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Avoiding overstatement is also very helpful because it reduces and in some cases even reverses some of the fears that people have about globalization.
Next, there's no sense in two wildebeest going back, since that just reverses the last step.
Then, just as suddenly, it reverses.
That corresponds to a possible future in which the force of gravity brings the universe’s expansion to a halt— and then reverses it.
Then so far forward Ethic loses track before it reverses once more.
Then the whole thing reverses— the number of pixels skipped goes down by one each time on the left, and up by two each time in the middle.
And over the tops of them is 3,000 to 4,000 meters of water creating enormous pressure, forcing water down through the cracks toward the center of the earth, until it hits a magma chamber where it becomes superheated and supersaturated with minerals, reverses its flow and starts shooting back to the surface and is ejected out of the earth like a geyser at Yellowstone.
In the film, the focus reverses to just that and the message has taken a back seat!
There are surprises, twists and turns, reverses and excitements.
One of Jack Arnold's lesser efforts, it reverses the "Invaders From Mars" theme.
Dean, at first, feels that Lewis is terminal but soon reverses himself.
Together John and his father must stop this killer from taking more lives in a game of cat and mouse that unfolds, reverses, and progresses over the 30 year gap.
And then, after the not unpleasing island sequence (the whole idea of the shipwrecked sailor not wanting to be rescued is a reasonably appealing one), we have to put up with a mind-numbingly miscalculated twist in the plot when morose Jose suddenly reverses character and turns himself into a daringly enthusiastic Captain Ahab, battling a primitively superimposed stock shot of a giant manta ray.
It is an interesting show because it reverses the series' formula in an interesting manner.
What was the cop taking money for exactly, and why did he pay Baby D? How is it, at the end of the movie, that the bulldozers were already on the streets, ready to tear the town down, yet seconds later a fat guy pulls up in a limo and reverses the demolition?
The contrived and complex plot is so densely packed into a few lines of dialogue in several scenes and the switches, surprises and reverses are so numerous that for us the film became increasingly incoherent and finally ludicrous.
Though the pair's murders took place from 1827-28 in real life, here, the action is compressed to the span of a few days' time, and whereas in actuality Burke was a lodger at Hare's home, this picture reverses those roles, strangely.
This reverses the trend over the last few decades toward grant-based financing, especially for basic education.
Indeed, Brazil’s embrace of an oil-fired future reverses its longstanding policy of reliance on bio-fuels.
While the Fed tries to look past transitory fluctuations in commodity prices, it will be hard to ignore rising consumer inflation as the huge drop of the past year – particularly in energy prices – stabilizes or even reverses.
The State Council’s decision reverses the suspension of dam building on the Salween announced by Premier Wen Jiabao in 2004, after an international uproar over the start of multiple megaprojects in the National Nature Reserves, adjacent to the world heritage area – a stunning canyon region through which the Salween, the Mekong, and the Jinsha flow in parallel.
But we know that banks that are healthy when the market is rising can quickly fall sick when it reverses.
But, above a certain per capita income threshold, that trend reverses itself: at high income levels, economic growth correlates with environmental improvement, leading to the dubious conclusion that it might be possible to achieve sustainable growth without deviating from “business as usual” (maintaining current emissions levels).
In this context, the army, seeking to avoid sole responsibility for reverses, wants a popular government to take charge of policy.
It will double in the US unless President Obama reverses course, as President Bill Clinton did when he and a Republican Congress balanced the budget.
So, when a European country reverses course to reduce welfare dependency and restore work incentives, it is worth noting – especially when that country is the Netherlands, which built one of the world’s most expansive welfare states in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The recognition of an exit possibility reverses that basic process of forging bonds of loyalty.
Its leaders seem to have interpreted Obama’s attempts to engage with them, down-playing bilateral aggravations, as a sign of American weakness in the wake of Wall Street’s crash and military reverses in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But what will happen when the US recovers, reverses quantitative easing, and starts hiking interest rates?
If the ECJ reverses this provision, OMT is unlikely to survive.
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