Sentences with phrase «dramatic stakes for»

The film's strength is dramatic stakes for its complicated, easy - to - love characters, which renders the downbeat ending genuinely audacious.

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The Australian office is known as the marketing hub for the Asia - Pacific region, from which Uber recently made a dramatic retreat when it sold its south - east Asian ridesharing business to Indonesian competitor Grab, albeit retaining a 27.5 per cent stake in the acquirer.

Because of the dramatic increase in sports franchise values, Powell Jobs is almost certainly paying a higher price for shares in Monumental than investors who have held stakes dating back from four years to 18.

While we should no doubt seek to do justice to all concerned, one can not help but note the dramatic disparities between what is at stake for the unborn child, the mother, and the politician.

No one, I think, doubts that Yogi's most oracular formula, it ain't over till it's over, is a perfectly condensed statement of what for us are the game's highest spiritual and dramatic stakes.

The dramatic takeover battle for Warrnambool Cheese & Butter could take another turn in its dying moments, with Japanese - owned Lion looking like it will not sell its 10 per cent WCB stake into Canadian giant Saputo's offer.

Although in terms of dramatic stakes, the battle for supremacy is a bit too gentle at times.

We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their «big» moments — ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity.

All three are at their most movie star charismatic here, with their formidable dramatic chops lending real gravitas and palpable emotional stakes as they continue their struggles and conflicts with each other and within in order to act for the greater benefit of their kind.

For all the levels on which Cobra Kai is derivative and tonally inconsistent, it absolutely delivers a more complicated set of characters and dramatic stakes than Karate Kid.

Sandra's weekend trying to convince her co-workers to vote for her may not sound particularly dramatic, but with the stakes the film establishes, it is plenty dramatic.

Recognizing the high stakes for their students, successful teachers assume personal responsibility for dramatic student learning, even when it means going far beyond traditional expectations.

During his tenure as the Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services at the Chula Vista Elementary School District in California, he oversaw the district's dramatic improvement in academic performance and high - stakes test scores through the implementation of a student - centered instructional framework and a cloud - based differentiated instruction solution.

Once an advocate of high stakes testing and school accountability for student performance, Ravitch's current positions are a dramatic turnabout.

With so much at stake, we can not afford to ignore the evidence that this race for accountability will require a dramatic investment of time and resources if it is going to be successful.

With the heavy push for high - stakes testing, the questionable negative rhetoric by the Obama Administration and others about STEM, and the dramatic changes to the curriculum with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake -LSB-...]

On the Monday after the weekend when Amazon and Macmillan faced off in a dramatic battle over eBook pricing, I turned to James McQuivey, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, for his perspective on who won, what the stakes are, and what might lie ahead.

Rape and sexual assault are also frequently used as a sort of narrative currency to try and raise the emotional stakes and heighten the dramatic tension for gamers.

Epic stakes always make for dramatic quests, but any hero worth their weight in loot and XP knows that no adventure is ever complete without a memorable cast of quirky characters.