Sentences with phrase «voices of reason at»

Elder Statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari's desperation for power would not allow him to listen to voice of reason at this critical...
I've always loved walnut but recently met the voice of reason at a local supplier's showroom, with my darling eight and five - year - old sons in tow.

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A note at the beginning of the film states that all of the dog's barks have been translated into English, which is the reason actors like Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, and Edward Norton are voicing canines.
A voice of reason, at last.»
Arsene must wake up from his dreams and realise that fans are the biggest stakeholders not just for Arsenal but for football at large, no top team would give him all that time, people are winning trophies and getting sacked, forget Kroenke, the stakeholders (fans) have spoken, listen to the voice of reason and quit!!
nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow
Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini has voiced his frustration at Uefa's Financial Fair Play rules, saying they are the reason he has had to sell some of his best talent this summer.
One of the first reasons I wanted Lisa at my sons birth was her laid back personality and calming voice.
Very best wishes for the new role, Sunder: you've provided the Fabians with a strong and distinctive voice at the top, at a time when the left needed those kinds of voices — and for very different reasons now than seven years ago.
The reason why its so hard to say no, isn't because of the brand or the bargain, its that voice at the back of your head that tells you this piece will last the test of time.
Do we get a similarly lingering gaze at Marmaduke by Mazie (the voice of Emma Stone: Zombieland, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past), the «ugly» «uncool» lady dog who, for reasons unknown and inexplicable, thinks Marmaduke is really awesome and would like to be his girlfriend?
Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at a farm where the critters are a bit unusual — they can walk on two legs, talk, swim, and act like humans, though they have the good sense to avoid doing these things while humans are around.
Sometimes we just have to continue along a particular path for inexplicable, personal reasons, disregarding warnings of friends and family and perhaps our own internal voices, until we arrive at our destination, whatever it may be.
Shannon, cast against type as the voice of unpretentious reason, gives one of those totally relatable performances for which he has a secret talent, rescuing The Current War one scene at a time from its fairy - tale genius - worship of Edison and the mystical dandy Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult).
Consistently funny, with a few surprises, «Horrible Bosses 2» finds Nick (voice of reason Bateman), Kurt (always horny Sudeikis) and Dale (frantic and funny Day) back on the wrong side of the law when they attempt to pull off a kidnapping in an attempt to get back at Hanson senior, who has pulled a fast one and is about to take over their invention.
This is just me making up connections where none exist, of course, but I still like to think that if there were some crazy intertextuality going on, the sinister - sounding voice that intones here about totally - not - at - all - evil reasons for testing dangerous rollercoasters on live human subjects will one day, after the robot apocalypse, be putting people through much more rigourous testing, perhaps while wearing orange jumpsuits.
Give an Oscar to every old - guard critic who was able to successfully pretend that they'd EVER looked at Entertainment Weekly outside of a dentist's office in the last decade); but I'm really perplexed to see the first one to really take off come from Movie Mezzanine — which I'm a fan of for much the same reason I became a fan of much of the TGWTG crew (and their other affiliates): fresh voices in film criticism coming in from outside the old guard print - media stronghold.
And didn't at least The Woman Who Left and The Untamed get more attention than the voices of reason cared to predict?
But the film's other main female character serves as its much - needed voice of reason: Shazi Raja as a musician friend of Troy's who's already studying at Harvard.
At home, Amber's single mother (Patricia Arquette) and lefty uncle (Ethan Hawke, clearly standing in for Linklater and Schlosser as the movie's voice of reason) debate the merits of her job: Is she learning responsibility and good work habits, or just peddling poison in Nowheresville?
Duncan, a frugal accountant, is a clear, potential obstruction for Benjamin, but at least the character's opposition comes across as a sensible voice of reason, motivated by actual concern for his brother's well - being.
Woody Harrelson is wonderfully cast in the role of Mr Bruner and offers a raw, carefully restrained voice of reason for Nadine which, at times, seems to speak directly to the audience to provide some free therapy for our own lives.
The aforementioned Nicholas Braun, Nelsan Ellis, Thomas Mann, Chris Sheffield, Tye Sheridan, and Olivia Thirlby (welcome as the voice of reason) are all excellent as well, with Ellis taking things to a whole other level at one point and Sheffield especially having a third act seen that might move you to tears.
One would hope a voice of reason would advise the children otherwise or perhaps Erica would come - of - age at this opportune moment and realize the extreme moral fallacy in this decision.
As he's proven time and time again from geek favorites like Firefly and Con Man, to films like Death At a Funeral (one of my favorite movies for absolutely no reason), not to mention his facility with rooster voices, Alan Tudyk is very much at home with nerdy comedAt a Funeral (one of my favorite movies for absolutely no reason), not to mention his facility with rooster voices, Alan Tudyk is very much at home with nerdy comedat home with nerdy comedy.
The media seem to see Jennings and the CEP as the voices of education research and reason, an enviable position at a time when nonpartisans are hard to come by.
The one character who started out as the voice of reason in the background of a few chapters, Dominique, is actually a fraud herself; while she sneers at the lifestyle of these social climbers, she's all too happy to spend all of her vacations lapping up their beach house and the immaculately tended grounds.
Now with Oyster, his voice of reason highlights the legitimate point how authors will at least earn their extra revenue stream from the subscribers on a regular basis.
Derrick Tan, president of Voices for Animals, explains the Chinese belief that black animals with white paws bring bad luck is one reason why black animals are stigmatised at shelters.
Kojima gave his reasons at the conference, the first being that «I wanted Snake to have a more subdued performance expressed through subtle facial movements and tone of voice rather than words.»
I could talk about the painful voice acting, the singularly cringe - worthy cut - scenes, the innumerable graphics glitches, or the moments in the game where you die for no apparent reason (especially in the snowboarding level, which is a particularly low point in gameplay terms as it even manages to feature checkpoints that you can miss by a whisker and then continue playing, only to be plonked right back at the start of the level when you inevitably die by running into a pile of rocks that you couldn't see because the camera was pointed the wrong way).
The biggest reason for this is that Respawn attempt to convey the rest of the storyline during the match, with little cutscenes taking place in a small window at the top right of the screen and annoying voices playing over the comm system.
How much these actually aid the original gameplay is debatable, though, and the lack of voice and the relatively high level of Japanese required - at least, compared to next to nothing in Xanadu and Dragon Slayer - make this remake hard to recommend as a reason to track down the package.
There are a lot of good reasons Nintendo should have voice chat in Splatoon, at least in friend matches.
When Jenny George read from her collection The Dream of Reason at Collected Works in early April, her voice was soft, slow, and steady.
Karsten writes: «Weight's paintings are captivating for many reasons - his color sense is perfectly in tune with his mysterious imagery, his realism is modified by the emotions of fear and anguish, and his compositions reveal a deep understanding of 2 - d image structure... It isn't mastery over materials that keeps me looking at Weight's work though - it's his crazy, compelling, haunted voice, and how he gives us a frank look at the unknowable world of individual emotional lives.»
oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??
Having read what he has to say has convinced me he's not a voice of reason, but of advocacy, his arguments aimed at the ignorant not the knowledgeable, his method of persuasion based on political partisanship and pressing emotional buttons, not science.
I'd like to humbly suggest that stuff like the following published at RC does not represent a productive voice of reason.
It does seem though, that for now, Judith is unreachable, at least by voices of reason, or those perceived by her to be «climate community insiders».
If you're serious, and you almost always are, might one suggest addition of at least some of the reasoned voices Dr. Bengtsson listened to when he withdrew from the GWPF..
Despite continuous efforts at NSRLP to bring forward the voices of (intelligent, polite, reasoned, thoughtful) members of the public, this is an astonishingly pervasive and persistent assumption.
You offer your opinion and suggestions, try to play the «voice of reason,» and unconsciously botch the entire attempt at helping them.
Be a voice of reason, remain calm at all times.
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