Sentence examples for chessboard in which from inspiring English sources

Describing Ukraine as a "client state of Russia", on February 19th Barack Obama said that Ukraine should not be seen as "some cold-war chessboard in which we are in competition with Russia".

The latter is usually a future shock scenario in which something has gone horribly wrong, while the former generally resembles a gigantic chessboard in which the removal of a single piece has radically changed the alignment of the other 31.

Mr. Orozco has since designed things of even more complicated cleverness, like a Ping-Pong table with a lily pond in the middle; a sculptural house incorporating pianos; an outsize chessboard in which all the pieces are black, white or brown knights; and four bicycles welded together and going nowhere fast.

All of the powerful emotions are clear in Ronan Bennett's thriller Zugzwang, which the author describes as a position on the chessboard "in which a player is reduced to utter helplessness: He is obliged to move, but every move serves to make his position even worse".

"The remarkable thing is that two weeks ago in response to tensions in Ukraine, two weeks ago, the president explained that -- quote -- 'Our approach is not to see events in Ukraine as some Cold War chessboard in which we're in competition with Russia,'" McCain said.

The war in question isn't Vietnam, though, with its bloody close-quarters jungle fighting, but a conflict that seemed to take place on a vast chessboard and in which the combatants rarely saw one another except through scopes or on screens.

Inspired by [21] that four auxiliary synchronized marks are placed near the four corners of the data-embedded halftone images, in this study, each printed halftone image is surrounded by a synchronized outer ring of chessboard pattern, in which each grid is a 4×4 pixel square, as shown in Fig. 11 a.

The UVW was using a variation on an old tactic from the 1970s, called the chessboard strike, in which rapid changes in strike plans among alternating sections of the workforce lead to chaos in the workplace.

Dangerous areas are navigated through a sort of chessboard interface in which you position your character to enter chains of multiple fights to earn the most currency for purchasing weapons and equipment.

Even before the House vote expected Friday, lawmakers were looking a couple of moves ahead on the congressional chessboard to a scenario in which the Democratic Senate would remove the "defund Obamacare" provision and kick the funding measure back to the House for a showdown next weekend.

Hearst and Knott delve into the history of and psychology behind blindfold chess, a variation on the traditional game in which participants play without ever seeing the chessboard (McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, $65).