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Even by Z-grade budget standards, the faked nature of the abuse performed by Olga is pretty laughable; I especially enjoyed the pulled punches/slaps.
I guess my standards have slid a bit since she left.
I didn't have high expectations to begin with, but this movie was simply below all standards..
Even by Abbott & Costello standards, 'Africa Screams' is a terrible film with a few amusing moments.
The second improves greatly upon the animation standards.
By today's standards the "obscenity" all seems quite tame, and comedians such as Billy Connelly and Rowan Atkinson are just as crude and manage to have their performances shown on TV without a whisper of complaint (at least not in this part of the world).
By today's standards, there's not much to be scared of here, and though it works up a nice head of steam near the end, it succeeds more as a mood piece than a horror tale.
And the camera work is nothing more than breathtaking, setting standards that have since become cliches.
Yet Medvedev’s most notable pre-election speech – unusually liberal even by Western standards – recognized several economic challenges.
Some aspects of international law -- for example, principles of diplomatic immunity, or international communications standards -- have little need for such a sanctioning authority.
We need to establish certain standards of behavior to contain corruption, enforce fair labor practices, and protect human rights.
Foreign NGOs such as MSF insist on using medications that are up to World Health Organization standards, but the Chinese government insists that such restrictive measures are excessive.
Indeed, living standards have been under severe pressure since Mubarak’s downfall.
But the reality is that free trade, guided by international rules and standards, has a net positive macroeconomic impact.
Taking inspiration from this innovative approach, the US and the EU should move on from areas in which they have already agreed on binding standards, and adopt broad principles and frameworks for ongoing negotiations on knottier issues, such as health and food safety.
By the eurozone’s modest standards, that is progress.
It needs to build substantially on its leadership on climate change by adopting much tougher EU goals, and then use its international economic and trade clout to champion new global emissions standards that scientific opinion can accept as meaningful.
A no-deal Brexit would rule out the transition period that Britain desperately needs to negotiate the thousands of rules, regulations, and standards required to continue trading with Europe, as well as the US, Japan, China, and other countries covered by agreements negotiated by the EU over many decades.
The total value of outstanding cat bonds is small by Katrina standards.
Ultimately, even Hurricane Katrina and other disasters of similar magnitude are small by world standards.
Many Russians point to past Western military action – bypassing the UN in Kosovo, Iraq, and Libya, for example – as evidence of Western double standards.
Ministers in France, for instance, recently set new governance standards by committing themselves to guiding principles, including transparency, impartiality, and integrity.
The thinking is clear (if rarely spelled out clearly by politicians): whereas a loss of market confidence in the British state’s solvency would most likely trigger a depression, above-target inflation can be rectified at a relatively tolerable cost to living standards (though higher than it should have been).
The bottom line is that the commodity in greatest demand by people all over the world is good government, which provides the best means of improving living standards, especially for those at the bottom.
But this new, bottom-up framework, in which states determine the conditions for a multilateral agreement, lacks an authority to establish standards.
Its promoters criticized the PDP for having done little to improve Nigerians’ living standards, and they unveiled a set of policies and programs that they claimed would lead the country to sustained prosperity.
If implemented, the US could reassert its historical leadership among a group of countries that share its fundamental values, as well as an interest in inclusive economic growth and rising living standards.
In the medium term, this trend will continue to pose an inflation risk and undermine living standards worldwide.
As more of China’s population converges to Western standards of consumption, demand for commodities – and thus their prices – will remain on an upward trajectory.
As a result, the reach of health-care coverage in Rwanda is high by global standards – all the more remarkable for a country that suffered the horrors of genocide a generation ago.
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