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When the movie was finished, half the theater was empty, and not a single positive comment was heard among the 300-something die hards who'd struggled their way through the whole thing.
And the patriotic message was both expected and deserved by the men and women who struggled on Corrigidor and throughout the Philippines.
i admit the fist 15 minutes of the film where quite good but after that i struggled to keep watching it.
If you look carefully, you can see that many of the boys have struggled to turn their 70s hairstyle to match those over a decade earlier.
For those out there that are either too young to remember or have not had the privilege of learning these stories in history classes, knowing how hard some people fought and how much they struggled to achieve a right that many current citizens take for granted is tantamount.
The acting struggled in several scenes, but the most obvious deficit is the lack of emotional connection between the characters.
We struggled to find the right director, who could give it the right kind of film noir look at which Theroux was clearly aiming.
I saw this at the Sydney Fim Fest today and it was the third film in a row I saw, so that's maybe why I struggled to keep my eyes open :-) This film had such good ratings, especially all the 9's and 10's, that I decided to see it.
Adapting a novel with complex elements and undertones to the silver screen is a daunting task and director Robert Schwentke struggled to compromise between satisfying readers of the novel and making the movie accessible to people unfamiliar with the book.
Just when you think you struggled yourself through all the lousiest and most pointless slasher the 80's decade had to offer, you allow yourself to be fooled by yet another one.
I found that it was captivating to say the least, i immensely struggled to take my eyes of the screen at any moment at fear of missing a vital addition to the plot.
For almost two hours I struggled not to fastforward or just push the stop button.
In the former he struggled to show a man who sought and found spiritual piece in the years following World War I, while his friends went mad in the materialistic hopelessness of Europe and America.
Such was the question occurring to me as I struggled through yet another disastrously ridiculous SciFi Channel disaster movie.
They also struggled to pursue a united approach to Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and continued to seek a coherent approach to Turkey as accession negotiations remained blocked.
Over the past three decades, five American presidents have struggled to figure out what to do about Iran.
At the G-20 summit in early September, for example, US President Barack Obama struggled to convince ten states to sign a declaration on Syria that did not even mention the use of force.
Indeed, at the EU level, the divisions and debates among national governments came to the fore as leaders struggled to reach an agreement on a quota system for the distribution of refugees among member states.
The roughly 50 Muslim-majority countries stretching from Bangladesh to Morocco have largely struggled to develop politically.
Africa has long struggled with urban water and wastewater management.
In a region that has struggled to find its economic footing since the Arab Spring, the entrepreneurial ideas being refined at incubators like these hold the keys to the region’s future.
China is, of course, not the only country that has struggled with troubled-asset relief.
Just as Platonists and Aristotelians struggled against one another for millennia, Kantians and utilitarians have been at one another’s throats for centuries.
China has struggled to attain these goals with anything less than 10% growth, because the old model was not generating enough jobs per unit of output.
The major global economic institutions struggled to adapt quickly enough.
The emerging economies’ monetary authorities have struggled to cope with these shocks using available instruments, including interest rates, exchange rates, prudential regulation, and capital controls.
For Kant, who struggled to re-define ethics in a new era of market societies, our duty can and must be deduced from our capacity for rationality.
The avuncular John XXIII, who wanted to loosen up a hidebound Church, and the combative John Paul II, who struggled to rein in what he viewed as the excesses of the Second Vatican Council that John XXIII had convened, appear to be ideological opposites.
Regulators have struggled with the problem for years without finding a solution.
Add to that sprawling urban slums – semi-governed, overcrowded, and poorly sanitized – and it is not surprising that these countries have struggled to contain the epidemic.
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