Sentences with phrase «couple recent awards»

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From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

After the ceremony, Jordan Davis's parents told me that they hoped the recent acquisition of the film by HBO, coupled with this award at Sundance, would fuel a movement to support the movie and hopefully challenge Florida's Stand Your Ground statute.

We introduced the PointsAway Award Odometer a couple weeks back and already have a few new notes to add based on recent bookings.

As though Delta's recent award chart devaluation wasn't bad enough (and Delta thought it wasn't, since they announced a no - notice devaluation to tied them over to the previously announced devaluation), the Skymiles program has come out with the major restructuring we've all been fearing for the last couple of years.

I understand totally that this change stinks, and when you couple it with other recent changes United has made (max segments on some awards, United Club downgrades, revenue requirement for elite status, etc.), it may be the last straw for a few to leave the program.