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Three years before Moby mixed Delta blues and gospel with techno samples on his hit record "Play," "Ass Pocket" teamed the bluesman Burnside with the alternative-rock trio Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, in an inspired, if volatile, attempt at college party music.
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It's all too easy to imagine Trump issuing an ultimate, thermonuclear "You're fired!" to China, Iran, or another nation and perhaps to the whole human race.* Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the "madman theory": he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile , in an attempt to intimidate them.
The filmmaker, though, says that his Jude Law movie-starrer — about a volatile crook's checkered attempt to start a life on Easy Street after being released from a long prison sentence — consciously sought to avoid one-big-score and other story lines traditionally found in heist movies.
In an effort to decrease its dependence on volatile agricultural markets, Kenya attempted to diversify its exports in the last decade of the 20th century, adding horticultural products, clothing, cement, soda ash, and fluorspar.
As the political climate in New South Wales became more volatile after Lang's attempts to abolish the Legislative Council and conflict with the Federal Government over debts, Bruxner emphasised the need that the Country Party remain independent of the United Australia Party (which had succeeded the Nationalist Party) amidst calls for the opposition to unite.
We did not test this blend alone in seed carrying assays; rather, these compounds were included with additional volatiles in an early attempt to create the most complete seed-like blends possible.
In an attempt to reassure volatile markets, Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, urged the cabinet to stand firm and warned of many shocks to the economy before it settled down to a consistent pattern of growth.
However, the most intriguing mode is an Evolve-style asymmetrical face-off, in which four co-op team-mates take on a player-controlled Night Hunter after dark; the humans must attempt to destroy Volatile nests which the Night Hunter is guarding.
* Somewhere around about quarter to five the next morning I persuade a totally demented Brian Robertson that his bottle of Jack Daniels and his young lady friend are possibly better off in his own room and that maybe it's a bad idea for his volatile Glaswegian temperament to be attempting to rationalize his place within Thin Lizzy at a time when his brain really does appear to be hurting.
In the larger centres, Aboriginal communities from widely differing backgrounds face innumerable hazards as they attempt to adjust to volatile urban politics.
In an attempt to ease the volatile situation Florestan ceded power to his son Charles, but this came too late to appease the Monégasques.
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The phrase "volatile attempt" functions as a noun phrase where "volatile" modifies the noun "attempt". It characterizes the nature of the attempt as unstable and prone to change. As Ludwig AI shows, it's primarily used to describe efforts in complex or high-stakes scenarios.
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