Sentences with phrase «wire act with»

A high - wire act with psychological insights, this daring novel confirms McKeon as a major voice in Irish fiction, alongside the masterful Edna O'Brien and Anne Enright.

«Snowden» (December 25): Joseph Gordon - Levitt doubles down on the biopic beat this season, following up his Phillipe Petit high - wire act with that of controversial subject Edward Snowden, in the latest project from Oliver Stone.

Being a Reformational Catholic Christian is a circus ride, a high wire act with no net but the loving arms of our faithful Father.

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Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S., commit wire fraud and violate the Clean Air Act for the s...

The indictment was unsealed in Detroit on Thursday, revealing that Winterkorn had been charged on March 14 with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud Volkswagen's American customers and violate the Clean Air Act.

It is a high - wire act as the Coalition has committed to a root - and - branch review of the competition legislation with particular reference to grocery retail and banks in its first 100 days.

Cuomo says he's more concerned with an «orderly» end to the session than down to the wire talks that would require a special message by the governor to by pass the legal three day waiting period before bills can be acted upon.

Cuomo says he's more concerned with an «orderly» end to the session than down - to - the - wire talks that would require a special message by the governor to bypass the legal three - day waiting period before bills can be acted upon.

Similar to the wire fraud conspiracy charge, this count accuses Aiello and Gerardi of acting with Kaloyeros to defraud Fort Schuyler Management Corp. by rigging a request for proposals for Cor.

To prove the principle, they embedded a transparent polymer with quantum dot light - emitting diodes, plus wiring made from silver nanoparticles, and organic polymers that could act as circuit components.

As subjects ran on a treadmill wearing the exosuit, the actuation unit pulled on the wires, which acted as a second pair of hip extensor muscles applying force to the legs with each stride.

YEMASSEE, S.C. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) earlier this month conducted a rigorous three - day inspection of Alpha Genesis, Inc. (AGI), a Yemassee, South Carolina - based primate breeding and research facility, and found that the center was in full compliance with the regulations and standards of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), Company officials said today.

A long fiber called the axon extends from the cell body and is coated with a protective sheath called myelin, which acts like insulation on a wire, protecting the axon and facilitating sending and receiving electrical signals.

In most cases, what you get for your money is a box with three or four 9 volt batteries connected in series with a switch to turn it on, a light bulb in the circuit which will light up if the terminals are accidentally touched together (it acts as a fuse which won't blow in case of a short circuit), a couple of leads with clips and two silver electrodes which in most cases are small gauge silver wires.

You may look and act relatively normal with adrenal fatigue and may not have any obvious signs of physical illness, yet you live with a general sense of unwellness, tiredness, a tired, but wired feeling, or «gray» feelings.

The story goes from Philippe's youth, as a boy transfixed with the high - wire act at a local circus, to his young adulthood, performing in the streets of Paris.

Pearce, meanwhile, pulls off a tricky hire - wire act of his own, keeping the film's whodunnit structure tightly screwed without lapsing too far into genre contrivance — with the many, varied screeches and squeaks of Jim Williams» terrifically rattling score lending a significant hand in this regard.

It is an intimate high - wire act, completely open to interpretation, but with Weisz and Shannon as our guides, Complete Unknown doesn't leave us stranded alone.

Branagh has mastered the tricky high - wire act of simultaneously kidding the conventions he is being absolutely faithful to, allowing us to squeal with both fright and knowing laughter.

Recognizing an opportunity to recreate that incredible moment (one that only a small crowd of people had the privilege to experience) on the big screen, director Robert Zemeckis gives Petit's famous high - wire act the Hollywood treatment with the generically titled «The Walk,» and in IMAX 3D, no less.

In moving from Man on Wire to The Walk, we must revisit Petit's spectacular tight rope act with a hefty side of fromage.

It's a nimble high - wire act that Cretton, expanding on his 2008 short film of the same name, executes with poise and precision.

It's such a psychological high - wire act, unfolding with such austere formal commitment (usually in claustrophobic, locked - off medium - shot interiors) as to become almost unbearable, but if Chastain's is the titanic performance, Farrell's is the iceberg on which Julie wrecks herself — all the more lethal for how much is concealed.

In movies she acted in Cactus Flower (1969), Butterflies Are Free (1972), The Sugarland Express (1974) by Steven Spielberg, Shampoo (1975) by Hal Ashby with Warren Beatty, Foul Play (1978) with Chevy Chase, Private Benjamin (1980), Best Friends (1982) by Norman Jewison with Burt Reynolds, Swing Shift (1984) and Overboard (1987) with Kurt Russell, Bird on a Wire (1990) with Mel Gibson, Death Becomes Her (1992) with Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep, The First Wives Club (1996) with Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, Everyone Says I Love You (1996) by Woody Allen, HouseSitter (2002) with Steve Martin, The Banger Sisters (2002) with Susan Sarandon.

Whether it's former generals happily describing how they strangled innocent people with razor wire, government officials openly extorting business owners, a talk show audience applauding war crimes, or the sight of one of these generals dry heaving as he comes to understand what he did, The Act of Killing has no shortage of completely surreal and unbelievable moments.

It sees the Tramp perform a tightrope act through the help of a hidden wire, only for the cable to snap, leaving him completely unaided with a long way to fall.

There's also a strange moment where Bishop is introduced torturing a lickspittle fur trader by garrotting him with a length of wire that's been tied to a wall — incidentally, the exact method employed by Indonesian warlord Anwar Congo in Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing.

Deadline is reporting that «High Wire Act» has added more cast members and is now moving forward with ShivHans Financing.

On the less sympathetic side, we get Dixon (Sam Rockwell, in a daring, high - wire act of a performance), a patrol cop with accusations of race - based torture against him.

Mazur's high - wire act is contrasted with his daily life as a suburban dad with a wife he adores (Juliet Aubrey), who wishes her husband would take a retirement offer rather than risk all of their lives.

I had long assumed that this fact — along with the directorial high - wire act that Dunkirk posed — would make him a frontrunner in this category, especially with Three Billboards» Martin McDonagh having failed to receive a nomination.

What Blazing Saddles does do well with regard to satire is a high wire balancing act, at once taking shots at racism and government politics, as well as satirizing and sending up the Western genre and the Hollywood industry, what would become a trademark of Brooks» work (Spaceballs, anyone?)

Recognizing an opportunity to recreate that once - in - a-lifetime moment on the big screen, director Robert Zemeckis gives Petit's famous high - wire act the Hollywood treatment with this adaptation of the unbelievable true story.

But ever resourceful Alex, seeing an opportunity to have the circus tour the states (equaling a free trip home), instructs the performers to liven up their acts and combine almost a Cirque du Soleil treatment with ridiculously complicated trapeze acts (by Gia and Alex), high wire acts (by Gloria and Melman), and cannon shots (lucky Stephano).

The Telecommunications Act of 1934 established: «For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world - wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting -LSB-...]

So I was having trouble with my 96 accord it was sputtering and Hesitant replaced plugs and wires checked my EGR it was good then suddenly out of nowhere it stalled out on me while driving and now it won't start it acts like it wants to but it won't turn over I smacked the starter a few times this is the first time its happened

Bennett, who started work on The Mothers nine years ago when she was seventeen, walks a high - wire act: treading complicated story arcs, maturing characters and voice and tone with impressive panache.

The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.

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U.S. federal law under the Animal Welfare Act allows breeders to keep animals in cages with wire flooring that are stacked on top of each other.

Since 2009, 14 of the 18 primary suppliers have violations to the Animal Welfare Act, including shelters with very high temps, excessive feces, no heat, unlicensed personnel performing surgeries, unattended bite wounds, poor ventilation, feet dangling in wire floors, dirty dogs, accumulated grime and lack of veterinary care.

• Start giving your dog something else to do, another response in greeting context: — Teach your dog to fetch a toy, then instruct dog to go fetch that toy when you arrive home or are in a situation that usually elicits submissive urination, or — Give the dog a treat or bone — the dog becomes involved in the pleasurable act of eating / chewing, thus replacing the submissive urination response, or — Play tug with your dog to elicit another hard - wired behavior, predation.

Under the federal Animal Welfare Act, it is completely legal to keep a dog in a cage only six inches longer than the dog in each direction, with a wire floor, stacked on top of another cage, for the dog's entire life.

Furthermore, the habitat comes with four plastic clips, as well as a clip located on the front door which acts as a latch that can lock the wire top of the cage to the pan on the bottom.

Aside from that, the wire fox terriers are great with kids, so they also act as the perfect home dogs.

Newtown Social Club offers rock show most nights of the week, with popular Australian acts and cult international artists sharing the space, while underground venues like Red Rattler and Black Wire nurture active punk, jazz, and queer performance scenes.

This intricate form sets the visual tone for the balancing act performed by the others with wires that suspend them from all directions.

The Mexican artist often works with local artisans to fabricate her labor - intensive objects; for her solo presentation at the New Museum Lobby Gallery in January of 2016, Camil installed a maze of free - standing wire - frame panels that acted as a display system for a ceremonial gift exchange.

From the agitation of the elliptical spots that inaugurated his precocious beginnings in the early 1960s, to the torrents of impasto with which he sprayed his way through the 1980s and 1990s, followed by more experiments in texture and paint application — not all successful, but never diffident — Poons's career has been something of a protracted high - wire act, dedicated to the pursuit of painting on its own terms.

In the wire story, Dr. Pachauri said scientists can analyze the dangers associated with global warming, but that it's up to politicians to respond and act.