Sentences with phrase «hand at escaping»

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Any contact with people there was impossible, and his family was forced to flee to a neighboring country after narrowly escaping execution at rebels» hands.

At age 14, to escape both her oppressive working environment and the frequent mistreatment she endured at the hands of her brother - in - law, Sarah married a man named Moses McWilliamAt age 14, to escape both her oppressive working environment and the frequent mistreatment she endured at the hands of her brother - in - law, Sarah married a man named Moses McWilliamat the hands of her brother - in - law, Sarah married a man named Moses McWilliams.

Theres no escaping Christmas, the holy music you hear in stores, people handing out jesus saves fliers, and the singing if God Bless America at every baseball and football game halftime in the last 10 years.

At the end of the chapter, Agag is killed by the hand of Samuel, but apparently, we are not told how, some of Agag's children escaped because 600 years later, we come across Haman the Agagite and his ten sons — the historic enemy of the Jews and of all that is of God.

See John 20:30; Mark 16:17 - 20; John 2:11; Acts 2:22: («Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

The distant God is at the same time the God near at hand, Whose reality is not to be grasped when a man seeks to escape from his own concrete existence, but precisely when he holds it fast.

As the opening action unfolds — with a number of dramatic homicides at the hands of ruthless escapee Nichols — we meet Ashley Smith, a chaotic drug addict who is halfheartedly trying to escape her own prison of a narcotics - fueled life.

So persistent have been the disputed questions of Galileo's guilt or innocence and the significance of his case that even Pope John Paul II has not escaped them; a decade ago the current Pope, admitting that Galileo had suffered «at the hands of men and departments within the church,» appointed a papal commission to re-study the case» with virtually no constructive results to date.

On the other hand there is very little in Fascist ideology to escape condemnation at the hands of religious orthodoxy, had the church desired to apply rigorous standards.

Once a loaf is ready to go into the oven, we hand - score cuts on top to allow steam to escape from the baking bread in just the right places, at just the right amount.

As Giacomini tried to shoot his punch at him, Campbell effortlessly knocked Giacomini's outside hand off with his outside hand, then took his inside hand off Giacomini's chest and finished with a rip with to escape off the block.

The City of Brotherly Love breathed a collective sigh of relief as the Philadelphia Eagles narrowly escaped an upset at the hands of the upstart Cleveland Browns, 17 - 16, on Sunday in Cleveland.

On the other hand, the faster Ramsay has the capability of staying with the Spurs players, but he needs to think defensively, which at times escapes him as he looking for the glory days of one season, long ago.

Philadelphia is coming off a 17 - 16 win that hardly felt like a victory, as they narrowly escaped an upset at the hands of the Cleveland Browns.

Never fear: escape is close at hand, since the Daily Show site now hosts full episodes.

On the other hand they could not kill Chief Dennis Osadebey because there was no Army in Benin at the time of the coup and so Osadebey managed to escape.

Mrs Thatcher herself narrowly escaped death at their hands in the bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in October 1984.

Charcoal on the other hand, «adsorbs» rather than «absorbs,» material, meaning that it is able to grab and hold onto substances at a molecular level so they are unable to escape.

Alas, if you're someone who enjoys movies as, say, a two - hour escape, you may find this documentary on the death of film at digital's hands a bit too inside baseball.

It's a mission he undertakes to erase the ills suffered by Blackness at the hands of white supremacy, a system Wakanda managed to escape.

The best part is the docudrama, which walks us through the legendary heists and escapes in detail, from the time of Dillinger's escape from an Indiana prison in 1933 to his death at the hands of federal agents in Chicago, 14 months later.

If he can escape death at the hands of the very charismatic drug dealer Digger Jones (Marc Macaulay), he can go on being as unscrupulous and backwards as they come.

The story is described as a tale in which «a young boy attempts to deal with bullying at the hands of his classmates and his mother's terminal illness by escaping into a fantastical world through the guidance of a tree monster.»

If you aren't familiar with the Zero Escape series, it is a mixture of visual novel with some tough as nail puzzles that make you think about the situation at hand.

Putting a fresh twist on familiar genre concepts, this coming - of - age thriller follows Anna (Bel Powley), an orphaned teenager who escapes her troubled upbringing at the hands of an abusive caretaker (Brad Dourif) who cements her fear of a child - eating monster known as the Wildling.

There are people who don't take to the ending of The Florida Project, when the movie breaks with the reality it has been hewing to for close to two hours — a reality that has finally become unbearable — and escapes into a heartbreakingly close - at - hand flight of fantasy.

-- proved himself adept at any genre he turned his hand to, from the action sci - fi of Escape From New York (1981), to the science fiction romance of Starman (1984), to the high - comedy fantasy of Big Trouble In Little China (1986).

The film recounts Smith's ordeal at the hands of murderer and rapist Brian Nichols, who escaped from custody whilst awaiting trial, murdering four people, including the trial's presiding judge.

Meanwhile, Ares (the God of War) has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of the Amazonians and has decided to exact his revenge by starting a World War that will last for centuries and wipe out every living being on the planet, starting with the Amazons.

The movie will follow «a young boy who attempts to deal with bullying at the hands of his classmates, and his mother's terminal illness, by escaping into a fantastical world through the guidance of a tree monster.»

Meanwhile, Ares (the God of War) has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of the Amazons and has decided to exact his revenge by starting a world war that will destroy them all.

The trailers for «Infinity War» have all but confirmed what fans suspected at the end of «Thor: Ragnarok»: When Thanos comes calling after the Asgardians escape the destruction of their planet, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) hands over the Tesseract, the powerful artifact from «The Avengers» that houses the Space Infinity Stone.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

Thor's escape and captivity is revealed to be at the hands of none other than cosmic archiver the Collector.

, a man who escapes from Hell Itself (TM) in a «Seventies muscle car to avenge the death of his daughter at the hands of a satanic cult and rescue his granddaughter.

And with both a passport and several credit cards close at hand, I know I could escape, somehow, if I really had the gumption.

I assume that this school chose to become an academy to escape the clutches of its supposedly «controlling» LA, where there was at least a semblance of democratic accountability, only to fall into the hands of «unelected, unaccountable» civil servants who «are suffocating headteachers from doing their jobs».

The 7.8 - inch ground clearance kept me from scraping the undercarriage over larger bumps, and the independent suspension did a fairly good job handing basic off - road duties; however, the Escape never really felt at home.

Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop, don't turn around, pay when you get there; he made his escape at the first exit he saw, for fiftyfive cents, and now he was on the old road buzzing the staid turnpike by turns over and under, teasing it crazy.

When his land is taken by force, Prince Jayavar of the Khmer people narrowly escapes death at the hands of the conquering Cham king, Indravarman.

At just twenty - years - old, Rachel Jensby finds herself faced with a desperate reality: either continue to hand her nineteen - month - old daughter over to the man who is sexually abusing her as the court has ordered her to do, or go into hiding to help her child escape the certainty of further sexual assaults.

(And, if you think there is an excessive expense escape valve when your financial consultant does not use funds and instead tries his or her hand at being a stock and bond picker, think again.

However, of the lucky few animals who escape situations of abuse, there are a select group who go on to advocate for animals like them who are still suffering at the hands of humans.

Keep one hand on the cat at all times to prevent escapes.

You choose the amount; they choose how to enjoy it — a weekend escape, a rejuvenating spa treatment, a hands - on class at the Cooking School, a delectable dinner at Murray Circle, unique gifts from the Mercantile.

Surrounded by tropical gardens the Hotasa Beverly Park feels like an idyllic escape although the local entertainment, bars and restaurants are close at hand, not to mention the fine sandy beach which is only 100m away.

You never really see the shadows up close during normal gameplay but their moaning and groaning will definitely catch your attention and when they start moving towards your current position, you better have a quick escape route at hand because they will get to you one way or another.

B.J. Blazkowicz is given a sub-machine gun by one of his fellow resistance fighters very early on, while further weaponry found along the way includes a high calibre automatic rifle which is effective even in medium to long range combat, alongside pistols which are the side - arm of choice for Nazi commanders when up against a lightly armoured enemy at close range; a variation of a shotgun albeit with three barrels rapidly firing shells; hand grenades are capable of destroying certain flammable surfaces which can create an escape route for B.J. under given circumstances; and more besides.

Our very own Cody Shults tried his hand at the Oculus Rift with Dumpy, a game about an escaped carnival elephant on a rampage.

Missions are bolstered by their variety, with objectives rarely repeating themselves and each mission always with some new trick at hand to share; from shepherding colossal ice titans into cages, pushing carts through storm - battered temples or escaping your mech suit for a stealth - fuelled search of a pirate - infested factory.