Sentences with phrase «produced little action»

«Disappointing,» he grouses, roughly three days after state lawmakers wrapped up the session amidst a late - night flurry of negotiations Friday that, strangely, produced little action.

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and a remuneration framework that, at least until the AUSTRAC action, had little sting for senior managers and above when poor risk or customer outcomes materialised and, until recently, provided incentives to staff that did not necessarily produce good customer outcomes.

If the answers sting a little, just remember that taking action will produce better results.

As God prehends the universe at the instant the piano teeters, he sees the various possible ways this little drama could be played out, sees all the ramifications of the possible scenarios, and realizes that some ways the action might unfold are better than others, that is, some outcomes would produce a future which when he, God, prehended it would make his experience more rich, more harmonious, more beautiful than his experience would be were alternative outcomes to produce quite different futures.

Judged by the results of her actions, the tree is culpable before the bar of utilitarian judgment because she produced a spoiled little snot.

They have little to say, perhaps because the data ill fit their historiographic image, about the fact that American Catholicism during this «ghetto» period produced great pioneers of the liturgical and social - action movements like Virgil Michel.

Amalyse action in our sprouted rye will produce a very active starter in as little as 3 days.

The F1 race produced very little action, sure, but GP3 and Formula 2 gave us some great racing, with plenty of overtaking at various places all around the lap.

Cech had very little to do in his first 45 minutes, but he was called into action shortly before the break as Steven Naismith flicked on a free kick, and the goalkeeper produced a wonderful stop to tip it on to the bar.

Using several variations of his given name, including Robert Emmett and Bob Tansey, Tansey went on to supervise, assistant direct, direct, write, produce, and even compose the scores of low - budget Westerns and action melodramas, working with very little other than gusto and a remarkable ability to churn them out fast and furious.

Disney has been remaking their animated classics for the screen over the past few years with the likes of Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book (they did not produce either live action version of Snow White but adaptations of Aladdin, Dumbo, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Mulan, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and The Sword in the Stone are in the works).

The original HTTYD remains one of the most impressive 3D films ever produced, and while this sequel to 2010's fresh, fun dragon adventure may get a little darker, it loses none of the soaring, heart - pumping action or impressive visuals.

Ever since the first Batman serial was produced in the 40s, Hollywood has struggled with how to adapt images in comics that make sense on the page but might look a little odd in live action.

In the midst of Vulture «s big update on the projects that are moving around over at the Warner Bros. lot, they dropped a little nugget of info right at the very end of the piece: Justin Timberlake is now attached to star in the Joel Silver produced buddy action flick «Fully Automatic.»

Albert Bandura, psychologist, professor, and the leading authority on the research regarding Self - Efficacy, notes «unless people believe they can produce desired effects by their actions, they have little incentive to act or persevere in the face of difficulties» (p. 3.

Players waited in line for hours on end to get in on the action, and experience this weird yet magical little title that Nintendo is producing.

Arguments that unilateral action by the United States produces little climate benefit, that a carbon tax will expand the size of government, that a carbon tax is a regressive, that adaptation and geo - engineering is preferable to emissions constraint, that economists can not confidently design a carbon tax that does more good than harm, that the legislative process can not deliver a carbon tax worth embracing, and that promoting a carbon tax puts conservatives on a slippery political slope are explored and found wanting.

Like the 2009 «hit the brakes» post, the Mann warning from 2014 is pretty clear and yet, these direct warnings produce little buzz or energetic action because we are constantly distracted by towering inferno stories.