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After liking Marie at first sight, little prepares him when the gorgeous woman appears at the family compound.
New York I Love You just like its predecessor (Paris Je T'Aime) is a compound of various stories that reflects the different kinds and aspects of love but unlike it the rhythm is much faster and the stories much shorter.
This film has zero narration and combines verite footage with sensitive interviews with four teenage workers in China who live inside a factory compound.
When the scientist and family man Matt Winslow (Robert Urich) finally accepts the invitation to work the Micro-Digitech Corporation in a space suit project, he moves with his beloved wife Patricia (Joanna Cassidy) and their son Robbie (Barret Oliver) and daughter Chrissy (Soleil Moon Frye) to a huge modern house in the corporation compound.
Judson Mills had some superb action roles, taking out Rashid's compound and various kick-butt roles but, there was a lack of Chuck Norris.
This pitiful woman is standing there in front of a row of used compound bows and shotguns,obviously trying to find that one ring that doesn't look like it was snatched off the hand of a dead pimp,and the whole scenario just reeks of desperation.
The forest is the setting at night and inside it is where Leatherface and his clan(including a mother with a mechanical voicebox and a father whose been dead quite a long time)live..a compound very similar to the one we are familiar with from the first film.
The general premise is amazing in that bioengineered locusts somehow escape their scientific compound.
I mean come one when you are sneaking across a maniacal doctors compound why would you run right for the spot light?
In the fancy Starliner compound in an island near Montreal, a mad scientist tests a parasite in the body of his mistress.
Costas "sneaking up" on character after character while making all kinds of noise, the enemy compound so sophisticated it controls top secret space satellites, but such shoddy security that the marines' walkie-talkies go undetected as far a underground subs and Costas runs around without any surveillance picking him up.
Dean and Sam decide to drive to the compound to investigate the event.
They acted like it was a huge compound.
What makes EverSweet taste sweet is not stevia; it is a compound produced by a bioengineered yeast.
It has not shrunk from bombarding Abbas’s presidential compound, attacking Fatah’s command centers, and targeting Fatah military leaders like Rashid Abu Shbak, the commander of Fatah’s internal security and many others, all of them lieutenants of the supreme Fatah military authority in the Gaza strip, Mohamed Dahlan.
Of course, its current ideological hostility to Israel’s very existence is a serious issue; but Israel and the West should not compound their grievous mistake of not recognizing the legitimacy of its electoral victory in Gaza by rejecting any Palestinian state in which Hamas plays a governing role.
As difficult as we may find it to condemn individuals who use drugs and surgery to transform themselves in accordance with dominant aesthetic standards, on a social level these procedures compound the problems they are meant to fix.
Market pressures compound this worry.
But wresting power back from regional and international institutions – however shadowy and distant they may seem – would only compound the problem, for it would reduce the ability to guide the supranational trends that are shaping the world’s future.
The fact that May is facing the weakest domestic opposition imaginable may actually compound her difficulties.
In the face of such security concerns, my argument that taking a human life is wrong, and that the state should not compound criminal wrongdoing with its own, found little resonance.
He also visited the UN compound in the center of Gaza to express the UN’s grave concern over its bombing.
The failed coup is set to compound this trend.
After all, Qaddafi survived President Ronald Reagan’s punitive 1986 bombing raid on his compound only because former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and former Maltese Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici tipped him off.
Compound the two problems and you have world-class income disparities.
For Japan, low levels of English fluency compound the challenge.
Since the cuprates first appeared, a variety of other “high temperature” superconductors have been discovered – one is a simple compound of magnesium and boron, and another involves a mixture of iron and arsenic.
The flamboyant, jewelry-bedecked Singh calls himself Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan – a compound of Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh names, followed by the word for “Human” in Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.
And time is not on Europe’s side, as external pressures from the likes of Turkey and Russia – both of which are exploiting the discord to their advantage – compound Europe’s internal political strife.
It had been assumed that thousands of Hezbollah rockets fired in concentrated barrages – which cancel out the inaccuracy of unguided rockets and powerfully compound blast effects – would kill many civilians, perhaps hundreds each day.
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