Sentences with phrase «as an actor by»

Long unappreciated as an actor by the powers that be, marquee draw Eastwood unsurprisingly was not acknowledged, nor was the film for any other award.

Not exact matches

Now we know any platform that can be used by people seeking greater freedom can be leveraged at least as effectively by bad actors looking to curtail that freedom.

Last Friday's enormous cyber attack that brought down popular websites and online services like Amazon (amzn) and Netflix (nflx) was likely caused by a non-state actor, otherwise known as hackers without ties to any specific state or government.

Michael made the remarks at a dinner Friday at Manhattan's Waverly Inn attended by luminaries such as actor Ed Norton and publisher Arianna Huffington.

As you mature, and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves.

According to 2009's «The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use,» by Dawn Rae Downton, the actor who played Superman as an infant in the 1978 film, Lee Quigley, died at age 14 from inhalant abuse.

A number of senior officials in the Trump government, however, argue that WikiLeaks is not a press organization at all, but a «non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,» as CIA director Joe Pompeo referred to it in a recent speech.

«Now, ransomware is a fully established business model and a reliable profit engine for cybercriminals, as threat actors involved treat it as a legitimate industry by selling information, tools and resources to peers based all around the world.»

Instead, he said he believed that because of its tumultuous political climate, «Ukraine was targeted by bad actors who are using it as a cyberweapon testing ground over the past couple of years.»

This means 196 countries: the 193 members of the United Nations, plus Taiwan, Vatican City, and Kosovo, which are not members but are, to varying degrees, recognized as independent countries by other international actors.

As for Owning Mahowny, the movie wasn't exactly a box office hit, but it did garner impressive reviews, which shouldn't surprise anyone considering its protagonist was played by one of the greatest actors of our time.

Thus, I broke the most important rule of column writing, storytelling, and content generation, as articulated best by actor / comedian Steve Martin in the 1987 movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: «When you're telling these little stories?

Owned by Sina Corp., a Yahoo - like web portal that came to prominence in the early day, it's become prominent in Chinese politics, especially around environmental issues, corruption over food safety, disaster response and in Chinese celebrity culture, where a number of actors and singers have gained millions of followers (or «fans» as their called in Weibo lingo).

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The actor, best known for playing Luke Skywalker, was less than amused by the video Pai released last week, in which he dressed up as Santa and explained the «seven things you can still do on the Internet after net neutrality.»

What's more, in this province, a trusted pitchman can transform a brand, as proven by actor Claude Meunier's 25 - year relationship with Pepsi, which long outsold Coke in Quebec.

Update: A spokesperson for the ICO said is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, as part of its probe into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors.

Despite all the hype around China's great firewall, efforts to completely shut out international communications are increasingly seen by government actors as unworkable.

Kogan seemed most comfortable during the session when he was laying into Facebook's platform policies — perhaps unsurprisingly, given how the company has sought to paint him as a rogue actor who abused its systems by creating an app that harvested data on up to 87 million Facebook users and then handing information on its users off to third parties.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

And to top off my «career» as am impostor model / actor, I was in Teatro alla Scala» production of Puccini's Turandot directed by Franco Zeffirelli with James Levine conducting.

We assess that as South Korea responds to these attempted thefts by increasing security (and possibly banning cryptocurrency trading) they will become harder targets, forcing North Korean actors to look to exchanges and users in other countries as well.

The effort is part of Facebook's reaction to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Russian - sponsored actors attempted to intervene by posting ads — as well as using fake users, accounts and groups.

Those fatalities from terrorist attacks compiled by START include attacks perpetrated by a number of actors beyond just what they refer to as «jihadi - inspired extremists.»

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this month that it was «time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors, like Russia,» and he criticized prior administrations as having been «squeamish» about going after publishers of state secrets.

What is extremely telling from the video above, which is a whopping 19 minutes long and can be found here, is that there are absolutely NO details given as to how the method actually works and that the amounts «earned» by all the satisfied customers (paid actors) in the video are simply astronomical sums; hundreds of thousands of dollars each!

At one point, virtual currencies were just viewed as something to be consumed by underground actors like hackers and those on the dark web.

Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new «Star Trek» films, was killed by his own car as it rolled down his driveway early Sunday, police and his publicist said.

Perhaps too many of the local Portland actors are being recognized by review sites such as this one, so they have decided to switch locations.

So that proves that «Brad» (who by the way, only exists as a stolen / stock photo and a voiceover actor), is playing fast and loose with the truth; the $ 500 is not something that is provided by him but by his partner broker.

As seen elsewhere in this blog, are you offended by «break a leg» if you aren't an actor?

The structural adjustment imposed by the IMF and the World Bank on debtor countries as a condition of aiding them to renegotiate their debts has transformed the relative power of governments and economic actors.

European religion is phony actors inside big Ugly goofy buildings built by retard Gentile European who think king David was a red headed European who spoke Latin as his birth language in the middle east.European religious people are like a 400 pound anchor dragging in the sand wanting the 12 Hebrew Isrealite Tribes to all sing kombiyah at their lame hang another picture up cannonized a lame Gentile fake leader of a has been lame their whole life

His latest movie is Annie Hall, with Woody in his customary role as writer (in this case, with Marshall Brickman), director and actor [see the review by William Siska, p. 593 — Ed.].

I recently had the pleasure of watching a stage production of CS Lewis» Screwtape Letters featuring a magnificent solo performance by actor and director Max Mclean as the titular devil of the play.

Preachers who imagine themselves as actors in their own speaker's dramas will work toward congruity by working toward embodiment, the realization of theological truth through voice, body, and display in the moment of utterance.

But as I have noted, the actual face of recent warfare differs markedly from this, as it involves civil wars, uses of force by non-state actors, and massive harm to the innocent not from the use of horrific weapons but because they are made the direct targets of weapons ranging from knives to automatic rifles to suicide bombs.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

Whereas most Biblical talk of God locates God as an actor in a story, the theology forged in the early centuries is deeply influenced by Greek reflection about substances.

This led a collective of online conspiracy theorists to posit that these weren't school shooting survivors at all, but rather «crisis actors» paid off by George Soros as part of some sort of elaborate plot to disarm America.

-LSB-...] Global governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based NGOs.

That curve ball was just one of the memories I recalled as my wife, our 12 - year - old son and I watched «Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,» a film directed by Peter Miller, written by New York Times sportswriter Ira Berkow and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman.

Establishing an «entities of particular concern» category — a companion to the «countries of particular concern» classification used for nearly 20 years by the State Department — for non-government actors, such as the Islamic State (IS) and the Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram.

By sitting sympathetically through a year's worth of meetings, conflicts, services, and conversations, I sought to determine what their participants were saying to each other, what meanings they were sharing, what drama they as actors were together unfolding.

-- To be counted as an act of terror, an incident has to be an intentional act or threat by a «non-state actor» that meets two of these three criteria: — • It was aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious or social goal.

We obtained the information by having an actor call clinics across the country and pose as a donor.

Among those trying to live more deliberately is a young man who leaves a lucrative position at Microsoft in order to do what he has always wanted — be an actor and help others by volunteering, especially as a Big Brother.

Rabbi Michael Goldberg, in his book Jews and Christians: Getting Our Stories Straight, says that as a Jew he is impressed in reading Matthew's account of the nativity by how utterly passive the actors are.

The folk wisdom that gets expressed from time to time by various actors thus serves as a kind of implicit Greek chorus commenting on the action.

Atheism has had many bad actors too, Mao, Stalin, Lenin, etc., most Christian do not point to them as how all atheists act, so why characterize all Christian by the bad actors?