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But in the real world, how frequently did white and black people cooperate that closely when millions of dollars were at stake?
The film opens with the extended and compelling trial of a young girl accused of witchcraft, leading to her relentless execution burning at the stake.
Her manager scoffs at this notion more than once throughout the film as there is just too much at stake financially if she stops performing for a while.
Soon the inevitable starts to happen, person or persons want the bay so badly they are prepared to kill for it, and so begins a tale of murder, mystery and double cross with the ultimate prize of the bay and the Countess's fortune at stake!
Silkwood didn't find hope, but she did get scared, and angry, and put her job (and those of her colleagues) at stake to uncover dangerous practices before dying a mysterious death.
Adolescence is a time where you seek meaning, and whether your friends wore black cloaks, Fubu pants or Dead Kennedys t-shirts, everyone looks for a way to stake out their own identity.
A soldier pulls the stake out of a puffy sheet in an opened casket and is soon bit to death by a giant of a hound(A Great Dane I believe).
This is Zoltan and he soon pulls the stake out of his master - not Dracula but his servant - and the two begin a trek to the United States to turn the last surviving family member into their undead master.
The future of free people everywhere is at stake.
Not only does Singer orchestrate an entertaining but intelligent yarn around titans of Good and Evil battling for supremacy with the fate of mankind at stake, but he also tackles important cultural issues integral to the plot that enhance its subtext about intolerance.
During the past two months, Bank of America has announced a $2.5 billion investment in return for a 9% stake in the China Construction Bank, and The Singapore-based holding company Temasek paid $1.4bn for a 5.1% stake in China Construction Bank.
The Royal Bank of Scotland is leading an investment group that will invest $3.1 billion more in the Bank of China, while Goldman Sachs and Germany’s Allianz are close to an agreement to acquire a 9.9% stake in the Industrial and Commercial Bank for a similar sum.
Nor is it at all clear to what degree the Iraqis retain a stake in the idea of a united Iraqi state worth fighting for.
At stake is a painful choice for Bush: to lead America into coexistence with what he considers a repugnant Islamic theocracy.
But this cheerleading is not the case where Europe's economic interests are at stake: it is enough to look at the EU's refusal to join the embargo against Cuba, the strength of Germany's reaction to the merger of America's two airplane manufacturers Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas, or the determination with which the EU fifteen are pushing forward with monetary union.
The current state of affairs does not bode well for the situation in Syria, where all of the region’s powers have a stake.
With $400 million in 2016 revenues at stake, Safaricom – M-Pesa’s parent company – will likely focus on defending its core offering before it tries to introduce new products.
The region will continue to have a long-term stake in a WTO that delivers freer trade worldwide, that is, multilaterally rather than bilaterally or regionally.
In the medium term, however, the viability of the current order is at stake – and not only in these countries, but across the rest of North Africa and the Middle East.
With so much at stake, Majid Jafar of UAE-based Crescent Petroleum was right to worry at the recent World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the Dead Sea.
They must find a way to channel the rising anger caused by economic inequality into productive investments that make the rich feel that they have a stake in ameliorating conditions for the poor.
Here, the D-Mark's role as an anchor currency within the EMS is at stake.
The Holocaust was not the main issue at stake in the Nuremberg Trials.
With Putin’s personal standing at stake, the top priority of Russia’s police and security services is to ensure that the games proceed without incident.
The ECB’s decisions lead to a massive redistribution of wealth and risk among the eurozone’s member states, as well as from stable countries’ taxpayers, who have little stake in the crisis, to global investors directly affected by it.
Young people around the world understand what’s at stake.
China’s rise has created a strong incentive for countries with a stake in Asia to increase their cooperation with the US, as well as with one another, to ensure that they can stand up to China’s political, military, and economic might.
The entire world has a large stake in what happens next.
American companies and the entire US economy have a huge stake in China now, so both candidates have no interest in rocking the boat.
One must add to this criterion a culture of debate that makes elections a genuine contest of a plurality of answers to the issues at stake.
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