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But as the government froze their bank accounts and imposed local restrictions such as curfews, many were unable to leave– Aki’s family among them.

The Israelis would not want to have an economic blockade imposed on them, but they impose one on Gaza, and they say, "Well, the Palestinians, or some of them, have brought this on themselves."

I mean that what people are doing is, in fact, they are sort of, with their communication channels, they are breaking an imposed isolation that these institutions are imposing on them.

Ceausescu had imposed a quota on the number of children to be produced by each family, thereby making women's bodies an instrument of state economic policy.

Then, the French imposed their brilliantly conceived airline tax to create a something called UNITAID, got a bunch of other countries to help.

That's a limit imposed on the mass of stars.

And shortly after the election and the outbreak of violence, the government suddenly imposed a significant media blackout.

The second wave took place in the 1980s and 1990s against austerity measures that imposed harsh conditions on African economies.

What is it about the female gender that has rendered it so hateful to the culture that women are routinely subject to the most unimaginable horrors, including rape, murder, infanticide, imposed illiteracy, infidelity, and the subjugation of spirit that goes under the name of 'dowry'?

I must stress that I've only had the Cockney Filth imposed on me during visits from my children, who insist on watching the Sunday omnibus.

Here we have a drama about disconnected people from society, in some ways alienated by the choices or by limits imposed by one mean or another.

An educated and beautiful woman, Binodini becomes a widow within a year of her marriage, but she does not accept the constraints imposed on her as a widow by her society.

Supposedly all 32 were based on fact with information at the end of each episode of the court sentences imposed on the perpetrators of the crimes, this has at times been a gritty, well acted, believable and dare I say, entertaining series.

She looks beautiful the whole time and by the end, you don't want the fate imposed by the courts to happen to her.

History writers have used an institutionalised agenda ever since to conceal an allied evil which cost many tens of millions of lives with everyone conditioned to believe a deception that the German people completely supported the Nazis and consequently deserved the 24 hour bombing genocide and "unconditional surrender" that was imposed on the Germans.

I liked the fact that the woman becomes strong and evades the limitations imposed on her by the era (we are talking about Japan, 17th century), but her mood changes are unbelievable and badly written.

The Howling II starts as it means to go on with a bizarre and surreal opening narration by Christopher Lee whose image is imposed over a moving star field, oh and a skeleton appears as well for some reason.

So, I do not know if what I see as the film's faults originated with the story, or were imposed on it by the director/screenwriter.

Debra Paget as the Indian girl is a surprising character considering the self imposed censorship of that time.

The film here proposes a vision of 2036 with a world government that is absolutely dictatorial in the fact that there is no election, no parliament, no really democratic institution, only peace imposed by military conquest, and the government is dominated by one man or at the most one man and his few councilors.

The German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175, states "An unnatural sex act committed between persons of the male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights may also be imposed."

No one, not the director, the actors or the crew imposed their message on me ( I saw the Irish pub theatre version of Alexander last week, that movie tattoos it's message on your eyeballs).

But while Moore used the shrinking US job market as an entry point into a career exposing the economic slavery being imposed on this nation (and others), this fellow chooses to attack a man that should very well be a hero to his father and surely his own self.

The adaptation is quite true to the tone and spirit of the original work, even with the necessary truncation imposed by the brief length.

He is an old pedophile and after having recaptured some existence through the dream of a girl in the first film, and having thus gotten a couple of boys in his bag through the desire of the girl for these boys, now he moves directly to the main target of his desire : he wants to possess a boy from inside, he is a gay pedophile and Jesse, to defend his sanity in this invasion, will have to react against this gayness that is imposed onto him and kill the boys and men Freddy desires.

I wonder what trash is imposed these days in name of entertainment.

Douglass is an excellent counterpoint, a courageous individual who's chosen simple solitude as a way to deal with the complications and turmoil society had imposed on him.

Now I'll admit that Daisy Kenyon does have some noirish elements, chiefly in the dark photographic texture imposed on the picture by Leon Shamroy (who presumably disliked working with Joan Crawford because he often seems to go out of his way to capture her close-ups from unflattering angles).

Again, this complex theme is not imposed upon the viewer in a dry and academic manner, but is interwoven into a compelling and moving subplot which involves both brothers and brings about decisive changes in both their lives.

And some of the heartache that we have had to endure is imposed by society and altogether unnecessary.

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