Sentences with phrase «avoid big nations»

It should be possible to come up with a ranking system or seeding system that helps avoid big nations having to play too many meaningless games in which the world's best players risk getting hurt with no upside.

Not exact matches

If The King's Speech risks being too cute by half in its depiction of how this royal without a voice comes to find one in his nation's hour of need, Hooper and screenwriter David Seidler neatly avoid that trap by training their sights on a much bigger subject — namely, how the wireless waves of radio affected seismic changes to the nature of politics and society at large, turning public figures into performers, and narrowing the distance between classes.

This is a big departure from the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over the last 20 years, in which scientists have periodically laid out «what if» scenarios for emissions, warming, impacts and responses, but avoided defining how much warming is too much.