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It's balancing finely between a modest genre psycho thriller and a drama about shrinks, traumas, suicide, guilt and the like.
The producer must have a nice sense of hummer to give his film the right title then .......... Anyway, Iliked the story (again) and I always find it an entertaining pleasure to look at Jolie and Banderas and being a European it will be quite obvious that I am definitely not offended by some modest nudity as shown in this movie.
But for a brief time the suspension of disbelief makes us exist in this modest oasis of romance, and there's no red blooded American male who didn't imagine himself there with Conelly.
The fall in property prices was modest relative to Ireland and Spain, and, because there was no construction boom, there was no construction bust.
These are modest proposals, because, when it comes to pro-growth reform in Europe, there is no magic bullet.
In fact, the Scorecard’s assessment of European foreign-policy performance in 2012 shows modest signs of stabilization and resilience.
There were also signs of modest improvement in Europe’s relations with China, despite a lack of unity that continued to undermine its leverage.
But those surges are subsiding and can't be repeated: Italy, reconciling itself to a modest 1.7% rate of growth, is putting forth the idea of revising the Maastricht criteria for achieving monetary union in 1999.
German GDP will grow a mere 0.5% in 1996, barely a fifth of Chancellor Kohl's modest projections last year.
By the eurozone’s modest standards, that is progress.
Even without government support, however, farmers can take modest and cost-effective steps immediately to mitigate climate shocks.
This amount, akin to a modest management fee, is simply not a dominating consideration for investors.
This can be carried out by a small team, which would hammer out the details of a mutually acceptable framework for a wide-ranging and unconditional dialogue that enables both governments to produce some modest initial successes, and gradually build the confidence and trust required to imagine solutions to larger problems.
With a rather modest investment, we can make teaching these skills a standard practice in school curricula.
And whatever modest improvements they may feel in their lives were also secured elsewhere, at a far lower economic and political cost.
And, instead of direct government investment of that amount, the administration wants to provide modest tax incentives for the private sector to spearhead various projects.
We can start with the modest step of demanding a truthfulness oath from all future presidential candidates.
Bush was kind, decent, fair, open-minded, considerate, lacking in prejudice, modest, principled, and loyal.
Reducing the prices of staple food by even a modest 10% (far below the average premium cartels around the world charge) by tackling anticompetitive behavior in these sectors, or by reforming regulations that shield them from competition, could lift 270,000 people in Kenya, 200,000 in South Africa, and 20,000 in Zambia out of poverty.
If little more is achieved than phasing out farm export subsidies and a modest reduction in agricultural domestic support, our analysis shows that developing countries as a group would gain nothing, while high-income countries would gain just US$18 billion per year by 2015.
Constitutions provide modest checks, but private associations of professionals, religions, and regions – the heart of civil society – provide the deeper balance.
In the short term, Americans would have to make modest economic sacrifices in the form of higher fuel prices.
Until the early 1960's, biology's great-unanswered question was far more modest: how does DNA determine the simplest of proteins?
A World Bank study estimates that the costs of implementing the measures likely to be covered by a Trade Facilitation agreement would be relatively modest – $7-11 million in the countries studied, spread out over a number of years – especially when compared to the expected benefits.
Initial allocations were modest; but, over time, their donations helped fund health-care reforms elsewhere in Africa.
Yes, all investors should have a very modest share of gold in their portfolios as a hedge against extreme tail risks.
Sealing itself off from the bracing effects of global competition is sapping Brazil of much-needed momentum, with serious consequences for households, most of which have experienced only modest income growth in recent years.
While these measures tend to be modest revenue generators, they make the affected medicines more expensive, which can put them out of reach for many who need them most.
Refah wanted women to be allowed to once again don modest religious dress; for children to be able to go to religious parochial schools through middle school.
Even Greece is forecast to grow by a modest but not insignificant 0.6%.
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