Sentences with phrase «american life in the past»

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«I've dedicated the past 20 years of my life — first as a financial advisor and now as a financial educator — to providing objective financial advice to millions of Americans via my books, seminars and media appearances,» Bach said in a statement.

ST. PETERSBURG — While protesting is an intrinsic part of American culture, protests have had a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, with events like last year's Women's March and this weekend's March for Our Lives.

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He puts the current caravan of Central Americans in historical context and calls on America to avoid the injustices of the past and live up to our ideals as a leader in the post-World War II... Continue reading»

Dimitri Cavalli, source of many WWAI items over the past few years and author of the Washington Examiner story from which these quotes are taken, explains the change this way: Back then, Lynn was defending progressive causes, but now that «the so - called Religious Right has eclipsed the influence of the Religious Left in American public life,» it's time to shut down religious influence.

For each writer, the past is very much present in American Catholicism in the form of three decisive years: the 1965 conclusion of Vatican II; the 1968 release of Humanae Vitae («Of Human Life»), Pope Paul VI's encyclical which banned artificial contraception; and the 1978 election of Pope John Paul II.

It is our duty as Americans to know and appreciate the systems of belief — the mythic cosmologies, the scientific laws, the common - sense attitudes — that in times past have served to give coherence and purpose to our life together.

A son of missionary parents who spent most of his life and career in Latin America, he had served as president of a conference in the American South for the past five years.

Certainly he and others could not have anticipated the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, the single most important event of the past half - century in reconfiguring the socio - political alignments in American life.

In the half - century now past, the dominant view among American Jews was that religion should be rigorously separated from public life.

What is unambiguously clear, however, is that African - American funeral rites reflect an unshakable religious conviction that ultimate meaning and value rests «in God's hands,» and that while we do not know the programmatic details, we remain certain the value of our past life can be entrusted to God's care.

plz leave people alone im a phd of the o'ccult i am a follower of aleister crowley i've read the bible & the koran & i remember that ur god of the so called bible said judge not 4 2 judge is 2 be judge leave islam alone just because of 9/11 99 % of americans can not get over the past most people r still carryin on over pearl harber & that was 69 yr's ago get over this ur so called christans need 2 do what ur jesus said 4give 4giveness is the way 2 hevan there r nuts in all religons but most people r in hell 4 judgeing others that ur lord - god is the 1 who judges so let him do his job & do what jesus said turn the other check his job is 2 lead ur life as he did 4giveness islam is a great peaceful religion true islam is peaceful loving & 4giveness is the greast america grow up

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Now with Panama invaded, we Latin American Christians feel indignant when we hear the count on North American victims of an operation that was planned with evil intentions and hypocrisy, and yet nothing is said about the hundreds or thousands of Afro - Indo - Latin American lives... destroyed physically or psychologically by such an abominable adventure, which is a repetition of past crimes in Santo Domingo, Grenada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador... etc., in an endless list.

Looking past that fact is spitting in the face of the millions of people who were tortured and killed by his orders, as well as the thousands of American and Ally soldiers who laid down their lives to stop him.

This possibility, I suspect, may lie close to the reason why Jefferson comes in for such criticism from Hamburger: if anyone in early American history embodies an unwillingness to defer to the past, and embodies the notion that a constitution needs to serve the living rather than remaining bound by the intentions of the dead, it is Jefferson.

Paradoxically, though they refer to various sorts of pasts, they are also convenient tools for understanding how many Americans are interpreting the present and envisioning the future — though they may not know they are primitives or restorationists or that they believe in and measure life from a primordium.

I made this lovely delicious pumpkin cheesecake this past Sunday for Thanksgiving (none of us are American and we live in the Caribbean but my friends and I decided to have Thanksgiving dinner because well food and I volunteered to make dessert.

I'm an American living in Germany for the past three months.

By the time even an unsophisticated clientele could see that these just couldn't be the great players of the past, there was nothing with which to follow the act, except for further imports — many of whom treated their American season as a summer vacation, and, like almost every soccer player in the world, loathed the artificial surfaces covering 13 of the 24 present and former NASL playing fields, which took the life out of the game.

Next thing you knew, Nick Faldo was putting on the same green jacket he had won last year; Floyd was «as devastated as I've ever been in my life»; American golf was taking another cream pie in the face; and Deane Beman's favorite group, Foreigner, had won its third straight Masters and its sixth in the past 11 years.

American work culture needs to evolve past its current mindset that «all» means simultaneous success in all aspects of a working mother's life.

What happened to his wife during those two hours, McCrea and several other notable concussion researchers say, is a microcosm of what has happened in American living rooms throughout the past decade as public perception and media discourse have altered the conversation surrounding concussion.

American families have undergone dramatic changes in the past five decades, as the share of adults who are married has declined from 72 % in 1960 to about 50 % today.18 Compared with single fathers and fathers who live with a partner, married fathers work longer hours in their job and have the least amount of leisure time.

In the past, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended a rear facing car seat for the first year of a child's life, however, recent research has changed this recommendation.

In the past 30 years Americans have become more likely to live alone and less likely to join groups — ranging from PTAs to political parties to casual sports teams.

An analysis of trends in sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) over the past two decades finds that the drop in such deaths that took place following release of the 1992 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) «back to sleep» recommendations, did not occur in infants in the first month of life.

High - stakes lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week at a traumatic brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived at a consensus about what CTE looks like in postmortem brain tissue, findings presented this week in Washington, D.C., at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.

Even though Neandertals and modern humans interbred several times in the past 100,000 years, the DNA on the Y chromosome from a male Neandertal who lived at El Sidrón, Spain, 49,000 years ago has not been passed onto modern humans, researchers report today in The American Journal of Human Genetics.

In the past, she has served on the boards of the Massachusetts Life Science Center (Gubernatorial appointment), Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the advisory councils for the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, the Biology Directorate of the NSF, and the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and MedicinIn the past, she has served on the boards of the Massachusetts Life Science Center (Gubernatorial appointment), Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the advisory councils for the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, the Biology Directorate of the NSF, and the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicinin Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Hi Ladies i am a american now living in the UK, for past 10 years.

Our panel will include Laurie Wu, Immigration Attorney, John Adams, President of A Foreign Affair, past Singles Tour clients and real Russian ladies who have married American men and are now living in the USA.

In the past several months, I have noticed an increase in issues regarding Ghanaian «friends» who were met over the internet, or who are cyber dating through internet... as I am an American living in Ghana and married for 17 years to a.In the past several months, I have noticed an increase in issues regarding Ghanaian «friends» who were met over the internet, or who are cyber dating through internet... as I am an American living in Ghana and married for 17 years to a.in issues regarding Ghanaian «friends» who were met over the internet, or who are cyber dating through internet... as I am an American living in Ghana and married for 17 years to a.in Ghana and married for 17 years to a...

Our panel will include Ms. Jones, Immigration Attorney and Vice Chairperson of the Immigration section of the State Bar of Arizona, John Adams, President of A Foreign Affair, past Romance Tour clients and real Russian ladies who have married American men and are now living in the USA.

A 50 - year - old American magazine editor who lives in Paris says that he has used online personals over the past 10 years to orchestrate «adventures» — rendezvous in foreign locales with women from various European countries.

I'm a beautiful African American Dominican mix transexual from New York City looking for a forever lasting sugar daddy I'm fun I'm outgoing laid back and smart I live alone born and raised in Manhattan now living in the Bronx for the past 5 years I'm 25 years old and my zodiac sign is a Scorpio I enjoy travelling going out for long walks out to eat movies dancing and lounges.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

-RRB- about an American opera promoter's discovery that his prospective Italian in - law (real - life tenor Fabio Armiliato) is a talent only when he sings in the shower coasts nicely on its screwball premise and pays off in a funny set - piece that unfortunately goes on well past the punchline.

Allen's own subplot (this is his first onscreen appearance since Scoop) about an American opera promoter's discovery that his prospective Italian in - law (real - life tenor Fabio Armiliato) is a talent only when he sings in the shower coasts nicely on its screwball premise and pays off in a funny set - piece that unfortunately goes on well past the punchline.

Actors with Five or More Films in the Top 100: Jennifer Lawrence: 8 (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Winter's Bone, X-Men: First Class, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1) Jessica Chastain: 6 (Zero Dark Thirty, Interstellar, The Help, The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, Lawless) Amy Adams: 5 (The Muppets, American Hustle, The Fighter, Her, The Master) Leonardo DiCaprio: 5 (Shutter Island, Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street)

While life has changed significantly for American men in the past half - century, notions of masculinity remain tied to those that may have been passed down from this father to the son on his shoulders.

One of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema, it's funny to think that Anderson was endorsed by Martin Scorsese way back in the day when the «Mean Streets» director co-signed onto his then little - cared - for debut «Bottle Rocket» several years before Anderson would blow up into a cultural phenomenon (that wouldn't be until around «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou»).

Ken Loach — «The Wind That Shakes the Barley,» «Kes» Julia Loktev — «The Loneliest Planet,» «Day Night Day Night» Ami Canaan Mann — «Jackie & Ryan,» «Texas Killing Fields» Lucrecia Martel — «The Headless Woman,» «The Holy Girl» Adam McKay * — «The Big Short,» «Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy» Deepa Mehta — «Midnight's Children,» «Water» Ursula Meier — «Sister,» «Home» Rebecca Miller * — «The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,» «Personal Velocity» Karen Moncrieff — «The Dead Girl,» «Blue Car» Cristian Mungiu * — «Graduation,» «4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days» Anna Muylaert — «The Second Mother» László Nemes * — «Son of Saul» María Novaro — «The Good Herbs,» «Lola» Victor Nunez — «Spoken Word,» «Ulee's Gold» Euzhan Palcy — «Siméon,» «A Dry White Season» Park Chan - wook * — «Stoker,» «Oldboy» Lucía Puenzo — «The German Doctor,» «El Niño Pez» Lynne Ramsay — «We Need to Talk about Kevin,» «Morvern Callar» Dee Rees — «Pariah» Nicolas Winding Refn — «Only God Forgives,» «Drive» Patricia Riggen — «The 33,» «Girl in Progress» Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» Patricia Rozema — «Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,» «Mansfield Park» Marjane Satrapi — «The Voices,» «Persepolis» Sam Taylor - Johnson — «Fifty Shades of Grey,» «Nowhere Boy» George Tillman, Jr. — «Notorious,» «Soul Food» Luis Valdez — «La Bamba,» «Zoot Suit» Melvin Van Peebles — «Identity Crisis,» «Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song» Margarethe von Trotta — «Rosenstrasse,» «Marianne and Juliane» Lana Wachowski — «Cloud Atlas,» «The Matrix Trilogy» Lilly Wachowski — «Cloud Atlas,» «The Matrix Trilogy» Taika Waititi — «Hunt for the Wilderpeople,» «What We Do in the Shadows» James Wan — «The Conjuring,» «Saw» Keenan Ivory Wayans * — «Scary Movie,» «A Low Down Dirty Shame» Apichatpong Weerasethakul — «Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,» «Tropical Malady»

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

If 21 and Over is ANY kind of example of how today's American youth gets its jollies, I am perfectly content to either move to a Third World country or just be content to just live in the past.

Okay, I don't know what to make of this show, which is apparently an American adaptation of an Israeli series called «Danny Hollywood,» but they had me at the phrase «romantic time - travel musical,» and they kept me when they revealed that it was about a documentary filmmaker who somehow time - travels to the»90s, falls in love with the rock star she's been making a film about, and, upon being thrust back to the present, struggles to find a way to get back to the past and save the rock star's life.

A film unlike anything you've seen (or will see), Julie Dash's rapturous feature debut is set at a moment of wrenching cultural crisis, when the island - dwelling Gullah — former African slaves living off the coast of South Carolina — decide in August 1902 to head to the nearby American mainland and endure the pain of a second separation from their past.

But honestly, the most riveting theater I've seen in the past few years is produced locally, by the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV where we now live.

It has played a part in the ineffective response to the employers offensive on American unions and living standards over the past four decades.

American cook and baker David Lebovitz has spent the past 10 years living, eating and cooking in Paris.