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They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way, and maybe censors that natural curiosity, or you know, reins in the question-asking in the hopes of them being polite little kids.
And we need strong, smart, confident young women to stand up and take the reins.
And the spider's web is for the reins on the horse.
The actual rigging on the reins on the horse are made from the same sort of thing.
I find it hard to believe that no body has made a brilliant version of this book, Kubrick gushes over it on the cover, he should have taken over the reins on this one.
Former music-video director Martin Weisz takes the reins from Alexandre Aja, and is clearly in way over his head--yet one wonders how anyone could have created a watchable film from the Cravens' Screen writing 101 scrawl.
Macy is brilliant in a part that almost seems written for him as a self tortured sole struggling to break the reins of his father and his business.
The characters in this 'animation' are created primarily from plastic, allowing for an almost 'toy look', which especially reins in when a skit reflects that of a prior toy.
And in 1969, Aldrich handed the directing reins (producing only this time) to Lee H. Katzin, for what may be viewed as the third in a loose trilogy of films dealing with geriatric battleaxes (or aging gargoyles, as my buddy Rob prefers to call them) having at each other with no quarter given.
Anyone who thinks that Bud Abbott wasn't the best straight man in the business should watch the Drill routine and check out how he consistently and skillfully reins in Costello whenever Lou's manic energy takes him too far outside the skit while still allowing him the freedom to employ the ad-libs and improvisations he was famous for.
Streets of Laredo is just as compelling as the original the only difference is that James Garner now holds the reins as Captain Woodrow Call,One of the most legendary Texas Rangers ever.
But director Edgar G. Ulmer had full reins to do what he could with what he had.
Many news stories about female CEOs and other high-achieving women are coded with a set of reliable clichés: they lucked into their new roles (and thus do not deserve them), inherited them from male relatives or spouses (and thus do not really hold the reins of power), or will not be there for long.
Short-term rates have gone so low since the worldwide recession of 2001 - 1% and 2%, respectively, in the United States and the Eurozone, and practically zero in Japan - that a strengthening world economy will force central banks to tighten the monetary reins.
And, if the military loosens the reins, the Muslim Brotherhood could take over and form its own authoritarian, non-representative regime.
If former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls or former Foreign Secretary David Miliband takes the reins, Labour might have a real chance at victory in 2020.
As long as China fans the flames of nationalism and holds tight the reins of party control, its soft power will always remain limited.
Similarly, African-American leaders sometimes joke wryly about gaining the reins of municipal power just when a city is about to go bankrupt.
So he gave the reins of the key foreign policy arms of the French government to left-wing politicians.
Few who now hold the reins of power in Bangkok could honestly throw the first stones.
By the end of that year, status quo forces managed to retake the reins of power, and the uprisings appeared to have been all but crushed.
The irony of the Tea Party revolt, of course, is that it undermines the private sector more than it reins in “big government.”
The official line is that Greek over-consumption will cease once the government reins in expenditure and increases taxes.
President-elect Barack Obama will have to deal with disasters on many fronts as his administration takes over the reins of government.
A good precedent in Italy is Carlo Ciampi, who took the reins of government in 1993, after Italy was forced to drop out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, and managed to repeal the scala mobile (the wage-indexation system), beat down inflation, and re-board the train of European monetary integration.
Over extended periods of time – decades or longer – a data-driven culture without programmatic reins offers such extensive benefits that profit-oriented businesses often choose to support it.
Acemoglu next asks whether there is evidence that the income distribution in the US worsened in the late 1990’s, leading politicians to respond by loosening the reins on lending to people who were “falling behind”?
Despite today’s turbulence, it is unlikely that the military will intervene directly and taken over the reins of government, as it has on four occasions in Pakistan’s history.
This is the starting point at which a new generation of leaders is taking over the reins in the EU’s three largest member states.
If only he had bowed out a lot sooner, handing over the reins gracefully and completely, his story would have remained one of great achievement.
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