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Nagra comes from conservative Indian family that isn't exactly into girls playing competitive soccer.
Darren Ashton (director) chooses his feel-good mockumentary on competitive dance in Australia to show realistic characters.
And the audience can't help but laugh at our immature look on life - our competitive nature!
Well, the coach and kids soon learn that sports is not that fun when you are the laughingstock of a very competitive league.
thus creating the competitive situation that fuels the film.
I think they did well with what they had to work with (continuing a horrible initial film's story, low budget, and probably competitive producers as well).
The movie was a feel-good movie that could be used to motivate young girls to pursue their talents in competitive sports; it could also be used to teach young boys that girls too work hard and long to achieve their dreams and need recognition too.
The story winds together a tough dance teacher who has won the award every year called Ms. Elizabeth, a competitive mum who can't stand to watch her child lose (played superbly by Kerry Armstrong) and the children who are just trying to have fun.
Death Becomes her shows the true competitive side of women that scares most of the human race, how far we will go to be the hottest, the smartest, the kindest, etc.
In this film humans and sharks both live in competitive worlds where hunting is both the business and the pleasure.
A group of competitive high school girls and two incredibly dumb males attend a camp where the best group (including their mascot) can win tickets for the national cheer leading contest...or something.
Some of the side joke adult characters such as the principal of the school (Meagan Mullaly of TV's "Will and Grace") and an over enthusiastic competitive coach (Patrick Warburton of (Kronk's New Groove).
I've been out of a competitive drumline for 25 years, and I can still play better than they did.
In the meantime enjoy relentless action in a realistic gorefest involving a competitive face-off between the 2 best hit men in the Far East, and some pretty smart and relentless police who are out to take them both down.
To conclude, i would say that Dutch finally reached his distant ancestors' primal instincts for hunting and survival that made the human race competitive on the natural selection.
Full of drinking, sex and competitive humor.
An independent watchdog would require all employers to demonstrate that their hiring practices are transparent, competitive, and meritocratic.
Unbalanced EuropeBRUSSELS – The G-20 governments have declared that competitive devaluations (or currency wars) must be avoided.
Fast and sustainable economic growth requires the rule of law, accountable, meritocratic, and non-corrupt bureaucrats, protection of property rights, contract enforcement, and competitive markets.
The problem is that growth based on low wages, supported by an artificially competitive exchange rate, cannot continue for much longer.
As Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, has noted, negative interest rates should be used only in ways that stimulate overall global demand, rather than simply to move demand from one country to another via competitive devaluation.
In our globalized world, a country’s optimal industrial structure – in which all industries are consistent with the country’s comparative advantages and are competitive in domestic and international markets – is determined by its endowment structure.
If a country’s firms can do that, the economy will be competitive, capital will accumulate quickly, the endowment structure will change, areas of comparative advantages will shift, and the economy will need to upgrade its industrial structure to a relatively higher level of capital intensity.
There can no longer be any doubt that investor panic can provoke economic meltdown, as it did in Asia and Russia last year, still threatens to do in Brazil and across Latin America, and may yet stage an encore in Asia over worries about a devaluation in China and the spiral of competitive devaluations that could follow.
Yet there are reasons to fear that there will be such a decline: slower growth means fewer competitive pressures for heightened efficiency; diminished risk tolerance means a lower appetite for innovation and experimentation; and nominal interest rates pinned at the zero lower bound means that society’s savings cannot be used effectively.
There is no guarantee that the EU would agree to an interim continuation of free trade, and it seems certain that UK exports would face higher tariffs than its former EU partners in those third countries (placing British exporters at a competitive disadvantage).
They gained extraordinary and unexpected support from Joseph Stiglitz, the World Bank’s chief economist and senior vice president, who recently advised that China should practice competitive devaluation and beggar-thy neighbor policies.
The upshot is that the emerging market policy environment is a lot more competitive, especially in terms of attracting FDI.
For starters, construction costs for solar power plants are finally low enough to produce electricity at a competitive, stable price for more than 25 years.
But if green energy were already competitive or near-competitive with fossil fuels, the Paris agreement would be unnecessary.
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