Sentences with phrase «relatively small act»

According to John Faso, this relatively small act of public servant self - entitlement revealed Hevesi's lack of moral standing.

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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver held an event in New York City on Monday identifying the DREAM Act as a top priority for his conference, asking for $ 25 million in next fiscal year's budget, «a relatively small amount of money,» he said.
He has bristled at much smaller acts of criticism and dissent, and Heastie and Flanagan — relatively new in their positions, by recent Albany standards — have not escalated.
Proponents say the Far North Act will have little effect on the timber industry because it affects an area farther north where trees are relatively small, grow less densely and are not economical to harvest.
In fact, it's perfectly cast throughout, with the ever - excellent Kaas impressing in a relatively small role, Bonnevie showing a good grasp of a tricky character arc, and Andersen striking and heartrending in her acting debut.
«We were familiar with [filmmakers] Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's previous films, The Fairy and The Iceberg, however those were smaller releases, so as a directing - acting duo they're still relatively unknown to U.S. audiences,» commented Oscilloscope's Andrew Carlin.
The acting from the film's relatively small cast is terrific, especially from our principal leads.
Just as impressive in a smaller role is the relatively unknown Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong «o, who plays Patsey, Epps» pet «property», who is not only the best cotton picker on the land, but also has the affection, for better or worse, of Epps, to the point where his jealous wife (Paulson, Game Change) commits her own wicked acts against her.
Mudbound is beautifully shot, well - acted, and surprisingly sweeping for a movie with a relatively small budget of $ 10 million; if it's guilty of anything, it's perhaps trying to do too much at once, which is understandable given its novelistic scope.
However, note that the average SAT / ACT score is for all students whereas the mobility rate is for low - income students only (who form a relatively small portion of the student body at most colleges).
The spread tightening in the bull phase of the cycle is initially relatively rapid, and gives way to smaller bits of incremental tightening, until it is too much, or an exogenous force acts on it.
Accelerated rates of bone growth and bone remodeling act in concert to produce a pattern of epiphyseal spongiosa that is composed of fine trabecular systems that are spaced relatively far apart and that are ultimately less strong per unit area than in small breeds of dogs.
But of course the act of larceny can become far too repetitive for it's on good, mostly thanks to the developers cramming areas with a myriad of small yet relatively worthless items rather than a couple of more valuable ones.
While the lore and story behind the Syder universe is extensive, Syder Arcade's relatively small scope will only act as a introduction.
«They believe by hyping the relatively small impacts during the past few decades that they can motivate people to act.
Composed of waterlogged organic material that has built up over millennia, even relatively small areas of peat acts like super storehouses for carbon.
The point I was trying to make, was that with only these few variables, you can have lots of temperature variation caused by relatively small changes in one of the parameters and depending on the scale of the changes, or the coincidence of one or more changes acting together, or even opposing each other, the readjustment time of the temperature in the room would vary.
This year, the Virginia General Assembly will consider modest changes to the underinsured motorist statutes and some relatively small changes to the Virginia Worker's Compensation Act.
Coming in the form of a relatively small box, the ROG Aura Terminal is meant to act as an RGB controller that creates an «immersive gaming environment.»
... The new process is similar to the existing future acts processes in the NTA with a relatively small adjustment to meet the urgent need for housing and public infrastructure in Indigenous communities.
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