Sentences with phrase «known in a former life»

Known in a former life as Evolution Studios, the tight - knit, high - calibre team is bursting full of creativity and expertise — and as developers who've worked on the likes of DRIVECLUB and MotorStorm, the team are already firmly on the map of racing excellence.

Not exact matches

From an anecdotal standpoint, I've known a large number of successful people, most of whom earned it the hard way but some of whom were raised by wealthy families, and those who went further in their careers and were happiest with their lives were the former, not the latter.

I know that because that was my job in a former life, and I'm the first one to admit that I never considered myself an expert.

«I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody who had quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, a personal touch with people, a sense of innate fairness,» the former president said.

And yet our entire medical system is designed with the former goal in mind — No, not to have us live forever, but to extend life no matter what the quality of those extra days, weeks, or years might bNo, not to have us live forever, but to extend life no matter what the quality of those extra days, weeks, or years might bno matter what the quality of those extra days, weeks, or years might be.

I know broadcast meterologists» first job is to protect life and property, but on this Earth Day, I wonder how many of my former colleagues have mentioned climate change in their longform coverage of these natural disasters.

«The audience didn't know what to make of it,» recalls Jim Downey, a former Saturday Night Live writer watching in the audience that night.

In retaliation to the chain's stance on gays, the former CFO went through a Chick - fil - A drive - thru and hurled insults at a female employee, telling her «I don't know how you live yourself and work here.»

But instead of a joint announcement, Christopher Wylie awoke early Saturday in London, where he lives, to the news that Facebook had published a blog post announcing the suspensions of him, his former employer and one other person for allegedly mishandling Facebook data in an incident that happened in 2014 and had been known to Facebook for more than a year.

Asked for a wish - list of what might help to arrest the decline of the Church in its former heartlands, he is emphatic and seems to relish making a list... one which rather chimes with what many other thinking Catholics would offer: «1) strong, evangelically assertive bishops who know how to handle the media and can call the people of the Church to live out their vocation as missionary disciples.

Yah, I know what burnt out can look like (in a former life I was a youth pastor for 8 years).

I know what my former pastor believes his role is in the life of the church members, but I have come to believe he is completely wrong.

Firstly, as all his social media followers will know, the former Real Madrid fan simply loves living in London and will not be keen to leave.

No if the players, former players the board and over half the fanbase support a specialist in failure, then you know what you've become.A FAILING CLUB.You'll have to let those with the strength and amplitude of being able to live with everything that is going around the club do as they wish.We predict for change but change might not come for a long time.Wenger might not leave unless he is forced to.But the protess for change are weak and the board members are fine with his achievements I

Mike LayPort, who has the distinction of being the fastest roller skater in America, lives in a 22 - room mansion off Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, with (above, in descending order) his father, Lee, a realtor who in the mid -»40s converted the old Mack Sennett studio into a roller rink known as the Palace Arena; his mother, Vivian: his brother, Patrick, a former senior men's four - mile - relay roller - skating champion who now manages the family gift shop; Patrick's wife, Carolyn, and their children, Kathleen and Pat; his wife Donna, an artistic (or figure) roller skater; and Sam, a Labrador retriever.

In honesty, I would not write a memoir of my sexual reawakening post-divorce (yes, I had that, too, even though my former husband and I had a happy and active sex life right until the end) because I don't think my kids, at 20 and 23, want to know too much (or anything, really) about my sex life.

Most divorcees learn relatively quickly that although we're no longer married and living together, we still have to deal with our former spouse in their continuing role as our kids» mom or dad.

Game Changers is a web series developed by the National Alliance for Youth Sports in which well - known and respected professional and collegiate coaches and current and former athletes sit down to share incredible insight on their lives; discuss the influential coaches and parents who impacted them growing up; and reveal how those experiences not only led to their success in sports but enabled them to become respected and productive members of society.

It didn't hurt that Brissa, a former Bolingbrook resident and father of three who has lived in Naperville for nearly eight years, was well - known in the area.

He knew I worked in a research lab back in my former life before kids.

The administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan had lived in denial up till three weeks after the news of the abduction broke, saying no schoolgirl was kidnapped in Chibok.

He said no fewer than five million people living in the Lake Chad Basin countries had been displaced by the depletion of the lake due to climate change, noting that the shrinkage of Lake Chad, a former island sea, had resulted in increased social conflicts, high rates of migration and cross border movements.

Here's what I know from having taught in one of my former lives.

While he didn't go nearly as far as his fellow GOP leader in office for the 9/11 attacks, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said he once told President Bush he wanted to execute bin Laden himself, Pataki did say he was «happy» to hear that «this butcher, this mass murder» is finally no longer in the land of the living.

Former President Mahama speaking during the maiden lecture of the Ghana Institute of Social Democracy, a political training institute set up by the NDC said people are no longer interested in how they can work to better the lives of Ghanaians but, rather, that of their own.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m recorIn the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m recorin the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.

An international team led by anthropologist Dr. Michaela Harbeck from the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy (SAPM) and population geneticist Professor Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now performed the first genomic analysis of populations that lived on the former territory of the Roman Empire in Bavaria, Germany, from around 500 AD and provided the first direct look at the complex population dynamics of what has popularly been known as the Migration Period, or «Völkerwanderung» in German.

The former star of Party of Five and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer is embarking on the fourth season of Ghost Whisperer, the creepy hit drama in which she plays Melinda, a young newlywed able to pass messages from the dead to the living.

Personally, I only knew one person in my life who fasted for religious purposes — my former Moroccan co-worker.

Upon receiving the liquid, iodine (guessing it was radiated iodine), little did I know combined with Hashimoto's I am having to take synthetic hormone for the rest of my life (this was the standard procedure back than in former Yugoslavia it seems).

In a statement, the former MP said: «It is completely unacceptable that neither of the two leading dating apps display safety alerts or notices at any point from download to real life use, not even anything as simple as meeting somewhere public and letting a friend know where you're going.

Over the decades, the team has received quite a few wedding invitations from former clients, and it's always a gratifying feeling to know their work makes such an instrumental difference in people's lives.

It might seem obvious enough, but most guys using international dating sites know virtually nothing when it comes to life in the former Soviet.

The entire agency has been disavowed, and for good, it would seem, but Hunt is on the track of a way - underground terrorist entity known only as «the Syndicate» and won't let go, not even when Hunley orders Hunt's former colleagues William Brandt (Jeremy Renner: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Kill the Messenger), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg: Man Up, The Boxtrolls), and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames: Piranha 3DD, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard) to hunt him down and bring him in.

The Enemy Within (Espionage Thriller, Mid-Season) Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter) is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison.

In her current incarnation in the film, she is Alice, a researcher who insinuates herself into the life of a man who happens to be the friend and co-worker of Tom (Michael Shannon), a former lover who knew Alice back when she was Jenny, before she started escaping into other liveIn her current incarnation in the film, she is Alice, a researcher who insinuates herself into the life of a man who happens to be the friend and co-worker of Tom (Michael Shannon), a former lover who knew Alice back when she was Jenny, before she started escaping into other livein the film, she is Alice, a researcher who insinuates herself into the life of a man who happens to be the friend and co-worker of Tom (Michael Shannon), a former lover who knew Alice back when she was Jenny, before she started escaping into other lives.

For everyone else, you might be interested to know that the first trailer for the Netflix revival of the show, Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life, features a little joke about the former of those big screen superhero battles, albeit at the expense of Ben Affleck.

Little is known about the role on film, however in comic books Black Manta is a man from the surface world who now lives under the ocean and has sworn revenge on his former home.

I don't know if Greg and Tommy's interest in Dean as seen in Disaster Artist was a real - life coincidence or if it was added for the movie, but if it's the former, that parallel is telling.

Considering the backdrop of Brooklyn's music scene (music for the film was written by former Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice, who are known together as the duo Jenny and Johnny) we can expect to hear Hathaway sing again, as she did in her Oscar - winning turn in 2012's «Les Misérables» — and considering that she «faces the reality of her life,» we can probably expect that self - expression through music reunites her with her estranged family and enables her to move past her arrested development.

«The Enemy Within» In this fast - paced, spy - hunting thriller, Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter) is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prisoIn this fast - paced, spy - hunting thriller, Erica Shepherd (Jennifer Carpenter) is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prisoin American history serving life in a Supermax prisoin a Supermax prison.

Sort of a Russian companion piece to Erik Gandini's nonfiction Videocracy, which looked at modern Italian life and the high - glitz, low - information media culture promulgated by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, documentary Putin's Kiss throws a light on dissident voices and oppositional political groups in the former Soviet Union, where once - and - present president Vladimir Putin has in ways both subtle and not - so - subtle encouraged the stifling of political foes and those seeking greater governmental transparency through a youth group known as Nashi.

Amongst those who live through the crash are several prominent characters; Jack (Matthew Fox), a skilled surgeon who becomes the unofficial leader of the group; Kate (Evangeline Lilly), a beautiful, but tough woman with a dark past; Sayid (Naveen Andrews), a former Iraqi soldier who is good with electronics; Michael (Harold Perrineau), a head - strong man who has just recently taken custody of his son, Walt (Malcom David Kelley); Claire (Emilie de Ravin), a young woman who is 8 - months pregnant; Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), a washed - up rock star who clings to his band's one hit; Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yoon - jin Kin), a Korean couple who don't speak English; Hurley (Jorge Garcia), an obese young man who is very laid back; Locke (Terry O'Quinn), a man who seems to know about hunting and weapons; Sawyer (Josh Holloway), a scoundrel who hordes items he finds in the wreckage; and Boone (Ian Somerhalder) and Shannon (Maggie Grace), spoiled rich - kids siblings.

I do know that they were popular, not only because of the game play, but because they have a cinematic feel to them, with unfolding storylines and, in later editions, well - produced live - action cut - scene sequences featuring well - known actors like Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys - Davies, and even former porn queen Ginger Lynn Allen.

No matter the medium, Justin Simien «lives in the question»; advice given to the former actor by his acting teacher Suzanne Phillips Jennings.

The 67 - year - old actor - who has a daughter, Mary, 32, with former partner Diana Quick - found fame relatively late in life thanks to his role in 2003 movie «Love, Actually» and he wishes he'd known such success would come eventually when he was younger as it would have saved him a lot of stress.

«I have known a generous abundance in my adult life,» said a former entrepreneur who had grown up in poverty and was now, at sixty, trying to master a pair of courses in quantum physics, «and that has allowed me the freedom to take the risks of creating a new reality for myself.»

Linda Eberhart, a former administrator who was involved in negotiations for the current contract in 2010, knew that research showed a year or two with a bad teacher could change the direction of a child's life.

However, even though most have left to find a better life, many of the older people tend to long for the life they knew when they were young - a time somewhere in the short period following the northern migration of the children and grand - children of the former slaves, when it was still possible to feel part of a small community in the big city.

In addition to deep archival research into the lives of her artist subjects, she spent more than a year interviewing former patients at a rehabilitation facility known as Seneca House, which was established in the early 1970s near the Potomac River in MarylanIn addition to deep archival research into the lives of her artist subjects, she spent more than a year interviewing former patients at a rehabilitation facility known as Seneca House, which was established in the early 1970s near the Potomac River in Marylanin the early 1970s near the Potomac River in Marylanin Maryland.