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It shouldn't be a welcome relief when a main character "bites it", as we say over here, however when Ella sticks it to Cassie we find ourselves really applauding a situation for the very first time in this show - SEVEN EPISODES IN!
Ansara tries to hold him at bay with some colored sand and a couple of sticks being tapped together, but ultimately, it falls to Curtis and Strasberg herself to make inroads at stopping him.
It's one that sticks.
When I think of his movies, one of the titles sticks out, Foolish.
And the thing that sticks out the most is how REAL the relationships are, sure a bit crazy at times, but not beyond what anyone in real life experiences.
All of this after a totally unbelievable scene where she is rescued by him after he comes out of nowhere to overpower an armed and dangerous killer who was about to blow her away...I didn't believe it any more than I believed her manhandling several 6 foot 2 inch 200 lb thugs throwing them against the car and handcuffing them like they were match sticks.
Still, you have to give Esther credit: even while stranded in the sticks, she manages several changes in her hairstyle and goes through a myriad of colorful outfits.
When the baby won't stop crying Tarzan sticks an over sized (what looks to be) chicken leg in the infants face thinking maybe something to eat will do the trick.
One reason that I like it, is because it takes two controversial themes and sticks them together.
Jonathan Schaech proves his diversity as an actor, while Rose McGowen sticks with her usual "bitch" character as she has done in many other movies.
Sure the lunatics like Ed and Lorraine Warren and Ted Gunderson add some side-splitting moments, but PDV sticks out like a sore thumb as the only person knowing what’s going on and able to play the audience properly.
Nothing horrifying or scary, but it's one that sticks with you.
Raw sticks with the same people and gets a new person every once and a while.
Instead of using carrots to secure Taliban support for a peace deal, the Obama administration is now using very large sticks.
It provides carrots and sticks.
For China, the risk will be highest if it sticks with the timeworn recipe of unbalanced manufacturing- and construction-led growth, which has created such serious sustainability problems.
But if Trump sticks to his protectionist promises, we will no longer have to worry about US-Brazil rivalry within the same trade agreement.
As Nye put it, a country’s power rests on its “ability to alter the behavior of others” to get what it wants, whether through coercion (sticks), payments (carrots), or attraction (soft power).
“If you are able to attract others,” he pointed out, “you can economize on the sticks and carrots.”
If it sticks to its principles, it could end up ceding victory to the “bad” party, which will do even more harm once it is in office.
Western analysts and activists should have learned by now that and military threats produce only resistance, and that genuine diplomacy involves using carrots as well as sticks.
Indeed, the inflation risk is on the upside, especially if the Fed sticks to its plan to keep its real short-term interest rate negative until the end of 2016 and to raise it to one percentage point only by the end of 2017.
If the US represents values that others want to follow, it can economize on sticks and carrots.
According to the WHO’s 1996 classification, the disease is deemed mild when the victim does not need to use walking aids regularly; moderate when one or two sticks or crutches are used; and severe when he or she is bedridden or unable to walk without support.
In describing the success of the Toyota and Linux networks, the Boston Consulting Group concludes that the hard power of monetary carrots and accountability sticks motivates people to perform narrow, specified tasks, but that the soft power of admiration and applause are far more effective stimulants of extraordinary behavior.
The growing dispute over trade sanctions brings to the fore not only the fundamental ethical question of whether wealthy nations should bear the burden of emissions reduction alone, but also the strategic question of whether sticks as well as carrots should be used to induce green behavior in developing countries.
We have heard many stories of patients whose lives were affected by this digital-health innovation; one in particular sticks with us.
At what point will commentators stop gushing that Trump has finally become “presidential” every time he sticks to a script?
In short, we need more carrots, rather than just sticks.
Sticks as well as carrots have been used – by both sides – to maintain this alliance.
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