Sentences with phrase «in old westerns»

But, other than in old westerns, it's awfully hard telling the good guys from the bad guys.

Adeyinka Adebayo in the old Western Region.

Even before Obafemi Awolowo's democratization of the Nigerian education space, by his revolutionary free primary education programme in the old Western Region; and Yakubu Gowon's liberalization of university access in the early 1970s, privileged and determined families had always sponsored theirs to study abroad.

Or maybe a half - n - half deal where the top flips up and the bottom halves swing apart like a saloon door in an old Western movie.

I love some of the lines in the old Western type movies — one of my favorites is: If the good Lord didn't want them sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep.»

It's not a like a gun fight in an old Western movie, as some treat the exchange.

Not exact matches

Clearly he concluded most of those five MLCs backed the Barnett - led Liberals who, in good old - fashioned socialist style, opposed Western Power being split, most especially its generating and sales divisions, as Carnegie recommended.

The town of Buckskin Joe in Colorado was built with structures from old mining towns, and became the setting for many Hollywood westerns.

The state and federal governments will provide an additional $ 21.6 million in home and community care funding to Western Australia this year to aid older people and those with disabilities.

Sadleirs Logistics, a subsidiary of Western Australia's oldest family - owned business, has won a contract to supply mainland transport services to Chevron's operations in the Pilbara for an undisclosed sum.

From Irish backpacker to managing a national construction services business in just six years, 30 year old Declan White's Monford Group was named the 2014 Telstra Western Australia business of the year.

«The easternmost provinces tend to be older and aging more rapidly than western provinces,» explains Colin Busby, senior policy analyst at the C. D. Howe Institute in Toronto.

Barbara Grogan, the 50 - year - old CEO of Western Industrial Contractors Inc., a $ 10 - million contracting business based in Denver, begs to differ.

Wheeler, who had come to her post in 1989, gradually realized that the problem was not Western Machine's new customers — it was the old collection system.

In his first interview with a Western media publication since 2015, the 39 - year - old entrepreneur said he aims to double his user base, which currently offers everything from food delivery to movie tickets to wedding photography to more than 300 million Chinese consumers.

The two left New York in 1980, spending an academic year in Philadelphia before settling in Western Massachusetts in 1981 — and founding Accurate Writing & More with an initial marketing cost of $ 12 and a total start - up under $ 200 (most of it for a 13 - year - old IBM Selectric typewriter).

The two left New York in 1980, spending a year in Philadelphia before settling in Western Massachusetts in 1981 — and founding Accurate Writing & More with an initial marketing cost of $ 12 and a total start - up under $ 200 (most of it for a 13 - year - old IBM Selectric typewriter).

Another restaurant moved into the old Wild Ginger space on Western Avenue and went bust, probably because the rent was too high compared to the many other restaurants in Seattle.

The thirty two properties within the Marble Bar paleoplacer gold project cover an area of approximately 1,251 square km in the Nullagine embayment and 554 square km in the Marble Bar subbasin underlain by 2.74 billion year old siliciclastic sedimentary and volcanic rocks belonging to the Fortescue Group, the basal part of the Hamersley Basin located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The Ancient Spanish Monastery is said to be the oldest building in the Western Hemisphere.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

We want to dispel the old suspicion that the Christians in the East provide a way for Western interests to gain a toehold in Eastern societies.

It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.

Some evidence: «The oldest rocks on Earth, found in western Greenland, have been dated by four independent radiometric dating methods at 3.7 - 3.8 billion years.»

By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted in the East, [18][19] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which corresponds to January in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.

Take a Western and put it in modern day and you have Breaking Bad or No Country for Old Men.

wow what a way to make lots of money in one night.lol People should read the true inscriptions that are thousands of years old which tells the truth,» the seven tablets of creation» western christianity is a JOKE and a bunch of lies.

Damascus, a great trading center on the western border of the Fertile Crescent, is a very ancient city — perhaps the oldest anywhere in the world which still exists — while Antioch is famous for the fact that here the followers of Christ were first called Christians.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

Among his writings are the following: Christian Apologetics in a World Community (InterVarsity Press 1983); Let the Earth Rejoice: A Biblical Theology of Holistic Mission (Crossway 1983); Christian Art in Asia, (Rodop Amsterdam 1979, distributed by Humanities Press); Themes in Old Testament Theology, (InterVarsity Press 1979); Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture (Western Baptist Press 1975; and Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation (Eerdmans 1971).

Even now initiates are preparing for their winter dancing rituals in the centuries - old secret Seyouwin societies that flourish on the western coasts of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

It is something that has never dropped out of the memory of the oldest surviving society in the western world.

A old TV show had a monologue where one guy was talking to another and said that in their small western town, when the government came in the first thing they built was not a jail, or a courthouse.

The situation can not go on like that without serious long - term repercussions — without Western theology, in its splendid isolation, risking those vital connections through which old forms are renewed and fresh vitality released.

The melancholy refrain of the Old Testament — «And the children of Israel forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, and followed other gods, the gods of the peoples who were round about them... they played the whore after other gods and bowed themselves down to them» — applies perfectly to the dominant trends in the Catholic Church, at least in the Western world.

These innovations transformed and enlarged old centers of private power and created new ones in the Western world.

In his celebrated «Answer to an Inquiry of the Protestant Consistory of Brandenburg» (1919), the 33 - year - old pastor made it clear that he believed a new age in Western history was dawning, and that this age would be, in some sense, socialisIn his celebrated «Answer to an Inquiry of the Protestant Consistory of Brandenburg» (1919), the 33 - year - old pastor made it clear that he believed a new age in Western history was dawning, and that this age would be, in some sense, socialisin Western history was dawning, and that this age would be, in some sense, socialisin some sense, socialist.

German prosecutors have no indication why a 48 - year - old man drove a van into a crowd of people in the western city of Munster, killing two and injuring 20 before shooting himself dead inside the van.

In the U.S. and Western Europe, there will presumably be either a return to certain Hellenic or older European concepts of the good life, or an intensified alienation and search made necessary and facilitated by the unprecedented affluence and permissiveness of the postindustrial economy.

He's amassed a year's worth of canned and dry food, dozens of gallons of water, hundreds of water purification tablets, and a small cache of weapons in a old U-Haul truck outside his western Oregon home in preparation for «doomsday,» the end - times scenario based upon the ancient Mayan calendar hitting a symbolic turning point this month.

Boasting both an all - star cast (including Michelle Dockery of Downtown Abbey fame and the legendary Jeff Bridges), the seven episode «limited series» explores religion and belief through the chaos of life during in the New Mexico Territory during the old western period.

Certainly ours is a century in which the traditional Western forms have been collapsing about us, but in the arts and sciences at least, the dissolution of old forms has gone hand in hand with the birth or rebirth of new forms.

Be that as it may, in this century there has been an ongoing progression in Western cultures away from the older asceticism.

At the same time, Christian ethicists often decry the absence or the decline of these values in Western societies today and go on to suggest that, unless we return to the old virtues, we will go under economically; and in this they may very possibly be mistaken.

This older model can be interpreted as arising from the ethos of monarchy, which was prevalent both in the western world and in India during the last few centuries.

I am old enough to have seen their marches in the Universities,» La Sharkiia Wa la Ghrabiia, La Elmainnia Wa La Dimokratiia, Islamiia, Islamiia» or Neither Western or Eastern, Neither Democracy nor Secularism, Only Islamist Islamist.

It is thus one of the supremely important books, not only of the Old Testament but of all ancient literature, and its common caricature, as the narrative of a fish literally swallowing a man and disgorging him alive after three days, is one of the most regrettable absurdities in the Western world's long mistreatment of the Bible.

I suppose it is a new upsurge of that famous Western rationalism, old enemy of reasonableness, always so right at the time, always so shocking in retrospect.