Sentences with phrase «action of turning it off»

When you are holding the tablet in portrait mode you end up covering all the buttons which makes the action of turning it off, or turning up the volume, awkward.

Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming.

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Turning a blind eye to the actions of competing companies in your industry is a great way to get caught off guard and you'll miss out on valuable insights that can help your company thrive.

Turning a blind eye to the actions of industry rivals is a great way to be caught off guard.

Whatever the mechanism of action turns out to be, however, the message is clear: Get off your damn butt, and do something.

As Flyers center Eric Lindros contemplates his future, it's becoming increasingly clear that his best course of action would be to take a full year off to clear his head after suffering four concussions last season and a total of six since he turned pro in 1992 - 93.

Max Verstappen has said he would have turned off his TV due to the lack of overtaking action at the Australian Grand Prix.

During Earth Hour, cities, towns and individual families from around the world were encouraged to turn off all non-essential lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. People in more than 92 countries participated in a global call to action for, and to demonstrate the urgency of, climate change.

Although the growth of the tail is very complicated once begun, the action that turns that growth off may be quite simple.

Simple actions such as forgetting to turn off the heating when leaving home lead to heat losses that no amount of technology can prevent.

«Scientists determine structure of enzyme linked with key cell - signaling protein: Findings aid understanding of how modifications to cell - signaling protein affect its action in turning genes on and off.»

Either way, these endocrine disruptors can do a lot of damage by throwing off the timing of when the body turns important actions on or off.

We show how the tactics of the tobacco industry's campaign for «sound science» led to the formation of front groups who, as they lost the battle to deny smoking's health hazards and keep warning labels off of cigarettes, turned their argumentative skills to the denial of climate change science in order to slow government action.

Video games and action figures on display: The fourth biggest décor turn - off is untidy piles of video games, cables, cords and collectable toys.

In case you openly announce or reveal via your actions that you require just sexual commitments can tend to be a major turn off for most of the Cougars to the core.

In Face / Off, Woo sweeps us away again, into a world of wild action, heroism, villainy and double faces that turn deadly.

Loads of action a decent story, and topped off with decent not spectacular but decent acting especially from Sam witwicky who was better than the rest of the human cast makes this a turn your brain off and have fun for a couple hours flick.

The little touches — every flame is the clear plastic Lego kind, every spilled glass of water turns into clear single pieces — also help bring personality to the action sequences, which tend to be as exciting as anything real people have managed to pull off recently.

Sadly for me the subtitles was a turn off with misspellings and sentences with missing words and even letters replaced with underscores most of the time making no sense, so no use reading it but luckily the action drew me in enough not to give it a miss.

Jack the Giant Slayer (Matt's review here) seems tailor made for those who enjoy a slice of adventure / fantasy / action fare that you can be entertained by in the moment and turn off as soon as the lights come on.

It evokes a sense - memory of the prior films, and if you turn your mind off enough, you might convince yourself that you're being treated to another action extravaganza along those lines.

Soderbergh inverts the typical action movie genre score by ratcheting up the score during the non-fight sequences, applying that retro - 1970s jazzy horn and percussion score by David Holmes (Code 46, Analyze That) during the dialogue and chases, while turning the music completely off when the film gets explosive for the highly brutal moments of close - quarter, melee combat.

Francis Lawrence shoots everything with that backdrop visible; skulls and skeletons of obliterated civilians creep into the edge of the frame, while a beautiful off - the - cuff rendition of The Hanging Tree (by Katniss, with a hint of Lawrence's Winters Bone) is swiftly packaged up by the propaganda machine and turned into an earworm calling people to action.

Having no recollection of even a passing reference to this all - important box in the first movie, kicking off this sequel with the box being central to the action turns the entire narrative into cheap, random storytelling.

The Incredible Hulk C Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, and William Hurt Directed by Louis Leterrier (Transporter 2) Rated PG - 13 for sequences of action violence, some frightening images and brief suggestive content Appropriate for ages 13 + The Story: Following up where Ang Lee's Hulk left off, mild - mannered Bruce Banner (Norton) is living in Brazil, desperately trying to find a cure to his predicament of turning into a giant green behemoth.

It's yet another spin off of the «Lord of the Flies» parable, whereby seemingly benign people are turned into murderers, rapists, and thieves when put into situations where their actions go unchecked.

If you love the first two movies or fun action flicks you can just sit back and turn your brain off for a couple of hours, then The Expendables 3 is worth checking out.

I wasn't expecting a great movie, i walked in expecting to hate it, but if you are capable of turning your brain off to enjoy the ride this movie is fun, dialogue and plot are pretty dumb (Again, turn your brain off, otherwise you'll feel insulted) This is more like another Transformers movie, no real plot, just special effects and cool action scenes.

«Danny Butterman — «You can turn off that big melon of yours with action movies.»

The track also expands on the action on screen, including a discussion of «extreme rendition», a government policy started during the Clinton administration and continued by Bush that plucks suspects off streets anywhere in the world and turns them over to governments not unopposed to interrogation that includes torture.

Not only does the action pick up, with some decent set pieces staged by Huen, but the requisite sentimental turn works to the proven strengths of Advani, who made a name for himself on more earnestly emotional pieces; however strained it may be on script, Advani and the likable work of Kumar, Yuan, and Padukone lend a certain convincing humanity to what initially come off as two - dimensional cartoons, and on the whole the sillier and straight - faced elements blend to a smoother consistency.

Between his recent foray into the realm of action in (the underrated) Nerve and his upcoming performance as Greg Sestero in his brother's upcoming Tommy Wiseau - focused film, The Disaster Artist, he may simply have a hard time turning off his knack for high drama and going back to comedy.

When: January 13th Why: It's pretty funny that a movie about counterfeiting should turn out to be an imitation itself (the Icelandic film on which its based featured the U.S. version's director, Baltasar Kormákur, in the lead role), but despite the fact that its clichéd plot seems to have been ripped off from a number of generic action thrillers just like it, «Contraband» has one thing that a lot of those films didn't — a killer ensemble cast.

But there's something icky about the premise in a way that wasn't true of the brooding Stephenie Meyer bloodsuckers, and we can see the key young female audience being turned off by that, and by a dark, more action - heavy approach.

Think: the floundering security agent turned away from working in the highest office, only to be trapped there in a time of crisis; the plucky child barely talking to her father, soon needing his help to survive; the weary government agent approaching his last week of service, certain to have a memorable swansong; the overworked employee forced to deal with distress on her day off; the leader lambasted for being an academic, then swiftly becoming an action hero.

Regardless of the liberties that might have been taken with the truth, I was turned off by the pall cast over the production by Paul's relentlessly - dire plight, and it didn't help matters any that the movie has way more talk than action.

It's much darker than its big - screen predecessor from 1989, Batman, and this blend of horror and action will probably thrill fans of Raimi's campy filmmaking of the grotesque, while turning off those looking for regular superhero fare.

This certainly looks to be a better alternative to xXx: The Return of Xander Cage though as I said it's the time of year I don't mind turning off my brain to watch some silly action cinema.

To the good - natured bewilderment of just about everyone I know — especially Dissolve editor Scott Tobias, whose baleful «oh no no no» I could hear all the way from Chicago — I turned Blue Ruin off after just 40 minutes, exasperated by the suicidally idiotic actions being taken by its antihero.

But when 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi turns into the two - hour - long action symphony it can barely wait to become — a harrowing stretch of shadowy aggressors charging the walls of a compound, bullets pinging off metal, spent ammo casings showering the cement underfoot, endless carnage — this director is completely in his wheelhouse.

I don't want to turn people off with that, but what's really unique about this movie is the fact that it's like this kind of crazy action - comedy, but really at the core there is this like romance and there's this love story where all he wants to do is to propose to her.

For English language training, eTeractive results in the habit of thinking in the native language being turned off automatically since performing three actions: reading, listening and repeating are learned simultaneously at the same time fully occupies your attention and you can not do anything else, including cross-translating.

Great point but you can usually turn the car off then on again 50 - 60 times without any issue and at the end of the video you can see it eventually kicks into action.

For instance, you can have the phone turn off the ringer when you go to bed (based on your location and time of day) or you can turn on the Workout Smart Action to automatically play music when you plug in headphones.

A group of London Hilton hotels plan to mark Earth Hour 2012 from 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 31, 2012 as people and organisations around the world turn off their lights in support of action on global climate change.

Much like your merchants, support cards are also free to play and are taken back off the table at the end of each turn, but they bring a variety of benefits including extra gold to spend, being able to draw more cards, boosts to your army and more action points.

The cinematic approach to a lot of the scenes worked, and the only times they didn't — when you forced other cars to wreck — is now an option that can be thankfully turned off if you're like me and hate taking your eyes off the action.

As for PSO while I only had the Gamecube version the Splitscreen kept me, my cousin, and my brother (who used a Action Replay and cheated the lazy bastard) and Good lord the hours we put into it, sadly after about 3 years, and a week long PSO Binder, we finally turned off the console then about 5 minutes later we heard this loud snap, looked around the room for what might have caused it, till one of us (I think it was my cousin) popped open the gamecube and the disc was split in half, by the time we finally found another copy we found out our save data for PSO was corrupt data, 3 and a half years all gone, which sadly by that point with school and what not we couldn't find the time to play it anymore........

Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below is not a classical Japanese turn based RPG but is instead an Action RPG spin - off developed by Dynasty Warriors developer Omega Force, which unites the bright and cutesy nature of Dragon Quest with the chaotic hacking and slashing of the Warriors series.

Silent Hill was my first introduction to the horror genre, When I started playing it, I saw the intro and what I saw was nothing indicative of a horror game, or neither an action game, it looked more like a sad psychological drama game, It got me wondering what did I get myself into, then I started playing it and when I got to the alleyway part and got killed by the children zombies, I immediately turned off my Play Station, I was horrified, but somehow the game kept calling me to play, I decided to keep playing, it got to a point where I couldn't play at night, I had to turn any background music down simply because it was just too much for my 12 - year - old head, but at the same time I was having fun on a level I never imagined I could before.