Sentences with phrase «because of the female lead»

I'm not kidding, publishers actually turned Remeber Me down because of the female lead.

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Because female - led startups are found to receive less investor funding and female CEOs are often outnumbered by their male counterparts, female entrepreneurs experience something of an underdog culture.

The situation could become even more dramatic because the one - child policy has led to a grotesque distortion of the male - female ratio among young Chinese adults.

It's a movement led by and for women, women who aren't asking for some sort of paternalistic «protection» because they are fragile females, but rather to be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve simply because they are human beings.

In 2000, a leading doctor in our area told us that I could not have any more children because of female complications.

So my own personal experience and the research would lead me to believe that no, breastfeeding past infancy isn't messing up our kids and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's because all that love, all that connection can't be a bad thing and I'm glad my daughter has a friend so secure and so confident that understands the natural biological function of breasts as feeding tools for babies that they can laugh together at the messages the world sends them about the female form.

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.

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).

«Our findings were quite surprising because females typically just select sperm from males of their own species during fertilization, an action that does not lead to long - term consequences because there is no gene flow between the species,» said Asher Cutter, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto.

To explore that question, a team led by Cornell University biomedical engineer Claudia Fischbach first showed that female mice that were obese, because of genetics or a high - fat diet, had more fibrous mammary fat pads with straighter collagen fibers than those seen in lean mice (see image).

Additionally, because of the maternal inheritance pattern of mtDNA, mitochondrial variants are under sex - specific selective pressure that can lead to different fitness effects in males and females.

Theodore adds that while she believes pansexuality is one of the most important terms out there — mainly because it goes beyond the concept of the gender binary and recognizes that there is a spectrum that isn't limited to just male and female and will ultimately lead to greater acceptance — many people are quick to attack it.

Some may disagree, but it's one of the better Bond films not just because of Craig, and a great female lead — but because it combines everything that is good about Bond in the first place without the need of just gadgets to progress what happens in the storyline.

There's so much to appreciate in that film — from its portrayal of a kickass female lead character who just so happens to have a physical disability (though is never depicted as being a person who matters less because of it) to its impressive number of real - time stunts and action sequences to its feminist message.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

I feel like I'm part of something so incredible right now because we're taking our place in the world,» Blige says of women standing up and taking power and working on a project like the female - led Mudbound.

What??? This movie and the shape of water are tied as my favourites from last year mostly because of the lead female performances.

And because there can be no talk of gender swapping or reboots without invoking Paul Feig's new Ghostbusters movie, Indiewire notes that the Sony hack — that gift that keeps on giving — uncovered an email from Amy Pascal, in which she urged completion of Feig's film to head off other female - led franchises.

It's always cool to see high school party stories that center on female protagonists, because there have been plenty of those movies with male leads.

When he introduced the film at its world premiere, he called it a «miracle of independent filmmaking» because of its female - led story, female producing team, and female director.

I think women were a little upset with Fifty Shades of Grey because the female lead was so submissive.

But Seth has revealed he had replaced Mila as the female lead because of the plot he has chosen for the sequel.

Because women are increasingly entering pregnancy either overweight or obese, and courting the real dangers that such fatness might lead to, every female of childbearing age should be taught from as early as is reasonable just how important it is to stay trim for conception.

Across Alameda County, female Superintendents are paid, on average, $ 29,167 less than male Superintendents in base salary ($ 250,700 vs $ 221,533), partially because all larger districts are male - led (again, scoring the importance of Johnson - Trammell's appointment for the largest school district in Alameda County).

Female cats are more susceptible because their urethra (the tube that leads from the bladder to the outside of the body) is shorter than that of males, making it easier for bacteria to ascend to the bladder.

As far as male or female protagonists, I always pick male ones because I tend to think of the protagonist as myself and genuinely have trouble making the lead in an RPG do things too far off from what I'd imagine I would do were I fantasy badass.

Apparently, Activision execs may have called for culling of female leads from upcoming projects (including a nifty spy thriller starring a Lucy Liu - wannabe that's transmogrified into True Crime: Hong Kong) just because they didn't test well in focus groups.

A cascade of impacts beginning with reduced sea ice will be manifested in reduced adipose stores leading to lowered reproductive rates because females will have less fat to invest in cubs during the winter fast.

Therefore, it's advantageous for men to identify female fertility through smell because women can only conceive in (roughly) the three days leading up to, and including, the day of ovulation.