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We maintain that, put that together as a project to really chart the universe across all scales.
And to be able to see our context in this larger sense at all scales helps us all, I think, in understanding where we are and who we are in the universe.
Already, commercial oyster larvae are dying at large scales in some places.
In fact, there is ample science to indicate that we can do this transformative change, that we have the ability to now move into a new innovative, a transformative gear, across scales.
Adored by fans for his unusually charming creativity and by Hollywood for his softball, user-friendly movie-making techniques, Tim Burton tipped the scales too far in formula's favor with his new upset of a cinematic legend, Sleepy Hollow.
Killjoy 2 is helped a great deal by Trent Haaga's manic turn as the eponymous clown, he throws himself into the role with such fevered abandonment that he almost tips the scales in the movie's favour, but, of course, it takes more than one man in big shoes.
Although he rocks the bathroom scales at 300 pounds, he appears happily married to a trim, delectable wife, Heidi (Lucinda Jenney of "G.I.
This one tips the scales, then falls off.
Great cast...that's what tipped the scales.
1-10 scales were not designed with stuff like this in mind.
Woo-hoo Pa!) so with Nothing he scales down again.
The acting was superb with I think Prunella scales excellent as Miss Bates but I loved Kate Beckinsale and Mark Strong just as much.
Come to think of it, what about those other "small TV ideas" like "Against the Wind", "Bodyline", "The Dismissal", "Scales of Justice", "Blue Murder", "Water under the Bridge" ,etc.
I'm gonna tip the scales here a bit and say I enjoyed this.
They ceased distancing and brought the viewers closer to understanding the nature of things by sticking to human scales, cutting down on special effects and omitting falsely-sounding, hypocritical dialogues and proclamations.
They both ooze oil and shed scales with their portrayals of heartless, cold, ignorant men who don't want to work and find that there is easy money in grave robbing.
The film shows crappy performance on almost all scales.
One by one via a night-club semi racketeer, a monk, a ski instructor, the mayor of a small town, an epileptic doctor with a lucrative sideline in abortion and a gay hairdresser the scales fall and/or are stripped from her eyes leaving her sadder but wiser.
It's always syrupy strings, Wagnerian hero-brass, and the standard thumping bass drums and trombones playing ominous minor scales whenever an Indian comes on the screen.
Here physics introduces scales of distances, atoms to galaxies, scales of time, nanoseconds to centuries, and scales of energy from electron volts to megajoules.
First, emerging-market economies have climbed up the development and ratings scales over the past few decades, reducing significantly their dependence on foreign borrowing.
But, aside from the minimum wage, the government does not set pay scales.
The Hidden Purposes of High FinanceBERKELEY – No one questions the usefulness of “low” finance: the ability to use checks, banknotes, and credit cards rather than having to cart around chests of silver, scales, and reagents to assay purity, and needing armed guards to protect the silver – and more guards to watch the first set of guards – has obvious efficiencies.
In fact, Israelis seem at least as hopeful that Trump’s presidency will tip the scales further in their favor.
The year 2016 tipped the scales toward bilateralists, who regard national sovereignty as an end in itself.
Indeed, with the US on their side, either Japan or India could conceivably tip the scales in its own favor.
This does not necessarily reflect a problem with the performance of a screening questionnaire, but rather how these scales are used.
The problem is that everyone writes history in their own manner, and that there are no scales that can fix the precise point at which the remedy of unifying patriotism turns into the lethal poison of rabid nationalism.
Living with Climate ChangeROTTERDAM – For anyone still undecided about the consequences of global warming, the summer of 2018, one of the hottest on record, should have tipped the scales.
Eventually, journalists picked up on these trends, too, and it would now be hard to find anyone who has not heard of the “1%” – shorthand for those at the top of the global wealth and income scales.
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