Sentences with phrase «across as forced»

The decision to lock levels until you've gathered up enough Trineangles (yes, they're actually called that) also feels like a reaction to how short the game is, a way to try to lengthen the experience by forcing you to replay levels in order to hoover up the collectibles you missed the first time around, but it comes across as forced and frankly completely annoying, at least to me.

It's just when it's not really related and comes across as forced and disingenuous.

Of the main three, Amy is the one who receives the most development, but even there her arc comes across as forced and unearned.

This could be because they're too old, too mannered or too redolent of the phony 90210 - style approach that goes along with being raised in the Hollywood system, where every smile or laugh comes across as forced.

Generally, I resent such scenes when they come across as forced or insincere (in other words, most of them), but I didn't get that feeling from «Stranger Than Fiction.»

A word of advice though, don't try too hard to be funny if you're not a natural joker; it might come across as forced and you could put off the person reading your profile.

It's easily the funniest scene in a film full of funny ones, mostly arising from an ensemble cast that seems to intrinsically know how far is just far enough in pushing for a laugh without coming across as forcing it.

Not exact matches

Together — against forces of nature — we gradually developed to become the leading economic nation as we spread across the country, while simultaneously retaining a sense of community.

As the industry matures, investors will start paying closer attention to financial statements and put their dollars with companies that are the most transparent, forcing other firms to follow suit and raising standards across the sector.

In honor of International Women's Day, to encourage women across all fields to pursue their goals, CEO, designer and philanthropist Tory Burch has joined forces with big names such as Sheryl Sandberg, Anna Wintour, Laila Ali and Reese Witherspoon.

Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

The decision comes after head teachers across England had suggested that they could go on strike as a result of forced academisation.

Canwest's Sunday papers are survived by a few remaining Sunday editions across Canada — most notably the Sunday Star — but the 24 - hour news cycle will undoubtedly continue to force the number down, as sitting with the Sunday paper becomes more of an anachronism, in a country that never fully embraced the idea of a Sunday paper in the first place.

Westfield Valley Fair Mall is just a case study in what hard decisions businesses across the country will soon be forced to make as new minimum wage laws take effect.

«Markets across the globe received a bit of a boost as news broke that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden,» Ben Potter, a market strategist at IG Index told The Guardian.

Law enforcement agencies across the country are being thwarted by Apple's encrypted devices, and the FBI likely chose this case — which involves an infamous terrorist — as its best chance to force Apple to change course.

In an attempt to force the Russian aircraft to change course, the American stealth jet cut across the front of the Russian jets, and released flares (a tactic known as «head - butting,» meant to send a strong warning to an opposing warplane).

The 55th ECG recently eclipsed 10,900 combat sorties and 66,500 flight hours as they provided U.S. and Coalition forces and Joint Commanders a flexible advantage across the spectrum of conflict.

The so - called program calls for 100 shipping containers with laptops, furniture, and Land Cruiser vehicles will be set up as makeshift, mobile police stations in Mosul and across five liberated provinces, Canadian Brig. Gen. D.J. Anderson, who is director of partner force development for coalition.

Millennials tell us that the most common mistakes of non-Millennial creative agencies and executives are marketing campaigns that come across as fake, overly forced, condescending, or off key.

Starbucks Armed Forces Network, an internal group with more than 14 chapters across the country, serves as an additional layer of support for veterans, veteran spouses and any Starbucks partner wanting to show support for veterans.

And the Council of Economic Advisers announced that policies such as work flexibility «lead to higher labor force participation, greater labor productivity and work engagement, and better allocation of talent across the economy.»

As we built out our sales force across the United States and grew our sales over 3000 % from commercialization to IPO, Norwest's financing and guidance was critical to our success.

SAN FRANCISCO / TOKYO (Reuters)- A labor dispute at ports on the U.S. West Coast is disrupting supply chains across the Pacific, forcing some Asian exporters to resort to costly air freight and pushing up shipping rates as more freighters are caught up in long lines to dock.

Puerto Ricans had been warned to evacuate or risk their lives, as Maria hit with enormous force, bringing huge waves, torrential rain and harsh winds that knocked out power across the island.

Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for export on oil tankers.

The core agriculture segment was the driving force behind these poor results as demand for tractors and combines fell across all geographies.

VANCOUVER — B.C. New Democrat leader Adrian Dix released the following statement in commemoration of Remembrance Day: «Today, across our province people of all ages are paying tribute to our veterans, as well our current armed forces, merchant marines and...

She serves as co-chair of the National Venture Capital Association's Inclusion and Diversity Task Force, which seeks to create and advance opportunities for women and minorities across the venture capital universe.

«The cherry on top is that China itself is now trapped: it simply can't afford to let anyone default, as one bankruptcy would cascade across the entire bond market and wipe out countless corporations leaving millions of angry Chinese workers unemployed, and is therefore forced to keep bailing out insolvent companies over and over.

Making his first overseas trip as secretary of state, the ex-CIA chief traded in a small, unmarked government jet, secret overseas voyages and hush - hush meetings with spy chiefs and the occasional rogue world leader for a decidedly conspicuous U.S. Air Force 757 with «United States of America» emblazoned across its fuselage, a traveling press corps and frequent public appearances.

If the Obama administration gets away with forcing Catholic institutions to step across lines of life and death in the name of «health,» the federal government will have a precedent to legislate Judaism out of existence» as several other countries have already tried to do.

I came across a sarcastic poster that sums up well the image of God one ends up with if they view a personified deity as behind forces of nature and natural disasters: http://www.patheos.com/community/exploringourmatrix/2011/08/27/the-connection-between-hurricane-irene-and-gay-marriage/

Otherwise we come across as religious zealots, convinced of our particular version of God, and determined to force him upon anyone who will listen.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

IS fighters have forced tens of thousands of Christians to flee their homes across Iraq and Syria as they try to extend their self - declared state ruled by strict Islamic law.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

In the concluding book the New Testament the risen and glorified Son of God, before Whose overpowering majestic presence the prophet fell down as dead, is described as saying to one of the early churches which, like many of its successors across the centuries, was self - contented, lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, that He stood at the door and knocked, not forcing it, but waiting for it to be unlocked, and promising, if those inside would open it, to come in, eating with them and they with Him.

The result, across King's body of work, is a vision of contemporary America as a spiritual realm that is out of joint and up for grabs, thick with competing forces and watched over by an Almighty whose goals are inscrutable, whose demands are peremptory, and whose methods are sometimes cruel....

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Having been forced by the severe economic environment in 2009 to make cuts across its business, Arla Foods has substantially increased its investment budget for 2010 to DKr1.84 billion (Eur250 million) as the Scandinavian dairy giant again focuses on expansion.

Coles has been forced to the national workplace umpire to prevent strike action breaking out at its food distribution centres across Australia's east, as a result of industrial unrest that started at a Coles warehouse in Melbourne yesterday.

While it looked as though that goal would give them the platform to go on and get the victory, the visitors had other ideas as Charlie Adam fired a great free kick into the box with Peter Crouch heading it back across goal to the feet of Bruno Martins Indi who made no mistake to force the ball home.

Indeed, Yohan Cabaye was forced to save off the line in the opening minutes, while Dele Alli saw an effort touch the post and dribble across the Palace goalline shortly afterwards, as Spurs went tantalisingly close to taking the lead.

There's even a rumour that Piquet gave Senna the finger as he was passing him in response to being forced across the track on his previous attempt, which sounds like a very Nelson Piquet response.

But it was Burnley who carved out the best chance of the second half, as Pickford was forced to block Robbie Brady's cross across the six - yard box with Chris Wood hoping for a tap - in.

To add, him doing this forced the Milan shot stopper to go down his left - hand side and slice across the ball; something he clearly didn't like as he misplaced his passes.

Physics dictates that in the event of a frontal collision it is safer for a child to travel in a rearward facing car seat as crash forces are directed to the back of the seat whilst the remaining energy is spread evenly across the head, neck and upper body.

The SQL Slammer was a small, rapidly spreading virus that infected some of the most - used web servers and caused numerous problems across the U.S.. Also known as Sapphire, the virus caused outages in 911 service in Seattle, forced Continental Airlines to cancel flights because of electronic issues and crashed ATM services for Bank of America.

This doesn't come as a huge surprise for the Democrat - turned - Republican - turned - independent mayor, particularly considering the extended interview he gave to the NY Times about his endorsements of candidates across the country whom he views as «centrist» in an effort to counteract the polarizing force of the Tea Party.