Sentences with phrase «about dynasties»

In the final chapter, Bush rejects talk of a Bush dynasty in an email to the conservative Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes and said: «I am not big on talking about dynasties because I don't think they reflect the service of my granddad, father and brother's public service.

This vigilante justice story — standard fare for the aging action star — could have signaled a new turn in Chan's career, but he has to share this movie with Brosnan's far more fascinating plot about dynasties of terrorism.

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What can you tell me about the Dynasty Warriors series?

What's so frustrating about Dynasty Warriors is that the idea has a great deal of potential.

I'm somewhat amazed no one's yet made a mini-series about the dynasty; they were much more ruthless than the Tudors and the ruling family was in power for more generations than the Caesars (a family to which I was constantly comparing the Romanovs).

All things considered, I'm mixed about Dynasty Warriors 9's combat.

When I last did a Jimquisition about Dynasty Warriors, it was scheduled to be the final video I did for The Escapist — except I'd become inexplicably popular after a terrible debut, and therefore it signified the beginning of a whole new chapter.

what about Dynasty Warrior?

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In a post last year titled «The Buffett Series - Thinking About Bonds» I recommended reading the chapter «The Last Hurrah for Bonds» in the excellent book, «The Davis Dynasty».

Actually, the Ming dynasty came about in the Red Turban Rebellion that was a rebellion carried out by Buddhist rebels.

From about a.d. 1500, the missionary efforts of Jesuits and others were quite successful, but for reasons of international and domestic politics, the Tokugawa dynasty (c. 1600 - 1868) opted to methodically wipe out Christianity.

More particularly, and with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..

When you hit the 26th Dynasty there are actual contracts of servitude available from about 600 BC which are in stark contrast with the harsh African Slave trade.

I don't know much about either of the Billy Graham offspring, but, IMO, dynasties in either politics or religion are generally not positive — too much inherited prestige, power and privilege, which tends to feed egoistic narcissism.

On the contrary, the accession of a new dynasty came about purely through personal ambition and commonly by violence.

What about Qing Dynasty of China?

Since the show debuted in 2012, family prayers, discussions about faith and good old - fashioned Bible Belt family values have been a staple of Duck Dynasty.

understand, the same argument made here, was made about other shows: whether Duck Dynasty or even Ellen Degeneres.

Older historians were inclined to regard the «new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph» (vs. 8) as a reference to the re-establishment of Egyptian rule with the Eighteenth Dynasty (about 1570 - 13 10 B.C.).

On the other hand, we have no evidence absolutely ruling out the possibility that the Jacob - Joseph group arrived during the Eighteenth Dynasty (about 1570 - 1310 B.C.), that is, sometime after the expulsion of the Hyksos.

Here excavations indicate that the city (earlier and under a different name, the capital of the Hyksos Dynasty) was destroyed in the sixteenth century when the Hyksos were expelled, that reoccupation probably began shortly before 1300 B.C., and that work went on there under the first two kings of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Seti I (about 1310 - 1290 B.C.) and his son Rameses II (about 1290 - 1224 B.C.), who gave his name to the city.

About the time that Rome was rising to prominence China was being brought under one ruling family, known in history as the Ch» in Dynasty.

At about the same time Persia emerged as a Shi`a state under the Safavid dynasty and the Great Mughals established their rule in India.

There are many distinctions noted between the various Sufi orders — as to whether they observed seemliness or extravagance in their exercises, whether they were urban or rural, whether they tried to propagate the faith among non-Muslims or wandered about with no particular mission, whether they set up new dynasties dedicated to holy war or the extirpation of heresy, and the like.

About 1950 BCE, the Third Dynasty of Ur came to an end and the city was sacked and destroyed.

That's like Bryan Hoch writing about about «the next Yankees dynasty» before they even have one.

Maybe the Patriots get the benefit of the doubt on calls, but I think if you look across all the Big 4, every time there is a dynasty, fans complain about that team getting calls.

But today and tomorrow and all week, while everyone argues about OKC's future and how Harden will look in Houston, it's hard not to quietly ignore it all and imagine how great it would have been to have a team of characters awesome enough to be called the Pizza Roll Dynasty, and dominant enough to live up to the second part of the name.

On July 9, four members of the Minnesota Lynx — a dynasty on par with the Warriors — held a pre-game press conference to talk about police violence in the wake of the killing of Philando Castile by a Minneapolis - area officer and Alton Sterling by two Baton Rouge, Louisiana, officers.

My biggest gripe about us is that we have had periods since the 30 «s where we have been dominant and really should have kicked on and built a dynasty, unfortunately we keep breaking up great sides too early and lack ambition at boardroom level.

We are hugely excited about the future of Mamas & Papas — a female design dynasty that remains committed to delivering the highest levels of quality, innovation and passion for parenting.

The Towns dynasty is nothing to write home about, as the flyer shows.

McLaughlin was asked about Albany's troubled history with political dynasties and explained her support for term limits:

Historically, banking types and family dynasties are tight about their secrets, or at least they aren't running around to Jerry Springer like hollywood celebrities to tell all the mundane stories about what who was thinking about what, and if they should've eaten their vegetables.

Kennedy and Cuomo married with great fanfare and press converage about the melding of two political dynasties to form «Cuomolot.»

When so many people are fearing for their modest livelihoods, unglamorous homes and shrinking pensions, this is precisely the worst moment for the Tories to be embroiled in a squalid squabble between rich kids about huge yachts, banking dynasties and Russian billions.

On the whole, we're not enthusiastic about political dynasties.

A military fortification from the Viking Age may shed more light on the links between Zealand, ancient Denmark and the Jelling dynasty — as well as teaching us more about the period during which Denmark became Denmark,» says Holm.

This, it turned out, was the forgotten remains of a much earlier wall, built about 1,500 years ago, during the Sui Dynasty.

After sorting through the images, Evans found that the 600 - year - old Ming Dynasty wall was easy to spot: in this image of an area about 430 miles from Beijing, the 30 - foot - tall wall is the bright orange line.

About 600 years later, during the Ming Dynasty, domesticated goldfish with one right tail and another on the left appear in historical records.

In mid-June, a court fined Dynasty about $ 5000 for its refusal to register as a foreign agent.

Artefacts found along the road show it was used in the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, between about 2575 and 2134 BC.

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I was at dinner with coworkers on Wednesday evening and someone started talking about that show «Duck Dynasty».

I don't know about you but I love 80s - inspired fashion; it brings back great memories of Joan Collins setting the sairtorial bar high in Dynasty.

I agree about political dynasties.

The dynasty that Worth established, whereby sons of sons took hold of the reins, as each generation in turn inherited control of the firm, lacked the strength to continue as the company slowly became more about business than fashion: a story brilliantly told in this volume.