Sentences with phrase «not secret agents»

It would also help with traffic if you weren't a secret agent.

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The DGSE hiring target is 500 - 600 recruits a year to bring its numbers up to 7,100 by 2019, but the skills required are not those of amphibious frogmen or secret agents of the kind incarnated by the fictional British character James Bond.

The Secret Service would not have had to do a background check on the attendees beforehand — only a physical screening — since Trump was just a candidate at the time, former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow told CNN on Sunday.

They did not listen when we told them that also Romanian bishops were agents of Securitate [the secret police].»

I wouldn't want to be one of the 11 Secret Service agents who engaged in hanky - panky with hookers in Colombia right now.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

«The fact that you and your agents at the Thruway Authority have still not released a full financing plan — and instead are relying on a secret piecemeal fiduciary strategy in this massive public undertaking — raises concerns of great magnitude for me,» Perkins wrote.

But commentators were not convinced with one journalist saying that Abbott had experienced a Natalie Bennett-esque «brainfade» and one former Labour special adviser suggesting that the shadow home secretary must be a Tory secret agent...

An attempt to assassinate a Soviet agent or raise a secret army to face a Soviet secret army could not be validated with a declaration of war.

According to foreign secretary David Miliband, the UK government does not «cooperate, authorise or condone» torture, but Mr Mohamed claims questions US agents asked him while in detention in Morocco about his life in London could only have come from information supplied by the British secret services.

The Judicial Inquiry will amongst other lines of inquiry seek to discover exactly what Miliband and others knew about a secret interrogation policy that allowed agents in places such as Afghanistan to interrogate people who had been tortured, as long as they did not participate in actual torture or seek to condone it.

They did not realise that their conference had been planned by a Labour secret agent.

The tale, sadly, is completely real, and it plays out not between secret agents but between former laboratory colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore.

It's not just spies and secret agents who work with codes — many scientists do too.

We have her travel passport, next step visa, visa Odessa agency is secret, wn't give me name of agency, only phone number of agent, which is cell, Embassy to Canada appointment made, my woman, canceled due to cyclone in Odessa.

Because the production values of Cradle seem strong, it doesn't come across like a poor man's Bond, but it doesn't live up to the strengths of our favorite secret agent.

Paulsen has more often than not been cast as sinister, foreign - accented secret agents, which kept him very busy during the «Bond craze» of the 1960s.

It's not hard for me to believe that the CIA, or whatever government agency you want, would plan these secret training exercises in order to see if one of its agents is up to the incredible demands, or pressures, of the job.

It invents a government agent in Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Salvation), who announces that he is from a secret agency he can't name but, «when scientists shit the bed, I'm the guy they call to change the sheets»; he deserves a movie all of his own, not least because, just what the hell is happening in this world that he gets regular work?

Penn's Tobin Keller is a recently widowed man who drinks too much and doesn't sleep enough, but insists to stay on the job as a Secret Service agent in charge of protecting foreign dignitaries.

They offer some laughs, but mostly they appear pretentiously unfunny — pushing strollers in slow - motion and strutting like secret agents; not to mention the severity of some of the preceived jokes» content — leaving a child at daycare, for example, not considered humorous by all.

It can't decide which of its characters — Penn's or Kidman's — is more interesting and far too much time is spent on Penn's, a recent widower with that drinking problem and a tendency to unprofessionally spill his guts to civilians in a way no Secret Service agent would possibly consider.

Before «The Artist,» Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo and director Michel Hazanavicius collaborated on French super-spy spoofs «OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies» and «OSS: Lost in Rio» with Dujardin as suave secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath.

Frances McDormand (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Friends with Money), as the ultra-feisty National Security director, gets to storm in and out of vehicles and walk fast and determined with her entourage of government agents, but her only significance to the film is she is the only female in the series to not look like she has jumped out of a Victoria's Secret catalog (the charisma-less Rosie Huntington - Whitely gets most of the cheesecake shots, replacing the equally vapid crackpot, Megan Fox).

Tinker Tailor opens with Control (John Hurt, for once not playing a loon), head of the British secret service MI6 — referred to as the «Circus» — sending his agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into the field to flush out a mole within the Circus.

It's the return of the unintentional farce of «something has fallen and can't get up» movies featuring Gerard Butler as a secret service agent assigned to protect the President of the United States, played by the perpetually strong - jawed Aaron Eckhart.

Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is not a cinematographer, but a CIA agent in the middle of a top - secret mission when he's murdered.

As he punishes himself emotionally for not being able to get over his fears and make her happy in the way he desires, CIA agent Victoria Lasseter (Connie Britton) discovers that a death order has been put out on the participants of a top secret program she ran which trained elite assassins.

Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of The Living Daylights... The Living Daylights brought James Bond back to his darker roots as Timothy Dalton took on the role of the famous secret agent, bringing a level of seriousness that had not been seen for quite some time.

Skyfall doesn't reach the emotional depths of 2006's Casino Royale — Daniel Craig's first outing as MI6 secret agent James Bond — but it features jaw - dropping cinematography and set design, and some of the most exciting action scenes of the entire series.

The rest of the cast don't really have much to do beyond reacting to English's latest cock - up, but Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Dominic West (The Wire) and Rosamund Pike (Die Another Day — once a Bond girl herself, now falling for a very different kind of secret agent) are fun in their mostly straight faced roles.

Only three people can save the day, the President of the United States, his Secret Service leader, and an English MI - 6 agent who doesn't trust anyone.

Additionally, while on Orphan Black, Maslany was expected to do her fair share of ass kicking, which doesn't hurt when you're thinking about portraying a secret agent.

This pairing comes across much better than Hart's partnership with Ice Cube in the Ride Along franchise, mainly because Johnson isn't trying to be a serious secret agent.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to carry much weight with the relentless onslaught of secret agent - types apparently Hell - bent on seeing him snuff it.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones play secret agents hired to keep all the «aliens» in the US under observation — and we aren't talking typical illegal immigrants.

Also, her husband, Wilbur (Joel McHale), wouldn't know a spy if he lived with one which is exactly the case — Marissa's a retired secret agent.

What the outside world didn't know about Eggsy was his father was an incredibly brave probationary secret agent and Eggsy displays many of his father's strengths.

Their hunt takes them to America and it's revealed that The Kingsman aren't the only highly secret organisation looking to protect the world; the two Brit's are introduced to Champagne, Jack Daniels and Tequila - three agents working for the Statesman, the US equivalent to Kingsman.

After a slick, flashily edited title sequence that incorporates footage of scenes shown later in film (not unlike a TV show), the audience is immediately plunged into the heretofore closely - guarded plot: After a mission goes disastrously awry, Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise), is «disavowed» from his duties by the powers that be and suspected of being a mole trying to sell a top - secret list that matches covert agents» aliases with their true identities (called the «NOC — Non-Official Coverts — List»).

Most of the story surrounding the true antagonist doesn't even make much sense, but it's easy to roll along with because the actor and character work from Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Jay Hernandez, and Viola Davis (she plays the ruthless straight - faced top secret agent putting the band together) is very strong allowing a number of emotional moments to resonate.

Haythe, for his section, has written a number of other style motion pictures over that remaining decade; together with, a duration drama (Revolutionary Road), a contemporary motion / drama (Snitch), an offbeat western (The Lone Ranger), a horror / mystery by means of darkish fairy story (A Cure for Wellness), and maximum not too long ago Jennifer Lawrence's secret agent mystery Red Sparrow.

WHAT: After miraculously surviving the Battle of New York, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) assembles a small team — including civilian hacker Skye (Chloe Benet)-- to tackle strange new cases involving superpowers, alien artifacts and other phenomenon deemed too top secret for normal authorities, but not important enough for the Avengers.

Somewhere in between, Quaid, playing the archetypal, sincere secret agent manages to remain inconsequential, Forest Whitaker proves he can run while filming and Matthew Fox shows us why he should never have gotten off that damn island (he can't act).

«Olympus Has Fallen» tells the story of secret service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), who used to be on the President's detail until a freak accident caused him to save the life of the President but not the First Lady.

Darren is an obnoxious, motor - mouthed sports agent with a drug problem, and his workaholic tendencies have left Malia feeling neglected — not to mention the fact that she has a secret romantic history with John.

Unfortunately, «Parkland» is a tale of two halves, and while the former is comprised of some powerful moments as the doctors, Secret Service agents and others scramble amid the chaos of the situation, the latter portion focusing on the days after the shooting isn't nearly as interesting.

Kenneth is leery of Darius» motives and is not entirely convinced that she isn't working for the «secret agents» that are tracking his every move, but through a series of training exercises she begins to gain his trust.

And hey, it's not often you see this much emotion from a Secret Service agent.

Synopsis: Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the improbable secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy - thriller Johnny English Reborn.