Sentences with phrase «around a race of»

The rest of the plot simply revolves around a race of green pigs that turn up on Bird Island with the intention of stealing all the eggs.

Not exact matches

Stockbroker Scott McMullin is sheer momentum as he races around a stack of Mortal Kombat II in a downtown Boston software store one lunch hour.

«Taiwan, for instance, now exports around 2 percent of what it did in the late 1960s, when Tropical Race 4 was first discovered there.»

New York «s culture website Vulture wrote recently about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best Picture Oscar race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd of contenders, as well as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.

Keep in mind we were doing all this in and around racing, but I could manage it fairly easily because we could just set up tests... it wasn't complicated from a time management point of view.

These kinds of exchanges help create a common understanding around race, while acknowledging that bias is experienced differently for every group, says Wingfield.

«All around sporty, whether it's tennis or baseball, soccer or car racing, [Mario] does everything cool,» says the profile on Nintendo of Japan's page (as translated by Kotaku).

A number of leagues have sprouted around the globe over the past few years, each vying to become the world's premier drone racing organization.

As in automotive racing, teams construct their own vehicles within a certain set of specifications — in this case multi-propeller unmanned aerial vehicles — and then pilot them around a course.

Hollywood veterans also told Deadline that Fox Searchlight needs to keep the conversation around the movie focused more on the issue of race at a time when racial tensions in America have been on the rise.

«We learned that covering an entire race in virtual reality would be very difficult; however, there were some really compelling shots and experiences that were worthwhile that we thought we could rally around — the pits, the speed shots, and the kinds of views that a normal NASCAR fan would have seen before like this, and for the newly initiated NASCAR fans could show them just how exciting it is to be at a race in person,» Davies says.

All four men are keen observers of the race dynamics around them.

Small - business owners around the country are casting their ballots as the race to the 2014 Midterm Election finish line comes to an end — and how Main Street votes could determine not just who will go to Washington, but also the outcome of key initiatives that affect all of our bottom lines.

Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.

«Marcelo has done a remarkable job of turning around the Sprint brand and business, driving enhanced network performance, strong subscriber growth and significant cost reductions leading to the best financial results in Sprint's history,» said Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. «Marcelo has also positioned Sprint as a leader in the race to 5G, which promises to revolutionize the communications industry.

The series establishes the context of Simpson's fame and his relationship with the African - American community while also exploring the history of race relations in Los Angeles, all of which lays the groundwork that helps recreate some of the shock and drama that fed the media circus around Simpson's murder trial.

While Bannon dismissed his would - be allies in the alt - right or ethnonationalist right, he still argued for the importance of focusing politics around race: «The Democrats, the longer they talk about identity politics, I got»em.

«There's a kind of arms race on batteries around the world.

They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

In fact, over a decade ago, I was told by my peers of the exact same scam, described by neuro - linguistic programming expert Derren Brown of a fool - proof system that could predict the winner of every horse race around the world, used by Wall Street financial consultants on unsuspecting prospects to successfully gather millions of dollars of AUM.

Mining has been the subject of significant media coverage, as an arms race has grown around hardware designed to perform highly specialized computations to mine bitcoins.

This season, millions of Americans of all races and creeds will gather in their homes, sit around big tables stacked high with plates of roasted turkeys, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie to argue about politics.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

No one could know when his suppressed feelings of inferiority or self - pity might come bubbling to the surface, as in his promise to the press, after losing the California governor's race in 1962, «You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore.»

And although it's great that you won't consider religion when you vote, most of the LDS around here (Salt Lake City) are practically p - ing in their pants over having two mormons in the race (although they suspect Huntsman is not sufficiently right - wing).

This season, millions of Americans of all races and creeds will gather in their homes, sit around big tables stacked high with plates of roasted turkeys, mashed potatoes and pumpkin...

I have never in my life been around a Christian that prays for the death of another person or race or group, me personally.

This answers Cobb's objection to the Hermes - quality of the dominant occasion, as it supposedly races around the brain.

The familiarity of such associations often makes it easier to pray in the sanctuary of a church or in a small chapel, where one is accustomed to worship and not to race around doing many things.

Christians of all races can learn how longstanding policies and practices around housing, education, and criminal justice disproportionately harm some of their neighbors.

This view holds that the entire cosmos is around 6,000 years old, that the fossil record was laid down almost in its entirety during a literal, global worldwide flood, that God created humans directly out of dust, and that Adam and Eve are the progenitors of the entire human race.

Look around you, every race and religion has it's weaknesses, has it's own fair share of problems.

The focal point around which the entire argument of this book revolves is that the cardinal goal of instruction in whatever field, from physics to etiquette to race relations, should be the development of loyalty to what is excellent, instead of success in satisfying desires.

Just imagine — If the human race is still around in a thousand years and we were somehow able to listen in on a discussion regarding what we now think is true in all of these areas, I'm guessing there would be lots of chuckling about our «primitive» ideas.

It seems also to have considerable knowledge of the physiology of the brain to guide it as it races around looking for the right memory trace, since the likelihood of its finding such a trace by sheer chance is negligible.

Now, however, when jungle days are long outgrown and hunting in its old form is no longer necessary, the hunting instinct does not stop, but is lifted up, enlarged, centered around new purposes; it becomes driving power in some of the noblest achievements of the race.

It has various names, but whatever we call it, it means understanding, friendship, sympathy, and appreciation of other people not those of our race, or our nation, or our economic class, but of all the folk that God has made the world around.

How could the African American man walk around with a bull horn after all the horror that his race of people suffered by American people.

For the past several months, the university has been in the middle of a controversy centering around its poor and declining race relations on the campus.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

The pope was led around by a parade of motorcycles flying papal and American flags, their engines revving the whole time like the start of a NASCAR race.

They do so by association of ideas, by the accreted memories of our race enwrapping connotation around a word, a name — say the name Jerusalem, or the name Sion:

In the post, he recommended A Different Mirror, Between the World and Me, The Cross the Lynching Tree, Divided by Faith, Just Mercy, Let Nobody Turn Us Around, More than Just Race, The New Jim Crow, The Warmth of Other Suns and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria.

People have to look at from where a nation is coming from and moving towards rather than judge where they are at present — if you took a snapshot of countries like the USA around 1865 - 1880 or during the race riots or peace marches of the 60's you'd come away with a view of America as being an oppressive country (at least in the south)-- there is not a single thing happening in China that hasn't happened in the US or Britain as well your just looking at a single timeline while making a judgment.

Ms. Hinlicky acknowledges that culture, not race, is the real issue here, but she still seems uneasy absolving herself of the «sin» of feeling uncomfortable around black people, since they represent what for her is a strange and unfamiliar culture.

Her unique style of engaging hard conversations head - on is revolutionizing congregations around the U.S. and creating healthy dialogues about race.

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

I've asked around, but I haven't heard of any polling done with a three - way presidential race between Clinton, Kasich, and Trump.

I'm 16 years old and not to many people think much of people my age or around my age, they don't think we can do anything important because we do nt» t care enough to do anything, but I heard this story on KLOVE and read the rest and now my thoughts are racing and I know I need to do something even if it's something small.

I have a pile of essays downstairs, I suppose 15 or 18, which are more or less talks I've prepared around the country on all sorts of subjects, but mostly reflections on Indochina and also the nuclear arms race — sometimes from the scriptural viewpoint, sometimes from a purely political one.