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So the more tools you have, for Batman, more effective at fighting the bad guys, for us, more tools to attack these kinds of big problems.
And I was amazed to find opposition: opposition to what is, after all, the most effective public health measure in human history.
He killed 400,000 of his people by insisting that beetroot, garlic and lemon oil were much more effective than the antiretroviral drugs we know can slow the course of AIDS.
And maybe we can get started small with things that we know are effective.
You can distribute bed nets, and bed nets are very effective if you use them.
One of the problems that you have if you're trying to eradicate malaria or reduce it is you don't know what's the most effective thing to do.
It's a top down hierarchical structure where people wait for government agents to come and this is not effective.
Step five: I believe the Taliban have one of the most effective means of propaganda.
Now, let's take a look at a video that we're debuting at TED, for the first time, on how an effective HIV vaccine might work.
All of a sudden, the effective range of communication goes from a thousand kilometers to 10 kilometers.
In response she said, "Yes, praying is effective, but also beware of the power of circles."
They ended up shutting down the leader board because, while it was effective, it was so powerful that it stopped sourcing the best stories, and started having people work to maintain leadership.
You can actually incorporate these people's views into your decisions, which means your decisions will be more effective and durable."
While we initially heralded the Internet as the fantastic new marketing device that was going to solve all our problems, we now realize that the Internet is, if anything, too effective in that regard.
We wanted to know if what is being done is effective.
But increasingly, young people are taking to the streets and abandoning organized violence in favor of more effective nonviolent action.
And we have to think much more in terms of narratives and whose narrative is going to be effective.
Although certain countries started to implement performance-based reimbursement, anchored on a quality and efficacy matrix, overall, there's very little in today's health care systems' architecture to incentivize practitioners broadly to actively prevent the appearance of a disease in the first place and to limit the procedures applied to a patient to the most effective options.
This active layer is extremely effective.
Careers were set, so my toolkit wasn't very effective, and I was frustrated.
They even stole the whole infra-red vision P.O.V from the creature in "Predator", which just looked too silly and out of place to be effective.
This movie is only effective if you wish to visualize more clearly the novel.
A bit too slow moving for my tastes, but there's an effective use, I felt, of Basham's eyes before he takes care of business, waiting patiently as he prepares to strike.
Yes, the MGM "production values" are gorgeous, and yes, Ms. Lamarr was exquisitely beautiful, but she and the great Spencer Tracy have absolutely no "chemistry" together - and that's the only thing that would have made this parade of cliches at all effective... It's my understanding that this movie received poor reviews when it was originally released; the passage of time has not improved it.
It's not that Van Dien is a bad actor (he has been effective in Hollywood gloss as Starship Troopers and Sleepy Hollow) he just really has not been offered a script worthy of his talents; and yes, he does have acting talent other than being eye-candy.
Corey Haim is terrible, of course but the movie's sheer momentum as well as Ironside's imposing presence make this at least a modestly effective film.
Also the effective ending used in the story is in favor dumped for a happy ending which makes the overall impact mute.
Ghost Story could have been much more effective in black and white and in eliminating some of the more lurid special effects, and to presenting a more cogent screenplay (we should not have to be wondering about why the two trailer-parkish acolytes are in the script) The biggest detriment of the film is Craig Wassan (definitely separated at birth from Bill Maher) who from perhaps editing or just bad acting, is totally ineffective.
The almost pornographic style of the film seems to be a failed attempt to recover from a lack of cohesive or effective story.
The director and writer try to establish his credibility, but his saying of lines like "Royal Baluga, North of the ..." just aren't effective in establishing him as this worldly and suave rogue.
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