Sentences with phrase «extraordinary act»

Sometimes those we expect the least from perform the most extraordinary acts, especially animals.

There are Indigenous women and girls across this country who everyday are achieving extraordinary acts while living in great adversity.

Complete jerks are capable of extraordinary acts of kindness and compassion.

Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope - filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a «frozen ark,» equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us.

This issue of San Diego Pets Magazine celebrates those local individuals and businesses that live with compassion in their hearts and business models — those that through extraordinary acts or everyday actions demonstrate the good that exists in this world when people do the right thing for the animal kingdom.

If nothing else, Birth again confirms Kidman's extraordinary acting abilities.

Those men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale.

The books in this bibliography tell the stories of Malala and other everyday kids doing extraordinary acts to change the world.

But above all, our FOTAS volunteers are caring, generous people who express extraordinary acts of kindness, and scientists now know what the great spiritual masters have known for centuries: that acts of kindness promote happiness and a sense of well - being.

The Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar spoke about Indigenous women and girls across the country who are achieving extraordinary acts while living in great adversity.

Vaddey Ratner's debut novel caught my attention when I read this effusive recommendation from author Chris Cleave: «In the Shadow of the Banyan is one of the most extraordinary acts of storytelling I have ever encountered.»

In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey RatnerSimon & Schuster • $ 25 • ISBN 9781451657708On sale August 7, 2012Vaddey Ratner's debut novel caught my attention when I read this effusive recommendation from author Chris Cleave: «In the Shadow of the Banyan is one of the most extraordinary acts of storytelling I have ever encountered.»

Before a bell rung 42 times to commemorate the dead, Giordano and other officials praised the ordinary and extraordinary acts of heroism by first responders and community members as the firefight raged on for more than a week.

The veteran women's rights campaigner has also said that trans people who undergo sex - change surgery are «inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on [themselves]».

Only an extraordinary act of will could recall to us our former, living selves and our contexts in matter and time.

We usually think that faith must precede every act of God, but sometimes God surprised the Israelites with an extraordinary act to win them back.

The extraordinary acts that are told of Jesus are accordingly not something that was imposed on his portrait later on; from the beginning they formed an essential part of the tradition about him.

«You have to have an extraordinary act generally that causes people to focus in a way that would get them to do the pathological, which is to oust an incumbent,» Sheinkopf said.

It would be an extraordinary act to gear up the constitutional machinery to punish or oust the 57 - year - old, third - term representative of the 4th House District.

To pull out the single market would be an extraordinary act of national self - harm.

Nonetheless it is an extraordinary act of protest - I would say ill discipline - from a former Chairman of the Conservative Party.

ConservativeHome had been pressing to see membership data but in a extraordinary act of secrecy, CCHQ refused to publish the necessary numbers.

And Benno Furmann, excellent in the mountaineering drama «North Face,» is superb as the courageous Mundek Margulies — who, in an extraordinary act, actually breaks into a concentration camp, just to make sure someone's relative is still alive.

It took an extraordinary act of bravery for Lili to act on her gender identity, but we never feel the inner turmoil that she must have experienced in deciding to be true to herself.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Milos Forman (1975) «The naturalistic photography, extraordinary acting and sublime portrait of mental illness make this one of the best pictures ever made.

Particular kudos must go to Wahlberg whose Marcus is put through quite the ordeal but who finds his faith in humanity rewarded by an extraordinary act of compassion from a seemingly unlikely source.

Six years ago, while researching the history of the atrocities at Facing History and Ourselves as an intern, I noted the tension between these extraordinary acts of violence and how utterly ordinary the perpetrators were.

«Kent's gift not only saved a stand of endangered trees but also crystallized an idea central to our current conservation efforts — that private philanthropy can lead and inspire the most extraordinary acts of environmental good,» said Greg Moore, executive director of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.

His engagement with German national identity at a time when many artists were shying away from so difficult a subject was an extraordinary act of self - assertion.

Now, through an extraordinary act of generosity from ICA Trustee Tristin Mannion and her husband Martin Mannion, the ICA will be able to share the experience of Ashes with our audiences for generations to come,» said Medvedow.

I am constantly humbled by the raw courage of those who can find a way to reach out and make peace with their opponents, and the extraordinary acts of generosity and humanity that even those in deep dispute can show to each other.

The students of MSD are beyond grateful for these people and their strong and extraordinary acts.

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