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All of the characters in this film have an imperviousness to the objections related to a perceived totalitarianism brought on in the sixties, not just because the radical aspect of the decade has yet to be, but also, because locking horns with the authority figures is not second nature to them ...(Even Big John Milner)...
Whoever told her she could act wants locking in a padded cell.
He begins changing the locks,transforming the flat and finally locking Marty in a padded room.Anyone who gets in his way gets dispatched by various means which include killing someone with a tyre iron.
Society fails in that it is unable to prevent the original crime; and then again, in locking up those criminals in a world of squalor, drug abuse, and violence, ruled, in effect, by the criminal hierarchy whose delicate co-operation with the authorities is necessary to maintain any semblance of order.
When she doesn't find him there, she becomes depressed and doesn't hear the groundskeeper's warning that he is locking the gate.
It was hilarious when Alicia tied herself up then locking herself in the trunk.
More recently, he has taken the world to the brink of nuclear war by locking horns with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
But with the WTO stuck in drift and deadlock over the past few years, there is a race to secure preferential access to the markets of the major powers, and to defuse trade tension by locking into strong bilateral and regional partnerships.
In Sarajevo, thousands of apartments have been deemed illegal due to outdated urban plans and missing building permits, locking families’ most valuable assets outside the mainstream economy.
In 1946, the US proposed the Baruch plan for UN control of nuclear energy, and the Soviet Union promptly rejected locking itself into a position of technological inferiority.
Only a few years ago, antitrust authorities in the US were convinced that IBM was locking up the computer industry for generations to come.
Locking up drug users is not a solution--in Russia, it is easier to score drugs in prison than outside.
Wrong-Headed on Rare EarthsBRUSSELS – For more than two years, the world’s industrialized countries have been locking horns with China over the supply of rare earth elements, a critical component of many high-tech products.
As for labor rights, the agreement makes a devil’s bargain: it opens trade while locking in a status quo that is appalling.
What was unimaginable only a few years ago – a US president insulting democratic allies and praising dictators, or calling the free press “enemies of the people,” or locking up refugees and taking away their children – has become almost normal now.
On the other hand, if the government fails to fix its structural problem – under-developed indigenous human capital – it will essentially be driving a more dangerous car, one in which it will become difficult or impossible to avoid obstacles without the wheels locking up.
In October 1990, the UK joined the euro’s precursor, the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), which kept the exchange rates between Europe’s major currencies within tight bands, which were increasingly tightened before locking the various currencies into a single one.
Yes, lets cancel those debts but lets get in exchange better governance rather than a no-ties write off that only worsens the credit rating of poor countries, locking them out from investment and improved economies.
Perhaps Yanukovych’s retreat from Europe should have been foreseen, given behavior – like locking up his political opponents – that has been difficult to reconcile with European values and democratic norms.
This is precisely why Europe should be debating about the Continent's real problems, not locking their economies into corporatism by enshrining the "social market economy" into the emerging EU constitution.
An Unhinged Democracy in AmericaNEW YORK – Alexis de Tocqueville, a liberal French aristocrat, visited the United States in 1831 ostensibly to write a study of its “enlightened” prison system (locking people up in solitary confinement like penitent monks was the latest modern idea).
The Kirchners never went to the chavista extremes of locking up opponents or shutting down television stations.
Worse yet, markets will be carved up for political, not commercial, reasons, locking in inefficiencies.
These follow a predictable pattern, locking the two sides into an escalation that will push toward a total and final confrontation.
But pushing them to the fringes of society or locking them up in ever increasing numbers will not solve the problem.
These tasks call for largesse, both financial and otherwise (opportunities to travel, for example, were of vital importance in locking in the democratic aspirations of East Europeans after 1989), and they require decades, not years, of persistence.
And, because coal- and gas-fired power stations last 50 years or more, such investments raise the risk of either locking in emission levels incompatible with the climate target, or forcing major asset write-offs.
Better investment planning can also help to avoid locking infrastructure into inefficient and less “green” technologies.
And company-based social benefits in some leading European countries weaken corporate flexibility by locking in labor.
China appears to believe that it can secure its energy imports by locking up oil contracts with pariah states like Sudan.
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