Sentences with phrase «confederates who»

But all conscientious teachers know that the interests of their profession and their union are not antithetical and it is not their union that is exploiting them but rather Finn and his confederates who are giving it their best shot.

They depict Knight, who is played with a visionary's fervent stare by Matthew McConaughey, as a man who reached his mid-20s with a conventional life: Marriage to Serena (Keri Russell), management of a small farm with no slaves, cooperation with the Confederates who drafted him into service.

The trailer, and the final poster (also below), feature quotes from Martin Scorsese praising the «audacious» concept of this thriller about Civil War confederates who end up trapped in a field filled with mushrooms.

The prestige player is based on the true story of Newton Knight, a Mississippian who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and led a band of former Confederates who took control of a number of southern Mississippi counties.

«We need to make sure we use this as a teaching opportunity, and we need to make sure that we don't confuse the two between the confederates who were rebels and traitors to our country,» she continued.

If you're a party giver, a busy volunteer, an habitual socializer, or looking for a love connection, you probably crave a canine confederate who likes to go places and loves to meet new people — and it would help if your pup doesn't tend to bite!

In three experiments, researchers found support for the hypothesis that study participants will mimic attractive opposite - sex others less if the participants are involved in a relationship.3 In one experiment, singles rubbed their faces more than romantically - involved folks during an interview with an attractive opposite - sex confederate who rubbed his or her face at regular intervals (in other words, they did not mimic the confederate as much if they were already in a committed relationship).

The researcher had over 100 female undergraduate participants arrive at the study where an attractive male confederate who was, unbeknownst to the female participants, a part of the study, waited.

Not exact matches

Despite detractors who feel separating the holidays is an affront to their Confederate ancestors.

And that's just how Matt Chambers, who founded Confederate in 1991, wants it.

Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs, indicated that his resignation would have satisfied those who'd marched in Charlottesville brandishing Confederate flags and swastikas.

But researchers gave participants the option to send people playing the game (who were really experimental confederates) notes about anything they wanted, and about half chose to write notes conveying information about the cheater's devious ways.

On Aug. 14, Trump issued a stronger condemnation of the white supremacists and nationalists and neo-Nazis who planned the rally to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Down With the Statues: North Carolina is dismissing charges against several activists who tore down a Confederate statue in Durham last summer, a move that could set an important political precedent.

One aide who felt energized by the president's actions was the embattled White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who shares Mr. Trump's anger at the efforts of local governments to remove monuments honoring prominent Confederate figures like Robert E. Lee.

And he paid tribute to a nurse named Elmina Spencer who walked into the midst of battle to care for wounded soldiers and then opened a hospital where she attended to both Union and Confederate soldiers.

Garzik believes all blockchains, even private chains, must be based on public technology: «And then from side chains, private chains, confederated chain perspective, use that same software and simply build a gate around that permissions who is going to use that system.

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There is of course no reason why anyone who doesn't share Seidman's policy preferences would go along with whatever rewriting of the Constitution that he and his confederates dream up.

Ironically, one person who thought the country should not having monuments like these in the first place — as well as Confederate flags — displayed was Robert E. Lee.

He once wrote this when asked about building Confederate monuments at Civil War historic sites: «I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.»

With full respect of the autonomy of the local church, we call brothers and sisters in Christ who display the Confederate battle flag as a memorial... to consider prayerfully whether to limit, or even more so, discontinue its display.

(By the reasoning of elite Democrats, the 30 percent of African - American Virginians who oppose taking down the Confederate monuments either do not exist or are highly confused white supremacists.)

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

When, following the Jessica Hahn expose in the spring of 1987, he was finally forced to resign from PTL, Bakker typically explained: «I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate.»

The phrase has its origins in the American Civil War, originally used to describe US Army officers who abandoned the Union to join the Confederate Army.

If you posit that Jesus never existed, then you are in the minority of minorities, and either you have never studied the evidence and writings (both holy and secular authors), or you are in the class of historical revisionists occupied by Bart Ehrman, the Jesus Seminar, and those guys who say that the Confederate States of America won the War of Northern Aggression in 1865.

Bishop Leonidas Polk, the principal founder, a West Point man and the man who helped select Sewanee's location, «by merit of... railway contiguity... [and] mountain air and pure water... beyond the reach of epidemics,» accepted a Confederate commission partly because Union sympathizers burned Sewanee buildings after Lincoln's election.

When the president called the group of white supremacists who rallied to protect a Confederate statue «some very fine people,» LeBron also used Twitter to voice his frustrations.

Durant joins a growing number of professional athletes who have spoken out against racism and disagreed with President Trump's comments on white supremacists and Confederate statues in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

It is pretty clear that the striker wanted a transfer away from Arsenal this summer and it is increasingly clear that Arsene Wenger intends to stand his ground and keep him, with The Mirror reporting that the boss has declared that he expects Alexis to begin pre-season training on Sunday, along with our German defender Shkodran Mustafi who is also back late after featuring in the Confederate's Cup final.

This happened YESTERDAY with a kid who shot to stardom on Twitter Sunday night because of a video of him crying over being bullied, and by mid-day Monday members of his immediate family were discovered to be Confederate flag - waving yahoos who are now alleged to have popularized his video for profit.

Trump also suggested some of the marchers who opposed the removal of a Confederate memorial to Robert E. Lee were good people.

But the current field pits a state delegate against Corey Stewart — Trump's former state chair who failed in his 2017 gubernatorial run as a defender of Confederate «heritage» — and E.W. Jackson.

To applause from spectators, workers in Charlottesville covered two statues of Confederate generals with black tarpaulins in honor of the woman who was killed during a rally by white nationalists in the liberal - leaning college town.

A descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee who made headlines for denouncing racism on last month's MTV Video Music Awards is leaving his post at a Winston - Salem after some in the congregation expressed discomfort over some of his statements.

Cuomo, who has called for the re-naming of streets that are part of an Army base in New York City named for Confederate generals, said Columbus has a different meaning for Italian - Americans.

The Confederate States LOST the Civil War so why are there so many statues to people who tried to break up the country and lost?

Foley's campaign slammed Zeldin over the weekend for the presence of pro-Paladino and pro-Zeldin supporters at a «Women for Foley» event who waved the Confederate flag and reportedly made obscene gestures at women arriving to attend the rally.

While Confederate statues and monuments around the nation get removed, defaced, covered up or toppled, some new memorials are being erected, by people who insist their only purpose is to honor Civil War soldiers who died for the South.

New Yorkers also widely disapprove of the Confederate battle flag: 59 percent of voters say it represents racial intolerance as opposed to 27 percent who believe it represents Southern pride.

De Blasio announced his task force in response to white nationalists who rioted in Charlottesville, Va., over the removal of Confederate monuments.

De Blasio announced plans for the 90 day review of monuments on city property in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, Va., sparked by white supremacists who were opposing the removal of Confederate monuments.

McAuliffe's shift buoyed Virginia Republicans, who have largely been forced to play defense on monuments in this year's race for governor, despite polling showing that a majority of Virginians want Confederate statues to stay put — the position GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie has staked out in his race against Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, D.

The mayor announced the task force in response to white nationalists who rioted in Charlottesville, Va. over the removal of Confederate monuments.

For those of us seeking a meaningful overhaul of the police department, our problem in New York isn't a Confederate flag, it's the «progressives» who bloat the police department and make life that much harder for poor black and Latino New Yorkers.

Jackson was born in Topeka, Kansas, to a military family who could trace their history to a great - grandfather who served as a Confederate cook in the Civil War.

The navy blue remained to have a military meaning all the way into the late 1800's, but during the American Civil War, it became the defining colour of the Union soldiers who were fighting the Confederate States of America.

What the film is saying about goodness (or ugliness or badness) is unclear as the «good» is just as bad as the «ugly,» but I can imagine that it's attempting to show that morality is more contextual than absolute, creating, as it does, an environment in which everybody is immoral even the Union and Confederate troops, who seem to be passing through this film on their way to another.

The other six include Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a former Union officer who lives in the Wyoming mountains; Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), a cow - puncher; Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), a Brit and Red Rock's new hangman; Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a Southern renegade claiming to be the town's new Sheriff; General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern), a former Confederate general; and Bob (Demian Bichir), a Mexican who's taken over innkeeper duties at Minnie's while the eponymous owner is visiting her mother.