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Personally I dig stop-motion animation, for the simple conscious fact that there's a lot of blood and sweat going on behind the scenes just to get an object to move.
Our story takes part in France in 18 century, and our main character Belle is the prettiest girl in the city she lives, being the object of the affection and interest of Gaston, an arrogant man that has the sympathy of the people of the region.(And
Lise refuses to be broken by her Nazi oppressors and, subsequently, becomes the object of the camp commandant's obsession.
But Jim does treat her like a person instead of a sex object and this is something that Josie is not used to.
As for bible-thumpers who object to sex and violence, they should start with banning the bible since, as this story shows, it is chock full of both.
The direction by Michael Mann is masterful, an object lesson in how to frame shots and let silence, as well as words - and music - work for the story.
Because the hardline Brexiteers have presented “no deal” as a perfectly acceptable outcome, they could not object if this were the form of Brexit put to voters.
The drop in confidence, some might object, reflects an inconclusive general election and a hung parliament, not the Brexit vote.
So the object of international law is not to ban “unjust” wars and permit “just” ones, but to assure that wars are waged for limited aims, so that they don’t rage out of control.
Others object to affirmative action, and argue that a race-blind policy coupled with free market polices and pro-family values are all that are necessary to create jobs for minorities and help keep black families together.
During the 1990s, Russia was too preoccupied with its own post-Soviet political turmoil to object to EU or NATO enlargement to the east.
Yes, Venezuela’s Maduro would object and denounce a neoliberal conspiracy against him.
And in a meeting of the same group in Kunming, China, in June 2016, ASEAN had to withdraw a joint statement critical of China’s actions in the South China Sea when China, again, pressured Cambodia, as well as Laos, to object.
One or two EU countries might object that this would mix institutional apples and oranges.
And European citizens would likely object if the EU suddenly abandoned its principles simply to appease an unpredictable US president.
But the observable diffraction pattern--the intensities and positions of the individual reflections--represents only half of the data needed to deduce the structure of the diffracting object.
The object of their contention is the much-debated “shareholders’ access to proxy” rule, adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August to address the fundamental lack of accountability of corporate boards.
But most policymakers would likely object if they understood that growth would be achieved by higher taxes on two-thirds of households, leaving the median household working harder to earn the same after-tax income.
The object was to stop these weapons from being used by the Assad regime, and diplomacy – backed by the threat of force – appears to have achieved just that (although there have been recent reports, unconfirmed but worrying, of both rebel use and regime backsliding).
The discussion has so far followed easily predictable national patterns: Creditor countries do not object to deflation, because it increases the real value of their investment, whereas debtor countries’ repayment burdens would grow heavier.
The ECB will object, not without reason, that monetary policy is a blunt instrument with which to rebalance the European economy.
Some might object that Chinese data cannot be trusted.
The US naively continues to view the Middle East as an object of manipulation, whether for oil or for other purposes.
In particular, they object to the plan’s proposal to give increased powers and responsibilities to the Secretary General, whose selection is effectively in the hands of the Security Council’s five permanent members, which wield veto power.
But there are still protests against the TTIP – and, to a lesser extent, against the EU’s recent trade deal with Canada – because some object to “new” deals that supposedly subordinate local standards and regulations to those of trading partners.
Some will object that infrastructure and public services are nontraded goods, so more spending on them won’t boost imports or narrow the current-account balance.
Experts nonetheless believe that hemoglobin-based products can be used to save the lives of trauma patients, as well as to treat patients who object to donated blood on religious grounds (for example, Jehovah’s Witnesses).
Only a few economic journalists and university professors are willing to object.
They object to vast differences in wealth and think large accumulations of it must be the product of theft, not work and risk.
Tudjman, long an object of dread, has vanished from the political screen, taking into oblivion the ideological clutter that made Croatia a pariah state.
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