Sentences with phrase «in extraordinary acts»

Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope - filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a «frozen ark,» equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us.

ConservativeHome had been pressing to see membership data but in a extraordinary act of secrecy, CCHQ refused to publish the necessary numbers.

And Benno Furmann, excellent in the mountaineering drama «North Face,» is superb as the courageous Mundek Margulies — who, in an extraordinary act, actually breaks into a concentration camp, just to make sure someone's relative is still alive.

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The government, through paragraph 10, section 6 of the Citizenship Act, can confer citizenship «because of the services already provided by the foreigner and the extraordinary achievements still to be expected of him in the special interest of the Republic.»

The management fee is a unified fee that includes all of the operating costs and expenses of the Fund (other than taxes, charges of governmental agencies, interest, brokerage commissions incurred in connection with portfolio transactions, distribution and / or service fees payable under a plan pursuant to Rule 12b - 1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and extraordinary expenses), including accounting expenses, administrator, transfer agent and custodian fees, Fund legal fees and other expenses.

The previous government implemented the Balanced Budget Act, which precluded the running of deficits, except in extraordinary circumstances.

Thus the activity proper to purity (in scholastic terms, its formal effect) is the unification of the inner powers of the soul in a single act of appetition of extraordinary richness and intensity.

He did not miraculously heal me from my anxiety in one instant act of extraordinary intervention.

He is merely engaged in a shell game of his own, giving his non-existant supernatural being extraordinary powers so that it can maintain its centuries old disappearing act.

Some of the miracles related in the Bible — perhaps most of them — were not actual events at all, but legendary acts and manifestations whose real significance is their testimony to the Impression made by an extraordinary personality on the people who encountered and observed him.

Only an extraordinary act of will could recall to us our former, living selves and our contexts in matter and time.

To say this is also to imply that the tendency of philosophy, religion, and common sense to ascribe evil acts to the moral inferiority of the individual — summed up for all time in the extraordinary metaphor of «original sin» — is not a fundamental explanation.

But eventually Brown and Alistair Darling were forced to act in extraordinary and unprecedented ways by the sheer scale of the crisis, which threatened the viability of the whole banking system and the economy.

Given the many constraints the US Constitution places on the acts that simple majorities can take — like the extraordinary representation of small states in the Senate, and the power of the filibuster to thwart majorities — it strains credulity to argue that certain geographically concentrated interests require added protection from the majority of Americans.

For example, the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were doing something quite ordinary, signing a document but, because they did so in an extraordinary setting, with a revolution begun but not yet won, their act was extraordinary.

«You have to have an extraordinary act generally that causes people to focus in a way that would get them to do the pathological, which is to oust an incumbent,» Sheinkopf said.

Visiting Jerusalem, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday decried the recent wave of anti-Semitic acts in the United States as «reprehensible» and vowed his state was employing «extraordinary measures» to combat the phenomenon.

Visiting Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum, Gov. Andrew Cuomo today decried the recent wave of anti-Semitic acts in the United States as «reprehensible» and vowed his state was employing «extraordinary measures» to combat the phenomenon.

The Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has called on delegates to ensure that they resolve any lingering issues they might have before they leave the party's Extraordinary National Delegates» Conference in Kumasi Mr. Blay said the NPP can take a step closer to retaining power in the 2020 general elections if Sunday's Delegates» Conference...

In an extraordinary interview, Mr. de Blasio, appearing to unburden himself of months» worth of frustrations, said that Mr. Cuomo — who, like the mayor, is a Democrat — «did not act in the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schoolIn an extraordinary interview, Mr. de Blasio, appearing to unburden himself of months» worth of frustrations, said that Mr. Cuomo — who, like the mayor, is a Democrat — «did not act in the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schoolin the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schools.

David Cameron might not exactly be in the Derren Brown class when it comes to pulling off extraordinary illusions, but he did pour some»70s magic act dry - ice over the issue of an EU referendum during the week of the Tory conference.

It was largely because of Burbank's extraordinary achievements in food science that the Plant Patent Act of 1930 amended U.S. patent law to provide botanists with a set of financial motivations to create new plant varieties.

The work is a synthesis of data from 10 studies conducted by the ACT Consortium in five sub-Saharan countries and Afghanistan between 2007 and 2013, covering 562,368 individual patient visits — an «extraordinary» number, says Patricia Walker, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, which published the paper online yesterday.

A team of physicists has succeeded in performing an extraordinary experiment: They demonstrated how magnetism that generally manifests itself by a force between two magnetized objects acts within a single molecule.

Leucine, the king of muscle - building amino acids, has been repeatedly shown to have an extraordinary effect on muscle growth by promoting protein synthesis and inhibiting catabolism; isoleucine helps the metabolic function run smooth during exercise; valine acts to prevent tryptophan (compound that converts to serotonin in the brain) build up, which results in greater levels of available energy and improved endurance.

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«Nothing was more central than finding Millie: having a hand in finding this extraordinary talent for film acting in this kid.

As is the case with many directorial projects by actors, the acting is uniformly solid in The War Zone; in fact, it's nothing short of extraordinary.

Though this execution could verge toward the excessively operatic, as in the heavy - handed De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), these managerial efforts largely paid off, with a variety of fine performances across the generic and national spectrum: a spirited Lien Deyers in the tongue - in - cheek The Company's in Love; Magda Schneider, who also starred in Ophuls» Love Story (Une histoire d'amour, 1933), as the tragically morose Christine in Liebelei, her final despair registered in an extraordinary extended close - up; and acting luminaries James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, searing in Caught's three - way confrontations.

Emily Blunt delivers an extraordinary performance in the lead role (rather than simply acting drunk, she plays Rachel as an alcoholic desperately trying to look sober), but it feels like she's in a different film — one that isn't marred by soapy plot turns and Taylor's messy direction.

Last year, four military dogs received medals for valor in the inaugural American Humane K - 9 Medal of Courage Awards, with American Humane President Robin Ganzert saying at the ceremony on Capitol Hill, «We feel it is time to recognize and honor the extraordinary feats and acts of devotion these heroic animals perform every day.»

It took an extraordinary act of bravery for Lili to act on her gender identity, but we never feel the inner turmoil that she must have experienced in deciding to be true to herself.

The perspective Joshua Oppenheimer presents to his audience in his landmark documentary The Act of Killing is simply extraordinary.

Placing acting on the back burner to focus on her first love, music, she went on to enjoy extraordinary success upon the release of her breakthrough album, Control in 1986.

Lavant has an extraordinary presence, as anyone who has seen the man's performances can attest, and catching glimpses in this video of his way with movement / motion of the body and the art of physical acting is mesmerizing.

My apologies in advance if the four acting categories end up sounding the exact same, for a rather extraordinary occurrence happened this year in that all four frontrunners ended up winning all four major awards leading up to the Oscars, an occurrence that I can't recall having happened before.

Although it could have paid off more if we got more time with the characters being themselves instead of reciting exposition and acting wooden in the face of extraordinary circumstances.

Cinemax's extraordinary period drama The Knick is a meticulously written, brilliantly acted portrait of a New York hospital in 1900.

Particular kudos must go to Wahlberg whose Marcus is put through quite the ordeal but who finds his faith in humanity rewarded by an extraordinary act of compassion from a seemingly unlikely source.

However, it was only a matter before the Massachusetts native stepped back into the breach, and having first acted in a 1962 episode of Dennis the Menace, The Art of the Steal ensures that his extraordinary career has surpassed the 50 year mark.

While issues of national security and economic policy seem likely to dominate the 2004 presidential election, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act has already assumed extraordinary importance in this campaign.

ECI acts as CSDC's general contractor for projects in D.C. and provides extraordinary expertise in the design and development of charter school facilities built to suit the specifications and budgets of CSDC's client - tenants.

The recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) marks a similarly extraordinary time in history for education.

Vaddey Ratner's debut novel caught my attention when I read this effusive recommendation from author Chris Cleave: «In the Shadow of the Banyan is one of the most extraordinary acts of storytelling I have ever encountered.»

The books in this bibliography tell the stories of Malala and other everyday kids doing extraordinary acts to change the world.

The Act was, as Columbia University history professor Mae Ngai writes in her fascinating study, The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America, «the first — and only — U.S. immigration law to ever name a...

In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey RatnerSimon & Schuster • $ 25 • ISBN 9781451657708On sale August 7, 2012Vaddey Ratner's debut novel caught my attention when I read this effusive recommendation from author Chris Cleave: «In the Shadow of the Banyan is one of the most extraordinary acts of storytelling I have ever encountered.»

Some even encouraged consumers to engage in fraudulent acts to accomplish such extraordinary results.

The trader must act quickly to find situations in which a stock has the extraordinary potential to move in such a short time frame.

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