Sentences with phrase «front lines of»

The film stars actual veterans of the Iraq War, and has the authentic feel of footage shot on the front lines of the conflict.

Part 1 opens at Christmastime as Marmee and her girls make the most of a cash - strapped holiday in their little Massachusetts town, performing acts of charity while husband and father Robin March (Dylan Baker), a minister, is off on the front lines of the Civil War.

A cowardly military media relations officer is conscripted to the front lines of a counter attack during an alien invasion and finds that he keeps reliving the same day over and over again.

The term «hotshot» is spoken repeatedly in Only The Brave, and it takes some adjustment to realize it's not a nickname or an adjective but an official designation for teams trained to work on the front lines of wildfires — often literally fighting fire with fire.

Raiden was once feared as the child soldier «Jack the Ripper» on the front lines of the First Liberian Civil War

His performance in the last act when Pierre finds himself at the front lines of the Battle of Borodino and later prisoner to the French during Napoleon's retreat from Russia is the most haunting he's been since the climax of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007).

Based on Yousef's 2010 memoir Son Of Hamas, Nadav Schirman's film — an audience prizewinner at Sundance in January — briskly runs down a decade - plus of double - dealing on the front lines of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, offsetting the interview footage with archival news reports, a crashing orchestral score by Max Richter, and staged aerial surveillance shots, tinted night - vision green for maximum atmosphere.

Director Matthew Heineman returns with another immersive documentary from the front lines of one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Yet «Cartel Land» is unmistakably a report from the front lines of a war, made at evident risk to his life, and capturing moments of brutality and lost morals.

Each story follows a different character, giving players a glimpse into the various parts that made up the war machine in World War I. It's a great way of putting you on the front lines of the Great War, as it allows players long enough to get emotionally attached to the characters, but no characters stick around long enough to overstay their welcome.

A sprawling look at life on the front lines of the war against drug cartels in Mexico, this gripping film by Matthew Heineman explores the dangerous and messy moral dilemmas that arise when vigilante groups on both sides of the border take action.

At a time when a virtual war on women has rocketed to the front lines of the great American culture wars, it's a stunning indication of exactly how out of touch with reality are those who would be our leaders that The Hunger Games books have been so wildly successful.

Luke Cage (Mike Colter) is just trying to keep his head down, but honor and duty pull him into the front lines of a war for Harlem's soul.

Created for PlayStation ® 4 by lead developers YAGER and Six Foot and co-developer Iron Galaxy Studios, Dreadnought puts players in command of massive capital ships on the front lines of all - out team battles across a variety of multiplayer game modes.

Talal Derki's «Return to Homs» represents a remarkable achievement in immersive conflict - zone filmmaking, fearlessly taking auds to the front lines of the Syrian civil war and embedding them alongside soccer star turned resistance leader Abdul Basset Saroot, a charismatic -LSB-...]

Talal Derki's «Return to Homs» represents a remarkable achievement in immersive conflict - zone filmmaking, fearlessly taking auds to the front lines of the Syrian civil war and embedding them alongside soccer star turned resistance leader Abdul Basset Saroot, a charismatic nonviolent protestor pushed into taking up arms against the oppressive regime.

Fleming began as an intelligence liaison under the aegis of Rear Admiral John Godfrey, and then in 1942 formed a crack team of intelligence - based commandos, known as the 30 Assault Unit; its job involved operating near the front lines of battle to seize top - secret documents from enemy headquarters that had been targeted in advance.

Here is a 2 - minute promotional video for humorist Mark Miller's «500 Dates: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars», a collection of humor essays about Miller's experiences in the world of dating and romance.

Boomer dating is experiencing a colossal boom, and OurTime.com is right at the front lines of the action.

About Blog Chuck Joiner talks with the most interesting and influential people in the Mac industry, as well as the individuals who are out there making it happen on the front lines of the global Apple community.

Online Dating Expert Julie Spira will be signing copies of her book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online and author Mark Miller will be signing copies of his book, 500 Dates: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars.

With editors and contributors who travel to, and live in, the style capitals of the world, they are out there on the front lines of fashion.

If you're finding that your tales from the front lines of New York dating are providing nothing but wryly funny stories to tell at dinner parties, then it's time to get smart about the places you choose to look for love and meet NYC singles who are genuinely compatible.

With editors and contributors who travel to, and live in, the style capitals of the world, they are out there on the front lines of fashion.

It also includes important information from the front lines of clinical and functional nutrition, as well as the important new approach we've developed — Mind Body Nutrition.

As a nutritional visionary and health pioneer, she has fearlessly stood on the front lines of diet and detox, the environment, and women's health.

Women's health is rapidly changing and Nicole is on the front lines of making that happen.

Today's guest, Leah Segedie, is on the front lines of fighting big food and big ag.

Three of these videos, «Americans on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» deal with impacts being felt by people around the country: A fire chief in Colorado talking about wildfires; a father - son rancher family in West Texas talking about extreme heat and agriculture; and two first cousins and fifth - generation oyster farmers in Washington state speaking about ocean acidification.

With an incidence of HIV in one hard - hit region of South Africa reaching 44 percent among young pregnant mothers, this part of the world is on the front lines of the public health response to HIV.

LA JOLLA — Scientists have, for the first time, characterized the molecular markers that make the brain's front lines of immune defense — cells called microglia — unique.

Six of the videos, «Scientists on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» feature NCA chapter authors talking about key messages from their chapters.

Photographers are often on the front lines of war, risking their lives to document deadly conflict zones.

HealthSeeker is a unique collaboration between diabetes experts and patient advocates who are on the front lines of diabetes care.

Two new precision medicine tests that look beyond cancer genes to identify novel therapeutic targets have just received New York State Department of Health approval and are now available to both oncologists and cancer researchers for use at the front lines of patient care.

«We are on the front lines of sea level rise and other climate change effects and we must drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels.

Publisher's Book Description: The award winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize - winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have fought at the front lines of climate denialism for most of their careers.

We'll be chiming in every now an again to talk about STEM inquiry on the front lines of education around the world, and updating you on our progress with Gedanken and other exciting new initiatives.

«Dr. Wildin's background and expertise are particularly well suited for leading the programs within NHGRI's Genomic Healthcare Branch,» said DPCE Director Laura Lyman Rodriguez, Ph.D. «At a time when opportunities are increasing for health care professionals to consider and use genomic information in their care delivery, Dr. Wildin will be able to draw upon his years on the front lines of medical practice in various community and underserved settings to target NHGRI activities to those stakeholders and initiatives most in need.»

Her first project at MOIA has been coordinating the Global Mayor's Summit on Migrants and Refugees, which will bring together local and international leaders during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly to discuss cities» role on the front lines of unprecedented global migration and refugee challenges.

Living, as the authors say, «on the front lines of climate change,» the young women revealed some common experiences.

Tweets from citizens on the front lines of the country's conflicts with drug cartels indicate desensitization to the growing violence

On the front lines of the controversy these days is Monsanto Inc..

«It feels like we're on the front lines of this thing,» says Rex Buchanan, the state geologist for the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence.

Marcus Feldman never planned to end up on the front lines of evolutionary biology.

While many previous studies proposed ways M1 might contribute to strep virulence, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have uncovered a new explanation that may trump all others: M1's ability to hold off antimicrobial peptides — natural antibiotics that comprise one of the immune system's front lines of defense.

Even on the front lines of the Ebola battle in Monrovia, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) temporarily stopped giving patients potentially life - saving intravenous fluids to reduce the risk of healthcare worker infection, The New York Times recently reported.

But on the front lines of conservation, where people live intimately with primary forests, biodiversity hotspots and endangered species, it is often grinding poverty that drives the destruction.

A 57 - year - old high school biology teacher — «I'm on the front lines of the evolution issue,» he says — he describes his religion as «Einsteinian / Spinozan,» lives surrounded by books, loves dancing and blues guitar, and lists his greatest sources of enjoyment as «kids, thinking clearly and critically, walking in the woods.»

The researchers also employed a cutting - edge technology developed by their collaborators at Columbia University to reprogram the child's skin cells into early progenitor cells, then differentiate those into lung cells, the front lines of influenza infections.