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The first time I heard about this Christian Coptic community was in 2009 when the Egyptian authorities under the regime of Hosni Mubarak decided to slaughter 300,000 pigs using the
pretext
of H1N1 virus.
You know, the art project was just a
pretext
for this amazing human experience.
And a critically important problem to me was that for more than a century, the anti-pornography position had been used as a
pretext
for discriminating against gays and lesbians or people who have kinks or have fetishes.
With the
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of chasing Henry, Mr. Eko brings John with him and they find a second hatch called "Pearl" underground the question mark symbol marked on the field, where a video explains that the other hatch is a psychological experiment and people behavior pressing the buttons of the computer every 108 minutes are actually subjects.
On the way of the meeting, he confesses that they had traveled from Houston to New York to satisfy the wish of the reckless Kyle, who is his best friend since their childhood, of eating a sandwich from club 21 and the meeting was just a
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to Kyle's father Jasper Hadley (Robert Keith).
That is merely a
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to explore the type of men who have what it takes to volunteer for dangerous missions - even in times of peace.
For Claude Chabrol,a cinéaste who has made over 50 films,this film must be like one of his loving children.However,his admirers might view it in a different light as it might appear as a minor work for them but many serious viewers would nevertheless feel that there are some nice things to observe in this film.Au coeur du mensonge is a film about people who are grappling with truths and lies in their lives.This film is more of a character study even though it is true that there are two crimes depicted in the film.These vile acts are merely a
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for small town people to talk of pretentiousness and infidelity.Au coeur du mensonge is also a story about two artists;one of them is a fake and other one is not so sure of his inherent abilities.There is also a woman in their midst who is torn between these two men.The message of this film is simple:To understand a lie,one has to go to its heart.When we watch Sandrine Bonnaire and Jacques Gamblin, we realize that the truth is not so complicated as it is always visible on surface level.
The real reason of his sorrow is that the Zamindaar (land owner) wants to acquire his land on the
pretext
that Shambhu had taken some loan from him.
Roland Young, who delighted us in the original Topper with Cary Grant, plays the befuddled count who plans to marry Die Marlene on the
pretext
she's an innocent young darling.
Well there's nothing out there is the
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to that and have other rules of surviving a horror movie in the woods which includes no skinny dipping.
Will does not call the police, and on the next day, he visits Amira with the
pretext
of sewing a coat.
I kept thinking of that terrific scene in "After the Fox" when Peter Sellers is on trial for smuggling while using the
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of making a film to disguise the crime.
We can't develop much sympathy for her, either, because she's obviously nuts and has been acting out at the slightest
pretext
over the course of this boring non-story.
They do all sorts of crazy and suicidal things at the silliest
pretext
and dumbest logic!!!
Mostly it consists of voice-over and randomly assembled footage; the footage is typically a girl undressing and hanging around what is (I think) Los Angeles City College - the
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involves a Salem witch who was burned at the stake and in the present day of the early 1970s convinces a descendant to embark on sexual adventures.
Unlike the typical example from the short-lived but oddly prolific Nazisploitation subgenre, THE RED NIGHTS OF THE GESTAPO does not deal with the dehumanizing activities in Nazi concentration camps but rather with all the salacious perversions that a group of renegade anti-Nazi Germans get down to when they are holed up in a castle one night under the supposed
pretext
of plotting Hitler's downfall.
The
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is that Kyser's band and singers are traveling from one base to another to entertain the troops.
But the emerging powers soon came to believe that the West had used the protection of Libya’s civilian population as a
pretext
for regime change (though, realistically, it would have been impossible to protect the population without toppling Muammar el-Qaddafi’s government).
Indeed, Putin’s
pretext
for occupation and annexation – to protect the local population – is the same as Hitler’s.
Hitler employed a similar
pretext
in demanding the Sudetenland’s transfer from Czechoslovakia.
But the US knows perfectly well that Al Qaeda is an enemy of convenience for Saleh and other American allies in the region, and that in many cases, terrorism has been used as a
pretext
to repress reform.
What better
pretext
could there be for an ecumenical meeting?
Other direct investments were also stopped by Congress on the
pretext
of national security.
By using security as a
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to flout Russia’s media legislation, which explicitly protects journalists from censorship, the government has undermined journalism considerably.
Security must not become a
pretext
for the suspending and destroying the liberal order.
So far, the West has rejected everything, on the
pretext
that any uranium enrichment would indicate a military program.
But the harsh tone publicly adopted by President Barack Obama’s administration raised serious concerns among some in Abe’s government who question Obama’s commitment to the alliance and suspect that he was using the Yasukuni issue as a
pretext
to signal a weakening of America’s defense commitment.
On the contrary, Pakistan’s descent into jihadist extremism has benefited China, as it has provided an ideal
pretext
to advance its strategic interests within its neighbor’s borders.
America’s president is not searching for excuses to start a war;Assad’s chemical weapons are not a fanciful
pretext.
And what was the
pretext
for the raid and subsequent demotion of senior Austrian intelligence officials?
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