Sentences with phrase «desperate circumstances»

The work reveals an extreme intimacy that perhaps can only be found in desperate circumstances.

Unfortunately though, if these two dog breeds were to meet, it might be under most desperate circumstances.

When we are married to someone who is also three - dimensional and complicated and feeling those pressures too, it is possible to find ourselves in desperate circumstances.

Meeting adverse conditions with endurance, one builds the sort of character that enables us to confront with hope even the most desperate circumstances.

Seeing others» desperate circumstances through Jesus eyes gets to the depths of who we are: Will we become stuck asking: «Why, God?

We have these same desperate circumstances in Detroit.

Explaining himself a few years later, Lamont said: «I own up to a weakness for humour, especially in very desperate circumstances.»

The race riots in 1967 Detroit caused looting, burning and desperate circumstances for all involved.

Desperate circumstances lead a man to a family he never knew he had in this made - for - cable comedy - drama.

It's a survival tale at its core, only less about resourcefulness and perseverance than it is about how desperate circumstances challenge our moral compass and our belief systems — such as notions of faith, compassion, forgiveness, and trust.

Vincent (Bill Murray) is a slovenly alcoholic who inexplicably befriends his young neighbor (Jaeden Lieberher) after desperate circumstances force the boy's single mother (Melissa McCarthy) to use the vulgar man as a babysitter.

Defiant toward authority in a less focused way, posturing and posing for selfies amid desperate circumstances, Halley feels like an emblem of today's America, with its social media addictions and tattered safety net.

She managed to win over audiences as a sloppy criminal in Identity Thief and her latest comedy, Tammy, finds her turning to robbery in more desperate circumstances.

Under such desperate circumstances, why not allow teachers without state certification, but with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) degrees into the classroom?

- Kirkus «Kent has a terrific feel for the language of her setting.This is a serious and compelling novel about those in desperate circumstances cling to ritual as a bulwark against their own powerlessness.»

Hal is the first human to earn such a prestigious rank, says his fish - faced mentor of a few scenes Tomar - Re (voice of Geoffrey Rush), and it's at a time of most desperate circumstances.

Two stints of homelessness as a young child imbued Michael Campbell with the desire to help others avoid the same desperate circumstances.

For Marksteen and myself, the journey has been a humbling one: seeing and meeting people living in desperate circumstances, yet not without hope.

And while Japanese society is homogenous and relatively unfriendly to outsiders, desperate circumstances could call for desperate measures and necessitate changing policies on immigration.

But because this covenant was offered to people wandering in the desert in desperate circumstances, it is renewed in Joshua 24, in which the next generation of Israel has the opportunity to freely choose to accept it.

We tend to think of prostitution as a desperate circumstance — a single mother driven to her last resort or a young girl forced into a brothel.

A research community that has no moral standards for directing its investigations or judging the results, that has no way of knowing whether it really knows anything at all, and that saddles human beings with expectations and demands that they (being human and not divine) are constitutionally incapable of fulfilling is in desperate circumstances.

«These are human beings who are in desperate straits and desperate circumstances,» the former international development secretary told the Today programme.

Traveling to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have disavowed Christianity and taken a Japanese wife, Rodrigues and his fellow Jesuit Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) are confronted with abject poverty and an oppressive government that condemns Christians to live in fear — desperate circumstances the fathers believe can be improved only by faith in God.

In Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence plays a character who begins in desperate circumstances.

Our commitment to detailed research means that we endeavour to ask questions which might explain the failure of many member states to live up to their responsibilities and the degree to which the European Union as a whole is treating people that are being in vulnerable and desperate circumstances.

Although their marriage came about through desperate circumstances, could Cullen and Maggie's marriage gradually become one filled with true love?

The Patriot Army was shaped and strengthened by the desperate circumstances of the Valley Forge winter.

First, they provide consumers with a place to go in the midst of desperate circumstances.

All the same, Ms. Strauss was out there in Katrina's awful wake, outside the privileged confines of the Whitney Museum, providing necessary support to Americans in desperate circumstances.

«A painting a day,» was her motto — and given the desperate circumstances of most of the artists she visited, only Picasso showed her to the door.

But if we are ever driven into the desperate circumstances of needing to rely on albedo hacking, surely it would be better to have some form of CDR deployable first, so as to provide an exit strategy that avoids the dangers of a millennial commitment.

This travel ban has caused large - scale rights violations and senseless family separation, and left thousands of refugees stranded in desperate circumstances.

A scant few years ago the appellant no doubt would have been congratulated for his display of skill and courage and indeed his survival in dangerous and desperate circumstances.