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Their skill of coaching their machines effectively counteracted the superior chess knowledge of their grandmaster opponents and much greater computational power of others.
Despite being fragile, a newly molted shrimp is actually more likely to threaten intruders, spreading the large limbs it usually uses to strike or stab its opponents.
During the European Wars of Religion, both Catholics and Protestants blamed Machiavelli for inspiring acts of violence and tyranny committed by their opponents.
So: being from a conservative, Christian family from a very conservative state in the United States, I am here to tell you that the death penalty has new opponents.
We face different opponents across these three.
Then, in 2008, the neoliberal story fell apart, and its opponents came forward with ... nothing.
Their opponents are in awe of this, but still too in thrall to efficiency to try it.
Over time, his increasingly authoritarian policies lost support, and his opponents to the south gained strength.
Goalies often memorize the patterns of their opponents ahead of time, but penalty shooters know that and can plan accordingly.
The opponents of same-sex marriage say that the purpose of marriage, fundamentally, is procreation, and that's what's worthy of honoring and recognizing and encouraging.
Revolutionary love is the choice to enter into labor for others who do not look like us, for our opponents who hurt us and for ourselves.
We love our opponents when we tend the wound in them.
Just tending to it allows us to see our opponents: the terrorist, the fanatic, the demagogue.
The choice to love our opponents is moral and pragmatic, and it opens up the previously unimaginable possibility of reconciliation.
Loving our opponents requires us to love ourselves.
Loving only our opponents is self-loathing.
And so, number two: in order to love our opponents, tend the wound.
The writers apparent desire to show they were "hip" also extended to missing the point that the inner city school win the cheerleading competition, not through talent but by intimidating their white opponents!! these overtones to the film took it away from it's expected direction of a harmless lighthearted comedy suitable for a family audience into a vehicle that does none of the participants any credit.
In addition the Arab world really has never listed 'Democracy' as one of their opponents, more correctly it is the USA's 6 Billion Dollars a year to Isreal, our military bases in Saudi Arabia and our interest in Oil.
"Death Machines" takes a fairly decent premise for an action movie (unstoppable martial arts killing machines sent out to eliminate a crime boss' opponents) and turns it into an unwatchable mess.
On top of that they decided to do Iron Man and his opponents all in CGI.
There is a boxer who kills one of his opponents in a practice ring and who has a career, but because of mental problems from childhood and the killing of this other boxer he retires.
Ironically this is one of the rare Sonny Chiba films in which he DOESN'T tear out or rip off body parts of opponents.
The rarest feat for US filmmakers seems to be the hero-centered purposeful anti-crime film or TV series; I remind the viewer how mightily "Cain's Hundred"'s and "Hardcastle and McCormick"'s and even "the Untouchables'"' producers had to work to produce anything but episodes devoted largely to the unfictional activities of criminals rather than those of their ethical opponents.
This powerful, seminal and very-gritty movie has a style all its own; and its lesson seems to be attention to detail about the opponents and victims of criminal organizations as well as their gang members.
Seeing one of his opponents get a staff thrust through his head and all the other gory details couldn't have happened or else the Japanese government would have locked Oyama up to protect society!
Even Jimmy Snuka was a fearsome sight as he set out maim opponents until Ray "the Crippler" Stevens delivered a piledriver onto the cement floor leaving Snuka a bloody mess.
The logical end of the film comes when after the terrible WWI has ended, as she sings the theme song of the film, "Wishing" in a darkened theater, one by one the members of Larrabee's squadron appear, including her lover himself, indicating they have forgiven her and their former opponents; and even Uncle Kurt enthusiastically joins in the singing of "It's a Long To Tipperraree", to indicate all is well with the world again.
Close-minded opponents of Italian horror cinema can easily tag this film as a cheap exploitation version of "The Island of Dr. Moreau", but the truth is that this is so much more!
A fun way to break the huddle that had our opponents scratching their heads as very few of them had watched the show.
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