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After a rival author attempted to cash in on a fake follow-up, Cervantes released the official sequel in response.
It's the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted.
After fertilization, embryos can be further screened for genetic suitability, frozen for later attempted pregnancies, or delivered into the woman's uterus via catheter.
So if you attempted whatever you're considering, might you build confidence, develop skills, emotionally, financially, otherwise?
I celebrated Christmas with her family, and she attempted to observe Ramadan with me.
It's one I suffered a chronic case of, so much so that I spent 24 years of a life sentence in prison for kidnapping, robbery, and attempted murder.
Now earlier on, as part of a TV show that I have coming up on MTV, I attempted to give a similar demonstration of what is now known as second sight.
She had no shortage of material: in the decades following the Civil War, Southern whites attempted to reassert their power by committing crimes against Black people including suppressing their votes, vandalizing their businesses, and even murdering them.
Lauren’s quest had roots in a real life event– California Prop 187, which attempted to deny undocumented immigrants fundamental human rights, before it was deemed unconstitutional.
It's the hardest thing I've ever attempted, and there have been plenty of times when I felt like backing out.
With their blessing retracted, Fa Hai attempted to trap her in his magical alms bowl.
This has only been attempted once before, and it was in 1999.
More than 60 percent have attempted suicide.
To date, most media and social-change strategies have attempted to appeal to mass audiences, but the future is media customized for each person.
It happened when I attempted to step up a curb.
They also attempted to tone down his philosophy to be more acceptable to conventional society— which, of course, was fundamentally at odds with his approach.
So what you see here is the Three Gorges Dam, and this is the largest dam by 50 percent ever attempted by man.
Probably the largest urban-renewal project, I think, ever attempted on the planet.
In the mid-twentieth century, psychologists also attempted to use IQ tests to evaluate things other than general intelligence, particularly schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric conditions.
He attempted to shame me in a class full of male photographers.
In 1957, five missionaries attempted contact and made a critical mistake.
No one my age had attempted anything like this, and pretty quickly, almost everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong.
The most exciting is the Harlem Children's Zone, which over 10 years, led by Geoffrey Canada, has, through a mixture of schooling and family and community projects, attempted to transform not just education in schools, but the entire culture and aspiration of about 10,000 families in Harlem.
Now, I'm convinced a lot of you probably share my passions, especially my passion for "Judge Judy," and you'd fight anybody who attempted to take her away from us, but I'm a little less convinced that you share the central passion of my life, a passion for the live professional performing arts, performing arts that represent the orchestral repertoire, yes, but jazz as well, modern dance, opera, theater and more and more and more.
After the general, a film that romanticized the life of Dublin gangster the general to such heroic proportions that it made the average Dublin person sick, along come Kevin and his attempted portrayal of Mr. Lynch or martin Cahill, aka the general, the acting is so bad that this crime drama becomes a comedy for the native Dub, and a tragedy for the Kevin Spacey fan. in short, is the movie worth a look.... No, unless u like bad acting with hilarious 'proper Irish accents, ah sure to be sure to be sure'.
Thankfully, only Dan attempted an accent.
By and large they attempted to create an entertaining movie.
Overall, this work is tragic in that the acting talent of Steve Carrell and Wanda Sykes isn't exhibited because of the bland characters they portray, and that it was so poorly written that it skews and clouts many of the film's attempted themes, and makes a mockery of the first film.
One of several martial arts action pictures that attempted to capture the flavor of the famous "Enter the Dragon" from '73, this one is an effort from South Africa.
Once when I attempted to watch this excuse for a television show, I believe i actually threw up in my mouth a little.
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