His favorite child-friendly options include the Junior Ranger program at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in South Africa, where children learn wildlife tracking, and a class at the Gladiatorial School Rome, where families can learn about gladiatorial combat.
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It makes sense for the campaigns to send gladiatorial champions into combat.
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It's what I call in my book a gladiatorial kind of competition.
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Only in the NFL's twisted, gladiatorial world could this ever make any sense.
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Then he would return, composed, to the gladiatorial arena in the next room.
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They do not suit back up in their gladiatorial armor until next Sunday.
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Teen girl battles fights her peers to the death in a televised gladiatorial event.
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His crowds have been large, but nothing on the order of Trump's gladiatorial throngs.
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Glamorous, gladiatorial, faintly disreputable, the concerto is an essential feature of modern concert life.
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In Paris, a handful of designers have showed looks with a distinctly gladiatorial feel.
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Ted Cruz didn't come up with this hard, combative and gladiatorial campaign approach in isolation.
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A bruising, high-voltage clash soon played out in the gladiatorial arena of news television.
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As a young contender he had been fond of his birth name, which sounded gladiatorial.
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Republican candidates for president dueled in another televised debate, the modern version of gladiatorial combat.
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Emperor Augustus apparently loved boxing matches over all other gladiatorial events featured in the Colliseum.
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Instead, he's across the universe fighting in a gladiatorial contest against the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).
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In ancient Rome, the site of gladiatorial excesses, they were used to promote military virtues.
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Players hunt for their favourite characters at "Pokéstops" and send them into gladiatorial battle in "Pokégyms".
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He was online with friends on a server they share together, engaging in boisterous gladiatorial combat.
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But kisses in football's gladiatorial culture seem as incongruous as a Gatorade shower at the ballet.
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I don't mean to give the wrong impression: There's nothing gratuitously gladiatorial about Mr. Abduraimov's playing.
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We frequently describe gladiatorial combat as the battle between an immovable object and an irresistible force.
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That old gladiatorial contact between a single writer and his or her subject can still be thrilling.
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Not just the horrors of gladiatorial combat, which slaves were subjected to as entertainment for the masses.
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It's like a multidirectional game, where you have to be quite gentle but it's also very gladiatorial.
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Instead, he teased hints of meaning from gladiatorial wrestles with paint, and occasionally the result became iconic.
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The great Egyptian pro Amr Shabana once explained squash's appeal after winning a gladiatorial match in London.
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It dominates creatures and pulls them into a network of forced labor, feeding mechanisms, and gladiatorial fights.
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The human race shed all pretense, gleefully revealing themselves as gibbering voyeurs for the pending gladiatorial match.
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Leftists' devotion to shredding each other knows no better gladiatorial spectacle than the amphitheatre of the Roman parliament.
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Televised "presidential debates," for example, place a premium on outrage, goading gladiatorial candidates into demeaning mud wrestling matches.
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But the private sector must take a less gladiatorial approach and routinely share security information with peers, including competitors.
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On the program is a morning procession around the Colosseum, dance performances, gladiatorial contests, and a slave-market reenactment.
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He showed me the gladiatorial arena, the stocks where slaves were held, the throne from which Queen Amina ruled.
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Football and MMA are both gladiatorial displays where athletes in peak physical condition hurt one another for our amusement.
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In a world that has done away with gladiatorial combat, Robot Wars is the acceptable face of human bloodsport.
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Jadis forces Rick to square off against that marvelously designed demon in gladiatorial combat, and lo, it is good.
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It's hard for candidates who haven't ever been part to the gladiatorial fight to jump in and survive for long.
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It's also here that Thor reunites with the Hulk, who's been crushing the gladiatorial competition on an extended incredible bender.
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"These guys are driven to get that incremental edge — they are competitive, gladiatorial in that respect," said Mr. Parrish, 39.
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Not surprisingly, that sort of gladiatorial pit mentality breeds fear, distrust and enmity among the people who work for Trump.
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Americans won't have much patience for the gladiatorial combat in the capital while they are struggling to make ends meet.
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If the programme is the acceptable face of gladiatorial combat, why not extend it to other forms of bloodsport, too?
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He'll have to win a gladiatorial contest if he wants to escape, but first, he'll need to defeat the Hulk himself.
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These dapper athletes scour thrift stores to prep for games, reveling in the mismatch of gladiatorial action and finely threaded elegance.
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" Jason Gay wrote for the Wall Street Journal that McMahon positioned it as "a gladiatorial wedgie upon an allegedly effete NFL.
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That's a far cry from a society that throws its children into gladiatorial contests or makes them run through deadly mazes.
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Saint Augustine decried paganism, and pointed to the horrors of gladiatorial combat in the Coliseum as the embodiment of paganistic excess.
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And as he moved into his 30s, Mr Kissin's ego seemed in overdrive, leading to inappropriately gladiatorial performances of Schubert and Schumann.
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He entertains the soldiers in gladiatorial combat and roots out a force of traitors that is growing in the large military camp.
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This week, the planets are muscling up, raising the bar, and making even the easy stuff like grocery shopping a gladiatorial competition.
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He entertains the soldiers in gladiatorial combat and roots out a force of traitors that is growing in the large military camp.
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Gladiatorial rock music blasted from loudspeakers as Ali walked to the mat a few feet behind her opponent, Ekaterina Bukina of Russia.
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But before he can save his home planet, Thor must win a gladiatorial battle against his old pal the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).
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He is simply an alpha-dog leader who makes the mistake of taking great joy in this often brutal gladiatorial sport of his.
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Living in extreme poverty in the United States means waging an almost gladiatorial battle for creature comforts that luckier people take for granted.
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"It's because Australian sport prides itself on the gladiatorial aspect," Huw Bonello, a journalist for Daily Telegraph Australia, told VICE Sports via email.
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While some question the aesthetic soundness of these stylistically retrofitted works, they remain infinitely preferable to the artist's rubbery, Fascist-era gladiatorial imagery.
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By all accounts, Brownlie was the softhearted yin to Weinstein's gladiatorial yang, as charming and consensus-seeking as Weinstein was splenetic and introverted.
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He could have the advantage in reflexes, while Spithill, with his deep experience and gladiatorial instincts, may have the edge in pre-start maneuvering.
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Fights and gladiatorial contests break out among these desperate people, with Gaza maliciously fomenting rivalries and hatreds, which he observes with clinical, almost sociological detachment.
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As erstwhile trader Alexis Stenfors describes it, this is a world more akin to ruthless gladiatorial contests than the profit-maximising rationality of economic models.
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He has initiated a gladiatorial contest pitting the principle of freedom of the press against a principle of his own invention: freedom from the press.
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Parliament, that venerable symbol of British democracy, became a gladiatorial arena, at once riveting and horrifying to those who tuned in to the daily combat.
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He was a gifted athlete, of course, and from childhood he was tough and determined—but he was not exactly gladiatorial in his everyday demeanor.
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It pointed to the fact that the emperor was able to connect all of Rome by creating this diversion all the time with the gladiatorial games.
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In 2006, Rob Law, a British inventor, appeared on "Dragons' Den", a gladiatorial television show in which entrepreneurs seek to persuade investors to part with cash.
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Those of us who lack the inclination and aptitude for the gladiatorial combat that is American politics don't find much attraction in handicapping future presidential races.
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Among the 84 million people tuned in to the first presidential debate of the general election, the crowd in Phoenix was primed for a gladiatorial contest.
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Trump, who was slow to disavow David Duke and the Klan, stokes the gladiatorial fever, leading to minorities being roughed up and the press being bullied.
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"Unfortunately, these pundits have gotten too lost in the gladiatorial spectacle to see what truly matters: the will of 'We the People,'" the retired neurosurgeon said.
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The fourth set was less theatrical, yet just as gladiatorial, as both men found extra power and consistency in their serving to go to 6-6.
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The best-of-five set matches that have been part of Davis Cup's gladiatorial identity since the beginning will be replaced by best-of-three contests.
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The TD Garden at playoff time is a frenzied gladiatorial pit — if not quite as brutal as its notoriously cramped and sometimes un-air-conditioned predecessor.
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The whole process reflects Mr. Trump's worldview, which was reality TV before reality TV even existed: to see life, even within a team, as gladiatorial combat.
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Romance is truly the future of sports, a gladiatorial showdown, aired live to millions of fans who don't wear expensive replica jerseys but nonetheless identify by teams.
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It was into this murky zone—teeming with rumors of secret government files and gladiatorial fights to the death—that journalist and blogger Eileen Ormsby propelled herself.
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From bloody gladiatorial battles in the Colosseum, to the Derby della Capitale between the soccer archrivals Lazio and A.S. Roma, the city's stadiums have seen every emotion.
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On a strange alien world that's home to a medieval gladiatorial arena designed by an advanced alien race of super hero vikings, I'm about to fight demons.
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On Sunday night, the two compelling, potential first families faced off in the round in a gladiatorial contest with the fate of the White House on the line.
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The event was light on policy and heavy on theatrics with supporters cheering and booing their respective candidates and shouting "Shame" and "Go away" in a gladiatorial atmosphere.
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The century-old dream of big government as the perfect gladiatorial opponent of big business has often failed in the real world of American politics, especially of late.
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I'm a little sad that it doesn't have the gladiatorial car duels that Market Forces has, but otherwise it's very similar to Market Forces in a lot of ways.
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Moore called rugby league "an outstanding product for television" that he said American fans would enjoy because of its similarities to football — another "gladiatorial" sport, as he called it.
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There's a temptation here to evoke the gun game as the logical inheritor of Quake multiplayer matches, weapon pickups, and the absolute gladiatorial combat of selves, weapons, and competition.
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Set on an unadorned, circular stage that suggests a gladiatorial ring, the play introduces two British Iranian brothers, five years apart in age, who meet for the first time.
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I read one editorial criticizing the clowns for condescending to their audiences with "pidgin Japanese, and tiresome tomfoolery," and another expressing discomfort with the gladiatorial bloodthirstiness of the lion show.
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America's circus-like primaries and gladiatorial presidential contests find few echoes in Europe, and Mr Trump, in all his preening, soufflé-haired glory, is surely a sui generis American phenomenon.
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I thought if I could imagine what it felt like for him to walk into this gladiatorial arena and pull this off, I thought I could work outwards from there.
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"The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg," presented in 21950 to the future mayor of New York City, even featured drawings of its namesake in gladiatorial garb.
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The roast battle, which pits comics against each other in gladiatorial combat, has become the hottest new form in comedy today, with dozens of shows across the country and abroad.
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And then, of course, the N.F.L. is particularly vulnerable to Trump's demagogy because its business model depends on gladiatorial combat whose medical risks it has been desperate to hush up.
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We look to criticism not for truth but as a sort of gladiatorial contest, even a bullfight, with the reviewer in his suit of lights goading the poor creative animal.
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Maybe this is just the beginning of a new era of TV. Reality shows have hit a repetitious rut; what could shock their jaded audience awake faster than actual gladiatorial combat?
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Below, the arena was the scene of many grisly events, from wild animal hunts in which thousands of beasts would be killed to public executions and to-the-death gladiatorial bouts.
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After the events of Age of Ultron, these two prideful Avengers find themselves captives on a distant planet where they're perfectly suited as contenders in a sort of interplanetary gladiatorial combat.
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Mr. Smith looked good in his girl's Vuitton, in part because of his coat-hangerlike frame (he fit the runway samples) and in part because the clothes have a gladiatorial edge.
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It could have been plucked from the mind of a gawky teen reading Black Belt magazine in the 1980s, imagining what the gladiatorial combat of the distant future would look like.
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Gladiatorial combat declined in the fourth century, with the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor, but the consumption of human blood continued, with supplies coming instead from criminals at executions.
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"I am firmly convinced that Georgina had no idea about her husband's behavior; blaming her for any of it, as too many have in our gladiatorial digital age, is wrong," Wintour wrote.
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Failing to stop her, Thor is inadvertently cast onto a dystopian planet Sakaar, presided over by Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum, in fully manic mode), who forces his prisoners to engage in gladiatorial combat.
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Bayard and Herzog witness this aspect of language in action when they find themselves attending several nights of spectacle staged by the Logos Club, an ancient secret society premised on gladiatorial debate.
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The rowdiness and near-gladiatorial atmosphere — along with the symbiotic and contradictory dynamic of media-bashing and media glare — made for ratings gold and would persist at Trump rallies through the campaign.
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This is the essential vision of America circa 2017, where nothing makes sense, amnesia and money heals old wounds, and a gladiatorial cash grab distracts from the cliff we're about to go over.
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Since both former governors have spent most of their political careers in their home states, they have mostly avoided the gladiatorial combat in D.C. that both intrigues and horrifies voters in the provinces.
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Chychrun said he still remembered the league's balance of gladiatorial power shifting with the 1990 arrival of Domi, who finished his N.H.L. career with 333 fights, more than anyone else in league history.
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There's also some detail on the villains they'll be fighting, who are related to something called the "Children of the Vault" — seemingly, in true Borderlands fashion, a cult with a penchant for gladiatorial combat.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jacques Villeneuve has applauded Fernando Alonso's gladiatorial spirit in chasing motorsport's 'Triple Crown' but the retired Formula One world champion and Indianapolis 183 winner said he was skeptical about the Spaniard's chances.
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In an earlier collection, "Like You'd Understand, Anyway," the tale of an auxiliary Roman legionnaire trying to protect Hadrian's Wall gives way to an account of the gladiatorial tendencies of Texas high school football.
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I think if Trump starts a gladiatorial sport, we're in trouble, but right now we have that [feeling that what's happening in the comic isn't as out-there as it used to be], yeah.
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Then—"I conferred with my partners, and they confirmed that he did not throw the mouthpiece, and that it came out of his mouth," was official Brian Forte's explanation—Boogie came back, to gladiatorial applause.
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Just think of the way shows like HBO's Rome (2005–07) and Starz's Spartacus franchise (2010–13) called back ancient gladiatorial traditions, in which the muscled naked male body was first and always a weapon.
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But the earliest representation of gladiatorial combat comes from fourth-century B.C.E. frescoes of the Osco-Samnites tribe, who lived just south of what is now Naples, showing armed combatants facing off at funeral games.
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But this week's Republican convention has had the charged air of a Roman colosseum, a fraught and strange affair driven by gladiatorial cries, bear-pit politics and calls for retribution against enemies near and far.
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Beyond having earned the right to participate in nominating the presidential candidate through victory in gladiatorial combat on behalf of the party, superdelegates are more likely to have seen the potential nominees operate up close.
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" Framing the public relations fracas in gladiatorial terms, Trump advised the network to "continue to fight for our Country" and "[s]top working soooo hard on being politically correct, which will only bring you down.
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You can't accuse Snyder of tamping it down; his chief promoter is Luthor, who calls it "the greatest gladiatorial contest in the history of the world," and suggests a number of suitable tags—blue vs.
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In a legally sanctioned gladiatorial arena, young men are able to exhibit the same skills -- throwing, clubbing, running, wrestling, tackling, hand-eye coordination -- that would have made them successful fighters or hunters in the ancestral environment.
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When humanity is inevitably crushed beneath the heel of some unstoppable artificial intelligence, it may look upon Robot Wars — the long-standing gladiatorial competition for robots that launched in 1994 — as one of our greatest crimes.
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Trump is known for his petty cruelty, for berating aides publicly and privately and for presiding over an intentionally gladiatorial West Wing, where advisers seem to expect to be betrayed at some point — and behave accordingly.
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In the real world, when a company and its executive braintrust are gladiatorial and win-at-all-costs, they will construct an abusive and domineering internal culture, and in this real world such cultures essentially always target women.
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Indeed, while fans of individual players might hope for a straight sets demolition job, the showdowns that make up the oft-debated lists of best matches are the marathons, when momentum whipsaws and the rivalry can become gladiatorial.
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The first time I helped him prep, in August of 2007, he couldn't stop complaining about the phony, gladiatorial nature of these performances, which are often a highly subjective test of style and demeanor over substance and accuracy.
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The gladiatorial nature of boxing lends itself to allegories about group pride and dominance, and Trump clearly picked up some tips from his longtime friend Don King, the sport's most shameless promoter and stirrer of the racial pot.
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On Sundays, from April through October, some 50 steel-nerved singers volunteer to be thrown into the pit to unleash their inner rock star in a gladiatorial atmosphere that is as unpredictable as the city that surrounds it.
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Seconds before that, we see unidentified legs wandering through a sea of bodies — and the casualties all seem to be dressed in Asgardian robes, or the gladiatorial armor of the rebels who escaped Sakaar at the end of Ragnarok.
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There is something gladiatorial about professional football, for all the money being made by athletes whose wealth will be of little use to them should they sink into dementia, beginning as early as their retirement in their mid-30s.
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Still, for all the niftiness of these gladiatorial outfits, the most beautiful works in "The Last Knight" are a sequence of small gouaches and drawings depicting jousters, which Maximilian commissioned to illustrate a lightly fictionalized epic of his own martial exploits.
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Meanwhile, our hero is forced into gladiatorial games on Sakaar by The Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum), and he'll have to face off against an old buddy, Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), in a plot that's inspired by the Planet Hulk storyline of the comics.
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Sometimes special structures were built and other times lakes were used, but there is evidence that the colosseum was once turned into a gladiatorial water world for a naumachia (the more you say that word, the more addictive it becomes).
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The general production of this event was hard to stomach as constant reference was made to the Roman Empire, gladiatorial combat, and being in the shadow of history's greatest arena: the Colosseum of Rome despite being about four hundred miles away.
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While Gladiator is possibly a bit harsh on the Romans – there is an academic school of thought which maintains that gladiatorial combat was nowhere near as bloody or lethal as we imagine – it's certainly an evocative portrayal of human bloodsport.
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Also, while historians, especially those operating in periods that are now in our own history and who sought to elevate Ancient Greek culture, cast the Romans as the only nation to enjoy extreme violence, the Greeks were not averse to watching and even relishing gladiatorial spectacles.
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Those accounts, from around the time of the Spanish invasion in the early 1500s, say that worshipers of Xipe Tótec sacrificed people, usually prisoners of war, by having them fight a series of combatants in a kind of gladiatorial ritual — or by killing the prisoners with arrows.
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He wasn't having much luck when, in the autumn of 2014, he was introduced to Jason Moore, an Australian sports-marketing impresario who for years had been trying to raise up to $300 million to create an American rugby league drawing on the N.F.L.'s gladiatorial-entertainment template.
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And although it does try to paint Hernandez as the ironic victim of football-induced CTE, never for too long does it blame the gladiatorial football culture Hernandez spent his life within — even though it might be the closest thing to the true prime suspect in Hernandez's case.
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While I can't say for sure whether this was a scene out of the comics or purely invented by the show, it still felt like it veered right into Mad Max territory to have Rick face off in gladiatorial combat with a helmet-clad zombie covered head to toe in sharp spikes.
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Those episodes are much better when they're devoted to the rest of the crew sorting out their issues after being forced into gladiatorial combat, or when Reed is using the new setting to get meta with "space phrasing," the show's attempt to bring back the constant callouts of innuendo-laced dialogue that were a staple of the early seasons.
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Ten years ago this fall, children's author Suzanne Collins published The Hunger Games, a creepy, insidious story about a dystopian government that forces children to fight in a gladiatorial death match and broadcasts the whole thing on TV. And that book — and its two follow-up sequels, 2009's Catching Fire and 2010's Mockingjay — became a phenomenon.
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That gear and gladiatorial-style fight mimic this mood and look from the trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, where Thor and the Hulk fight in a giant arena (according to the initial description of the film, Hela banishes Thor to this planet): The Easter egg gets a little bit more of a nudge if you not only stick around for Guardians 2's end-credits scenes, but pay attention to the credits themselves.
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