Sentences with phrase «driven by our father»

A tragic accident is the source of this law; the child whose name it bears was killed in 2002 when he was struck by an SUV driven by his father, a pediatrician, as he was backing the car into their driveway.

Entered in the Mini Stock Class, the FJ Cruiser Race Truck will be driven by the father - son team of Rod and Ryan Millen, with additional driving support from Adam Dupre.

Not exact matches

Driven by his domineering fathers disapproval at his illegitimate existence and his desire for serious wealth, Seth suddenly finds himself seduced by the opportunity to interview as a trainee stock broker from recent acquaintance Greg.

That was the first year he ran full - time in the series and the year he won his first XFINITY series championship... driving a car owned by his father, Dale Earnhardt, Sr..

He is driven, in part, by the experience of his father.

After several meetings, the young McDermott persuaded his interviewer Emerson Fullwood (now retired) to give him the job on the spot, telling him he'd promised his father he'd come home that night with his employee badge in his pocket, a confidence driven by the desire to work.

It started as a chain of drive - in theaters, founded by Sumner Redstone's father Michael in 1936, a company that the younger Redstone took control of in 1987 after finishing law school.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

He must establish a vision for the future of 21st Century Fox that is driven by what is best for the company, not by trying to please or emulate his father.

They can no longer administer it at home since they don't have electricity but drive to her father's house to use his generator, powered by gasoline, which is now in short supply on the island.

My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

She explained how her father used to drive her down State Road 1238 late at night and take her down the dirt path to Wiseman's View, in hopes of seeing the floating fireballs and glowing orbs rumored by some locals to be the souls of Cherokee maidens searching for their braves lost at war.

It was there in Manhattan he was born in 1819, at 6 Pearl Street, down by the Battery, while his ambitious, hard - driven father busily bankrupted the family with a hapless importing firm three blocks away.

The ADL press release complains about «certain Church figures» who are responsible for the «Christianization of the Holocaust,» citing the canonization of Edith Stein and, earlier, of the heroic Father Maximilian Kolbe who, in a drive - by smear, the ADL implies was an anti-Semite.

and even in Jeremiah's time, the Rechabites, driven from their ancient nomadic ways by guerilla warfare, could in Jerusalem be used to shame the Hebrews by their uncompromising devotion to the laws of their fathers.

Indeed, in the Gospel, Jesus justifies his driving out the moneychangers from the temple precincts, by invoking the prophecy of Isaiah: «Zeal for my Father's house consumes me.»

In the very first, Nathaniel Fisher the Elder, founder and father of Fisher & Sons, is killed when the new hearse he's driving is broad - sided by a bus.

According to Glueck, the reentry into the U.S. flavor industry was not driven by any market change, rather by the simple desire to return its U.S. interests back to the roots that her father Jacob Glueck began.

They're from middle - class families — Felder's father is a mechanical engineer, Vettori's a lieutenant in the Austrian army — and when the two have spare time, they often relax by hopping into a Volkswagen bus and driving off to Italy for some surfing or to a major city where they can check out the latest rock bands.

But the father of a young girl who was hit by a line drive says that she's doing all right, and I'm going to squeeze those words for the maximum possible amount of optimism.

Jade Prince and Nat Lobell — driven by the Kopases, father and son — finished one - two in the Cane Pace, leaving the Cinderella horse of the evening back among the pumpkins at Yonkers Raceway in the richest harness race ever

So the Sunday stage belonged exclusively to a pair of underdogs who have minuscule Q ratings but were exceedingly easy to root for: Ted Purdy, who endured an eight - year exile on the Asian and Nationwide tours and finally last year, at age 30, earned a place on the PGA Tour, only to be haunted by a pair of tournaments that he let slip away; and 22 - year - old Sean O'Hair, whose boyish smile and gentle manner belie the brutal treatment he had to endure from a father obsessed with driving his son to success.

Ferrell was driving a black 1999 sedan owned by the father of his fiancée, Caché Heidel.

The Maravich «android» was created by Pete's dad and coach, Press; Kriegel tells his story as well, revealing him to be a driven but loving father who was an inspiration and a burden.

If I had to name one, it would be Lella Lombardi, the Italian race car driver, because she learned how to drive by delivering steaks and salami in her father's truck.

Other suggestions: spend some time alone with your baby just holding her and letting her fall asleep on your chest, which can be incredibly relaxing, talk to your wife even if you are concerned about upsetting her as you are a team, keep in mind that your anxiety is driven by your desire to be a good father - this you should be proud of and not feel guilty about, and read up on anxiety so you know what you are dealing with (my personal favorite is Dale Carnegie's How To Stop Worrying, a classic).

My hunch is that behind the baffling rise in gang violence, drive - by shootings and wildings, lies a group of young males raised without the love, discipline and guidance of a father.

Much of the change in the way mothers and fathers spend their time has been driven by women's growing presence in the workplace.

Widely known in her neighborhood as «The Ice Cream Girl,» Campanella drives an ice cream truck, continuing a legacy started by her father decades past.

A dippy, determined young girl from an unexceptional background, driven on by her father, faces snobby, sexist selection committees, makes it to Parliament and into the cabinet.

Not only is Percoco, who left the administration in 2015 to take a job as senior vice president for the Madison Square Garden Co., a longtime friend of Cuomo — once described by the governor as «my father's third son» — the case touches on two of his hallmark upstate initiatives: the Buffalo Billion and nanotechnology - driven development.

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

Cuomo is also driven to distinguish himself from his father by playing the political angles more savvily than Mario, who disdained the dirty work.

A response driven by that same spirit that drove a husband and father to put himself between us and our attacker, and to pay the ultimate price.

To honor them, as well as my father, I participated in last month's blood drive sponsored by the family of Tonawanda teen Jed Woomer, a wonderful young man who left us way too soon.

A judge apologized to Rachel Winter on Tuesday as he dismissed a drunken driving charge lodged against her by the Niagara County Sheriff's Office after an internal process that Winter's father, a prominent Niagara County attorney, said was politically motivated.

Spitzer's father had driven all three of his children to push their intellectual limits, but figuring out a way to break into the Gambinos» West 35th Street office to plant a bug — by using Con Ed trucks on a phony repair call, by picking locks, switching off alarms, and evading motion detectors — then listening to hundreds of hours of tapes of Tommy and Joe Gambino cursing and joking and scheming?

We left in two Land Rovers — one of them lent to us by Father Carlos — and drove in silence through the overpowering, unstoppable, exuberant force of uncut equatorial jungle, well over 30 feet high.

«This is the first study to show that micropylar variation is driven by female promiscuity — the more micropyles her eggs have, the more choice she is likely to have over which male fathers her offspring.»

Driven in part by the plight of his patients and his father, chief of neurosurgery Behnam Badie, M.D., spends nearly as much time in the laboratory as he does in the operating room.

The film retraces the steps of the bad boys and in a whodunit mystery style fills us in on all the lurid details, that also involves a clash with a wise - cracking vengeful gay Asian mobster head (Ken Jeong), an arrest by the police over the stolen police car, the smashing of the Mercedes convertible that Doug's father - in - law (Jeffrey Tambor) let his son - in - law drive and graphic photos in the end credits that further clear up the evening in question.

Amidst the wreckage and chaos dealt by the hurricane, Al Collins, a high school basketball coach (and devoted husband and father) driven by past failures and a consuming desire to win gathers players from those ravaged schools and builds a team worthy enough to go to the state championships.

Some revolve around finding lost items, others investigating the actions of a sinister organisation, and it's arguable that the main drive of Tim's character to find his father quickly becomes overshadowed by every other problem.

Chris» abusive father (Peter Mullan) dominates the film's opening chapter, a quick - tempered man's man who is so consumed by self - loathing that he drives away those close to him.

It begins with a family being driven off the road in rural Texas by dangerous men and turns into a husband / father trying to make sense of a horrifying night that has turned into a lifelong nightmare.

Small - town bank - robbery montages are as old as the Hollywood Hills, but here the robberies are predicated on a relatively novel premise (hitting the off - the - books bank accounts of Al Capone), and the heists are pulled off by a father - and - son team — with a 12 - year - old driving the getaway car.

He was fascinated by outcasts and orphans, father figures and struggling sons, broken people driven by anger and colliding with society, anxious teenagers and young adults looking for their identity and their place in a hostile world.

• The Messenger: driving away from a father (Steve Buscemi) doubled over by grief in front of his shattered home... • Brad Dourif's weary equanimity, Bad Lieutenant...

Each of the three Heralds harbor their own sins and are perhaps even more psychotic than that of Vaas or Pagan Min, each driven into a certain madness by their blind faith to the Father.

After the duo flee father / husband Christopher (Sean Bean) and a cop (Laurie Holden) and arrive at the titular town, mother and daughter are separated, instigating a maternal - instinct driven quest by Rose which involves descending into Hades, fleeing demons, and combating devout fanatics who, in their desire to avert the apocalypse by righteously burning supposed witches, have unleashed a plague of unholy, vengeful darkness.