Sentences with phrase «in times of peril»

In times of peril, some people feel compelled (or are, in fact, legally compelled) to pick up a weapon.

Here, by never revealing the cause of the apocalypse, Haneke almost seems to be making a statement not about the nature of man in times of peril but about how fragile human relationships can be and how little it takes to suck the compassion out of people.

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But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

When this surrounding culture is at the same time «worldly» — cultured in the narrower sense, demanding conformity at the peril of loss of social status — the problem is intensified.

As the ancient prophets had pointed to a threat from Assyria or Babylon, so in the time of Jesus the Roman peril loomed.

We do not find ourselves permitted by the Word of God, however, to advise a woman to leave her husband, except by force of necessity; and we do not understand this force to be operative when a husband behaves roughly and uses threats to his wife, nor even when he beats her, but when there is imminent peril to her life... [W] e... exhort her to bear with patience the cross which God has seen fit to place upon her; and meanwhile not to deviate from the duty which she has before God to please her husband, but to be faithful whatever happens [«Letter From Calvin to an Unknown Woman,» June 4, 1559, Calvini Opera, XVII, col. 539, in P. E. Hughes, editor, The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin (Eerdmans, 1966), pp. 344 - 345].

One week before the successful flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the New York Times had this to say about a rival plane builder: «We hope that Professor Langley will not put his substantial greatness as a scientist in further peril by continuing to waste his time, and the money involved, in further airship experiments.

If one is not stuck with Luke 21:25 - 36 on the second Sunday of Advent he is not thereby released from the thundering New Testament words about the signs of the times, the invasive and convulsive power of the kingdom, the perils of drunkenness and stupidity in the midst of crises which are rich in threats of damnation and promises of redemption.

Designating his book, The Meaning of the Twentieth Century, as a tract for the times, he sees himself as an unashamed propagandist in behalf of the unseen but real community of those who appreciate the perils and promises of the future, and who align themselves with those creative forces which can save the world.

This does not mean that such a quest should presuppose a given christology, or that it should be oblivious of the peril of modernizing Jesus, this time perhaps in terms of existentialism.

The perils of romantic love were described by a once - divorced man, writing in the New York Times Magazine.

Most Arsenal fans are reasonable and intelligent enough not only to appreciate what Arsene Wenger has done for the club but also to understand the perils involved in kicking him to the curb without a suitable replacement lined up ahead of time and a plan put in place.

Hearing is yet one more vulnerability that until recent times faced little peril, but the chronic noise in our cities, the ubiquity of personal headphone use and the ear - damaging potential of some medication has made preserving good hearing something no parent can ignore.

He told the Financial Times newspaper: «Taking action at this moment — this moment of growth peril, which weakens the ability of banks in Britain to provide the finance that businesses need to grow — is just to me barking mad.

In a joint letter to The Times, the general secretaries of the NUT, NASUWT, ATL and of UNISON, warned the Education Secretary that he «ignores at his peril» the views of more than 800,000 teachers and support staff.

He had to leave sometime, but he leaves at a time with the borders of his district, his constituents, in peril.

«I would like everyone in the public to get the message that our economy is in peril,» Mr. Paterson said in June, «that our state ran out of money in December for the first time in history.»

But at his official campaign launch today Mr Smith - who was elected for the first time in 2010 - will say: «This is a moment of deep peril for Labour, if we carry on as we are the party I love will end up in a disastrous spilt.

The last time official Washington was so captivated by the political peril of a Congressional leader was back in late 2002 when then Majority Leader Trent Lott (R - Miss.)

Girard said she often has to take time out of her schedule to literally sit down with, say, a building developer to educate that person on the perils of trying to construct a new project in a flood zone.

If your life isn't in immediate peril, you should take time to weigh the pros and cons of any approach.

Just when we wrapped our heads around the perils of farmed tilapia, high mercury levels in tuna, and the fact that 40 % of fish sold in NYC restaurants are mislabeled, this week the New York Times reports that the F.D.A is on the verge of allowing genetically altered salmon to be sold in the U.S.

At Cyber-Dating Expert Headquarters, we're excited to announce our new audio book for The Perils of Cyber-Dating was just released, in time for Valentine's Day.

So the next time you see a dating disaster start to happen and your date heads south, instead of just thinking what you will post in The Peril of the Week on CyberDatingExpert.com or share on BadOnlineDates.com, think of taking out your iPhone or digital camera and start recording.?

Together, we wrote the epilogue to my book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating, which I narrated and was just released in time for Valentine's Day.

Black cats, ill - timed power outages and children in peril are just a few of the hoary scare tactics ineffectively rendered in the style of so many films buried in the dark recesses of January.

Unstoppable (PG - 13 for profanity and scenes of peril) Action thriller about a train conductor (Chris Pine) and an engineer (Denzel Washington) in a race against time to prevent a runaway locomotive with a cargo of toxic chemicals from running off the tracks.

This leaves everyone in peril, and much of the screen time is focused on Mia (Jane Levy), a young woman who traveled to the wilderness to kick a drug habit.

It took the 29 - year - old filmmaker some time to get this project to the screen, having to first develop it as a short film in order to secure funding for the desired feature - length project, but we're all lucky he pursued it to fruition as Whiplash is a marvelously involving exploration of the perils of obsession and the virtues of perseverance, played out through one of the finest - acted two - handers in years.

In order to do so, however, he must decipher the meaning behind Dumbledore's (who is dead) offerings, of which include an old book, and some contraption that collects light, because as with all powerful sages, his last request was that he be allowed to screw with the gang during a time of peril.

From the magic lantern - style innovation of his sculpture installation Six Men Getting Sick to the fixed camera placements of The Alphabet to the rudimentary narrative of The Grandmother (whose heavy's freakishly accentuated jawline transforms his countenance into that of a snarling villain in the «Perils of Pauline» mode) to, finally, the total aesthetic compromise of the shot - on - video The Amputee, the first few entries contained on «The Short Films of David Lynch» imply that there is only one destiny for the medium, whether its evolution is spread out over a century or concentrated in the time it takes for an artist to develop a conscience.

Free Birds (PG for action, rude humor and scenes of peril) Animated family comedy about a couple of squabbling turkeys (Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson) who put aside their differences to travel back in time in order to get turkey taken off the Thanksgiving menu.

And like the best stories of heroes beyond our own powers, it'll give audiences the world over somebody new to look to in times of great peril.

A Wrinkle in Time (PG for peril and mature themes) Ava DuVernay adapted this coming - of - age fantasy from Madeleine L'Engle's children's novel of the same name revolving around a young girl (Storm Reid) who, accompanied by a classmate (Levi Miller), her little brother (Deric McCabe) and three astral travelers (Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon), embarks on an epic quest to a distant planet in search of her missing scientist father (Chris Pine) With Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Pena and Zach Galifianakis.

To recap as non-spoiler-alert as possible, Nate (Adrian Pasdar) gets shot, only this time we see who does it; Hiro (Masi Oka), bored with his new CEO - ship, blithely puts the world back in peril; Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) goes all «Young Frankenstein» over the origins of everyone's various powers; a character we thought was definitely dead apparently isn't; and in a grisly scene, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) finally gets what he has always wanted.

This year alone, they released six of the most inventive, quality offerings out there: two terrifying survival thrillers, Damien Power's devastating and brilliant Killing Ground and Sam Patton's lesser but still - worthy Desolation; Sean Byrne's masterful tale of artistic obsession and satanic possession The Devil's Candy (all three even harder to endure because the featured families in peril are so human and likable); A Dark Song, an unnerving occult thriller in which a woman hires a medium to help make contact with her dead daughter; and House on Willow Street, which, similar to last year's horror highlight Don't Breathe, sees a house robbery — led by a woman with a mission, played by modern scream - queen Sharni Vinson — go terrible wrong, but this time in a more supernatural way.

Emily is put in major peril three times, including during the climax in which she must be willing to die for the greater good, and it's the most distasteful element of the film, which gets away with a lot of other questionable material (e.g., the entire premise and one of the best bad Lincoln assassination jokes one will ever hear) through humor.

The lure of $ 4 billion in federal funding at a time of fiscal peril has driven state after state toward school reforms long considered politically unlikely, undoable or unthinkable.

Sanford, who is Canter's deputy director at Mississippi First (the two also attended the same high school in Starkville), said charter advocates have at times been dismissive of that history of mistrust to the movement's peril.

Plastic Logic is a company in peril, and they are entering late - stage negotiations on selling a majority stake of its company to Russian State owned company Rusnano, the Financial Times reports.

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A scrawled scrap of paper from the time states that he was baptized «without ceremony, at home, because of the peril of death,» suggesting he was too sickly to risk bringing in to the local church.

Such was the peril of everyday royal life in the chaotic times following abandonment of the misty isles of Albion by indifferent Rome.

I realized that I wanted to tell the story from the point of view of the three women who were so intimately involved in the perils of being Queen of England at this time.

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If you can't weather a bad economic time you will be in much greater peril and you're putting yourself in danger of default.

Arkham Knight probably sets some kind of record for the most «women in peril» in a short span of time.

The new apple - a-day campaign structure is probably Pikmin 3's single biggest tweak to the basic formula, folding managed peril into a luxuriant kind of exploration game as you spread out across five varied environments, taking in tundras and rainforests, and dividing your time between gathering fruit and focusing on more specialist tasks, such as locating things to improve your ship and - for the first act - reclaiming your scattered crew.

Tacoma I know will stick with me for a very long time, much like Gone Home did, thanks to its well - designed space station, narrative, and characters that I felt like I got to know by the end of the game, cheering them on as they faced the perils of life in space and the limited possibilities when issues arise.