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We had to build snow and ice anchors so that we could tie off ropes and rappel down into the hole.
There are many different screws: wood screws, metal screws, anchors, concrete screws, the list went on and on.
We have no such anchors and benchmarks for decisions in messy human affairs.
Our debate moderators, our news anchors should be asking it of our elective representatives and candidates for office, too.
The show's humor has gone stale, Colbert left, Steve Carell left, many of the show's best anchors left and now it's mostly about Jon Stewart and the show's gone from a parody to a semi-serious news show, essentially Evening News but with some gags here and there.
There's nothing terribly original or revolutionary about the style in which this is filmed or the romantic love triangle that anchors the narrative.
World-weary Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) follows his heart and his anchors through a cerebral journey to find sanity in a post-apocalyptic Colorado.
and yet he is one of the only anchors that prevents this from being a chaotic disaster.
Right from the start you see that "Anchors Aweigh" is a great comedy.
Peter Weller anchors a cast of Canadian actors in this entertaining low budget thriller directed by George Cosmatos.
With so many former military officers serving in Trump’s cabinet or as advisers, even as Trump cozies up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and anchors an informal alliance of dictators and authoritarians around the world, it is likely that the US will spend more money on weapons that don’t work to use against enemies that don’t exist.
At a time of considerable political and social fluidity, destabilizing the remaining anchors represents a risk to the system as a whole.
Each development, and certainly their occurrence in tandem, points to the historic paradigm changes shaping today’s global economy – and to the anxiety that comes with the loss of once-dependable anchors, be they economic and financial or social and political.
Restoring these anchors will take time.
Perhaps Mexico and Brazil will one day become the northern and southern anchors of Latin American growth.
Doubters note that what remains of Egypt’s internal and external institutional anchors serve to retard the revolutionary process rather than to refine and accelerate it.
The airing of opinions is the cheapest way to fill a broadcast hour; ranting anchors score the highest TRPs.
Since World War II, Britain’s close relationships with continental Europe and the US have served as the two anchors of its foreign policy.
And, while emerging firms will offer better services, they will not find it easy to overcome immediately and decisively the institutional and regulatory inertia that anchors traditional firms’ market position.
America provided China with both stability and growth anchors.
The country’s economic, political, and geopolitical security rest on precisely the three things that nationalists want to destroy: dynamic open markets for German exports; an integrated EU that anchors Germany’s position in Europe and the world; and the US nuclear umbrella that ensures its defense.
A broadcast media company recently held a conference largely for its reporters and television anchors, in order to generate a large amount of video content at once, in front of a live audience.
But Iraq’s Shia government is one of Iran’s major strategic anchors in the region; before the US began airstrikes against the Islamic State, it was far from certain that the Iraqi government would survive.
On the right, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan’s Expanding Opportunity in America anchors the view that America already spends enough and just needs to spend it better.
Given the possibility of a domestic political backlash, the inherent complexities of implementing a multi-dimensional reform package, and the cyclical headwinds implied by still-sluggish growth in the US (which accounts for roughly 80% of exports), Mexico may need both anchors if it is to sustain reform momentum.
These anchors succeeded in taming inflation and even insmothering hyper-inflation.
The scholar Tariq Ramadan, for example, has spoken of the rise of a “European Islam,” which anchors Islamic principles to the cultural reality of Western Europe.
When it plied more heavily traveled seas, we often saw wrecked hulls rotting in midwater, and farther down, cannons, shells, anchors, chains, and a thousand other iron objects rusting away.
There Dillon collected many relics of the shipwreck: iron utensils, anchors, eyelets from pulleys, swivel guns, an eighteen-pound shell, the remains of some astronomical instruments, a piece of sternrail, and a bronze bell bearing the inscription "Made by Bazin," the foundry mark at Brest Arsenal around 1785.
At this location, in three or four fathoms of water between the Paeu and Vana reefs, there lay some anchors, cannons, and ingots of iron and lead, all caked with limestone concretions.