Sentences with phrase «at a nomination seems»

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With this encomium to Rick's virtue that seem like a campaign elegy, I don't mean to write off his chances for ultimately winning the nomination as the primary season goes on (though I think the chances are doubtful at best).

Now may not be the best time to propose adoption of a nomination vote at Westminster, when the next election seems far away, and both major parties claim they are confident of winning an overall majority.

At this point it seems clear that, barring some major mistake, damaging revelation, or outside event, Mitt Romney will grind his way to the Republican nomination.

But progressive voters seem to care less today about the strength of their party, or even about a particular checklist of issues, than about their confidence in a candidate's sincerity — as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a career independent, proved with his electrifying and magnetic charge at the Democratic nomination last year.

Sen. George Maziarz seems to have sparked a trend by filing petition signatures to run on the GOP line in the fall and then declining the nomination at the very last minute, sending party leaders scrambling to find a replacement.

With his wife locked in a heated battle for the Democratic presidential nomination against Sanders, former President Bill Clinton delivered a characteristically long speech in Buffalo on her behalf that seemed aimed both at rallying her loyal supporters and wooing new ones.

At year's end, it seemed that Mr. Cuomo had no realistic shot at getting the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination even if Hillary Clinton opted not to run, and his chances beyond next year didn't look appreciably betteAt year's end, it seemed that Mr. Cuomo had no realistic shot at getting the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination even if Hillary Clinton opted not to run, and his chances beyond next year didn't look appreciably betteat getting the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination even if Hillary Clinton opted not to run, and his chances beyond next year didn't look appreciably better.

For Republicans, the time seems ripe for a strong challenge, embodied most likely by Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, the Republican candidate who has already locked up enough endorsements to secure the party's nomination at its convention in late May.

It doesn't seem like central New York Republicans have settled in on any of the candidates looking for the GOP presidential nomination, at least so far.

Zoe Saldana («Infinitely Polar Bear»), Ellen Dorrit Petersen («Blind»), Keira Knightley («Laggies»), Elle Fanning («Low Down») and Kristen Wiig («The Skeleton Twins») will all surely get kind reviews when their films find theatrical release... But Oscar nominations seem pretty unlikely (at least for now).

He scored a Supporting Actor nomination at the SAGs yesterday but it seems that Scott Feinberg's inside info about HFPA voters not going for child actors turned out to be true.

Leading the way this year, at least in terms of likelihood of nomination, would seem to be Hans Zimmer for Christopher Nolan's «Inception.»

Eastwood's film will likely land Morgan Freeman his fifth nomination («It seems to be the role he was born to play,» the director said at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in January), while Soderbergh's agri - business thriller could pit Freeman against his «Mandela» co-star Matt Damon.

But neither she nor her accomplished co-stars are likely to lift this into a commercial triumph, not with just the handful of Oscar nominations this at most seems likely to settle for.

Last year's Sundance Film Festival felt almost serendipitously timed — coming at the same time as the much - derided 2016 Oscar nominations, the buzz for Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation seemed like a much - needed salve to the season of #OscarsSoWhite.

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association revealed their nominations today and at first glance they seem pretty normal and expected but if you dig a bit deeper you'll find some exciting nominations in the form of Scarlett Johansson in Best Actress (for Under the Skin), Andy Serkis in Best Supporting Actor (for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)...

While «The End of the Tour» might be a bit of a long shot for Best Picture (though who knows at this point), it seems like a much safer bet to net Jason Segel his first Oscar nomination as late author David Foster Wallace.

Then, there's Moore who at least doesn't have to worry about internal competition, but she didn't get that SAG nomination when usually they love her, and it doesn't seem like her part really amounts to much.

Ronan seems like their best shot at a Best Actress nomination but they do also have Demolition, A Bigger Splash and Youth to think about.

Sweden might very well be looking at a nomination for the Oscars this year (where Poland seems like a given).

After receiving nods from the BFCA, HFPA, BAFTA, and the DGA, it seemed like a certain nomination, but unfortunate he was replaced at the last minute with Paul Thomas Anderson for «Phantom Thread,» a film that made an impressive (and quite unexpected) showing this morning.

This weekend, she won Best Actress at Cannes for her devastating performance as a woman who loses everything in a terrorist attack in Fatih Akin's Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade)-- shockingly, Kruger's first German - language production — putting her in prime position for that one Oscar nomination a year that seems to go to a non-American actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppert).

It's been said often, but it is worth saying again: comic actors never seem to get awards or even nominations for the work that they do, but it seems clear to me that O'Hara, Lynch and Poehler are all working at as high a level of technique and creativity as, say, Cate Blanchett or Kate Winslet without signaling that they are Acting.

With snubs at SAG, GG and now here, Cooper's shot at an Oscar nomination seems all but gone.

Speaking of Oscar night, let's hope its host, Family Guy supremo Seth MacFarlane, is in somewhat better form in six weeks than he seemed at 5.30 am Los Angeles time today — though, to be fair, it's rare (to say the least) to press the ceremony's actual host into reading the nominations as well: one can't imagine Billy Crystal ever going that route.

At this point, Mudbound, so deserving of many category nominations from Best Picture to Screenplay to Supporting Actor and Actress to Song, seems like the longest of long shots.

There always seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of

There always seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile picture like Nightcrawler.

Dunkirk Teaser Here's the very quick new tease for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk which seems certain to net him that Best Director nomination that's eluded him so long if it's any good at all, it being a WW II movie and him being «overdue» and such.

As the season has broken down some pundits to the point of pondering whether or not «The Hangover» has a shot at a Best Picture nomination, it really does seem an eternity ago that «Bright Star» was even in the conversation.

In the week that has seen a woman secure the presidential nomination of a major party for the first time in US history it seems fitting that our ARTCRITICAL pick should be an all - female line up that in turn honors — at least in title — an indomitable fighter of yesteryear.

If we eliminate that group from those eligible for law schools, or at least raise the admission standards — say nothing below nomination for Nobel prize or its equivalent (excluding economics)-- it seems we'll have a reasonable chance of a graduating law school students who know how many legs there are in a syllogism, and where to put them.

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Adolescents» behaviour may vary from one context to another, or from one interaction partner to another, and informants» reports may be affected by their own perspectives.13 Because there is no gold standard for psychiatric disorders, and reports from different informants tend to correlate only moderately, using information from multiple informants seems the best strategy to chart mental health.14 Among other things, adherence to this first principle is expressed in the use of child (Youth Self - report; YSR), and parent (Child Behavior Checklist; CBCL) questionnaires on child / adolescent mental health, which are part of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), 15,16 and the use of a teacher - report (Teacher Checklist of Psychopathology), which was developed for TRAILS on the basis of the Achenbach Teachers Report Form.17 It is also expressed in the use of peer nominations to assess adolescents» social status at school.