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It balances horror with beauty and love with hate.
The film balances the sadness of Lady Snowblood's story and some campy humor to great affect.
it is true that the plot balances on the old carpe diem type thing, but unlike every hollywood dungheap to tread this ground in the last 20 years, this film manages to do it with some grace, some originality, and with a large dash of realism amongst the severe surrealism.
Beatty has made a film that balances dozens of well-etched characters in under two hours and made it move lightning fast.
The hacker group's lone egghead is at the same time a conspiracy theorist (Dan Ackroyd) who balances out his own personality, while the rest are a complementary lot to their leader, Robert Redford, alias Martin Brice, alias Martin Bishop.
It balances though in many aspects the old -Orpheus- myths of the travels via the under-worlds to the finding of secret treasures, so precious the conductor should resign his fears: Europe, as you know, is a derivative of the old Indo-Europeans, enemies to Egypt, the Ancient Gnostic Civilization.
It is so beautifully shot (in that stark black/white that only nitrate negative could achieve), has a witty, clever and extremely well-written script, features some of the best acting in film's history, acrobatically balances the main plot/subplots with expert precision, contains some of the best characters on celluloid, has many true-to-life parallels (Swanson's career/real life cameos/DeMille's involvement/etc) and is peppered with such great dialogue/narration that today's film writers should take note.
It balances both the humour and drama perfectly, a harmony which isn't met so successfully in the rest of the film.
There are no checks and balances for this, as the right wing media continues to stifle true dissent and replace it with faux debate forums such as this.
This show balances comedy and drama effectively, and maintains a realistic tone while delving into the hackneyed fairy tale scenario of working businesswomen.
To me, it's a film that balances story, characters and atmosphere better than just about any other.
In practice, though, public pressure to do something quickly enables politicians to run roughshod over the usual checks and balances on government policy making.
In only three countries - New Zealand, Thailand and Sweden - are generational balances negative, meaning that those countries are leaving generations yet born with lower lifetime net taxes than current newborns.
If they do not move quickly enough, there is a broad cohort of whistleblowers, unions, consumer advocates, and others to give them the needed push, serving as a system of checks and balances.
That means that there is a more fundamental problem at play: America’s system of checks and balances has so far failed to work as effectively as the US – and the world – needs it to.
While the world has implemented more checks and balances for CLOs than it did for CDOs before the crisis, the trend remains deeply worrying.
There are no checks and balances on these powers.
The “tyranny of the majority” remained a major concern for elites, and was countered in the US, for example, with an elaborate system of checks and balances, effectively paralyzing the executive for a long time.
But Obama, Cameron, and other Western leaders now have nine million reasons to reconsider their approach – one reason for each Polish woman of reproductive age, for whom the lack of effective constitutional checks and balances is no longer an abstract political problem.
None mentioned the Trump administration’s rejection of international institutions, either, or the attacks on the domestic media and judiciary – which amounts to an assault on the system of checks and balances that underpins US democracy.
But it had political checks and balances that constrained even the military, and power changed hands on numerous occasions through increasingly fair and free elections.
The result of such a choice may well be the worsening of domestic problems and the weakening of checks and balances.
But it is also possible that checks and balances will hold until the next election, enabling America’s existing political parties to rebuild and new parties to emerge.
The touching belief in the liberal-democratic state’s checks and balances, and in the idea that the rule of law would prevent Le Pen from turning state power against the vulnerable, is not one that the left can risk entertaining.
The Swiss economist Silvio Gesell, who originally proposed a scheme of “stamped money” at the start of the last century, added a stipulation that balances unspent after a month should be taxed, to discourage hoarding.
Perhaps what really matters is what happens after a candidate takes office: the quality of the checks and balances within which he or she operates, the advice offered, the decisions taken, and, ultimately, the policies pursued.
As China becomes a more urban and elderly middle-income society, the challenge for the new leadership is not only to meet the population’s need for employment, health care, and social security, but also to improve governance and state effectiveness by establishing checks and balances on political power.
Germany’s political leaders – the Kohl-Genscher-generation who had experienced the war – understood that a united Germany would represent such a concentration of economic strength in Europe that it would inevitably disturb political balances within the EU.
Nowadays, no country can evolve without developing effective and credible institutions, establishing a meaningful system of political checks and balances, and diffusing control over decision-making.
Ignore the fact that bilateral balances are irrelevant for welfare when countries run surpluses with some trade partners and deficits with others.
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