Those moves were widely perceived as an effort to limit the total box office of imported films, which were far outpacing local productions.

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Khalid was evidently perceived as not helpful to that effort, but the Saudis like to keep their folks happy.

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The BBC's Heba Saleh said the move appeared to be an effort to assuage public anger over a perceived increase in violent crime in the country.

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Unless you make a concerted effort, it can be easy to be perceived as insulated or distant.

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"PLM has been perceived as a big, expensive technology akin to an ERP-scale effort, " she says, referring to enterprise resource planning, another alphabet-soup software that tries to unite a company's operations on one computer system.

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