He acts as a sort of narrator but gives no narration relevant to the plot ; that job is reserved for the film's primary narrator, Timothy Farrell.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

Willow acts as a sort of middle child between Xander's immaturity and Buffy's weighty responsibilities.

The methylation of native DNA acts as a sort of primitive immune system, allowing the bacteria to protect themselves from infection by bacteriophage.

::" Team Obama ’ s anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte.

Some aspects of the resistance to the act, particularly the activities of the Sons of Liberty and merchants in organizing opposition, provided a sort of rehearsal for similar acts of resistance to the 1767 Townshend Acts.

When a charge is first made, it is brought before an initial review committee ( similar to a grand jury in secular criminal law ) whose job is to determine when a case should be brought and to supervise the Church Attorney who acts as a sort of prosecutor.

* Aerial acts, of the sort usually seen at the Circus

The Tubes, who mixed progressive rock with wild theatricality, and Journey, formed from among some of Carlos Santana's sidemen and eventually experiencing a peak as one of the most popular AOR acts in the United States, were virtually the only acts from San Francisco to gain any sort of fame in the mid-1970s.

It acts as a sort of gravitational pull that keeps the ENTP in orbit around reality.

Prostitutes depicted in Roman erotic art have fleshy bodies and wide hips, and often have their breasts covered by a strophium ( a sort of strapless bra ) even when otherwise nude and performing sex acts.

The government, however, argued that " a mountain of evidence " indicated that these acts in the aggregate did have a substantial effect ; for this proposition it relied on Wickard v. Filburn ( 1942 ), which held that Congress could regulate an individual act that lacked a substantial effect on interstate commerce if, when aggregated, acts of that sort had the required relation to interstate commerce.

Rather than suggesting individual, although concerted, measures of this sort, Kentucky was content to ask its sisters to unite in declarations that the acts were " void and of no force ", and in " requesting their appeal " at the succeeding session of the Congress .” The key sentence, and the word " nullification " was used in supplementary Resolutions passed by Kentucky in 1799.

This phenomenon of Galois representations is related to the fact that the fundamental group of a topological space acts on the singular cohomology groups, because Grothendieck showed that the Galois group can be regarded as a sort of fundamental group.

She preached that sinfulness could be avoided by not only treating men and women equally, but also by keeping them separated so as to prevent any sort of temptation leading to impure acts.

... Anarchists who rebel against every sort of oppression and struggle for the integral liberty of each and who ought thus to shrink instinctively from all acts of violence which cease to be mere resistance to oppression and become oppressive in their turn are also liable to fall into the abyss of brutal force.

More importantly, however, the nose acts as a sort of rebreather, filled with cavities designed to reabsorb moisture from the animals ' exhalations

A girl resembling Carole Hersee as she appeared in the test card acts as a sort of spiritual guide in the series.

Seeking advice, Jerry turns to an aging struggling artist ( Allen ) who acts as his oracle — and that includes trying to help sort out Jerry ’ s romantic life.

For example, whether a public policy is morally good might indirectly depend on God's creative acts: the policy's goodness or badness might depend on its effects, and those effects would in turn depend on the sort of universe God has decided to create.

Locals of Moomy city on Socotra island use the Dracaena resin as a sort of cure-all, using it for such things as general wound healing, a coagulant ( though this is ill-advised with commercial products, as the Daemonorops species acts as an anti-coagulant and it is usually unknown what species the dragon's blood came from ), curing diarrhea, lowering fevers, dysentery diseases, taken internally for ulcers in the mouth, throat, intestines and stomach, as well as an antiviral for respiratory viruses, stomach viruses and for such skin disorders as eczema.

She acts as a sort of enabler to her husband, putting aside her morals and happiness so that her husband can get what he wants.

Phonofilm's stock in trade, however, was not original dramas but celebrity documentaries, popular music acts, and comedy performances.

Laws were passed to criminalize such acts, and increased pressure from regulators and a series of lawsuits, settlements, and prosecutions curbed this business to a large extent following the 2001 stock market tumble after the Dot Com Bubble.

After the stock market crash of 1929, Congress passed a series of acts regulating the securities markets in general and mutual funds in particular.

In October 1994, an unidentified user of Prodigy's Money Talk bulletin board created a post which claimed that Stratton Oakmont, Inc, a Long Island securities investment banking firm, and its president Danny Porush, committed criminal and fraudulent acts in connection with the initial public offering of stock of Solomon-Page, Ltd. Stratton Oakmont sued Prodigy and the unidentified poster for defamation.

Themes covered include pornographic adaptations of classics such as Madame Butterfly, precursors of pornography clichés such as the encounter between the " musketeer " and the milkmaid, stock characters such as lascivious nuns and priests, and footage showing bestiality ( sexual acts with animals ), which according to the film-maker Michel Reilhac shows that " the modern porn industry did not invent anything – everything had already been filmed by our great-grandparents.

This literary device acts as a convenient conceit for the organization of a set of smaller narratives which are either of the devising of the author, or taken from a previous stock of popular tales slightly altered by the author for the purpose of the longer narrative.

If he uses it as a stock reserved for immediate consumption, he acts the part of a prodigal, and dissipates in the maintenance of the idle what was destined for the support of the industrious.

A method that is sometimes employed in Austrian legal writing to distinguish between Austrian and German law is to add a lower case " d " for Germany () and an " ö " for Austria () before the abbreviation of the respective code, e. g. " dAktG " and " öAktG " referring to the German and Austrian stock corporations acts.

Kyōgen plays are invariably brief – often about 10 minutes, as traditionally performed between acts of Noh – and often contain only two or three roles, which are often stock characters.

When not mounted, the stock acts as a holster.

In many cases, the stock purchase right ( which acts as an option ) can be traded at an exchange.

This acts as an incentive for downstream members to carry more stock, because the risk of obsolescence is borne by the upstream supply chain members.

In many cases, such as the cabinet-directed prohibition on foreign ownership for broadcasters and the legislated principle of the predominance of Canadian content, these acts and orders often leave the CRTC less room to change policy than critics sometimes suggest, and the result is that the commission is often the lightning rod for policy criticism that could arguably be better directed at the government itself.

Occasionally, this leads to bizarre acts of violence, such as in the case of Big Lurch, a former rapper who claimed his room mate was the devil and ate part of her lung.

The museum's claims are contradicted by former prisoners ' published memoirs and oral histories broadcast on C-SPAN identify the room ( and other nearby locales ) as the site of numerous acts of torture.

The main bar at King's is the site of informal meetings between students, whilst a venue known as the Cellar Bar, a small room in the basement of the college, acts occasionally as a music venue.

During a meeting in Mr. Furlong's ( Jon Stewart ) class, he enters the room and acts suspicious, leading to Mr. Furlong attempting to infect Zeke during a fight, but Zeke pulls out a pen filled with his drug, and jams it into Furlong's eye, which then shrivels the alien inside of him.

Upon meeting the beautiful, intelligent, wealthy, and assertive Clarissa, Alan falls instantly in lust, but after he seduces her atop her parents ' dining room table while her parents and Piers are in the next room, she insults his skills as a lover and declares that, once she is married, she will see to it that Piers no longer acts as Alan's lackey.

While the case continues on in circus fashion, Lee, becoming more emotionally detached begins taking bezadrine and acts erratically, collecting his own copies of the Dahlia case evidence and storing them in an El Nino hotel room.

The center, which acts as a Los Angeles Police Department stop-in center, has a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, unlighted indoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, a lighted football field, lighted handball courts, an indoor gymnasium with weights, a picnic table, and a lighted soccer field.

Between 1969 and 1970, many other high-profile acts would follow, including Harry Nilsson, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, the Steve Miller Band, and particularly Creedence Clearwater Revival, who recorded several albums in that room, and whose record, Cosmo's Factory was named after the " factory " at Studio C. Engineers and staff of that era also included Bill Halverson, Stephen Barncard, and Glyn Johns.

Containing room for nothing more than the uninhabited 49-metre-tall lighthouse, the rock acts as the barrier between Great Britain and the Atlantic Ocean.

The convention is also known for several unique attractions including Cinema Rex, a couch and recliner-filled movie room ; Theater Nippon, featuring anime ; Connie's Space Lounge, a music and entertainment venue ; COF < sub > 2 </ sub > E < sub > 2 </ sub >, a coffee bar ; CONsuite, hospitality and food ; Harmonic CONvergence, which features musical acts ; and the Dorian Gray Memorial Literary Lounge, a reading / writing setting.

The device can be used to travel to any time in the past. BRIn the film, the device consists of an empty room of mirror walls and acts more like an access way to a previously existing wormhole that connects our current time with a fixed time in the past.

He currently acts as Head of the FA Development Team overseeing the development made by players in the England Youth teams from under-16 to 21 level, as well as being part of the England Senior team back room staff.

The cross-coupling is carried out at room temperature with a base, typically an amine, such as diethylamine, that also acts as the solvent.

The framing of these paintings is as much a psychological container for the artist as the room is for the viewer, “ the perspective positions everything from within the picture along a core of space against which the frame acts like a grid, echoing the cuts of foreground, middle ground and distance within.

Likewise, Avalon and Axis were demolished in the fall of 2007 to make room for a larger venue that would be aimed towards more mainstream national acts.

The first films shot at the Black Maria, a tar-paper-covered, dark studio room with a retractable roof, included segments of magic shows, plays, vaudeville performances ( with dancers and strongmen ), acts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, various boxing matches and cockfights, and scantily-clad women.

Concert-goers can watch acts from the floor, the tables to the side of the room, or the second floor balcony.

Back at Julie's dressing room, the director barges in and acts in an inappropriate manner, eventually physically accosting Julie.

Circus Circus includes a 1, 572 room hotel and a casino which features free circus acts on a regular basis throughout the day over the midway which also offers 33 carnival games.

He acts as a double agent for RI-ON and Agent L ; once, under Saizou's orders, he loads a dimensional portal for Kohei and Hideaki to use to return to Earth, yet, using his computer skills, he unlocks the code used to keep Agent L locked inside the storage room.

The specialty of this particular room is that it acts both as a secret chamber and is also renowned for its artistic beauty.

They later get a hotel room with and a hooker, and engage in acts that Kenny photographs.