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Six thousand reviews each school week vying for the honor of being review of the week.
It can sometimes seem like a race to the bottom, where everyone is calling out somebody else's privilege and vying to show that they are the most hard-done-by person in the conversation.
It generated tremendous excitement, and districts began vying with each other to be known as exemplars.
The farm dog falling victim to his doggy weaknesses while vying for leadership was funny.
The threesome of Bill Boyd, Robert Armstrong, and James Gleason play Coney Island carnys vying for the hand of Ginger Rogers, a working gal who sells salt water taffy.
This is merely a photographed stage play for basically four principals - Melvyn Douglas and Fred MacMurray acting like teen-agers vying for common wife, Jean Arthur, with Harry Davenport in support as her father.
While it's billed as a film about two hitmen--one vying for recognition, the other for anonymity--it also peers into the lives of the supporting characters.
In sixty years of movie-going I have sat through some clunkers but "Nine Months" is right up there with "I aim at the stars","Mrs Doubtfire" and "Johnny English" vying for the accolade "Worst of the worst".It is a movie with absolutely no merit whatsoever.It has Robin Williams, who clearly thinks he is one of the funniest men on the planet, in a small role.
Poppy Montgomery looked good as always, but the two guys vying for her affection were awesomely annoying.
And he sure was not at all interested in vying for an Oscar or Emmy.
While a bellboy in Hicksville awaits the arrival of the much touted Miss Glory, he drifts off to sleep and fantasizes himself as bellboy in a huge luxury hotel in which all the male occupants are vying for the attention of the sultry Miss Glory.
Portraying two women vying for a man - and going to literally any length to succeed - this is one movie sure to blow your mind.
(Somewhat ironically, this has strengthened the position of Prime Minister, for which Rajapaksa is now vying.)
Meanwhile, former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Alain Juppé are vying for control of the center-right opposition in order to challenge Hollande and head off Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front.
The UK’s Brexit negotiations have already become a battleground between technocrats and populists, with each side vying for an outcome that will support its narrative.
Western sanctions instead paved the way for investments in Myanmar by those with less concern about human rights violations – first by ASEAN neighbors in hotels and other sectors, and more recently by China and India, which are vying for projects and influence in the strategic energy sector.
For decades, vying for the world’s low-cost manufacturing business seemed to be the most promising way for low-income countries to climb the development ladder.
After decades of contentedly relying on the US for protection, Japan is being shaken out of its complacency by fast-changing security and power dynamics in Asia, especially the rise of an increasingly muscular and revisionist China vying for regional hegemony.
Europe also was supposedly vying for global economic dominance.
Here is where the two principal parties vying in Germany’s upcoming election differ.
To be sure, price discrimination will not happen for every good and service, and the trend could be tempered by competition from offline retailers or new entrants vying for market share by offering lower prices to everyone.
Neither of the two political blocs now vying for power in the West even wants it to be posed.
Instead, security experts should consider how best to manage the potential for violence among and within the various factions vying for local control.
There is only one way out of the Gaza tragedy that can provide justice to its many victims: The parties to the conflict and the regional actors now vying to act as mediators must leverage the ongoing calamity into a grand peace agenda.
One reason for the ambiguity is that several senior officials are vying to influence America’s China trade policy: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
In Europe, despite the media focus on the success of xenophobic politicians in Hungary and Poland, the pendulum is swinging away from economic nationalism in the countries that really matter: France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, where the two populist parties that recently achieved electoral breakthroughs are now vying to show their devotion to the euro.
Instead, the most important regional players – Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey – have all been vying for influence in the war in Syria, and collectively sliding toward a hopeless conflict for mastery of the entire region.
With so many complex issues vying for attention today, Africa will need innovative education and research models.
Psychosocial stress of this type not only alters cognitive function in lower-ranking animals, but it can also promote disease (for example, atherosclerosis) among those vying for the dominant position.
From Berlin to Paris, and from Paris to Rome, European leaders may ultimately be doing the same thing, but they are all doing it separately, as competitors vying for Russian favor rather than as partners within a supposedly tight-knit Union.
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