Sentences with phrase «as a widow who»

As a widow who did online dating and has since remarried, I think you.

Samantha Morton (whom I didn't recognize at first) is amazing as a widow who develops an odd rapport with Foster's character after he informs her that her husband has been killed overseas.

Also earning the highest Metascore of the festival, the film is a «tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie,» according to Owen Gleiberman of Variety, with a «remarkable performance» by Mary Kay Place in the title role as a widow who spends her days caring for others, including her drug - addicted son.

Splitting the difference, the Brenners seek out Elise, first seen here as a widow who's turned her back on the spirit world after venturing there in search of her late husband and bringing back some unwanted ghostly baggage on the return (a revelation that directly ties the new film to its predecessors).

In the drama department: This year's Opening Night Gala film, The Bookshop (U.K) stars Emily Mortimer as a widow who opens a bookstore in a provincial village on the English coast in 1959 and finds herself at odds with the chary locals.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In my head, I saw the bank as an evil entity, having no mercy for a hard - working, widowed mom who had come upon hard times.

While innovation should always be encouraged, Bitcoin isn't yet fit as a place for orphans and widows to shelter their nest eggs — although there are admittedly plenty of gold bugs who would say the same about fiat currencies.

Benefits paid to a surviving divorced spouse who meets the age or disability requirement as a widow or widower won't affect the benefit amounts your other survivors will receive based on your earnings record.

A single person without children files as a single; a single person with dependents who maintains her own home files as a head of household; a married couple, with or without children, files either as married filing joint or married filing separate; and a recent widow (er) may file as a qualifying widow (er), which is the same, in effect, as married filing joint.

Color has raised $ 150 million from venture capital firms like General Catalyst as well as Bay Area tech luminaries including Max Levchin, a PayPal co-founder; Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive; and Laurene Powell Jobs, a philanthropist - investor who is the widow of the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

It brought to mind my own experience with the funeral of a dear lady who'd lived what we call around here «a hard life» and was best known in the small rural community as «the bootlegger's widow.»

It is perhaps well to remember that this Lincoln, who Nuechterlein reminds us mused over the implications of the awful arithmetic of Fredericksburg, was, before his apotheosis, hated by many in the North precisely for it and was known by many there as «the widow - maker.»

During his period in Strasbourg, Calvin served as a pastor to a local French «language church at the invitation of Strasbourg's great reformer, Martin Bucer, who also introduced him to the widow who would later become Calvin's wife.

Because they (attempt to) care for widows, orphans, the homeless, the addicted and spend millions of dollars and travel thousands of miles to find people who do not any type of access to the gospel and translate the Bible into their native language, or build schools and hospitals as well as churches their witness and their faith is nullified because they (wrongfully) dismiss porn stars and the people trying to reach them?

Another convert priest who had been married but was widowed before he was finally ordained, Fr Ronald Walls, admits in his autobiography that even as a Presbyterian minister he had felt torn between «giving himself totally to his wife and family and «giving himself to the people to whom God had sent him.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Elizabeth, who works as a realtor, meets an elderly widow named Miss Clara (Karen Abercrombie), whose house Elizabeth puts up for sale.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Yup, Love you neighbor as yourself, take care of the orphans and widows, visit the sick, and teachings about some silly guy named Jesus who went around rebuking the religious and healing the sick and demonized.

e. man + brother's widow, («Levirate» marriage) f. rapist and his victim, (Deuteronomy 22), g. male solders and their female prisoners, which can include virgin girls, who are still children, h. as «assigned», (female slave to the owners male slave).

And finally, a real Mosaic brainteaser about seven brothers who do their brotherly duty by marrying each other's childless widow, only to find themselves all in heaven without a clue as to who gets to call her «my wife.»

Her only excuse for being a «liberal» in this matter was that the pain and suffering she had endured as an aging widow who had reared a large family alone had purged her heart of the pride that prevents people from loving and understanding others.

As it stands now, the show revolves around the widowed D.J. Tanner - Fuller, played by Candace Cameron Bure, who is raising her three sons with the help of her younger sister Stephanie Tanner, played by Jodie Sweetin, and Kimmy Gibler, played by Andrea Barber.

I have a close male friend who is now widowed and I am wondering what would be your opinion of us as an older couple living together [not getting married] for companionship?

On three separate occasions Jesus is described in the Gospels as bringing back to life persons who had died: the son of the widow of Nain, the daughter of Jairus, and Lazarus.

But even if you take away what Paul has to say and leave me with only what Jesus has to say I would still have to come to the conclusion that as a person of faith I would need to support government programs that help the needy, sick and poor... the orphans and the widows... those who are oppressed and marginalized by the majority and the rich.

It is as though the righteous God of Israel were showing a curious bias towards all who are weak and oppressed, towards the down - and - out who can not help themselves, the fatherless and the widow the deaf and the blind, the stranger and the poor.

Kind of wish I could find a congregation of people who really do know God as a living being, their source of daily light and advice, who love each other and take care of the poor and widows — all the stuff the churches to do well but without the stuff the churches shouldn't middle in but do.

On the other hand we have seen a great (and more successful) national leader say, while war still raged: «With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.»

As far as I'm concerned, any Christian who condemns gays but also wears clothes woven with mixed fibres, or eats shellfish, or picks things up on Saturdays, or doesn't marry his childless brother's widow, is a hypocritAs far as I'm concerned, any Christian who condemns gays but also wears clothes woven with mixed fibres, or eats shellfish, or picks things up on Saturdays, or doesn't marry his childless brother's widow, is a hypocritas I'm concerned, any Christian who condemns gays but also wears clothes woven with mixed fibres, or eats shellfish, or picks things up on Saturdays, or doesn't marry his childless brother's widow, is a hypocrite.

I gave to the widow as to her who had a husband.

But whereas Ark Encounter aims to fulfill this mission by drawing people in through its turnstiles, I tend to think we experience and share God's presence best when we weep with those who weep, care for the orphans and the widows, and love our neighbors as ourselves.

The obtrusive reference to filthy lucre was apparently necessary, for the Didascalia makes it quite clear that the widows as a class were strenuously interested in their church doles, spitefully attentive to who got what — not widows but wallets, the Greek text puns.

During the next few years Horatio bounced back and forth between Europe and Argentina, married an Argentine widow with a couple of children, operated a Chrysler agency in Buenos Aires with a rich playboy pal, who is known on the international nightclub circuit as Macoco, and worked for a time in the Argentine embassy in The Netherlands.

In fairness, the fans widow was forced to admit this was something of an unfortunate «boy who cried wolf» scenario, as he had been known for running up to opposing players at the end of matches, aggressively spitting in their ears and angrily yelling at them to suck his dick.

As a widower who had an experience similar to what you describe, optimism is believing that a widow with that perspective will someday cross my path.

This lovely blog follows the adventures of Texas - based widow Chastity who is raising a young son as a single mom.

The pregnant widow of former Cuomo aide Carey Gabay, who was killed in a Brooklyn gang shootout, wept as prosecutors described his violent death in the opening of his alleged killers» trial yesterday.

The American President (1995) This romantic comedy, written by The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, stars Michael Douglas as widowed President Shepherd, who pursues a relationship with Washington lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening) as he runs for a second term in office.

The pregnant widow of the former Gov. Cuomo aide who was killed in a Brooklyn gang shootout wept as prosecutors described his violent death in the opening of his alleged killers» trial Monday.

They say Kennedy, who works for Republicans at the county elections board, was suggested by Schmitt's widow Lois, who took over Schmitt's role as the Massapequa Republican leader.

The widow, who spoke with some journalists recently said it was the PDP that frustrated and sent her husband to his early grave and not the All Progressives Congress as widely speculated.

Take, for example, Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs» widow and a California resident who has funneled some of her $ 20 billion fortune to school board races not only in Los Angeles, but in Denver and New Orleans as well.

The findings suggest higher intensity volunteering (about two hours per week) as a potential intervention for alleviating loneliness in older adults who have recently become widowed.

Indeed, Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan, a science popularizer in her own right, says of Tyson: «I know of no living scientist who connects as well with people lacking prior inclination toward matters scientific.

Her research reveals that that people who are widowed but have a close friend as confidante do much better health-wise following their loss than those who do not — but having a family member as confidante was not associated with similar benefits.

If you're dating a widower or widow as someone who has themselves lost a partner, it pays to remember that everyone copes with grief and loss differently.

Helen Mirren is an actress who needs no introduction starring as Sarah Winchester, wife and widow to the son of Oliver Winchester, creator of Winchester Firearms; «Winchester» calls on the urban legend of the Winchester Mystery House.

Indeed, so - called «senior» dating is the fastest growing online dating group, year after year.4 As put by Claudia Dale, a 77 year old widow who is enjoying the thrills of online older dating, «dating is no longer the domain of the young.