Sentences with phrase «as a prison from»

There was a school right next door that actually looked as dreary as a prison from the outside.

Anthony Mann's Man of the West depicts the West as a prison from which there is no escape, where those who flee its cesspool of violence and anarchy get pulled back by some invisible force in due time.

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Called Alcatraz East, the facade will resemble a 19th century prison, and according to a press release, it will house such artifacts as John Dillinger's death mask, Al Capone's rosary, the Bronco from the OJ chase and «items related to the 2012 Benghazi attack.»

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

As Cat says, «the best way to keep these men from coming back to prison is to find a way for them to earn legal dollars.»

Part road novel, part ghost story, this National Book Award winner set in rural Mississippi follows a troubled mother and her two children as they drive to pick up the children's father from prison.

While officials dismiss accounts from inmates that cells flooded as a result of the storms, a comparison of prison locations with data from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory shows that the areas surrounding several facilities did in fact flood.

LANSING, Mich. (AP)-- Sports doctor Larry Nassar is on his way to prison for the rest of his life for molesting scores of young female athletes, but the scandal is far from over at Michigan State University as victims, lawmakers and a judge demand to know why he wasn't stopped years ago.

Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, up to date as of October 2001, make it even clearer how few white - collar criminals are behind bars.

In fact, one of the judges of her competition happened to own a tech company who took Winner on as her mentor, employing her after she was released from prison.

The Liberty Hotel in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood has a very unusual claim to fame: from the 19th century until the late 20th century it operated as a prison.

His best - known prediction, named by the community as Hawking Radiation, transformed black holes from inescapable gravitational prisons into objects that instead shrink and fade away over time.

A wide range of jobs are covered by this category, as social services can include work in everything from employment support to recreational facilities, while managerial work in correctional services is carried out primarily in the Canadian prison system.

El Shafee Elsheik, originally from London, has been accused of part part of a group of prison guards and executioners known as «The Beatles,» who were behind some of the on - screen beheadings which became ISIS's calling card.

As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.

Canada Review investigating harassment allegations against Newfoundland politician Eddie Joyce, Globe and Mail Ottawa's «gay purge» settlement expanded to include all who suffered as early as 1955, Toronto Star An 83 - year - old convicted killer who walked away from a B.C. prison is back in custody, National Post

If you use this to buffer your investments, build up a cash reserve, and pay down your debt, you will find that you don't rely on your job as much, freeing you from the emotional prison of dependency.

Bradley Birkenfeld was released from federal prison in August 2012 after serving 2 1/2 years for his role as a Swiss banker hiding millions of dollars for wealthy American clients.

The group is led by Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, arguably the world's most notorious kingpin, who tunneled his way to freedom last month from Mexico's most secure prison.

Older frat men receive childlike compassion, teaching, and parental care away from home, while younger on average gang boys receive shame, charges as adults, and prisons away from home.

Lies that are spread to keep the hate alive Contagious blindness, masked as real Truth To see, one only has to look with open mind And open heart, to break from prison of their views

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

When I rebranded myself from church work to prison work to worship leading to taking food to the woods as a woman... I submit I do know what I am talking about.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

When the state imposes prison or fines, it acts as the agent and enforcer of normal social justice, with powers derived from and limited by the social contract of its citizens.

It sounds to me like Lucifer freed Adam and Eve from the prison known as Eden where humans were experimented on and kept as slaves.

How transformed had he become as time and space separated soul from the prison of blood and bone and brain?

Although country legend Johnny Cash's most famous album was recorded for a captive crowd at Folsom Prison in 1968, simultaneously signaling his pop culture comeback after years lost in addiction and the rise of the live album as a serious piece of art, Live from San Quentin is a stronger album.

Tim Lambesis from the band As I Lay Dying is serving a six - year prison sentence for plotting to murder his wife Meggan, a revelation that shocked the Christian metal community last year.

As Paul put it, writing from a Roman prison, «In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.»

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from prison shortly before his death, addressed his godson, Dietrich Bethge, on the occasion of the infant's baptism, which he could not witness: «Music, as your parents understand and practice it, will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground - base of joy alive in you.

He served as special counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 before he was indicted on Watergate - related charges, which led to a 7 - month prison term.

I believe, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in Letters and Papers from Prison, «The Bible directs us to God's powerlessness and suffering; only the suffering God can help.»

Ok but can god take away a person from hell and put him in heaven and if god loves us so much then why he doesn't destroy satun or put him in prison forever and why doesn't he tells the holy spirit to forgive whatever any person says just like him and Jesus i want to know thst but i noticed in all your replies except one that you were telling me everything i was asking except this in short if i say «he allows us to hate him» and i also want to know that if a person is sent in hell for his sins then will he go back to heaven after completing his punishment or stay there forever and also will any person who have commited the unforgivable sin one day be freed and allowed to go to heven or be reborn on Earth and if god has infinite love for us why don't he force us to belive in Jesus just before dying and then as he goes to heven show Jesus to him and then give him a rebirth as soon as his turn comes and then countinue this becaude going to heaven would be better much more than going to hell especialy for those who have commited the unforgivable sin

A chaplain claims he has been unfairly banned from HMP Brixton Prison as part of a Muslim senior colleague's campaign to end «Christian denomination» on the premises.

When the body of a man dies, then the soul is released, as from a prison, for fuller life in a spiritual realm.

Bonhoeffer also believed that the concept of God as a «supreme Being, absolute in power and goodness,» was a «spurious conception of transcendence,» and that «God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, and science... should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated» (Letters and Papers from Prison, S.C.M. Press edition, Great Britain: Fontana Books, 1953, pp. 122, 164, 360).

Oscar Wilde's letter from prison know as «De Profundis», «from the depths», is an extraordinary example of Romantic theology, and in it he discloses the place of shadow in the image of Jesus:

I think mary jane needs to be legalized not necessarily because of the hypocrisy and that we should have the «freedom» as much as the windfall of cash from growing it, selling it and taxing it, the medicinal properties it can be used for, the huge amount of space available in prisons that would open up and house criminals doing really bad things instead beng caught with a pound of a specific plant.

As a psychiatrist he strove to bring his patients to a freedom which liberated them from the enslaving gods that kept them trapped in the prison of their own fears.

He's obviously not — it's impossible for him to even be a «secret» Muslim, as he withheld financial aid to third world Muslim countries until they drop their anti-sodomy laws and release gays from prison.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age, for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to power.

Humanity has «come of age», as theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer observed from his prison cell.3

Echoing the words of Nelson Mandela following his release from prison, Dr John Sentamu urged people to unite as a community in a bid to get to the truth of what happened in the disaster six weeks ago.

He stresses that, as he is bound in prison, so should his congregation be «bound in peace» by its faith in Christ, who has freed us from the Captivity of sin and death in order to be «joined» as a common body.

On the other hand, some interpreters use his later writings, particularly the Letters and Papers from Prison, as standard and ignore the earlier works to a large extent.

The most provocative of Bonhoeffer's books was his Letters and Papers from Prison that included phrases like «religionless Christianity,» «Jesus as the man for other,» and «the God who forsakes us.»

Even from his prison cell, we can sense the joy that John shares with his disciples as the proof of the Messiah's arrival is plainly before them.