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The idea of someone's hand becoming possessed and developing a life of it's own was very well used in classic horror Evil Dead II, but here the idea is sadly squandered and unfortunately the best way to describe Demonoid is simply 'damp squib'.
I can't remember the last time that a movie squandered as much goodwill in such a short space of time as this one does.
Kensit was the reason why I picked up this movie, that and the promise of an okay suspense thriller, but her talent is once again squandered in a movie that fails to deliver any real tension.
True, Venezuela’s immense natural riches have been exploited and often squandered by elites more accustomed to the boulevards of Miami than to the slums of Caracas.
The trust that was carefully accumulated through decades of hard work has been squandered.
This is all the more reason to make sure that the energy and courage of Talat and Christofias are not squandered.
Hence, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has squandered a valuable opportunity to send out a message of hope to the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims, one that would have rid the world of the grand global illusion that peacemaking is a “white man’s burden.”
And certainly the election of the first African-American as president would do wonders to restore the soft power that the Bush administration squandered over the past eight years.
It can be human gestures and actions, even when they are futile or squandered on the wrong people.
Managing mixed economies that include state-owned enterprises and an inchoate private sector will require discipline, so that productive assets are not squandered, or privatized at fire-sale prices.
This was perhaps logical politically, but it made no economic sense: Europe’s huge domestic market is one of its main assets, and opportunities to strengthen it should not be squandered.
The high esteem in which Palestinians hold Hamas also grew out of what Hamas actually did for them while the PA squandered its resources.
But today, the European Union is stymied by having squandered the chance to build stronger institutions when times were better and tempers less strained.
In addition to the risk that a few would be tempted by extremism is the certainty that, if we fail to meet our commitment to universal education, millions of children would be relegated to a life of poverty and struggle, with their hopes, dreams, and potential squandered, undermining the country’s development potential.
Had President Putin joined the Franco-German chorus of doubters at the beginning of the UN debate, he would have squandered the goodwill and reputation for reliability he had painstakingly accumulated since coming to power three years ago.
From a foreign-policy perspective, the problem began in the 1990s, when the United States squandered the post-Cold War peace dividend.
Massive foreign aid was stolen, squandered, or wrecked by unnecessary violence.
Critics who argue that fiscal stimulus in Japan failed in the past – leading only to squandered investment in useless infrastructure – make two mistakes.
But that tailwind may have been squandered, because the Kirchners have yet to make the structural changes – in industry, in the country’s energy policy, in education, and elsewhere – needed to free Argentina from extreme dependence on commodity prices.
Unfortunately, this opportunity was squandered in the Uruguay Round, as developed countries advanced their own interests at the expense of less developed countries.
The former point to economic development; the latter maintain that tens, even hundreds, of billions of dollars have been squandered.
Failure to eradicate polio for lack of funds would be a squandered opportunity for the world.
But, too often in Africa’s history, money that should have financed productive investment has been looted or squandered.
The AKP has largely squandered the goodwill that first brought it to power on a wave of voter revulsion at the old political elite’s rampant corruption.
Most of the nations of the former Soviet Union have squandered many opportunities over the past 25 years; nonetheless, they are now accustomed to being the masters of their own fate.
Chen squandered six valuable years as his administration engaged mainly in polemics with its opposition parties while he pandered to the extreme wing of the DPP and mobilized his government to “de-Sinicize” Taiwan culture.
With many battles ahead in the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria, it would be a disgrace if this opportunity is squandered.
Yet, on every front – Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and North Korea – US militarism squandered global trust, lives, finances, and precious time.
The US invaded in 2003 on false pretenses (Saddam’s alleged but nonexistent weapons of mass destruction), squandered another $800 billion in direct military outlays, destabilized the country, caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, and, contrary to stated US objectives, plunged the region into turmoil.
The US invasion of Iraq, a country that was not connected to the 9/11 attacks, squandered that good will, and the attractiveness of the US in Muslim countries like Indonesia plummeted from 75% approval in 2000 to half that level today.
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