The Double is regarded by Seattle fans and Martinez himself as the defining moment of Martinez's 18-year Major League Baseball career – which was played exclusively with the Mariners – and was one of several highlights of Mariners franchise history in which Martinez played a major role.
While it is in keeping with the feel and plot of the film, he believes it says something about Hollywood's apparent double standard regarding interracial sex.
Nevertheless, Cohen writes with bracing clarity on a subject obscured by euphemisms and double talk regarding Russia's so-called democratic renewal.
"Our goal is to work on the double oppression regarding women in our patriarchal and misogynist society and also to focus on bodily and sexual rights.
Video of the incident has spurred a national debate about sportsmanship, gender roles, double standards regarding aggressiveness and news media coverage and the sexualized portrayal of female athletes.
The great goof opens with a sly double entendre regarding "gait" and "gate" but it follows with an inspiration that's as much Jacques Tati as Jerry Lewis, as mechanically precise as it is freely inventive.
Six east European countries – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania – signed a joint demand that Europe's new "Stockholm Programme" include not only sentiments of double genocide regarding the second world war, but also a demand for effective criminalisation of opposing points of view.
Whether Mr. Obama was sincere when he said Monday that the United States had no hostile intent against the North will depend on "whether it applies double standards regarding our satellite launch," the spokesman said.
Late Tuesday, the bloggers who manage the Brotherhood's @Ikhwanweb account advised followers to watch an Al Jazeera report on Mr. Sanchez, which illustrated, they said, that the United States has "double standards regarding freedom of speech, or lack of, and anti-Semitism".
"My regret is that the public discussion surrounding my potential nomination blurred the facts in a number of recent cases and gave the appearance of a double standard regarding military justice".All of which is code for the revelation that 13 years ago General Ralston had an adulterous affair with a CIA intelligence analyst.
In many ways the obstacles Hardy's beleaguered characters face are as evident today as they were in his time: the unbridgeable gap between rich and poor, advanced education that favors the privileged, religious intolerance, and sexual double standards regarding honor and virtue.
