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I also get a kick out of how protective he is of the kids.
He was fiercely protective of his men, and this nonsensical scene is not historical and does Major Rogers a disservice.
The supporting cast are likewise on the money excellent: Charles Durning as Lloyd's loyal and protective partner Dutch Peltz, Lesley Ann Warren as a touchy feminist poet, Charles Haid as corrupt Deputy Sheriff Delbert "Whitey" Haines, Raymond J. Barry as stern, no-nonsense Captain Fred Gaffney, Randi Brooks as brassy hooker and drug dealer Joanie Pratt, Steven Lambert as the killer, and Jan McGill as Lloyd's fed-up wife Jen.
When things go pear-shaped, she is the vulnerable female, but also the protective mother, as determined as any tigress.
However for me the finest performances come from the supporting cast, Julie Walters is as ever spot on, and Geraldine James is (as ever) fantastic as the wronged wife and protective mother, the scene where she confronts her husband (another brilliant performance from Nathaniel Parker) is one of the best acted scenes i have ever seen on film.
marriage) with dreamy, strong-but-sensitive, protective guys with whom they can Live Happily Ever After.
Studio executives were very protective of image and star-making.
But, in the absence of fairy godmothers and protective witches, the world needs workable solutions that can help the good guys (and girls) win.
But the plant was not designed to withstand the 14-meter-high tsunami waves that swept over its protective sea wall less than an hour later.
It is possible that US regulators (and Congress) are so confident in the other steps they have taken to safeguard the financial system that they no longer believe this extra protective layer is necessary.
The publicity and resulting panic surrounding the WHO’s announcement of Phase 5 and 6 alerts – especially in the absence (until December) of widely available vaccine – also brought out fraudsters peddling all sorts of ineffective and possibly dangerous protective gear and nostrums: gloves, masks, dietary supplements, shampoo, a nasal sanitizer, and a spray that supposedly coats the hands with a layer of anti-microbial “ionic silver.”
When she becomes pregnant, these protective proteins are transferred to her baby across the placenta.
Shielded behind a protective China, Kim Jong-il launched his rocket anyway, and the US refrained from action.
Ever protective of his position as sole leader of the Palestinian people, Arafat sought to block any means by which a potential rival could challenge him.
But, in many areas, the Tohoku tsunami overflowed and even destroyed these protective structures – including the seawall at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Honshu.
Classroom learning should be given high priority, to help provide a protective and stable environment for the youngest refugees.
In fact, regardless of whether or not the TPP is implemented, Japan’s farmers must pursue this approach to secure their futures, rather than hoping that protective subsidies continue ad infinitum.
The US military’s protective umbrella gave large swaths of the world a vacation from war, making it easier for them to focus on economic growth and regional integration.
The new concept also made clear that international protective action meant military coercion only in extreme and unavoidable cases.
But then, in 1846, the Conservative Party split over curtailing protective tariffs for grain, which was bad for the party’s rural farming base, but good for manufacturing, and for society generally.
There were no protective mechanisms to prevent a global liquidity glut from developing, and then, in combination with US regulatory failings, from producing a spectacular housing boom and crash.
At the same time, Europe’s economies should be less enmeshed in protective regulations, so that immigrants can find work more easily.
We can and must do this by forging bold climate and protective ocean agreements together – regardless of belief, circumstance, or status.
But the new president kicked over the narcotics beehive with neither a fumigator nor protective netting on hand.
Bus- or train-based tourism companies are similarly protective of their clients, releasing them on a famous site only briefly – essentially just long enough for a few photos.
Their ability to win support from both the left and the right suggests a shared aspiration to rebuild the protective national barriers that the post-War generation demolished.
And, yes, Hamas deliberately chooses to place its military arsenal in highly populated areas under the involuntary protective shield of innocent civilians – or those Israeli officials sometimes refer to, with barely concealed mistrust, as the “uninvolved.”
Southeast Asian countries appear to be especially immune to the bane of severe mental illness; in other regions, poverty, or lack of development, seems to offer a protective barrier.
Currently, a lack of reliable monitoring data makes it difficult to establish protective fishing limits, and even harder to enforce them.
“We are subject in all detainee cases to a protective order,” Dixon says.
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