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The Edukators started off w 3 young adults who are very involved in protesting for their rights and opposing capitalism in their country, trying their own ways to influence the country into listening to their voices.
This movie sets its story in two opposing contrasts one about urban life and country living, and another about young and old.
At first she does not like Hatton, blaming Wade for the death of her brother on a cattle drive but coming to love him when he shows his courage in opposing the men who make Dodge City a dangerous place to live.
Bruce McGill scores as a sexist coach from the opposing school, Prescott and Jan Hooks has some cute moments as GOldie's ex-husband's new girlfriend.
Centuries after a truce between two opposing forces there is a risk that an 'Other' or gifted human (anyone seen Neo?) will tip the balance of power.
We are taken to meet Caco, a man that is being threatened by an opposing clan because his brother Mario killed one of the Caracava men, something that will not be forgotten until justice is done.
This Friz Freling effort from a Michael Maltese story piles on all the gags that one always associate with the Warner Bros. cartoons, like the one when Bugs, as the lone pitcher of a baseball team, manages to strike out three members of the opposing team by throwing the ball reeeeaaaaallll slow as all three swing their bat real quickly with the announcer saying at that speed, "One, two, three, out!" Or the one when Bugs distracts one of them by showing a picture of a sexy girl to keep him from catching the ball.
Good and evil are not portrayed as opposing values, but as the reflection of each other, bouncing over Matthew Saliba's carefully developed characters.
Maury Povich (or however you spell his name) is a hypocrite because his show sends opposing messages to women.
Guess what? the team ends up in the finals with the opposing coach a buffoon and bully.
The movie itself is very elemental and often contrasts opposing forces, water and fire, oil and sky.
Unlike the American President, who may seek votes to support his policies even from the opposing party in Congress, a German Chancellor promises not to govern by seeking the votes of opposition party members.
But Greece is not alone in opposing the EU’s new labeling guidelines: Hungary, too, has come out against them.
Which side wins in any situation depends on the extent of debtor distress and the strength of the opposing creditor-debtor coalitions.
The problem today, as Lew’s recent statement highlighted, stems from deeply entrenched differences between the opposing sides’ belief systems, with ideological questions about fairness and responsibility trumping pragmatic discussion of the best way forward for everyone.
On all of these issues, there are two opposing, partly valid arguments.
An opposing third party would have to shoulder the entire burden of proof, while the patent office avoided taking any real action, in order to avoid “presumptuous” interference in the public debate.
These opposing forces within the Kingdom have created an almost insurmountable roadblock.
Reform in Saudi Arabia is in every sense a bizarre compromise between the opposing forces of the al-Saud’s prominent wings and the forces of the official Wahhabi religious establishment.
Europe’s impasse is largely due to a standoff between opposing desires, objectives, and concerns: German fears of Greco-Latin rule-bending will always trump French fears of German empire-building, and vice versa.
But the firm ended up opposing the draft legislation to create such a scheme, because it did not provide sufficient free carbon-emission permits for coal companies.
Here, too, it makes sense to have the ECB in charge as a neutral arbiter with respect to these opposing interests.
One can easily imagine the government in Edinburgh opposing the new secessionists, just as Westminster opposes Scottish independence today.
But it, too, will have to face strong opposition from domestic agricultural interest groups and manufacturing sectors, which might mobilize even more strongly than they did in opposing the FTA with the US.
TTIP negotiations proved more challenging, with some European states, particularly France and Germany, opposing the rules out of fear that they would enable US firms to dominate the European digital economy.
The European Commission, once a strong proponent of Poland in its bid for energy independence, has no interest in opposing Germany, and is now at odds with the PiS government on many issues.
Naturally, if Macron wins and becomes merely another functionary of Europe’s deep establishment, my comrades and I will oppose him no less energetically than we are – or should be – opposing Le Pen now.
In opposing the current regime, we know that we will be exposed to dirt and open slander.
The 12,000 Turks were heavily outnumbered when the opposing forces met near Kut on 24 February 1917.
Recently, the United States has been accused of siding with the formula industry by opposing a WHO resolution in support of breastfeeding.
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