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The first 20 minutes plays out like a weakly dramatised infomercial on the dangers of drink driving, the two characters we have a handle on by this time are about as deep as a cookie tray, seem to have an almost fatal case of the clichés and just as "she" confesses to "he" that she was responsible for her best friend's (and his girl friend's) death - what do they do?
Hangin' is similar to its more popular cousin in its sweetness and incisiveness as it deals with the heartaches and fatal flaws of its protagonists.
But, after a botched robbery and a near fatal encounter with the police, the lads must flee to the "jungles" of Hillbrow.
Major central banks can generally withstand failure to achieve targets without a fatal loss of credibility.
But May’s effort to present a Hobson’s Choice suffers a fatal flaw: almost nobody believes that she would dare to inflict chaos on British businesses and voters.
This problem grips the postcommunist countries, where ageing populations are locked in a fiscally fatal combination with bloated Soviet-style pension systems.
Even if this will not immediately bring Saddam's regime down, such active attempts at undermining his rule will certainly make Saddam nervous, and as Ceausescu and Milosevic have shown, nervous dictators make fatal mistakes.
This is extremely important, since few things are as fatal to the credibility of a policy package as insufficient financing.
And if the commitment to introduce monetary union and a common currency is broken, the backlash could deal a fatal blow to European integration.
GST could turn out to be a second body blow, this time potentially fatal.
Blair made the fatal mistake of setting his own limit to his tenure of office by saying that he would not contest a fourth election as leader of the Labour Party.
But, while Trump is impulsive and occasionally vindictive – a potentially fatal mix in an already fragile world – his election should be a spur to challenge failed ideas and to move beyond excessive reliance on the United States’ inevitably imperfect global leadership.
It would be a fatal error to believe that since we spend money on armed forces to this end, national defense is solely a military affair to which the rest of the population need not pay attention.
So, the greenback will remain the world’s ultimate safe haven for now, and it likely will not suffer a sudden, fatal blow, even if Trump’s policies turn out to be disastrous.
The poor in developing countries have none of these benefits, which proves fatal for an estimated 18 million of them each year.
But, in Chirac's eyes, Lamy possessed two fatal flaws: he is a socialist, and he favors reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
The decline of French influence in Europe is undeniable, but it is neither fatal nor desirable.
The causes of the crisis cannot be properly understood without recognizing the euro’s fatal flaw: By creating an independent central bank, member countries have become indebted in a currency that they do not control.
The poor performance of Wall Street and America regulators has cost America a good deal in terms of the soft power of its economic model’s attractiveness, but the blow need not be fatal if, in contrast to Japan in the 1990’s, the US manages to absorb the losses and limit the damage.
The financial crisis delivered a fatal blow to that overconfidence in scientific economics.
He has become a nearly revered figure in his country, and large segments of Western public opinion believe that his political demise represents a potentially fatal blow to any hope of progress in the region, even as he remains hated in large parts of the Arab and Muslim world.
The debacle of the Reinhart/Rogoff paper is widely regarded as another, fatal illustration of austerity’s shaky intellectual foundations.
The same could presumably be said today of Russia’s fatal attraction to the former Soviet republics.
Why Rabies Still KillsSINGAPORE – A virus that infects your brain, makes you want to bite things, and is almost always fatal after symptoms appear probably sounds like something from a zombie movie.
If the PDSR turns backward, the malady of our democratic reformers may prove to be fatal, both for Romania’s economy and for our hopes of ever joining Europe.
Papandreou’s move also exposes the fatal flaw of grand plans for a political or fiscal union to support the euro: the “people,” not governments, remain the real sovereign.
According to University of Chicago oncologist Olufunmilayo Olopade, a diagnosis of cancer in Africa is “nearly always fatal.”
The G7 has not been dealt a fatal blow; it still can and will play a role on the global stage – albeit a less important one.
But this approach suffers from a fatal fallacy: if booms are fueled by underestimation of risks, and regulation is made more sensitive to the estimation of risks, booms will be bigger and busts deeper.
The assumption – dear to the architects of the current process – that peace can be achieved by driving a wedge between “moderates’ and “extremists” is a fatal misconception.
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