Sentences with phrase «bid for freedom in»

From prize - winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

From prize - winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.

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«For those who love our once and future freedoms, now is the time to strike,» Mr. Szabo wrote in an item on his blog in late 2007 endorsing the libertarian Ron Paul's bid for the presidency, in part because of Mr. Paul's views on the financial systFor those who love our once and future freedoms, now is the time to strike,» Mr. Szabo wrote in an item on his blog in late 2007 endorsing the libertarian Ron Paul's bid for the presidency, in part because of Mr. Paul's views on the financial systfor the presidency, in part because of Mr. Paul's views on the financial system.

In a filing submitted to federal Bankruptcy Court last week, attorneys for Digital First signaled the company's intention to bid by requesting that the court push back the deadline to submit initial bids for Freedom's assets from Friday to Feb. 12.

The company has expressed interest in bidding for some assets of Freedom Communications, the bankrupt publisher of the Orange County Register and several other California newspapers and magazines.

In its declining days the despised Aperu slaved on the mighty works of the pharoah, until hardy spirits among them made a bold bid for freedom and exodus under their shepherd deliverer.

The range of events now in the spotlight of international relations — such as the Arab Spring — has further emphasized that the bid for leadership change, be it highly authoritarian, might in fact be premised on a quest for something more wholesome than just political freedom.

As he considers a potential bid for president this year, former Gov. George Pataki on Thursday in a statement blasted Indiana's controversial religious freedom law, which he called discriminatory.

Thanks to a tie - breaking vote cast by Vice President Mike Pence, the Republican - led Senate narrowly approved Sam Brownback's bid to be U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom, setting the stage for him to resign the governorship in Kansas after seven contentious years in office.

WASHINGTON — The Republican - led Senate on Wednesday narrowly approved Sam Brownback's bid to be U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom, setting the stage for him to resign the governorship in Kansas after seven contentious years in office.

She lobbied the board's chair, Bob Dennison, to write a letter backing her lover's bid for freedom — and O'Sullivan was paroled in 2013.

While this particular ratio doesn't happen in nature, it does occur in plenty of the treats we've come to know and love: cheesecake, donuts, fudge brownies... So strike the 50:50 s off your shopping list — just for a while — and make a bid for freedom.

Kirsten Dunst gives another powerful performance as the young boy's desperate mother, while the cast is rounded out by Sam Shepherd as the cult leader and Joel Edgerton as a state trooper supporting the family in their bid for freedom.

She forces her way past him with furious determination, grabbing a kitchen knife in a last ditch bid for freedom.

A New Hampshire couple who alleged that the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act violated their rights to religious freedom lost their bid last week for a hearing in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nujood was, until recently, the youngest divorced person ever, but she has now inspired a handful of girls in similar circumstances to make a bid for freedom.

It's as if every shinobi is packing a pair of inflatable tube men under her top, flailing about wildly in a desperate bid for freedom.

The Hungarian uprising in 1956 precipitated Laszlo's bid for freedom and safety in England at age seventeen.

Today's Freedom Friday video features a Moyers & Company episode on the Tim DeChristopher case, in which environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was prosecuted on two felony counts for bidding on oil and gas leases in an auction which was subsequently declared null and void by the Obama administration.