Sentences with phrase «failed dreams of»

S.A.): Mexico, 1985: a bitter math genius with failed dreams of space travel gets a second chance when he is contracted by the Mexican League of Space Discovery.

Between the failed dream of communism and the rising dream of peace, plenty and personal liberty lies a world reeling dangerously between false idols and social disintegration.

The resurrection was attested, in substance at least, in the Q community, in that his word was again to be heard, not as a melancholy recollection of the failed dream of a noble, but terribly naive, person, but rather as the still valid, and constantly renewed, trust in the heavenly Father, who, as in heaven, will rule also on earth.

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Think about how few people seem bothered by Donald Trump's business failings — in fact, some voters say that just shows he's a risk taker and a dogged pursuer of the American Dream.

If Bombardier fails, a Chinese buyer likely would pick up the pieces to accelerate that country's dream of challenging the duopoly.

Often, people refrain from pursuing their dreams because they are afraid of failing.

It may be tempting to think of the paperless office as a failed pipe dream left over from the «90s.

If it fails future entrepreneurs might find themselves wary of pinning their hopes and dreams on a single payment method.

Regardless of whether your venture succeeds or fails, you have achieved far more than the countless souls who dream of starting a new business but lack the courage to do so.

Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.

We will be doomed as a society when we fail to distinguish between reality and fantasy, wide awake time and dream time, when we sacrifice collective engagement to (re) solve together difficult problems for facination with rumors of conspiricy and a propensity for magical and delusional thinking.

When we've done that, and only then, we can move on to talk about the failings of the fame dream.

There's a beautiful world of hurting crazy out there and our brave kids are in the centre of it, and our people are the bloodied wounded because of it, and our dreams and our hopes and our futures and our communities and our countries are hanging in the balance through it, and there is a war in the heavenlies and the man laying beside me is believing that if our lives aren't up in the air where the battle is, our lives on the ground fail.

Camus» objection to any future goal to judge the present, whether a Christian's hope for immortality or a Marxist's dream of a future classless society, is that it leads to an «ideal of the spirit» that fails to appreciate the temporal enjoyment of bodily existence.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Affairs often are short - lived, partly because they fail to realize the dream of eternal youth for which the person is searching.

I returned home after numerous rejections from publishing companies and failed writing endeavors with dreams of changing the world and impacting society in a new and different way.

Many of The Christian Century editors» hopes failed them; the cities they would build turned to ashes; their dreams for benign and civil Christian futures were thwarted not only by the malice of others, but because they were themselves naïve.

Where theology has failed to take up the historical theme of promise, secular ways of thinking — such as Marxism or the dubious Western dream of indefinite economic progress — have often done so instead, thereby filling a need to which religion and theology have failed appropriately to respond.

He laughed and said he did not want to return to the shame of failing at his dream to begin a new life in the UK.

«We are not asked to be superheroes, but just to be ourselves, do our best, follow our dreams and not to be scared of failing.»

Henry's dream for a great American evangelical university of national rank also failed to materialize.

It's never failed me, and most of the time helps me access vivid, interesting dreams.

With dreams of becoming a doctor, Tatiana had to rethink her degree in biomedical sciences after failing her college calculus class twice.

So far, all sports newspapers in France, Spain and some in England have echoed the comment as the reason why Arsenal is failing pathetically and the hopes of major trophies is just a «dream» if those are the objectives (which I believe they are not).

After a scintillating first campaign at the Theatre of Dreams, in which the former Arsenal captain sent Sir Alex Ferguson off into retirement in fairytale style, with United's 20th Premier League title, the Netherlands international failed to replicated his form in the following two seasons.

No player should be made to feel he is failing his team by pursuing his Olympic dream, but that's just what happened to Derek Plante, the 23 - year - old rookie center of the Buffalo Sabres.

If we fail to make the top 4 (and that is becoming more of a dream than a reality) then Wenger must stand down and a drastic restructuring of the club and playing staff must begin.

Am i dreaming it seems like we've been here before, oh yeah thats right it happened last season and the season before that... Oh wait guys but there is hope, if i remember corectly all we have to do is wait for any serious potential threats to us retaining the Fa cup for a third time to get eliminated by lower league opponents or of course eliminate themselves by not taking this competition too seriously by fielding their second team and laugh our way to the final where we'll probably beat a sub par premier league team and repeat it all over again next year you know when Wenger fails to address the squad depth, the injuries mount up and are out of the champions league and title run ins by march..

Wenger had a dream, the dream was to make Arsenal English players the spine of the tree lions, but he failed, why?

I used to dream of Wenger stepping up to the board and Klopp to come in before he went to Liverpool, Klopp has helped many young players step up and get pinched by larger teams... While AFC has dropped a bit, I do think a manager who can keep players mentality grounded and keep up the hard working ethic then we would be one of those big teams pinching players where our youth failed to produce.

I think Nelson would be more of a Alexis replacement than Iwobi, Iwobi to me is a Welbeck... Great athlete and very good work rate and because of this he will have moments of brilliance which will get us supporters dreaming but in the end he will fail to consistently perform at that level.

The Algerian was the PFA Player of the Year for the 2015 - 16 season, but failed to live up the expectations on him last term, and his team all struggled to continue the dream.

A traditional part of every West Ham window has been to target a big name dream signing but to eventually come up short when it gets down to agreeing a fee; tweeting with an air of faux frustration that we had tried our best but failed even after checking down the back of every sofa in Sullivan Mansions for loose change.

He started off in the youth system of Maceio's Club De Regatas Brasil, known as CRB, in the second tier of Brazilian football and, via a failed trial at Sao Paulo, moved the length of the country to Figueirense, in Florianopolis, to pursue his dream.

Embed from Getty Images Arsenal defender Gabriel has revealed to Arsenal Player that he nearly gave up on his dream of becoming a professional footballer after repeated failed attempts at trials.

Felipe Scolari failed to rehabilitate the injured Drogba and Andre Villas Boas dared to dream of a world without Lampard.

In this circumstances, if Real should fail to win against Barcelona, their dream of winning the La Liga title would be finished.

The fingers point to the defeat at Manchester City as being the catalyst for the run of games that saw Burnley fail in the dream again.

A friend of mine who had a failed birth center bradley birth was very outspoken in trying to get all her friends to do what she «couldn't» and when she used IVF to conceive her second child, was DETERMINED to have the NCB of her dreams to prove that her body was capable of all this reproduction thing.

He is dreaming his way up to the top, but failing to reach the target; he retreats into drugs, indolence and the general culture of irresponsibility.

And as I watched my dreams of a natural childbirth slip further and further from my foreseeable future, I felt like I had failed.

«The leadership refuses to allow a true vote to take place,» Silver said of the Dream Act, which failed earlier this year in the Senate after not receiving enough votes.

Further riffing on the Reddit - as - government analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech» as a weapon.

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

Determined to achieve his dream, Mr Atubiga made another failed attempt in 2015 to contest the 2016 parliamentary election on the ticket of the NDC in the Binduri constituency.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

Meanwhile, Issahaku Konda who is in the team for the second time after the Black Satellites failed to qualify in 2016, says he has dreams of winning the FIFA U-20 World Cup with Ghana.

Koppell, if he runs, would be counting on some of the wealthy Democrats to vote against Klein for the failure of comprehensive campaign finance and ethics reform, which stalled thanks to a lack of support from Andrew Cuomo and Klein's Republican partners in the Senate, and on Hispanics in the district who are, in Koppell's words, «very disappointed at the way he failed to get the Dream Act through.»

ALBANY — Here's one way to interpret Senator Jeff Klein's loud advocacy this season for the Dream Act, paid sick leave, campaign finance reform and other pieces of the liberal agenda that failed to make it into the budget this year: