Sentences with phrase «giant of a man who»

Current NAACP Buffalo Chapter President Rev. Mark Blue called Mesiah «a giant of a man who stood up for a lot of people who couldn't stand up for themselves, who couldn't speak for themselves.»

The town of Williston forms part of the three sister towns of the Karoo Highlands; here you can follow the trail of Cornelius de Waal, a giant of a man who earned a small wage carving gravestones years ago.

On behalf of my partners, management and staff at RHTLaw Taylor Wessing LLP, we are sad to have lost one of our own but are honoured to have served with this giant of a man who had a heart of gold.

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Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware has been dominated by men.

The director successfully pulls away the layer of legend surrounding a literal giant to reveal the man who amazed so many.

When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $ 100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery.

It may seem odd for Chesky, the CEO of the company that, along with ride - sharing giant Uber, has become the poster child for the so - called sharing economy, to seek advice from the man who signed off on the intelligence that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Alex Stamos, the man who for more than a year now has been in charge of securing Yahoo, the sometimes forgotten internet giant that boasts more than 1 billion users, was opening the doors of the company's office for something called the «Trust Unconference.»

Keen for the core audience of young men who come to Vice, media giants like 21st Century Fox, Time Warner and Disney all showed interest in the company last year.

Jack Bogle, the founder of mutual fund giant Vanguard, and the man who popularized index funds, is part of an older generation of financiers, including people like Warren Buffett, who believe in long - term, low - cost investing, paying their taxes, and giving away most of their money.

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

«Gerald Priestland was a giant of a man and a highly gifted broadcaster who had the knack of presenting complicated thoughts in an easy - to - understand way.

Chances are, you can think of a few examples off the top of your head: Hardee's campaign featuring women in bikinis erotically eating giant cheeseburgers, (which is not only degrading but — as any person who has ever had a Hardee's cheeseburger could tell you — wildly inaccurate), Post-it's ad that shows a man in bed with a women who has a Post-it note with her name on her forehead (You know, so he doesn't have to actually remember it).

Its controlling metaphors of «the man at the giant switchboard» and «the man in the cloverleaf,» which were meant to symbolize the communication grid and the mobility network of the modern metropolis, seemed implausible to people who had been denied both mobility and communication, and for whom the city was often not a place of expanded freedom but the site of more sophisticated humiliations.

Of the dozen or so friends who were online at 9 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving — most of them men — three suggested that I cut the butter into little slivers and stick it through the air slits, which turned out to be a good idea except that my air slits ended up looking more like giant gashes through which butter was bleeding out of my piOf the dozen or so friends who were online at 9 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving — most of them men — three suggested that I cut the butter into little slivers and stick it through the air slits, which turned out to be a good idea except that my air slits ended up looking more like giant gashes through which butter was bleeding out of my piof them men — three suggested that I cut the butter into little slivers and stick it through the air slits, which turned out to be a good idea except that my air slits ended up looking more like giant gashes through which butter was bleeding out of my piof my pie.

David and Goliath is so compelling because the points are made through the incredible true stories of real - life underdogs and «giants»: the man whose emotionally stunted single - mindedness enabled breakthroughs in leukaemia treatment; the French painters who chose to go outside the established art system that rejected them, and ended up launching the Impressionist movement.

We stand on the shoulders of giants — men and women who have been theologians, pastors, prophets, apostles, mystics, teachers, evangelists and writers.

Some of you may be familiar with the missions giant whose acronym officially stands for «Youth With A Mission,» while those of us who have survived it know it stands for something completely different: Young Women After Men, Yes, We Arrange Marriages and the list goes on.

We bought a calendar for a friend who's an aficionado of photos of semi-nude, middle - aged men and women covering up their private parts with whipped cream, funnels, and giant salmon, and then tracked down the restaurant's chef de cuisine for an interview.

It had already been a long journey for a young man who by the age of 15 had been a finalist in a competition for the best kitchen apprentice and who had the good timing and sense to soak up the influence of such culinary giants as Roger Vergé, Michel Guérard, and Georges Blanc.

The German international has seemingly become something of a scapegoat for the Spanish giants faltering start to the season and this culminated in the former Werder Bremen man being hauled off at half - time during Real Madrid's 5 - 1 thrashing of Deportivo La Coruna, a move that greatly angered team - mate Sergio Ramos who chose to illustrate his opposition to the substitution by wearing Ozil's number 10 shirt under his own.

Looks like Stan likes to kill animals ah wat money does to people they just get bored and cum up with stupid tv prog go kill animals makes me mad and sad and to think our club is ran by this man no wonder we are we're we are besides putting cash into tv, Stan get ur cash and give ozil and Sanchez and ox the money they want if doesn't do it go get bale that's wat real owner does and if Sanchez refuses da offer get the guys killing animals on ur programme to go hunting Sanchez sick being put down like how are spurs ahead of us there building now we're passed that we should be in champions league semis at least I don't no if it's wenger or da owner but at Highbury when mr drink was around we had 13 world class players and Highbury now emirates we have maybe 3 or 4 or 5 tops, world class players and guess wat we can't even keep them oh my dear friends it don't feel rite I find myself losing my arsenal my life I can not believe spurs are above us and how we use tear them to shreds our kids use ta, who cares if Sanchez goes we will not win da league with Stan there he just wants pump cash in to shooting poor animals well to me ur the animal and ur taking a sleeping giant in to the jungle?

Paul Clement may have just arrived in the Premiership as Swansea's third manager this season, but considering that he has come straight from the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich — who are the Gunners next opponents in the Champions League — he had already been involved in working out how to get the better of Arsene Wenger's men.

This giant of a man, one of the best basketball players ever, who'd scored 44,149 points, spoke in a voice that was barely audible.

A potential move for the Barca man would most likely pivot on the future of Ozil, who has been linked with a possible switch to Turkish giants Fenerbahce.

Both one of the best at their jobs and a formidable power duo who helped us hold our own against a giant like fergie's Man utd.

Amid speculation of interest from the likes of Arsenal and Real Madrid, Marca claim that it's Liverpool who have had a $ 100m bid rejected by the French giants, with owner Dmitri Rybolovlev adamant that even though he doesn't have any intention of selling Mbappe, the bidding must overtake the world - record transfer fee needed by Man Utd to sign Paul Pogba last summer.

but not much trophy wise besides the occasional FA cup... so they went and brought in Rafa: the man who won the Spanish league right under the noses of the two giants of Madrid & Barcelona..

The domestic giants are in need of a lift, although it remains to be seen whether Vidal — who features at right bank and in wide areas in midfield — can be the man to provide it.

The Ajax upbringing, imprinting a new style of attacking football on the Catalan giants, and the fact everyone knew Cruyff and nobody knew very much about a man who was currently managing in Japan for goodness sake... it seemed cut and dried.

With a talented squad capable of hanging with Ligue 1's opulent giants, Nice, on the whole, could be described very similarly to the man who often carries their midfield — underrated, under the radar, and yet seriously impressive.

On Saturday, they'll face Cruz Azul, a wounded giant going through their own pittance this season under new coach Pedro Caixinha, a man whose arrival prompted great expectation but has now resulted in severe disappointment for many fans who thought this was the end of the squad's extended title drought.

«This community has just lost a giant, wonderful man,» said Art Jutton, of Fayetteville, who served as district director of Walsh's congressional office from 1971 to 1979 and later became Jim Walsh's chief of staff in Washington.

Last week, Dean Hart, a Democratic challenger in the 15th Assembly District who is known for making unorthodox announcements, proclaimed that he would spend up to $ 1 million of his own money to install a «giant marble statue» of the Hicksville - raised Piano Man in front of the renovated Nassau Coliseum, scheduled to reopen in the spring.

Pataki called Rappleyea «a giant of a man» who «was there the whole way» when he found himself down in the polls by 11 percent with two weeks to go in his»84 Assembly race.

Giant men up to nine feet tall who could herald the return of ancient Mesopotamia gods are strolling around an Egyptian bakery near the pyramids of Giza The Great Pyramid is the oldest and the largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt in Africa.

You could say that Megamind is a tad resentful about good vs. evil inequities — «Good receives all the praise and adulation, while evil spends quiet time in the corner» — and he's especially miffed when he learns that Metro City is erecting a giant statue and museum in honor of Metro Man, who is one dumb hero.

► A man and a woman steal a Medevac helicopter and fly to stop creatures from destroying a city: they see a giant wolf jump into the air and bite three helicopters in half while the wolf and a giant gorilla destroy buildings and vehicles into rubble and smoke; something swims fast under the surface of a river, it rises high in the water to reveal a prehistoric spiny crocodile with an armored tail and a spiked ball at its end, many huge teeth that include side tusks, and wings behind its ears; it upsets a large touring craft full of people who fall into the water, screaming, and it roars at the sky before joining the other two creatures in destroying buildings.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

► A woman shoots a man in the stomach and he falls with a large spot of blood on his shirt (we see him later standing on a high - rise roof) and a giant gorilla knocks people down, and then he swallows a woman as the man who was shot and another woman get into a helicopter; the helicopter spins and slides to the ground among falling debris and we see that the people are unhurt.

John Landis» star - filled, documentary is a portrait of a bygone era (some keywords: schtick, Miami, Shecky) and most of all of a man named Rickles, a giant who continues to stride among us at the age of 81, his timing deadlier than ever.

The story, insofar as there is one, centres on the return of Anastasia's lunatic ex-boss Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson): not a stable man, but one who repeatedly manages to outwit Christian's hapless security detail, at one point kidnapping the business mogul's sister (played by the pop star Rita Ora), and at another breaking into the couple's apartment undetected, then pouncing from the shadows with a giant knife.

And there's a new love interest, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), a classmate of Parker's who moonlights (implausibly) as an intern at genetics giant Oscorp, where Dr Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans) dreams of regenerating his arm from lizard DNA despite the increasingly capricious demands of old man Osborn himself.

It's more playful and comic, with a reluctant hero who has a motley crew of buddies and a mentor with a sly sense of humor as well as justice, and while the stakes a big (stopping a tech giant from weaponizing experimental technology and it to the bad guys), it's not the world - shaking battleground of The Avengers or Thor or Iron Man movies.

To be fair, it also rips off, shot for shot, moments from Sam Raimi; from Reservoir Dogs in a poor, bleeding - out schlub dubbed «Dead Man» (Akie Kotabe), who fans of «The Simpsons» will recognize as Frank Grimes; and from Luc Besson, in particular (and if you're a carbon copy of Besson, the image fidelity is a field of giant pixels at this point).

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The story probably sounds stranger on paper than it does in the actual film: an aspiring musician in London named John (Domhall Gleeson) ends up roped into helping a strange band full of oddballs record an album, led by the enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a man who wears a giant papier - mâché head to hide his true face.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

It all began in «Da Boom,» when Peter runs into a man in a giant chicken suit who is declaring the end of the world will arrive in Y2K.

In the 2044 of Looper, time travel exists, but it's mainly used by a giant organized crime syndicate, which sends hit men who have outlived their usefulness back in time to be murdered by their younger selves.