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Allan has a crush on Karen(Erin Broderick)who assists her friends in playing a practical joke leaving him quite scorned resulting in quite the killing spree towards those who delighted in his misery.
A real practical joker who often bullied Allan gets a wooden spike stabbed through his eye.
The prank and the robbery go the way of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ("you got your practical joke in my two-bit heist!" "No, you got your two-bit heist in my practical joke!") and mayhem, torture, gunplay, and a homo-erotic subplot take us the rest of the way.
Palmer is equally good as his girlfriend, a practical woman who stands by her man.
With the work of South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk, the viewer has to accept some very fundamental "flaws" that inherently seem to be a part of his work in a practical sense.
But the high-minded liberalism of the then-elite had a practical point as well: should the government have any soiled linen, it should be laundered in British courts rather than be aired before a panel of international judges.
The Kenyatta government could go a long way toward addressing the problem with one very practical measure: establishing and supporting an independent watchdog to audit hiring and promotion decisions in official agencies.
Yet even Macron’s supporters fail adequately to defend that message, instead getting caught up in the practical challenges ahead.
We will seek to improve the practical application of the Art Restitution Law of 1998 and encourage similar restitution steps among local and regional governmental bodies.
And, after two years of unemployment, the worker, accurately expecting to be at the end of every hiring queue, had lost hope and, for all practical purposes, left the labor market.
So its failure to apply international human rights law in its domestic sphere makes little practical difference to the rights available there.
In practical terms, the US will be able to enforce anti-Iran sanctions on companies operating in its domestic market, and most likely on subsidiaries of US firms operating abroad.
And, however great a project looks on paper, practical implementation is often a sobering experience.
Strategic hawks, however, are open to practical bargains and compromises - if the circumstances are right and if the security considerations justify it in their eyes.
As Europe defines what it stands for, let us also consider an audacious yet practical idea: synchronization of Europe’s political clocks, so that all of Europe’s national elections are held within the same year – or even the same month.
The only practical way forward is for the Chinese authorities to focus on regulatory and institutional development, while following through on their commitment to allow markets to play the decisive role in allocating resources.
But having a central place to argue about facts, one easily linked from any product, would be a huge step forward for practical transparency.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently urged that all parties involved focus more on practical steps.
The need for all major world regions to adopt practical and far-sighted energy policies is more urgent than ever.
Increasingly, the EU is coming to be seen as a practical – and absolutely essential – mechanism for a group of small countries to work together to meet their common challenges.
Under these circumstances, the only practical source of stimulus is the ECB.
In practical terms, this means that oil prices, for example, are more likely to hover near $120 per barrel over the next decade, rather than $50; and we are unlikely to see a $20 barrel of oil ever again.
After all, deeper European integration and the creation of a single political system offer solid, practical advantages that do not require a common identity or language.
Already, the Alliance is developing a deeper political dialogue and more practical cooperation with the countries of North Africa, Israel and Jordan, and opening up a discussion with the Gulf States.
Because “aid for trade” – assistance for developing countries that aims to ease their trade-related constraints – takes the form of financial support, a practical issue is whether donors can maintain their level of funding, given today’s economic difficulties.
Around the country, community colleges are working with businesses and experimenting with ways to provide practical training for high-demand occupations and to fill specialized needs.
That intellectual question leads directly to a practical one: Will the ECB ever be able to translate quantitative easing into stronger economic growth and higher inflation?
In 1714, seven years after one of the worst naval accidents in the history of Britain’s Royal Navy, the United Kingdom launched the Longitude Prize, a £20,000 reward (equal to $5 million today) for developing a simple and practical method to determine a ship’s longitude reliably.
Imposing travel sanctions on suspected human-rights abusers is a sensible and practical way forward.
Heeding Francis’s call for action is not only a moral issue; it is a practical one.
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