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His selfishness, and it is selfish to be a sex addict while being married with kids, is consuming him and further tearing down the ties of family bond.
I am typing these comments while consuming a can of beer.
It is some of the most time consuming film work I have ever used.
From the idea of evil reviving itself by consuming a victim (Barker's "Hellraiser", but cinematic ally dating at least back to Hammer's "Dracula, Prince of Darkness" from 1965), thru the rain of maggots (Argento's magisterial "Suspiria"), to the disembodied hand reaching out of the darkness to torment the dead man's lover (Bava's masterpiece, "Whip and the Body"), there really is nothing here that we haven't seen before and better.
As for Nero I thought the film showed him to be too concerned about the incident, like it was consuming his life.
Shattering, all consuming.
In both these films the main character is a movie buff, consuming all that energy that should be invested in their lives in devouring movies.
The worst part is when the main characters daughter participates in the killing of a woman freely, but is apprehensive about consuming her flesh.
Such techniques would prove too costly and time consuming today.
It doesn't come out consuming a few lines of cocaine to aid sexual performance.
Social security is a paternalistic form of forced savings for old age, preventing individuals from consuming and saving as they please.
Of course, this task is more difficult and time consuming than designing general standards, but the payoff may be worth it.
This jibed with what I had identified as two big factors fundamentally driving the price of oil: the early days of the exploitation of shale oil and gas in the United States, and the shift in China’s economic focus from quantity to quality, which implied that the Chinese economy would no longer be consuming energy at the frenetic rate it had been.
Indeed, stock markets are tanking precisely because investors fear that ever-increasing risk premia in the eurozone’s peripheral countries will force them to stop consuming and investing, leading to lower German rates and thus inducing German households to reduce their consumption as well.
On the surface, the debate consuming Germany nowadays is about whether to turn away asylum seekers who have already been registered in other EU countries, as the federal interior minister, Horst Seehofer of the Christian Social Union (CSU), has advocated.
A huge number of elderly people would mean a lot of people wanting to live in certain locations, seeking certain kinds of living quarters, and consuming certain kinds of services.
Together with information, the possibility to invest their social benefits, rather than only consuming them, would strengthen their autonomy and freedom of choice.
After all, consuming a ton of fossil fuel, but capturing and storing the emissions, is very different from shifting or delaying its consumption.
Sectarian violence is once again consuming Iraq, while clashes between anti-regime factions in Syria are becoming ever more frequent, with Islamists seeking to gain the upper hand ahead of the political transition that would occur should the government collapse.
Based on these data revisions, a heftier portion of this wealth accumulation came the old-fashioned way, by consuming less income.
The truth is that one extra child means perhaps 90 years of CO2 emissions (caused largely by a lifetime of consuming products and utilities that account for such emissions), which at worst would remain at around today’s level of about 15 tons per person annually.
Our current world is a mix of people still subsisting with almost no external income, people generating (and consuming) surpluses, and other people consuming surpluses generated by others.
Propaganda and indoctrination are time consuming and inefficient.
The industrialized countries have long produced massive amounts of emissions and other kinds of pollution, while consuming a huge share of the world’s resources – including 90% of the world’s water – all in the name of their own development.
In reality, more people earning, consuming, and paying taxes leads to more economic growth.
The right dose of aspirin can be a therapeutic godsend, but consuming too much can be lethal.
The problem is that the world has long maintained a myopic focus on producing and consuming goods as cheaply as possible.
In the late twentieth century, it looked as if the world was moving toward convergence, with people everywhere consuming the same products.
As the recurring debates consuming the country indicate, it is manifestly time for a change.
A second view is that households are scared and saving too much – they need to be pushed into consuming by lowering the returns to savings.
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