That means blocking, parrying, and pushing my blade through stormtroopers.
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The best way to beat an opponent is by parrying.
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For Sanders: • Parrying criticism of his single-payer health care proposal.
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Joly has led Best Buy since 2012, parrying away competition from Amazon.
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If her opponent starts parrying, she'll fling in the long left hook.
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Will Merkel, comfortably ahead, seem robotic or defensive in parrying his blows?
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Judge Scalia seemed to enjoy parrying with the senators at his confirmation hearing.
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And Buttigieg was probably the best at parrying attacks, tough as they were.
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We were also treated to a boxing-match worthy of blows and parrying blows.
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If the opponent starts parrying the jab, the high kick can catch them cold.
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I was reading their movements, parrying and dodging out of the way of their attacks.
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You can play this game without parrying and you'll you'll be okay, especially on easier difficulties.
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Fencers score quickly, slashing for points, without a lot of the fancy parrying of foil fencing.
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Instead, Mr Putin responded asymmetrically, parrying the American action and mocking Mr Obama as a bitter loser.
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He then proceeded to beat the final boss without even rolling, blocking, or parrying to avoid danger.
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And Warren has proven adept at parrying away the attack lines from debate moderators and the moderates.
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This gives the game a slightly different feel compared to the more direct parrying of similar combat systems.
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She is no longer just parrying attacks in a political campaign; she is speaking for the president-elect.
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But most of that is for parrying intrusions from China and North Korea, rather than actively stealing secrets.
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Mulvaney was out of his element, unprepared and woefully incapable of parrying even the most obvious reporters' question.
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It's From's tightest and fastest game yet, incentivizing players to go on the offense and rewarding flawless parrying.
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"I think it has reminded Democrats we need to run on our values," she replied, parrying the question.
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I run toward them, parrying their fire as I close the distance, picking them off with their own blasts.
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Yet even with a gentle interlocutor, Mr. Moore spent long minutes parrying allegations that he had sexually abused girls.
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But Mr. Ince is offering an uplifting antidote to Mr. Erdogan, parrying the president's slurs with jokes and cheerfulness.
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Obama isn't out there parrying every Trump tweet or demanding that current Democratic leaders embrace his preferred policy ideas.
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John Kerry, Obama's secretary of state, was ceaseless in his diplomatic efforts parrying Russia's pushiness to dictate the Syrian agenda.
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But the Trump Administration seems less interested, so far, in parrying threats than in demonizing Muslims, particularly immigrants and refugees.
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Mr. Barr has mostly weathered Democrats' attacks quietly, parrying criticism in a recent Senate hearing but scarcely raising his voice.
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It also means that there is little stopping the French from parrying U.S. export subsidization with stock purchases of U.S. companies.
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She picked it up again this past fall, parrying punches with the ease of a lifelong athlete during a recent workout.
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Hansen attempted mind games from behind in both sprints, thrusting and parrying to try to knock the Adelaide native off her perch.
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Gorsuch cruised through much of his testimony — parrying with Democratic senators but steering clear of showing his hand on hot-button issues.
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Start parrying the straight or slipping it, he'd kick you in the head when your hand or head was out of position.
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You are most likely the only people who will know 55A ("Fifth of eight parrying positions in fencing") right off the bat.
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More importantly the left elbow has proven an excellent weapon for Till when his man starts parrying or slipping the left straight.
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That involves a mix of Force powers, like pushing and pulling and Cal's signature Force Slow, and parrying or dodge rolling and countering.
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I focused on parrying opponents and dodged to create opening where my lightsaber would fit neatly into the back of a screaming Stormtrooper.
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The males use their bills to stab other males, and to fence — feinting and parrying, sometimes knocking the other bird off a perch.
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The bottom line is the debate, the dialogue, the concern, the bickering, the parrying and thrusting all contribute to the process of American democracy.
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Dragging an opponent's kick past the centerline effectively puts the parrying fighter on a dominant angle without him having to step to achieve it.
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And, thrusting and parrying, they realize Bernard's plan of buying, renovating and renting homes in white areas to the city's growing black middle class.
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" No musician grows up dreaming of fighting in court and parrying insults, but, Nelson concluded, "That's the life of a band in these times.
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Checking the left kicks and parrying the left straights (often while on one leg) Emelianenko was razor sharp with his counter punches and counter combinations.
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Keith Ellison found themselves suddenly parrying an attack they thought they'd already defeated: that Ellison had a troubling record of opposing Israel and American Jews.
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Comely young women are hustled into the office for private meetings, and Jane is charged with parrying the phone calls of the boss's persistent wife.
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Here's the recap that ran on the front page of the newspaper: Even leaving the wine cave aside, Mr. Buttigieg was parrying attacks all night.
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With only a sliver of health left, Daigo Umehara managed to come back and defeat his competitor, Justin Wong, by parrying 15 attacks in a row.
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Paul Aiken, who as executive director of the Authors Guild began parrying digital-era challenges to copyrights and royalties nearly two decades ago, died on Jan.
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As she watched the final points — Tang banging away to stay alive, Calderano parrying his efforts — she rubbed her palms nervously in front of her mouth.
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The oddly complimentary name for the exploit is "unlock tech," and it prevents opponents of the naginata, or polearm-wielding class from parrying its devastating attacks.
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He told me he thought up the idea because he felt Turkey and China were in a game of "hot potato," each parrying the other's moves.
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Just as this writer was thinking "it would be nice to see Joanna slot in a long left hook around Andrade's parrying hand", the champion did it.
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After all, top GOP figures like House Speaker Paul Ryan have been forced to spend the last week parrying questions about whether their nominee is a racist.
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Warren has generally sought to align herself with Sanders on Medicare-for-all, while parrying the attacks pushed by debate moderators, center-left Democrats, and the GOP.
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Richard Cordray, director of the CFPB, told CNBC earlier this month that parrying attempts by the Donald Trump administration to remove him from his post is important.
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For months the two have sniped, with Trump calling Kim "Little Rocket Man," and Kim parrying with "Old lunatic, mean trickster and human reject" from the North.
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First Words Any time we're listening to a politician speak, it really helps to be fluent in politics: There's so much euphemism, so much parrying and doublespeak.
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Unlike, say, the best space battles in the Star Wars series, the frantic ballistic parrying here often makes the viewer feel as if trapped inside a pinball machine.
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Then Sanders and the student start parrying questions: does the student think tax cuts for the wealthy make sense if they come at the expense of education funding?
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Finally, after months of parrying and delaying regulators, rather than face discovery, which would open up its books, C4Bes elected in January 2019 to withdraw from the proceeding.
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"Regrettably, what the WSJ has done so far is nothing but parrying and dodging its responsibility," Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in a daily news briefing Wednesday.
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Yellen rather quickly understood the importance of purposeful vagueness and diplomacy, and before long became highly adept at parrying with the press as well as Capitol Hill legislators.
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When cold spells strike, Mr. Trump will ridicule worries about climate change: Parrying Mr. Trump's tweets can be a challenge, some supporters of action on climate change concede.
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Clinton's campaign, it seemed a welcome change after a weekend spent on the defensive, parrying questions about an F.B.I. review of the emails of a top aide, Huma Abedin.
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When K-1 began to tell Buakaw off for extended periods holding opponents legs, he began to drag kicks across himself and come up punching with the parrying hand.
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Price kept his cards close to his chest, parrying questions from Democrats by speaking in broad terms about wanting to provide access to healthcare coverage while providing few details.
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It makes more sense to spend time focusing on attacking, blocking, and parrying because I can always count on having access to those three without any fear of interruption.
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Clinton was less dominant than in the first debate and sometimes less effective in parrying Trump's attacks in an encounter far more frosty and bitter than in their first clash.
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Warren and Sanders were placed next to each other at center stage, and acted seemingly in concert on Team Medicare-for-all, parrying the jabs from the moderates flanking them.
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Ronaldo was then denied twice in quick succession, Almer parrying away a shot from 20 meters and a header to keep his team afloat as Portugal stepped up the pressure.
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The viking's axe swings in a deadly downward arc, but the samurai meets it with her own weapon, parrying the attack and following up with a flurry of quick cuts.
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He feeds his followers vague, morning-mirror affirmations like "make America great again" and endless "winning," while largely avoiding particulars and parrying fact-checkers and his own history of inconsistencies.
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Mr. Biden was steadier in what was his third debate of the primary contest, rattling off statistics and parrying attacks with good cheer, though he still rambled at other moments.
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Mr. Biden was steadier in what was his third debate of the primary contest, rattling off statistics and parrying attacks with good cheer, though he still rambled at other moments.
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"He knows exactly what he's doing," Mr. Rubio said, parrying Mr. Christie's criticism that he is overscripted by repeating himself four times in defiance of context, self-interest and human sense.
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Then Scaramucci, who seemed content parrying reporters' questions for even longer, finally relinquished the podium, but not before blowing a kiss to reporters, his Trump-pleasing, on-camera curtain-raiser complete.
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Still, Powell's prepared testimony and parrying of questions during the roughly three-hour hearing at the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee reassured investors about his ability to steer the Fed.
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So it was Sunday for Jacoby Ellsbury, who stood casually with a coffee cup in his hand and his foot on a chair, parrying away any inquiries that called for introspection.
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Since September a score of prominent figures in media, the arts, academia and business have been parrying claims that range from date rape to stalking, groping or merely insistently texting female colleagues.
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Republicans sought to cast Kavanaugh as a capable and qualified nominee, while parrying away a litany of Democratic arguments for why the Senate should reject Kavanaugh or delay his confirmation process entirely.
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That is why Mike McGuirk, the executive director of the Bay Area Disc Association, an amateur ultimate Frisbee league in California, spent the past week parrying high-five attempts with his elbow.
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He proved his dexterity by parrying the attacks against him, but the question is now if he can sustain his advantage after having doubts raised about his candidacy in such stark fashion.
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He said that while "the last couple of days could have gone better," the main cost to the Clinton campaign had been "playing defense instead of offense" while parrying questions about her health.
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But there are two key differences: Trump was not yet the GOP nominee and McCain -- himself the 2008 GOP standard-bearer -- is a long-time public figure with experience parrying on the presidential level.
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Against Yushin Okami, Silva convinced Okami to parry a straight, then turned his hand over and dragged the parrying arm away from Okami's guard—allowing him to sneak the high kick over the shoulder.
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Guy's altered schedule and the added commute meant that he was spending at least two hours on the road every day, parrying semi trucks and racking up tolls on the harrowing New England highways.
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The danger of the technique is that the left hand is occupied in parrying the opponent's jab, meaning it is unable to defend against an immediate right hand, the 'two' in the one-two.
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He cares about how the back-and-forth parrying with the White House press corps looks on TV, sometimes directing camera crews to move to the right or the left for the best shot.
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The Stranger's combat vernacular is simple: He has a sword for slashing and parrying, a dash for getting out of tight situations, and an energy pistol for when things get a little too hectic.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton played it strictly deadpan while parrying decidedly off-the-wall questions from comedian Zach Galifianakis on his online parody talk show, "Between Two Ferns," released on Thursday.
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When it came to answering questions about his taxes, Rove said Sanders was succinct and on-message, showing he learned valuable lessons about parrying tough questions and connecting with audiences during the 2016 Democratic primary.
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" On the rare occasions when McMaster cracked a joke—parrying some slight by Trump with a mildly sarcastic "You hurt my feelings, Mr. President"—his staff would nudge him afterward and say, "Do that more!
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Separately on Monday, Russia's "If the deployment of new US systems begins specifically in Asia then the corresponding steps to balance these actions will be taken by us in the direction of parrying these threats," .
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The benefits of the technique are that the parry with the lead hand means that the opponent's own left hand has no chance of returning to his head before the parrying fighter's right hand does.
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"... If the deployment of new U.S. systems begins specifically in Asia then the corresponding steps to balance these actions will be taken by us in the direction of parrying these threats," Ryabkov told a news conference.
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And he has championed other civil rights causes throughout his career as a senator and as vice president under Barack Obama — a fact he and his campaign lean on heavily when parrying criticism on race issues.
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In addition, the migrant crisis hurt the administration's popularity in 2014, and there might be a political calculation here—an idea that parrying Republican critiques on immigration will somehow help Democrats, especially Clinton, with swing voters.
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Scott Walker for a week, and produced a focused performance, parrying every attack with a sharp assault on the unholy trinity of Clinton sins: emails, the foundation and her foreign policy failings as secretary of state.
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Let's take a look at how each candidate did at defending and parrying their vulnerabilities, using a scale of 22003-22006 (1 means they made the problem even worse and 5 means they put it to bed).
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When the guard breaks, they are open for damage, which means that fights, including the handful of riveting boss encounters, are focused on parrying and precisely blocking your opponent to drain their stamina before they drain yours.
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Attempts to recruit more women and younger players to the sport has also led to the barring of body-on-body contact like checking or high sticking — using your mallet above the handlebars as a parrying tool.
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Mr. Shea, who comes from a family of law enforcement officers, took over the office in early February, aware that Mr. Barr and the Justice Department had been parrying demands from the president to prosecute his enemies.
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Parrying questions on why the fighters had been able to resist the Philippine army for so long, senior officers said the main problem was that 238-21 civilians were still trapped in the urban heart of the town.
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Though Lee played aggressively, often staring Chen down after winners, Chen seemed to have an answer to Lee's power, parrying his smashes, and to his touch, repeatedly finding his drop shots and lifting them safely toward Lee's backcourt.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A British-born U.S. national security expert never lost her cool during hours parrying heated questions from the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Thursday, and emerged as the latest star of the congressional impeachment inquiry.
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President Reagan's administration funded and developed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) with the objective of parrying a nuclear attack, avoiding any damage to the U.S. — a rearranging of the nuclear calculus that should, in theory, cancel out MAD.
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Low kicks and movement with bursts in the clinch were obviously the plan of VanZant and Rawlings did a good job of parrying kicks and getting in with her hands even if the low kicks were troubling her.
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Can't walk through the side kick, you have to let it fall short or knock it off line but the latter is normally done with the hands and that, in turn, opens the parrying fighter up to attacks upstairs.
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There is no doubt that J Street will try and reconstitute itself under the new political constellation, but it will probably turn into a sad Don Quixote type figure, dreaming of moments of grandeur while parrying against imaginary enemies.
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But in bringing a reporter's notebook to a knife fight, the White House press corps has seemed overmatched in parrying attacks from a man who flummoxed rivals with catchy sobriquets like Low Energy Jeb, Lyin' Ted and Crooked Hillary.
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Putin, for his part, played the role of statesman, serving as a kind of emcee and parrying questions from the press by professing incredulity at the allegations of meddling, before making an astonishing offer of a "deal" with the president.
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Masvidal is one of the best examples in MMA of effective parrying, catching and countering kicks but Maia hasn't thrown them that often since that painful knockout loss to Nate Marquardt, so if Maia isn't shooting expect only a little boxing.
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When Condit kicks he will often cross his legs for the opponent, but parrying his kicks across the body (except the low line kicks) has been done by most of his recent opponents and exposes Condit to shots on his hips.
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Those thrills can be as cheap as winning against an experienced older sibling or as spectacular as pro-player Daigo parrying his way to a tournament win (or Daigo losing a match to Lupe Fiasco or two cosplayers getting married).
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While attention going into the event was focused on South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has recently surged in the first contest state of Iowa, the young Democrat emerged largely unscathed after two hours of debate, parrying critiques from Rep.
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The posture system was also true of enemies of all different types, meaning that while different bosses required different approaches, you could rely on parrying without wondering if some monstrous enemy would completely ignore your feeble attempt to stay it's hand.
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What begins as a clever parrying between two wise-beyond-their-years college women and the older couple that finds them interesting and fresh develops into something like a love story, as Frances, queer and radical and bohemian, explores what she actually desires.
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And in the end, after nearly five hours of parrying, dodging and weaving, Ms. Lynch appeared to emerge unscathed from a contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing that dwelled at length on her decision last week to shut down the yearlong investigation into Mrs.
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While Barr appeared confident and at ease during his confirmation hearings, parrying barbs from concerned Democrats, that was little-league stuff compared to what he would face following his decision to release a four-page summary of the 448-page Mueller report.
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All too vividly, it depicts Jesus facing his accusers, and the Roman prefect Pilate becomes an almost sympathetic figure, parrying with "the high priests and servants," who shout, "Crucify, crucify!" to a frenzied orchestral backdrop, blood lust almost palpable in the sneering harmonies.
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"I think I'm worth the trouble," she told reporters, parrying renewed questions from Democrats about her stewardship after yet another Republican congressional candidate, this time in Georgia, found success by making Ms. Pelosi and her adopted hometown, San Francisco, the centerpiece of a campaign.
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Crow isn't a perfect candidate but the former Army ranger has done a good job of parrying the attacks on his record, and I suspect Republicans would rather not spend $5 million again in 2020 defending Coffman in a seat that continues to trend away from them.
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However, the concern is that the current parrying continues into a perpetual round of threats and retaliations that wrecks consumer and business confidence — both of which are around record highs — and provides a cost shock that could tip the economy into at least a brief recession.
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There was so much procedural parrying that Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, the presiding chairman of the floor, said some version of "a plague on both your houses," dropped his gavel and abandoned the chair, a move so unusual that no one could recall its ever occurring before.
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Addressing a crowd of several hundred at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Ms. Warren said it was up to Democrats to decide whether they would spend every day parrying "a racist tweet, a hateful tweet, something really dark and ugly" from the president.
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Word of the Day noun: (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge noun: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) verb: make a return thrust verb: answer back _________ The word riposte has appeared in 39 articles on NYTimes.
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"Before last week, he could have contented himself with launching a couple of eloquent sallies against President Trump while good-naturedly parrying attacks from the rest of the field...But Thursday night is now a big deal..." Speaking of Biden... You might have noticed Biden's glaring absence from the national media.
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The past week in Washington offered what appeared to be a startling contrast: on the one hand, tales of a President unhinged, issuing garbled, contradictory commands to appalled aides who were conspiring against him; on the other, a thoughtful Supreme Court nominee, calmly parrying the futile assaults of a frustrated senatorial minority.
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To do that, I'd snuck through the outskirts of a feudal Japanese castle town, quietly assassinating enemies I could isolate and using the ones I couldn't as living whet stones, on which I could hone my parrying skills and to try out the various "shinobi tools" that Sekiro can equip to his prosthetic arm.
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But it changes the formula in dramatic ways, adding a verticality to combat and exploration by way of a grappling hook, as well as a unique parrying system that turns every battle into a high-stakes tug-of-war where you repeatedly clash blades until you wear your opponent down and strike a finishing blow.
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On the subject of cross checks, which often work better for fighters who want to step in with their right hand off checked kicks, Alex Oliveira immediately tried to exploit Tim Means' repeated use of this defence, stepping in with a right hand, parrying the check with his hand, and attempting to get another right hand in.
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By the time the game is throwing hordes of enemies at you at once, you'll be slicing up a foe in front of you, before spinning around to snipe a ranged attacker from across the way, then parrying a blow with some quick punches only to have the Leviathan Axe spin back into your hand for a final coup de grâce.
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Sure enough, all three of the most transmitted moments paint Mr Trump in a poor light: critical speculation about his reasons for refusing to release his tax records, an interrogation about his incitement of the "birther" theory that Barack Obama was not born in America and Mrs Clinton's unsparing parrying of his claim that she did not have the "stamina" to be president.
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WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts faced a sustained barrage of criticism from her Democratic rivals at a presidential debate in Ohio on Tuesday, tangling with a group of underdog moderates who assailed her liberal economic proposals, while former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. appeared to fade from the fray after parrying President Trump's attacks on his family.
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McGlashan on Wednesday unveiled his first response in US District Court to the charges that shook the world of high finance a few weeks ago — parrying back allegations that he had planned to funnel a total of $250,000 to an admissions consultant who would use the money in part to bribe a college athletics official in order to secure his son's spot at the University of Southern California.
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Some fear it could be difficult to find an effective messenger to fill her shoes; she's a frequent guest on the Sunday show circuit and is at ease parrying reporters' questions about President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE.
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In "Warren Draws Fire From All Sides, Reflecting a Shift in Fortunes in Race," Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin analyze what happened: Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts faced a sustained barrage of criticism from her Democratic rivals at a presidential debate in Ohio on Tuesday, tangling with a group of underdog moderates who assailed her liberal economic proposals, while former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. appeared to fade from the fray after parrying President Trump's attacks on his family.
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