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And the "A students" get the tougher curriculum, the best teachers, etc.
It's thousands of times, maybe 3,000 times tougher than this.
So Shemp sets out to get himself a bride but finds it a tougher road than expected, that is until they learn of his inheritance money.
Perhaps smaller golden parachutes would have been given to the corrupt medical corporation leaders, health insurance companies would have had a tougher time denying medical care, and health providers would have been demystified earlier, if George C. Scott had tap danced in a tutu while delivering his terrible truths.
I have not seen a Van Damme flick for a while, pleasantly surprised, he still has it, looking older, but tougher, kind of like Sly, becomes more rugged with age.
Savalas is tough, but boss Eddie Albert (as Commander Moffat) may be tougher.
Therefore I apply tougher criteria to the major studio releases.
The boys grow up and get into trouble with their pranks, fight to see who is tougher and do the things brothers do, all the while attending church and taking part in all other spiritual matters like flyfishing.
In some respects it's a bit like "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" but it's an altogether tougher piece of work.
Once Eddie plays the record backwards, he discovers he's a bit tougher, and bad things start happening to those who taunt him.
In Stand By Me, Vern and Teddy discuss who was tougher, Superman or Mighty Mouse.
The battles are longer and tougher, and do not get tedious like they did in the one immediately preceding this.
Sorry to disappoint, it's always a good thing for somebody's pet project to reach the screen, particularly a serious French attempt at grabbing an international audience, but this movie is ruled by a director who needs a tougher producer and an editor who has the capacity to say "no" more often.
Sure, it's not a patch on 48 hours, but it does stand as a perfect example of ne plus ultra 90s sequelitis as tougher, simpler movies are retooled into flash bang gee whizz action paintings with money flushed into entourages and re-doing the same things they did almost a decade earlier on the cheap, only this time they all actually get paid (rather than the studio running off with the money and leaving everyone to wonder why a major success still isn't in profit).
It gives us mature leads and tougher story lines, and admits to the possibility that outside of the 310 area code, not every dream must necessarily come true.
The border guards must have been much tougher in the 1930's!
Breaking and Entering focuses on Will,(Jude Law) a landscape architect who succeeds in business but finds his personal life is tougher to navigate.
It should be said that this will make for tougher viewing by those who have read Cornwell's books than those who have not.
The main character and his girl both do pretty well and it is interesting to see a film with such a weak male lead, whose female pal is considerably tougher than he is.
Moranis has it tougher while trying to be a nerd/FBI agent(unusual combo) but he pulls it off.
The plot is quite simple: the Japanese girl is seeking revenge for the killers of her parents, but the killers are tougher than she thought and this is where the bloody fight between good and evil begins.
Okay, this sure ain't a work of art!! Yup, it's hard to be "artsy" with a film about a horrible outbreak of billions of killer worms--and even tougher when your total budget is $39.95 and your actors have never even had the experience of doing TV commercials or community theater!
Some subtle, intelligent jokes, some tougher.
He was tougher than the flesh-eating disease!
Bringing back Kitty Winn as a tougher Sharon couldn't save this.
This sensational boxing film introduced a rougher and tougher Robert Taylor to 1938 audiences, the result of a well-publicized body building regimen under the personal supervision of Max Baer.
By 1993, however, President Yeltsin was talking tougher: "Let this be settled in the next century, by future generations," he argued in a speech before Oryol University students.
The requirements of the latest rescue deal are the toughest yet – even tougher than those that Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum earlier this month.
Yet the IMF imposed even tougher conditions on Asia than it has on Greece, including fiscal austerity, monetary tightening, and financial restructuring.
The trade war may well be an early skirmish in a much tougher battle, during which economics will ultimately trump Trump.
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