Sentences with phrase «from years in the wilderness»

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After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Quite apart from controversies connected with the Genesis account of creation, historians have puzzled over the story of 12 brothers who go into Egypt and father 12 tribes, and then under miraculous circumstances flee Egypt, wander for 40 years in the wilderness, invade Canaan, conquer the land and settle down.

After several years in the wilderness, Inter are rebuilding under Walter Mazzarri, who joined the club from Napoli in the summer.

And I'm hopeful that this incident — a rarity in NOLS» 40 years and in general — doesn't turn people away from this wonderful organization and the experience of the wilderness.

Your Grace, Even in those post-Peel wilderness years, Derby and Disraeli did get enough short goes in power as to never quite be out for 10 years - with Disraeli often demonstrating what now seems a rather Cameronesque flexibility.They did have one major «legacy» achievement - in the 1867 reform act - if created rather more from political opportunism than any particular principle on the franchise question.

A momentary taste of power from 1979 to 1983 shows a democratically elected political lot that had learnt nothing from its 13 years of wandering in the wilderness, engaging in odious corruption which the military seized by the barrel as an excuse to seize power again till 1999.

Returning to public service after more than six years in the political wilderness was difficult for Spitzer, who never hid from the spotlight and even joked about his mistakes on camera and at political events.

And who is this, coming in from the cold after their agonising wilderness years?

Cuomo was not quite distancing himself from his father, a former three - term governor who had been a liberal voice during the Democratic Party's wilderness years in the Reagan era, but he wasn't embracing the brand of politics either.

If the Repubs try to play obstructionist from the start they'll get spanked in 2010 again and they'll be in the wilderness for a generation instead of just 10 years or so.

Like Churchill's wilderness years in the 1930s, the fight must come from the back benches.

By JAMES PAPIKE and JOHN EICHELBERGEREighty years ago, 12 cubic metres of molten rock burst from the ground in the wilderness of southwest Alaska.

Eighty years ago, 12 cubic metres of molten rock burst from the ground in the wilderness of southwest Alaska.

Audiences for «Into the Wild» will most likely end up in one of two camps: those who view Christopher McCandless — the 22 - year old who abandoned his relatively well - to - do life and «tramped» through the American West, eventually dying in the Alaskan wilderness — as a spoiled brat who overreacted to an uncomfortable family life and petulantly fled to his eventual doom; and those who may not fully understand his motivations, yet still identify with his possibly misguided decision to get away from the things of man.

by Angelo Muredda When Whit Stillman emerged from his thirteen - year sojourn in the wilderness after The Last Days of Disco, it was with the pastel - washed curio Damsels in Distress, practically a radio transmission from a planet of the auteur's own construction.

16, works for Summer Search, an organization that mentors low - income students from their sophomore year in high school through their college graduation, and provides them with fully funded summer experiences like academic programs or wilderness opportunities.

Scholars in grades 4 through 7 participate in end - of - the - year outdoor education field trips, ranging from canoing and hiking to wilderness skills and overnight camping.

From the South Bronx to Singapore, journalist Emily Voigt follows the trail of the fish, ultimately embarking on a years - long quest to find the arowana in the wild, venturing deep into some of the last remaining tropical wildernesses on earth.

Life in the wilderness — exiled from civilization as a punishment for his violent behavior — had its own set of hurdles, but for fifteen - year - old Cole Matthews, it's returning home and facing high school that he's not sure he can handle.

Talk about a writer knowing the world he is describing: Matthiessen, a naturalist and wilderness writer, traveled over 20,000 miles, crisscrossing the South American wilderness from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Piccu high in the Andes over 20 years of research.

When 12 - year - old Prue loses her baby brother to a murder of crows, she sets out to rescue him from the Impassible Wilderness, an alternate reality located in Portland, Oregon.

Discover the truth of a profound legend that has endured from the very dawn of civilization, a captivating revelation of the existence of a mysterious world hidden deep in the wilderness of the Great Himalayan Range.Scholars relate that the first mention of this fabled «Light in the Himalayas» appears in the scriptures of the pre-Tibetan Zhang Zhung culture which arose some 4000 years ago on the remote Qinghai - Tibet Plateau.

He planned to be gone no longer than a year but two years later, in the company of six men from three different tribes who have all come together to help him, he finds himself in the wilderness of the Pacific northwest, far beyond the borders of the American, French and Spanish settlements.

The Garden Route from Stilbaai through Mossel Bay and on to George, Wilderness, Knysna and Tsitsikamma is a magnificent stretch of coastline hosting southern rights in their season, humpbacks between May and December and Bryde's whales all year round.

With 1,500 miles of coast, where both Atlantic and the Indian Ocean meet together, unbelievable miscellaneous topography from the coolest winery of the southwest to the hot Kalahari Desert in the north, from magnificent beaches to the kingdom of wilderness, South Africa now greets more than 9 million tourists every year.

Whilst Sonic has languished in the videogame wilderness, Sega has still been producing quality titles in the intervening years (albeit intermittently) including games such as Football Manager and Total War: Warhammer from their subsidiaries (one of which is the superb Atlus), and from Sega themselves, Super Monkey Ball, Valkyria Chronicles, and most significantly the Yakuza series itself.

Actually, I take that back: the console keeps tabs on your playtime per game so for my two Switch standouts of the year, the tally currently sits at 50 hours a piece and climbing... The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a no - brainer; with its beautifully sprawling open world, memorable characters new and old, and the irresistible lure of epic adventure — one which invites you to detour from saving Hyrule and clock in massive amounts of time just exploring uncharted wilderness — not only is Breath of the Wild everything you could ever ask for in a Zelda title, it's everything you could ever ask for in a video game.

An elder black man in the last 15 years of his life forced out into the wilderness, priced out of L.A. and viewed as an outsider by the art world, this man who fought in World War II for America, fled racism from Alabama in the South, and wound up in the High Desert, where he created his own universe on a desert mountaintop.

In 2009, Daniel Joseph Martinez made the journey from his Los Angeles home to the comparative wilderness of Alaska with the intention of traveling the entirety of the 33 - year - old, 800 - mile - long Trans - Alaska Pipeline System.

Wilderness Workshop (CO), International Call for Applicants: Artist in Wilderness Residencies 2018, with stipend Deadline: January 31st, 2018 From their call: Since 2008, the Artist in Wilderness program has sponsored one - week residencies each year, to allow a few select... Continue reading →

Mounted on top of a rich painted wilderness that covers the walls from floor to ceiling, these are paired with a series of works made this year of scenes at Studio Film Club, a makeshift bar and film club in Trinidad run by Peter Doig (with whose work Ofili has long had a very close affinity).

Two years later, the fledgling institution purchased Frederic Edwin Church's first painting, the brand - new «Hooker and Company Journeying Through the Wilderness From Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636.»

50 years ago Alexander Kira was a voice in the wilderness, and we still have learned almost nothing from him.

While environmental themes were less prominent at the Sundance Film Festival this year, our correspondent JoAnn Valenti unearthed ecological messages from documentaries that explore the emergence of climate change refugees in the face of sea level rise, the escape from modernity into wilderness and the confrontation of environmental threats by young innovators.

In the early years of Canada's settlement by Europeans, the voyageurs spent months, sometimes years, traversing vast distances of wilderness to buy animal pelts from distant Native trading posts.

Perhaps Jobs learned his lesson in his so - called «years in the wilderness» away from Apple when he developed the NeXT computer for the higher education market.

For the past 25 years, she has worked as an experiential educator and therapist in a variety of community settings, from wilderness programs to community mental health and education.

The sukkah is a hut - like structure designed to replicate the type of fragile dwellings that Jews lived in during 40 years of travel through the wilderness after the exodus from Egypt.