Sentences with phrase «abandoned town where»

A group of disparate strangers including a blind genius and a druggie who ripped off his ecstasy dealer converges on a small, abandoned town where they are promptly slaughtered one at a time by a grotesque and extremely foul - smelling creature.

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The details of Helen's pre-Australia life are the stuff of epics: orphaned at 6; abandoned at age 9 by an indifferent uncle; forced to live for years on the streets of her small Polish town (now part of the Ukraine); shipped at 16 to a Russian gulag to work as a slave laborer after Stalin and Hitler divvy up Poland; twice compelled to trek endless miles through Russian territory, ending up first in Uzbekistan and then in Persia; displaced to a refugee camp in Rhodesia, where she becomes pregnant — by an Italian soldier — with Sophia; finally arriving in Australia, where she's forced to temporarily place her daughrer in an orphanage.

Where The Rider gives us a protagonist ensnared by his responsibility to a dream — Brady can no more shake the memory of being on horseback than he can abandon his town or his loved ones — The Black Stallion paints a picture of animal kinship as the ultimate escape: from the vagaries of the human world, from one's own tragic backstory, from the limitations of one's youth.

The camera lingers on those uncannily silent streets where the banks are located: abandoned storefronts, signs advertising quickie loans, a sense of vast emptiness stretching out between the towns.

«Come What May» tells the intimate story of a handful of villagers (August Diehl, Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner, Alice Isaaz and Matthew Rhys) as they abandon their town to head for the coast, where they hope to be safe from the invasion.

I grew up in a town where the philosophical commitment to creating a system of public schools to enhance the public good had largely been abandoned.

Buchanen is the only jurisdiction that's close to Campbell's Run, a toxic, long - abandoned mining town where fires still burn belowground decades later, and where the charred body of a recently murdered teenage girl has turned up, stuffed into a gash in the earth's crust.

Our first stop was an enormous abandoned train graveyard outside the town, an orgasm for photographers and rust enthusiasts, but Fredo told us we had 10 minutes to explore the site so we could rush to the second stop, a gift shop that sold little llamas made from salt, where we would spend half an hour.

Vengeance takes players to exotic locations around the globe and also serves up a new chapter to the Zombies experience with «Buried,» where the undead residents of an abandoned subterranean Old West mining town have come back to claim their home.