Sentences with phrase «who fights to the death»

From an evolutionary perspective, cowardice at first seems like a smarter strategy: If you run away and live, you'll have more offspring than the gallant warrior who fights to the death.

Regeneration is a requiem for the humanity of Van Damme's unfrozen hero Luc Deveraux, who's trying to rejoin society but only really comes alive when it's time to kill somebody (mainly revived villain Andrew Scott, who fights to the death while struggling to remember something he wanted to tell Deveraux before he was cloned).

Not exact matches

The 2009 best of the Hot List features articles about ahy being bullish after the financial crisis was an easy call to make for long - term investors, despite the fear in the market, the importance of the philosophy - «don't fight the Fed», and why investors should ignore those who predict the death of equities.

This also applies to the one who is killed if he is involved in a fight that results in his / her death.

There are many of us who have had to fight for that freedom, normally we don't face death when doing what we feel is needed.

Isn't that why we fought the war, to correct those who celebrate death and appreciate terrorism and its outcomes.

Actually, if we are to believe what we read in Romans, it was God who hardened Pharaoh's heart, causing Pharaoh to pick that particular fight and causing him also to send his army into a parted Red Sea to their deaths.

Also, I don't know of anyone who would fight to the death that the church isn't the people.

As the country becomes more ethnically and religiously diverse, there will be those who say the Church can only survive if we fight to the death to preserve our civic religion — keeping prayer in public schools, keeping the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and keeping mosques out of our neighborhoods.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

They felt themselves called to a fight to the death against the forces of the Seleucid Emperor, Antiochus Epiphanes, who was bent on carrying through a program of hellenizing his empire and blotting out every vestige of Judaism.

Anyone who fights against Allah or renounces Islam in favor of another religion shall be «put to death or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off alternative sides» (Sura 5:34).

Manchester United travel to Liverpool this weekend, and although the Reds are the form side this season, it is the former who I expect to be fighting to the death as the season draws to an end.

And listen to Gerald McClellan, who in February battled to the brink of death in his WBC super middleweight title fight against Nigel Benn in London.

I even want him gone, need players who would fight for the team to the death

Nothing is guaranteed in life, apart from death and Arsenal under Wegner is dead, so win, loose or draw it makes no difference, I personally don't believe this man has what it takes to improve the team, and to all those who support him, can you give me any reason (not old news) to believe that he is the man to take this club forward, because for us to be mentioning crystal palace, west brom, stoke shitty, watford, Southampton and the list goes on, as banana skins for Arsenal, so no disrespect meant to the clubs listed, but historically, those clubs are normally fighting relegation and for any of these clubs to qualify for Europa league is like Arsenal winning the champions league (it just does not happen) so are we going forward or are they improving.

Anyone who is claimed has the option of trying to put up a fight or taking what is coming to him and, whether it is the settling of an old score (vendettas are waged with Sicilian intensity) or a casual encounter, a claim may end in bloody death in the gutter.

The Old Vandals Association has extended its condolences to the family of a colleague who was stabbed to death in a bloody fight at the Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon.

«New York is a key area where we're going to fight and try to defend and not allow this to become the social norm,» said Hanson, who at one time supported the Death With Dignity movement.

The manner of Ian's tragic death epitomises the nature of the daily work of police officers up and down the country, who day in and day out, quietly and diligently, often unseen, place themselves in danger to fight crime and to serve their communities.

An intricate tale of «medicine, monopoly and malice», Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low - cost Aids drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 — causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths — and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

How Ebola changed the world Ex-child soldier who fought Ebola Saying «Bye Bye» to Ebola with a happy song The country was first declared Ebola - free on 9 May, but new cases emerged in June resulting in two deaths.

The Jim in question is Jim McMahon, the popular 35 - year - old leader of the town council, who is hoping to fight off Ukip and hold the seat following the death of Michael Meacher last month.

«When you all reported lavishly how under the former president, the former defence chief set up a military tribunal to try soldiers who ran away from the battlefield and they were condemned to death, it was only Femi Falana who was consistent in fighting their case.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has commuted the death sentences passed on 66 soldiers who were tried by several Military Court Martials for mutiny and other offences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists» in the North East to terms of 10 years imprisonment.

may be it was the yorubas who made it possible for President John Mahama of Ghana to be sworn - as President of Ghana — after the death of Prof Attah Mills ------- just may be ------- why must a nation match over a constitutional matter — its shows how demomic our thoughts can be -------- separation is the only answer — let the yorubas as its usual with them lead that fight also for us to split quietly

Humanists UK has been given leave to intervene in the Court of Appeal hearing of its member Noel Conway, who has been fighting for the right to an assisted death.

It is probably true that if Cuomo fights the legislature on what many of its members — particularly the Senate Republicans, who possess a narrow, gerrymander - facilitated majority in that chamber — regard as a matter of life and death, they will not immediately be motivated to cooperate with him on passing a new law.

Katniss» rising popularity as a beacon of hope begins to gnaw at President Snow (Donald Sutherland), who has Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) game his own system in a novel attempt to first discredit her, and then kill her by devising something special for the 75th anniversary of the Hunger Games: The players for the games will be selected from among the survivors of previous games, meaning Katniss and Peeta will once more have to fight to death.

The male characters in particular are have - a-go heroes who dice with death on a daily basis, gallivanting all over the sea to fight with pirates and be back in time for tea and medals.

Rauch is a sarcastic, iron - willed ice - princess who has experienced the heady pleasures of Olympic fame and will fight to the death to hold onto her rightful place in the spotlight.

From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

That movie debuted the Predator and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers as part of a special forces team who ended up in a fight to the death with the alien bounty hunter.

Gravely wounded, Killmonger knows that he's beaten, and he speaks to his cousin T'Challa — who in another life he should have grown up with, not fought to the death — honestly and devastatingly:

Sadly, Birth of the Dragon does not shed any considerable revelations on the aura of Bruce Lee nor does it remotely offer any refreshing insights into the man who capitalized on the fight to build a clientele of movie stars for his school and to himself break into TV («The Green Hornet») and film («Fist of Fury,» «Game of Death,» «Enter the Dragon,» among others).

It tells the dark tale of a 16 - year - old girl named Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, age 21, played a similar role as an Ozark girl in the Winter's Bone), who volunteers to take the place of her fragile younger sister (Willow Shields) who is selected by a lottery to be the teenage girl contestant for her District 12 in a country - wide annual fight - to - death event.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.

Starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon, it's an invigorating war action / drama that shows how modern soldiers had to relearn their craft in order to take the fight to an enemy with a literally medieval mindset, embracing rather than fearing death, while having to rely on new allies who were often more interested in fighting ancient tribal grudges.

Then there's Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), Atlas's estranged former stage assistant who's since put her days of being sawed in half behind her in order to perform her own death defying Houdiniesq escapes on what appears to be the cage fighting circuit.

That game was enjoyable yet frustratingly hard to the point of launching the gamepad into a concrete wall, me and my little boy played it together which meant less deaths, but we still fought with eachother to determine who was the crap player messing everything up, turns out it was me, old and out of fashion

Who: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson What: Set in a future where kids are forced to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place.

The Killing «s Joel Kinnaman has been set to play the title character, a cop who, near death, is turned into an indestructible crime - fighting force, and then begins to remember his past life.

There's Autolycus (Rufus Sewell), a man who most often resists his temptation for wealth and gold to fight the good fight alongside his fellow man; Atalanta (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal), a woman warrior no man would ever dare to cross; Tydeus (Aksel Hennie), a hideously ugly man born in the midst of battle who knows only violence and bloodshed; and everyone's favorite off - his - rocker prophet, Amphiaraus (Ian McShane) whose visions of his own death are not so impending as they are enlightening and help him in battle each and every time.

Who: Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Tobias Menzies and Charles Dance What: Vampire death dealer Selene fights to end the eternal war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her.

In addition, he fights for his daughter's right to live out her final days from the local authorities who believe she must go to quarantine, where the infected are put to death.

Though he does a better job for longer than you'd expect, director Alan Taylor (who transitioned from respected cable dramas to film on 2013's pretty good Thor: The Dark World) can not overcome the fact that there's only so much a person needs to see of one indestructible character fighting another, each bouncing back from seemingly certain death on multiple occasions.

Who: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult and Rosie Huntington - Whiteley What: In a post-apocalyptic world in which people fight to the death, Max teams up with a mysterious woman named Furiousa to try and survive.

Ellen plays Lucy, a court rat and nomadic «activist» who travels across the country to protest various executions, visit prisons, or fight against the death penalty.

A dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

The story of a firefighter's desperate attempt to catch the terrorist who killed his wife and son in a bombing on US soil seems like something that might work in an upcoming out - of - taste made - for - TV movie, but, alas, this is Hollywood and Collateral Damage gets to serve itself on a platter hoping that people are still willing to sit back and rally for the death to all terrorists, regardless of what they are fighting for.