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Saw a screening of it today,...and probably wished I didn't agree to watch it,.. Anyways, I don't even know where to begin so here goes: Plot/action: The usual cliché plot line that involves government agency coverups, bad blood, and conspiracies to kill the President.
I just watched "Someone She Knows" although it was a very good movie I I wished it would have had the conclusion of the trial.
After watching it I wished I never picked it up.
After watching the first fifteen minutes of this "festering bowl of dog snot," I longingly wished that I'd been hit by a truck on the way to the video store.
When I did, I wished that I had saved my money.
I miss this show a lot and wished that NBC Network never altered the programming because I think it really ruined the station.
I wished I was a cinema director so I'd do a new version.
Until recently, anyone who wished to bring a human-rights case against the British government had to go to France.
There are two problems that cannot be wished away.
The 20-year-old notion, born of Cold War triumph, that Western military force could impose order wherever and whenever it wished, has become untenable.
As de Gaulle wished, the French president has powers without equal in any other Western democracy.
The rest of us thought that these institutions could instill the wisdom, insight, and character of which we all wished we had more.
He abused intelligence analysts who disagreed with the line the Bush administration wished them to support.
Since Britain had been one of the most insistent advocates of enlargement of the EU to the candidates from Central and Eastern Europe, one might have expected that the Blair government would have wished to be correspondingly generous to the new-comers in the conduct of the budgetary negotiations.
The Fed, which took the first step toward normalization in early December, will almost certainly deliver – and Trump will soon regret what he wished for.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah welcomed Rouhani’s election and wished him well, in the hope that this might allow him to escape the clutches of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s extremist entourage and the Revolutionary Guard.
In 2000, Al Gore, was unable to make up his mind about which role he wished to play in his debates with George W. Bush, so he looked shifty and inauthentic, changing from arrogant to patronizing and back again.
No matter how great the outcry against the death sentences imposed on adulterous women, Sharia law cannot be wished away here.
We will be told about the inner wisdom of a nation that already knew the outcome and wished, without saying so, to avoid the appearance of an excessive victory.
But perhaps finance ministers in Lima, Bogota, Pretoria, or Jakarta should have been more careful about what they wished for.
Rather, they intended that Israel would help solve the Jewish problem everywhere in the world by enabling every Jew who wished to leave the diaspora to do so.
Brazil and other countries that complained about “hot money” inflows and “currency wars,” have now suddenly gotten what they wished for: a likely early end of the Fed’s QE.
But successful interactions between these sectors cannot be wished into existence, and it is essential that the role of each is clearly defined.
While chavismo arrived in power via the ballot box, its leaders wished it had done so with bullets, like their hero Che Guevara.
Pakistan let the US use its air bases to launch drone attacks on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan; allowed its territory to be used as a supply route for NATO forces in landlocked Afghanistan; and, less enthusiastically than the US wished, launched military operations against Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the porous border with Afghanistan.
Deserting the Battle for BritainSAINT PIERRE D’ENTREMONT, FRANCE – In the sad state of affairs following the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom, former “Remainers” – those who wished to stay in the EU – seem to have given up altogether on fighting for the future of their country.
In some cases, such a course can be so perilous that it should not be wished upon any society.
Even though some, such as the British, wished to give the Union as little power as possible, the force of the argument was with those who pressed for political integration alongside economic integration.
When Nazi Germany invaded the western Soviet Union, the Germans kept the collective farms intact, rightly seeing them as the instrument that would allow them to divert Ukrainian food for their own purposes, and starve whom they wished.
However, a decision-making body consisting of delegates from Kosovo, Serbia, and the European Union would be given full authority over major foreign policy issues (for example, alliances and relations with international economic institutions), defence, borders (in case Kosovo wished to join with Albania), and the treatment of Kosovo’s Serbian minority.
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