Sentences with phrase «held notorious»

About Alcatraz Beyond its legacy as a world - famous former federal penitentiary (1934 — 63) that once held notorious criminals like gangster Al Capone, Alcatraz has undergone numerous incarnations that have contributed to its unique and deeply layered history.

About Alcatraz Beyond its legacy as a world - famous former federal penitentiary (1934 — 63) that once held notorious criminals like Al Capone, Alcatraz has undergone numerous incarnations that have contributed to its unique and deeply layered history.

That was the point of a former prison, now turned peculiar tourist attraction, which once held notorious criminals and political enemies.

Not exact matches

Judoka Rafaela Silva, who grew up in Rio's notorious Cidade de Deus favela, burst into tears on Monday as she held up her medal to a roaring crowd as the Brazilian national anthem played.

The notorious cell, dubbed «The Beatles» and once headed by now - deceased SDGT Mohamed Emwazi (also known as Jihadi John), is responsible for holding captive and beheading approximately two dozen hostages, including several Westerners.

In the best of that genre — The Three Days of the Condor, The Ipcress File, Notorious — the lead actor must hold a lot back but, in private moments with the audience, give us all they've got.

The notorious Dred Scott decision (1837) asserted that because slaves were their masters» property Congress could not ban slavery anywhere in the United States — a holding that ignored the Framers» compromise of tolerating slavery temporarily but allowing eventual measures against it.

It would be a great shame to me and to you, the noble and renowned German nation... if heresy or decrease of the Christian religion should through our negligence dwell after us in the hearts of men... I regret having delayed so long to proceed against this Luther and his false doctrine... he is to be taken back, keeping the tenor of his safe - conduct... I am determined to proceed against him as a notorious heretic, requesting of you that you conduct yourselves in this matter as good Christians as you have promised it to me, and are held to do it.

Even in the tropical areas that were colonized by notorious gravy and sauce eaters, the French and English, spicy salsas are popular and gravies never took hold.

Arsenal were tonight held to a 0 - 0 draw at the Emirates by notorious «hardmen» Red Star Belgrade in a lackluster night.

There is something slightly surreal about sitting in a visiting room, having negotiated a set of elaborate security measures, including fingerprint scans, airlock doors and German shepherds, and watching a group of prisoners — including one of the country's most notorious inmates — hold up cardboard props and don mop heads for wigs, to the occasional shout of «Come on, daddy» from the audience.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn't believe that holding a special legislative session later this year to close a notorious campaign finance loophole or restrict lawmakers» outside income would be productive.

The seat, of course, was held at the time by Denis MacShane, notorious for his EU logoed socks if not yet for already running a «think tank» next to his lawnmower.

► «[M] ore than 300 scholars and scientists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter calling on Iran to release [chemist Mohammad Hossein] Rafiee» from its «notorious Evin Prison,» where he has been held «since June 2015, after speaking out in favor of the nuclear deal that was announced a month after he was imprisoned,» Zack Kopplin reported Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

Using computer analyses, researchers suggest that airflow through the bony tube would have generated sound with a frequency somewhere between 248 and 746 cycles per second — a range that encompasses the droning tone of the South African vuvuzela, which became notorious during soccer matches held during the 2010 World Cup.

A long - held hypothesis holds that the most notorious feature of Alzheimer's disease, amyloid plaques, is the main cause of the disorder.

I am an outreach empowerment coach because I like to encourage the other AYP teachers to continue holding their outreach classes; when you're reaching more people through yoga, you're creating good relationships with more communities in a country notorious for ethnic tensions.

I am notorious for hiding, luckily I have friends who deeply understand me and patiently hold my hand from afar during those times.

Four Yankee bunglers hatch a hare - brained plot and attempt to kidnap a notorious crime boss and hold him for ransom.

Though it doesn't hold up in the same way that say... «Notorious» or «It's a Wonderful Life» does, it's still an outstanding achievement that should be considered mandatory viewing.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl «s Olivia Cook (released last month) still holds onto a single vote but that could just be Long's notorious forgetfulness in updating his predictions.

Josh Duhamel is all smiles as he hits the carpet at the premiere of USA Network's Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. held at Avalon on Thursday (February 22) in Hollywood.

That's how — in between his obligations as a now - central cog in the MCU — Stan found time to appear in I, Tonya, a no - holds - barred look at the notorious Tonya Harding scandal that's taken the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival by storm.

True Blood, which aired its final episode in 2014, was notorious for its no - holds - barred, supernatural sex scenes, and this unfortunate exhibition was no exception.

Summary: Based on crime journalist Peter R. de Vries's account of what has been called «the most notorious kidnapping of the 20thCentury, Kidnapping Mr. Heineken explores the abduction of Dutch brewery magnate Freddy Heineken (Anthony Hopkins) and his chauffeur, Ab Doderer, who were kidnapped in 1983 and held for what was the largest ransom at the time.

A notorious presence on the set, she flubbed lines, arrived late, and tested the saintly patience of her director and co-stars, but on the big screen, she holds the audience in her gaze without a flicker of hesitation.

by Walter Chaw It opens with an already - notorious slow - motion consideration of a gallery of morbidly - obese women in tiny cowboy hats, naked and holding sparklers while gyrating to Abel Korzeniowski's moody, derivative score.

Like Alicia Huberman in «Notorious,» Edith feels if she could just get a hold of that key, and find the right lock, she might understand the secrets buried in that house, and her own destiny.

FAVORITES Favorite Films: Alien, Amadeus, Back to the Future, Ben - Hur (1959), Brazil, Die Hard, Donnie Darko, The Fifth Element, Ghostbusters, Gladiator, GoodFellas, I Wan na Hold Your Hand, It's a Wonderful Life, Kramer vs. Kramer, Marty, Metropolitan, Notorious, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rebecca, Schindler's List, The Shawshank Redemption, A Simple Plan, Slumdog Millionaire, Star Wars, Superman (1978), To Kill A Mockingbird, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Wizard of Oz, Yellow Submarine, Young Frankenstein

THE LOVE - AHS Jimmy Fallon was notorious for breaking character, but he wasn't alone in this sketch, as Will Ferrell, Rachel Dratch and Drew Barrymore barely hold it together in a hotel hot tub.

They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else.

If, for instance, you see a patch with five stars on top and one star on the bottom, you know it has something to do with the notorious Area 51, the secretive military base where spy aircraft and weaponry are tested and aliens supposedly held in captivity.

As the media frenzy surrounding Allison's exploits swells to a fever pitch and the Southland's most notorious killer sets out after her, a glimmer of recognition blooms in Hood, forcing him to choose between a deeply held sense of honor and a passion that threatens to consume him completely.

James Jeter, the notorious serial killer with a sixth sense, holds court inside London's Wormwood Scrubs Prison.

The iBookstore is particularly notorious for this; and your eBooks can get held up in review for weeks if you are using an aggregation service like Smashwords or Draft2Digital to get onto iTunes.

For the third time, consumers who say they purchased sick and dying puppies from notorious dog sellers James and Gilda Anderson are asking the Broward County Circuit Court to hold the Andersons accountable.

But Kutaragi, who holds the post of CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, is notorious for following his own vision.

The Xbox One, which sits upstairs while the router is situated on the ground floor, was holding fine at four bars, but I should point out that my house has always been notorious for being troublesome for wifi signals.

Debauchery of a more inclusive and contemporary kind is witnessed in the artist's depiction of Caesarian Sunday, the first of Cambridge's summer drinking parties traditionally held on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday weekend, and the notorious after - exams party Suicide Sunday, held in June, and its traditional cardboard boat race.

He would significantly rework several earlier essays in the 1960s and beyond, but never backed down from his notorious rigidity: a principled avant - garde held aloft one end of the seesaw, ignoble kitsch slumped heavily on the other.

Separately, tensions flared over the museum's involvement in a notorious party held in the South Bronx to celebrate a new condo building and plans to create a $ 2.5 million replica of a sculpture of the Cuban revolutionary José Martí.

The debauchery of a more inclusive and contemporary kind is witnessed in the artist's depiction of Caesarian Sunday, the first of Cambridge's summer drinking parties traditionally held on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday weekend, and the notorious after - exams party Suicide Sunday, held in June, and its traditional cardboard boat race.

Many important political events and national conventions were held at the notorious hotel designed by Morris Lapidus, which over the years hosted Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, Reagan and Clinton — an apt reference leading up to this year's presidential election.

Samore's new cinematic pieces evoke the notorious scene of Luis Buñel's Un Chien Andalou in which a man holds an actress» eye open and slices it in half with a razor.

Held on the evening a vicious storm whipped through New York City, spawning the notorious tornado that felled countless trees in its path, the opening reception for Leafless was eerily timed.

(3) DFA hold shares in notorious forestry companies such as Sinar Mas, Ta Ann, Barito Pacific, WTK, DLH and Rimbunan Hijau.

The four - part series will «reveal the hidden truths in the notorious case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt and challenge the long - held narrative that surrounded the event.»

Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Joshua Rofé (Lost for Life), Lorena is a four - part documentary series that reveals the hidden truths in the notorious case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt and challenges the long - held narrative that surrounded this event.

While Rogers is notorious for leaving customers with complaints or service questions on hold, things are completely different if you want to buy any products or services from Rogers.

I was notorious for my refusal to hold babies.