Sentences with phrase «as male lead»

I found certain parts of Friends With Benefits very compelling, even with Justin Timberlake as the male lead.

There were also rumors floating around that he would be cast as the male lead in the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey movie.

ABC casts Justin Long as the male lead in partially improvised Irreversible (Deadline).

Teddy Sears set as male lead in CBS» Doubt (Deadline).

Replacements for the director and actress haven't been announced, but it looks like Ryan Reynolds may join The Rosie Project cast as the male lead.

Something more interesting is promised when Daniel Wu is revealed as the male lead, suggesting a possible interracial romance with one of Hollywood's most neglected ethnic groups, but the script doesn't allow for any real development besides a rushed camaraderie.

Zac Efron was originally set as the male lead but for one reason or another fell out.

Griff seems to be too psychologically damaged to make sense as a male lead, and his imagination swells the entire film in a fog of uncertainty.

Sam Waterston served as co-producer as well as male lead for A House Divided, which was produced for (and first aired by) the Showtime premium cable network.

Some actors who have served as male leads in Danny Boyle movies over the years include Ewan McGregor, Cillian Murphy, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and James Franco.

Once you choose your female companion for Sorata you're then able to choose another male companion for the female of your choosing, and this is where the game really opens up as each male leads the female character on a different story arc — meaning that in total there are 9 different stories for you to play through.

Not exact matches

As researchers flood the two areas with these infected male mosquitoes, the females living there will be less likely to find uninfected males to mate with, so each life cycle should lead to far fewer new mosquitoes.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

The company's frat - like work environment was in evidence both during a 2014 outing in South Korea when Kalanick and other executives went to a karaoke bar that allowed male guests to select paid «hostesses» by number — leading to an HR complaint by one one female manager in the group — as well as at a Las Vegas retreat in 2015 where one male employee groped a fellow employee and another brought a prostitute to his room.

Over the next several weeks, at least six top male executives left or said they were planning to leave the company, including Trevor Edwards, president of the Nike brand, who was widely viewed as a leading candidate to succeed Mr. Parker, and Jayme Martin, Mr. Edwards's lieutenant, who oversaw much of Nike's global business.

In Part I of our series, we talked about the value of women investing in women - run VCs as a first step towards fixing the gender imbalance of the 99 % male «true VCs» in venture capital — and thereby unlocking the higher financial returns of women - led companies.

Keeping interest rates near zero, as the Fed has done since 2008, will do little to fix the shortage of job applicants with skills businesses are seeking, or inspire indolent adult males to lead productive lives.

«The onslaught of porn,» one social observer wrote, «is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as «porn - worthy.

Schools educated young males in the new civility, factories sublimated productive energies, and prisons were reconfigured as «penitentiaries» intended to lead them to internalize remorse.

Unfortunately, they don't have the sense of autonomy that would lead them to refuse sex if their own life - chances (as well as those of their as - yet - unborn children) are in danger of being damaged by male reluctance to use the simple means of contraception readily available.

ALL organized religions are currently being led by men such as the pope, who call themselves rather than the police when one of them is finally caught having se xual intercourse with underaged males.

If her training eventually pulls her back into her professional role so that she is able to study her reactions, she may notice that she has been led to picture the story of humankind as being played out solely by males: inventing language, passing it on to the next generation of sons, inventing pottery for use as containers, fashioning needles in order to make better clothing.

They are leading tortured lives and they come to church for comfort and healing and more often than not, male victims of sexual abuse are not given the same regard as females.

When Shaun Childs arrived in his new post as Strategic Lead for Integrated Family Services in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in 2007 he realised that he was one of only three male members of staff out of 120 people, including everyone from senior management to support staff.

«AS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF AMERICANS — including a sizable number of American Jews — question the act of male circumcision, a group of San Francisco activists are advocating to ban circumcision, or what they call male genital mutilation... Many of the leading activists against circumcision around the country are Jewish.»

Factors researchers have identified as leading to male postpartum depression include dad feeling burdened at the prospect of caring for a child, burdened with the financial responsibility, and missing — or essentially feeling abandoned by — their wives.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

«Males can be perceived as dangerous, and stress can muffle pain responses,» says Jeffrey Mogil, the study's lead author and a pain researcher at McGill University in Montreal.

However, Salk President Elizabeth Blackburn and other administrators argue vehemently that the 2016 report, which shows senior women pulling in more than twice as much National Institutes of Health funding as their tenured male colleagues, is inaccurate and represents only the views of its authors, who were led by plaintiff Beverly Emerson.

The spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) have hierarchical societies similar to those of primates; lions (Panthera leo) live in egalitarian prides with as many as 21 members; whereas tigers (P. tigris) and leopards (P. pardus) lead more solitary lives, except when females have young or when males and females meet to mate.

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In this study that used deep DNA sequencing of bacterial specific genes, the guts of both males and females exposed to lead had all of the similar complexity in microbiota as those not exposed.

The team hopes their work will lead to further research on Y chromosomes as vehicles for studying human history — and tracing male lineages back to the common «Adam» ancestors.

«Bonobo sexual swellings appear to send mixed messages to males, as they do not always signal fecundity or imminent ovulation,» opined lead author Douglas.

But the excess of men in China and India has led to new kinds of abuse — women being abducted from Bangladesh, for example, to serve as brides for single males in India, as well as the trafficking of young women within India.

Male fetuses are particularly sensitive to toxins such as environmental lead, sex hormone analogs, medications and other synthetic molecules.

«In evolutionary terms, all males strive to have as many offspring as they can, but when it comes to reproduction you can't have everything,» said Dr Jacob Dunn, from the University of Cambridge's Division of Biological Anthropology, who led the new study.

«Male professors were described more often as «brilliant» and «genius» than female professors in every single field we studied — about two to three times more often,» said University of Illinois graduate student Daniel Storage, who led the study with U. of I. psychology professor Andrei Cimpian.

Research led by Cristina Tuni of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in Germany now shows that male hunting spiders wrap morsels of food in their silk and offer these as gifts to prospective mates.

New research led by a University of Georgia sociologist on the growth in the scope and scale of felony convictions finds that, as of 2010, 3 percent of the total U.S. population and 15 percent of the African - American male population have served time in prison.

Because of this, the females may turn to parthenogenesis — reproduction without fertilisation from a male — as a last resort to produce offspring and avoid extinction, says a team led by Andrew Fields of Stony Brook University in New York.

UT Southwestern researchers will now try to find out if the KROX20 in cells and the SCF gene stop working properly as people age, leading to the graying and hair thinning seen in older people — as well as in male pattern baldness, Dr. Le said.

The move by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the animal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act includes scenarios for establishing wolverines in their former range, with Colorado taking the lead; the male stranded in Colorado, M56, had chosen an excellent spot in the southern Rockies and was already fitted with a transmitter.

In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report finding a highly accurate blood - based measure that could lead to development of a clinical test for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in males as young as one to two years old.

«Your characteristics as an adult male — body size, lean mass, and sexual maturation — are programmed by your early experiences,» says lead author Christopher Kuzawa, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

The international sequencing effort led from Max Planck chose a bonobo named Ulindi from the Leipzig Zoo as its subject, partly because she was a female (the chimp genome was of a male).

The researchers estimate that complete implementation of the WHO framework «would lead to as much as a 34 % relative reduction in male smoking prevalence by 2020, and a 41 % reduction by 2050.»

The results in his thesis show that improved motor timing of both female elite level soccer players and experienced male golfers leads to improved outcome accuracy, with associated changes in motor performance, as well as in the brain's activity patterns related to these performances.

«It has also led to a cottage industry based on the idea that female choice is based on the genetic quality of the males, known as the «good gene hypothesis»,» Singh says.

The results were clear - cut and unambiguous: the aroused females did not show any particular preference for large males and mated as if randomly, leading the authors to conclude that once sexually aroused, females have no preference in terms of mates.