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Good cloak and dagger action drama set in London 1939.Has very good sets and story but could have been a classic if it had better directing and script/screenplay.The director had a little difficulty finding a good balance between being edgy or watered down in a more Hollywood way.Great entertainment though for cloak and dagger fans and big fans of the lead stars.Selleck looks really good here.....
They find a group of strange people chained in the watered basement, Teo releases their leader Mordecai Salas (Patrick Gordon) and is killed by him.
As a fan of the original film, I found the series as a boring watered down version of an excellent story.
As I said, the series is simply watered down, and it just contains scenes from the original movie, but has cut out some of the interesting characters and the more energetic fights and trash talking.
As it is they produced a senseless watered down version that made no sense because they ignore the fact that it all is a dream world created by George Orr.
All the gags are pretty watered down but at least this short has some action.
This 1957 Blockbuster was cutting edge for its time, but is greatly watered down the tawdry nature of the book.
Sheeley long again proves that she should never have left Cheers and again plays a watered down version of Dianne.
This film is an attempt to mix an (American) Office style lead character with a watered down Woody Allen writing style.
His governance by id means that he will always reveal his true self, whether in the form of maniacal claims like those about being wiretapped, or when he reveals his true intentions by saying that his latest travel ban is just the old one watered down.
An alternative minimum tax was established, along with a slight increase in gasoline taxes, but both were so watered down that they barely add up to anything.
As a result, Abdullah’s initial proposal has been diluted, so much so that, by the time of the Arab foreign ministers meeting held in Cairo on 8 March, the phrase “full normalisation” was watered down to the more amorphous phrase “full peace,” the meaning of which no one knows.
As Haldane notes, even the celebrated “Volcker rule,” intended to build a better wall between more mundane commercial banking and riskier proprietary bank trading, has been hugely watered down as it grinds through the legislative process.
Parliament watered down a proposal for far-reaching pension reform to the point that it borders on useless, and repeated promises to stop subsidizing wasteful energy consumption through low gas prices have not been honored.
A new global agreement must be science-based, not a lowest-common-denominator compromise watered down by vested interests.
Proposed tax cuts may be watered down or abandoned.
All of these failures became fully manifest in 2005, when European governments watered down the Stability and Growth Pact’s rules to a degree that effectively made them optional.
Second, he and his administration were so busy trying to build consensus that they watered down some of the vital ingredients of the stimulus package, and failed to defend it robustly from Republican attack.
Watered down by the compromises without which liberal democracies cannot thrive, socialism did a great deal of good in Western Europe.
In this context, an initiative to mandate random IAEA inspections of 10% of the world’s operating reactors within three years was watered down, again with the EU’s active support, on the grounds that responsibility for security and inspections should rest primarily with member states.
The NDP’s most urgent proposed measures – more flexible labor laws, education reform, and rationalizing local government – will be watered down by vested interests and weak governance, while its (otherwise welcome) emphasis on expanding infrastructure will be undermined by political favoritism and corruption.
Although the EU’s ban includes such a provision, waivers and exemptions have watered down the rule.
So this truce must be seen not as a piece of paper with some legal significance, but as a young plant that needs to be tended to, watered, nursed, and protected, so that it grows into a strong and robust tree that cannot be uprooted with an occasional Qassam rocket or a stray grenade.
Eastern Europeans were rewarded after they watered down European Union resolutions on human rights.
With 20 delegations, each reads prepared statements; there is no give-and-take, and the communiqué is a watered down least-common-denominator press release.
Land reform is still being finalized, and has already been watered down.
The US Employment Act of 1946 embraced the principle, but has since been watered down, owing to complaints that government support of full employment is unaffordable.
In the United Kingdom, banks are only this year implementing new ring-fencing rules enforcing a separation of their investment banking activities from their retail and commercial activities, at a time when the analogous Volcker Rule in the US (which in any case is far less constraining) is being watered down.
“At the UN Human Rights Council,” notes HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth, “China routinely opposes virtually every human rights initiative that criticizes a particular country unless it is watered down enough to secure that government’s consent.”
The undulating waves regularly took on the appearance of watered silk with wide stripes.
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