Sentence examples for slowing action from inspiring English sources

The opponents of meaningful action on climate change are, for ideological and financial reasons, heavily invested in stopping or slowing action.

President Clinton said today that the Republican majority in the Senate was purposely slowing action on his nominees to federal appeals courts and in some cases blocking people solely because they are black or Hispanic.

"EVERYWHERE new utopias are possible," a narrator declares in the short film "Slow Action" by the British artist Ben Rivers.

In November, China rushed out its stimulus plan with no public scrutiny, scant details of the spending breakdown and none of the acrimonious debate that slowed action in the United States.

Saudi Arabia has tried to obstruct informal meetings at the UN climate summit in Marrakech this week, and worries are rife that states which have not yet ratified the agreement could seek to slow action on carbon emissions.

"Slow Action," from 2010, pairs semidocumentary footage of remote and nearby locales (a Polynesian island; his birthplace of Somerset, England) with a deadpan voice-over that imagines them as mysterious civilizations of the future.

He also calls for a political union in which decisions would be made by qualified majority vote instead of unanimity, which has slowed action in the two years of the crisis.

WASHINGTON — Senate leaders are nearing agreement on rules changes intended to ease the procedural logjam on the floor after rising complaints from Democrats that Republicans were abusing the filibuster and other tools to slow action.

This year's highlight, at Gallery TPW in Toronto's gallery district, was the British artist Ben Rivers's "Slow Action," a beguiling 16-millimeter film that imagines remote Pacific islands as futuristic utopias.

In the conversion of film-to-video for display, 24Hz artifacts can be seen in slow panning scenes and Smooth 120Hz Film Motion eliminates this artifact for smooth, crisp, fast and slow action content.

That's not the case in ordinary film or TV, which is shot at 24 or 30 fps; 60 would slow action by half, and 120 to a quarter of its original speed.