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Kim Manners' direction is beautiful, dragging all the misery and despair out of every raindrop and wet pair of jeans.
Their stomachs are dragging on the ground, and they're almost gagging.
Finally, the movie is simply dragging since there is really nothing happening.
If you like nature it is far more preferable to go out of your house and enjoy it than to watch this extremely boring film where nothing is really happening and the second part is just pathetically dragging on and on.
Parts became monotonous, dragging so far as to invoke the fast forward button on my remote control.
Nor does he seem eager to open a rift with Israel by dragging its government to an international conference, the way his father did with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in 1991.
Since 2012, major conferences have been hosted by Norway, Mexico, and Austria, and more than 155 states have pledged support for appropriate action, with only the nuclear-armed states and their allies and partners dragging their feet.
Debate on decentralization of the state has been dragging on for nine years without any government department displaying the willingness to transfer powers to regions or to municipalities without a fight.
Russia’s president is dragging his country – the country of my birth – backwards, and falsely argues that violating international law is somehow good for Russians.
It is simply an expression of gratitude to the US for helping to bring down Communism and, more recently, for pressing ahead with NATO enlargement--despite objections from Russia--at a time when the EU was hopelessly dragging its feet with regard to its own enlargement.
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir of the Polish Academy of Sciences goes even further: “In a psychoanalytical sense, [PiS] policies – running away from shame and responsibility – are dragging us back into childhood, even into the womb, in which the child is indistinguishably entwined with its host – the nation.”
World leaders increasingly recognized that, far from dragging down their economies, climate-change mitigation could boost growth.
Then there is the Islamic State and its effort to establish a caliphate – a goal that not only implies dragging the Arab world back to the seventh century, but that also takes dead aim at many of the region’s modern borders.
With the campaign dragging on for months, the referendum has thoroughly polarized Turkish politics.
Given the tenuous post-crisis climate, with uncertain demand prospects in the major markets of the developed world, Asia finds itself in a classic policy trap, dragging its feet on monetary tightening while risking the negative impact of stronger currencies.
If Blatter genuinely cares about FIFA, he knows that remaining there would mean dragging the organization further into disrepute, damaging whatever positive contributions he has made, and quite possibly being forced to leave under a cloud.
Yet international donors are dragging their feet both in meeting existing commitments and in making new ones.
While the Fed now recognizes that living wills are inadequate, it has taken an extraordinarily long time to reach this rather obvious conclusion – and the Fed’s Board of Governors is still dragging its feet on forcing the banks to simplify their operations.
Unless the Trump administration can work well with a cooperative Congress to translate market-motivating intentions into well-calibrated actions soon, the lagging hard data risks dragging down confidence, creating headwinds that extend well beyond financial volatility.
But why are developing-country governments dragging their feet?
Global trade and economic performance in the eurozone appear to be dragging each other down.
An inflated military budget is dragging the country down and hindering it from overtaking China sooner rather than later.
Dragging their feet, the incompetent people at the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank have finally gotten interest rates down to zero.
If these economies are upset, they risk dragging down Africa’s overall performance.
To destroy the ETS now would be to disable the only mechanism that has managed to create any momentum in discussions that have been dragging on for two decades.
But growth remains vulnerable to the as-yet-unresolved issues that kept dragging down previous forecasts.
Even worse is the prospect of Syria falling into chaos, dragging Lebanon – and maybe the broader region – with it.
Finally, with so many factors dragging down potential growth, structural reforms are needed to boost potential growth.
Recall that, while Hollande was dragging his feet, Fabius secured France’s vote in favor of Palestine’s upgrade to “non-member observer” status at the UN – a move that displeased Israel’s government and the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions.
In economic development, as in life, there’s no free lunch: Without high rates of investment in know-how, skills, machinery, and sustainable infrastructure, productivity tends to decline (mainly through depreciation), dragging down living standards.
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