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Unfortunately, United Artists had a James Bond picture in release at the same time and did not devote much attention to "The Honkers".
I was on vacation at the time, and had plenty of time to devote to a just-for-the-fun-of-it movie.
Betty Page would disappear and devote her last years to religion.
Julia obtains the position and is hired by a Mrs. Hughes, (Dame May Witty) who requires that she lives with her employer in her home and wants her to have no involvement with men friends and Julia tells them she has no family and is free to devote her entire time to this job.
It comes as no surprise, then, that someone (Jeffrey Schwarz, who's made countless documentaries) would finally take the time to devote a documentary to his greatness.
If one wants to make a good movie, he has to devote a lot of care to the craft.
I elected to devote three hours to watching this remake because I am a big fan of the original movie.
Of course an hour is not too long to devote to one of your horror film favorites.
If it were possible I would devote my life to creating a time machine just so I could go back in time and do whatever it took, including assassination, to ensure that this movie never got made.
The film doesn't devote near enough time to any one element of the plot.
O man I love this show I first watched it at the beginning of SERIES 2, it was Saturday and I wasn't going out anywhere, so I was flicking through the channels and i caught a glimpse of PAULEY PERRETTE'S character ABBY and i was like OMG she's so gorgeous and i watched it for the entire episode and became a devote fan, I have all the DVD's.
As in the best times of the Cold War, and in the absence of more credible and convincing enemies have no reserves to use these despicable methods to manipulate the brains of people who have the misfortune to run into this crap that in the absence of arguments using weapons, explosions, shooting, violence absolutely free and what is worse, using the figure of a child and noble sentiments that are prostitutes to raise money.In possession of a genuine ingenuousness I wonder, how is it possible that there are people who can devote to a movie so bad?
Nevertheless, European leaders have continued to devote more time and effort to financial and institutional questions than to geopolitical issues.
And they devote a lot of effort to figuring out what caused this switch.
Yet it is extraordinary how little political time or energy we devote to doing so.
The fact that Jews were long a minority subject to discrimination is sometimes given as a reason for their tendency to devote themselves to commerce, finance, and the professions.
Above all, they could devote their energies to governance, rather than just to politics.
The government should take the weak ten-year projection as a warning and a reason to devote policies to reducing fiscal deficits and strengthening incentives for growth.
They can grant a great deal of autonomy to various federations (as in the US and Great Britain); devote significant public resources to sports for political purposes (as in Russia and other dictatorships); or insulate publicly financed sports institutions from partisan politics in order to ensure continuity (as in Italy and France).
For whatever reason – lack of time, energy, resources, or strategic foresight – they have failed to devote sufficient focus and attention to the matter.
It has led us to devote more resources and effort to building our partners’ capabilities and improving interoperability between the US military and forces in the region.
But few people are willing to devote the time and effort that such a therapeutic plan demands; they would prefer an injection, operation, or medication.
Successful people, according to Carnegie, should retire from business while they still retain those talents and devote their remaining years to spending their fortunes on philanthropy.
Even earlier than Carnegie, who quit at 65, Gates will devote his life to spending his huge fortune on philanthropy.
What we do not need are forests of reports going to supervisors who appear to devote ample resources to ensuring they arrive on time but fewer on interpreting their content and drawing the relevant conclusions.
These additional costs mean that approximately 20% of the total income that not-for-profit providers can devote to patient care is unavailable.
That is partly because people devote a rising share of their income to competing for property in more attractive locations, and partly because in service-intensive economies, high-value-added activities and talent cluster in dominant cities.
Obamacare and Effective GovernmentBERKELEY – When historians look back on the United States’ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Barack Obama’s controversial 2010 health-care reform, we predict that they will not devote much attention to its regulations, its troubled insurance exchanges, or its website’s flawed launch.
There are people who devote their lives to others, for no reward other than the knowledge that they are helping others and acting in accord with their own values.
Europe urgently needs to devote its energy to revitalizing the building blocks of its economy – industry, human capital, and a policy framework that enables healthy growth and future prosperity.
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