Sentences with phrase «american face i saw»

I wanted to be the next Connie Chung, a news anchor who was the sole Asian American face I saw on primetime television.

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However it's frustrating to see that African Americans and Native Americans are being killed at significantly higher rates than any other group, especially when the police officers responsible for those deaths — those of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner to name a few — rarely face criminal charges.

A lot of people like the book for its insights into what the white working class sees in Donald Trump and his promises to restore American greatness in the face of malevolent outsiders.

Anyone who has read Richard Williams's 2014 memoir, «Black and White: The Way I See It,» knows how much resentment he felt about the racism he faced growing up in the American South and how intent he was on preparing his tennis - playing daughters to handle being outsiders in a predominantly white sport.

The BCRI is, in large part, a museum of the civil rights movement; it is not only interesting and informative, but it is deeply powerful and affecting to see how white Americans (mis) treated African Americans, what motivated civil rights activists, and what they faced in their activism.

Facing inland, you can see Goff's spacious home and the flag of Uganda flying below the American flag in his yard.

Looking around the sanctuary, I saw more than one person among the 200 or so present had arched an eyebrow and displayed a look of amazement that such a question would be asked; some with the particular knowledge that American Jews have faced questions of whether their loyalty is divided between the United States and Israel.

The young face a more atomized world than did Americans fifty years ago, but even in young people's support for free college, we see their hopes of entering a world with steadier employment and more stable families.

If Kansas is the concentrated essence of normality, then here is where we can see the deranged gradually become normal, where we look into that handsome, confident, reassuring, all - American face... and realize that we are staring into the eyes of a lunatic.

After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for years, and why movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....

American people love to see true and real face of the world by news.

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

From the statistics, and after analysis from the American Linacre Centre, Lawler reports that: «Faced with that statistic, some analysts began to say that what had been seen as a crisis of paedophilia was really a matter of ephebophilia», a term meaning the sexual attraction of men towards adolescent boys.

The second challenge I see facing American churches today (I discuss the first one here) is how the Church engages postmodernism in American culture.

One could travel in this bicentennial year to a thousand American communities, and in each of them see instances of human tragedy directly based upon failures of justice and the breakdown of moral ideas — this in the face of operative legal systems.

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Segura flipped on the game and saw her country reflected like never before in the faces of its team: Jewish Mexican - American Jonathan Bornstein, Jersey boy Michael Bradley and Nigerian - American Oguchi Onyewu placing their hands over their hearts during The Star - Spangled Banner even as the Obama Administration announced plans to use drones along the southern border that the relatives of U.S. players José Torres and Herculez Gomez had crossed.

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Seeing as we have the better part of four years to figure this out, there is a new face in the USMNT camp this week that could be that first choice option that whoever, hopefully please, replaces American Manager Dave Sarachan can sharpie in on the team sheet.

Then Jamie faces the camera and exhorts American parents who like what they see at this «humble» school to «Get up off your asses and ask for it.

Or choose what's known as a convertible car seat, which stays in the vehicle and will see your baby into toddlerhood; it's designed to face the rear (for the first year at least; the American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends that toddlers ride rear - facing until they're 2 years old) as well as the front and will accommodate a child up to about 40 pounds (some also work as boosters for children up to 100 pounds).

For this Mayoral Mashup we spoke with voters attending a Republican mayoral candidate forum hosted by the Asian American Federation, asking one simple question: What do you see as the most important issue that our next mayor will face upon taking office?

But if Congress passes the American Health Care Act, which polls show the majority of Americans oppose, Republicans could face a backlash in the voting booth not seen since the 2010 mid-term election after the passage of Obamacare.

«They're going to be faced with a great nonviolent uprising from the American people and we'll see if they are able to handle this,» he said.

The egregiousness of bald - faced racism, in all of its ugliness, must be rejected and replaced with the kindness, solidarity and sense of togetherness that has made this great American experiment in democracy a shining example for all the world to see and admire for over two centuries.

He states in that interview, that he sees no purpose for Americans, who are licensed and registered to carry concealed firearms, to actively be prepared to protect their families friends and communities in the face of a mass shooting.

Some species are quite impressive, reaching six inches (15 centimeters) or more in leg span, while others can fit on the face of an American quarter - dollar coin (see Image 1).

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Look, I don't watch much TV (except maybe American Idol) but I bet I've seen that grandfatherly, smiling face of Dr. Neil Clarke Warren, the eHarmony founder, at least fifty times in the last year espousing how easy it is to meet that special someone.

Everything is made worse by uninspired acting by some normally reliable faces (Alan Arkin, in the father - in - law role Paul Dooley would have had a decade ago) and a few you probably thought you'd never see again (Judge Reinhold, who appears to be eating a lot of meals at All - American Burger lately).

by Walter Chaw Arriving right smack dab in the latter half of a decade in American cinema that saw digital «reality» supplant filmic «reality» (and appearing the same year as James Cameron's Forrest Gump: Titanic), Hong Kong legend John Woo's high - camp Face / Off directly (and presciently) addresses issues of identity theft, terrorism, and the digital corruption of reality and indirectly addresses Woo's émigré influence on the modern action film.

It could merely be seen as the march toward mortality captured in the picture plane, or, in name only, it could refer to the forever - changing face of the American Midwest, or the much - speculated deterioration of Woody's mental state.

This movie is a load of American Propaganda stuffed in your face and shoved down your throat untill you bleed red white and blue then after seeing stars and loads of stripes.

March 24, 2017 • Americans may see themselves working past retirement age, but to do that, they may face obstacles getting hired.

Canada Cup Masters Series — which took place a couple of weeks ago in Calgary, Alberta — saw some spectacular gameplay from some of the best competitors in two of the top titles today; American killers came up to challenge the Canadian locals in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, and CO GO1 showed up to face Canada's Teemo in a Dragon Ball FighterZ FT10, then going on to dominate the DBFZ brackets until a grand final against EG NYChrisG.

Depp, claiming Native American heritage, probably saw Tonto's striped face paint and feathers, and immediately thought, «With this costume, who needs a script?»

We also get to see a few new faces: a woman who looks strikingly like the original's Bonnie MacFarlane - leading some fans to wonder if it's her mother - and a Native American character who advises Morgan on needing extra firepower.

When he takes his son on a tour of colleges on the American East Coast, he finds himself face to face with them again and must confront his own feelings of failure, which leads to... Well, we'll have to see, won't we?

Considering the diverse and mature work she's done amid the «Hunger Games» movies, from «Silver Linings Playbook» to «American Hustle» to «X-Men: Days of Future Past,» it's a pleasant change to see her looking young and fresh - faced again.

It's the early»70s and Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys, «The Americans») is a U.S. military analyst who has grown angry over what he sees as the discrepancy between the grim, deadly reality of a failing Vietnam War effort and the government's public face of inevitable victory.

Cannes» line - up is otherwise stuffed with familiar faces and must - see titles, from American Honey — the first movie made in America by Fish Tank's Andrea Arnold — Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, Olivier Assayas» Personal Shopper, Jeff Nichols» Loving, Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta, Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World, Cristian Mungiu's Brillante Mendoza and the latest from Bruno Dumont.

The supporting cast, in particular Ciarán Hinds and Daniel Craig, are excellent, and it is a thrill to see familiar faces like Ayelet Zorer (Nina's Tragedies) and Moritz Bleibtreu (Agnes And His Brothers) scattered throughout — their presence in an American film likely reflects only the setting, but the multinational casting approach is one of Munich's strengths.

Her world premieres include Party People by Universes (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The White Man — A Complex Declaration of Love by Joan Rang (DanskDansk Theatre, Denmark), Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God by Roland Schimmelpfennig (Luminato Festival / Canadian Stage Toronto), Eclipsed by Danai Gurira (Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson (The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center), A History of Light by Eisa Davis (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), Angela's Mixtape by Eisa Davis (Synchronicity Performance Group, New Georges), Bus and Family Ties (Play Company for the Romania Kiss Me!

Especially significant was the Third Plenary Council, which met in Baltimore in 1884 and saw schools as central to their effort to meet the challenges facing American Catholicism.

Showcasing the new face of Acura, the restyled 2017 MDX is highlighted by the bold and distinctive diamond pentagon grille, first seen on the Acura Precision Concept that debuted at the North American International Auto Show in January.

We've seen many a famous face from the wizarding world grace the stands here in the Patagonian Desert — Ministers and Presidents, Celestina Warbeck, controversial American wizarding band The Bent - Winged Snitches — all have caused flurries of excitement, with crowd members scrambling for autographs and even casting Bridging Charms to reach the VIP boxes over the heads of the crowd.

If one were to look at silver / gold proof coins that are minted by / for / on behalf of the government, one could see that some coins would bear a face value, such as the 1/2 oz $ 25 American Eagle gold coins.

Let's just wait & see what happens — I don't think Americans are going to be too thrilled waking up one day to huge price increases across the board for much of their favourite stuff (or facing up, finally, to the painful reality that a major portion of American industry has long priced itself out of customers / existence).

Survey: Debt collection problems widespread — For the one - third of Americans who face collection attempts, threats, falsehoods and other abuses not unusual, survey finds... (See Debt)