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They were obviously aiming straight for cult status here, but you can tell there was a decent amount of money behind the picture - the special effects aren't too bad, except for a fetal sheep puppet that reminded me a tad too much of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and the makeup is very good.
Director Jonathan King is clearly aiming to be the next Peter Jackson, but he has started far behind the curve.
The soldiers combat in a hostile state shirtless, shooting only from the waist, never aiming, but always seem to hit the forehead.
A respective display of teamwork, good dialogue and visual display of characters that made the show look it was aiming to reach more than just children.
If John waters was aiming to be trashy he got it spot on.
The title indicates to me that they were really aiming at comedy here, and it some places, they really, really hit it.
The characters alone make the movie funny, even though they are not aiming to make you laugh.
And the troopers!! To the point that one wont even kill a single bug without the helping hand of a nanny aiming at it for him!
We follow two stories : Laura (played by the ravishing Fanny Valette) is a 19 year-old philosophy student, committed to Kant and to rationalism in the midst of a pietistic household which, to put it mildly, does not share her enthusiasm for philosophy (as his pious sister remarks, philosophers take aim at their target and hit the bullseye : problem is, they're aiming at the wrong target).
And he eschewed the search for the single “big bang” in favor of aiming for multiple breakthroughs.
Even though they were already resigned to a 25-basis-point rate increase, the politicians made a big show of being opposed to it, aiming to prevent what they really feared and what was certainly more warranted: a 50-basis-point hike and a warning of more on the way.
It is precisely this ambition that sets Iran apart from North Korea: whereas North Korea seeks nuclear weapons capability in order to entrench its own isolation, Iran is aiming for regional dominance and more.
Aiming to establish a fait accompli concerning its claims to sovereignty in the area, China has lately been engaged in concerted dredging and reclamation works on several reefs and shoals of the disputed Spratly Islands.
Finally, in November, at the earliest, and after the first review of the new program is completed, “the Eurogroup stands ready to consider, if necessary, possible additional measures… aiming at ensuring that gross financing needs remain at a sustainable level.”
Some speculate that he is aiming to build a new populist party of working-class voters (former so-called Reagan Democrats) and Tea Party Republicans.
First, aiming for “policy change” makes more sense than striving for regime change.
The Fed has now started to raise the short-term rate and has said that it will continue to do that gradually for the next few years, aiming at a rate of nearly 3% in 2020 and beyond.
What Herzl and his followers were aiming for was something truly revolutionary: the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
The Necessity of Universal Health CareThe biggest health challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean isn’t a single disease or condition, and it won’t be solved by aiming money at a single risky behavior.
But it is impossible to mitigate all risk, so aiming for this is not feasible.
One, between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups like the Free Syrian Army, can be resolved only through a diplomatic solution – precisely the kind of solution that the peace talks in Vienna, involving a wide range of world powers and regional actors, are aiming to reach.
The eurozone went one step further, aiming through monetary unification to eradicate fully the transaction costs associated with national currencies and exchange-rate risk.
Nothing, however, prevents smaller groups of member states from aiming at bolder goals through separate agreements, if their mutual trust and similarities encourage them to do it.
As Harvard’s Merilee Grindle has put it, we should be aiming for “good enough” governance, selecting a few imperatives from a long list of possibilities.
Financial inclusion is vital for inclusive economic growth and gender equality, and it has assumed a prominent role in global development efforts, with the World Bank aiming for universal financial inclusion by 2020.
Those who argue for de-emphasizing income inequality maintain that public policy should seek to ensure that all citizens enjoy basic living standards – nutritious food, adequate shelter, quality health care, and modern infrastructure – rather than aiming to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
What is true is that there is a life-and-death struggle going on over the future of Islam, with extremists aiming to subvert both its open-minded tradition and the modern world.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, for example, is aiming to crack down on Islamist extremism by banning the expression of ideas that the government deems to be promoting or glorifying it.
Economists around the world have condemned that target as punitive, because aiming for it will inevitably result in a deeper downturn.
Yet Poland’s government, led by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, is aiming to change that, by portraying European policies as a threat to Polish national identity.
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