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Gwilym suffered from an acute lack of charisma ( and looked like one of the bad guys ) while Mick Ford ( who played the irritating Chico Barnes ) made me think of a horse's arse whenever he was on screen.
I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and I also work in an acute care medical facility.
He bellows, gesticulates Italian-style, laughs out loudly, screams most of the time and shows signs of acute boredom.
Also in the city is a lady named Dori (Sharon Lawrence) who suffers with acute guilt over an automobile accident that left her young son with a limp.
Though it sounds depressing, this film is hardly a downer, it's full of humor, satire and acute observations on life.
The attempted initiation of the young boy, the acute acne humiliations and the necrophilia are all hard to take but the film is dressed well enough and a smile lingers despite it all.
Kurosawa never ceases to amaze me because of his incredibly acute comprehension of the visual effects of a story.
In A Talking Picture, 96-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira takes us on a journey through history, making us acutely aware of our heritage and, in the process, conveying an acute sense of what we have lost and what we have become.
It's the old story of abuse as a child and this man suffered at the hands of his mother; which has lead to an acute hatred of women.
These countries’ need to establish policy credibility tends to be more acute, whether as a result of histories of high inflation, an absence of credible institutions, or political pressure to monetize budget deficits.
By the end of 2012, the crisis could be considered less acute.
Today, however, these countries’ cities must contend with economic and social issues that are more acute, more urgent, and of a vastly larger scale than those that confronted European and American cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
And fiscal weakness and balance-of-payments fragility have become more acute in India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey.
With some luck, this time will be different - the inflation problem is not yet acute and hence early and gradual restraint may produce slowdown rather than a recession.
In Indian villages, where residential patterns are often even more segmented, such effects are acute.
Deeper fiscal surveillance should be matched by broader economic surveillance, especially since current-account imbalances have become more acute during the crisis.
As the continent’s population has swelled, from about 285 million in 1960 to nearly 1.3 billion today, and urbanization has progressed, the challenge has become increasingly acute.
Almost half a million children are facing the prospect of severe and acute malnutrition, 300,000 of them in Borno alone.
This sentiment is especially acute for Germans, who remain bitter at, as they perceive it, having been Europe’s paymaster during the crisis.
Her humanity and compassion are coupled with an acute sense of the iron discipline required for effective governance.
Not surprisingly, the contraction was most acute during the depths of the Great Crisis, when consumption plunged at a 4.5% rate in the third and fourth quarters of 2008.
Just as Obama and Brown led the way then, German Chancellor Angela Merkel must respond purposefully and powerfully to the widening divide between rich and poor, which has become an acute danger to the world economy, and to social cohesion and political stability.
This problem is shared by all deficit countries, but is acute in Southern Europe.
Despite its progress, around a third of India’s population lives in conditions of acute poverty, making the country home to a third of the world’s poor.
While Indian officials are often discreet in public about relations with China, and wisely want bilateral trade and investment to grow, their security concerns remain acute.
But clean-energy costs are trending in the opposite direction, ripening these solutions at a time when need – particularly in some of the world's largest developing cities – is becoming acute.
Yet the more diffuse threats faced by the smaller number of southern NATO members may well be more acute.
One can only hope that it will focus on the North Korean nuclear threat, which is very real – and could become acute sooner than anyone expects.
The dollar shortage has become acute in countries like Egypt, Nigeria, Iran, Angola, Uzbekistan, and South Sudan, among many others.
The irony is that while King Abdullah has energetically taken on a leading role in the region’s turbulent affairs, he seems unable to respond to Saudi Arabia’s acute lag in democratic reform in comparison to neighbors like Jordan and the Gulf states.
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