All the signs from Congress suggested Obama was heading for defeat, at least in the House, in his quest for approval for military action.
The boy grows up to be a case-hardened criminal (Cliff Robertson, vainly affecting a tough-guy accent) whose single-minded quest for revenge anticipates the action movies of the '70s (and seems to have exerted a direct influence on Quentin Tarantino).
Whenever cities engage in this innovative, ambitious and responsible task of change for integrated sustainability, an undoubtedly major amount of learning emerges; and vice versa, sound knowledge/best practices on how to proceed with local sustainability oriented change processes could be a firm support for local actors in their quest for effective and efficient action.
The quest for freedom also requires action.
In a flash you spring from tourist to tormented, your goal shifting to a quest for survival as, using the action button, you begin to dig a cave with your bare hands in search of shelter.
Lurking beneath the surface of "A Thief's End's" action — the quest for one last fortune of nearly unexplainable wealth — and behind the smirks and one-liners of Nathan Drake, the game's leading man, is a character drama.
There is an ongoing quest for new drugs with glucocorticoid actions without the potential to cause harmful effects, such as selective glucocorticoid receptor agonists, but the application of a new compound in clinical practice will probably not occur within the next few years.
The liberal quest for absolute "equality" (epitomised in affirmative action for non-whites or women) encouraged adversarial attitudes and undermined appropriate legitimacy.
"Maybe if I'd explained the movie in those terms, that it was more of a spiritual quest for a veteran who had seen action and got lost, people might have responded differently," he said.
With the documentary's many byways of unresolved family conflict and stifled memory, it could be twice its seventy-minute running time, but Wilkerson's purpose appears to be less a matter of personal history than of personal confrontation with history — and a quest for the personal basis of political action.
