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BJ: So we got a camera, and we posed the puppet in various galloping stances.
You've often taken really surprising stances towards building smart algorithms at Netflix.
He has temper tantrums at all the wrong times, he has all the wrong stances on things that end up making people mad at him and getting people killed, he is too nosy, too pushy, too macho, too assuming, makes all the wrong decisions and has no common sense.
Dennis Quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher.
Bailey is a one-sided writer's creation (and oddly, for a movie filled with so many liberal stances, Bailey--like most of the other characters--is anti-female and homophobic).
The movie is about so many things: Political Corruption, America's hypocritical puritanical stances on everything, anti-drugs legislation, sugar as the opium for the masses... you name it.
And, on that score, I did not read a single acknowledgment of the fact that the obvious homoerotic themes, not just that between George and Lenny, but also the "closet-queen" implications of Curly's overmacho stances, were not overtly noted.
But politics continues to distort discussions, driving leaders to draw red lines on free movement and adopt mercantilist stances on financial services.
And no outside mediation is feasible without a minimum of censure or criticism of Maduro’s extremism, even if the opposition takes its lumps, too, for some of its factions’ radical, occasionally subversive stances.
When they implicitly refused to support the anti-American stances of France and Germany in the current crisis, they were seen as disloyal to the EU.
Both stances are equally dangerous as far as Europe’s vital interests are concerned.
That would seem to leave us to choose between two stances.
This will occur precisely at a time when Latin America is swerving left, with country after country drifting back to anti-American, populist stances: Venezuela in 1999, Bolivia last year, perhaps Mexico, Peru, and Nicaragua later this year.
The stances I took on financial market liberalization were based on a theory of regulation that was based on asymmetries of information.
The Jewish community in the United States, and to a lesser extent President Barack Obama’s administration, has attempted to convince Chile and Mexico, which have not yet made their stances explicit, that nothing would be gained by isolating Israel (or the US, for that matter) on this issue.
In all likelihood, they will become more vociferous and vituperative before they mellow, because public opinion seems to be rewarding stances and tones such as theirs.
Mujica has a populist profile, based on charisma, anti-establishment stances and an appeal to the poor, which was strengthened by his personal traits and his lineage as a member of the 1960’s Tupamaros guerrilla movement, as well as his affinity for the ruling Kirchners of Argentina and the “Bolivarian” left.
By contrast, rebelling against one’s parents’ generation and rediscovering traditional moral stances will save France – a message that is highly applicable to issues, such as education and immigration, that may dominate the electoral campaign.
Ultimately, though, it is public opinion that will determine governments’ fiscal stances, so fiscally conservative public opinion would be a great economic asset, as it would constrain policymakers’ profligacy.
Second, as a practical matter, keeping Lula off the ballot increases the odds that Jair Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper known for his homophobic, sexist, racist, and quasi-fascist stances – will prevail.
Opposing stances on security, defense, or, again, asylum cannot be sorted out this way.
In the first scenario, the two countries’ senior delegations remain deadlocked, with their polarized stances frozen in place.
On trade and tariffs, while AMLO’s specific stances are unknown, many of his economic proposals contradict the letter or the spirit of NAFTA.
One of Trump’s most problematic stances relates to trade.
The two parties’ hardline stances anticipate the upcoming congressional and presidential elections in November 2012.
Though candidates tend to rollback from protectionist stances once they come to power, the Democrats’ control of both houses of Congress may not give Obama that leeway.
In response to the challenges raised by greater economic openness, center-left parties linked globalization with liberal stances on social issues.
Zhang’s moderate approach to political analysis – during our time as colleagues at Peking University, Zhang criticized some of my stances as excessively derogatory toward the current regime – makes him a somewhat surprising target for the government.
Indeed, Greenspan’s political stances were so thinly disguised as professional wisdom that his tenure exposed the dubiousness of the very notion of an independent central bank and a non-partisan central banker.
Decentralized organization, multiple leaderships, and conflicting ideological stances make the Salafi trend amorphous, volatile, and susceptible to manipulation and infiltration.