Sentence examples for chessboard- from inspiring English sources

Instead, the moment Nick Clegg realised things were changing, that he was suddenly in prime position on the chessboard and morphing fast from pawn into knight, was more a series of moments.

A master of defence, his relentless grinding down of opponents made him the Geoffrey Boycott of the chessboard.

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".

Stanley Kubrick never quite carried that off in his 1960 film, "Spartacus", in which the striking things are the classy acting, Kubrick's fascination with the almost chessboard precision of Roman military tactics and the left-wing thrust of Dalton Trumbo's screenplay about a slave revolt in Ancient Rome.

The past four decades have been a period of gestation for ICT during which processing power exploded and costs tumbled, setting the stage for a truly transformational phase that is only just beginning (signalling the start of the second half of the chessboard).That sounds plausible, but for now the productivity statistics do not bear it out.

A chessboard is a battleground, but as Mrs Gresser pointed out, it is, at one level, a battle between the sexes, in which the female has an advantage.

North Korea, says Michael Green of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and a former administration official, has thrown "the whole chessboard in the air" to see if it can start afresh at the negotiating table, this time with its missiles placed squarely on it.

Messrs Brynjolfsson and McAfee fear that the technological advances of the second half of the chessboard could be disturbingly rapid, leaving a scourge of technological unemployment in their wake.

If a compromise is reached, the third dimension of the chessboard includes Brazil, which is nervous about dropping industrial tariffs, and India, which has deep trepidation about opening its farm sector.According to one of Mr Bush's lunch partners this week, his parting words to the two trade negotiators were: "Go to it, Susan.

Using genetic engineering, the team managed to persuade a different bacterium Escherichia coli, a ubiquitous critter that is a workhorse of biotechnology to manufacture this protein in bulk.In this section The roar of the crowd Triassic lark There be Dragons A fab result ReprintsNext, they imprinted a block of gold with a microscopic chessboard pattern of chemicals.

IN THE lobby of Nokia's glistening glass-and-steel headquarters just outside Helsinki sits a table with a huge silver-and-bronze chessboard inlaid into its surface.