Sentences with phrase «dramatic turn by»

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In a dramatic last - minute turn of events, Uber has been cited for withholding evidence in a lawsuit brought by competitor Alphabet.

After a long stretch characterized by ultra-low interest rates, slow growth, minimal inflation, cheap oil, and little policy progress due to a conflicted Congress, we are now doing a dramatic 180 degree turn to a lower tax, less regulation, pro-growth environment, with higher rates and higher inflation — a normalization of sorts.

Before we turned to any exegetical insights generated by our individual historical - critical investigations of the passage, we immersed ourselves in the dramatic flow of this Lukan account of Pentecost.

Perhaps more dramatic illustrations are found in hospital wards where a visitor's warm «hello» turns on the light, opens the shutters, straightens the linens, and brightens the faces; or in rural America where a major business transaction is sealed by one man giving his word to another; or in the quiet guidance of Anne Sullivan who with the one word «water» brought Helen Keller into the world of human experience; or in the nation - shaping speeches of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.

In a dramatic turn of events the amendments were motioned for review by the Party's Executive Committee instead of being afforded an up or down vote by the county committee's members as required by Party rules.

We learned about this dramatic turn from a story in The New York Times last week that has all the suspicious earmarks of a deliberate leak by the administration.

And Corbyn's fashion journey has now taken another dramatic turn after a T - shirt bearing his name with the Nike swoosh logo was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum for one of its galleries.

In a dramatic night, Ukip also forced a recount in Heywood and Middleton, where Labour's Liz McInnes narrowly defeated Ukip's John Bickley by just 617 votes on a turn - out of 36 %.

In turn, the MIT allows dramatic nonmagnetic control of the coercivity, which changes by several hundred percent within a narrow 10 K temperature range, unlike any other known magnetic material.

Such a dramatic decline could turn the land from taking up carbon overall to pumping it out by 2100, as the rate of respiration by soil microbes, which exhale carbon dioxide, is predicted to increase in a warmer world.

By and large, current methods are essentially switches to turn the neuron on or off and can produce dramatic changes in neuronal activity that can manifest in significant behavioral changes.

To understand TH, director emeritus Donald Brown studies one of the most dramatic roles of the hormone, the control of amphibian metamorphosis — the process by which a tadpole turns into a frog.

An international team of scientists studying the dinosaur, called Caihong juji, made the discovery by carefully analyzing tiny melanosomes, the part of the cells that contain pigment, in the fossil, which turned up dramatic evidence of the dinosaur's flamboyant plumage.

Baltic state lobbied for flexibilities in EU rules to enable a dramatic increase in forestry, turning its thriving woodland into a net emitter of carbon by 2030

By turns coy, insecure, dramatic and challenging, Schumer has the flexibility to make her conversation both intimate and grandstanding.

The original film turned suspense levels to 11 by playing with dramatic irony, showing the audience the location of the three strangers far more often than the characters are aware of it.

On the other hand, by contracting its scope to the final four months of the Civil War (and, as it turned out, Lincoln's own life), the dramatic impetus of this against - the - clock structure gets lost in a miasma of dry, detailed, school syllabus - friendly historical re-enactments of men standing around in rooms talking and arguing.

He's got such great comic timing, balanced by an ability to turn on sharp intensity when the dramatic scenes call for it.

By all accounts, this new project represents something of a turn for Cohen, giving him what's likely to be his first dramatic leading role.

Tekken 6 was also present with its share of dramatic matches turned into miniature soap operas by the EVO announcers.

Mary J. Blige's inclusion in awards season conversations is surely a surprise — not because the Queen of Hip Hop Soul's performance in «Mudbound» is anything less than stellar, but who would've expected that the «Rock of Ages» and «I Can Do Bad All by Myself» actress would turn out a deeply emotional and dramatic rendering?

Reportedly, Bennett was inspired by the John Steinbeck novella, «The Pearl», although without the serious themes and dramatic turns of events — or really anything else that matters.

The conversation included the existential nature of the film, the Amish, the cinema of the early 1970s, as well as the unexpected dramatic turns taken by the film's traditionally comic stars: Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Poehler.

The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic was presented to Kinyarwanda, directed and written by Alrick Brown, which tells the story of Rwandans who crossed the lines of hatred during the 1994 genocide, turning mosques into places of refuge for Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis.

Liman and his screenwriter, Gary Spinelli (Chaos Walking, Stash House), apparently play fast and loose with the facts of Seal's life («dramatic license» in case you're wondering), but hew relatively close to the general contours and parameters of that same life, following Seal as he settles in Mena, Arkansas at the behest of his careerist handler, expands his drug - smuggling business with Schafer's willful ignorance as an ally, and turns a massive property (also bestowed by a generous federal government) into a training ground for the Contra rebels who fought against the Communist - allied Sandinista regime in Nicaragua in the «80s.

Mary J. Blige's inclusion in award season conversations is surely a surprise — not because the Queen of Hip Hop Soul's performance in «Mudbound» is anything less than stellar, but who would've ever expected that the «Rock of Ages» and «I Can Do Bad All by Myself» actress would turn out a deeply emotional and dramatic rendering?

However, Jonah Hill has rejected the playbook that was pre-written for him after Superbad and built a career unlike any actor Hollywood has ever seen by turning down typecast roles and specifically using key roles to springboard him to wider possibilities — thus setting him up as a serious dramatic actor, a major creative force, and an unexpected streetwear ambassador.

In a dramatic turn of events, American talk show host James Corden rushed to be by his wife's side as she gave birth to their third child last...

Gerwig grounds the film in humility, occasionally teasing explosive dramatic turns, only to pass them by.

Those looking for a slow - moving two hours that will ultimately reward you with a keen depth will find that here, but your average audience member will be turned off by the deliberate pace and the lack of dramatic excitement.

In a dramatic turn of events, American talk show host James Corden rushed to be by his wife's side as she gave birth to their third child last night (Tues)- leaving popstar Harry Styles to take over on the Late Late Show, with just two hours» notice.

But the underwritten script (by Shattered Glass's Billy Ray) sells him out pretty quickly and you turn to the invading horde for dramatic nourishment.

The female co-stars, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, limited as they are by small roles, both manage to steal scenes at times, with Williams particularly given the opportunity to bring true dramatic tension to her turn as Ennis» long - suffering wife.

Meanwhile, Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter wrote of the film, «Intense emotional currents and the jagged feelings of volatile actors are turned loose to raucous dramatic and darkly comedic effect in one of the most sustained examples of visually fluid tour de force cinema anyone's ever seen... An exemplary cast, led by Michael Keaton... fully meets the considerable demands placed upon it by director Alejandro G. Inarritu... The film's exhilarating originality, black comedy and tone that is at once empathetic and acidic will surely strike a strong chord with audiences looking for something fresh.»

G.B.H. (Acorn) A savage satire of Thatcher - era party politics and a devastating drama of power and corruption and simple moral courage, this brilliant British mini-series is dryly funny, constantly surprisingly and thoroughly engrossing, and features such a heartbreaking turn by Michael Palin in a rare dramatic role.

As Franck, the sporty, shifty boyfriend of Emilie Dequenne's directionless young graduate, Duvauchelle is by turn coldly and charmingly cavalier — the only sinuous character in an otherwise airless dramatic setup.

Whimsical and poignant by turns, the film never goes gooey at its emotional center or bogs down in heavy dramatic weather.

Accompanied by a harmoniously juxtaposing score by Lesley Barber, the film uses music to break the horrors of it's fictional realities in a way where we can handle it's dramatic themes without turning into a puddle of tears.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.

In this Issue Brief, prepared by Public Impact for The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement at Learning Point Associates, we offer seven steps for district leaders to support the dramatic change required to turn around chronic low performance.

In contrast, the approach under waivers, dubbed turnaround, was much more focused — applying only to the 5 percent of schools identified as «priority» schools and based on key principles outlined by the Department (see sidebar Turnaround Principles).62 Fewer schools were part of the effort, but in turn, the effort was much more intensive and required significant changes in school operations, culture, leadership, and practice.63 The hope was that a more disruptive and ambitious strategy will yield dramatic results: after three years, these schools would no longer be in the bottom 5 percent, and another group of schools could be identified to undergo turnaround.

In what turned out to be one of the most exciting and dramatic races at the 24 Hour of Le Mans, Audi's technology, this year iterated through the R18 TDI, has one again proved superior by winning the 79th edition of the world's most famous endurance competition.

While traction control keeps the rear wheels from spinning when they lose traction — don't worry, you can turn it off for dramatic, rubber - burning starts — stability control improves safety further by reducing power and applying the brakes to any given wheel, keeping the car from spinning out of control.

In dramatic fashion, the two GT2 cars traded positions and paint a number of times before the final seconds when after a punt by Magnussen in turn 11, both cars turned up the straightway and raced toward the finish line.

«Reminiscences of a Stock Operator» by Edwin Lefevre recounts Jesse Livermore's legendary trading career with its dramatic turns.

These included claims suggesting that so - called seasonal trades produce dramatic profits year - in and year - out; claims regarding historic price moves in particular commodities that suggested that the same record setting move was likely to occur again; claims of dramatic profits made by customers based on isolated trades in specific customer accounts (so - called «cherry picked» trades); and claims concerning projected profits, (e.g., «turn $ 10,000 into $ 40,000»).

In the 70 and 80 due to the dramatic decrease in the number of wolves and due to the abandonment of most herding people of Trás - os - Montes, this time turning to the coast of the country or abroad in search of better life opportunities, o Cão de Gado Transmontano ceases to be useful and falls into oblivion by staying near extinction.

These long - distance journeys by cats could create sudden dramatic increases in density of cats at fire scars, which could in turn have an aggregate effect of driving down the density of small mammals over whole landscapes.