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A descendant of Dracula(Lon Chaney Jr), using the fake title Count Alucard, is in league with the daughter of a rich plantation owner in a Louisiana swampland called Dark Oats.
This movie completely fails to capture the excitement and intense public interest in Mantle and Maris's chase of one of sport's most sacred records and further fails to place it within the context of the what was one of the greatest seasons in the history of the American league.
In most Bugs Bunny cartoons, he is pitted against a foe, usually human, while formidable in their own way, are obviously not in his league when it comes to brains.
The opening sequence to the film, kind of a Rube-Goldberg type slapstick thing which ends with a man almost getting drowned in his car, is a dead giveaway to the audience that this film is not going to be in the same league as the first two Supermans.
Henry meets the beautiful Caddie, a girl he thinks is a little out of his league, in any case considering social status.
If Hollywood was more equitable in its hiring practices, Jada Pinkett would be in the league with Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, and others of her generation.
Before he gained fame as a hitter he was an outstanding major league pitcher.
Fisher Stevens, who is so obviously supposed to be Spielberg that it hurts to watch him, just is not in the league with the type of guests starts Columbo was known for previously.
I first saw it when it was released in 1976 and, at the time, I played little league (well, the Canadian equivalent).
It remains a surprisingly accurate portrait of young ball players, snobby league officials and overbearing parents.
Based on a novel set on the Cornish coast by Daphne Du Maurier, the same author and setting as "Rebecca", Laughton plays a decadent, deceitful nobleman who shelters a young orphaned woman from a band of cutthroats living down the road; seems these land pirates are in league with a not-so-mysterious benefactor to sabotage the ships attempting to port, ransacking their vessels and killing everyone on board.
I got up and went to play for my local soccer team and we were knocked out of the London lower league cup by a crunching 3-0 defeat at home.
A well-shot film, likely on digital, that purported to be in a league with BLADE.
I expected this movie to be somewhat in the same league as Bram Stoker's Dracula, but I was sorely disappointed.
From 2001 when Thaksin first became prime minister, to 2007 under military rule, Thailand’s corruption ranking plunged from an already low 61 to 84, which puts the country in the same league as Gabon and Swaziland, two countries notorious for violent and corrupt leaders who routinely trample on their citizens’ rights.
No wonder they have started to crowd into the premier league table of the world’s rich.
Either way, there is no doubting the global obsession with league tables nowadays.
The press headlines accompanying the release of the latest GFCI focused on the change at the top of the league: New York leapfrogged ahead of London, while Hong Kong and Singapore held on in third and fourth place, respectively.
Consider Moscow, a highly seasoned imitator (though nowhere in the league of St. Petersburg, that baroque Italianate city on the Neva, as an urban mimic).
Indeed, the US falls below Greece and Slovakia, countries that people do not typically regard as role models or as competitors with the US at the top of the league tables.
He could buy all the teams in the league, right?”
The reality is that Germany and France have not played in the same league for a while.
In the absence of such common policy, the EU and its leading members will remain in the second league of world-class players for the foreseeable future.
Nor does it put him in the same league with Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading journalist who was murdered after refusing to stop investigating Russian human rights abuses.
A Movable Financial FeastLONDON – There was a time when league tables were to be found only on the sports pages of newspapers.
There are school and university league tables, rankings of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility, tables of happiness indicators by country, and tables that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.
There is even a league table of the world’s funniest jokes (I did not laugh much).
Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and acquisition league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.
Bank league tables have been with us for a while, and now tend to be based on capital strength, rather than asset volume, which is an improvement of sorts, but still not very meaningful.
There are also now several different league tables – which are generating considerable angst – that rank financial centers based largely on surveys of firms.
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