Sentences with phrase «confederacy of»

There is a loosely knit confederacy of street photographers, many of whom observe a code of behavior befitting a profession, but interaction between us is usually restricted to getting out of the way when we bump into each other on the street.

The Chiefs meet between the annual assemblies every three to four months in a forum called the «Confederacy of Nations».

There is a loosely knit confederacy of street photographers, many of whom observe a code of behavior befitting a profession, but interaction between us is usually restricted to getting out of the way when we bump into each other on the street.

• Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia • Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia • Confederacy of Mainland Mi» kmaq • Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia • Sport Nova Scotia • Phoenix Youth Programs • Eastern Front Theatre • The Duke of Edinburgh Awards • Basketball Nova Scotia • The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society • Halifax Refugee Clinic • ReachAbility • Brain Injury Association of Nova Scotia • Halifax Association for Community Living • Metro Community Housing Association • Shelter Nova Scotia (formerly Saint Leonard's Society of NS) • Nova Scotia Nature Trust • WWF — Canada • ARISS (Salvation Army)

McInnes Cooper lawyer John Hennessey, along with Don MacKenzie, executive director of the Mi «kmaq Confederacy of PEI, will represent the...

It is no wonder then that these tactics have transformed mainstream politics, and not for the better, at a time when our fourth estate is little more than a confederacy of activist sycophantic dunces.

It can be a «confederacy of dunces» instead.

A confederacy of dunces, rather — for, if there is a collective thinking, it's pretty asinine.

French whimsy, British royals and Liberian rebels vie for attention with adaptations of Misery and a Confederacy of Dunces, and a Lloyd Webber musical

In the Brulatour Courtyard, it's the time when Dawn DeDeaux's perverted portrait of Ignatius Reilly comes to life, converting the romanticism of the historic courtyard into the dark imaginings of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.

For battles from episodes 1 - III players can choose to fight for the Galactic Republic or Confederacy of Independent Systems and for battles from episodes IV - VI players fight for either the Galactic Empire or the Rebel Alliance.

In disputing that point, Vinjamuri points to John Kennedy Toole's «A Confederacy of Dunces» which was rejected by every publisher except Robert Gottleib of Simon & Schuster (who also discovered Joseph Heller's «Catch 22»).

If we had self - publishing then, we might have an unknown number of books from Toole to stand beside Confederacy of Dunces.

Whether it's cryptic messages in Charles Bukowski's poetry or inner logic of mince words in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces — we can handle that with ease without breaking a sweat.

What's the matter, are you sold out of Confederacy of Dunces this week...?

Barnhardt's novel earns a place on the bookshelf between J.K. Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons.»

Bowie's list also featured famed novels like George Orwell's 1984, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Anthony Burgess» A Clockwork Orange and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and music books like Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom and a collection of John Cage lectures and writings.

Genly Ai is an Earth - bore ambassador for a confederacy of planets called the Ekum

Genly Ai is an Earth - bore ambassador for a confederacy of planets called the Ekumen.

This has continued even as recently as Ignatius Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and Dudley Dursley in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Landsman has been told, by the same loose confederacy of physicians, psychologists, and his former spouse, that alcohol will kill his gift for recollection, but so far, to his regret, this claim has proved false.

«No Logo is an attractive sprawl of a book describing a vast confederacy of activist groups with a common interest in reining in the power of lawyering, marketing, and advertising to manipulate our desires.»

A Confederacy of Dunces.

Content — How to sign up for e-mailed alerting you to the Kindle Daily Deal, where I got great prices on The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen Ambrose.

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

«A Confederacy of Dunces» What Was It?

In fact, all the humans in the vicinity put aside their differences in defense of the planet in an uneasy confederacy of settlers, Indians and outlaws.

As the chest is vented and the victim breathes again, I was poignantly reminded of the heart valve that gave Ignatius Reilly so much concern in A Confederacy of Dunces, that funniest of all novels from sad New Orleans.

While Billy contributes his people skills to team - building what rival intern Graham (Max Minghella) calls «a confederacy of outcasts,» Nick teaches essentially the same lesson to beautiful thirty - year - old Google employee Dana (Rose Byrne), convincing the careerist that what she really needs in her life is a date, preferably with him.

The second thing is: If you thought Chris and Ansel were a confederacy of dunces, get a load of Frank (Frank Hvam) and his friend Casper (Casper Christensen), the least great Danes ever whelped.

A Confederacy of Dunces is my all - time favorite (and the Book - It Repertory Theater did an excellent version of it).

Confederacy of Dunces is on my list, and I also really wanted to read Fault in Our Stars.

Mytilene was a member of the confederacy of free cities that Athens gradually transformed into an empire.

John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, for example, presents a huge cast of characters, lost souls or reprobates all, who, pursuing their assorted vices and delusions, hilariously stumble toward grace and provisional redemption.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

So why would you bother with an executive suite full of strangers when, for the cost of some initial rent, you and your peers could start your own confederacy of soloists?

«What the feds need to do if they're going to advance a self - government agenda is to formulate legislation that allows them to constitute other bodies [and] pass legislation to substantiate collectives,» or confederacies of indigenous peoples, with which the Crown can negotiate.

«The feds are [now] trying to set up a legislative basis for a new relationship not based on bands but on larger groups of governments [such as confederacies of First Nations] and create the bases for these entities to exist,» Sanderson says.

Not exact matches

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

Thousands of white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members, and defenders of the legacy of the Confederacy have converged this afternoon for a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The decision came amid a larger trend of questioning Confederate memorials across the American South, given the Confederacy's legacy of violence, racism and white supremacy.

Nominally, the rally on Saturday was organized in opposition to a plan by local officials to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's top general, from Emancipation Park in Charlottesville.

Rebel Gold: One Man's Quest To Crack the Code Behind the Secret Treasure of the Confederacy, by Warren Getler and Bob Brewer.

There is the spirit of anti-christ then there is a coming world leader that will, at some point in the future, control a 10 nation confederacy only to set himself up a newly constructed Temple in Jerusalem and call himself God.

Dean Hall and others who urge elimination of any symbols relating to the Confederacy, however, propose their case is a simple moral argument about slavery.

Matthew McConaughey stars in this historical epic that tells the story of a real - life farmer who helped lead his own rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Thanksgiving guests included uncles who worked in the nearby coal mines, grandfathers who remembered fighting for the Confederacy, and aunts who were honest - to - goodness relatives of the American hero Daniel Boone.

At home I read a history of Georgia and another of the Confederacy.

The first issue to be examined, and one still sharply debated, is that of the socioeconomic and political nature of the formation of the Israelite tribal confederacy.

Again, reconstruction was largely imposed upon the South, so ill - equipped for conservancy and policy formation were the states of the Confederacy upon their readmission to the Union at the close of the war.