Sentences with phrase «interesting than the director»

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«The growth is driven by consumer trends rather than the classic push from big brewers,» says Jonnie Cahill, Heineken's senior director of low and no alcohol, citing an increasing interest on wellness and balance.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

For Derrick Bolton, who racked up 240,000 miles of flying last year as director of admissions, it has meant an even heavier schedule than usual to drum up interest.

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Boards are empowered to protect shareholders, but many shareholders have become sympathetic to activists because they believe the system has inherent conflicts of interest; that directors are more interested in collecting paychecks and preserving their status quo than in exercising their fiduciary duty to shareholders.

And herein lies the ethical question, posed to me by a director today: «When does hanging on or digging in breach a fiduciary duty by the director to act in the company's best interest, rather than the director's?»

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Strong investor interest in mergers and acquisitions for education companies is likely to continue for the second half of 2015, after a record - setting first half of the year in which the value of transactions reached $ 6.11 billion — 29 percent higher than the same time last year, according to Peter Yoon, a managing director for education at Berkery Noyes, an investment bank.

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«The dairy alternatives market has seen rising levels of interest in recent years, spurred mainly by consumers increasingly looking for lactose - free, dairy - free and plant - based / vegan options as healthy lifestyle choices, rather than regarding them as simply for those with allergies or intolerances,» says Lu Ann Williams, Director of Innovation at Innova Market Insights.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Children are selected based on interest, enthusiasm and commitment rather than exceptional musical ability, according to Lucy Ding, musical director of the chorus.

Angela Stefaniu, director of communications for Northwest Community, in an earlier interview, said, «Our interest is to sell it as one parcel or as part of a coordinated sell [to more than one buyer].»

«It's a shame that Congress seems more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest in a press release

Guidance sent from Michael Spurr, the director general of the Prison Service, to prison officers reveals officials at the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA) «as a rule.have no interest» in deporting foreign nationals who were in jail for less than 12 months.

There have been some moves in the last couple of years towards empowering shareholders in the UK in relation to Boards of Directors, but owners must uphold the company constitution in its wider commitments to work in the public interest rather than simply maximise dividend value.

The MTA last week approved more than $ 200 million to upgrade eight subway stations, including two at 34th Street - Penn Station, and in the process, it highlighted a potential conflict of interest for MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who is a director of the company that runs Madison Square Garden.

«It's always easier to talk about cleaning up government than it is to do it, partly because the implementation of the sound bite is usually more complicated than the sound bite itself,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

... This external pressure makes this year different than all others,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«The 2012 redistricting process was business as usual in Albany, with the majority parties controlling the process and lines being drawn for partisan purposes rather than in the best interests of voters, with greater candidate choice and more contested elections,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

To make a point about reigning in special interests, the League of Women Voters» legislative director Barbara Bartoletti likes to point out that legislators are more likely to die or be indicted than to be voted out of office.

Writing in a pamphlet published this morning — entitled The Liberal Republic — to mark the thinktank's birthday, the Demos director, Richard Reeves, and former Blair speechwriter Phil Collins spell out their philosophy, arguing that a «Liberal line» runs through all the three main parties and is more interesting than classic dividing lines of left and right.

«Politicians have an important and legitimate interest in how health care is provided locally but too often act as a barrier, rather than facilitating the honest dialogue needed with the public,» deputy director of policy Candace Imison said.

«Eleven - fifty is almost $ 2 less than what he endorsed last spring,» said Bill Lipton, the director of the New York State Working Families Party, a liberal - leaning third party that endorsed Mr. Cuomo last spring, only to be disappointed by his lack of interest in their goals.

A proposal to change the job description for the Water Authority's top administrator comes after authority Board Chairman Earl L. Jann Jr. stated his interest in giving up his board seat, which pays $ 22,500, in favor of the executive director's job, which pays more than $ 145,000.

But last spring, a team led by Graham Fleming, deputy director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, reported that the process is much more interesting than that.

«The results of this study were of particular interest because more than half of the pregnant women with migraine experienced some type of adverse birth outcome, suggesting that these pregnancies should be considered high risk,» said study author Matthew S. Robbins, M.D., director of inpatient services at Montefiore Headache Center, chief of neurology at Jack D. Weiler Hospital of Montefiore, and associate professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

«Actions speak louder than words, and the most action we've seen on antibiotics has come from food companies,» said Matthew Wellington, Antibiotics Program Director of public interest campaigning group U.S. PIRG.

Tom Vierhile, Innovation Insights Director at Datamonitor Consumer, reports, «Interest in protein has grown faster than interest in almost any other nutrient or ingredientInterest in protein has grown faster than interest in almost any other nutrient or ingredientinterest in almost any other nutrient or ingredient.»

And director Brett Haley, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marc Basch, is the rare young American filmmaker who's sincerely interested in older generations; his previous feature, I'll See You In My Dreams, starred Blythe Danner, who's even older than Elliott.

Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth about Hannah's character is revealed, the film becomes more of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid / woman).

[Director] Negret is clearly less interested in imagining a fictional romance than in conveying his vision of a land that has lost its way.

[Director] Hanon seems more interested in exploiting his setting's lush green beauty than exploring the psyches of his bland Bible - thumpers.

The result is less welcoming than you might expect, considering it's the hotly anticipated second feature from Ex Machina director Alex Garland, adapted loosely (and with some controversy) from the 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, with a cast full of interesting women and an Oscar winner in the lead role.

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

Though infused with impressive bursts of style, Johannes Roberts» 47 Meters Down is, for the most part, a disappointingly generic offering that contains few elements designed to capture and sustain one's interest - with the film's less - than - captivating opening stretch, which establishes the somewhat one - dimensional protagonists, unable to cultivate the atmosphere of abject suspense that director Johannes Roberts is clearly striving for.

Penn is a true talent, but there's just enough languid pretension to» The Pledge» to make you wonder if he's ultimately more interested in parading his promise as a director than in fulfilling it.

After a recent New York Film Festival screening, the directors of the sheepherding documentary Sweetgrass claimed that lived experience was more interesting to watch than people talking about their experiences.

But how Stone turns one of the great figures of ancient history into an addled, paranoid victim will interest the director's fans much more than mainstream filmgoers.

It's difficult to think of a director less - suited to take on the intricate, minutiae - obsessed writing of Peter Morgan than Howard — a director who, even in his finest films, has always been interested in the big picture first, with characters serving history rather than the other way round.

Director Peyton Reed — who replaced «Shaun of the Dead» director Edgar Wright just weeks before shooting began — deserves credit for jumping aboard a speeding train, but his inoffensive finished product proves that Marvel is more interested in protecting the house style than making greatDirector Peyton Reed — who replaced «Shaun of the Dead» director Edgar Wright just weeks before shooting began — deserves credit for jumping aboard a speeding train, but his inoffensive finished product proves that Marvel is more interested in protecting the house style than making greatdirector Edgar Wright just weeks before shooting began — deserves credit for jumping aboard a speeding train, but his inoffensive finished product proves that Marvel is more interested in protecting the house style than making great movies.

With director Hytner and writer Bennett reuniting, it's also interesting to note that more than a dozen actors from The History Boys make appearances here.

Following up his performance in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, in which he played Koba, Kebbell stars in director Duncan Jones «fantasy film as Durotan, a noble orc more interested in peace than war.

Director Marc Forster (The Kite Runner) seemed more interested in recreating the Bourne Identity than continuing the twisty, edgy plot line from Bond's last adventure.

Like all of the director's previous work, it's less interested in saying something new than it is in reiterating something old, only this time in a much deeper voice.

Writer - director Kat Candler places a group of people in a reasonably interesting situation, but then spends more than an hour illustrating and reiterating the situation, instead of advancing it.

A combination of two very codified genres, the courtroom drama and the small - town homecoming movie, it's better than one would expect from the director of Shanghai Knight and Fred Claus, without being especially interesting in any regard.

It takes a similar plot (a girl's inexplicable obsession with a jerk as the crux of a police investigation), similar structure (flashbacks and an unreliable narrator expose the truth of the jerk's vanishing act), similar setting (a gothic academy), and even a similar conclusion (Abandon's is a million times sadder, if atonally winking in and of itself), but Gaghan, besides sparking with his characters in a way that is foreign to the makers of The Hole (there, director Nick Hamm is less interested in compulsion than in repulsion), has no use for sensationalism — The Hole is a piece of tabloid reportage next to Abandon, which wallows humanistically in the epidemic of loneliness.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 2014, 123 minutes, PG - 13 / Director: Francis Lawrence / Writers: Suzanne Collins, Peter Craig, Danny Strong / Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman Buy It: Blu - ray Combo • DVD • Instant Video Though it almost certainly would have been better as a single movie, this relatively uneventful penultimate installment of the blockbuster franchise still sustains interest, this time with different elements than its predecessors.

These are the avenues that could make Bleed more than just a standard boxing movie, but writer / director Ben Younger (Boiler Room) doesn't seem interested in real character development.