Sentences with phrase «elder brother of»

When Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I, fled to America in 1815, he packed his collection of 18th - century French painting.

The elder brother of i10 entered in 2008.

English Writer / Director John Michael McDonagh is the elder brother of filmmaker Martin McDonagh, the mastermind who is behind such sterling black comedies as IN BRUGES (2008, 8/10) and SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2012).

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday, January 28, 2018 visited Chief Dauda Mandiaya Bawumia, Former Ghana's Ambassador to Burkina Faso and elder brother of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia at his Lapaz residence in Accra.

The two suspects; Patrick Udom «m» 35 yrs from Akwa - Ibom State and James Roland 25 yrs from Delta State were arrested following a complaint by the elder brother of the victim one Moses Utuede who reported...

Led by Mr. S. G. Boampong, elder brother of the late MP, other members were, Tanoh Abednego, Evans Boateng Boampong, Monister Kwateng and Mr. Yaw Addae.

The elder brother of President John Mahama, Alfred Mahama has reportedly been involved in an accident and has been admitted at the 37 military hospital.

Mathias Pogba, elder brother of Paul, was a free agent following his release from Serie B outfit Pescara, and has signed for Crawley Town until the end of the season.

With this personal contact Luther had a greater sense of security than under his predecessor, the so - reticent «Wise» elder brother of the Elector.

is the Elder Brother of all things created, for it was by him and in him that all things were created, whether here on earth in the sensible world or in the world beyond the horizon of your senses which we call heaven, even institutions like royal thrones, seats of lords and rulers — all forms of authority.

Under the leadership of the late Mr. George Wong, Chairman of the Parkview Group and eldest brother of the family, the Parkview collection has grown substantially and received critical acclaim in Asia and abroad.

Not exact matches

«The inner - city element isn't anything we even thought about,» says eldest brother Brent, 31, who, like his brothers Scott and Matthew, uses the title of principal.

Helmut Kohl's father and elder brother had died in France in the world wars, and he was suspicious of Germany's aptitude for self - government if not cosseted in a close alliance with responsible countries.

Caleb, a golf enthusiast, is president and chairman of the family holding company, while elder brother Tom is said to run the family's charitable foundation.

She tried to boot us out of the room that I shared with my elder brother.

After three years of searching and not quite finding the right opportunity, it was their elder brother Bob who suggested the frozen food business.

Glen Elder, the sociologist at the University of North Carolina, who's done field work in Baltimore, said, «At a lower level of skill, if you lose a job and don't have fathers or brothers with jobs — if you don't have a good social network — you get drawn back into the street.

«Wind power is seen as the «elder brother» of renewable energy — it's stable, reliable and has been around for centuries,» says John Ruffolo, National Leader of Deloitte's Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group.

It was the Christmas of 2013, and my 10 - year - old twin sons were having a crisis of faith.Their elder brother had already settled into a comfortable skepticism about flying reindeer, toy - making elves, and Santa Claus.

If he still stands his ground and says I refuse to take her, his brother's widow must go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and declare, «Thus we requite the man who will not build up his brother's family.

That is certainly true of this story, which explicitly incorporates the Prodigal Son parable on several levels, not only the relation of the fathers to their lost sons, but Kumalo as an elder brother who hates his younger brother, John, a prodigal.

Even more than Ali, Imam Husain holds the highest place in the affection of the Shi'as of Pakistan and India, while their attitude toward his elder brother Hasan is lukewarm, as he is said to have compromised with Mu`awiya.

Once again, the parable, we are told, was by way of a defense of what Jesus was doing against the censures of the pious, who are slyly satirized in the figure of the smug elder brother («I never once disobeyed your orders!»).

Verse 15 is the actual point: the kingdom is a gift of grace, not given according to merit virtue, as the Pharisees and the elder brother in Luke 15 supposed.

We must take the story of the elder brother as a kind of epilogue, tying the central message the chapter to the setting of verses 1 - 2.

This image of the Jewish people as «elder brothers» and the Jewish religion as «intrinsic» to the mystery of the Church touches» with tenderness and mercy» a wound that has remained open for two thousand years.

Upstairs the floor creaks as the elder of my two younger brothers gets out of bed.

We are accordingly to live as members of the family, and that means being made like our elder Brother.

This last premise is one that seems to have been exercised by the community of the Islamic Society of Boston, which attempted to correct the elder Tsarnaev brother's misreading of Islamic tradition.

But I'm finding that «Jeremy Myers» is just as big a name in this family where the biggest name of all among the lesser brethren (Jesus being elder brother to us all) is probably the one none of us is listening for... and it's the «least».

His elder sister also lamented and accused me as the author of such a misfortune, saying how it was that I, teacher of good things, could have caused her brother to act in such a manner.

She was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and Algonquin Christian Mother, and the elder sister of an infant brother.

Adam, have you heard the parable of the prodigal son and the elder brother?

One girl spoke proudly of her brother, «out on mission», just like the Elders who had called at my door.

Explaining the family's injuries, VOMC said: «The youngest of the three sustained injuries to his left leg, neck, and chest; while his elder brother, who was hit with a blunt object, sustained more serious injuries to his head, chest and back.

The death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, when Henry was about eleven, made the latter the heir to the throne.

He delayed some days before showing one to anyone else, saying later that he wanted to avoid all possibility of involving the Elector in responsibility for his criticisms of the young Archbishop, whose elder brother in Brandenburg was another of the imperial electors.

Some interpreters suppose that these brothers and sisters were either Joseph's children by a previous marriage (in which case Jesus would not have been Joseph's eldest son) or not really brothers and sisters of Jesus but his cousins.

Besides the first bishop of the Christian Church, James the Elder, was his younger brother.

On arrival, Paul met with the brethren in general and went the next day to give his report to James, the brother of Jesus, and the elders of the Jerusalem church.

There must be an elder brother, of another sort altogether from the one described in Jesus» parable, who will volunteer to let himself be flogged to death, crucified, or what you will, after seeing which the father, his legal honor satisfied, can welcome the returning son.

He recalled that he had started on a circuit in 1803 under the guidance and instruction of an older brother in the ministry and that «William M'Kendree,» his presiding elder,

His parables reveal a close and sympathetic observation of everyday life: the farmer's sowing and reaping, the shepherd and his flock, the house built on the rock, the leaven in the dough, the lost coin and the lost sheep, the father's joy in the return of a wayward son and the elder brother's peevish jealousy, the mother forgetting her agony for joy that a man has been born into the world, the workers standing idle in the marketplace because no one has hired them, and many other instances.

My two eldest brothers are getting it this year and I'm going to make sure all of us terrible folk play it on the day that commemorates the birth of that little boy from Nazareth.

I am the eldest of twelve siblings so I often did most of the cooking for everyone as a child so my mother could take care of my brothers and sisters.

After three years of searching and not quite finding the right opportunity, it was their elder brother Bob who suggested the frozen food business.

That said even though I'm football everything is possible I think City will have too much for our flaky band of brothers led by an ageing and poorly sighted elder officer.

The Manning clan travels well, and little bro and dad — along with Cooper, the forgotten eldest brother, and momma Olivia — will be tucked away somewhere behind the glass of one of MetLife Stadium's climate - controlled suites.

«When I was small my parents use to leave the keys of our house to me even though I have elder brothers» - Xhaka.

DEAR PHIL Let me tell you something: i read carefully what you say, you JON FOX and KEN 1945 since you are our «elder brothers», attending since the sixties (even if you, PHIL, are quit abusive with me, sometimes) therefore i respond to your enquiries: 1 - I believe we» r not progreessing but it's essentially due to the finincial restriction and the spending power of our oppenents (even if Wenger is RESPOSIBLE partly with his dogmatic conception of economics) 2 - Going second to sixth is not of course what we could: should achieve but it been explained by my first answer 3 - I give attention to my fellow arsenal fans, like you, what they are thinking, not to the oppenents (most of the PL clubs fans would give their lives to have a manager with the same success as Wenger over two decades, the first of dominating and the second of re-building the club after the stadium building) Now i am not against another manager if he can do better than the one we have but you must, my friend, respect him for what he has done.....