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It's the result of very sustained and prolonged political activism that you get the right regulations, and that you get the right corporate behavior.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that a policeman has to get a warrant if he wants to do prolonged tracking, but the law isn't clear about civilians doing this to one another, so it's not just Big Brother we have to worry about, but Big Neighbor.
So I had the most profound encounters with people, especially lonely people who looked like they hadn't talked to anyone in weeks, and we would get this beautiful moment of prolonged eye contact being allowed in a city street, and we would sort of fall in love a little bit.
Mao was the father of modern China, yet his prolonged rule led to disastrous mistakes.
The executions were designed to be as prolonged and as painful as possible, like crucifixion, disembowelment, breaking on the wheel.
It is five billion years before the sun flares up, and the universe may go on forever, so post-human evolution, here on Earth and far beyond, could be as prolonged as the Darwinian process that's led to us, and even more wonderful.
The prolonged economic crisis in the West is making people think that they are about to lose the high standard of living and face deprivation.
In the desiccated state, what seeds can do is lie in extremes of environment for prolonged periods of time.
And by studying how tardigrades survive prolonged exposure to the vacuum of outer space, scientists can generate clues about the environmental limits of life and how to safeguard astronauts.
Prolonged drought can precipitate early marriage as families contend with scarcity.
Another very important health effect of noise is the increased risk for cardiovascular disease in those who are exposed to relevant noise levels for prolonged periods of time.
Before making this call, you’d want to know how much the drug prolonged the patients’ lives.
This prolonged siege would be Christophe’s first encounter with violent revolution.
A technology that was designed to shorten the war, prolonged it.
But construction halted at the fourth story for nearly a century as Pisa descended into prolonged warfare.
The filmmakers of course neglect to tell us the back-story--why were the Soviets in Afghanistan?--but that omission pales in comparison to their failure to reveal that support for Islamicist extremists in Afghanistan in the name of rabid anti-communism ultimately strengthened the hand of anti-western forces and was a big contributing factor to the mess that we find ourselves in today (9/11, terrorist networks, a prolonged ground war in Afghanistan, etc.).
The less-then-stellar parts of this film are the story which is VERY prolonged at best (but again I think this is because of the budget they had - they had to prolong certain scenes to create the feature length 97 minutes), the acting (again it's because the actors had no story to work with), very few exceptional camera shots, and the music.
It was a prolonged episode of general hospital.
Then suddenly Freda seems to have lost interest in the film and all we get is prolonged shots of Camille Keaton and burning candles.
In fact, it's a surprise not to see Harry Alan Towers' name on the credits; it certainly has the flavour of one of his tax-shelter productions but here the motivation behind the project seems to be for all involved to enjoy a prolonged stay in Provence.
Historically, this was a moment of great trauma and suffering, a psychological shock to the Russian people, but the Red Army held and prolonged the war 4 more years until they were ultimately victorious.
Bill Bule, on the other hand, was an insufferable jerk who I was praying would meet an extremely brutal and prolonged demise.
The settings are faithful to the era but self-conscious in their magnification by prolonged exposure.
While it's tame compared to what gets rammed down the throats of regular cable viewers (our hero's naughty bits are either tastefully tucked away behind a strategically glued-on scarf or emblazoned with a ridiculous sunburst effect), there are prolonged scenes of bondage and torture that lend the proceedings just enough smarminess to make it unsuitable for the kiddies.
There was little to move the plot along and often the action simply stopped and there was a prolonged period of conversations which seemed extraneous to the movie.
For example there is a prolonged shootout at the airport in which the lighting is all stroboscopic.
My warning to one and all is watch this movie at your peril as this movie may cause your IQ to diminish with prolonged viewing.
The plot is muddled and obviously prolonged from what started as a short (story or film).
If only the torture was prolonged enough to be thoroughly effective, then my rating would have differed greatly.
Heck, werewolves do not seem to figure much into this movie except for a rather bizarre and prolonged sex scene.
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