Sentences with phrase «colored barrier of»

In form and content, Annihilation resembles Stalker, with Natalie Portman's Lena, a cellular biologist and college professor with a military background, who enters the «Shimmer,» an ever - expanding, rainbow - colored barrier of possibly alien origin, to undercover both the true nature of the Shimmer and the mystery behind her husband Kane's (Oscar Isaac) year - long disappearance and sudden reappearance.

On a recent afternoon, she reminisced about the unlikely role she played in breaking the color barrier of the Trump real estate empire.

Not exact matches

Compare this to breaking the color barrier in baseball or the emergence of women's professional sports leagues in soccer or basketball.

It's an infinite runner - style game where players fly through a world of color and shape, collecting coins, avoiding barriers... all while listening to house and EDM tracks from the Dim Mak label.

However, he said «you don't have enough officers to deploy them and do the things that really begin to break down the barriers between people of different colors.»

It cuts across barriers of class, color and sex, and has a message of equal importance to the wise and to the foolish.

FreshCase ® packaging is the first - ever, vacuum package for red meat that maintains the meat's appetizing color through a found - in - nature proprietary additive in the contact layer of the barrier package.

When people hear the name Earl Woods, many immediately think of Tiger and some also think of Earl's breaking the color barrier as a college catcher, but I think of him as Lieutenant Colonel Woods, U.S. Army, a decorated Green Beret who commanded men in Vietnam and served his country.

He broke professional football's color barrier in 1946, yet even though he played alongside Robinson in college, few people remember the great running back Kenny Washington or the shameful history of segregation in the NFL

In the summer of 1947, 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson suited up for the Brooklyn Dodgers and broke the major league color barrier, a 23 - year - old black ballplayer named Larry Doby began a big league career of his own when he pinch - hit for the Indians.

There is perhaps no other active player more appreciative of Jackie Robinson's breaking of the major league color barrier 50 years ago than Delino DeShields.

On Sunday, Jackie Robinson Day, an annual moment meant to mark the breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1947, there was a baseball cap available for purchase through MLB's shop featuring a celebratory Jackie Robinson patch on Cleveland's hat that uses the Chief Wahoo logo.

In a 2002 ESPN story, which argued the color barrier was disappearing, Hall of Fame tackle Roosevelt Brown described the 1950s and 1960s.

Masters history is full of Sundays that could pull teardrops out of the most emotionally stunted sports fans: Augusta native Larry Mize chipping in to win in 1987; Ben Crenshaw winning in 1995 just days after his beloved teacher Harvey Penick died; Tiger Woods blowing away the field in 1997 and thanking the black golfers who broke the sport's color barriers; Jack Nicklaus shooting a back - nine 30 to win the 1986 Masters at age 46.

REALISTIC TAKE ON A LEGEND Jonathan Eig's Opening Day casts the breaking of baseball's color barrier in a new light, depicting Jackie Robinson as more fiery and Dodgers players as less supportive than popularly thought.

By promoting health equity, which will aid in the reduction of barriers and inequality in maternal and child health for women of color in the D.C. Metro Area, we aim to foster healthy individuals, healthy families and healthy communities.

Some of these barriers include inaccurate stereotypes, lack of resources and less opportunity to work with specialists of color, who can better relate to their situation.

We focus on providing resources for immigrants and farmers of color as they face significant barriers in land access and starting a farm business.

NACPM is sponsoring her research on the barriers that women of color experience with respect to the midwifery profession, in order to optimally structure a midwifery education scholarship program aimed at women of color.

Based on data derived from the most recent NARM job analysis, midwife members who self - identified as «of color» will be invited to participate in focus groups to explore facilitators and barriers that they have experienced with respect to access to midwifery education, and as practitioners.

Brooklyn Paper article on BP Adams proclaiming Jackie Robinson Day in honor of the 70th anniversary of his breaking the color barrier in baseball as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson said: «The Emerging Managers bill intends to bring our State procurement process into the 21st Century by removing barriers that have historically prevented women and persons of color from reaching full economic parity with respect to contracting opportunities in this State.

This event featured speakers from organizations including the Ali Forney Center, Hetrick - Martin Institute, Depressed Black Gay Men, Caribbean Equality Project, Audre Lorde Project and others with the goal of raising awareness about the challenges and barriers faced by LGBTQ young persons of color.

«In addition, cultural or language barriers may prevent some women of color from obtaining care.»

Yet in this new era of color - coded alerts and random bag checks, even these barriers aren't enough.

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Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward breaking the so - called «color barrier» of light microscopy for biological systems, allowing for much more comprehensive, system - wide labeling and imaging of a greater number of biomolecules in living cells and tissues than is currently attainable.

What primer does is create a barrier between your lips and the lip color as well as help even out the canvas of your lips to allow the color apply more smoothly.

When cupid's arrow strikes, considerations for the color of the skin are thrown out of the window for love knows no barriers; it does not discriminate.

Love is not defined by complexion or race; it breaks all the barriers and surpasses all the confines of race and color.

InterracialRelationshipsOnline.com propagates the idea of oneness and togetherness, which is beyond the barriers of race, color and religion.

In «42,» Helgeland deftly tells the story of Robinson's signing, as well as the pressure both he and Rickey faced once the color barrier was broken.

This matters because you'll come across plenty of red and white barriers in the early levels that can only be crossed when your ship is the correct color.

Last year, we saw our first African - American woman nominated for Film Editing (Joi McMillon from «Moonlight»), and we have yet to see the barrier broken in Cinematography for a woman of any color.

Fences Rated PG - 13 for thematic elements, language and some suggestive references Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93 % Built off of the original Broadway production from playwright and screenwriter August Wilson, and starring basically the same cast, Fences tells the story of a black garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh (Denzel Washington) who boasts of the days he used to play ball in the Negro Leagues before the color barrier was broken, while his wife (Oscar - winner Viola Davis) and family struggle under his drinking, cheating and temper.

Berry weighed in on her desire to continue playing Storm and how women of color can continue to break down barriers in Hollywood.

«Jackie Robinson» (PBS): The two - part Ken Burns documentary explores the life of the Brooklyn Dodgers legend who broke baseball's color barrier.

But Robinson played his way into the Hall of Fame, known as the man who broke baseball's color barrier.

James Meredith to Accept Harvard's «Medal of Education Impact» WJTV.com, 4/7/13 «James Meredith, the man who broke the color barrier at the University of Mississippi... will not only speak at the convocation for the Harvard Graduate School of Education - he will also accept «The Medal for Education Impact» which honors people who have made a lasting difference in education.»

Other barriers, Kim said, include attempts, mostly by white people, to empathize with people of color by offering their own experience with discrimination rather than just listening.

As a writer and speaker, Davis frequently draws upon her background as a parent and woman of color to offer ideas and insight into how technology can be used in schools to not only break barriers but to provide opportunities and instruments for diverse learners» voices.

More must be done to address the fact that educators of color must contend with additional barriers once they enter the profession.

Certification is an essential guarantor of teacher quality — but its testing component is not, and, further, creates barriers for both low - income candidates and potential teachers of color.

These LCANs coordinate programs, services and resources that lower the barriers preventing students - particularly low - income and first - generation college - going students and students of color - from pursuing postsecondary educational opportunities.

While some incredible women are breaking through barriers and leading notable public school districts, charter management organizations and non-profits currently, our education sector still has a long way to go to ensure that ALL talented individuals (especially women and people of color) have access to positions and people of influence.

The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 states, «No state shall deny equal educational opportunity on account of his / her race, color, sex or national origin by... the failure of an educational agency to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by its students in its instructional program» (20 U.S.C., Section 1703 (f)-RRB-.

Among other benefits (such as, publishing, teaching, enhancing professional visibility, networking with other professionals, grantsmanship, and general assistance overcoming barriers to career success) the Barbara Jackson scholars will also have access to a strong network of graduate students of color and will be assigned a leading faculty member of national academic repute.

The Learning Policy Institute has examined national data and recent research on the barriers teachers of color face to both entering and staying in the profession.

The very educational policies that the Gates Foundation has influenced into law, are the very barriers that are failing students of poverty and color from having equal access for graduation.

IDRA's president, Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, has proposed imagining «a future in which the color of a child's skin, the language a child speaks and the side of town a child comes from are no longer considered barriers to a great education and a great life» (2009).