Sentences with phrase «as a young man for»

Based on the novels by Joe Lansdale, the six - part series stars James as Hap Collins, a working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War — Watch the trailer below!

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Who wasn't on the edge of the seat as the FBI asked the world for leads, revealed pictures of two young men who couldn't quite be pegged as foreign - born or American, identified the suspects and gunned one down, only to leave one on the loose, and an entire city in lockdown?

Even President Barack Obama — a slacker until he began running three miles a day as a young man — to this day makes time for 45 minute workouts before assuming his duties.

And Britain's equalities minister recently touted Christina Hendricks, the curvy star of Mad Men, as a healthy role model for young women.

Loosely based on writer - director Cameron Crowe's adventures as a teenager writing for Rolling Stone, «Almost Famous» follows a young man's journey into 1970s rock and falling in love along the way.

Paul Brody, the man who helped drive the effort to create a new architecture at IBM for connecting devices in the so - called Internet of things, has joined accounting and consulting firm Ernst & Young, known as EY, as the Americas strategy leader for the technology sector.

And despite the club's origins as a young men's temperance society, area residents have a taste for fine European wine.

Fitzgerald's less famous debut novel follows a privileged young man as he begins college at Princeton, which makes it the perfect book for the back - to - school season, claim Wang and Wolfson.

Kenney hasn't chosen thus far to do that, and in his only statement raised the straw man that this gay - straight alliance legislation could affect kids as young as five — though the clubs are essentially for junior high and high schools, not kindergarteners in any context anybody imagines.

In his new book, Startup Rising, he makes a strong case for the Middle East, where a surprising number of young men and women are starting tech companies and where global corporations, such as Google, Yahoo and Cisco, are investing.»

Bloomberg Markets» Scarlet Fu led the discussion, which addressed a broad range of issues faced by young entrepreneurs — women and men alike — as well as the possibilities, obstacles, and advice for female entrepreneurs.

When I would complain about the smog as a young man in the 50s and the 60s, he'd say: «I know what you're AGAINST, but what are you FOR?

Essentially, such platforms act as a middle man between a young venture looking for capital and accredited investors registered on a platform's password protected website.

Okung - a seahawk - realized that those were the very things that he had longed for as a young man growing up without a father, and he finally saw God as the One Who would fulfill those longings in his heart.

About 20 % of the men I interviewed were acutally gay (meaning they were wired that way and there wasn't no changing their behaivor and a few «parts» were irregular as well), 30 % of the men had some major trauma in their young lives and were confused with who they were and were trying to belong somewhere when it became hip to be gay in the 90's and 50 % of the men (to my surprise) were married men looking for nasty sex.

Not only is this insulting to men, as though we are merely creatures of instinct, like dogs that can't control their incessant need to hump everything in sight, but I would argue that it conditions boys and young men for the «struggle.»

Also similar to the young men who are duped into marriage because they are young, lonely, away from home for the first time and not as worldly.

He told her that «Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that task is performed entirely by young men.

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

For as I noted in a toast at the anniversary dinner the Maleckis» sons had arranged, the network of now - not - so - young friends that had gathered around Karol Wojtyla — men and women who resolutely refuse to think of themselves as something special — had in fact helped bend the history of the Church, and the world, in a more humane direction.

The actual word for kids in that passage is better translated as «youths,» as in young men.

David, Ask that young man if I can use what he wrote as a lesson for my Sunday School class, would you please.

a career as an English professor must have looked like a pretty tenuous possibility for a young man named Meyer Abrams.

Gadamer himself described his introduction to ideas as a young man in the following terms: «It was «life - philosophy,» above all,... that was taking hold of our whole feeling for life.»

And so Jan would wait by the church door, observing the young men as they attended Mass, silently discerning who would be suitable for his Living Rosary.

If now some young man falls in love with another young man and hopes for a permanent bond, but the culture is really understood as a swinger type situation, he has been duped, betrayed, deceived.

As a young man, I had no idea the space those words would create for me.

«It was such a God thing,» the young man said as we waited in line for a piece of the groom's cake.

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

As a commentary on the plight of the rich young ruler who can not bring himself to sell all he has, give the money to the poor, and follow Christ, it leaves little room for doubt that Christ is not merely rebuking one wealthy man for a lack of proper spiritual commitment, but is saying something very disquieting about wealth as sucAs a commentary on the plight of the rich young ruler who can not bring himself to sell all he has, give the money to the poor, and follow Christ, it leaves little room for doubt that Christ is not merely rebuking one wealthy man for a lack of proper spiritual commitment, but is saying something very disquieting about wealth as sucas such.

And we answer them: «Since Scripture says that the mountain was wooded and had trees from which Abraham cut wood for the holocaust and laid it upon Isaac, [108] and then he left the as - ses behind with the two young men, why talk nonsense?

Michael Brown, like so many other young black men, had one foot in pro-blackness as he was headed for college, and the other foot in anti-blackness as he was seen on video stealing from a convenience store.

First, Jesus died as a young man, and so he gave us no model for how to age.

Today in the West it is possible for a young man and woman to stand in expensive wedding attire in a flower - decked church in confusion as to what they are actually doing.

Lilith did speak out Gd's hidden name and was wisked away to God's presence and did become God's wife and goddess until even God could no more take her mindedness ways so God did punish her for desires to be above all men and even God, Lilith did bcome as a curse to all the families young children.

The Concordant Literal translates the two words as «sodomites» (those who practice sodomy — either anal sex (an act not limited to m / m pairs, although they do practice it; the NIV uses the phrase «shrine prostitute») or zoophilia (person / animal)-RRB- and «catamites» (young boys kept by older men for sexual purposes; it is suggested by some scholars that the boy the Centurion asked Jesus to heal in the Gospels was a «kept boy»).

The young man cited I Corinthians 14:34 - 35 «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

Already as a young man Updike saw that he lacked the smooth self - oblivion required for a public career.

Because environments do influence the decisions and actions by which we constitute ourselves as one kind of person or another, this book should be mandatory reading for those who may like it least» mothers and fathers of college - bound young men and women.

The Palm Beach bishop who was forced to resign used the claim that he was practicing therapy as an excuse for sex with young men.

I believed in the deity of Jesus as a very young man, but I definitely did fall away in willful sin after knowing the truth and I fell miserably for many many years.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

Set parallel in time, place and theme to Gilead, her prizewinning novel of 2004, Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Home, takes the reader inside the home of retired Presbyterian pastor Robert Boughton for another perspective on Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the family, who left Gilead as a young man after fathering a child.

Perhaps the first lesson for us as «rich young men» is to realize the empty promise of our consumption.

Pais could refer either to someone regarded as a son, or, as was quite common, a young man kept for sexual purposes.

The only question we Muslims ask is that CNN is an international media and should carefully choose the comments, as for the rest of this young men we call you Jaahiliin.

Again, the otherwise unexplained features in the story, for example the flight of a young man from the garden, or the proceedings in the high priest's house, have been explained as incidents in Peter's own biography — or even in Mark's!

I attended as a freelance journalist, loosely connected with a group organised by our diocesan Director of Vocations and including a number of young men training for the priesthood.

Young men need to know themselves, to discover themselves as men, to accept themselves as men as the basis of their formation for priestly ministry.

Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.