Sentences with phrase «after bearing witness»

The 16 - year - old enrolled on first aid training after bearing witness to a fatal attack, and felt she needed to be prepared in case she was ever involved in a medical emergency again.

Not exact matches

He was born four years after Kaiser Wilhelm II ascended the German imperial throne; he died nearly a century later, in the same decade that witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany.

nice... name call after you have already born false witness.

We know, none so well, how stained is our national record; we know with what envious eyes our own business and military and political Ahabs regard the inheritance of Third World Naboths and take it, if necessary after bearing false witness against Naboth.

Father Bazi was in Washington to bear witness for his people in the U.S. House of Representatives, which, a few hours after we spoke, voted unanimously to declare that what ISIS is doing to Christians in Iraq is «genocide.»

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil [all of this is in the nature of general admonition against damaging words: and now the same passage turns to formal legal consideration; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a multitude, so as to pervert justice; nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his suit [if formal false witness may not damage the innocent it must also refrain from endorsing the guilty]» (Exod.

After a bizarre first half that bore witness to chippiness, missed officiating calls and some real knock - down - drag - out football, a semifinal that looked destined to produce a street fight instead turned into an Orange Bowl coronation as Clemson outclassed Oklahoma for the second time in as many years.

Old Trafford bore witness to a rare sight as Mourinho's emotions spilled out after the final whistle when the Portuguese was spotted celebrating with a scarf, pumping his fists in front of a raucous Stretford End — applauding the 70,000 plus home fans who did very well to respond to his call of duty prior to this game.

Some job hopefuls are surprisingly honest («You know, I only applied to you after XYZ rejected me,» or «I'm not sure why I'm applying for this job — it sounds really boring»), amorous (most assessors have witnessed assessment centre passion amongst candidates; they don't miss much!)

But everything here, right down to the photons lighting the scene after an eight - minute jaunt from the sun, bears witness to an extraordinary fact about the universe: Its basic properties are uncannily suited for life.

I coached our bio-mom through her labor and witnessed the birth of our daughter, holding her just minutes after she was born.

In the first, Martinez played Michelle Miller, a housewife who aspired to a career as a fashion designer after discovering her husband's infidelity, and subsequently bore witness to the battle of wills between two rival designers at war with each other — Maria Gianni (Bo Derek) and Sophia Blakely (Morgan Fairchild).

But this Emmy - winning international spy thriller suddenly feels much more topical and urgent again in its fourth season, where the only remaining remnant of the Brody storyline is the infant daughter — a ginger baby, naturally (hauntingly Damian Lewis in aspect)-- whom Carrie bore after witnessing the father's cruel fate.

Not long after, he becomes a born - again rock snob while witnessing a performance by the New York Dolls at the Mercer Arts Center that brings the house down — literally on top of him.

After witnessing a brutal shooting, (and then another in the same week), she becomes more or less a follower of Cross, making for boring coaching scenes of «Do exactly what I tell you.»

,» the sequel to his 1987 cult classic «Wings of Desire» that found her in a supporting role as a trenchcoat - wearing angel bearing witness on the denizens of a newly - reunited Berlin — although the crackpot plotting would earn it mixed reviews, the eclectic cast (including the likes of Peter Falk, Willem Dafoe, Lou Reed and Mikhail Gorbachev) and the look of Berlin after the fall definitely make it worth reexamining.

After agreeing to meet a suspected traitor and bearing witness to his assassination, her only option is to become a «Sparrow» — a highly trained spy enlisted to seduce and manipulate using everything at her disposal.

Even a quarter century after East and West reunited, a wide, treeless green ribbon still bears witness to the drama that ended more than 600 lives.

After witnessing firsthand the often misaligned values of financial advisors and their clients, combined with too high minimum investment amounts, and unreasonable fees the idea for WiseBanyan was born.

I'll never forget seeing the armed police guards constantly posted at my Metro stop, getting swabbed for Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis bacteria) after setting foot in my local post office, enduring countless Code Red (i.e., severe) Homeland Security Advisor System warnings to tape my windows shut, and witnessing the massive hole bored deep into the seemingly impenetrable walls of the Pentagon during my drive to work.

As the days passed, I listened as the vets and 4th years brainstormed various conditions, and bore witness to their frustration as diagnostic after diagnostic came back negative or inconclusive.

I enjoyed many peaceful and sublime moments on the prairie this year, but one of the most fascinating events I witnessed was when Tiffany, my nephews» Limousin heifer, gave birth to a bull calf, which we named «Wally» (pictured above in my north pasture, just minutes after he was born).

Following the protagonist after he takes a break from redacting news stories, viewers of Microsoft's E3 conference bore witness to just how jarring the discrepancy of the world can be when characters do not take their joy pills in We Happy Few.

But what I am really after is bearing witness, and making people stop what they're doing and pay attention, to something they may have never seen before, but that makes them feel «I know this.»

They bear witness to vanished civilizations and archaic religious rites, but also the birth of psychoanalysis, Freud's flight from Nazi persecution, and his death in the study after a long battle with cancer.

Born in 1969 and after, they're barely old to have witnessed third wave feminists and, as much their work grapples with experiences of women, it doesn't aggressively assert this experience, or carve a place for itself in spheres of culture.

In any event, what I'm left with after continually encountering Frida's Instagram thread for the past several years is, this is nothing short of a mobile repository, a litany of residua, a voluptuous trail of black continuity, pyramid schemata as densely inscribed as any book of the dead, not so much an archive as an ark, a borne witness to the singularity that is blackness.

Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible.»

Now that Greenpeace has abandoned the field after ineffectively «bearing witness» for a few weeks (belligerently refusing to cooperate with Paul Watson, one of its founders), and now that they have their footage with which to sucker another 10 million dollars in contributions from their slick campaigns, it is left to the poorly funded Sea Shepherd to continue the task of blockading the Nisshin Maru, physically preventing them from carrying out their blatant, murderous massacre.

Personal injury lawyers began to seek similar protection for their clients after witnessing how such insurance empowered representative plaintiffs in class actions to maximize the value of their claims — and thus, a market was born.2

It was reinstated two days later after some criticism, so you can still witness the new calf being born.

After the hurricane, many real estate practitioners were compelled not only to bear witness to the destruction but also to make a positive difference in the lives of those most affected.