Sentences with phrase «become prisoners»

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Australian Richard Flanagan, follows the Australian contributors to this grandiose project, as well as its Japanese administrators, many of whom were destined to become prisoners themselves.

After forty days of drifting in the sea, they suddenly become prisoners of war.

«Governments,» he says, «tend to become prisoners of their own experts.

Thus, we may become prisoners of our assumptions.

He said to me, «Unless you read different points of view, your mind will eventually close, and you'll become a prisoner to a certain point of view that you'll never question.»»

To start, he should avoid becoming a prisoner of his own campaign rhetoric.

It's hard enough already not to become the prisoner of your own expertise, but it will only get harder, because change is accelerating.

An attempt to procure medicine forced them to venture closer to civilisation, but they were betrayed and, after a vicious beating, became prisoners of the Japanese Army once more.

We became prisoners of our neighborhood due demonstrations, we became prisoners at our cities due the Tensions created by the extreme oppositions «socialists & islamists» what a combination they make that warns of a war between them soonest they finish the task of over throwing the ruling party...!

Since the visible and tangible sphere is essentially transitory, the man who bases his life on it becomes the prisoner and slave of corruption.

This «something» is precisely human nature: this nature is itself the measure of culture and the condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner of any of his cultures, but asserts his personal dignity by living in accordance with the profound truth of his being.

The gospel is for enabling, changing and helping people with the example of how a weak and vulnerable God who became a prisoner, hungry and naked overcame death.

The book revolves primarily around Rosenbaum, a Jewish partisan fighter who survived European combat in World War II but became a prisoner of war as a result of later combat in Palestine.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

Otherwise, the Bible becomes the prisoner of what was once believed to be scientifically true: «In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

In fact, he spends the next 12 verses explaining how he became a prisoner for the Gentiles.

Disgraced former Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm became Prisoner # 83479 - 053 Tuesday at the medium - security federal lock - up in Lewis Run, Pa..

I don't know about you, but I never want to become the prisoner of my own body at an older age.

But becoming a prisoner of that pain isn't necessary.

And Abdi essentially becomes prisoner to this chaotic hierarchy, eliciting suspicion of his cohorts when he demonstrates warmth toward Victor (Reda Kateb), the hostage in his charge.

Synopsis: After the fall of Rome, its last emperor (Thomas Sangster), 12 - year - old Romulus Augustus, becomes a prisoner on the island of Capri.

Many successful game franchises become a prisoner to their own success, unable to change precisely because the original formula is so successful.

There, he becomes the prisoner and fascination of all the girls and women in the household.

Capote eventually lapsed into glib self - parody, and Capote reveals how a writer can become a prisoner of his own carefully cultivated image.

She gets her wish, becoming prisoner to a Beast (Stevens) living in a forgotten, cursed castle full of riches.

It's always worth peeling back a layer of DSC, else you become a prisoner to it, but while the 440i's willingness to wag its tail is sometimes a giggle, without a limited - slip diff there's not a great deal you can do with it, and it's hard to know just how much «entertainment» you're going to get.

I went to the bookshelf, took it down, opened to a random page and became a prisoner of the writing, unable to put it down.

An anachronistic knight errant takes a criminal as squire, mistakenly frees a woman charged with murder, and becomes a prisoner in this fast - paced adventure.

A brilliantly evocative debut set in the early part of the 20th century, steeped in emotional turbulence and down - to - earth wisdom, where a young woman must reconcile the inner traumas from her past and learn to live in the present in order to avoid becoming prisoner to her future.

That is why if you do not want to come across any cheating and want to receive a term paper of the proper quality, which will bring you a high grade, never make use of cheap services, and just forget about free of charge servicing if you do not want to become a prisoner of ID thefts.

When war broke out in 1870, the Pope became a prisoner in the Vatican City.

He travels to Princess Zelda's castle and becomes prisoner of a magical spell that turns him into a wolf while being in the lugubrious territories that had fallen over the Twilight.

It was not long before Yugoslavia surrendered and he became a prisoner of war where he was imprisoned in the Ferramonti internment camp.

In a wicked problem, there is no end to causal chains in interacting open systems, and every wicked problem can be considered as a symptom of another problem; if we attempt to simplify the problem, we become risk becoming prisoners of our own assumptions.

It is easy to become a prisoner of your metrics: working hard to achieve press mentions without caring if your mentions are achieving what you want.

You may become a prisoner in the world you created in order to «make your partner happy».

Not exact matches

«Cat proves that within America's broken criminal justice system lies the potential for prisoners to become productive entrepreneurs and upstanding citizens,» says Grant.

One of China's elite prisons has become overcrowded with political prisoners due to President Xi Jinping's increased crackdown on corruption.

At its peak, the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba housed nearly 800 prisoners, becoming a symbol of the excesses of the «war on terror» and synonymous with criticism of detention without trial and accusations of torture.

When Orin Swift Cellars founding winemaker Dave Phinney introduced The Prisoner Napa Valley red blend in 2000, it's iconic art - focused front label became part of the meteoric rise in the brand.

Spouses of prisoners become more prone to depression and other mental and physical problems.

GOD changed the status of David from a Shepherd boy to king of Israel, Esther from a slave girl to a Queen and Joseph from a prisoner to the first (and only foreigner to become) Prime Minister of Egypt..

In that sense, the prisoner becomes a spider, or a snake, and follows the journeys of their avatar... in their imagination, they face giants, and survive, and then thrive.

The victorious army became rich with possession and prisoners.

An older African - American prisoner, Terry, replied, «I've only just become a Christian; but doesn't it say somewhere in the New Testament that when two or three are gathered together Jesus promises to be with us?»

A male soldier and a female prisoner of war Women could be taken as booty from a successful campaign and forced to become wives or concubines.

After Germany's collapse in 1945, Bishop von Galen became a figure of hope for his people, speaking up for prisoners - of - war, for German refugees and for the homeless.

Instead, we become stuck and feel like a prisoner to our own selves.

It makes no sense to confine offenders in a population of other offenders and to expect a good outcome — namely, that prisoners become non-offenders by the end of their confinement.

You could scarcely tell from those changes that the crowd came up originally for Barabbas and not against Jesus and only became anti-Jesus when Pilate tried to switch prisoners on them.