Sentences with phrase «low budget efforts»

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

It's a twisty - turny low budget effort that provides some real chills a few genuine thrills and a great deal of tension.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

While Straniere's low - budget campaign clearly held its own against Wyne's big - buck effort, Wyne did better than some expected his first time out.

The governor, who is also negotiating with the legislature on the state budget and related items, like pension reform, says of the legislature's efforts on redistricting reform «my trust level is low, my skepticism is high».

The committee is currently working on coming up with a series of budget proposals in an effort to aid local lawmakers with expense cuts that could lower the tax rate in 2018.

In fact, every effort must be made to search for budget efficiencies and lower the tax rate.

Like she has throughout her effort, Grant said late Monday she expects to wind up her campaign «by going up and down streets,» reflecting the low - budget effort she has worn like a badge of honor.

The department's 3 - year - old effort to jump - start a low - carbon economy, the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, would get $ 300 million as its first annual budget.

If budget permits, sequencing genomes with both HiSeq2000 and Complete Genomics allows the combination of HiSeq2000's strength in sensitivity of SNV calling even at low coverage with Complete Genomics» strength in uniformly covering the entire genome, offering an interesting potential to boost the strengths of both platforms with considerably low efforts.

You can definitely tell it's a lower budget game but it's easy to see that the developers put a lot of effort in making this a decent stealth military shooter.

I enjoyed Krantz's effort to inform his audience about locations (the film was shot in Spokane, Washington) and production challenges, chatting up the trials of his low budget and the complexity of the script.

Instead, the low - budget effort from director Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis is an inept, tedious and empty look at the desperation Hollywood breeds.

This low - budget effort from first - time filmmakers is surprisingly chill.

However, his name is no longer amongst the Hollywood elite following so woeful genre efforts, which is why he's effectively at the helm of the low - budget adaptation of HERCULES: THE LEGEND BEGINS as opposed to the epic version, HERCULES: THE THRACIAN WARS, being led by Dwayne Johnson (although the name Brett Ratner is equally fearful).

The Masque of the Red Death was one of three directorial efforts by Corman released in 1964; though obviously low - budget, it doesn't bear the marks of having been cheap or rushed.

It's funny and despite a low budget, they give it their best effort for a funny comedy.

The low - budget brit flick, which Creevy claims is inspired by the late Tony Scott's Hollywood action efforts, pits James McAvoy's obsessive detective, Max Lewinski, against career criminal, Jacob Sternwood, played by Mark Strong.

The same can not be said for Bruce Willis, who has retreated to a strange corner of cinema these days, giving the bare minimum effort, and showing up in low - budget cop dramas such as Acts of Violence.

Indeed, the low - budget effort has drawn acclaim around the globe, with the reaction to its resonant romantic tale exceeding its humble origins.

For every Hoodwinked turning a healthy profit, there were three lower - budget efforts like Everyone's Hero and imports Valiant and Doogal that were losing money for their producers and distributors.

After shooting the low - budget Monster (whose visual effects he funded himself), director Gareth Edwards got his shot at the big time by being given the huge budget to shoot the latest attempt by Warner Bros. to make a decent American version of Godzilla, 16 years after Roland Emmerich's pretty awful effort.

Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (Kiah Roache - Turner, 2014) Original low - budget Australian version of the zombie film made as a weekend - warrior effort over several years.

For a low - budget effort, Kiss certainly does not look cheap.

New Jersey — Governor Chris Christie attempted to insert a pilot school voucher program into the state's budget that would have given vouchers of up to $ 10,000 to students in poor, low - performing school districts, but the Democratically - controlled state legislature squelched his effort.

Democrats predictably attacked the administration's budget proposal as an effort to undermine public schools and low - income students» ability to attend college.

Fails to provide parents with protection from substantial school budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's current «maintenance of effort» provision, which ensures that districts that receive Title I funding — designed to help low - income and disadvantaged students — maintain approximately the same spending levels from year to year.

ESSA indicates that states must use evidence - based strategies to support low - performing schools, but Education Secretary DeVos will evaluate whether the strategies described in each state plan conform to that requirement.19 During an exchange with Sen. Chris Murphy (D - CT) at a hearing to defend the fiscal year 2018 proposed presidential budget, DeVos refused to dismiss painting walls as a evidence - based strategy to improve school performance.20 And after a celebrated bipartisan effort to reauthorize ESSA — in addition to other federal education policies — the possibility of progress rests largely in the hands of the Education Department.

The three schools, which primarily serve low - income students and students of color, saw their teaching corps disproportionately decimated by a round of budget - driven layoffs last year, causing their education efforts to fall below the state constitutional guarantee that all students will receive a basic education consistent with prevailing statewide standards.

Opens the door to severe budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's «maintenance of effort» provision, which requires districts that receive Title I funding — designed to help low - income and disadvantaged students — to maintain approximately the same spending levels on education from year to year.

In an interview with the Public School Forum, Hall explained that the Innovative School District is essentially an effort to build a brand new local school district aimed at turning around low - performing schools — and, he said, lawmakers understood that there's a start - up cost to that kind of work when they developed an initial budget for the turnaround model.

The Spirit AMX was an innovative concept and was well executed from an engineering standpoint, highlighting the creative thinking and skilled engineering on a low budget that characterized AMC's efforts.

With margins low, distribution costs rocketing, limited or no marketing budgets for all but the top 15 percent of titles, and little major media interest in all but the biggest authors, book sales drop a little more each year and fewer and fewer authors can live off their fiction efforts.»

04/08/10 - The Athens News Letter to the Editor - Support ban on dog auctions 04/06/10 - 19 Action News - Ohio Dog Auction Act 04/05/10 - Times Reporter - Puppy mills targeted, Meeting to be held in Dover to educate public about ballot initiative 04/02/10 - The News - Herald Blog (Pets Unleashed)- April 1 update on dog auction ballot initiative 04/01/10 - Ohio.com - Why Ohioans should support a ban on dog auctions 03/31/10 - Cincinnati Examiner - Updates to the banning of dog auctions 03/31/10 - The Budget - Ban Ohio Dog Auction group met with opposition in Holmes county 03/30/10 - Fox 19 Morning News - Puppy Mill Petition 03/28/10 - Mansfield News - Journal - Opinion Shapers: Animal cruelty, in all its forms, needs to end 03/19/10 - Sun Sentinel - Ballot issue could help end puppy mill activities 03/17/10 - Sun Sentinel - The Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions to host meeting at the Avon Lake Public Library 03/10/10 - Animal Law Coalition - The Ballot Initiative to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions - Watch What Happens 03/07/10 - The Free Press - Support the Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions 03/05/10 - Fairfield Town Crier - Local groups join signature drive to stop dog auctions in Ohio 03/04/10 - Best Friends Animal Society (Puppies Aren't Products)- Sending a Message to Ohio Legislators on Dog Auctions 02/28/10 - Ohio Federation of Dog Clubs - Dog Auctions 02/26/10 - The Post (Ohio University)- Humane Society ranks Ohio low 02/24/10 - The Jackson County Telegram - Local meeting slated on banning of dog auctions 02/21/10 - The Athens News Letter to the Editor - Support petition effort to make dog auctions and raffles illegal in Ohio 02/21/10 - Lancaster Eagle Gazette - Group seeks to stop puppy mills, dog auctions 02/15/10 - Bucyrus Telegraph Forum - Ohio group seeks ban on dog auctions 02/14/10 - Mansfield - News Journal - Group wants dog auctions banned in Ohio 02/05/10 - Best Friends Animal Society (Puppies Aren't Products)- UPDATE: Ohio Dog Auctions Act 02/02/10 - Star News Online - Two animal welfare ballot measures proposed in Ohio 01/27/10 - Westlake / Bay Village Observer - Dog auctions in Ohio need to be banned!

• Assume one city spends, on average, $ 180,000 per year for its animal control efforts — a low budget considering the problem and needs.

In an effort to attract budget - minded consumers without lowering their prices, companies may also give you access to special deals if you subscribe to their email list or «like» their Facebook page.

The whole package screams either low - budget or low - effort.

Fred Ghatala, who as partner with Vancouver - based consultancy Waterfall Group is leading the research effort, said it comes down to lower costs in an industry where fuel purchasing and delivery represents a substantial part of an airline's operational budget.

With all the proposed and actual US budget cuts aimed at gutting the EPA and NOAA's efforts to monitor the state of our climate, it's worth pointing out even if it's perhaps obvious that the record (and growing) levels of income inequality in the United States, as well as the fact that a shocking number of huge corporations pay lower taxes than actual people, that both of these are more than social and economic issues.

While this season's Antarctic scientific whaling expedition caught a total of 167 whales — a low number compared to previous years — the budget for the effort has never been higher.

ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE FOR POOR AND LOW - INCOME NEW YORKERS: I formed a Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percent....

The company's operation of its own e-commerce website, aggressive marketing efforts, software development and the popularity of its budget Redmi product line have also helped it stand out among low - cost phone makers in China, Canalys Shanghai - based analyst Jingwen Wang told the Wall Street Journal.

Despite its best efforts, the Chinese company just can't get away from lower - end budget smartphones.

Globeop Financial Services, LLC (Harrison, NY) 2005 — 2007 Manager Enterprise Infrastructures Group • Designed and implemented disaster recovery system for Reuiter's Kondor 3.0 on Solaris 10 and Sybase 12.0 — 15.0 • Installed, configured, and managed Reuiter's Kondor 3.0; Solaris 10 (LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, ZOANS, CONTAINERS); AIX 4.3 - 5.3, Red Hat Enterprise — RHEL 3.0 — 4.0, Sybase 12.0 — 15.0, Oracle 10g, MYSQL 2.7.1, Sun One Directory Server (LDAP), SUN IDM, Solstice Disk Suite, Sun Cluster 3.0 - 3.2, Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 — 5.0, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas NetBackup 5.0 — 7.0, Storage Array A1000 — A3500, EMC SAN, HITACHI SAN, 3 PAR, Brocade switch 40K, Cisco switch 6309, SSH, SSL, RSA encryption, Emulex LPFC, NaviSphere, EMC, and Power path • Automated processes utilizing shell scripts (Bourne, Korn, C Shell, Bash, AWK, SED and Perl) • Strong technical expertise in all major server technologies (SUN / HP / IBM / Linux / Microsoft) experiment in managing mission critical, low latency, high availability and clustered IT systems and familiar with FIX protocol • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 2500 servers • Conducted disaster recovery tests • Managed and supervised four technicians ensuring continuity of service and efficient operations • Coordinated effort among Development, System, Networking, Application Support, Backup and recovery team to ensure maximum up time and effective issue resolution • Planned & developed projects, performed user acceptance tests, and applied patches to repair bugs • Developed shell scripts for Bourne shell, Korn shell, C Shell, AWK, PL / SQL and PERL • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, LDAP, jump start, Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, Telnet and HP Open View • Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production Support and Network Administration, Applications group for project completion ahead of time and under budget • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, SFTP, jumpstart, Apache, Tomcat, Websphrer and HP Open View.

It seems like our low budget (50K - 75K) was deterring Realtors from making an effort in helping us find a home.

My effort was minimal and budget was low, but it didn't take much to transform this tiny space.