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One can only imagine the team of Merchant-Ivory expanding the central idea of this piece, giving that final twist a few more screws and applying more gloss and luster to the production.
A lot of the problems they encountered throughout the movie could have been resolved by applying high-school-level common sense.
It's so respectful of the genre at the same time that it plays with it... Nathan Baesel, who says he was inspired by Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter really pulls off charming and cheery -- not copying Lecter, but applying the influence to create a new and lovable serial killer (this is what makes him both funny AND creepy - it's impossible not to like him!).
But prospective applicants would have been better off applying for work as stable hands!
Inexpensive practices – such as planting crops in rows, weeding correctly, and applying fertilizer in micro-doses – are also proven methods to increase crop production dramatically.
But, unlike some new tools that guess – usually inaccurately – whose mail is important to me, Mailstrom does an excellent job not only of categorizing my mail, but also of helping me to get rid of it by applying my own intelligence – and willpower.
Meanwhile, consumers are applying that same curiosity to their governments.
This will lead the regime down an increasingly autocratic path, applying more aggression at home and defying the West with greater self-confidence.
But when the bank ran the numbers, they discovered that although about half of the people applying for low-end, high-interest-rate credit had a police record, this did not seem to reflect on payment outcomes.
Surgeons operating manually know how much force they exert only by the way it feels; a surgical simulator, by contrast, could measure that force and indicate when a trainee is applying excessive or insufficient pressure.
In this case, applying the Bagehot rule would be wrong.
In Eastern Europe, former communist countries applying for European Union membership must harmonize their laws with those of the EU.
Indeed, making lists of behaviors, applying medical-sounding labels to people who manifest them, and then using the presence of those behaviors to prove that a person has the illness in question is scientifically meaningless.
There are simply no alternatives right now, and applying the entire gamut of sanctions from the outset would leave the EU and the US without further options.
Governments are great at funding and carrying out research, but competitive private companies motivated by profit and glory tend to be more efficient and speedier in applying the results.
Data collected by the Death Penalty Project at Delhi’s National Law University demonstrate conclusively that there is no statistical correlation between applying the death penalty and preventing murder.
Applying the scientific method to the problems of science could be scientists’ best hope for regaining public confidence and reinvigorating the quest for transformative discoveries.
Unlike the UN tribunal for former Yugoslavia, which was established during the Balkan wars, a tribunal for Iraq would be more constrained by the need to avoid applying justice retroactively.
As long as Africa is full of such dubious men, applying “African solutions to African problems,” as they like to say, will do the continent no good.
There was one instance of frozen bank accounts holding $23 million that involved applying the US Patriot Act against a bank in Macau that did not even operate in the US market.
Applying the recent declaration on defense cooperation will not be easy.
Overly strict qualification criteria are likely to deter members that may need this kind of support most from applying for it; but overly loose criteria may stigmatize potential users.
The Fund could solve this dilemma by applying an insurance-like approach.
The danger is that applying this approach rigorously will invariably result in a bloated civil service and army.
While the new paradigm would safeguard the legitimacy of existing regulatory and diplomatic instruments, such as emissions trading, the EU would have to reconsider the framework for applying them.
France is simply applying to EU rules its engrained habit of viewing its own culture as exceptional.
The Fed, Trump claims, is applying overdoses of monetary stimulus to hypnotize voters into believing that economic recovery is underway.
On more than one occasion, the actions of plucky individuals, applying their intelligence against orders, saved us from catastrophe.
Given large potential revenues – in 2008, the CBO estimated that one proposal would yield $145 billion in 2012 and more in subsequent years – it would make sense to dedicate a portion to cushioning the impact of higher energy prices on the poor, while applying the rest to the fiscal balance.
By the end of this year, the number of people applying for asylum in the European Union will exceed one million.
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