Sentences with phrase «just before the death»

But Cook gave it a personal touch by invoking his mentor, Steve Jobs, the Apple founder who he replaced just before his death four years ago, and the company's can - do ethos.

I saw an interview just before her death and she had not changed her view.

There's a message here in how people behave just before death, and the message to all religious frauds in the form of chaplains is: go away, leave me alone!

From this contradiction they escaped in part by claiming that Jesus» divine nature or messiahship descended on him at his baptism and left him just before his death on the cross.

Stephen saw Jesus just before his death.

Just before his death, he declared that therapy could only be done fully in a community that supported growth.

Before death, even better, just before death, on your last breath, seek forgiveness.

Constantine was not baptized until just before his death.

But there was mourning aplenty anyway, for just before his death Herod had slain all the male children of Bethlehem two years old and younger in an effort to kill the little Messiah whose identity the Wise Men had withheld from him.

He had begun his column as a «letter to the editor» in 1948, and it continued until just before his death.

Just before his death, my father did become more interested, and I think that affected me at some level.

The second essay follows in like manner, this time by the late and great Paul Hiebert in one of his final written works, submitted just before his death.

Greene heightens the suspense just before a death, sometimes by shifting the point of view; he follows the death with the suggestion of a great gap; then he focuses on the survivors at a low point of action.

The party has been investigating Clarke since just before the death in September of activist Elliott Johnson, who is believed to have killed himself and had formally accused Clarke of bullying.

Fearing religious persecution, Copernicus waited until just before his death in 1543 to publish his heretical theory that Earth circles the sun — and so is not at the center of the universe.

Just before death, the individual would bury himself alive with the help of other monks.

It is named after the particle physicist Bernard Gregory, former director - general of both CERN and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, who set up the working group on career opportunities for young scientists which became ABG just before his death in 1977.

Maybe for all my lifestyle efforts I would still «live long and die» — the phrase Mark Sisson uses to describe the idea of living healthily and independently until just before death — but perhaps not as long as I'd hoped.

Jessica Lange talks about partner of 27 years Sam Shepard and his «sense of humor» in interview taken just before his death at the age of 73.

Just before his death, Jack Oakie committed his memories to a sometimes fanciful but always entertaining biography, Jack Oakie's Double Takes, which was published posthumously by Jack's widow, actress Victoria Horne.

Just before his death in 1989, Franklin Schaffner returned to the small, intimate type of film with which he began his career with the uneven but occasionally worthwhile Welcome Home.

Gordon went on to direct The Singing Detective, an update of the classic BBC series, adapted by the original writer — the legendary Dennis Potter — just before his death.

However like Hitchcock the Academy did honour his work with one of their separate «honorary» awards just before his death in 2006 for a «career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike».

Coleman kept working until just before his death from cancer in March 1995.

What is it that he sees most clearly just before his death?

The story centers on a mysterious letter written by Van Gogh just before his death and sent to Toulouse - Lautrec.

When Michael Jackson was alive, he spent so much money his estate was in danger of imploding — possibly one reason he chose to go on the European tour just before his death.

Just before his death in 1976, Graham was asked whether detailed analysis of individual stocks — the kind of stuff he became famous for — was still a strategy he believed in.

What the Lilly researches saw in the dogs receiving cannabinoids — convulsions occurring without warning just before death, deaths not dependent on the size of the dose and nothing significant found at autopsy has many similarities to a syndrome seen in humans called serotonin syndrome.

DeFeo was diagnosed with cancer in the spring of 1988, but continued to work prolifically until just before her death on November 11, 1989, at the age of 60.

Reduced to simplified geometric forms and colors inspired by their namesake, these painted wood works created just before his death are a poignant testament to an inventive and dedicated artist who, despite little recognition from critics or the public, strove to perfect his art until the end.

I was very fortunate to collect an Ossorio piece just before his death, something I had wanted to do since ever since I discovered his art.

He became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm in 1980 and received the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize just before his death in 1986.

This book presents a series of interviews that art critic Caroline Kesser conducted with Krugier just before his death.

Dealers are now promoting Shiraga's work from the late 1980s until just before his death, which consist of similarly bold, heavily dramatic paintings.

Until just before his death in 1994, Michael Buthe constantly shuttled between Cologne and Marrakech, and his very personal, narratively charged works garnered invitations to Documenta in 1972 and again in 1992.

In that sense, this exhibition itself, in which works from Tonoshiki's very early oil paintings to records of the projects he was involved in just before his death are arranged chronologically in the museum, could perhaps be flowing in reverse and contrary to the artist's intentions.

I can not stress too much that insured people should at some time tell their beneficiaries about their life insurance policies even if it is just before death.

This prevents people from purposely buying a policy just before their death.

Just before his death he shared with me his pride in membership in the association, even though the local board held up his membership for five years because of his race.

Not exact matches

McVeigh was put to death in a federal prison just months before the 9/11 terror attacks.

He published over 150 books after turning 75 and continued to see patients until just a few months before his death.

Richardson actually boosted advertising just before the man's death, in 1994, to offset the anticipated drop in sales.

Regardless of whether the actual writing was more of Grant's work or Twain's, the manuscript was finished just days before Grant's death in 1885.

Simply put, Jesus told the nation of fleshly Israel just three days before his death: «Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent to her — how often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings!

@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)

People are vulnerable before death and taking advantage of that is just plain wrong.

These charlatan preachers will actually milk these snakes dry of their venom just before a Sunday service so that if they are bitten there'll be a slimmer chance of death.

It's just another lie perpetuated by christians, rather like Darwin's deathbed refutation of evolution, or the lies about Pat Tillman's behavior before his death in Iraq.

Once you fully let go of that delusion and see us for what we are, just another specie vying for survival and dominance based on instincts that evolved before we had the ability to inflict widespread death, suffering, and destruction on other people, there is less cause for cynicism.