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Failing in sentence

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The movie starts slow, failing attempts to replicate opening scenes of high budget science fiction films such as The Matrix, and eventually evolves into what you might expect from the average Sci-Fi channel movie with low quality acting, choppy storyline, cheap special effects, no real climax, and the sporadic cheesy line thrown in.
Failing to notify the authorities about the death of their mother,the Hook children hope to escape the dreaded "Orphanage"(much more likely to be put "in care" - probably a fate even worse)and keep the family together.
Contrast Bogdanovich and "What's up doc?" with Mr Brooks either failing or not bothering to get a grip on his cast.
High hopes were placed on Charlie's newest Angel to pull the series out its failing ratings.
Failing to see anything remotely comical about this movie, I found it just rattled out old stereotypes about age and race without confronting these issues in any kind of depth.
This is a documentary of the nationwide tour by Michael Moore to resurrect a failing Democratic election campaign.
In The Circus, the tramp happens upon a failing circus and inadvertently becomes a huge success when he unknowingly interrupts the show.
It plods on and on, trying to funny in some spots and failing miserably.
Two Italian brothers run a little restaurant serving superb food as a labor of love, but it's failing, in contrast to the wildly successful spaghetti emporium down the street with execrable food but which is raking in the big bucks.
This is an example of Anthony Minghella pretending he is Stephen Poliakoff, and failing miserably.
"Cutting Class," the directorial debut of "Excalibur" screenwriter Rospo Pallenberg, receives a failing grade because it doesn't know what it wants to be: a slasher flick, a comedy, a teen drama, or a hybrid of all three.
What is most interesting is the ending where the racial intolerance of the age manifests itself with a courtroom rising to lynch the Asian who has branded the white woman for failing to keep up her end of their bargain.
These are people who looked at the superficial exterior and then stopped there, failing to see the true brilliance of the satire and the other fascinating qualities it had to offer.
But it is more likely that Putin acted for domestic reasons – to distract Russians’ attention from their country’s failing economy and to salve the humiliation of watching pro-European demonstrators oust the Ukrainian government he backed.
On the other hand, the North could be taking advantage of criticism of South Korean President Park Geun-hye by her opponents on the left for failing to include the October 4 agreement in her five-year plan regarding inter-Korean relations.
But, with talks repeatedly failing to generate any substantive progress, Turkey’s leaders are beginning to consider how a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would affect their country’s interests.
They want to work, but the US economic system is failing them.
On both sides of the Atlantic, market economies are failing to deliver for most citizens.
Donor countries, failing to anticipate and respond adequately to new and ongoing challenges, have subjected the World Health Organization to a debilitating budget squeeze, while funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has fallen far short of the sums needed to win the war against these diseases.
Now the quality of even the honest start-ups is likely to decline as more of them are established, and they will spend more of other people’s money before failing.
Not unreasonably, President George W. Bush wants government grants to bail out only the approximately 20,000 homeowners who can’t be faulted for failing to buy flood insurance, because they lived outside the designated flood plains.
Fooling ourselves on these points means failing to address climate change effectively.
At this writing, Yam is widely criticized in Hong Kong for failing to protect small investors against the dishonest sales tactics of a number of banks in their selling of toxic Lehman Brothers derivatives disguised as bonds.
But the shared interests of Europe’s citizens lack adequate political representation – a failing that contributed to the current crisis.
When something goes wrong in one of their buggy “smart” pseudo-contracts and massive hacking occurs, they simply change the code and “fork” a failing coin into another one by arbitrary fiat, revealing the entire “trustless” enterprise to have been untrustworthy from the start.
And he still has time to vindicate Woodrow Wilson’s belief that a “president can be just as big a man as he chooses to be.”Trumponomics Is Failing on GrowthWASHINGTON, DC – US President Donald Trump and his Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, have promised an economic miracle.
Failing to educate our children means wasting their talent and potential – to the detriment of all.
Two of its traders were indicted, and the bank agreed to a billion-dollar fine for failing to report the extent of its “London Whale” losses fast enough and accurately enough.
And bank bailouts, involving the direct use of public money to recapitalize failing institutions, are even more costly and politically unpopular.
For the most part, human rights treaties are poorly monitored and enforced, and those countries that join face little or no penalty for failing to match their rhetoric with action.
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