving with Desire.

And if it all gets too difficult to buy your books then I'll settle for finding out where you live and stuffing fivers through the letter box, while pirating;)

In reality, official version of foreign games may stuck in the bureaucratic application process while the pirate version would spread all over since it does not need to get through the official approval procedures.

While pirating doesn't necessarily equal a lost sale, the sheer number here is incredibly demoralizing.

China has long been perceived as a «nation of copycats,» where the shanzhai mentality reigned supreme, but, while pirating still goes on there, China has already moved on to the next phase of its development.

Not exact matches

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

While Canipre's film - noir website paints the company as the scourge of pirates, the truth is murkier.

As I wrote back in August, recent studies conducted by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Information Technology and Information Foundation (ITIF) have demonstrated convincingly that blocking offshore pirate websites works in terms of changing consumer behaviour (i.e. directing consumers away from infringing content to sources of legitimate content) while at the same time not interfering with normal internet operations.

They also said Ulbricht was arrested in October 2013 while logged into Silk Road on his laptop as Dread Pirate Roberts, chatting with an undercover federal investigator posing as a member of the website's staff.

While the atomization of the traditional TV platform didn't do ABC any favors last night — in a move that sent tens of thousands of cord - cutters scrambling for a link to a pirate feed, the network's live stream of the Oscars was available only to verified pay - TV subscribers — the enthusiasm for this year's show may have been dampened by a pool of nominees that was loaded with smallish releases and fewer household names than in years past.

From their site: «Any swashbuckling guest who talks like a pirate will receive one free Original Glazed doughnut, while fans who dress like a pirate will receive one dozen Original Glazed doughnuts.»

Maybe you should try them all, while singing a pirate song.

Children are outfitted as ghosts, Disney characters, princesses and superheroes, while adults dress to impress with «sexy» witch, vampire or pirate garb.

I was told at the Bonaire Tourism Office that Rincón was built inland in a shallow valley some 300 years ago so that marauding pirates could not see the town while sailing by.

Noting the success in particular of samples from BrewDog and Pirate Life, it was pointed out that although these two brewers are based in very different climes — Scotland and Western Australia respectively — there is a connection: Pirate Life's founding brewers Jack Cameron and Jared Proudfoot met while improving their brewing skills during apprenticeships at BrewDog.

While I was spending my therapeutic hour in Pirate - O's, I picked up a couple of packages of perciatelli (also called bucatini), which are long, hollow pasta tubes slightly thicker than spaghetti.

But while they aren't giving up on the division, not at all, it sure seems like the Wild Card safety net made it just a little too comfortable to have a very Pirates offseason.

While Puig had another memorable bat flip during last night's game against the Pirates, this catch was the highlight of the night for Puig.

The only disturbing event of the day for the Pirates was the temporary disablement of their fine young left fielder, Bob Skinner, who wrenched his back slightly and suffered minor cuts and abrasions when he ricocheted off the fence while taking an earlier bid for a home run away from Aaron.

While the game may not have gone in the Pirates favor, this Pirates fan looked like he enjoyed himself.

Cubs outfielders Micah Hoffpauir (left) and Sam Fuld crashed into each other and the ivy - covered wall at Chicago's Wrigley Field on Sept. 30 while trying to field a fly ball hit by the Pirates» Andrew McCutchen.

The Pirates sold off Gerrit Cole and Andrew McCutchen while the Rays dealt most of their best hitters, and everyone said it had to do with finances.

Funniest thing in the entire thread was the person who said that while Taillon has more upside, Nova is currently the Pirates best starting pitcher (for the record, he isn't, by a long shot).

The weather looks to be decent for them, and if the hockey series goes to six games (which I'm hoping against), there should be some Pirates fans in Philly this weekend who might decide to take in a baseball game while they are there if they have nothing else better to do.

It probably didn't help that the Pirates usually fielded an abomination of a defensive infield behind him, while the Astros gave him Alex Bregman, Jose Altuve, and Carlos Correa.

And while Pittsburg holds an 11 - 3 record in those games, six contests were decided by six points or less (four of which were Pirates victories).

Moreover, at 49 - 46 the Pirates are just 3.5 games out of first place while the Colorado Rockies (40 - 55) are 13 games back of the Dodgers in the NL West.

While Speight and some of his teammates are spending their off - day hanging out and soaking up the sun, Jim Harbaugh is coaching first base for Detroit during at today's Tigers - Pirates game:

The Chicago Cubs (+1000) have better odds of winning the World Series than the St. Louis Cardinals (+1200), but the Cards are actually listed as +125 favorites to win the NL Central while the Cubs listed just above the Pirates at +250.

There are several playoff caliber teams (like the Cardinals and Pirates) in the NL Central, while perennial cellar dwellers (like the Padres and D'Backs) reside in the NL West.

They confuse him with the other Hal Smith who catches for the Cardinals, and they forget that this Hal Smith won half a dozen games for the Pirates this year with home runs and that he hit.295 while sharing the catching job with Smoky Burgess over the season.

Scenes include dunking a man in a well while shackled prisoners await their turn (water torture); sale of women for wives as one is displayed walking in a circle to give people a better view (slavery), women chasing men with brooms (domestic violence) and pirates sitting drunk with their bottles (alcohol abuse).

I frankly find it ludicrous to get worked up about the Yankees buying baseball players the Pirates can't afford when nobody is troubled by our buying luxury cars while children literally starve.

While the disease may be best known as an affliction of 18th - century pirates and explorers, people still get diagnosed with it.

Your boy can have fun while pretending to be a pirate in search of treasure in this tent.

In preliminary discussions, board members considered only doing the senior center and teen center renovations while waiting until later next year to put a new entrance at Pirates» Cove.

Jumping Jacks offers fun for babies and older children, with a giant pirate ship, where your little pirates can use their imaginations while sliding down tube slides and straight slides and climb aboard on ropes.

Ruling on his bail application, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, said Mr. Kanu, who is the director of Pirate Station, Radio Biafra, should be released unconditionally while the case against him continues.

Ruling on his bail application, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, said Mr. Kanu, who is the director of Pirate Station, Radio Biafra, should be released unconditionally while the case against him -LSB-...]