Sentence examples for in running on empty from inspiring English sources

Whether you believe the most or least dire predictions made in "Running on Empty" (March 13), or fall somewhere in between, there can be no doubt that the present administration has wasted an opportunity to address a problem that is not going to go away: our reliance on fossil fuels.

He received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his stirring performance as a gifted son of two anti-Vietnam War radicals on the lam in Running on Empty (1988).

It was River who hit the big time first – he received an Oscar nomination at the age of 18 for his role in Running on Empty about a family on the run from the FBI.

River Phoenix died of an overdose just two years after making Idaho, leaving behind a powerful legacy of performance which included Stand By Me, The Mosquito Coast and an Oscar-nominated turn in Running on Empty.

He had been rewarded for some of his work - he landed an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a boy on the lam with fugitive parents in Running on Empty, and had been named best actor at the 1992 Venice film festival for playing an itinerant rent-boy in My Own Private Idaho.

"Lucky Star" was featured in the 1988 movie Running on Empty in the scene where River Phoenix's character is in music class.

This actress, who first gained wide attention in the 1980's as a teenager in films like "Running on Empty" and "Parenthood," turns out to be made for the stage.

The story of parents forced to live underground with their choices and their children has been told in the films "Running on Empty" (about American 1970s radicals turned mom-and-pop fugitives) and "The State I Am In" (German radicals reminiscent of the Baader-Meinhof gang).

Looking back, I was highly motivated by the success of Stand by Me and River's performance in Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty.

Mr. Byrne's lawyer, Lawrence Iser, also represented Jackson Browne in his suit against Senator John McCain for using the song "Running on Empty" in a presidential campaign ad in Ohio in 2008; as part of a settlement, the Republican National Committee apologized to Mr. Browne and promised to seek artists' approval when using their music in commercials.

"Perhaps the biggest difference between Reagan and George W. Bush tax cuts is that, with Reagan, history gave us time to clean up the mess," Peter G. Peterson, who was Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon Administration, writes in his new book, "Running on Empty".