Sentences with phrase «as dramatic encounter»

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As economist Jack Mintz has pointed out, the Trump tax reforms mean U.S. taxation on new investment will soon encounter the third - best rate among OECD countries (a dramatic improvement from the 14th position), besting Canada, stuck in 12th place.

This seems to be the raison d'être of the most dramatic miraculous encounters — as a way for non - Christians to be alerted to the reality of a living and active God.

The dramatic story of Mary's encounter with Jesus outside the tomb in John 20:11 - 18 probably circulated orally among women, as Hearon suggests.

And she explains the life of St. Francis very well - revealing, for example, that the process of change was a gradual thing and that it began with simple gifts to the poor and a real commitment to prayer, and the more dramatic events such as the encounter with the Crucifix at San Damiano came only after this preparation.

It was a thrilling encounter to kick - start the Saturday schedule in the Premier League with plenty more goals, but it was Liverpool who were denied as Watford scored a dramatic late equaliser through Miguel Britos as the visitors were held despite their potent attack making up for their poor defensive display.

As both teams looked ahead to the summer's World Cup in this year, they played a friendly at Wembley Stadium which was considerably less dramatic than their next encounter — midfielder Nobby Stiles scoring the only goal of the game.

Responding well to the rare setbacks encountered was becoming a recurring theme and so it proved once more as we recorded three straight victories, the last of those coming in dramatic fashion when Tottenham visited the Bridge.

But just a few months later, Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, which is both the most dramatic of those changes and the linchpin of the mayor's ambitious goal to build 80,000 units of affordable housing in the next 10 years, has encountered major stumbling blocks, calling into question its efficacy as an engine of change.

That dramatic idea encountered skepticism until an analysis of the lunar rocks showed that they have the same mix of oxygen isotopes as rocks found on Earth, strongly suggesting a shared origin.

Other rivers were dammed and diverted to new channels, such as the Niagara, which formed a dramatic waterfall and gorge, when the waterflow encountered a limestone escarpment.

In Sergei Loznitsa's weighty social comment «A Gentle Creature,» a woman in the Russian countryside quietly sets out to deliver a care package to her (presumably wrongfully) imprisoned husband and encounters such heavy obstacles that would play as satire if they weren't so dramatic.

But the filmmakers adhere too prominently to the tropes of the sports genre, all leading up to the big, dramatic encounter at the end, whereas tonally it felt the film may have benefited from avoiding such an approach — for while a necessity Billie Jean King took place in the match, the entire endeavour was more about putting Bobby Riggs in his place rather than to prove herself as an athlete.

In terms of narrative structure, the previous Spielberg film that Lincoln ends up most resembling is Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), which while a more consistently entertaining film still provided a dramatic change in pace and style at the end to deliver a long feel - good sequence as a sort of reward to the audience for hanging in for that long.

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

Beginning with a yearlong investigation for The New Yorker, he pursued Lev's story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal, and sometimes as heartbreaking, as his subject's life.

«Commissario Guido Brunetti returns to La Fenice for another dramatic encounter with the diva Flavia Petrelli... there are the usual pleasures of following Brunetti as he walks around the city he knows like the back of his hand.»

You will have stunning views of local mountain villages, encounter many animals such as llamas and alpacas, observe dramatic mountain peaks and a variety of local flora and fauna.

As you cruise through the Yasawa archipelago, you'll encounter some of the most dramatic scenery in the South Pacific.

Instead of human - machine interactions and a viewing pace hinged on proximity, here the dramatic encounter of two megaphones from opposite side of a hanging rail gradually approaching each other singing a duet of female and male voices and causing a pile of neon tubes to flare and extinguish until the two megaphones come to a stand - off midway, exploding into a thundering abstraction and dazzlingly white light as if the harmony is pixelated into fragments of destruction.

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