To the south, Rojava is defending itself valiantly against ISIS.
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But, nonetheless, debunk the denouncers these authors valiantly attempt to.
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Many Afghans have fought valiantly with us and for us.
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The next moment, he would be valiantly defending the Republic.
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I pray that I meet death as valiantly as you did.
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Valiantly gazing onward, this bald eagle scans the horizon for prey.
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He's just some Scottish guy, valiantly fielding your misplaced Twitter hate.
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Surely the soldiers who fought so valiantly deserved a lasting peace.
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Hundreds of soldiers and policemen gave their lives valiantly year after year.
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In taking the Valencia job, Gary strived valiantly to achieve his dreams.
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Her personal life was inseparable from the cause she fought for so valiantly.
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Or it could be a deliberate reference to Luke meeting his death valiantly.
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There were also families who fought valiantly to reclaim their own for reburial.
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Sua Yai fought valiantly until the final bell but this wasn't his night.
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Or anything of the 20,000 Latinos who fought valiantly in the Civil War?
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Fellow students say the cadets acted valiantly, helping to usher others to safety.
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"We, the families, have fought for 30 years valiantly," he told the BBC.
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The episode does, however, valiantly capture holiday calamity in all of its glory.
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But the Roomba was no match for Gauge, who valiantly maintained his alpha pawsition.
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The iPhones valiantly stayed true to their form, as the fire blazed around them.
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Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the "people's choices" fighting valiantly against the rotten establishment.
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Close to a decade later, Brignull's website is still valiantly calling out deceptive design.
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We see how the selflessness of the health care profession is valiantly fighting coronavirus.
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The show tries valiantly to suggest all this, but alas, does not quite succeed.
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A subjugated group, taking its destiny into its hands, valiantly rebels against its oppressors.
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The all-black 761st Tank Battalion fought valiantly in the Battle of the Bulge.
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As Secretary of State, John Kerry worked valiantly for a peace deal in Syria.
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Firefighters fought valiantly to save the home, but the fire was just too ferocious.
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"THIS is a Christian country," David Cameron declared valiantly, during an Easter speech in 216.
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Their ideology is especially dangerous because they present themselves as natives valiantly defending the homeland.
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Unlike Ethan, who struggles valiantly to not be his parents, Molly is her mother's proxy.
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As soon as you valiantly get him acquitted, you'll become the target of Bolivian jewel thieves.
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To their defenders, such outrages are either justified by their shock value or valiantly transgressive pranks.
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Luckily, an unnamed man came along to valiantly rescue this poor little roo from its predicament.
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Many have valiantly opposed the oppressive Iranian regime and been forced to flee as a result.
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" He added: "Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military and made the ultimate sacrifice.
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"Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice," Ryan said.
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Its fighters were praised for valiantly defending their territory and heroically running off the Israeli invaders.
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"They are trying valiantly to reassert themselves as the epistemic chiefs of the world," he said.
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The nearly magical stock market that has persisted so valiantly this year is one of them.
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Her entire role involves being a drag, while the men valiantly ignore the risks and press forward.
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And just put the merit of the case aside, I think Geraldo valiantly displayed what they are.
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He bounds valiantly between cosmic jazz riffs like "Remind U?" to delirious funk and bruising rap tracks.
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Over the course of six moon landings, the so-called Dusty Dozen fought valiantly with their foe.
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Dr. Alexander valiantly if laboriously takes us through the full history of physics, from Pythagoras to Einstein.
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Somebody immediately archived its top posts, others valiantly helped the cause by telling Thimo to kill himself.
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" For a time, he valiantly campaigned to rebrand his genre "dramality"—"a mixture of drama and reality.
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She fought valiantly against the Apartheid state and sacrificed her life for the freedom of the country.
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Jeff Kindler of Pfizer worked valiantly to try to build a consensus during the creation of Obamacare.
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In Bloch's minimalist, loose-limbed pen-and-ink art, tiny people try valiantly to pitch in, too.
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First of all, Senator Sanders and I have worked valiantly to bring down the cost of pharmaceuticals.
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I have been in your boss's shoes, and I fought valiantly for employees — to absolutely no effect.
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Salisbury and Ram battled back valiantly to take the second and send the final into a match tiebreaker.
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They valiantly tried to "unskew" all of the bias out of the polls and predicted a Romney win.
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Image: MapleOver the past year, I've tried valiantly to keep the dream of daily gourmet desk lunches alive.
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For more than a generation, Democrats have valiantly advocated policies to combat the serious problem of climate change.
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There is just one tiny restaurant called "Uyut" ("Cosy"), valiantly living up to its name but often empty.
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For as long as cars and airplanes have co-existed, people have tried valiantly to bring the two together.
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Ségolène Royal, the party's presidential candidate in 2007, waved valiantly to crowds from the building's balcony after her defeat.
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Doctors fought valiantly to keep severely ill infants alive on high-tech machines, but often failed to do so.
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Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas valiantly kept the U.S. afloat but Furyk's misfiring team require a miracle on Sunday.
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Los Angeles got off to a terrible start against the Buccaneers, fought back valiantly, and then lost, 55-40.
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You've valiantly tried to run, block your ears, board up the windows, but there's no escape the "Baby Shark" song.
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As he valiantly searches for his one and only, though, he's discovering that "wife material" is actually a tall order.
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These days Russia presents itself as a bastion of traditional values trying valiantly to arrest the de-Christianisation of Europe.
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Guy Fieri, himself temporarily displaced by the fires, valiantly spent hours making non-stop BBQ for residents of Santa Rosa.
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The disparity in incarceration rates has bred distrust, alienating communities of color from those who serve valiantly in law enforcement.
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Ifill's passing is like the sad coda on the end the era that she so valiantly, professionally and classily shaped.
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In the contest between the senator and the president, McCain fought valiantly and admirably, but ultimately he lost to Trump.
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So, there are lots of reasons why it has been an uphill battle that many people have been valiantly fighting.
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By running this story at this length, The Times does a disservice to the cause it has championed so valiantly.
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The publication reports that Lukasz works at the venue, and valiantly battled Khan despite having been cut in the hand.
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Murray had battled valiantly to force that final set, coming back after losing the first two to level the match.
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The r/NESClassicMods subreddit picked up on it right away and valiantly subjected their devices to the code, with great success.
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For years, Mariska Hargitay has been valiantly fighting sexual harassment, assault, and rapes on Law & Order SVU as Lt. Olivia Benson.
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We are grateful to the family, friends, beach staff, public and first responders who worked so valiantly to save his life.
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While several children displayed exemplary courage in saving their friends and family members during accidents, others valiantly fought robbers and assailants.
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The Bureau tried, valiantly, to show the comparative benefits of class actions over arbitration, but the facts got in the way.
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"She fought valiantly until she could not fight any more," a GoFundMe page set up on behalf of the family says.
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Although Halep played valiantly amid difficult circumstances, Sharapova demonstrated her intent from the second shot, a screaming backhand winner behind Halep.
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Watch it, and let its majesty wash over you: Perhaps most notably, Vin Diesel once tried valiantly and failed admirably at rapping.
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When the Iraqi army collapsed before the IS onslaught in 2014, the Kurds fought back valiantly with Western help, and occupied Kirkuk.
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We must set our sights on a bolder, better deal and lead America valiantly into the future with a 21st Century vision!
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Obama's reticence has robbed Secretary of State John Kerry, who is valiantly trying to negotiate a lasting Syrian cease-fire, of leverage.
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We don't always get the man whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who makes mistakes.
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I also congratulate his compatriots Amos Kipruto & Wilson Kipsang for going out valiantly to bring a 1-2-3 victory for #TeamKenya.
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It complicated social plans, as friends couldn't find me in real time (though one valiantly left messages on my hotel room voicemail).
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For decades now, climate scientists have been valiantly trying, yet failing, to make global warming a tangible burden for the average person.
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Upon his exit, a flustered reporter valiantly doing his live TV thing summons him over for a talk and it is brilliant.
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It was just these poor guys who were underfed, undermanned, underequipped, fighting valiantly to the last man, until they couldn't stand anymore.
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The Cleveland Browns have tried valiantly to claw their way back to relevance, but the organization has failed at almost every turn.
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In the Dvorak concerto, the cellist Gautier Capuçon battled valiantly to assert himself against an ensemble that seemed intent on belittling him.
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Lyon defended valiantly, and counterattacked with zest, before Barcelona broke the deadlock — a Messi penalty, deftly, almost thoughtlessly, chipped past Anthony Lopes.
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"The Mujahideen defended valiantly...the invaders were forced to review their war strategy," the hardline Islamic militant group said in a statement.
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Comedian Michael Ian Black also valiantly declared he'd take the heat for applauding Louis for trying to move on after serving his time.
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In order to survive, Jorge will have to compromise some of the upright moral behavior he'd adhered to so valiantly up until now.
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Blogger Superb Stella valiantly sacrificed her new-ish tube of Kylie's Candy K lip kit to slather on 100 layers of the stuff.
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But Mr Jones valiantly adds sparkle and songs, a roster of hot-shot economists, and even a cameo from John Cusack, an actor.
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He had resisted valiantly, and when he woke up and found himself with an equally naked Elizabeth, he actually apologized before running off.
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Until recently she was just that terrible Trump talking head, but now she seems like a woman laboring valiantly under an impossible burden.
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She expected him to live and fight valiantly, not to be found as cold as the snow upon which his dead body rested.
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You are Amanda Ripley, an engineer, valiantly trying to fix a dying space station that's falling apart at the seams through it all.
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AMANDA HESS It's always startling to watch 31 bros descend on one single lady as she valiantly pretends that it's her ultimate fantasy.
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The trio are joined by actors Ahn Jae-wook and Park Min-young, who valiantly attempt to keep the plot on the rails.
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The consequences of these abandonments arrived in 93, when Afghans had to respond to a Soviet invasion and valiantly fight for their country.
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On Monday, he valiantly battled the pain and his opponent, Roberto Bautista Agut, for more than four hours before losing in five sets.
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" Paul Ryan was even less confrontational in his statement: "Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice.
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Passers-by laid flowers on bridges crossing the Seine River as Parisians gave thanks to see the bell towers standing valiantly after the fire.
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Yet like Master Chief, Halo is defined by a devotion to fight: even when it stumbles, the series manages, valiantly, to up the ante.
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She gained fame valiantly standing to face Wall Street's Charging Bull, and now, the Fearless Girl statue has popped up in yet another country.
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Outside of the color change, it seems as if the shoe holds up valiantly against the acid, but really, the acid totally destroys it.
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Image: TwitterTwitter's little blue fowl has been drowning in a birdbath for some time now, but it's still trying valiantly to lift itself up.
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Despite murmurs from athletes and journalists that Edwards' participation was making a mockery of the games, the Eagle valiantly defended his right to compete.
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Bradley Beal was largely a no-show, and while Markieff Morris played valiantly on his sprained ankle, his impact was limited by foul trouble.
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He hung on valiantly these last few years, gutting through injury after injury and hoisting shot after shot, but he was never the same.
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New York City's schools chancellor, Richard A. Carranza, was among those pushing valiantly through the crowd, but he failed to get the governor's attention.
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Other key figures include Ruari in the bath and Owen with a pen in his hair, their dignity valiantly sacrificed for the lad cause.
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Against an American team captained by the three-time Stanley Cup champion Patrick Kane on May 244, Britain held on valiantly for 22000 minutes.
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The woman's husband, Brad, valiantly asked on the restaurant's Facebook page for a reason why his wife was let go, but to no avail.
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That is, the infosec industry is built on a lie—that the mission is built on a worthy foundation of valiantly protecting data and systems.
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Game of Thrones fans might remember Hodor's heartbreaking demise, in which he valiantly sacrificed himself for Bran Stark by blocking a door from vicious wights.
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All of the old craftsmen were tossed off the ship, left to drown in the tide of perpetual blathering nonsense they fought so valiantly against.
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"With the same courage, passion and vigor that he raced with each night, he fought valiantly to the end," the team said in the statement.
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To deny women valiantly serving our country this coverage is one of the more stark examples of our failures in the 43 years following Roe.
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The IMF's economists have valiantly tried to quantify the damage to the world economy from the trade war if Mr Trump's putative deal falls apart.
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He rose valiantly to the occasion, presenting me with the ring at a riverside campsite by lantern light after a day full of Oregon adventures.
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But for me it's not Thanksgiving unless I see the small round red bodies of dozens of cranberries that valiantly sacrificed themselves for my table.
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But instead, the evidence-based medicine community valiantly faced up to the information overload, organized around it, and created systems and tools that helped doctors.
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My friend has the basic ingredients on-hand at his apartment and valiantly captains the bacon-frying, while I help by grating cheese and drinking wine.
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Brad Pitt STRUGGLED valiantly to make a 3-point turn while he filmed a scene in Quentin Tarantino's new movie ... and, gotta say -- he failed miserably!!!
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Since their first meeting in 2012, Azarenka had become the blemish on Kerber's record that she could not blot out, no matter how valiantly she tried.
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"Evidence shows the mother fought valiantly to try to save her children and get them out of the house," according to the police department's press release.
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The star players finally delivered, and while Iceland fought valiantly until the end, making France earn the victory, the end result was never really in doubt.
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The contrast between Tilly's taste and beauty and the townspeople's nastiness is cartoonishly overdrawn, even as the cast members work valiantly to humanize their simplistic roles.
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Income turns those three against the other three, until Monica loses her job and Joey valiantly offers to pay for her $4 coffee — with Chandler's money.
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Empty seats outnumbered occupied ones, and the stadium buzz was more of a murmur as the Red Bulls' supporters section valiantly rolled through its usual songbook.
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Neither aggressive criminals (the "wolves" in gun culture parlance) nor meek victims (the "sheep"), gun carriers see themselves as valiantly straddling a moral space of heroic violence.
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With this massive reveal, the television show has valiantly pushed the entire Watchmen universe forward, while still in keeping with the spirit of the original comics themselves.
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Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying — valiantly, fruitlessly — to eradicate.
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Jones valiantly tried to counter them both, but Meesseman followed with a drive and foul, bringing the crowd to its feet and Toliver leaping into her arms.
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But climate change is happening, and many people are trying, valiantly, to eat vegan, even if only sporadically, for reasons other than animal welfare and personal wellness.
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Most notable among them were Peter Smith (Bruce/Catlyn Jenner) and Bridget Kennedy (Kourtney Kat); these two obviously had comic acting chops and tried valiantly to be funny.
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The Kurds valiantly fought against ISIS not because we showed up and convinced them to, but because they had their backs to the wall and we saved them.
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Since then, we've watched our favorite characters (and a whole lot of expendable randos) compete valiantly or end up stabbed, shot, frozen, and burned in the ensuing unpleasantness.
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We saw the same pattern of denial when the Big Day Out and Soundwave valiantly struggled on, refusing to acknowledge their own irrelevance until it was too late.
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Yet their proud coach Hernan Gomez reacted angrily to a suggestion they were the "worst team" in Russia, insisting 55th-ranked Panama had competed valiantly despite big disadvantages.
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Russia battled valiantly and had a penalty appeal turned down after a VAR consultation late in the game, but there was little else to cheer the home fans.
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For decades, engineers, economists and planners have valiantly sought to spotlight the stranglehold that continuing inattention to infrastructure puts on the future of our economy and our society.
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Pete Sampras valiantly overcoming sickness, warnings of "time" from the chair umpire immediately after vomiting on court, and sheer exhaustion to beat Alex Corretja at the 53 Open.
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During the course of his presidency, he morphed from heroic resister of the 2210 coup attempt, standing valiantly atop a tank, to a fleshy, unpredictable, alcohol-fueled embarrassment.
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In other accounts, Saigon and its partner in Washington valiantly defend a flawed but democratically minded South Vietnam from Communist forces determined to subject it to Stalinist tyranny.
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Pinker is a scientist — a psychologist, to be exact — and he prides himself on being thorough, valiantly fighting "progressophobia" with his voluble sentences and a fusillade of data.
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It's not too late to find a new path and give a new band of Flying Tigers a chance to serve America as valiantly as their predecessors did.
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Think the boy who cried wolf: Isn't there a risk that people who responded so valiantly two years ago will take things less seriously the next time around?
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To anyone who ever watched a pug valiantly trying to play in the park with dogs twice his weight and height, that shouldn't be too surprising a result.
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" Labour education spokeswoman Angela Rayner valiantly defended her leader: "He might watch it on catch up, some of us do, some of us have dinner at different times.
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Some legal scholars have, rather valiantly, cited as precedent Benjamin Franklin's seeking Congress's approval before accepting a jewel-encrusted snuffbox from the king of France as a retirement gift.
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"Over the last five and a half years, Audrey fought valiantly against her illness and she died surrounded by love," Brian said in the statement obtained by multiple outlets.
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It's no fun to watch James Whiteside (with his hair, for some reason, dyed blue-white) and the radiant Isabella Boylston struggle valiantly to make sense of this nonsense.
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All I knew about her came from a glance at her profile: a blond woman wearing a blue bikini top with an American flag valiantly dangling in the foreground.
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The cancer returned last November -- after which she underwent aggressive chemo and fought valiantly to maintain normalcy in her life ... sometimes going out for the evening with her husband.
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Often, as you duck for cover in Battlefield 1, you find yourself beside another human player on your team, valiantly standing tall and firing their weapon amid the chaos.
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Tom SNYDER was a journalist and late night talk show personality who tried valiantly to be the coolest guy on TV, which is what made him so inadvertently funny.
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But against France, her holdup play was again vital, buying time for a tiring team that was defending valiantly with (almost) all hands for most of the second half.
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So Trump invites Benghazi troops, and family members of people victimized (in his view) by undocumented immigrants, and veterans who fought valiantly but were betrayed by their weak leaders.
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Briefing Russia, the host nation, fought valiantly but could not avoid early elimination at the Confederations Cup, losing to Mexico, 2-203, in Group A in Kazan on Saturday.
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As a naval academy graduate, I served in Vietnam with many draftees who fought as valiantly as any "professional" service members, so I am not convinced by this argument.
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At the start of Atlanta's win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, it took three minutes for Lloyd Pierce to replace Carter, who was valiantly trying to stay with Kevin Love.
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This means Trump has effectively abandoned the Kurds to their fate -- the Kurds, the ones who have fought valiantly and effectively alongside American interests, helping to break up ISIS power.
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What is clear, however, is that Snapchat ain't your grandmother's sexting app—it's valiantly trying to turn into way more than its tired moniker of World's Most Popular Sexting App.
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It feeds into the strong black woman idea: We are so strong that we can take the most from our men, and still stand there valiantly on the other side.
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More importantly, the trench run is rich with few details that would shine in a VR adaptation — looking behind you to see R2-D2, valiantly trying to repair a stabilizer.
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Kudos to all involved, including the passengers valiantly assisting the woman who unfortunately did not make it, and the air traffic controllers that expedited the emergency to a successful landing.
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While some companies have valiantly argued that investments in human capital create long-term value, these arguments fail to move shareholders who aren't themselves in it for the long haul.
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As the presumptive Democratic nominee valiantly attempts to stave off defeat in the first national caucus (and in New Hampshire), her ongoing battle with Trump has reached a fevered pitch.
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One of the great non-complainers in American history, she insisted that it was no big deal and valiantly tried to join in on various outings in the Italian countryside.
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But a Boston ensemble, Blue Heron, has labored valiantly in recent years to bring to light the works of a generation or two prior, during the reign of Henry VIII.
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One reads Sital's story appalled and moved by the suffering of these indomitable women — including Sital herself, raised by Arya in cramped homes in New Jersey — as they valiantly struggle.
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Promoted backup Jacoby Brissett played valiantly through the early weeks of the season, but it quickly became apparent that he wouldn't be enough to get the Colts to the postseason.
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We also got to see Jamie Foxx trying his best to get Fox's advertising chief, Joe Marchese, to dance with him as Marchese valiantly attempted to exit the Beacon stage.
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In recent decades the company has valiantly struggled with diminished funds, and its New York season at City Center (April 5, 12-13) isn't as grand as one might wish.
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A desiccated muppet valiantly struggles through tech fail after tech fail to eventually be anointed as Donald Trump's cyber czar and, maybe, finally have a chance at becoming a real boy.
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She tried valiantly to inject some life into the company—with acquisitions, layoffs, splashy hires, and a way-too-late emphasis on mobile, among other strategies—but ultimately, it wasn't enough.
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The non-personal stuff is easier to ignore; the real-world anecdotes valiantly try to raise their heads above the fray, only to butt up against my overwhelming hatred for them.
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As the brave Americans who fought valiantly that night demonstrated, you just keep fighting and hope a relief force will arrive before you run out of ammo or out of luck.
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Barbara is battered by a series of last-minute stays of execution but is valiantly glamorous to the end, going to the gas chamber in a cocktail dress and high heels.
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Iguodala earned the award because of how valiantly he locked horns with James for six games, but it was clear that James was the best player in the series, bar none.
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We would go to games together and I played T-ball as a kid until about seventh or eighth grade when I very valiantly quit and decided to pursue music instead.
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As the tensions with North Korea have escalated, Mr. Trump has often treated Mr. Xi in public as a friend who was valiantly, though unsuccessfully, trying to bring North Korea around.
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The shocking part is that he's right: The press covers it valiantly, but the sheer volume of absurd, insulting and egregious acts has left the public largely inured to Trump insanity.
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But we here at VICE have valiantly suffered through all of them to put together a definitive list of the worst movies featuring big, ensemble casts, from Rat Race to Movie 43.
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Cruz brought many cringe-worthy moments to national attention during the course of his failed presidential campaign, such as elbowing his wife in the face and valiantly attempting to kiss his daughter.
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As the Aizu fought valiantly from the towers and trenches, most women remained behind the scenes, ploughing their energies into cooking, bandaging, and extinguishing cannonballs that pounded the castle day and night.
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Pinker attempts valiantly to sidestep the need for what Kant called "rational faith," partly by narrowing his inquiry to the most minimal terms of advancement, terms he imagines no one could dispute.
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Those veterans valiantly served their country as the ribbon-decorated, uniformed warfighters that the president (who has stated he likes his generals right "out of central casting") professes to respect and revere.
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At this point, it's easier for him to die valiantly than it is to grapple with the idea that the woman he loves would be content ruling over a kingdom of ashes.
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Left only with some eye candy, and a few female secondary characters trying valiantly to fill the void, rumors of actors dropping out and the show packing up for good are everywhere.
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I respect, too, those who fought so valiantly in the battery wars of the 1990s but ultimately succumbed to plugging into the wall: The Game Gear and Atari Lynx had their fans.
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It is an insult to every American who values democracy and freedom, and especially those who have served our nation valiantly in the effort to preserve the way of life we treasure.
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My husband was raised by apocalypse-ready-Vermont-angel-people, and assured me he could turn any haunted tornado shack into a Nancy Meyers-worthy celebrity rehab center while I valiantly napped.
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At its #MadeByGoogle event in San Francisco Tuesday, the search and software giant tried valiantly to make itself over into a hardware giant — but was consistently hampered by some seriously low-energy marketing.
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In fact, he first started out valiantly documenting video game hardware for Wikipedia, because if you've ever tried to look for high-quality, public domain images of consoles on there, it ain't pretty.
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I know Sony tries, valiantly, every year with new Xperia smartphone launches, but test yourself by trying to answer this without the assistance of Google: Which Sony phone was launched at IFA 2015?
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House Republicans tried—or tried valiantly to appear to try—pressuring Democrats by including with the CR a reauthorisation of the Children's Health Insurance Programme (CHIP), which provides health coverage for poor children.
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While they valiantly fight to protect values like freedom and democracy, they shouldn't face combat because America failed to join in the first truly global effort to rein in creation of greenhouse gases.
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He totally deployed his considerable strength and energy to what he believed was best for his country — and in service to those then fighting valiantly for the mission the nation had given them.
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Amid the Second World War, they flew valiantly into the heart of Europe and helped turn the tide against the Axis powers, fighting for a country that still very much discriminated against them.
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For a time it appeared that we were going to abandon the Hmongs who had served so valiantly under our direction and that the new government was going to deal harshly with them.
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They fought back valiantly, cutting the Duke lead to 3 points in the final minute, but succumbed in the end, 71-64, ending their most successful basketball season in more than a century.
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Mr. Macron, he said, "is a product of the system" — the globalist system of free-moving capital that had betrayed working-class voters, valiantly championed by Mr. Trump, in Mr. Bannon's restless farrago.
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He totally deployed his considerable strength and energy to what he believed was best for his country—and in service to those then fighting valiantly for the mission the nation had given them.
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In George R.R. Martin's "A Song Of Ice And Fire," Brienne is a female knight who fights valiantly, demands respect from her male peers, and gives herself fully to those who earn her loyalty.
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They fought valiantly against ISIS, losing hundreds of fighters, eventually drawing the support of the US in the quest to dislodge the jihadi group from northern and northwest Syria, including from its capital, Raqqa.
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Krystal tried her mightiest to antagonize the other contestants — and wow, she succeeded — but even through their frustration, Bekah M. and Kendall valiantly attempted to see her point of view after the bowling incident.
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Over and over again, Democratic VP nominee Tim Kaine tried valiantly to hold Republican Mike Pence accountable for the misogynistic, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, pro-Putin things that his running mate Donald Trump has said.
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The new trailer features our loyal band of heroes, both teens and adults, valiantly facing off against a terrifying threat — and not a new threat, it seems, but one they thought they'd previously defeated.
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Alas, it was not to be, but as he struggled valiantly through John Bubbles's steps, my mind flew back to the extraordinary performance he gave on the same stage at Tap City in 2001.
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Valiantly sharpshooting each target from his motorcycle, tearing on unfazed by the explosions like the post-apocalyptic cowboy he is — that's the "Walking Dead" that fans were demanding more of during last season's doldrums.
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Mexico 333, Russia 1 KAZAN, Russia — Russia, the host nation, fought valiantly but could not avoid early elimination at the Confederations Cup on Saturday, losing to Mexico, 2-1, in Group A on Saturday.
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Four hundred police officers were involved in the operation through the night, and many paramedics, doctors and nurses have worked valiantly amid traumatic and terrible scenes to save lives and care for the wounded.
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It's mostly an object recognition set, but it has a category for "People" that contains thousands of subcategories, each valiantly trying to help software do the seemingly impossible task of classifying a human being.
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What they learned about the lack of resources being devoted to the disease during the nine months she valiantly fought for her life was so shocking he knew he had to do something about it.
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As a result, presidents can cruise to re-election thanks to an economic boom they did nothing to earn, or lose disastrously thanks to a downturn they valiantly fought with every weapon at their disposal.
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Over seven seasons on "The West Wing," Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet valiantly battled multiple sclerosis while outwitting his congressional enemies, enacting banking reform and gun control, and securing a peace deal in the Middle East.
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In song, Kass recounts how 10,000 years prior to Breath of the Wild, Zelda, along with the combined forces of the Guardians, the Divine Beasts, and a single Chosen Knight, fought valiantly against Calamity Ganon.
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In Syria, President Trump seems poised to ratify Mr. Assad's regime, abandon partners who have fought valiantly against ISIS, and prematurely withdraw United States forces, thus ceding total victory to Russia, Mr. Assad and Iran.
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Even though he is French (which in the Looney Tunes world is shorthand for relentless amour), his terrible smell repulses the objects of his affection, who struggle valiantly to get away, sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
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Before a moment of silence, the public address announcer told the crowd that Daulton, a three-time All-Star catcher, had "battled valiantly against the illness that took him far too young" at age 21977.
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Charged with the twin voltages of sadness and exhilaration, it's a clarion call for the perpetually-too-fucked-for-the-Sunday-shift crew, battling valiantly against the sunrise in misshapen living rooms the world over.
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"As I was joining the litter in the play area last week he was trying valiantly to climb the sloped side of a tiny plastic slide," a Guiding Eyes puppy program staff member shared with PEOPLE.
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As Deadspin notes, the 24-year-old star had a chance to show off his arm in "The Spoils of War," when he valiantly repped the Lannisters during the aforementioned battle and threw a massive spear.
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But if we've learned anything from rooting so valiantly for alternative denim silhouettes, it's that there are truly two distinct camps when it comes to jean styles: You're either with us or you're totally Team Skinnies.
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" On another trip, trying valiantly to "lean in," she joined a group of senior staffers at the front of a private jet, only to be subjected to talk about pornography and preferences in type of "girls.
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My uncle valiantly defended Alice Cooper's late-career material; a close friend clarified the mindset of emo revival fans; and 22 or so people explained how, ultimately, the appeal of Drake is that he's a goober.
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Though the moderators valiantly tried to get the two to talk about issues, the primacy of Trump in the GOP extends to his opponents, too, and he took up the bulk of the discussion in absentia.
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My mother tried valiantly — O.K., annoyingly — to turn me into a young reader, and I can only imagine her embarrassment as a founder of the local library, forced to slink around with a literarily delinquent son.
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My mother tried valiantly — O.K., annoyingly — to turn me into a young reader, and I can only imagine her embarrassment as a founder of the local library, forced to slink around with a literarily delinquent son.
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While the new principal worked valiantly alongside many dedicated new teachers to shift student achievement, it became an all-too-public joke that for our logo we used Sisyphus, onto whom the boulder rolled down and crushed.
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The hour puts Matt aboard a ferry in the middle of the ocean between Tasmania and Australia, struggling valiantly to reach the place where he believes he needs to be when the end of the world arrives.
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Yet on the same night, a DNC video portrayed the party struggling valiantly against all the GOP's "stuff"—on gun control, on climate change, on health care, even at the risk of costing Obama a second term.
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On Sunday night, beloved Game of Thrones character Hodor valiantly sacrificed his life for two of his friends (because one of them was mind-controlling him and the other was repeatedly yelling at him to kill himself).
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Pogrebin strives valiantly throughout the year, learning (she interviewed more than 60 rabbis and scholars) and breaking stereotypes of our tradition, as when she blesses a woman sitting next to her at a feminist Seder on Passover.
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But as she learned recently at Power Stretch Studios when she sat on the floor, extended her legs and tried valiantly to touch her fingertips to her toes, she is a lot older — 256 — in stretch years.
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When he doesn't, word goes out that it wasn't their fault, that they can do only so much and that if they hadn't valiantly moved to Washington, well, think about how much worse off we'd all be.
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There's treatment of how the "hillbilly" evolved in mainstream consciousness: originally a noble outsider, valiantly resisting the excesses of modernization; eventually a backward peasant, unable to adjust his behaviors and attitudes to the realities of the economy.
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As for King, while he might not be able to read the president's tweets directly anymore, fellow Trump critic and author J.K. Rowling has valiantly stepped in to keep him up to speed: Follow Lincoln Michel on Twitter.
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When his teammate, musician and actor Jordan Fisher (who also happens to be a huge gamer), tried valiantly to escape, Ewok followed him through two rifts and multiple wind tunnels to hunt him down with cold, calculated precision.
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But this was also true to the many in the dissident movement inside of Cuba who valiantly risked their lives in the decades-long struggle to restore electoral democracy to Cuba, even in the face of government crackdowns.
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Other sitcoms have tried valiantly to recreate its magic, but so far no group of quirky, attractive white people living in objectively unattainable New York apartments has been able to capture the public's hearts in the same way.
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Passengers on a passing ferry spotted Holt out in the water and one woman, Eunice Rivers, managed to catch a video of him mid-trip, paddling valiantly against the current as water splashed up on his dress shoes.
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A 3-pointer by redshirt freshman Zach Norvell Jr. with 20.8 seconds remaining was the difference for No. 4-seeded Gonzaga, which just sneaks past a pesky No. 269 U.N.C.-Greensboro that fought valiantly in the second half.
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Just after Klobuchar and Buttigieg suspended their presidential campaigns and, along with the former candidate Beto O'Rourke, announced their support of Biden in early March, Shakir valiantly spun the news to me as a sign of Sanders's strength.
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Sara Mearns, the try-everything New York City Ballet star, struggled valiantly to discover the Cunningham principle of stillness in motion; unfocused at first, she seemed to find a new center deeper within herself each time she reappeared.
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We were disoriented and discombobulated, and as I exited the theater, there were more than a few people excitedly dissecting all the angles on that ending (which I am valiantly trying not to spoil, though I'm about to).
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We're here to marvel at Te'o, yes, but please give it up for the kid at the 20 second mark who valiantly steps in to try to stop him and promptly learns a valuable lesson about windshields and flies.
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As she met Lorraine Dube, 29, a volunteer with the African Institute for Social Development, and her son Ezekiel Wong, two, Ms Markle tried valiantly to coax him out of his shyness, stroking his arm and chatting to him.
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Image: Getty ImagesPandora is trying valiantly to stay afloat in a sea filled with competitors like Spotify and Apple Music, and now the company has tapped music legend Questlove to help rescue it from the murky depths of irrelevance.
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At the 9th Circuit hearing, a three judge panel in Seattle listened as White House lawyers defended an executive order they had valiantly tried to sanitize in an effort to please the courts, which keep stopping it as unconstitutional.
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Dornan fought so valiantly with his dialogue in parts one and two, but in this one he just looks spent, playing his scenes with a thousand-yard stare that reminded me of Cillian Murphy's PTSD-stricken soldier in Dunkirk.
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"Many of the healthcare workers who fought so valiantly to save lives are today working in conditions which are very little changed: an unreliable water supply, backed-up toilets and incinerators that don't work," said Kate Norgrove of WaterAid.
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On the fifth encounter between Space's Falcon 9 rocket and its autonomous drone barge, the rocket's first-stage booster tried valiantly to land upright on its rocking, football field-sized landing pad, a barge called Of Course I Still Love You.
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For the first couple of communications, he had seen no remarkable difference, but it would only grow more profound, no matter how valiantly she tried to hold it back with all the ways in which humanity cheated the inevitable breakdown.
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There will be super teams, sure—and always tankers who intentionally lag behind those that are valiantly obsessed with first-round elimination—but they're more likely to cluster and be reasonably competitive amongst each other than filter into one overwhelming authority.
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Armed with the hashtag #NoBillNoBreak—as in, the House would not begin its recess until a gun control bill was brought to a vote—the Democrats tried, valiantly, to stop the chamber from functioning until they had gotten what they wanted.
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By forecasting somewhat higher growth rates in the 3.6-3.7-percent range for 2017-2018, the fund was trying valiantly to put a positive face on a global economy that may see a cyclical uptick but faces many significant headwinds.
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When our friends see us — in the case of Boratin, these include his fellow band members, who try valiantly to support him and prod his memory — are they seeing the same person they have always seen, or someone else entirely?
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Romanian citizens and the country's opposition have fought valiantly to stop the ruling party's campaign to defang the DNA in a battle for the future of a country in a region where authoritarian governments have been steadily dismantling democratic practices.
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As each of the interviewees valiantly discloses their immigration status, producers do the heavy lifting of intricately explaining the particulars of obtaining legal status in the United States via commentary from immigration attorneys, former ICE attorneys, and prominent immigration reporters.
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As far as I can tell, the men who have valiantly offered up their dicks are not even really pretending to be interested in the concept of the museum, or the theoretical knowledge to be gained from the study of human anatomy.
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"My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to care for us as a single parent, is the current that has driven my entire life," Hirono said.
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The bioinformatician from New Zealand, who valiantly, albeit masochistically chose to study Biology because it was his scientific weak point in high school, has recently been working with genetic sequencing, specifically with the smallest and most cost-effective DNA sequencer around, the MinION.
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"I can say that we've been valiantly fighting the cybersecurity battle here in Illinois for decades, and will continue to do so in the future," Kenneth Menzel, general counsel at the Illinois State Board of Elections, told The Hill in an email.
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By citing Justice Kennedy's strong language in that opinion—and endorsing his view that "[r]epresentative democracy" is "unimaginable without the ability of citizens to band together" to promote their political positions—Justice Kagan strove valiantly, if a little desperately, to win over her colleague.
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Sources from Miley's side tell TMZ, she tried valiantly to save the marriage and the dealbreaker was that Liam was drinking a lot and using certain drugs, and she wanted no part of it ... especially since she struggled with substance abuse in the past.
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" With delicate balance, he admonished the Black Lives Matter movement to recognize that an overwhelming majority of cops perform their jobs valiantly and fairly and that when anyone "paints all police as biased or bigoted, we undermine those officers we depend on for our safety.
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Mr. Sturgess ("Across the Universe") works valiantly to give some weight to his wafer-thin character, and the young Mr. Jacob is touching as T.J. But in the early episodes, at least, there's not much Mr. Schwimmer can do with Tommy, the victim's victim.
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Tom DeLonge is valiantly using his very real sources in the intelligence and justice communities, as well as his seventh-degree connection to Donald Trump himself, to discover the truth about Donald Trump and the Russians and then spread his message to the world.
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In these areas of the city, where current residents are valiantly trying to attract new neighbors with stable income and an eye toward a more promising future, there is always something of the city's former glory left to see, always potential left to imagine.
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The people who still write paper checks in the grocery store or valiantly keep print media alive so they can clip out articles on the dangers of vaping to send you are not necessarily going to latch onto telemedicine or online shopping for groceries.
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The Soviet Union also fought valiantly against the Nazis — and lost more people than any other nation in World War II — but those final battles would divide Europe for decades between the West and the Soviet-controlled East, the face-off line of the Cold War.
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During the reunion, they valiantly flexed their early Cali roots as the Birkenstock-clad, mustachioed Sunshine preached dub poetry to the crowd in a style akin to Alan Ginsberg, while Moonbeam deployed classic house tones via a patchwork of equipment, sans a MacBook of any kind.
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That's what happens when you're the kind of citizen Teddy Roosevelt once described, not the timid souls who criticize from the sidelines, but someone 'who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly, who errs, but who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement.
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I left high school—a nearly all-black, segregated rural high school—with the impression that abolitionists had done something wrong by trying to undermine the Southern way of living, and that men like Lee had fought valiantly and expertly to save the land upon which I was born.
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Down a boggy, litter-strewn alley in the Calais squatter camp on a recent weekday, Pascal Brice, head of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees, was to be found, clad in a suit and wellington boots, valiantly trying to persuade refugees to lodge asylum applications in France.
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My expertise in the early civil rights era — a time during which activists tried valiantly to right some of the greatest injustices in American history in a dangerous age but initially failed to stop the passage of new segregation laws and voter disfranchisement — helps me see this setback differently.
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In the marble-floored lobby of the Lotte one day early in the tournament, for example, a FIFA official valiantly tried to assuage any concerns Mukul Mugdal, the independent head of FIFA's governance committee, might have had that plans to house him in the deluxe suite had changed.
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"This historical second-guessing is deeply offensive to Jews, Holocaust survivors and those who valiantly fought against Hitler during World War II. It is, in fact, as many historians have previously noted, a distortion of history itself," ADL National Director Jonathan Greenblatt wrote in an online column in 2015.
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The New York Times and others have worked valiantly refuting misinformation, yet vast numbers of Republicans are still convinced that climate change is a hoax, millions of fraudulent votes were cast in the last election, President Obama tapped Donald Trump's phone, and Islam is a religion of terrorists.
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Soon after Ms. Chiuri is expected to be named artistic director of Christian Dior, and it made for a slightly strange, and strained, atmosphere at the latter brand, where the studio heads Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux have been valiantly holding down the fort since Raf Simons left in October.
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The Sun and the University of Baltimore were magnanimous enough to hold another debate for the remainder: It was streamed online in the middle of a workday, and two candidates didn't bother to participate, so Mckesson ended up valiantly debating three others in front of moderators in an empty room.
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The Chiefs played valiantly after Mahomes's injury last week, stretching what had been a 10-6 lead at the time of the incident to a 30-6 final score thanks to a pair of defensive touchdowns and one beautiful pass from Moore that hit Tyreek Hill in stride for a 43-yard score.
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Votel also said that "a key task" that the US was looking at was "the protection of those who have fought valiantly with us and ensuring that they remain safe as our diplomats and United Nations and others pursue a political solution here in Syria," referring to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
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And yet, by Jackie Robinson entering my life the way he did, by way of my mother's tales and that memorable day watching him in a movie bearing his name, I began to understand what the battle for civil rights — one that my own parents and grandparents were fighting valiantly — was all about.
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On this day 157 years ago, the Mexican people valiantly defended their freedom and prevailed in the Battle of Puebla," the president said in a statement, adding, "As we honor the anniversary of this historic victory, we celebrate the courage and patriotism the Mexican soldiers exemplified in defeating the invading army of Napoleon III.
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And they do so because, when the world demands leadership, it is this alliance of values and interests -- this Special Relationship between two countries -- that, to borrow the words of another great American statesman, enters the arena, with our faces marred by dust and sweat and blood, to strive valiantly and know the triumph of high achievement.
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"By demonizing his so-called 'enemies,' both domestic and foreign, and presenting himself as the savior and defender of American democracy, whatever the issue of the day is, Trump is likely to present it as a war that he is valiantly fighting on behalf of the people," said Laura Smith, a historian at the University of Mississippi.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE (I-Vt.), during his campaign for the Democratic nomination, valiantly sought to make the "billionaire class" and Wall Street misdeeds a campaign issue.
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In a city where Bloomingdale's must stand in for the Coliseum, and the gushing water feature in front of Trump Tower at City Center is as close as you'll get to anything remotely like the Trevi Fountain, the team at Pax Romana is valiantly turning out plates of cacio e pepe and spaghetti carbonara for an appreciative pubblico (public).
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Eric then makes a vow to Rachel's mom to love and protect Rachel, to valiantly fall on whatever sword needs falling on, to stand in the rain for hours, for no reason, risking deathly pneumonia, to kill anyone who even looks at Rachel the wrong way, and, most importantly, to compromise, and Rachel's mom gives Eric her blessing.
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Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation FBI Agents Association calls on Congress to make 'domestic terrorism' a federal crime Senators renew request for domestic threats documents from FBI, DOJ after shootings MORE (R-Wisc.) who fought valiantly to get his version of the Right to Try (S.
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In a passenger's video of the mayhem, you can see a flight attendant in the aisle, valiantly flinging water from open bottles in an attempt to extinguish the blaze, before a man hops up on a seat to get a better angle and goes to town on the fire with a container of orange juice, which appears to do the trick.
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It led him to speak valiantly against the lynching, bombing and shooting of black people who merely wanted what white people took for granted: a cup of coffee at any lunch counter, a room at any hotel they could afford, a drink at any water fountain they passed, a seat on a bus wherever they pleased and a desk in the nearest schoolhouse.
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Kevin Durant may be the new guy in town — and he has certainly lived up to his advance billing with 23 points, 43 assists and 4 rebounds — but the script for the first half of this game seemed ripped right out of last year's finals with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving valiantly battling to keep pace with a far deeper Golden State lineup.
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Still, its décor indicated a preference among some of its employees, Mr. Dow included: Alongside dozens of styles of CCM hockey skates, white Jackson figure skates, sequined leotards and goalie gear were signed portraits of several New York Rangers — not to mention an acrylic painting of the team's star goaltender, Henrik Lundqvist, valiantly snatching a puck against a stormy Manhattan skyline.
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" After the war, she fought for the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments and then, in 1869, the year she turned 3033, decided to focus her attention on women's rights, joining advocates like Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony, who, Howe wrote, "had fought so long and so valiantly for the slave," and "now turned a searchlight of their intelligence upon the condition of woman.
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African American servicemen also had a strong case for wanting to vote, having served valiantly for this nation in World War I. Not only in Ocoee, but other parts of Florida stood to gain a great deal from having an influx of black votes, because those citizens could elect representatives who would address the many ways the state had lagged in social indicators such as schools and roads.
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Yes, the Freedom Caucus tried valiantly to improve the base bill in an attempt to move it to the right, but, at the same time, a long list of moderate Republicans also had either told Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE or the media they could not support the bill.
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For Churchill — who suffered as a child under the remote glare of a contemptuous father and a self-indulgent mother; fought valiantly in four wars by the time he was 25; and earned his own living through prodigious literary efforts that ultimately earned him a Nobel Prize — the main privilege was the opportunity to bear up under the immense weight of inner expectation that came with being born to a historic name.
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There is absolutely no point in combining organic apple cider vinegar with organic raw honey, water, and Himalayan pink salt, and you categorically DON'T want to find yourself sat in the same pub you stumbled out of a few hours ago, valiantly trying to chug down a Bloody Mary spilling Tabasco down your college hoodie, your stomach tightening with nausea as you try and keep up with the conversation about rising rent prices in Bed-Stuy.
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In "Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11," Mitchell Zuckoff relives each minute of that morning in 2001 through the perspectives of those who endured the worst: passengers and crew members on the four planes turned into missiles by Islamist hijackers; innocents trapped in the burning twin towers and the Pentagon; rescue workers who struggled valiantly but futilely and, in many cases, fatally; people in Shanksville, Pa., on whom death rained from a clear sky.
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Apart from bold if probably unattainable objectives (a total transformation to renewable energy in 20213 years), the talking points dismissed as unacceptable three strategies that many experts say are necessary to any solution: nuclear power, technology that allows fossil fuel plants to capture and store their own emissions, and market-based solutions like a carbon tax or the kind of cap and trade bill that Mr. Markey worked valiantly and unsuccessfully to get Congress to approve 10 years ago.
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At a time when the bonds between law enforcement and communities of color have frayed – when assassins target police in heinous attacks, and peaceful citizens have to question whether black lives truly matter – we need a president who understands the reality I saw, in my travels across the country, as our nation's 82nd Attorney General: that there should be no tension between protecting those who valiantly risk their lives to serve and ensuring that everyone is treated fairly by police.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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I mean, yes: Rocky is a boxer, and literally every Rocky film ends in a boxing match, which Rocky either wins ( II, III, IV) or valiantly just barely loses ( I, Balboa), and he is then presented with a microphone, his face just a large pink piece of meat now, with red and Vaseline on it, and sweat all down him, and someone decides now is the best time to talk to him, and so he sort of gags something into the mic—"If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!" or something like that, sounding a lot like you do after you've just thrown up at a party, and you're desperately asking your mate to fetch you some water—and the crowd all cheer, and his wife sniffs once and cries.
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