Sentences with phrase «with encroaching»

The central concept highlights the immaterial passing of time, with an encroaching lack of consideration or human contact.

The player arrives in one of three City - States (determined by starting class) and is introduced to a recovering world still having trouble with the encroaching Beastman tribes and prolonged threats from the Garleans.

It had just the right feel for the story and the suspense - thriller genre, with encroaching darkness around a bright sky - colored text, and the broken wing emblem of the airline in the book.

She is stuck in the ways of the old and still has to deal with an encroaching outside world.

Luca (Fabio Testi, a cross between George Lazenby and Jeremy Irons) is a cigarette smuggler in the Naples underground, pulled into a turf war with encroaching drug lords who kill his brother, then kidnap / sodomize his wife.

Glorious 39 is the latest film from director Stephen Poliakoff, and it stars Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, and Julie Christie as a traditional British family who must content with the encroaching brutality of World War II.

Stallone has never been the most versatile actor, but he layers his original performance with the steeliness that comes with encroaching mortality.

Visually distinct with its encroaching darkness and and patient, morphing static imagery, cinematographer Julie Kirkwood makes these simple shots charged within a narrow color palette.

An indulgent ensemble exercise about the realisations that come with encroaching age, Little White Lies is — like its collection of protagonists — too caught up in its own dramas to see the bigger picture.

In Jackie, the focus is on the week or so after the assassination of JFK and how his widow, Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman), dealt with the encroaching numbness of loss and her duty as a political remnant of her husband's legacy.

Moving like a shark with encroaching doom, this is an expert example of how to keep an audience on edge almost relentlessly and give them a reason to care about the people put in harm's way.

This is not to insinuate that Haneke betrays any insincerity towards his characters, but one wonders how he might have conceived and shot a film about a lowly working - class couple dealing with encroaching death in a tiny one - room apartment.

Not exact matches

«They constitute an unpaid extension of the workday; they encroach upon things like family life and drinking with people with whom you don't share a copier,» wrote Lauren Collins for The New Yorker.

But the tech giants are increasingly encroaching on each other's turf with duplicative services, leading to a sort of department - store - ification of the internet where single - purpose specialty companies are becoming a rarity.

The move is in part an effort by Walmart to become more competitive with Amazon, which is increasingly encroaching on the retailer's space.

But the industry giants are starting to encroach with their own stevia - based desserts.

Amazon — which has been making moves to encroach on Walmart's physical network by acquiring high - end grocer Whole Foods for $ 13.7 billion in 2017 — has built out a suite of digital payment offerings to attract and engage with consumers.

«China is a peace - loving country and deals with foreign relations with discretion, but it won't flinch if the U.S. and its small clique keep encroaching on its interests on its doorstep,» the editorial continued.

Moreover, the company realized that Routehappy was potentially encroaching on its turf with an increasingly robust and valuable data set.

The move marks BA's latest attempt to compete with LCCs like Norwegian, which are increasingly encroaching on the airline's territory.

If America is founded to guarantee religious freedom by the first Europeans who arrived and later by the Founding Fathers, then why do politicians continuously use it in debates, primaries, and speeches to encroach individual freedoms with their religious beliefs?

She was not afraid that God might be a «rival» in our life, that with his greatness he might encroach on our freedom, our vital space.

With state authorities making ever increasing attempts to encroach on the primary educational responsibilities of parents, the Church must always proclaim the primary rights of parents and families.

I continued in counseling while I was violent with suicidal desires, deep in depression, and addicted to shopping, masturbation, sleep and powdered doughnuts, all the while my Ma became very ill and poverty had encroached it's claws onto my bare back.

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

Or it may take on the expansive qualities of insatiable demands, frantic intensity, and encroaching suffocation of others, in which case solitariness is resisted and the inevitable restraints imposed by the totality are felt with the inimical and threatening qualities of an enemy.

But if there is a state in which the soul finds a solid enough base to rest itself on entirely and to gather its whole being into, without needing to recall the past or encroach upon the future; in which time is nothing for it; in which the present lasts forever without, however, making its duration noticed and without any trace of time's passage; without any other sentiment... except that of our existence, and having this sentiment alone fill it completely; as long as this state lasts, he who finds himself in it can call himself happy... with a sufficient, perfect, and full happiness which leaves the soul no emptiness it might feel a need to fill....

«Will it be sufficient to mark, with precision, the boundaries of these departments, in the consti.tution of the government, and to trust to these parchment barriers against the encroaching spirit of power?

Now, listening to him along with the worshipful and the skeptical, the editors had to acknowledge that «theology has come to be taken most seriously again in our time where it defines itself most modestly, without slippery movements into all the other disciplines, without fastening an encroaching grasp or a suffocating embrace on other human enterprises» (May 16, 1962).

«The problem with evangelical religion,» Wills said, «is not (so much) that it encroaches on politics, but that it has so carelessly neglected its own sources of wisdom.»

Today, there are far more players in the market and even large chains such as McDonald's are encroaching on that territory with healthier options.

With flexible packaging continuing to encroach into more product categories and new markets, packaging professionals need bagging systems that help optimize the packaging process.

It is where the tiny crinkled yellow - brown aborigines known as Bushmen have made their last stand against encroaching civilization, speaking in the clucking tongue of turkeys, eating lizards, hunting with bows and arrows and enduring the probing of fascinated anthropologists.

Inspired by the Rookie Moms book and desperate to stave off the encroaching baby blues, I decided when she was about three - and - a-half weeks old to have an adventure a day with her.

And Steve and I spent two full days wrestling with the rambling rose (multiflora rose) that was growing along every side of the garden fence, encroaching on the fencing and the garden itself.

That said, I do take issue with the idea that «pro-freedom = pro-cupcake» because in this case, your freedom is directly encroaching on my own.

Many of the problems that today's parents face while raising their babies are associated with the new parenting and feeding practices that have encroached upon our culture over the last century.

This allowed him to encroach far into enemy territory — triangulation, they called it — attacking the Tories from the right on law and order or welfare and playing merry hell with them.

They found themselves in the wonderland of Labour Party policy making, the real world would barely encroach, many policy arguments would take place with no regard for recognisable logic and most processes were strange and absurd.

Aggie Lane of the Urban Jobs Task Force said they are working with students at the Syracuse University Community Development Law Clinic to try to come up with state legislation so larger industrial development agencies can not encroach on smaller ones.

He said Fulani herdsmen have a tradition of settling their dispute with farmers if they encroached into somebody's farm with their animals.

Some opponents had argued that their civil liberties were being encroached upon with the raise, while business owners cited a predicted loss in sales revenue and Legislator Tom Barraga said that if health advocates were that afraid of the consequences of smoking, an outright ban on sales should be what legislators are after.

In some regions, greening could be caused by species change, with greener invasive plants replacing indigenous ones or bushes encroaching on grasslands that are used to graze cattle, Wang said.

The demands of my next project, which are already encroaching onto my working week, will leave little time for fiddling around with old news.

With a diameter in the region of a micrometer and a genome incorporating more than 1,100 genes, these giant viruses, which infect amoebas of the Acanthamoeba genus, had already largely encroached on areas previously thought to be the exclusive domain of bacteria.

And with human populations growing, elephants are increasingly likely to be shot for encroaching on farms.

«Just a hair to the left,» said Tim Bartholomaus, doctoral student at UAF, poised at the bow with fishing spear in hand to fend off encroaching ice.

But as human contact with wildlife becomes more frequent and people continue to encroach on habitat, wild animals are being exposed to human pathogens more than ever.

With the exception of a few highly affluent states in the Persian Gulf, these dryland countries face severe and intensifying challenges, including frequent and deadly droughts, encroaching deserts, burgeoning populations and extreme poverty.

Gut microbiota that live in the outer regions of the mucus and remain a safe distance from epithelial cells provide a benefit to the host, but Chassaing and Gewirtz hypothesize that microbiota that encroach upon host cells drive chronic inflammation that interferes with the normal action of insulin, promoting type 2 diabetes.