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Yes, it does "period" in the same broad sweeping comic-book gestures as the Hollywood of yesteryear.
This show is by no means "great" or sweeping in its view.
Modern Chinese History forms the backdrop for this sweeping portrait of the Soong Sisters, three siblings who married powerful men and used their positions to influence the politics of early 20th Century China.
Jaws 3-D (1983) was not only a sequel to the first two JAWS films, but it was also one of the few movies that took advantage of the rebirth of the 3-D fad that was sweeping Hollywood during the early 80's (see Amityville 3-D and Friday the 13th 3-D).
Anthony Head is his diabolical repo man, Nathan, who seeks out those who have signed a contract with Rotti for an organ they needed to live..if these people fail to pay for their repaired organ, it'll be collected(..when Nathan viciously removes the organ, surgically, we can see the bar code!) Rotti took advantage of a terrible plight sweeping across the country, organ failures, and offered those afflicted hope, with a price.
The stark black and white cinematography is always telling more than the story, with sneaky, sweeping pans and dollies the film keeps you guessing the duration.
Cristo, the composer, delivers us a score that juxtaposes beautiful sweeping lyrical melodies and hauntingly disturbing music.
Sure, he may not have the sweeping flexibility of a Loren Avedon or Gary Daniels, but for pure aggression that makes you truly believe he'd kick your ass as soon as look at you, Jeffs your man! Plus, there's no question he's the best actor amongst them all too - instead of a martial-artist who has turned to acting, he is an actor who just also happens to be a martial-artist.
Balletic cinematography, a good deal of it aerial, encompasses infernal horizons and devastated landscapes hardly recognizable as earthly, sweeping oil drenched, smoke filled distances, to the adagio strains of Verdi, Schubert, Prokofiev, and others.
East-West is a sweeping, engaging epic that will captivate even the most historically ignorant viewer.
As it is, it comes in a distant third, behind the sweeping vistas and the music.
In May, in his first major policy speech, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced the sweeping away of the “Big Brother” state that Blair had constructed: no more ID cards or national identity register, new restrictions on the storage of DNA, tighter regulation of the closed-circuit television surveillance that had made the British the most monitored people on earth, and so on.
Revolution followed, sweeping away the monarchy and aristocracy.
Nigeria is reorganizing its state oil company, introducing transparency legislation, and launching sweeping audits of the oil and gas sector.
In any case, one thing seems certain: in the absence of a sweeping overhaul, the UN may quickly follow in the footsteps of other institutional relics of the Cold War, such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO.
But in 1999 Ehud Barak, Labour’s leader, was elected Prime Minister in a sweeping personal victory that restored momentum to the peace negotiations.
Unless central bankers take that message to heart, they will find themselves sweeping up a lot of broken pottery.
The sweeping programs Sanders is pushing – a single-payer health-care system and free tuition at public colleges – however impracticable, are popular, especially among younger people, who overwhelmingly favor him over Clinton.
Indeed, a Macron victory could launch a counter-trend to the populism that is sweeping the globe, by giving hope to all who are sympathetic to the left or right, but anxious about populism and hyper-nationalism.
So far, anti-American rhetoric has been remarkably muted in the uprisings sweeping the Middle East.
It is no less important to reduce the presidency's sweeping powers and formulate viable mechanisms for enforcing the accountability of all public officials without exception.
For their part, Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao were even reported to have authorized a top-level body, "The Leading Group On Revising the Constitution," to draft "sweeping changes" that would be considered in March 2004 when the next plenary session of the National People's Congress met.
Obama and his congressional allies enacted an $800 billion “stimulus” bill that was loaded with programs geared to key Democratic constituencies, such as environmentalists and public employees; adopted a sweeping and highly unpopular health-care reform (whose constitutionality will be determined by the Supreme Court this year); imposed vast new regulations on wide swaths of the economy; embraced an industrial policy that selects certain companies for special treatment; engaged in borrowing and spending at levels exceeded only in World War II; and centralized power in Washington, DC (and, within the federal government, in the executive branch and regulatory agencies).
The last election that was followed by such a sweeping change in policy direction occurred in 1980, when President Ronald Reagan overhauled taxes, spending, and regulation, and supported the Federal Reserve’s course of disinflation.
Why has Sweden held out against the right-wing tide sweeping so much of Western Europe?
And here, Obama, in particular, will soon understand that Hollande has no intention of bringing sweeping change.
These sweeping institutional reforms would make China’s governance structure look functionally similar to American and European counterparts.
If our agriculture sector is to survive, we must follow through on sweeping reforms, including to our agricultural cooperatives, which have not changed in 60 years.
Once these legal changes – the most sweeping in our post-war history – are in place by this summer, Japan will be better able to provide a seamless response for all levels of crisis.
But the danger is that those who are attracted to inspirational rallying cries and sweeping proposals will lack the patience required to identify which side to support in the numerous complex battles over financial regulation that take place every year.
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