Sentences with phrase «effort on my brother»

Don't waste effort on your brother.

Today, thanks to a great deal of effort on my brother's part, I own that very saddle, battered and worn, the canticle inscribed with the name «Skip Lael», and it is my most prized possession.

Not exact matches

Bush told FOX News Channel's Brian Kilmeade on Thursday «We shouldn't be closing down Guantanamo,» when asked about President Barack Obama's effort to close down the prison that was established by Bush's older, brother former President George W. Bush.

While some evangelicals agree with Trump's efforts to course - correct on behalf of persecuted brothers and sisters, many others worry about the ramifications of privileging Christians above other faiths.

According to a translation by the Mail on Sunday, a narrator in the new video can be heard saying: «By God's will, and strong efforts of our brothers and soldiers on the ground in the province of Sinai, they brought down a Russian airplane, which carried over 220 Crusader Russians.

On the down side, this conscious and strategic effort of Bagbin to project John Mahama also cost him some friends amongst the Minority MPs who thought Bagbin favored a Northern brother at the expense of other equally qualified NDC MPs.

Moses Saibu, who lost his 29 - year - old brother, Joseph Sando, in the crash on Wednesday says efforts to find his deceased brother since Thursday has been unsuccessful.

Kathryn Robb, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse by her brother, at the state capital in Albany as part of a lobbying effort to pass the Child Victims Act on Tuesday, May 3, 2016.

Now the largest independent replication effort so far, looking at 409 pairs of gay brothers, fingers the same region on the X. «When you first find something out of the entire genome, you're always wondering if it was just by chance,» says Hamer, who asserts that new research «clarifies the matter absolutely.»

: It was a joint effort between myself, my father and my brother... after writing down countless names I walked towards my (then) office (on Madison Avenue in NYC) and bam «Missy On Madison» was boron Madison Avenue in NYC) and bam «Missy On Madison» was borOn Madison» was born!

Cinematically, he divided his subsequent efforts between producing (for his Blue Tongue Films production shingle, co-run with his brother) and acting, but placed the greatest emphasis on acting.

Putting the grim back in Grimm Brothers, this deceptively simple animated effort turns a lesser - known fairy tale into an edgy meditation on gendered views of nature and society.

Rating: 5/10 — a man (Lowery) drives across country after the death of his brother and gives a lift to a woman (Lane) who tricks him into being the getaway driver in a bank robbery, a situation that sees him on the run from the police but determined to prove his innocence; a gritty, hard - boiled film noir, They Made Me a Killer adds enough incident to its basic plot to keep viewers entertained from start to finish without really adding anything new or overly impressive to the mix, but it does have a brash performance from Lowery, and Thomas's direction ensures it's another solid effort from Paramount's B - movie unit, Pine - Thomas.

The Disaster Artist is the first time James has worked with his brother, Dave, on a film, after the younger Franco intentionally took roles in other projects in an effort to make a name for himself.

Usually the preferred composer for Spike Jonze and the Coen Brothers, last year saw composer Carter Burwell miss out on scoring duties for the filmmakers» latest efforts in favor of musicians — indie band Arcade Fire subbing in for «Her» and T. Bone Burnett leading a group of cast - members and musicians for a period - authentic folk soundtrack in «Inside Llewyn Davis.»

The committed star pulls off the same magic trick to even more impressive effect than usual with Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy's directorial debut after toiling away as a screenwriter on less pedigreed fare like Real Steel and Two for the Money as well as big brother Tony's most recent Bourne franchise effort.

It was profitable in theaters, where it opened on the same March weekend Fargo did two years earlier, and especially compared to some of the brothers» less widely distributed efforts.

Maybe you can take this as minor commentary about how the «normal» characters» excessively - masculinized relationships are no less screwed - up than the Farmer's efforts to play house with his victims (the appearance of the latter forcing the two brothers to mend old wounds), but you have no choice except to abandon such thoughts the moment Tracey's curse - laden diatribes are cut short by a shovel crammed into her mouth — which really has nothing on its mind besides «that oughta shut the bitch up.»

She's ignored his efforts to reach out and share his music with her; apparently, her disapproval is so great she can't even voice support for her brother on his own career path.

Its efforts to make us laugh, using the autistic brother for comic relief and a very mild variation on Downey's Tony Stark shtick, are mostly fruitless as well.

Briefly: The next movie from Albert Hughes — and his first solo effort without brother Allen — is set to be Motor City, which sounds like a straight - up revenge story based on quick descriptions of the script by Chad St. John.

I may only be lukewarm on the film itself, but I wholeheartedly adore this poster design for «The Brothers Bloom,» which recalls (to me, at least) a 1970's Robert Altman effort in its intricate, throwback Americana style.

It would certainly make for an interesting half - hour special on the Biography Channel, but as a feature - length film, this effort from German directors The Spierig Brothers is dull and uninspired.

Moritz Bleibtreu is his convict brother who veers back into his life on a work - release program and, despite his best efforts, gets involved in the struggling enterprise between his more legally dubious antics.

«A welcome change in tone from the Russo brothers as Infinity War delivers on the promise of genuine consequence which has long been the achilles heel of Marvel's cinematic efforts»... Our review of «Avengers: Infinity War» is up on our website now.

The program's approach of focusing resources and policy efforts on its most at - risk student population inspired work in school systems around the country, especially after President Barack Obama launched his My Brother's Keeper initiative, which focuses on the needs of boys of color.

Michael Worthington - Williams explains / The life and times of Dorcas I — In the first of a three - part series on the Glegg brothers» Dorcas specials, Graham Skillen summarises their first efforts / French racing engine designers: 1914 and after — Sandy Skinner looks at the wartime careers of Verdet, Gremillon, Birkigt and Bugatti / Back on the Road — Michael Ware visits the sole - surviving Carrow and learns about its recent restoration

Konica Minolta, full - time sponsor on the No. 10 Corvette DP driven by the Taylor brothers will co-sponsor the WEC effort along with long - time Corvette Racing technical partner Michelin.

The Aakash tablet has already become a household name in the tech world, which can be attributed to the painstaking efforts on part of the Tuli brothers, Raja Singh Tuli and Suneet Singh Tuli.

They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust for Sugar, and whose patronage of her brings her into proximity to his extended family and milieu: his unhinged, child - like wife, Agnes; his mysteriously hidden - away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brother Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less - than - chaste love for the Widow Fox, whose efforts on behalf of The Rescue Society lead Henry into ever - more disturbing confrontations with flesh.

He recalls that at Christmas the year before he completed work on the book, his brother said, «But, Peter, what if your effort is only a narcissistic dream?

As last minute efforts to secure a buyer over the weekend proved unsuccessful, the second largest bookstore in the United States announced in a news release on Tuesday that the group has submitted a proposal with Hilco and Gordon Brothers to the courts for approval.

OCEANA was founded in 2001 as a cooperative effort by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Oak Foundation, and the Marisla Foundation in order to achieve measurable change through advocacy and awareness by focusing solely on the importance of protecting oceans.

Studio co-heads, founders and brothers Karthik and Guha Bala built and fostered a healthy working relationship with Nintendo over many years, and was finally able to fully capitalize on those efforts with their Skylanders SuperChargers amiibo pitch.

In an effort to improve my FB page I spent about an hour on the phone with my Brother Todd Bennett who is the Technical Marketing Consultant and owner of Skill Bridge.

The New York Times editorial «The Brothers Koch and AB 32» takes on efforts by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch to block California's signature climate law by pouring money into Proposition 23:

During this time, she broke numerous stories on energy policy, including one on the Koch Brothers» European lobbying efforts as well as investigations into the cross-Atlantic climate denial lobbying network.

«It would seem that Richard Muller has served as a useful foil for the Koch Brothers, allowing them to claim they have funded a real scientist looking into the basic science, while that scientist — Muller — props himself up by using the «Berkeley» imprimatur (U.C. Berkeley has not in any way sanctioned this effort) and appearing to accept the basic science, and goes out on the talk circuit, writing Op - Eds, etc. systematically downplaying the actual state of the science, dismissing key climate - change impacts and denying the degree of risk that climate change actually represents.

I've engaged in such efforts myself on the opposite side of the spectrum from the Koch brothers usual interests.

Earlier this morning Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange owned and operated by the Winklevoss brothers, announced that they will be providing data to the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in an effort to bring forth trading derivatives on cryptocurrencies.

I reflected on how much time and effort there was in all of the home projects that I did with my Dad and brother, and how much work it probably was each time college kids like me and my room mates moved in and out each year.

In the coming year, the brothers plan to spend most of their efforts on maintaining occupancy levels and working with tenants to develop successful strategies for dealing with the economic downturn.