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this film is hard to resist, I watch it like 24/7 it's an amazing even though the plot is thin, the animation and the cast were the best part of the film, this film is like greatest film ever because of how realistic it looks real including the meteor crash, even though if a remake was being made they had to thicken the plot a bit but still keep the magic this film holds and also add a bit more cast members because their were like only 10 real characters that actually spoke words when the rest were just roars and grunts, so adding more characters would be great, also when i watch this i forget the fact it's a Disney film because of the little amount violence and the fact there is no songs because that would make it quite a silly film so i'am glad that they put any songs on.
It would be impossible to resist this movie if you were a fan of any of these wonderful actors!
I saw this for three quid on a web site once and couldn't resist.
Inevitably, this time in Japanese history was a subject that Hollywood could not resist.
The world must steadfastly resist another ruinous US military adventure.
This suggests another reason why the US-Iran confrontation could lead to lower, not higher, prices: Trump and his Saudi allies now have a very strong political incentive to resist further upward pressure on oil prices.
The American administration was absolutely right to resist the call to turn Iraq over to a caudillo, as some wanted.
The second problem with emerging-economy forecasts was their failure to account for the vigor with which vested interests and other political forces would resist reform – a major oversight, given how uneven these countries’ reform efforts had been prior to 2008.
So why do I hope that they resist that temptation?
State insurance regulators resist rate increases, but they are ultimately powerless, because insurers can simply take their business elsewhere.
Even so, we can improve critical-thinking skills so that citizens know how to pick trustworthy sources, and resist their own biases.
Driven by a sense of destiny, he must resist the temptations of Bonapartism.
These imbalances suggest that Russia would resist a tight military alliance with China, even as the two countries pursue mutually beneficial tactical diplomatic coordination.
Europe’s leaders must also begin thinking about how they should respond to Le Pen’s request to renegotiate the terms of France’s EU membership, and to what extent they should resist her efforts to remove France from the rest of Europe.
And that is exactly where the US, Israel, and its closest friends – including my own country, Australia – will be if they resist the tide of international sentiment in favor of moving now to recognize Palestinian statehood.
Many of us would resist such a world -- not because such a world would be unjust, or because it would lead to more pain and suffering, but because of the extent to which it has been planned and engineered.
We would resist the idea that the world exists merely to be manipulated for human ends.
If he decides to resist being tried in a court of law, like any other offender, this would be understandable.
They will resist even more strongly the outright elimination of their weapons, given that the world is probably still decades away from devising sufficient verification and enforcement measures.
If we can teach children to recognize what they have in common with those from other cultures, we can also help them to resist the prejudices of those who seek to distort the truth and divide people.
We know that when people of different religions work together for the good of the wider community, they come to understand one another in a way that helps them resist the call of extremists.
To resist new policy on the grounds that it is not founded in hard evidence is to trap us in the status quo.
Now we must resist the temptation to go to the other extreme.
Fortunately, there is hope that the region can resist the West’s destructive neo-liberal agenda.
Apart from a few small desperate rebellions, there was no way for Jews to resist Nazi power.
While the West must resist Russian President Vladimir Putin’s challenge to the post-1945 norm of not claiming territory by force, it must not completely isolate Russia, a country with which the West has overlapping interests concerning nuclear security, non-proliferation, anti-terrorism, the Arctic, and regional issues like Iran and Afghanistan.
After all, Britain’s government both recognizes the need for greater fiscal integration and continues to resist it.
If nothing else, Trump may resist the idea of China gaining strategic primacy in the region.
Developing countries should resist the temptation of raising interest rates to stem capital outflows.
That is why the world – and especially Europe – must resist Catalan separatists’ calls for international mediation.
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