Sentences with phrase «is a riot as»

However the MVP of the film undoubtedly is Laura Linney, who is a riot as neighbor and crazy - cat - lady Lilith Wasserman.

Christina Ricci is a riot as a Lolita wannabe who seduces her gay brother's boyfriend.

Christina Ricci is a riot as a Lolita wannabe who seduces her gay brother's boyfriend, and Lisa Kudrow is just as funny in the less showy role of an uptight schoolteacher.

It's like a second - rate Coen brothers movie, although Paul Walter Hauser is a riot as Shawn Eckhardt, the pal of Gillooly's, who boasted of being a world - renowned surveillance expert but lived in his parents» basement.

Her Bridesmaids co-star Annie Mumolo is a riot as head troop mom Helen.

Audra McDonald is a riot as Madame Garderobe and Stanley Tucci is a delight as her beloved, Maestro Cadenza, but I would expect nothing less.

Though Johnny Depp will almost certainly be a riot as the dead - bird wearing Tonto (he's at his best when playing eccentric characters), Armie Hammer has yet to prove himself as a viable leading man.

Not exact matches

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

But nothing is as over the top as Riot's outsize e-sports division.

Instead of pitching Riot as a congenial place to work, hiring managers focus on how new hires can level up — that is, develop and fine - tune skills.

For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.

She was sworn in as attorney general in April 2015 amid riots in Baltimore over the death of a black man in police custody.

Velloso says his team is working with companies such as Riot Games, the Tencent (tcehy)- owned developer behind the most popular eSports game in the world, League of Legends.

It's important to take Riot's filings and associated reports with a massive grain of salt, as CNBC found major red flags during a recorded news investigation in February (e.g., annual meetings scheduled at a resort, but the hotel having no evidence of any such reservations).

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

The markets seemed to be conveying that Indonesia's economy was as bad as — or worse than — 1988, when they had riots in the streets, a government collapse, corporate bankruptcies and a massive economic recession.

By 7 p.m., as dusk drew near, the coffin was lowered into the ground, but when the militiamen began to cover the grave, riot police burst through the gates, firing salvos of tear gas.

Along the way they were blocked by government riot police forces known as the Berkut, armed with plexiglass riot shields, helmets, and billy clubs, under the command of a general who was an ethnic Russian.

In an attempt to calm the passions of «Black Tuesday,» as the riot came to be known, the government last July replaced the makeshift grave with a marble sarcophagus, even as it declared that it would uphold the new constitution» which guarantees the equality of all religions before the law.

Paul would have been acutely aware of the dominance of the Roman authorities that would have crushed the church at any perceived threat to peace that would have occured as a result of a riot.

The wide - scale and public racism in New York's 1991 Crown Heights riots» members of the local black community shouted «kill the Jews» as they attacked orthodox Jews on the street» is perhaps the most prominent example here.

Not even going to get into people fighting and dying over the message contained within this book, but to riot over paper being burned, as it should be, is ridiculous.

Perhaps the pivotal moment was the Kerner Commission Report of 1968, more formally known as the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, created by President Johnson to determine the cause of the racial riots that had burned across America in the summer of 1967.

Perhaps he oversimplifies the idea of human will: the «Big Book» of AA indicts the alcoholic as «an extreme example of self - will run riot,» the first requirement for recovery being that he becomes «convinced that any life run on self - will can hardly be a success.»

Norton, 160 pages, $ 14.95 The vicious riots that took place last spring in the South - Central section of Los Angeles may be taken as a tragic reminder of the need for all Americans continually to evaluate....

And the kids who rioted last night, they are worthless as far as I'm concerned.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

«Mr Cameron», The Financial Times reported, «is being urged to accelerate tax breaks for married couples as part of his moral clean - up of Britain following last week's riots»:

(Saul Bernstein: Alternatives to Violence: Alienated Youth and Riots, Race and Poverty (New York: Association Press, 1967) On the basis of his analysis, he proposes solutions that are quite as inadequate as those that France proposed to the National Liberation Front in 1957.

Its a pity we cant stand up to demonstrate how democracy and free speech should be a beacon, instead of being the same as those crazy people rioting over this.

Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal by Andrew Hacker Scribner's, 272 pages, $ 24.95 The shockingly violent reaction to the Rodney King verdict, destined to be remembered as the great Los Angeles Riot of 1992, has provoked more intense discussion among the American....

Fossil discoveries in China, «hailed as among the most spectacular in this century,» turned up seventy species from the Cambrian period with «the appearance of increasingly complex marine animals in a riot of shapes and anatomical designs anticipating much of life as it is today.»

Earlier this year, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were kilRiot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were kilriot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were killed.

Television, in particular, was found to have presented violence in simplistic terms — depicting «a visual three - way alignment of Negroes, white bystanders, and public officials or enforcement agents,» which tended to create the impression that the riots were predominantly racial confrontations between blacks and whites, while factors such as economic and political frustration were pushed into the background.

Clarity - John the Baptist is also an historical character, as he was jailed for starting a riot that killed 120,000 Magis.

I interpreted it solely as a divine command... I seized (the book I had been reading], opened it and in silence read the first passage on which my eyes lit: «Not in riots and drunken parties, not in eroticism and indecencies, not in strife and rivalry, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh in its lusts» (Rom.

The other point — as shown by the sociological report on the Watts riots of several years ago — is that severe discontent transcends sheer economics, jobs, and immediate opportunities to get ahead.

But let riots be begun by others lower in the economic scale, and they may join in, as some of them did.

In the «60s the ghettos of the North were erupting in fiery riots, and many saw nonviolent resistance as a thing of the past.

He is the only minister to date that has walked away from the advisory board — citing disapproval of the President's response to the Charlottesville riots earlier this year as the breaking point.

Prayers can be done privately with absolutely no problem as long as it doesn't violate any laws (like disturbing the peace, incitement to riot, etc.) Why didn't they just have a private prayer meeting off to the side or simply have a church - based reception after the graduation ceremony?

Silly as it is, it is preferable to a picture of a young man of a similar age rioting in the streets or shooting people.

He who sees himself as a bearer of the light of democracy and freedom must occasionally shudder at the realization that he is helping make room for the riot of excesses that freedom makes possible.

But it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if, instead of rioting, the people went to the local police stations and lay down on the steps, the footpath, along the road, and refused to leave until they got a predetermined outcome (eg a review of the evidence, apologies etc, or a form of forgiveness and grace as Jeremy has suggested here).

People have to look at from where a nation is coming from and moving towards rather than judge where they are at present — if you took a snapshot of countries like the USA around 1865 - 1880 or during the race riots or peace marches of the 60's you'd come away with a view of America as being an oppressive country (at least in the south)-- there is not a single thing happening in China that hasn't happened in the US or Britain as well your just looking at a single timeline while making a judgment.

By that time, in the latter days of antiquity, democracy had long since ceased to carry its original explosive charge — something like dictatorship of the proletariat, in Marxist terms — and its meaning was reduced to «riot,» a characteristically Byzantine misreading of democracy as merely ochlocracy or mob rule.

As Negro students attempted to enroll in various high schools and universities, riots resulted, and Federal troops and marshals had to be called out.

There's growing concerns for Christians and other minorities in Pakistan as anti-blasphemy riots brought... More

Pussy Riot engages in now conventional strategies of disenchantment that are widely celebrated by our establishment as integral to cultural «progress.»

Some venerable and respected manufacturers, such as Ithaca, are now producing special riot guns for the public, and even shorter - barrel models for the police and military.