In late April, Infinity War's stiffest competition is ... what, Rampage?
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But after that, he's stuck in his stiffest, clumsiest mode.
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But in the stiffest suspension setting, the truck blitzkriegs through corners.
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Thompson's next opponent is by far the stiffest of his career.
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Legia, though, does not seem likely to offer the stiffest resistance.
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But in Mr Sisi they may have encountered their stiffest challenge yet.
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It was the stiffest U.S. warning to the Russians since the Sept.
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At the same time, some of the stiffest headwinds for manufacturing have abated.
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And she is lauded for having the stiffest upper lip in the realm.
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In fact, the Tab S43's stiffest competition may actually come from Samsung itself.
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Most polls put Biden as either the frontrunner or the stiffest competition for Sen.
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He got the stiffest sentence in Togo: two years in prison and a fine.
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Remember, the stiffest charge Jackson was facing -- attempted extortion -- was dropped back in September.
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Teslan is made with fullerene carbon nanotubes, one of the stiffest and strongest fibers around.
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Why it matters: Legacy brands are facing their stiffest competition yet from mission-driven upstarts.
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The automaker claims the all-aluminum body is the stiffest Land Rover chassis ever created.
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Perhaps GM's stiffest competition comes from Waymo, which is owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet.
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This is the stiffest punishment that Pakistan has handed down for online comments to date.
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Not only did Gaga win, she also beat out some of the night's stiffest competition.
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Books are up against the stiffest competition ever for our increasingly wandering eyes and shortening attention.
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I started strumming and put on the stiffest, whitest, most boring performance of that song ever.
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Judge Gregory Carro on Monday called the case "pure evil" before issuing the sentence, the stiffest available.
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Two academics, Benny Tai (pictured) and Chan Kin-man, received the stiffest punishment: 16 months behind bars.
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Barr is expected to face the stiffest challenge from a Democratic candidate since he defeated former Rep.
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To be fair, those were very difficult games against the stiffest competition the Warriors faced all season.
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It goes without saying that child molestation is a uniquely evil crime that merits the stiffest penalties.
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Dean Heller, one of the stiffest GOP opponents, who is up for reelection in increasingly blue Nevada.
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Formed in 1999, the party posed the stiffest political challenge to ZANU-PF since Mugabe took power.
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This probably is the best defense Manning has ever had, and this will be Carolina's stiffest challenge yet.
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It wasn't the stiffest sentence he could have passed, so perhaps the moral outrage was only for show.
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Mrs Lilian Beattie-Seaman has been described as a "ferociously pompous grande dame of absolutely the stiffest corset".
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Barrett is the youngest in contention and would likely meet the stiffest opposition from Democrats in the Senate.
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Taught me to do my hair and makeup to look more "girly" and showed me my stiffest competition.
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Beyond the immediate security challenge, Mr Macron also faces the stiffest political test of his 18-month-old presidency.
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He is British, and tells a nearly Dickensian tale of his early days with the stiffest of upper lips.
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Mr. Biden's campaign put up the stiffest resistance: It demanded Facebook take down the ad, only to be rebuffed.
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His prison sentence, which he began serving in 2006, was among the stiffest handed out to a corporate executive.
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That helps explain why some of the stiffest opposition to this tax overhaul is coming from the retail industry.
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It is the stiffest motion I have ever seen; all wrist and phalanges, and next to no follow through whatsoever.
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The cuts to public sector perks, effective Oct 1, are the stiffest in a series of recent measures to boost revenue.
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The appointment which faced the stiffest opposition was that of the education minister: a mere 97.9% of delegates voted for him.
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He is expected by many to be the next prime minister but faces his stiffest competition from the Pakistan Muslim League.
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Dallas saved its stiffest goal-line stand for the fourth quarter, surviving a first-and-goal at the 1-yard line.
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Some of Clinton's stiffest foes are continuing their pursuit of the Democratic presidential nominee, even after her defeat in the election.
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They haven&apost faced the stiffest competition, with 12 of their wins since December 1 coming against teams currently below .500.
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And his reputation for standing up to the powers that be, consequences be damned, may face its stiffest test yet. video
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But until now, the stiffest forms of punishment — prosecution and federal prison time — were reserved for adults traveling alone, not families.
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You've helped convince me that Trump's behavior with Ukraine can't be allowed to pass without the stiffest condemnation that Congress can muster.
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Convene's 530 Fifth Avenue location is one of 14 in New York, a city with some of the stiffest coworking competition around.
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Monet's "Nymphéas en Fleur" ("Water Lilies in Bloom"), one of the artist's celebrated water lilies, generated some of the night's stiffest competition.
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The show's stiffest competition is absent, and now we're probably just going to see a Game of Thrones sweep that will age poorly.
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Cleveland hasn't even fully "flipped the switch" on defense, and is steamrolling what's supposed to be its stiffest pre-Golden State Warriors competition.
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The stiffest punishment that an ordinary priest would face if such an accusation is proven would be dismissal from the clerical state, or laicization.
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Trump in January slapped sanctions on state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, known as PDVSA, the stiffest economic measure against Maduro to date.
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The city agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, recommended the stiffest punishment against Officer Pantaleo: departmental charges that could lead to suspension or dismissal.
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The two top charges of predatory sexual assault carry the stiffest penalty: a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison.
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But the deepening record of the Mueller investigation is raising the possibility that Trump's talent in creating alternative realities is facing its stiffest test yet.
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The company paid $27.25 million — the stiffest penalty ever assessed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission — but the agreement allowed Polaris to avoid admitting wrongdoing.
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The army of South-East Asian immigrants who fortified the donut empires of Winchell's and Yum Yum's would become the chains' stiffest competitors in the 1980s.
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Coastal winds in Texas are strongest in summer afternoons while the winds in west Texas are stiffest during the shoulder seasons — spring and fall — and at night.
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Mom jeans are generally supposed to be made of the stiffest, most rigid denim — something that has never really worked on my size 16 hips or thighs.
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He see-saws between otherworldly and ordinary, and it's not a coincidence that his least effective performances came against LSU, Florida, and Washington, Alabama's stiffest tests this season.
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Men's Olympic 100m champion Kyle Chalmers may face his stiffest test against another Australian in Cameron McEvoy, who owns the fastest time in a textile swimsuit (47.04 seconds).
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But recent events in Hong Kong have posed the stiffest challenge yet to Beijing's sovereignty, and if sustained, could push China to react to protect its national interests.
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The growing divisions within the K.G.B. are manifested in their marriage, which faces its stiffest test as forces gather to upend their cover as a normal American family.
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The fine was one of the last — and among the stiffest — penalties imposed upon global investment banks by the Obama administration for their role in the financial crisis.
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The African National Congress (ANC), the party of Nelson Mandela which has been in charge in South Africa since the 1994 election, is facing its stiffest challenge in years.
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Another defendant in the case, who was not employed by the paper and had been charged for his activities on Twitter, got the stiffest sentence, 10 years, Ozdemir said.
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The constructors champions are bullish about their car after near-flawless pre-season testing, however, and team mate Nico Rosberg may again loom as Hamilton's stiffest competition in Melbourne.
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Read more: Nick Bosa trolled Baker Mayfield by recreating the quarterback's most iconic college celebrationBut Sherman's postgame criticism of Mayfield was still the stiffest shot fired of the night.
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I held my breath for the remainder of the unexpectedly tender, moving, and, yes, romantic scene as two of the stiffest upper lips in Britain finally found each other.
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Derek Brunson is a sloppy and wild fighter technically, but a very strong wrestler and a knockout puncher as well, so this was easily the stiffest test of Adesanya's career.
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That region has dense cities with strong electrical demand, high power prices, opposition to new power plants on land and some of the world's stiffest ocean breezes off the coast.
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South Carolina has rattled off four consecutive victories to open the campaign but faces its stiffest stretch of the season with Michigan and Syracuse looming over the next four days.
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Lamar Jackson and the Ravens' juggernaut of an offense will get their stiffest test against the San Francisco 49ers in a game that feels like a regular season Super Bowl.
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But with those closest to him under intense police and public scrutiny, and his typically loyal political allies suddenly turning silent, Netanyahu faces the stiffest challenge yet to his lengthy rule.
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The bank fraud counts carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in jail — the stiffest potential sentence of all the charges that Manafort and Gates have been charged with so far.
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In handing down one of stiffest penalties meted out to a top political figure in Brazil in recent years, the judge said Mr. Cunha violated his "enormous" responsibilities as a lawmaker.
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At the international level, the stiffest competition lately for the American women is coming from the three European squads that joined them in the World Cup semifinals: the Netherlands, Sweden and England.
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Michigan faces its stiffest test of the season when it travels to New York City to tangle with Marquette in the semifinals of the 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden on Thursday.
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He faced his stiffest challenge yet in the Preakness, in which he was pushed almost the entire way by Good Magic, then nearly caught by Bravazo and Tenfold, who came running late.
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Now, with the French presidential election starting this weekend, Mr. Trump faces the stiffest test yet of whether his brand of nationalism and nativism appeals to voters elsewhere in the Western world.
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Christian Bale is the stiffest competition, but "Vice" will likely have to settle for a makeup/hairstyling Oscar for the wizardry that somehow transformed the former Batman into Vice President Dick Cheney.
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They worked stiff as hell, one of the stiffest matches of the night, and told a story of two evenly matched opponents, neither of whom could get the better of the other.
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The new indictment included multiple counts of bank fraud, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of 223 years in jail — the stiffest of the charges the two men have faced so far.
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It's all played with the stiffest of upper lips, which can be somewhat confining, dramatically speaking -- perhaps foremost for Foy, a terrific actress who must convey quite a lot merely with pained expressions.
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The Commons standards committee, finding him guilty of misconduct in breaking rules on lobbying, recommended his suspension from the House for 30 sitting days, the stiffest penalty imposed since records began in 1949.
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Rather, the Pacifica claims the lightest and stiffest chassis in the segment, class-leading ride quality, class-leading aerodynamics (hard to top an oval) and the largest interior volume in the minivan field.
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A five-time winner of the event, Woods showed significant progress over his 210st-place showing in his last start here, in 218 at a time when pain loomed as his stiffest opponent.
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The Marine Corps is also the military branch that has put up the stiffest resistance to opening combat jobs to women, with several high-ranking Marines saying the move could hurt combat effectiveness.
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He would check and smother his opponents' hands as Sandy Saddler had, he had the stiffest jab in the division, and he was fast learning to cut the ring with on best of them.
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"A life sentence would have been appropriate," Alice Weidel, an Alternative for Germany leader, wrote on her Facebook page, citing the stiffest sentence that can be handed to someone convicted of murder as an adult.
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Read: Trump just hit Russian oligarchs with the stiffest sanctions yet The U.K.-based billionaire and his companies gave a minimum of $5.55 million to Republican groups during the 1.13 election season, according to May.
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But they concluded there was one scenario so severe that there would be little they could do if it came to pass: the stiffest sanctions being applied to his business empire, not just Deripaska himself.
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Morales was named chief in February, but the suit claims he did not handle discipline of the officers well as the stiffest penalty was suspension for three of the officers, varying from two to 15 days.
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In that regard, Ms Stephens enjoyed a lucky draw in New York, facing so many aggressive players; it's no coincidence that her stiffest challenge came from Ms Sevastova, the least powerful of her late-round opponents.
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The Miami Herald said Wednesday that Bush and Jeter, who have previously competed over purchasing the franchise, could face their stiffest competition from New York financier named Wayne Rothbaum, who is the manager of Quogue Capital.
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Blankenship said he will prosecute the case and seek the stiffest penalty possible if the boy is charged as an adult, though another prosecutor will handle the case if the suspect is charged as a juvenile.
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No. 2220 LSU 2229, No. 22267 Auburn 2267 Joe Burrow passed for one touchdown and ran for another as LSU passed its stiffest test of the season, holding off Auburn in Baton Rouge, La., to remain unbeaten.
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Regardless, other researchers will doubtless clamour to try and exploit the newly produceable material: Previous calculations have shown that Carbyne is stronger than both graphene and diamond, and around twice as stiff as the stiffest known materials.
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Having bounced back nicely from a loss in its stiffest test of the young season, Tennessee has its sights set on its next major challenge - but first, it will look to dispatch visiting Lipscomb on Saturday afternoon.
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Even the stiffest of capital controls might prove too leaky to prevent the drip-drip-dripping away of reserves (and eventual pressure to depreciate) unless the Chinese government simultaneously imposed stiffer controls on both trade and investment.
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The widening economic crisis now presents the president's Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., with one of the stiffest challenges yet to its important base of support in small towns and cities as the local elections approach.
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But now Mr. Stone, a veteran adviser to President Trump who has long cut a piratical figure on the political scene, appears to be engaged in his stiffest fight yet: the one for his own legal future.
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Perhaps his stiffest test will be to push through land expropriation, as promised, to address racial disparities in ownership - while keeping the left wing of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) on board and not scaring off investors.
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The report, which is headed by Inspector General Michael Horowitz and was launched in January 2017, has the potential to deliver the stiffest blow for officials who formerly occupied the highest positions within the FBI and Justice Department.
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An all-aluminum body on chassis construction of the car's new D7x platform delivers the stiffest Land Rover body ever created, with a design that's three times more rigid than traditional body-on-frame designs, the company said.
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While the AFL's integrity department said there was no evidence to suggest any "intent to influence the outcomes" of the matches Stephenson's punishment is the stiffest handed down by the Australian Rules top flight for a gambling offence.
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The mayoral election fight of 214 may be slowly gearing up, with Mayor Bill de Blasio facing his stiffest challenge so far from a Republican real estate developer with deep pockets but little name recognition among New Yorkers.
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"I have been through both military and civilian coups," said Orhan Erinc, 82, a veteran journalist and chairman of the Cumhuriyet Foundation board that manages the newspaper, who received one of the stiffest sentences, six years and three months.
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But he doubted there would be a big shift his way, especially given that 44 percent of those surveyed in the latest Ibope poll say they would never cast a ballot for Bolsonaro, the stiffest rejection for any candidate.
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Page is almost half a decade into his MMA career, almost thirty years old, and the stiffest test he has faced is the forty year old Cyborg who is now 3-5 going back to 2011, being finished in every loss.
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Unbeaten FSU too much for Winthrop Winthrop provided Florida State's stiffest challenge yet early in the season, but the unbeaten Seminoles remained that way Friday night with a 214-73 victory in the opening game of the NIT Season Tip-Off.
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Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said he'd keep an open mind about Trump, but that if the president-elect "makes good on his promise to reverse America's progress in opportunity and equality, he will find in me the stiffest of opposition."
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Read: Trump just hit Russian oligarchs with the stiffest sanctions yet Two senior Trump administration officials were once registered as lobbyists for an investment company controlled by a Soviet-born industrialist who made billions doing business with newly sanctioned Russian oligarchs.
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But the ads don't cover a swath of southern and Sunbelt states, from Alabama to Texas to California, where Buttigieg will likely face the stiffest competition against presidential rivals who poll better among voters of color, particularly former Vice President Joe Biden.
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I wanted to hear their opinion about the current Caravaggio show, or the show of the Matisse drawings with the strange bias towards his stiffest, most labored work, or about the Egyptian section of the Met which had just seen – but nothing doing.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba, weeks after his conviction for war crimes was quashed at The Hague, was nominated by his party on Friday for December's presidential vote, in what could be the stiffest challenge to President Joseph Kabila's ruling coalition.
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In no particular order, the Sessions Justice Department has: Directed federal prosecutors to pursue the stiffest possible charge in every single criminal case -- potentially triggering draconian mandatory minimum sentences the Obama administration tried to avoid on fairness grounds for non-violent offenders.
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Nowadays, I simply do not have the time, usually (as handheld titles are another matter), to take on console games with concentrated dedication, in the sense of learning their every in and out, and raising my own capabilities to face the stiffest challenge.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal faced his stiffest challenge yet at the U.S. Open but raised his game to beat Marin Cilic 6-163 3-6 6-1 6-2 on Monday and continue his quest for a fourth Flushing Meadows title.
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But while the winner of the SAG ensemble prize was "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," presumably making it the stiffest competition facing "Shape," the "Three Billboards" filmmaker, Martin McDonagh, did not get an Oscar nomination for best director, while Mr. del Toro did.
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But she did not really have to push it, especially with another race to go in an event that will most likely be the stiffest challenge of her bid for a record-tying six gold medals by a female swimmer at worlds.
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One of the best pure wrestlers in MMA, with a unique of grappling, meets his stiffest opponent in years in a guy whose best shots are the uppercut and the counter low kick and who is strong as an ox as a lightweight.
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"The drive toward normalization, which includes the FOMC beginning to reduce its balance sheet by a maximum of $150B per quarter on Monday, still sources the stiffest secular headwind for the market," Jeremy Klein, chief market strategist at FBN Securities, said in a note.
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Coming off his worst game of the season, the high-scoring junior guard figures to receive his stiffest test yet as Stanford brings one of the better scoring defenses in the country to the fifth-place game of the AdvoCare Invitational at Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
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With Mano Le Tough's Maeve Rave in the day, and Suara and Hotflush providing the stiffest of competition at night, Maya Jane Cole's stacked lineup of Miss Kittin, Kim Ann Foxman, and the rare pairing of Job Jobse b2b Tom Trago is just too good to miss.
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Mr. Frelinghuysen, 255, did not give a specific reason for not running, but he was likely to face the stiffest challenge in his nearly quarter-century occupying his northern New Jersey seat and his departure gives the Democratic Party a better chance of winning the seat this fall.
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Mr. Trump arrived in China on Wednesday for the stiffest test yet of his audacious bet: that by cultivating Mr. Xi and offering him concessions, like delaying punitive trade moves, he can persuade him to move against North Korea in a way that none of his predecessors have.
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EditorsNote: Removes reference to Alabama playing on Saturday in graf 33 as game is final Joe Burrow passed for one touchdown and ran for another as No. 2 LSU passed its stiffest test of the season, holding off No. 9 Auburn 23-20 in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday afternoon.
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One analyst said the stiffest remedy recommended, a 35 percent tariff on solar panels, would add about 10 percent to the cost of a utility-scale project but would have a negligible impact on the price of residential systems because panels themselves make up a small portion of their overall cost.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Short-term funding costs in China shot to their stiffest level in nearly 22015 years on Thursday on fears of a cash crunch heading into its most important holiday of the year, but ended well off the day's highs as state banks stepped in to offer more yuan supplies.
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Not that everything is rosy for the broader group of small businesses with the current health-care setup: For small businesses with 50 or more employees, the very ones who faced the stiffest penalties for not providing health care under the ACA, providing health care is the No. 1 issue.
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Take the case of Georges St-Pierre, Silva's stiffest competition for the title of Greatest Fighter Ever (with Jon Jones and Demetrious Johnson right there in the running): Silva and GSP circled each other for years back when the former was the middleweight champion of the world and the latter the welterweight champion.
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Of all the politically charged reports accusing law enforcement of misconduct since President Donald Trump took office, this one from the Inspector General's office -- now 17 months in the making -- has the potential to deliver the stiffest blow for officials who formerly occupied the highest positions within the FBI and Justice Department.
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But the breakout success in Japan of "Even the Stiffest People Can Do the Splits: A Four-Week Stretching Plan to Achieve Amazing Health," a book published last spring by cluttering guru Marie Kondo's publisher, Sunmark Publishing, and recently out in the United States, suggests that some people never give up the dream.
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During an age in which millennial shoppers in particular care about where and how products are sourced, that's good PR. But persuading the public to quash its appetite for the furs and exotic skins they see celebrities like the Kardashians, Lady Gaga, and Beyoncé wearing is arguably where animal rights activists really face the stiffest challenge.
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In May, for instance, Sessions issued a new directive to prosecutors to pursue the stiffest charge available in every criminal case that likely will result in more prosecutions of non-violent drug offenders and tougher sentences, rolling back measures introduced by the Obama administration designed to alleviate the societal costs of mass incarceration that fall disproportionally on minority communities.
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If "electability" ruled the day, would Biden's stiffest competition be coming from a 78-year-old democratic socialist who recently had a heart attack (and just placed first in a California poll), a 70-year-old former Ivy League law professor whom Trump delights in calling "Pocahontas" and the 37-year-old gay mayor of a small Indiana city?
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Beside Nio and Xpeng, WM's stiffest competition in China will come from two foreign firms, Tesla and VW. Tesla's boss, Elon Musk, says the company's Shanghai gigafactory will be making 1,000 cars a week by the end of 2019; they will mostly be its Model 3, which is both its cheapest car and, at 53,800 yuan ($50,000), still very expensive for the Chinese market.
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Even more famously, he worked one of the stiffest matches of all time with Big Van Vader, another scary big man who is incongruously mellow in real life; the match is infamous for the fact that Hansen popped Vader's right eye out of its socket (This is both a remarkable brawl between two 300 pound men legit beating each other and also very graphic despite the pixelated quality, so be warned.) They finished the match.
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The first involves drinking a can of Coca-Cola in the shower, the second sees you consuming three cigarettes and five cups of coffee in front of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, and third requires sitting entirely naked on the stiffest chair you can find and trying to read Malcolm Lowry's utterly soused 1947 novel Under the Volcano, until that book's potent stench of booze-clogged pores forces you into a deep and depressed slumber, effectively forcing you to sleep the hangover off.
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