Sentences with phrase «other desperate men»

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We are all, at least some of the time, in the situation of the rich young man; we have more than we need, certainly more than others who are destitute and desperate.

In face of the desperate need for ministers on the frontier, the Cumberland Presbytery had licensed several uneducated but gifted men to preach and catechize, and had appointed others as exhorters.

Atletico Madrid were the team that each of the other semifinalists were desperate to avoid, but Arsenal, having had the misfortune of being paired with Diego Simeone's men, are perhaps the only surviving club capable of beating the Spanish outfit.

According to him, he was desperate at the time and accepted the man's offer and he followed the man and 11 other people to some place in Benin.

This site has also very shady members that seduce and lure desperate men to sign up with other pay sites.

Even if you are desperate for a date on Friday night, a man who disrespects you or can not hold a job will not be able to fulfill you in other areas.

The Odd Couple is as much about men's desperate desire for love as it is about their seemingly inability to be emotional or discuss their problems with other men.

And so over the course of an impossibly tense and punishing 134 - minutes, «Captain Phillips» puts its audience through an emotional grinder that pits these two men against each other in a desperate battle for survival that also includes a kidnapping, and the involvement of the Navy and merciless SEAL teams right out of «Zero Dark Thirty.»

Like Jim Jarmusch's 1995 revisionist Western, «Dead Man,» Slow West has the quality of a dream, poetic and beautiful, almost other - worldly, yet filled with an unmistakable sadness and a desperate loneliness, the flip side of the myth of the heroic pioneer: Brave, determined, and fiercely independent.

She is a lonely, desperate woman who knowingly holds on to a bad man because life has offered her no other opportunities.

There was also a lack believability in other characters - There was a desperate and half hearted attempt at a romantic storyline from Kate Mara's character and Sean Bean seemed to be completely incapable of playing the minor role of «man who looks after crew».

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

Recent polls show a solid majority of Americans reject the man - made global - warming theory pushed by Obama, the UN, and other governments desperate to impose new taxes and regulations on CO2 — a natural gas exhaled by humans and required for plants, human emissions of which make up a fraction of one percent of all the greenhouse gases present naturally in the atmosphere.

On the other hand, Gavin's mystery man seemed almost desperate to pre-empt me on this.