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[Entrepreneurs can be anyone Even... you] [So seize the opportunity to create the job you always wanted] [Help heal the economy] [Make a difference.]
Especially now, as we all must confront the fallacy of a market-only orientation, uninformed by social conscience; we must seize and celebrate the power of the arts to shape our individual and national characters, and especially characters of the young people, who all too often are subjected to bombardment of sensation, rather than digested experience.
You see an opportunity and you decide what you're going to do to try to seize that.
They strive to seize all the freedom they can get, and they take the responsibility they need to take.
The Bourdelles seize the opportunity to make it big by taking the horse, Shadow, to Ruidoso, New Mexico, to get ready to run in the All-American Futurity.
Extraordinary Rendition is a frightening practice authorized, surprisingly, under Clinton, that allows the U.S. government to seize and hold anyone suspected, seemingly for any reason, of being a terrorist against the United States.
There was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles - that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret.
By convincing the Prime Minister to back the totally unsuitable Ali G as a candidate for Staines in the local elections, nasty chancellor David Carlton (Charles Dance) hopes to discredit his party's current leader, thus enabling him to seize power.
His film is a Brechtian examination of the functioning of institutions, the division within and without of various factions all wanting to seize power.
He is approached to plan how to defeat anybody how attempted to seize an oil rig in the North Sea.
I liked the beginning, when he told his students they would be "worm food" and told them to listen to the dead past students as he whispered "Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!"
Finally Harry is suspended and while he sits this out the Terrorists seize the mayor hostage and hole up on alcatraz.
The film Dead Poets Society is a film that explores the idea of "Carpe Diem" (seize the day) from the viewpoint of a classroom of young men at an all boys boarding school.
Claude Rains is his usual steady self as the traitorous wretch who realizes his chance to seize power with the pauper in charge.
Innovative but horribly done movie about an astronaut forced by thugs to seize an asteroid that is literally one huge diamond rock.
The film had a very good message, to always stand up for what you believe in, and to seize the day, Carpe Diem!
When the opportunity arose to do that, I decided to seize it since I had a couple of hours that I could waste.
It was war, people (Jews, Poles, Gypsies, etc.) where being hauled off in cattle trains by the minute, Nazis shoot people as sport and seize control of government, homes, businesses and yet a menage a trois was living a happy dissolute life because they have each other... that's suppose to be touching?! Give me a freakin' break!!!
Of course, there is scheming behind his back to seize his throne while he is gone.
In WWII England a troop of surveyors are dispatched into a characteristically happy-go-lucky and scenic village, though really they are a select assemblage of German officers with orders to seize control of the township on the horizon of a covert German attack in a few days.
This TV film is based correctly on historical events developed in April 19,1775 , beginning hostilities for a shot was fired and starting the American Revolution, skirmishes among the British troops and the colonial militia were in Lexington and Concorde(Massachusetts); the deeds are the following : The first battle of the American War of Independence was in Lexington,northwest of Boston.Anticipating a rebellion ,The British general Thomas Gage sent 800 troops to seize stores at Concord and arrest John Hancock and John Adams ,two prominent American rebels.The rebellious were warned by Paul Revere(Vlasta Vrana).An advance party under Major Pitcairn encountered a party of about 50 Minutemen ,American rebel militia troops,on Lexington Common.They refused to disperse when ordered to do so,and Pitcairn ordered his troops to open fire.
The fights are very short - the director could have used longer and better fighting scenes to make the movie a little more attractive, but failed to seize this opportunity.
It has a good message: "Carpe diem", which means "Seize the day".
On the night that John McClane (Bruce Willis), an NYC cop, is visiting his estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) in a 40-story skyscraper, terrorist thieves seize control of the building.
Don Juan and the queen are unaware of Don Rodrigo, the minister of state, who is planning accumulate the power to seize the throne from King Philip.
Why would she not seize this chance?
Now state governments and officials should also seize this opportunity and help to ensure that this essential health service is delivered to all children.
But we believed that Blue Moon had a window of opportunity to seize the liquid-detergent market in China.
As China and the EU seize opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean, the US continues to cede market share.
Most encouraging is that producing countries themselves are beginning to seize the initiative.
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