Sentences with phrase «actions little short»

For those who look around them at almost every form of institutional life, actions little short of the human barbarism which happened in Nazi Germany are happening here.

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Moreover, if their constituents are largely indifferent to the brewing public health crisis, there is little incentive for members of Congress to cut short their vacations and return to Washington to take long - overdue action.

It makes little sense to award executives on a biased short - term basis when the effects of their actions can last for years, or to award directors on the basis of time — or, as one of my students put it, «showing up.»

My stance is to raise cash by managing open trades to close them as winners and do not trade much except ultra short SPX trades (small trades) to take advantage of the market action (or lack of) but stay exposed only very little.

At the same time, we have very little view with regard to short - term market action.

Material stuff, personal achievements and so on... That by looking at you in a funny way, by saying ugly things to you and judging your decisions and actions will make you feel a little bit worse about yourself and in return... well, in return they will feel better about themselves for one short little moment.

All of these little grooming actions wear off in a short period of time, which means if you performed them first thing in the morning, they will wear off just before you grab after - work drinks with your date.

One area it falls short: Some of the fight sequences were a little too frantic to follow all the action; this may have been more of a side effect of watching the movie in 3D than anything else.

Bay promised us that he has fixed the mistakes from the second one and he also promised to kick up the action a ton and Transformers: Dark of the Moon almost makes good on those promises, but it does fall a little short.

A brief yet action packed little story that looks at what happens to the Chitauri weapons following the events of AVENGERS, it's a fun little bonus, though unlike the previous Marvel One - Shots from the THOR & CAPTAIN AMERICA Blu - ray releases, it does suffer due to the lack of Clark Gregg as agent Phil Coulson, who previously helped bridge the gap between the feature films and the shorts.

Based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story «The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether,» the film relocates the action from Poe's France to a remote corner of England, though the movie was actually shot in Bulgaria, which might look more like England if England looked a little more like Bulgaria.

Short on action and with a plodding plot that seems to only exist as a setup for future installments, the 2015 version of these characters is a little short of fantaShort on action and with a plodding plot that seems to only exist as a setup for future installments, the 2015 version of these characters is a little short of fantashort of fantastic.

In the early»80s, while Tim Burton was working in Walt Disney's animation department, he directed the live - action short «Frankenweenie,» about an odd little boy who uses electricity to reanimate his dead dog.

An action RPG dungeon crawler with an old - school aesthetic, Cladun is designed to be played in short bursts, and very little else.

The gameplay is quite decent, but while it tries to pull off a Blood Dragon style spoof of 80's action it falls a little short.

In fact, it was the likes of Enron and Lehman Brothers that torpedoed the economy: businesses and businesspeople who put little thought to the long - term impact of their actions while focusing almost entirely on the short - term gain.

The five - speed» box used has a well - placed and short - throw action, but first and third gates are positioned a little too close for comfort.

It's a little shorter than the other books in the Daughters of the People Series, but it's a fast read with really outstanding characters and an action - packed plot.

For a little more action, Grand Cul de Sac is a watersports hot spot and is a short drive away.

Action is good, but a little short in my opinion.

Sound: 7.5 The heavy metal soundtrack suits the action well, but it does begin to sound a little samey after a short while.

The heavy metal soundtrack suits the action well, but it does begin to sound a little samey after a short while.

At first this was a little disconcerting as years of gaming have left me naturally attuned to a far louder click which announces whether or not I've pressed the button correctly and how many times I've done so, but after just a short amount of usage I began to appreciate the Rival's quieter nature, especially when simply browsing the Internet, although I did run into the occasional problem in the form of accidentally double clicking when the action was heated.

«Watch Dogs» delivers big action and creepy thrills by way of its innovative hacking, even if the story falls a little short.

It's short and sweet but gives you a little taste of what kind of action will be in the sequel.

We're just a few short days away from the start of the Halo: Reach Multiplayer beta and Bungie has decided to tease us a little with a Live action commercial for the game.

Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand - drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an» After (1964), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968 - 70), which uses his first sculpto - pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912 - 13)(1972 - 3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms» 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live - action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).

Long story short, is that little website turned into one of the most prominent nonprofits in our community with programs for climate action, waste reduction, greening our schools, local foods.

Is it really to the advantage of most Australian's that we take no, or very little, action on climate change, or is it just to the short - term advantage of a few wealthy people and the politicians who pander to them?

Moving forward, this is a crucial question — the document's short and relatively underdeveloped «implementation» section does little to initiate adaptation action beyond broad «Federal, state, and tribal governments should...» statements.

But in short order I discovered that Ozone Action's founder John Passacantando became the director of Greenpeace USA in 2000, and merged his little group into it.

Given the short atmospheric lifetime of some warming agents, temperatures in the longer term will be little affected by mitigation action of these agents in this decade, although mitigation could slow the current rate of warming.

Amazon has replaced that ring with volume buttons — joining the manual Action button and microphone mute on the top panel — and made the new Echo Dot a little shorter as a result.