Sentences with word «abject»

«I know kids can overcome poverty, but when students are living in abject poverty in segregated communities with poor health care and housing, that makes the work for our teachers all the more challenging.»

To date the LATA Foundation has successfully supported fourteen projects across Latin America including a sewing school in Mexico, a reforestation programme in Peru, turtle protection in Venezuela and a project to provide clean water to a community of a thousand people living in abject poverty in Nicaragua.

Evangelical Catholics, supporters of the constructive working of the marketplace that we are, took well to the teaching of Centesimus Annus for it provided a vision of how to see both the accomplishments of free markets in the growth of all economies - and, most specially» the rise of millions of individuals from abject poverty in a short span of years.

The methodology isn't perfect, and the history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity.

His once great legacy has been overshadowed by years of abject performances resulting in complete failure.

That will also signify United's decline and a fourth year of failure, even after the arrivals of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Paul Pogba, which could be classed as abject failure.

I like how in the span of two years Inkopolis went from abject horror at the thought of other sea - life being cannibalized to «Y» know, Sean's relatives are actually pretty tasty.»

Nestor looked at the Sergeant with abject fear.

It's an area overrun by poverty, yet despite the tragic circumstances there's a poetic beauty to Dayveon that prevents it from descending into abject misery, even when Day, despite the best efforts of his sister's boyfriend, Brain (Dontrell Bright), falls in with a local gang; drawn in by their sense of brotherhood and camaraderie.

You and I will not allow it, and the millions of youths who are pining away in abject lack in spite of going to school and who were deceived to being foot soldiers in 2015 will obviously resist it legitimately.

While the movie's tone never dips too, too deep into abject misery, there are enough moments of solemnity that when a joke about T'Challa's dad sandals pops up, you're not really prepared to laugh quite that hard.

Just very occasionally, and that is usually when the team has been rightly slaughtered for regular abject displays by not turning up and having their courage questioned.

More impressive is the way the front axle maximizes the shove away from tighter turns: there's no limited - slip differential fitted on our car (it's optional), and yet the traction control is triggered only by abject hooliganism from the driver.

His article, «Fatwas and Fags: Violence and the Discursive Production of Abject Bodies» is available in The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.

A team that capitulated in the Carabao Cup final and embarrassed the Club with the most abject surrender of a performance any Wembley final has ever seen.A team with no obvious signs of improvement bearing in mind this Manager some how over achieved last season by guiding us to the heights of a FIFTH place finish after we managed SECOND the season before.Note I have not even mentioned getting knocked out of the FA Cup by a Notts Forrest reserve side that have hardly won a game since.

Given the figure's recent return in painting, it's striking how little mention has been made of its appearance (and decomposition) in abject art of the 1990s.

Two senior members of the university's administration have responded with abject apologies.

Lady Garden plays with the cliché of the flower as a symbol of femininity and innocence, however Goodman's flowers have cavernous throats and protruding tongues and create an uncomfortable push - pull between the seductiveness of the shiny, slick flower forms and the visceral, abject nature of the false nails from which they are made.

So, I ask myself, if the opponents of GMO technology, the one technology that I am about as close to an expert as one would want to be, are building their case on abject lies, distortions and groundless fear, what should I think about the other areas they are so passionate about?

There are here in these posts many who either in ignorance or abject hatred of all that is good express lies and indecent remarks to oppose the pilgrimage of faith.

Buggenhout works with what he describes as abject material: everyday objects detached from their original context and then reused.

Moore first learned about such abject poverty when he answered a simple request from a local pastor.

It's a miracle, a golem, capable of illuminating the rawest humanity in one stroke and of exhuming the most abject failure of human impulse in the very next.

As in The Meyerowitz Stories, Baumbach's work is most insightful when characters perform an ugly tightrope walk between fashioning themselves as triumphant rebels and having to confront their own abject state of being.

As Raimi regular Bruce Campbell, who starred in the movie — and also has a small role in Hudsucker — described it: «Crimewave was a lesson about abject failure — no matter how you slice it, the film was a dog.»

There are 31 failures in the UCL each year and being one of those 31 for the past 10 years is not abject failure.

Curated by Michael Duncan and part of the Getty Foundation's initiative «Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 - 1980,» L.A. RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945 - 1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy is accompanied by a 208 page catalogue, a much - needed reference for the study of post-war American figurative art.

London - based artist Paul Kneale is initiating his participation in the upcoming September group show Abjects at Import Projects and helping wrap up Berlin's Project Space Festival with a performance and talk at the Berlin gallery on August 29.

Here, then, are five more — well, technically at least seven more — triples, quadruples and quintuples from the long and proud European Cup / Champions League tradition of abject humiliation multiple goalscoring.

In truth, Jose Mourinho has also faced the same problem this year after abject displays against the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea, but he secured three trophies in his first season in charge last year and qualified for the Champions League.

But just try to remember that the only way such abject stupidity (and those who spew it) wins out is if you let it taint your happiness over the magic presently occurring in any way.

Last night's abject defeat against Sunderland was epitomised for me by the sight of a young kid crying inconsolably as I plodded down Sir Matt Busby Way before crossing the tram tracks and heading home with a heavy heart.

Degas, on the contrary, emphasized the grotesque, even abject aspect of the naked body.

The multi-talented artist makes abject representational works drenched in absurdity and pathos live on his show while running on a treadmill, mixing drinks and taking calls from the audience.

By using quotidian, often abject materials, Arte Povera artists aimed to break down the barrier between fine art and the rest of life.

«My mother had a saying that she doled out after every small injustice, every heartbreak, every moment of abject suffering.

Moreover, regarding Mr. Cuomo, his father's «abject poor of Essex County» speech in San Francisco (to urban Dems who regard Rural Upstate New Yorkers as backward)... was about her constituents.

Zamperini is taken to a Japanese POW camp, where he is treated with abject cruelty by captors that hope to destroy him.

What's more, I think it's dangerous to every new parent who beats him - or herself up over not being perfect and feeling abject adoration every second of every day.