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In 2001, the September 2001 television season, humor succumbs to judgment once and for all.
She succumbs to the disease because it spreads to the lungs, liver, lymph nodes, brain, bone, where it becomes unresectable or untreatable.
He was given the Nobel Prize in 1945 in recognition, and in an interview shortly after, this is what he said: "The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of a man who succumbs to infection with a pencillin-resistant organism."
The breaking down of these arrangements when the entire cell succumbs to entropy is what eventually results in death.
Thomas Merton also wrote about wars among saints and that "there is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork.
Final Draft - A screenwriter (James Van Der Beek) locks himself into his apartment and succumbs to psychosis in an attempt to write a horror script.
The premise, believable but weak (undercover narcotics agent succumbs to the drug underworld) deserved better than this Lili Fini Zanuck flop.
Intended as light entertainment, this film is indeed successful as such during its first half, but then succumbs to a rapidly foundering script that drops it down.
She eventually succumbs to the Saint's charms but she breaks his heart in the end.
Even as he does this however his own daughter succumbs to heroin addiction, tearing their family apart.
The man manages to keep some semblance of sanity, but eventually succumbs to the effects of his experiments.
The film takes a surprisingly dramatic and depressing turn as this proud, elegant woman gives up her career, as well as a sweet relationship with her caring father, and succumbs to a life of drinking and prostitution.
When Emy fails to hear from George for a lengthy amount of time, she succumbs to despair and becomes a prostitute.
The other residents of the building are all flaky and sticklers on keeping the noise level down - even the slightest 'titter' becomes a big deal and Polanski, who stars, becomes increasingly paranoid and succumbs to his loony hallucinations further and further as the film carries on.
As things progress from bad to worse each succumbs to their own belief with wild and unpredictable results.
But in the Penguin Pool Murder she wins over James Gleason by the sheer force of her character, and when he finally succumbs she characteristically responds, "I thought you'd never ask!" Or perhaps she was not cast more as a leading lady because she was, simply put, unsurpassed as a character actress.
When she finally succumbs to his requests, she knows that this is the time.
When he returns to India, he gets a letter from his friend saying the diamond mine was a bust, and soon succumbs to a fever.
The second one: the fact that the repressed (or maybe just hesitant) gay temporary teacher Mr Irwin, OF COURSE, succumbs to the offer of Dakin, the most disgusting jerk in the film, degrading himself just in order to satisfy some desire he could satisfy with any given (and probably much more honest) prostitute.
Skirting devilishly close to cliché, this coming-of-age-movie never succumbs.
But the dead-pan gallows humor, elegantly understated, flat and utterly unadorned, subtle and evanescent, evaporates somewhere in the middle, as breezy absurdity succumbs to a grinding Hallmark-greeting-card, art-house sermon on the Meaning of Life, to What IT Is All About.
I think it might have been going for aventgarde, but failed miserably.Even at little over an hour, the movie still succumbs to massive repetition.
But if America succumbs to the unilateralist temptation too easily, it is likely to encounter the criticisms that the Bush Administration is now encountering.
But, after all the happy talk about the European economy, how much credibility will the ECB have if Europe eventually succumbs to recessionary pressures from abroad?
Second, new markets cannot be tapped if the West succumbs to protectionism.
So investors must now hope that the latest episode will be forgotten – unless and until hope succumbs to market psychology.
Governments have a moral obligation to ensure that no one succumbs to a preventable death.
At this point, society either succumbs to dictatorship or forges a new social compact that accepts the revolution’s key results.
By contrast, if the world succumbs to inaction and paralysis, we predict that it will cost global GDP $1.8 trillion by 2050.
All of these challenges have led former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and his Harvard colleague Lant Pritchett to argue that China’s growth could slow to 2-4% over the next two decades, as the country succumbs to the historically prevalent growth pattern implied by “regression to the mean.”