Sentences with phrase «as local actors»

Commercial poaching and wildlife trafficking, committed by heavily armed groups moving across borders as well as local actors, has greatly impacted the area.

The reality is more complex, as local actors, like the separatists in Ukraine, often serve as proxies for another country, like Russia.

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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.

The video had used an interview Hogg had done over the summer with a local news station in California about a fight between a lifeguard and a swimmer as «proof» that Hogg was a «crisis actor.»

Waithe knew getting the little things right was vital, so she assembled a team of local creatives (including rapper Common, who serves as both an actor and producer) to give The Chi an air of authenticity and level of detail rarely achieved in entertainment.

It is turning into a combination of ideological tics and irritable gestures even as the worst actors gain power.Ross Douthat argues that the Obama administration is shifting the U.S.'s foreign policy strategy from a Pax Americana model (where the U.S. uses military force to impose order) to one of offshore balancing (where the U.S. strategically sides with one local power or another while keeping U.S. commitments to a minimum).

This would be to treat James as a generalizing thinker who began in percepts or concepts; whereas, he was a local speculator and a local actor who began with a practical problem for which clear percepts and concepts were merely ancillary and subsequent.

Breakfast here is as much about the egg white omelet as it is the people watching: Olympic swimmers gone to seed sit near artists and local, sorta - famous actors.

For long - time residents, supermarkets are paradoxical actors appealing to, as well as, challenging the narrative of a community whose economic strength was based on the surrounding natural environment and local people's endeavours.

In some fields, such as defense, states may well remain the principal actors, but in other fields, such as market regulation, social policy or internal security, numerous local or transnational actors, private or public or mixed, will have a chance to gain in importance.

In my view, member states should put emphasis on areas such as mediation and let the UN step back from traditional development and humanitarian assistance, as plenty of other actors are now involved in this work — state agencies, NGOs, local communities, foundations and companies.

In pursuing these high - level implications, the report recommends NATO and other international actors to consider more specific, tactical recommendations such as working with local partners, engaging with local authorities, and mapping local tensions and priorities.

Chants of «Local 3» and «Spectrum unfair labor practices» were by far the loudest in the room, as the rest of the assembled union members stood largely in silence through speeches by Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul, National Organization for Women NYC President Sonia Ossorio, American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten and actors John Leguizamo and Steve Buscemi.

Non-state actors are already weaponizing water to control local populations, either through diverting scarce water sources or — as the Islamic State group did when it seized the Mosul Dam in Iraq and threatened to demolish it — by gaining the leverage to devastate downstream population centers.

The Weather Channel and provide a national and local weather forecast for cities, as well as weather radar, report and hurricane coverage Eric Edwards, Actor: Dangerous Stuff.

Edge Studio provides a large library of sample voice over scripts in a variety of genres such as PSA script announcements for voice actor practice and To report adult abuse, call (within New York State only): 1-844-697-3505 or contact the local county Department of Social Services Adult Protective Services.

He's surrounded by stereotypical, yet colorful characters played by recognizable character actors like Paul Rodriguez, Louis Anderson, Jamie Gertz, and pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne as Voodoo, a messenger who doesn't care about what he delivers, even if it is for the local drug runner, known as The Gypsy.

Corbijn eschews score for sizable portions of the film, letting Clooney set the mood, but the actor's only able to do this when he's allowed to interact with the world around him, whether that manifests itself as building a gun or allowing himself to get drawn into regular conversations with a local priest, Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli).

In 1976, Bruce became a volunteer apprentice at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse in northern Michigan working long hours behind the scenes on the playhouse's productions from erecting sets, assistantThe youngest of three boys, Bruce Campbell wanted to be an actor as young as eight - years - old after witnessing his dad's enjoyment while performing in local community theater.

Biography: The youngest of three boys, Bruce Campbell wanted to be an actor as young as eight - years - old after witnessing his dad's enjoyment while performing in local community theater.

The youngest of three boys, Bruce Campbell wanted to be an actor as young as eight - years - old after witnessing his dad's enjoyment while performing in local community theater.

The festival has hosted five of the last six Best Picture Oscar winners, rolling out the red carpet for A-list actors and filmmakers while heavily supporting local filmmakers as well.

The appeal of the film is manifold - its serenity as The American meticulously goes about his craft; the paucity of dialogue that heightens its few action sequences when they do occur; a superb ensemble of actors led by Clooney that also includes Violante Placido (Clara), Thekla Reuten (assassin), Johan Leysen (controller), and Paolo Bonacelli (as a local town priest); the artistic framing of the film by director Anton Corbijn both in its interiors and the long shots of the Italian settings; and simply the story's uncertainty that grips one from its very beginning.

Other notable actors include James Badge Dale as Dan Reid, Ruth Wilson as Dan's wive, and Tom Wilkinson as Cole, the head of the local division of the Transcontinental Railroad in Cloby, Texas.

This, combined with the film's extensive use of local non-professional actors, made Toni one of the biggest precursors of the Italian neorealist movement (no less than Luchino Visconti served as the assistant director!).

Cage reveals the same general desire to be taken seriously as an actor again here that was already on display in the recent «Joe» and «The Dying of the Light,» right from an early scene in which his Colin Pryce makes an emotional testimony before Congress about the impact of the BP spill on local fishermen and tourist business.

Not only did he and his crew get malaria, but his camera operator pulled a hamstring forcing Fukunaga to do double duty as director and camera op; local actors and drivers extorted him for more money; and Idris Elba almost fell off a cliff.

The truth is that «Slumdog» would likely be a BAFTA favourite even if it weren't primed for Oscar glory — a true British success story, from a popular but largely unsung hometown filmmaker, featuring a British lead actor from a high - profile Channel 4 TV drama, it's been a massive local box - office success, and has enjoyed nearly the same level of critical adulation here as in the States.

Everything changes when a local reporter (Ethan Suplee, another comic actor miscast as a journalist) calls Finkel to let him know the fugitive father of a murdered family was captured in Mexico, and gave his identity as New York Times reporter Mike Finkel.

«Interstellar» actress Jessica Chastain plays his wife, Anna, and the film co-stars David Oyelowo of «Selma» as the local district attorney as well as actors Albert Brooks of «Drive,» «American Hustle» actor Alessandro Nivola, and Catalina Sandino Moreno of «The Bridge.»

Tony Award winner Jo Van Fleet, also from the Actor's Studio, made her screen debut as Kate, the craggy madam of the local brothel in Monterey who holds a dark secret to the family past, and she took home the film's sole Academy Award (out of four nominations) for Best Supporting Actress.

Whether or not that translates into an Oscar - winning performance is yet to be seen, of course, but I would imagine it would improve Harrelson's odds if his performance as a local sheriff caught up in a murder case fell into the Supporting Actor category.

Frances McDormand already is nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award for her performance as Mildred, public shamer of local authorities» sluggish response to her daughter's murder, in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

But the longer they stay waiting for Harry's call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor (Jordan Prentice) shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloë (Clémence Poésy), who may have some dark secrets of her own.

Many criticized the film on its initial release for largely ignoring the plight of the locals while focusing on a privileged European family, while others lambasted it for further Anglicizing the project by casting Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor instead of Spanish actors as the parents.

A theatrical troupe arrives on an island off the coast of Florida, where Alan (Alan Ormsby, who also co-wrote the film and created its makeup effects), the group's preening and tyrannical director, wastes no time in pulling pranks on his unsuspecting actors and, for added kicks, holds a séance in an attempt to bring to life one of the corpses (Seth Sklarey as Orville) dug up from the local cemetery.

It's here that we're introduced to cult director and sometimes actor Harmony Korine's Gary, a massage club proprietor who gabbles endlessly about his ill - conceived entrepreneurial endeavours and constantly refers to Pacino as «coach», a throwback to when the locksmith took charge of the local schools baseball team.

And within these landscapes, Vincent's portraits of local people also come alive — inspired by performances from such actors as -LSB-...]

Though the actor is terribly miscast in the role, he's hardly to blame for some of the script's more perplexing decisions — like having his character narrate the story as if he's a detective in a film noir, or the fact that he barely speaks a lick of Japanese despite being the military's expert on the local culture.

The town is suddenly beset by strange, suspicious deaths — first an amateur actor and solicitor (David Threlfall) and his irritating mistress (Lucy Punch), then a local refrigerator magnate (Ron Cook), then the editor of the local error - plagued newspaper (Adam Buxton) all meet gory ends that the Sandford police force seem to regard only as vicious accidents.

Failing, then, as a local story and failing, too, as a metaphor for a larger dysfunction, God's Pocket becomes an actor's workshop, with thesps of varying ability and appeal testing their Methods against one another.

Both Kheda Gazieva as Aminat, Ramasan's still beautiful but exhausted - looking mother and Aslan Elbiev as the ambivalent, mysterious Isa, who was wounded in the conflict (the actor really is missing some fingers which gives the character's dexterity as a handyman an added prurient fascination) are excellent, and the supporting cast of local neighbors, Austrian police officers, social workers and schoolchildren are perfectly cast too.

Part of MTV's «Supervideos» series, which, according to the former music channel's blog, pairs a «cool director» with «cool actors and even cooler music,» the video stars The Blind Side's Lily Collins as a blue - wigged teen alien who infiltrates a local high school and The Bling Ring's Israel Broussard as her terrestrial paramour.

If you've ever seen the Maysles brothers» documentary, «Meet Marlon Brando» (1966), the «Zhivago» footage, filmed in a local Egyptian restaurant, similarly reveals how the press junkets of 1965 are just as trying and maddening for actors today.

Speakers and contributors are drawn from among key actors engaged with the Peoples» Sustainability Treaties process, as well as from participants in other local - global campaigns advancing a global peoples» transformative agenda.

While both campaigns have had tremendous success in social media as they went viral, neither engaged local actors nor proposed interventions that came out of accurate or thorough conflict analysis.

Similarly, when asked to select the most and least important actors in informing their position on an education policy, nearly all state education policy makers selected «local school teachers» as one of the most important actors (see Figure 2).

Many observers regard the state as a superordinate actor — constitutionally legitimated as such — and local governments as subordinate.286 State and federal programs assume this view, as do some foundations.

Frazier grew up in Hudson, Ohio - his father worked as a chemist for Sohio, and his mother was an amateur actor, performing and directing plays in local Ohio theaters.

Like actors Jon Hamm, Jane Lynch, Allison Janney, Katherine Heigl and Edie Falco before her, the star signed on as host for the sixth installment of Shelter Me: Hearts and Paws, and a new episode of the inspiring national PBS series that celebrates shelter pets with uplifting stories, premiering May 22 (check ShelterMe.TV for local listings).