Sentences with phrase «by my uncle at»

He was educated by the conventual Franciscans there and by his uncle at St. Mark's

Not exact matches

After being orphaned at age 2, he was raised by an uncle and his family in a subarctic region of northern Russia.

That is 650,000 people who pretend to work at jobs that have more or less been made obsolete and redundant by the Internet and who are paid through borrowings from Uncle Sam because the post office is broke.

(And then there was the time, in 2013, when Mr. Coury, at a Goldman Sachs conference, indicated his dislike for hypothetical questions by saying that «if your aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle.»)

Sariela Bordner left Puerto Rico when she was 8 but her father, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends still live on the island, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria at the end of September.

1) No one under 18 (maybe even 21) is ever to meet with a catholic church representative without a buddy (a buddy can be a parent, uncle, aunt, sibling over 18, etc.)... at least until items 2 and 3 below are addressed (this is a policy that has been VERY successfully adopted by the Boy Scouts of America)...

Viagra til the day we die... Or what about a friend of mine who has been sexually abused by her father and uncle beginning at age three, who only ever went from abuse to abuse and never had a loving sexual relationship.

Rosalind is originally allowed to stay at court as a companion to Duke Frederick's daughter Celia (Laura Bozzone), till banished by her uncle, jealous of her reputation.

Though Coover painstakingly researched his subjects, he has compounded the impact of his borrowings from history with fantastic excursions: the executions at Sing Sing Prison, for example, are transposed to Times Square; Richard Nixon is fancifully shown trying to win favor with Uncle Sam by extracting a last - minute confession from Ethel Rosenberg, only to make love to her instead; Nixon's fictionalized reward is his sodomization by Uncle Sam.

His parents are X and Y — his aunts and uncles are A, B, C D. His father's occupation will be Z. 33 years after his birth, at such and such a place, he will be charged by ZZ, and condemned to die by crucifixion.

We want a two - fisted God who comes up like thunder, and we are offended by one who puts himself / herself at our mercy and who now and then looks a lot like our Uncle Fred.

Bobby and I arrived early at Anjie's family home, immediately intrigued by the station Uncle O had set up in the sun - flooded field.

I love having her close by — we were discussing our Thanksgiving plans at her parents» house, that her BF will be in town (who I've already nicknamed «brother»), and her aunt and uncle will be there as well.

That Saturday night, I'd skipped a family photo to stay at my aunt's - and - uncle's house by myself and work.

He forever will be affectionately known as Uncle Verne by those who welcomed him into their homes at 3:30 ET on Saturdays.

Helmed by Chapman Way and MacLain Way and featuring multiple appearances by their uncle and former Maverick himself Kurt Russell, the docu launched in the Documentary Premiere section of this year's Sundance Film Festival on January 20... In play right now with several buyers at Sundance, according to sources close to the film, Battered Bastards chronicles how in 1973 Bonanza actor Bing Russell formed what at the time was America's sole independent baseball team.

By playing internationally for his native Nigeria, Iwobi hopes to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, Jay - Jay Okocha, who represented Nigeria to win a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

By that time, the local lists seem to have been printed, because my uncle's name was still at the polling place (I checked) the first time he voted by maiBy that time, the local lists seem to have been printed, because my uncle's name was still at the polling place (I checked) the first time he voted by maiby mail.

The paper wrote: «Man of the people Dave forgot to mention that he was taken along by his uncle, Sir William Dugdale, who just happened to be the Villa chairman at the time».

At one point, Young even used an analogy that he been deployed by a Cuomo budget spokesman about an uncle financing a mortgage.

Neither did Noble mention his more famous uncle, three - term Alderman - at - Large Jim Noble, perhaps because the prospect of having a council president and a mayor from the same family might be considered a bit dynastic, even by Kingston standards.

Jim Noble, the longtime alderman - at - large and Steve Noble's uncle, fended off Provenzano, who's stepping away from the county legislature after 22 years, by a vote of 1,609 - 748.

The alderman - at - large Democratic primary race was also clinched by another Noble, Steve's uncle James, an incumbent who beat outgoing county legislator Jeanette Provenzano, for the position, which doubles as city council president.

Well, none other than Howard Wolfson (now a deputy mayor in the Bloomberg administration) showed up along with a Democratic State Committee member dressed as Uncle Sam at an event held by her GOP opponent, Rick Lazio, to taunt him with her property tax returns and demand that he follow her lead.

He explained that his uncle, Julius Ntwangwa, who worked with the Benue State Agriculture and Rural Development Agency, was among those killed by the herdsmen, who dropped his corpse at the back of the house.

It was a grand night for the Nobles, what with uncle Jim Noble easily securing renomination for alderman - at - large by crushing challenger Jeanette Provenzano by a more than 2 - 1 margin and nephew Steve edging an incumbent mayor.

The President, at a wreath laying ceremony in honour of his uncle today [Saturday], said the NPP and Ghanaians in general will forever hold on to the principles introduced by J.B Danquah.

At the same time, Trump refused to be pinned down on the scientific consensus that humans are warming the planet, invoking debunked information about emails stolen from climate scientists in 2009, American factories burdened by regulations and his engineer uncle.

Anyway, my partner and his whole family has always been having high blood pressure issue, and his father and his uncle died fairly young because of a heart attack, he has been on a vegan diet for almost a year now, his blood pressure is back to normal, from 150/100 to 115/70, he was so shocked by that as he didn't take any medication at all, that reinforce the idea that he should stick with his diet.

At the ceremony, he's accompanied by ex-girlfriend Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o), his sister Shuri (Letitia Wright), his mother (Angela Bassett), his uncle Zuri (Forest Whitaker), trusted general Okoye (Danai Gurira), and compatriot W'Kabi (Daniel Kaluuya).

Based on a book by Jason Matthews, Red Sparrow follows follows Russian ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) as she's essentially forced to become a spy by her ambitious uncle (Matthias Schoenaerts» Vanya Egorov)- with Dominika's first mission, after completing a stint at a «sparrow» school for spies, requiring her to win the trust of a C.I.A. agent named Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton).

Other theatre credits include Vanya in UNCLE VANYA and Malvolio in TWELFTH NIGHT at the Donmar Warehouse production at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), which won him Best Actor at the 2002 Olivier and Evening Standard Awards as well as a Village Voice Obie; Monty Python's SPAMALOT in New York and London; Leontes in THE WINTER»S TALE and Lopakhin in THE CHERRY ORCHARD, both directed by Sam Mendes at BAM, on a European tour and at the Old Vic; THE HOTHOUSE by Harold Pinter at the Trafalgar Studios; DEATH TRAP at the Noel Coward Theatre; and PRIVATES ON PARADE as part of the Michael Grandage West End Season.

The details of Helen's pre-Australia life are the stuff of epics: orphaned at 6; abandoned at age 9 by an indifferent uncle; forced to live for years on the streets of her small Polish town (now part of the Ukraine); shipped at 16 to a Russian gulag to work as a slave laborer after Stalin and Hitler divvy up Poland; twice compelled to trek endless miles through Russian territory, ending up first in Uzbekistan and then in Persia; displaced to a refugee camp in Rhodesia, where she becomes pregnant — by an Italian soldier — with Sophia; finally arriving in Australia, where she's forced to temporarily place her daughrer in an orphanage.

Out of context, that accusatory stare at his beloved aunt and uncle might not mean much, but having just seen him abandoned by his parents as a nipper and his surprise at finding the briefcase, we understand his resentment about being left in the dark.

Most especially it looks at Sam (Emily Lloyd), a teen - age girl whose father was killed in Vietnam, and at Sam's Uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a Viet vet haunted by wartime memories.

At the request of his cop uncle (pleasant Sun Yeuh) and against the wishes of his fiancé (unpleasant Carrie Ng), Chow agrees to implicate a group of known jewel thieves by arming them with illegal weapons.

Taking its cue from actual events, the drama stars newcomer George Kosturos as Ali Jahani, who has arrived at the Petaluma home of his stern Uncle Hafez (played by the movie's inspiration, Ali Afshar, who is also a producer) in the hope of a better life.

Being a city kid, he doesn't make it very far and is soon caught up by his «Uncle» Hec, a loner bushman who at first wants to return Ricky to the authorities so he can be left alone to deal with his grief.

«Wildlike» moves along at its casual pace with minimalist dialogue and little melodrama: in fact an encounter with an uninterested bear and a sighting of a horny uncle by the niece he is supposed to be nurturing provide the only visceral excitement in the drama.

Arrested by the police, DJ is sent to Atlanta to live with his authoritarian uncle Nate (Harry J Lennix) and aunt Jackie (Valarie Pettiford), who enrol him at the prestigious Truth University.

Suddenly, Norman is the unwilling key to the town's very survival, or so he's told by his eccentric, and none too hygienic uncle (John Goodman), who claims credit for having kept the witch at bay all these years, and that now it's Norman's turn.

Since not having the means to tend her ailing mother (Joely Richardson) can't be an option, Dominika, at the suggestion of her eldritch uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts), agrees to grow wings of ultimate manipulation at a school headlined by the icy Matron (Charlotte Rampling).

The story follows Taryn, a young girl who, after running away to America from her parents in Ireland, responds to a sudden personal crisis by arriving at her cousin Abby's home — where her aunt Kim and uncle Bill are in the midst of a contentious separation.

Images of a stage production of «Uncle Tom's Cabin» ending in an actor playing Lincoln being pelted by vegetables hint at the sort of picture this should have been; images of an elephant rampaging through the Draft Riot streets suggest that bread and circus dispenser P.T. Barnum's dictum was mostly correct.

Sally Field's Aunt May makes scant impression and over-familiarity haunts the «I know I'm not your dad» exchanges between Peter and Martin Sheen's Uncle Ben, although the repetition is deepened by Garfield's bubbling emotions and leavened by Sheen at his warm, witty best as Ben embarrasses Peter at school.

Included on the unrated DVD release is the short film Death for a Unicorn, narrated and voiced by Tilda Swinton, about Billy, who is forced by his aunt to clean his uncle's headstone daily until one day at the cemetery, Billy meets a little phantom, who changes his life forever.

What's more the accident leaves Jake with a depression serious enough to be treated at a mental hospital for seven months, while Katie (Kylie Rogers) is taken care of by her fabulously rich aunt and uncle, Elizabeth and William (Diane Kruger and Bruce Greenwood).

or at least jump a generation and chronicle the adventures of her now grown - son (played by Josh Hartnett in «Halloween H2O») as he attempts to battle his own demons... and nutty Uncles.

I'm most curious about Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic, The Birth of a Nation; Clea DuVall's The Intervention; documentarian Asif Kapadia's fiction film, Ali & Nino, set in Azerbaijan at the outbreak of World War I; John Carney's Dublin teen musical, Sing Street; Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, a tribute to his uncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation of the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's debut novel, Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin wUncle Howard, a tribute to his uncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation of the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's debut novel, Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin wuncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation of the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's debut novel, Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin women.

Now she's driven by what her grandmother used to tell her: «Look at your parents, your aunts and uncles.