Sentences with phrase «become unlikely»

In South America, Mexico City has become the unlikely leader in growth due to recently adopted business - friendly legislation and improved economic conditions, while Brazil has seen a slowdown in office fundamentals, along with a weakening economy and political uncertainty.

The US government has become an unlikely if accidental Bitcoin Cash proponent after a report claims Bitcoin itself is a «fork.»

Tesla could soon become an unlikely challenger against Spotify and Apple Music.

As the Arctic sea ice continues to decay, such large discharges may become unlikely.

The US military drops such tanks into the ocean after they've been decommissioned, and for the past fi ve years Kaino has been studying how said tanks become unlikely habitats for coral.

Mass MoCA has always been about the vast and the outlandish, an unlikely arts mecca in a tired mill town that has also become an unlikely but very real success.

Her images become unlikely routes to a cultural investigation of the past and future melded into one.

Animals have become unlikely companions — wild Horses painted deftly with tonal accents or ducks rendered in pastel colors — with an enigmatic sense of drama, we experience the great theatre played out in oil on canvas.

If you're struggling to afford Christmas this year — or just want to save as much as you can — your rewards credit card could become an unlikely ally.

Should this not be reached, or become unlikely to be reached, we reserve the right to continue to operate (with local guides instead of a tour manager if one has been advertised) or, up to 8 weeks prior to departure, to cancel this tour for all passengers including those booked under Independent Arrival.

Dining: The Tandoor - loin Bordered by O'Farrell, Geary, Leavenworth and Taylor streets, a little grid in the Tenderloin has become the unlikely hub of Indian food.

Who will become unlikely allies?

In Andrea Kayne Kaufman's Oxford Messed Up, Rhodes Scholar Gloria Zimmerman (who has Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder) and Henry Young (an underachieving, drug - addicted musician) become unlikely friends when they're forced to share a bathroom in the Oxford University dorms.

Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection.

When an unexpected accident happens and the boys become unlikely heroes, they take an eye - opening detour away from everything they thought they had planned — and learn how to write their own destiny.

Spoiled 13 - year - old Birdie and solemn, sea - faring 17 - year - old Morgan become unlikely allies, brought together by a ruthless, utterly charming modern pirate.

Former NBA star Kobe Bryant has become an unlikely Oscar winner after Dear Basketball, which he wrote and narrated, won the Academy award for best animated short film.

The Clive Owen - starring dystopian thriller, set in a world in which humankind has become infertile, sees Theo Faron (Owen) become an unlikely champion of civilization when he's recruited by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young, pregnant woman (Clare - Hope Ashitey) to safety, risking everything to protect the miracle that the entire world has been hoping for.

Taking place 15 years later, the final act is predictable but nonetheless rewarding as Cianfrance's story comes full circle to find Luke and Avery's teenage sons (Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen, respectively) become unlikely friends during a chance meeting, ultimately forced to deal with the actions of their fathers.

CLOSING NIGHT Hearts Beat Loud / U.S.A. (Director: Brett Haley, Screenwriters: Brett Haley, Marc Basch, Producers: Houston King, Sam Bisbee, Sam Slater)-- In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a father and daughter become an unlikely songwriting duo in the last summer before she leaves for college.

Superhero smash hit Logan has become an unlikely horse in the awards race after its screenplay won a surprise nomination in the Writers» Guild of America shortlist.

Hearts Beat Loud / U.S.A. (Director: Brett Haley, Screenwriters: Brett Haley, Marc Basch, Producers: Houston King, Sam Bisbee, Sam Slater)-- In Red Hook, Brooklyn, a father and daughter become an unlikely songwriting duo in the last summer before she leaves for college.

Seeing he is different, they become unlikely friends.

But now Tommy Wiseau, the would - be auteur behind the $ 7 million (# 4.2 million) production, is having the last laugh as his film has become an unlikely cult sensation.

UNTITLED THE GOLDBERGS SPINOFF (single camera) Picked up to series STUDIO: Sony TV / Happy Madison / Exhibit A TEAM: Adam F. Goldberg (w, ep), Doug Robinson (ep), Marc Firek (w, ep), Seth Gordon (ep), Doug Robinson (ep), Jay Chandrasekhar (d) LOGLINE: Set in the 1990s, it follows two high school teachers who become unlikely father figures to the kids at their Philadelphia school, the same school Adam of The Goldbergs graduated from.

The two clash at first, then become unlikely allies, then friends, as they get closer to core of the criminal operation.

Miles Teller and Jonah Hill star as two friends who become unlikely gun runners in the first trailer for War Dogs, based on a true story.

Pursued by all manner of miscreants, Logan, the professor and the girl become an unlikely multi-generational group.

Jonah Hill and Miles Teller star as two friends who become unlikely arms dealers in Arms & the Dudes, which has started filming.

As they take to the road pursued by all manner of miscreants, Logan, the professor and the girl become an unlikely multigenerational group, and the conversations Logan and Xavier have about family, disappointment and responsibility have surprising emotional heft behind them.

Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler become unlikely proprietors of an illegal casino in the red band trailer for the summer comedy The House.

Anderson, 44, has become an unlikely lightning rod and a polarizing figure, both revered and derided (and sometimes a bit of both at once).

Black and Martin are especially charming as guys from way different backgrounds who become unlikely friends and for a PG - rated family comedy, you could do a lot worse.

A wild horse saves a young boy's life after a terrifying shipwreck and the two become unlikely friends in Carroll Ballard's cinematic tour de force, adapted from Walter Farley's classic children's novel.

Sterritt * A jaded Los Angeles cop and a fame - hungry colleague become the unlikely stars of a reality - TV series.

When Getty sends his enigmatic security man Fletcher Chace (Mark Wahlberg) to look after his interests, he and Gail become unlikely allies in this race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of love over money.

The Film Independent Spirit Awards hail the very best in independent moviemaking, but they've also become an unlikely Oscar precursor in recent years.

Back in the 1800s, the warehouses which formed a large part of the city's commerce started to become the unlikely setting for old school dates, as they gradually got converted into restos, shops and art exhibition spaces, including the well regarded Arnolfini.

But it does appear that Chernobyl has become an unlikely wildlife haven, especially for larger animals normally under the pressures of hunting and habitat loss.

But in the three decades since, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — 4,200 square kilometers straddling the border of Belarus and Ukraine — has become an unlikely wildlife reserve.

The strategy is modeled on the broadly successful Tech City initiative, which has seen London's «Silicon Roundabout» — a bleak gyratory system in the east of the city — become an unlikely but popular home for dozens of IT startups.

As a graduate student in science, I often felt like an impersonator, as if I was role - playing in science and had become an unlikely member of a rather talented theater company.

Firearm sellers have become unlikely allies of public health authorities in the effort to block people from killing themselves

But the burst well has also become an unlikely scientific windfall for Kessler, who studies natural methane seeps and their link to rapid climate change.

Ecotourism has become the unlikely protector of the unexpectedly endangered great white sharks

Anti-de Blasio players in New York politics are hoping he could become the unlikely first Obama alum since Rahm Emanuel to run for major office, according to several of the people who've gotten interested in his possible candidacy.

Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state and failed 2016 Senate candidate who has become an unlikely national Democratic figure, is bringing on Jason Noble, who on Friday announced he was leaving his job as political reporter for the Des Moines Register.

Whether he's deployed in the centre or out wide, Eriksen's knack of being able to animate things in the final third could prove absolutely crucial down the stretch as Tottenham seek to become unlikely Premier League champions.

Born in Bremen, Germany, Bert Trautmann overcame prejudice and open hostility - from both opposition supporters and his own - to become an unlikely folk hero in post-war Manchester.

Now, the occasions which cause us to call a society «living» are characterized by a certain freedom from domination by the physical past, and just to the extent that they are characterized by novelty they too become unlikely candidates to «register» on our sense organs.