Sentences with phrase «in the back alley of»

«Whereas two years ago, deals were frequently made in the back alleys of streets of Manila, most are now made online, using the most rapidly growing scourge of wildlife protection — Facebook,» he said.

On paper, it looked tricky: Guy Ritchie («Snatch», «Sherlock Holmes») directing a movie about King Arthur, the born King who was robbed of his birthright and was forced to grow up in the back alleys of Londinium.

She's a product of the world of espionage, its secrets clouded in the back alleys of Cold War Berlin.

Nicholas Winding Refn (Drive) directs this stylish east - meets - west thriller, set in the back alleys of Bangkok's criminal underworld.

SYNOPSIS: Robbed of his birth right, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city.

Cars race through outdoor cafés in Paris, France, crashing into tables, causing them to fly into the air, as well as jump over forklifts in the back alleys of Hong Kong.

The main issue here is that, since I was brave enough to write that first blog, and which contained sentiments others were already thinking, whispering, or discussing in the back alleys of the Internet, I became the face and target of the company's attacks, as well as that of the many toxic backers of the project.

Ashley Bickerton is the latest artist in a starry line - up to take the stage at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, tucked away in the back alleys of Vauxhall.

However, it was happening in the back alleys of media.

Not exact matches

«Perhaps the most powerful of the pro-choice arguments,» Ms. Crandall points out, was that illegality of abortion would leave America in «the dark ages when thousands of women died because of unsafe, back - alley abortions — between five thousand and ten thousand a year was the figure usually given» in the 1970s.

Back alley abortions will return, women will die, and we will still have a horrifying number of children living in poverty and crime.

Lader argued that the original intent of the anti-abortion laws which were passed in the 19th century was to protect the health of women from the dangers of quack abortionists, but since legal abortions had become so safe, the continued presence of these laws had the opposite of their intended effect, forcing women into a dangerous back - alley underground.

If Jesus was born in the United States (or any of the ruling nations in the world... Jesus was born in part of the Roman Empire, after all), it would be to a poor prostitute who is living under a cardboard box in a back alley.

If you are surrounded by jelly - faced toddlers or thousands of longing hungry souls, or if you lift your head to find yourself in a hospital or a back alley or a church or an orphanage or your own suburban kitchen, if you are given a voice for dozens or only one other soul, you are a minister, feel it, say the words, roll them against your teeth: you have been commissioned for the work of the Gospel, in Christ Jesus, you have.

Parts Unknown lives up to its name as Bourdain takes viewers to places like the remote mountains of Columbia, the back alleys of Tokyo and the shores of the Mississippi Delta to sample local cuisine, and immerse himself in the real culture of some of the world's most unique cities.

But this is little more than a scratch on the surface of the great evil to which people are capable, and I believe that it is these sorts of public tragedies that keep our eyes averted from the truly horrific crimes that are being committed every day in the basements and back alleys of our own cities.

A great many people are trying to ban forms of womens» healthcare, and perhaps you are too young to remember, but when it was illegal before, large numbers of women turned to «back alley» abortions, often performed in unsanitary conditions by untrained people.

Sally, for me, rhubarb is a mindtrip back to childhood in MI where my father insisted on a spring / summer garden that contained 3 things: several beefsteak tomato plants, a row of peonies, and a row of rhubarb plants growing on the border of the alley.

On Friday, February 26, 2016, the former Red Dog space will come to life again in a grand opening celebration as Annex, located at a slightly hidden, back alley entrance on the second and third floors of 1958 West North Avenue in Chicago.

So when I received a copy of Back Around the Table: An «In the Kitchen with David» Cookbook from QVC's Resident Foodie David Venable, his recipe for Skinny Fried Chicken recipe was right up my alley.

The alleys of only 10 years ago presented a picture of dust and gloom where a predominantly adult male clientele scowled over heavily scuffed boards and, crouching in the dark compartments behind their battered pins, the pin boys scowled back.

• 09 Podolski — Under used, best left foot in the squad, no good at chasing back • 10 Wilshere — Falls over a lot, injury prone, runs down blind alleys, spends more time sitting on his arse waving his arms around than influencing the game • 14 Walcott — Quick, can change games with his pace, improved his finishing, can't wait for him to be back to full fitness • 22 Sanogo — Looooooooool, that is all • 26 Martinez — Haven't seen enough of him to truly judge.

We're just two years removed from back - to - back 40 - homer seasons, and while it's probably as likely that he'll get attacked in an alley by his advancing age and be out of baseball in two years, there's still a chance of a late - career renaissance.

He had one particularly impressive sequence near the beginning of the fourth quarter in which he initiated a steal at mid-court, gave the ball up to point guard Ezra Manjon only to get it back on a perfect alley - oop pass.

I made another pair out of some pants I found in the back alley:) I love dumpster diving.

The pattern is all too familiar to neighbors and authorities: set during a quiet time at the rear of a vacant structure that is accessible via one of Troy's numerous alleys, which date back to the late 1700s», many of them originally streets in their own right.

Glad you all enjoyed getting pissed and filling your pie - holes, don't worry about us, we survive on out - of - date tinned food found dumped in back alleys and anything we can shoplift.

I started blogging back in 2012, so I am very familiar with branding and content creation, so all of this is right up my alley.

Bowling alleys are great for some laid - back hangout time that doesn't involve vegging out in front of the tube.

My darling husband, however, is very live - and - let - live, and my wardrobe includes a headdress with taxidermied bird wings and a maxi skirt made of cowhide lashed together with leather lacing (back alley flea markets in Mexico ftw!).

A drunk fumble in the back alley might not make the Guinness book of records for hottest love scenes of all time but completely letting go will mean that you're going to have a good time.

It looks like SkaDate dating script has reached the level of popularity desired and feared by many software producers at the same time — illegal copies of our dating solution emerge in the shady back alleys of the Internet, and some users take the opportunity to try them out without considering consequences.

Gunning for Buzzard's spot as the most credibly underground American indie of the year, in comes Tangerine, Sean Baker's motor - mouthed, occasionally hyper - active, at times repetitious tour of the street corners, fleabag motels, and back alleys of West Hollywood.

Perhaps more than any of the Coens other films, Inside Llewyn Davis is scrupulously realistic — right up until its final sequence, in which there is an unexpected temporal shift back to the beginning of the film, with Llewyn again singing «Hang Me, Oh Hang Me» at the club before being beaten up in the alley behind it.

After all, we saw a piece of concept art awhile back featuring Hela in a city alley with Thor and Loki, still in Asgardian garb, looking up at her with trepidation, not to mention the fact that the scene where Hela destroys Mjolnir appears to be happening in a city alley.

They're hired by the aunt and uncle (Amy Madigan and Titus Welliver) of an abducted four - year - old girl to talk to the people in the neighbourhood who won't talk to the police, and the way director Affleck shoots the back alleys of Boston is so intimate and unforgiving as to be almost embarrassed.

Based on the number of faithfully recreated moments in the «Starsky & Hutch» movie, he must know that the show with its casual brutality and sardonic, back - alley fascism was derived from slap - happy action comedy - dramas like Richard Rush's 1974 «Freebie and the Bean» and, more specifically, Peter Hyams's 1974 «Busting.»

Still, most of the sports community assumes Satterfield died years ago, which means Erik has just discovered a powerful story lying in a back alley.

In the remarkable denouement of a journey that began more than eight years ago in a back - alley Vietnam hospital filled with children disfigured by Agent Orange, Marsh will walk the red carpet as an Academy Award nominee for her first documentary film, «Chau, Beyond the.In the remarkable denouement of a journey that began more than eight years ago in a back - alley Vietnam hospital filled with children disfigured by Agent Orange, Marsh will walk the red carpet as an Academy Award nominee for her first documentary film, «Chau, Beyond the.in a back - alley Vietnam hospital filled with children disfigured by Agent Orange, Marsh will walk the red carpet as an Academy Award nominee for her first documentary film, «Chau, Beyond the...

He has recorded the sonic calling cards of itinerant merchants in Beijing's back alleys, and the descendants of court musicians of the Tang Dynasty.

When Leon's body is dumped in a back alley, then loaded into Mickey's meat truck after he comes up short of cash for the funeral, we see neither humor nor pathos in Mickey's predicament.

Leave it to Rockstar to take the controversy of the Grand Theft Auto games and create something so much more violent and brutal that people kinda stopped caring about the fact that you could shoot prostitutes after banging them in some random back alley.

And to help make sense of all the corruption, backstabbing, and every sordid piece of back - alley business in between, Will Harris will be blogging «Boardwalk Empire» throughout the season.

Again, with the help of her sisterhood, she gets back in the game, (look for a hysterical dressing room Spanx scene), her first date is none other than tax attorney (right up her alley) Einstein (Richard Dreyfuss).

As its Grand Guignol and penny dreadfulness unfold in the dockyards, back alleys, gin houses and opium dens of a corrupted capital baying for blood (and that enjoys a good show), the film's commitment to anatomising a marginalised demimonde oppressed either for its class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality might almost earn it the label of Marxist.

But after a back alley showdown with a pair of thugs, it quickly becomes clear to both Lizewski and the audience that we're not in Smallville anymore.

Of course, even in back alley brawling, you still have to work your way to the top before you can get a piece of the reigning chamOf course, even in back alley brawling, you still have to work your way to the top before you can get a piece of the reigning chamof the reigning champ.

As the camera glides through a rain - drenched, rubbish - strewn back alley in the opening sequence of The Long Day Closes, aural snippets from a variety of sources (the triumphant horns of 2...

Armed with a snub - nosed revolver and a bowler cap, Gene Hackman «s Jimmy Doyle is a nigh misanthropic narc cop who roughs and tumbles in the darkened back alleys of NYC with partner Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) in tow.

But rather than scale the obstacles in its path, Ghostbusters dispenses a powerful proton pack of carefully constructed charisma, nostalgia - fueled callbacks and no - holds - barred performances, blasting the besmirching naysayers to smithereens like cardboard cutouts of Slimer in a Chinatown back alley.