Sentences with phrase «who tussled»

She has given us a detailed, truthful, credible picture of a man who tussled with the lofty claims made for abstract art.

Morano is always genial, and he's careful not to go too far — one reporter who tussles with him mentions his «lawyerly precision.»

Not exact matches

The people who see our ads are the same people who read about our tussles, our setbacks and our mistakes.

At one point, he tore through the audience and tackled 54 - 40 singer Neil Osborne (who had just finished performing) to the ground, where they tussled like man - children.

After enlisting his liberal lawyer friend David Boies, who had represented Al Gore in their most famous tussle, the pair could have supported politicians or ballot initiatives with their financial resources, oratory skills, and press - drawing odd couple celebrity.

Tony Pulis continues to do a great job at Stoke and it shows just how far the Potters have come that lying in 11th place could be considered a position they could well improve on and they seem to be a side who no longer has to worry about relegation tussles and a move for David James shows that the club continues to move in the right direction.

The weary Jayhawks, who earned their way into the tournament by outlasting Kansas State 84 - 82 in a playoff, first turned back Texas 90 - 81, gave the Bearcats a tussle for a while, but succumbed inevitably to Robertson, who pushed in 43 points.

With Leinster hosting the Scarlets in the Aviva on Saturday afternoon, followed by Munster travelling away to Bordeaux to face Racing 92, the stage is set for two epic tussles to settle who faces who... Continue reading «2017 - 18 European Rugby Champions Cup Semi Finals Preview — Johne Murphy Preview»

Meanwhile, despite Emre Can's contract talks being put on hold, in the German international Liverpool possess strength in aerial duels, a skilled ball carrier and a player who thrives in physical tussles to variate between the aforementioned trio.

Whilst centre - backs and defensive midfielders are probably the first players that spring to mind when you think of strength and endurance, there are a number of smaller — much lighter — attacking players who aren't afraid of a tussle.

On the contrary, things have not been rosy for the Blues, who are in a tussle to finish in the Champions League positions.

The Senegal international, who picked up the injury during an awkward tussle with Leighton Baines during the 3 - 1 Merseyside derby victory over Everton on April 1, will travel to London for the procedure.

Having enough of the right toys not only encourages your child's development through creative, imaginative play, but may also help prevent kids from getting into tussles over who gets to play with what and when.

The debate boils down to a «jobs vs lawns» tussle: will the long - term needs of the British economy win out against the desire by those who are directly affected to preserve their property?

On the tussle as to who prophesied first, the controversial prophet indicated that no Man of God can lay claim to a prophesy.

Cuomo, who had a tussle with the Working Families Party in 2014, created the Women's Equality Party line.

Let's hope tussles over who should be in the driving seat remained on the golf course.

Also commenting, respected CAF instructor and veteran journalist, Paul Bassey told Saturday Vanguard Sports that it was pointless for the minister to call a meeting to resolve the leadership tussle between Pinnick and Giwa because «as far as I am aware, the matter has been settled by CAF, FIFA and CAS, who recognise Pinnick as the legitimate President of the NFF.

Also speaking, Fred Edoreh, who is the Chairman of Lagos chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria told Dalung that the leadership tussle was a dead matter, warning that its resurrection was capable of tainting his image in the eyes of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Hochul took a swing at Corwin at the end of the interview, saying she would have chosen to fire a taxpayer - funded staffer who got into an alleged tussle with another candidate, (Jack Davis), while moonlighting as a tracker.

That suspension is currently a subject of a legal tussle since Mr. Afoko, who has described the decision as unconstitutional, is in court to get it overturned.

Contracts must ultimately be approved by city Comptroller Scott Stringer, who has tussled with de Blasio over pre-K contracts in the past.

There's a view emerging in France that David Cameron came out on top during tussles in Brussels, reports Bruce Crumley, who has been looking at reactions for the Guardian

Philip Ball who is one of my favorite science writers has a thoughtful rumination on the constant tussle between beauty and truth in science.

But João Zilhão, an archaeologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who has often tussled with White and other researchers over the evidence from the Grotte du Renne, says that the new study «prove [s] the exact opposite of what [its] authors claim.»

Story 3: Chimpanzees who lose a tussle with another member of the tribe are shunned by their comrades for hours following the fight.

You know who we mean, and the fans will feel generously serviced by the sequence in which Han and Chewie (now fully in the hands of Finnish actor Joonas Suotamo) first meet, tussling in a mud pit before joining forces against their tormentors.

As he tussles with recalcitrant lawmakers and his Cabinet — all the while grieving for his late son Willie, grappling with wife Mary's mood swings and carrying the burden of prolonging the Civil War in order to gain lasting political change — the leader who emerges in «Lincoln» is far from a blemish - free paragon.

Much of the fun comes from «Star Wars's» new cowboy pilot, Oscar Isaacs's Poe Dameron, and his tussles with killjoy rebel leaders Leia and a vice admiral played by Laura Dern, who should be in every movie.

Oddly enough, the wit is still there, but this time it's in the form of homages, both visual and aural, hearkening you back to the 70s schlock action cinema, full of revenge plots, martial arts gusto, and bad - ass mamas who aren't afraid to tussle with the big boys.

While Colleen is willing to don a fat suit and tussle on air with a sumo wrestler, the grave - faced Mike, who has won every journalism award known to man, won't even do one of those obligatory cooking - class segments.

Officers tussle with a man who is causing a disturbance at a funeral.

Quaritch and Augustine quietly tussle for the loyalty of new avatar driver Jake Scully (Sam Worthington of Terminator Salvation), a paraplegic who's understandably eager to take his avatar's legs for a test run.

The Irish hunk, who plays thief Peter Soames in Akiva Goldsman's fantasy drama, enjoyed tussling and working with the Gladiator star so much that he would have liked more.

He gets support from Steelers doc Julian Bailes (Alec Baldwin, rising valiantly above accent issues) but only gets denial and legal tussles from the NFL, who, its hinted, even spook his wife Prema (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) into a miscarriage.

Boys who clashed or tussled with each other were separated and counseled by the peacemaker.

I know that the person getting knocked around in that tussle is a writer — a writer who hasn't yet realized that they're being injured.

ï ¿ 1/2 If you can pinpoint events that trigger displaced aggression in your cat, anything you can do to prevent them will help, such as covering windows where they can see the ground outside, using scents and / or sedatives when taking a cat to the vet, and not keeping your windows open at night if you have neighborhood cats who like to tussle.

The most common cause of these tussles is rank: the dogs will need to work out who comes first between them.

After losing his heroic headpiece in a top hat tussle, Mario teams up with swanky spook and super powered specter, Cappy, who has his own bone to pick with the matrimonial monarch.

Players can only progress when they've made the most recent kill, and matches are a back - and - forth tussle to see who gets the honor of being eaten by the Níðhǫggr.

Fantastic beasts that have appeared in LEGO Dimensions are spotlighted in the trailer — such as Velociraptor and Unikitty — who suddenly find themselves tussling with J. K. Rowling's own fantastic beasts, like Niffler.

Anyone who's watched the LucasArts saga unfold has witnessed something akin to a galactic battle for relevancy: many of its Star Wars» themed games have gone nowhere, while Star Wars Battlefront III's cancellation led to an ugly tussle between Arts and developer Free Radical.

Also on Tuesday, Rajendra K. Pachauri, the panel's chairman, who was under pressure to step down but chose to ride out the storm, has a commentary on the BBC Web site today embracing skepticism as a vital component of the tussle over emerging scientific concepts:

KUALA LUMPUR — In the opening talk at a two - day meeting here on Asia's clean energy options, Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia provided fresh evidence of a shift in the longstanding diplomatic tussle over who does what to slow global warming.

But the tussle in Washington, according to an awful lot of contacts who are immersed there, is less about the overall picture painted by climate science and more about choosing the science that suits one's politics or pocketbook.

At the heart of the debate is a momentous tussle between rich and poor countries over who steps up first and who pays most for changed energy menus.

I posted on the debate prospect when David Goldston, who spent 20 years in the science - policy tussle on Capitol Hill, said it could backfire.

In the long run, it's entirely possible that if and when my sons have children, they'll grow up with an entirely new sense of the word Arctic, less attuned to the fatal 19th - century misadventures of the «man who ate his boots,» England's Sir John Franklin, * and more to the growing geopolitical tussles over the world's newest fully functioning sea.

Tough for a Friday, perhaps, but if you have a moment over the weekend when you feel you just need to tussle with a patch of legal prose, take a look at the recent executive order issued Tuesday from the White House, «Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq.»