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What possessed them to be in such a crap movie?
The basic plotline is this: young girl becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead mother while left in the care of her tyrannical father.
More than anything else, what surprised me most is the fact that all the telecast audience reactions or published reviews of this film talks about its certain qualities, which I only wish that this one possessed.
The part with Ash's girlfriend all crazy and possessed, giggling like a psycho was kinda creepy, in a weird "WTF?" kind of way, but that was about it.
The only 2 good scenes were when the character Micah is possessed, he gets zapped and then he's falling through a strange shaft, gets his body dismantled, he who walks behind the rows enters his blood, and he gets pieced to together and falls out into the cornfield.
And they saw an economy growing considerably faster than North Atlantic economies had when they possessed the same absolute and relative economy-wide productivity levels.
Moreover, while both Russia and Iraq are heavily dependent on natural resources, Russia at least possessed demonstrated abilities in some other areas.
After all, Iraq was an easy target in the first Gulf War precisely because it had abandoned its nuclear program, and possessed no weapons of mass destruction.
But, in Chirac's eyes, Lamy possessed two fatal flaws: he is a socialist, and he favors reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
That is the case with the Vietnam War and, more recently, the invasion of Iraq on the fallacious grounds that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
But France, China, and other Security Council members refused, arguing that the weapons inspectors then in Iraq should be allowed to continue their work in order to establish whether Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction.
What possessed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin “Bibi" Netanyahu to accept an invitation from the Republicans in the US Congress to come and attack President Barack Obama's policy on Iran without letting the White House know?
But as his campaign unfolded, he demonstrated that he possessed the powers to lead – both soft and hard.
CAMBRIDGE – No country in modern history has possessed as much global military power as the United States.
“Unused to planning and possessed of limited human capacity, senior officials in the ministries are very nervous,” an American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks reported.
He believed that international institutions, the rule of law, common values, and an elite possessed of a democratic vision could ensure collective security and peaceful conflict resolution.
After the USSR collapsed, Ukraine possessed an inefficient and militarised industrial base and a blundering bureaucracy.
But an East Asia in which several countries possessed nuclear weapons would not necessarily be stable.
Nonetheless, Annan possessed a combination of charisma, elegance, eloquence, and self-control that was decisive in maintaining the visibility and legitimacy of the primus inter pares of international organizations.
The new ministry should map the diaspora and compile detailed profiles of the skills and expertise possessed by Italy’s top minds abroad.
Yes, it is conceivable that Bush did not have accurate information about whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The Soviet Union possessed a great deal of soft power in the years after World War II.
If we regard human rights as something possessed by all human beings, no matter how limited their intellectual or emotional capacities may be, how can we deny similar rights to great apes, who clearly surpass some human beings in their rationality, self-awareness, and emotional bonds with others?
President Bush managed to convince the nation that Saddam Hussein had some connection with the suicide bombers of September 11, and that he possessed weapons of mass destruction.
So what possessed the 19-year-old Brazilian male who told reporters: “We don’t need the World Cup.
Someone like George H. W. Bush, unable to articulate a vision but able to steer successfully through crises, turns out to be a better leader than someone like his son, possessed of a powerful vision but with little contextual intelligence or management skill.
At the same time, no significant steps are being taken to reduce the worldwide arsenal of almost 30,000 nuclear weapons now possessed by the US, Russia, China, France, Israel, Britain, India, Pakistan, and perhaps North Korea.
But it did show that Japan’s government, having long suspected that North Korea already possessed nuclear weapons, would not be intimidated into a fundamental policy change by confirmation of the threat.
In a moment of uncensored frankness, US House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that it was time for the Chinese to "grow up" and cease being so possessed with imagined slights to their sovereignty and so possessive about Taiwan.
Successful management of personal impressions requires some of the same emotional discipline and skill possessed by good actors.
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