Sentences with phrase «about pawn»

What about pawn shops would allow the government to extend their examination beyond the records of the pawn shop without probable cause that a particular item was used in the commission of a crime?

In a new paper with Susan Payne Carter and Marieke Bos, «The Pawn Industry and Its Customers: The United States and Europe, «we document important facts about the pawn business.

Not exact matches

Another use case is already in play: If the AI system notices that you post about trying to pawn something, like an old bike, it'll bring up Facebook's selling tools.

We published our findings about Operation Pawn Storm in October 2014, in a research paper titled «Operation Pawn Storm: Using Decoys to Evade Detection» and we've been tracking its movements and developments since then.

As for your now hackneyed and absurd whining about «theory», as many others have noted, creationism that you are trying to pawn off here incessantly, is not even a scientific theory.

Well either he was the leader and head of the catholic church who has done all these great things (and thus knew all about this situation and the cover up) or he was simply a figure head and is to be pitied for being used as a pawn and not deserving of any praise.

having sailed around the world 6x and experienced about all of the religions) there is a pawn shop, a church, and a used car lot on just about every street corner.

I think of Mr. B., a respectably dressed stranger who came to the parsonage door with a convincing story about needing a loan to redeem his tools which he had been forced to pawn during a prolonged illness.

So let «s not talk about players, like the supporters they are pawns in a game.

Then there are the unnamed athletes and team personnel who pawned 400 title rings to the online reseller championship-rings.net over the past three months, a spike of about 33 % from the same period last year.

Lots of folks consider Frisco to be a extremeley liberal city but this guy started in with the «we need to build a wall» stuff and it kiond of snowballed from there untill by the end of the ride he was educationg me about how Bernie Sanders is a pawn by the Jews to install one of there Elite banker friends as the head of the United States so they can take over the world.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

At this point, it feels like the child is just a pawn and it's more about Nebus «winning» than about the kid's well - being.

They just care about scaring the pants off of people, and they aren't afraid to use their innocent child as a pawn in that twisted game.

That, to be sure, was mutual opportunism gone awry: Obasanjo wanted power to crow about his «greatness»; a manipulative military cabal, with their civilian side - kicks, wanted a pawn, to sustain their hegemony.

But to see him being used as a pawn in Avella's devious political manipulation of the electoral system speaks volumes about his character.

And this play is about a man who is ideologically committed to the hilts to doing something and doesn't see - he is warned several times during the play - that he is a pawn in a bigger game and that the reason he has been chosen to carry out this very, very difficult and radical, controversial bill, is precisely because he is not a member of the Tory party.

Taking turns, Warren and Sentmanat drag the sled about 30 yards in each direction — past the pawn shop, around the potholes, and close enough to the faded blue dumpster to catch a whiff of the oil - soaked car - part boxes baking in the sun.

Thank you to Alice for this link, also from The NY Times, about the trend of pawning Birkins.

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As vital, disturbing, and powerful now as it was when it was written and filmed, All Quiet on the Western Front is an excellent film about war and both its inhumanity — the moments when people are turned into monsters and pawns — and its humanity — the moments when despite the contexts people attempt to regain their decency.

An intricate, intense thriller about a young bride (Paltrow) who becomes the emotional pawn of her controlling mother - in - law (Lange).

Dissipating any romantic notions about being a royal, the script depicts the heartache and loneliness suffered by monarchs who were often pawns in their court's governmental schemes.

So, Kennedy chats him up about his directorial debut on Pascali's Island, the latest in the pawn's eye view of the Empire Goes Blooey genre

The worst scene in Schindler's List is toward the end, when Oskar Schindler gives a speech about how many more people he might have saved if he had pawned his watch or sold his car.

Annette (Reese Witherspoon) unwittingly becomes a pawn in Sebastian's (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) deliciously diabolical wager of sexual conquest when she writes an article in Seventeen Magazine about how she intends to stay pure until she marries her boyfriend.

The Primary Instinct (2015) Something about this film feels like a TED talk about stories Pawn Sacrifice (2015) I love chess, it isn't cinematic to say the least Joy (2015) watching Jennifer Lawrence take hold of the world is fun, kind of.

After eight long - suffering years in the «Bushes», a sentimental, excusatory film about how Bush is a pawn was definitely not well received.

To be honest, the actresses in Sucker Punch are more pawns meaning just about any actress in Hollywood could have been placed in this CGI world.

From the director of «The Lives of Others» comes this taut thriller about a British woman (Angelina Jolie) who dupes an American tourist (Johnny Depp) into serving as a pawn in the pursuit of her former lover - slash - professional thief.

A few scenes fleetingly mitigate the almost total dearth of laughs by injecting weird poignancy: a return visit to the stripper played by Heather Graham plays out an interesting idea about the passage of time since the first movie in 2009, and Melissa McCarthy livens up the picture in a couple of scenes as a pawn - shop proprietress with eyes for Alan, suggesting that maybe what the otherwise hopeless case needs is the love of a good woman.

And while I usually like Murphy, Bettany, and Morgan Freeman in other roles, here they become confusing pawns whose intentions are never fleshed out enough for us to care about what happens to them.

It's also worth nothing that she's the one female character, with the possible exception of Soledad O'Brien playing herself, who isn't used in the film as a pawn or hostage, which is about all we get from Amy Adams «Lois Lane (who's apparently as addicted to stilettos as Bryce Dallas Howard in «Jurassic World»), Diane Lane «s Martha Kent or Holly Hunter «s all - too - brief turn as a Kentucky senator who squares off against Luthor.

From comments about his innate sexual prowess to Rose's father leading a silent slave auction disguised as a bingo game, Chris is a pawn in what appears to be an ill - fated version of chess.

When the story circulates about the church's kid gloves treatment of molester Father John Geoghan, the paper's editor - in - chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber, «Pawn Sacrifice»), newly arrived from The Miami Herald and not bound by local «traditions» or religious loyalties, assigns the Spotlight unit to dig into the story.

If you have characters that you want credit for taking seriously and if I'm meant to care about them, they aren't pawns.

But the pawns are about to make a move of their own design.

All are pawns in Vivian's project; this may be the only film ever made with a documentarian as the villain, and Vivian is probably the only documentarian who pays subjects $ 10,000 to talk about their unremarkable relationships.

He's about to become a Russian prisoner and a pawn in a secret trade that the government hopes Donovan will broker in a wintry Berlin split by the Wall: the plan is to swap Abel for Powers.

Kids and parents are mere pawns in the power games played by these education agencies and these two - faced Sheff plaintiffs who claim to care about children and families.

«The political battles over education, along with the shifting vogues about what's best, have left many teachers feeling like pawns and punching bags,» Bruni wrote.

Craving their ease and wealth, while not succumbing to the expected, loveless marriage as a way to achieve it, Lily uses her beauty as currency in order to remain in their sphere, naively mistaking lust as help and becoming a pawn in marital tugs of war that are less about love than dalliance and appetite.

For pawned items, we only included loans with the same interest rate and length of loans, so differences about the loans can't explain the different amount of cash offered.

Having poor to fair credit history is nothing to be shameful about, especially if you're trying to do something about it, and LoanMart realizes that this may affect many applicants in the bank, credit union, or pawn shop arenas who just need a little extra financial support to get out of a rut; when the final determining factor for an applicant is presented to an institution, it usually pertains to credit.

After a little trial and error, we found the best way to go about buying and selling boards while you are on your trip is to find a pawn shop.

There's something pleasurable about opening up a large box and finding heaps of quality components inside, and Robinson Crusoe oozes quality from its dice to its cards and its thick island tiles, although the resource cubes and player pawns are somewhat generic wooden fare.

However I did not write up the preview of the game because at that time it looked utter pants and I couldn't think of anything to say about it other than to make a joke about «downloading your friends pawn».

Developer Diary # 2: In part two, learn about the inspiration for the Pawn system.

Here you can see ghosts of these pawns on display walking about, and like an upmarket supermarket, you can buy the ones you want for a quest.

I once saw it in a local pawn shop for like $ 3 years and years ago, but at the time I didn't know what it was and ignored it, years later I am kicking myself about it.