Sentences with phrase «about second acts»

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A second challenging (and nonsensical) barrier to stemming this firearm - health crisis, he says, is the widely propagated myth that physicians can't, or shouldn't, talk to their patients about the safety risks of guns — a belief reinforced by a misunderstanding of a provision in the Affordable Care Act.

Think about what you wrote and why, and make a brief plan — in only 30 seconds — to act on one of the items on your list.

The Affordable Care Act may be in its second year for consumers, but for most small business owners, the law is just about to kick in.

ACT is the second - largest independent c - store operator in North America with about 5,700 locations, although this accounts for less than 4 % of the industry's stores.

For co-founder Henry Blodget, the sale of Business Insider caps a remarkable second act: A former securities analyst during the dot - com bubble of the late 1990s, Blodget was charged with fraud in 2002 for publicly promoting stocks that he was privately skeptical about.

One of Chris Christie's last acts as governor was to approve tax incentives that could total about $ 7 billion if Amazon decides to put its second headquarters in Newark.

«The Juno Beach Centre Association supports the education of adults and children of today and future generations about the role of Canada and Canadians during the Second World War,» said Don Cooper, Director and Acting President for the Juno Beach Centre Association.

If someone acts as if they have the final say about you «getting to heaven,» remember first that «getting to heaven» isn't even the point of Christian faith, and second, that anybody using a carrot on a stick to manipulate your behaviors doesn't follow the God who gives grace with crazy generosity.

I put quite a bit [about my plan for prison reform] in a bill called the Second Chance Act.

Highly significant for Christology are these two quotations from Hartshorne's The Divine Relativity10 In the first he refuses to allow «paradox» to cover up illogicality: «A theological paradox, it appears, is what a contradiction becomes when it is about God rather than something else...» In the second he applies this to the relation between God's power and our human decisions: «For God to do what I do when I decide my own act, determine my own concrete being, is mere nonsense, words without meaning.

Think a second about what the actual effect of this act would be.

The importance of the second and third issues is obvious for decisions about a written constitution, which later was interpreted as involving judicial review of acts of Congress, and for a federal union of states having partial autonomy under a national government.

What I find puzzling is the obsession with consensual and faithful gay relationships when Scripture says much more about divorce and remarriage (every single sex act with a second spouse is ALWAYS adultery unless someone is unfaithful and that the only moral choice is reconciliation with your first spouse or lifetime celibacy — 1 Cor 7:10 - 11), charging interest on a loan, our moral obligation toward the poor and other things most conservative Christians ignore.

Second, let's not act as if Jeter and Co. just found out about Stanton's deal after all the paperwork had been signed and ownership of the Marlins had been transferred to them.

But it is also about what Wenger does next, and whether he can show that there is a second act to a great life so far.

The doctors act as though I am over reacting but I hate to see him in this pain even if it only lasts about 30 seconds.

I have no doubt that the founders and supporters of the Coalition for Divorce Reform, which promotes the Parental Divorce Reduction Act, and the Institute for American Values, which endorses the Second Chances proposal, are sincerely concerned about the number of young children being disrupted by divorce every year.

Whether you are pro or con about using time - outs as a form of child discipline, both sides agree on one key issue: If a child is acting inappropriately and causing potential harm to himself or others and ruining an event, parents should remove him from the activity or situation immediately without second chances.

«This country is all about second chances, second acts — especially in the Democratic Party.»

Ladies and Gentlemen of the press, we have called on you today to officially inform you about the second petition that we have sent to the President of the Republic, His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akufo - Addo about an amendment of National Lottery Act 722, 2006.

Though the board made no further action upon the measure, Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence reaffirmed his position, adding the board supports Second Amendment rights and had their own concerns about the SAFE Act's magazine capacity limit's applicability to law enforcement personnel.

Since just about every conviction Silver was nailed for depended on whether he took an «official act,» the Second Circuit suggested prosecutors needed to start over.

Second, OHS promulgated this rule without providing notice or the opportunity to comment as required by the Administrative Procedure Act («APA»), thereby depriving Plaintiff States of the opportunity to present important evidence to OHS about the overwhelming success of the DACA program in Plaintiff States as part of the rulemaking process.

Second, note that about 70 % of Democrats, and 15 % of Republicans favor the Affordable Care Act, and this has been consistent over the past couple of years.

Cuomo issued a statement about the second threat made against the Brighton Jewish Community Center in less than a week, calling it a «despicable and cowardly act that will not be tolerated in New York.»

When the first point was made, the second consideration comes with more questions about the acting of the military, meaning:

Femtochemistry is concerned with the very act of the molecular motion that brings about chemistry, chemical bond breaking, or bond formation on the femtosecond (10 - 15 second) time scale.

But yet again, as she talks herself out of a second date whilst chatting to Binkie, and then acts really awkwardly with Proudlock at the polo (accusing him of being creepy, telling him everything that was wrong about their first date, and demanding they don't refer to their second date as a proper date), I can't help but feel she's letting her own nerves and issues get in the way of going on a proper second date with him.

If you want to increase your chances of securing a second date, you're going to get a lot of advice about what you should say and how you should act.

That sets up the second act of the film, in which Miller and his men penetrate into French terrain still actively disputed by the Germans, while harboring mutinous thoughts about the wisdom of the mission.

Much of the second act involves a character having to leave the cage to grab something and worrying about the shark appearing out of nowhere.

The second act of the film finds Petit and his allies casing the twin towers, making sure that they know everything about the tower that's still under construction — the workers» schedules, which areas give access to staircases, which elevators are best to use... Essentially, The Walk becomes a heist flick in the middle — and like all good heist flicks, everything goes like clockwork until it doesn't.

Emma Roberts, who won the lead role of Sidney's teenage cousin Jill after Ashley Greene reportedly turned it down, talked rather generally (the name of the game at the practically worthless second panel discussion, which quickly devolved into an Anthony Anderson stand - up act) about what attracted her to the project — in a bit I'm only including because it was more or less the sole usable quote offered up the actress during the mercifully short 15 - minute session.

In the second act they talk about how it takes years of practice and study to become a sorcerer.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

About 30 minutes in, Trainwreck becomes a «Judd Apatow movie,» complete with unnecessary second - act padding and disappointingly conventional happy ending.

Because until those last 20 minutes, and in particular in the film's second act, Jenkins flirts with a bevy of ideas that feel fresh to the superhero genre, the most scintillating of which is that Diana could be wrong about how to save the world.

Nonetheless, the second act works splendidly and you get a real sense of uncertainty about if the trio is going to get caught for their robbery.

Ronan talks about acting for the camera like she has done it for 50 years, affecting a California accent for Lady Bird, discovering the character as she was doing it, and getting emotional when we talked of the tender immigrant tale Brooklyn which brought her her second Oscar nomination just two years ago.

We know that the second act of Infinity War will be set on Titan, Thanos» home planet, so perhaps the Soul stone was last there which would also explain how Thanos knows about the stones and their power.

The second act starts with Paddington trying to cope with his situation, trying not to worry about his family forgetting about him, and trying to figure out who really stole the pop - up book from the antique shop.

I'm not really sure if I can say anything new about Destin Daniel Crettin's pulse - pounding, nuanced, beautifully acted second feature that hasn't already been covered in my full review.

I need hardly point out that the script is terrible, both in terms of dialogue and structure, the acting is submerged in ineptitude and borders on pushing the progress of the art back about ten years, and the production values are as imaginative and convincing as those in a second - rate amusement park ride.

She took time from filming the second season to talk about her current acting crush, surprises on set, and re-creating scenes at home.

Although Burton did give his audience some grief by thinning his second act into a somewhat aimless walkabout (Mr. Melin had plenty to say about this in his review), the overall result was fairly true to Lewis Carroll's story.

SECOND IMPRESSIONS By Phillip Lopate Reversals of opinion, about - faces, flip - flops, and other acts of wanton revisionism Plus: nine critics fess up to changing their minds

Interview with Kam Williams Headline: Denzel on Directing, Acting, Fathering and Mentoring Denzel Washington stepped behind the camera for the second time to make The Great Debaters, an inspirational bio-pic about Professor Melvin Tolson, the debate coach at a small black college in the South, whose inexperienced team, in 1935, shocked the world by taking on some seasoned nationally - ranked competition.

Pretty to look at and sensitively acted (Saoirse Ronan again, in her second film of the month)-- but so devoid of any physical action or cinematic excitement that it might as well be a radio show — On Chesil Beach is a sad and tarnished vision of a domestic breakdown about a pair of newlyweds who meet, fall in love, and break up on their honeymoon night before they ever get to know each other.

3:00 - 4:30 pm, Room 25ABC - Business of Cartoon Voices In the second panel about voice - acting, this 90 - minute panel with Bill Farmer, Sandie Schnarr, and Mark Evanier will provide free advice on how to break into voice - acting for animation and video games.

Blair, a native of Northern Virginia, directed Austinite Elijah Wood, Melanie Lynskey («Togetherness») and former Austin resident / Scratch Acid / Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow (whose acting career seems to be growing by the second) in the thriller about a burglarized woman who tries to track down the thieves and finds herself over her head.