Sentences with phrase «about calamity»

Like I said about my calamity on the ice last week, we often just need to pay closer attention to what is right in front of us.

An important article in the Montreal Gazette notes that even as Canada's conservative leader Stephen Harper conveyed his grief about the calamity, the government was deeply cutting the budget of the agency responsible for safeguarding train transport:

1.4 percent is not much when you think about the calamity that we call the U.S. economy, and as I demonstrate in my article on book publishing, the AAP data misses a tremendous amount of publishing sales volume that takes place outside of the larger publishing houses.

I admire her courage in coming clean about this calamity and admitting that, in restrospect, she should've been willing to spend the money to hire an e-book formatter.

Though Hour Glass is about Calamity Jane, Jimmy Glass and Hour, the deeper theme is family.

Ugly and incomprehensible to anyone unfamiliar with the long - running game series, there is much that will baffle audiences about this calamity, but chief among these puzzles will surely be how this project attracted a terrific cast in service of so little.

New screenshots show the interior of a dilapidated hotel with graffiti that, the company says, gives hints about the calamity that left the world in ruins.

Others joined in, indignant, eager to tell a rare foreign visitor about the calamity that had befallen their pigs.

In earlier days there was a green sensibility without this concern, and today there can be great anxiety about calamities that await us without any green sensibility.

Not exact matches

Many of us understand that some in Congress have a short memory, but amnesia about what caused the calamity of 2008 is unacceptable and could get eerily ugly.

Nordstrom's founding family is reinventing their department stores as they restart talks with bankers about financing a buyout — but is the family's vision enough to survive the industry's calamities?

There is nothing illegal about buying depreciated assets after a financial calamity, in order to make money.

We can hold to eternal security while still affirming that most verses that talk about «salvation» affirm a conditional deliverance from some sort of temporal and physical calamity.

In a new edition of the New International Version of the Bible, «Game Plan for Life Bible, NIV: Notes by Joe Gibbs,» and a book of biblical devotions, «Game Plan for Life: Chalk Talks,» Gibbs writes frankly about many of his failures, about how just as his coaching career was soaring he was facing private calamities including a bad real estate deal that had him losing $ 35,000 a month and spiraling into bankruptcy.

Thank you for giving me the chance to express out but still I am hurt and a nice word will cool it of and guide me if wrong and about quitting I would because what I am doing now at CNN is taking almost my whole time since the Quran burnning issue and would out doubt I will go back to it and that's why I mentioned earlier that we back here worry about our daily bread and water for family support but needed from you in the free world to notice us out there and have your say on behalf of all heavenly beliefs that what is happening is wrong, One Nation Calamities to other nations benefit, profit?!

When the Bible uses the words «save» or «salvation,» it is almost never talking about eternal life, but is instead referring to some sort of temporal or physical deliverance from sickness, death, enemies, or other calamity.

Throughout biblical history, when people spoke and wrote about salvation, they were referring to physical deliverance from some sort of temporal calamity, such as sickness, premature physical death, enemies, and natural disasters like storms, floods, and famines.

The statement also warns them that the opportunity to surrender might not last long: «The reluctant Boko Haram members should therefore see wisdom in surrendering now, thereby saving themselves from imminent calamity that is about to fall on them, in the event of military mop - up if they continue in their unwholesome acts.»

Even civilized peoples ask and answer questions about the meaning of human life, the reality of their existence, the nature of the world and the calamities they undergo.

«Calamity» Clichy was a terrible and mistake ridden LB and I laughed my socks off when MAN City gave us a huge fee of # 7 million for a player I thought worth about fourpence.

No that's right Robert Mugabe would have never left lacazette on the bench, I'm only joking of course, I think so many of us are so annoyed, depressed and frankly really jacked off we're venting our frustrations and saying and doing things that aren't in our nature, I know I have and that's the real calamity of all this, a few old men have managed to divide our massive fan base in half, we all care about the Arsenal and have our own ideas of what's going on and the saddest thing of all is it's only going to get worse.

Still, whether we're the «good mommy» that Ayelet Waldman wrote about in Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace — the mom who «remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children... and enjoys all their games» — or just a good - enough mommy, we all know what being a mom involves.

MONDAY, MAY 18, NOON EST... the ladies of Looking Glass Lane reconvened our online discussion following our talk with Ayelet Waldman's about her memoir and latest book, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace.

Even climate change, which threatens the living condition of all traditional social orders and civilisations, discloses the scale of calamities brought about by this distinctively novel social sphere.

Rev. Owusu Bempah, who indicated he had the revelation from God, said he needed to inform Ghanaians about the impending calamity for it to be averted through prayers.

But, this is not about the landlord — it is about all of us; the City which does not seem to have a vision and purpose for its downtown, citizens who respond nobly to calamities such as Haiti, New Orleans, and September 11, but find it difficult to stand up and do something to preserve and protect what is most fundamentally decent and needed in our society.

Between now and then, humans will face plenty of other calamities: wars and pestilences, ice ages, asteroid impacts, and the eventual consumption of Earth — in about 5 billion years — as our sun expands into a red giant star.

Here's the wacky thing about us humans: We take a simple event, like a potential mate not calling us for four days, and spin it around and around in our minds until it becomes a calamity.

Jim and his best buds Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) decide to leave Stifler (Seann William Scott) in the dark about the upcoming nuptials to avoid any possible calamities but it doesn't take long for the Stifmeister to figure things out.

Her friend - in - need, Kevin (Ryan Merriman, Spin), reads a report from the internet about the events of the Flight 180 (from the first film), and they realize that they also might be victims of the same twist of fate, whereby the survivors of a calamity are eventually killed in the order that they would have died in the accident.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

BLAZING SADDLES was the latest in a long line of cowboy comedies (CARRY ON COWBOY and CALAMITY JANE being other excellent examples), but not only did it send up the canon, it stepped out of the movie, literally breaking the fourth wall, and becomes a comedy about cinema, ALL THE WHILE tackling racism in a subversive, clever and, most importantly, funny way.

There's nothing Beresford or Stepansky can do about the open - ended reality of the calamity, an arc that leads to an unsatisfying conclusion that probably should have shifted the focus to a look at what Flint looks like in fall 2017 and a clearer call - to - action regarding what can be done there and to prevent similar situations, rather than trying to land on a hollow «inspirational» ending.

Grand in every scope (especially the battles scenes where thousands clash with swords and shields), Troy is an interesting study of how selfish decisions and pride can bring about absolute calamity.

Rather than push more jokes about its narrative formulas, Pitch Perfect 3 proceeds with a halfhearted, ginned - up rivalry between the Bellas and an intimidating, snobby rock band, the filmmakers» ideas of which are downright bizarre: girl - group rhyming names (Chastity, Calamity, etc.) and circa - 2004 punk - pop.

But that's what Franco's latest feature, «The Disaster Artist,» is, and unlike the picture it's about, the new film is receiving rave reviews, as is Franco for his portrayal of the totally bizarre character who made and starred in the 2003 calamity - turned - cult - hit, Tommy Wiseau.

Indeed, despite its intermittent calamities and constant life - or - death tension, The Martian has a degree of humor uncharacteristic of a Scott film, including a running gag about the awfulness of the disco tracks that were left behind with Watney.

From Earthquake to The Towering Inferno to my all - time fav, The Poseidon Adventure (I even liked the remake), there's just something about watching a group of people surviving some awful calamity, banding together to get out alive.

We would maintain that when confronting a calamity of this nature, government needs to be transparent about the situation, the people, and the decisions which must be made.

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The author, whose 2007 debut, Special Topics In Calamity Physics was structured around a syllabus for a college literature course, switches focus to a different art form in a literary thriller about a reclusive movie director.

After the soaring critical and commercial success of her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, it took Marisha Pessl quite a while to settle into the creation of her moody, boldly ambitious new novel Night Film.No, it wasn't anxiety about the so - called sophomore jinx, Pessl says during a call to her writing studio.

If you're a Marisha Pessl fan (Special Topics in Calamity Physics), here's our Salon@615 talk at Nashville's Main library about her new novel, Night Film.

About five years before, most of his subjects had fallen before a terrible calamity.

Find out more about Marisha Pessl's works, including the bestselling novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film.

Maggie O'Farrell — After You'd Gone; The Hand That First Held Mine; I Am, I Am, I Am Liane Moriarty — What Alice Forgot; Big Little Lies; The Husband's Secret Maile Meloy — Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It Janet Fitch — White Oleander Colleen Oakley — Close Enough to Touch; Before I Go Lily King — Euphoria Marisha Pessl — Special Topics in Calamity Physics Jenny Offill — Dept. of Speculation Lionel Shriver — We Need to Talk About Kevin Rufi Thorpe — The Girls From Corona Del Mar Meg Wolitzer — The Interestings; The Ten - Year Nap Jhumpa Lahiri — The Namesake; The Lowland Caroline Leavitt — Pictures of You; Cruel Beautiful World Edan Lepucki — California Celeste Ng — Everything I Never Told You; Little Fires Everywhere Gabrielle Zevin — The Storied Life of AJ Firky Maria Semple — Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

You'll never have a calamity or even a routine stock sell - off with them... but most people know zip about them.

But there's a serious purpose behind this seemingly casual dialogue — educating customers about the various products that can ward of the hot - weather - related calamities.

It's because of these ruins that we learn the truth about what happened to the world before the calamity.

PS4 Version has: • 1080p at 60 fps • There is a «side story» after each chapter now — this gives you more insight into the main cast • There is the After Story I mentioned — this is a new chapter with about 4 - 6 hours gameplay • You can now play as the White Shadow and a new version of Asuka • New dungeons • New enemy types • A new difficulty called Calamity (which is very hard and required for the platinum) • A time attack mode • A Boss Rush mode for taking on the bosses (accessed from the main menu) • A new page of NPCs to interact within the NiAR • Other changes within the game for balance and progression.