Sentences with phrase «life at the border»

There is also a huge population of Afghan refugees kids living at the borders of Balochistan who had no help at all.

Rome's is «sex,» the Vatican's «power»; Gilbert declares New York's to be «achieve,» but only later stumbles upon her own word, antevasin, Sanskrit for «one who lives at the border.»

Truth be told, life at the border can be hard and dangerous.

Not exact matches

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

The army told AFP that live fire was used in a confrontation with the protesters after some threw rocks, firecrackers and petrol bombs at soldiers and border police.

However, if we look at some forms of human experience, contrast and the intensity it evokes can be quite overwhelming, making life border on the chaotic.

The God of Israel met men not on the borders of life, but at the center, at the point of deepest significance.

They (and others) have found that life emerges at the border of chaos and order.

Later in my life, the Department of Homeland Security detained me at the border every time I entered the United States, and asked me what stories I would be working on.

Iraq is a big land and has many bordering countries and a population of many Races, and many Religions and Faiths that were known or unknown beliefs... all of those lived in harmony during S - adam regime and every body was practicing his rights with out fear or with just a little fear But now having messed up the whole setup and the control of this mixed nation that were under a secular umbrella has cleverly for some ended it to be handed to Religious extremes at all sides of borders who are now fighting each other for taking control over the country or having it divided in to pieces.

At age 15, I faced a choice: I could either starve like my father, or flee the country and hope to secure a better life outside its fortified borders.

Refugees arrive at our borders in a steady stream, seeking better lives and fleeing civil unrest from governments kept weak by the policies of our own.

One in five children live in poverty north of the border with the figure at one in three in some areas.

I used to live 10 miles from the South Carolina border and worked at a restaurant who was filled with Northerners.

I'll be the first to admit I like a nice fluffy snow shower now and again but it is January which means for those of us who live along the Canadian border, there is still at least 4 more months of snow showering to go and I'm over it.

Should he be successful north of the border, then it is possible that the next campaign will be when he lives up to his potential at the Emirates Stadium.

By the teen years, they will be shoveling the neighbor's walk, building the neighbor a lawn border, sorting food at the food bank, picking up garbage on the river bank, and volunteering in the community for no other reward than the good feeling of making the world a better place to live.

So why have the attempted solutions - expensive and politically wrought border control agreements, aimed at saving human lives by preventing and discouraging these dangerous journeys - so comprehensively failed?

Remember at that time, Charles Taylor was living in Nigeria and he set off, attempting to go to another country, when he was arrested at the border and handed over.

These behaviors are what led many to think of viruses as existing at the border between chemistry and life.

Living along the Orinoco River that borders Brazil and Venezuela are the Yanomamö people, hunter - gatherers whose average annual income has been estimated at the equivalent of $ 90 per person per year.

«We should be investing in global functions, like research and development and constraining transmission of drug - resistant disease strains across borders, because these investments will help poor people wherever they live,» said Jamison, who is a senior fellow in Global Health Sciences at UCSF.

Living along the Hudson River that borders New York State and New Jersey are the Manhattan people, consumer - traders whose average annual income has been estimated at $ 36,000 per person per year.

Fossils were found near Monte San Giorgio at the Swiss - Italian border alongside the remains of marine reptiles and fish that lived roughly 240 million years...

«We don't let the predators live here, they let us live on their land,» says Trina Smith, guest services supervisor at B Bar Ranch, a «predator - friendly» Montana cattle operation that borders Yellowstone National Park.

Ira Longini, a modeler at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues simulated an imaginary population of 500,000 people in a rural part of the country; Michael Ferguson of Imperial College London built a model based on the 85 million people living in Thailand and a 100 - kilometer - wide border zone in neighboring countries.

At present, the original population of Linaria salzmanii has disappeared due to the construction of the Canales dam, and Linaria becerrae is now considered exclusive of the west of the province of Málaga, where it lives in areas bordering the protected natural area of the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes, a well - known tourist site.

Rates of diabetes are unusually high among Mexican - Americans who live near the U.S. Mexico border and new research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) finds that those dealing with depression and anxiety in this population are less likely to properly manage their diabetes.

Applying atomic force microscopy (AFM) to life science, researchers are now allowed to begin exploring the darkened mysteries at this border with the unknown.

Results showed that the median parasite clearance half - life ranged from 1.8 hours in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 7 hours at the Thailand - Cambodia border, where artemisinin resistance has been known about since 2005.

A Visceral Portrait of Life at the U.S. - Mexico Border Editors Picks.

Turtorro can not save this film, but so help him, he tries, and he goes further than anyone or anything in bringing life to this bore, which still has enough other strengths at its back to be brought to the border of true decency.

What's not so expected, what comes as something bordering on shock, of a gratifying kind, is how much else the film takes on in this buoyant and mercilessly frank look at Bradlee's life and career.

The other, JR, is a semi-anonymous French street artist known for public art — larger - than - life photographic portraits posted on streets, buildings, and border walls — that gives a voice to the voiceless at the intersection between the personal and the political.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile GerimAt the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerimat loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

A sprawling look at life on the front lines of the war against drug cartels in Mexico, this gripping film by Matthew Heineman explores the dangerous and messy moral dilemmas that arise when vigilante groups on both sides of the border take action.

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Heineman and his small crew dive straight into the street wars of Mexico as well as take a look at the life of Tim Foley, an American leading a group called Arizona Border Recon, who've devoted their lives to protecting U.S. borders from the drugs and bloodshed ravaging Mexico.

We see Madalyn at several key points in her life, but the majority of the film focuses on the kidnapping in August of 1995 by David Waters (Josh Lucas), Gary Karr (Rory Cochrane) and Danny Fry (Alex Frost), a trio of guys who just wanted to get $ 1 million and head for the border.

Putting his own life at risk, he follows border vigilante militias in Arizona and citizen anti-drug-cartel militias in the Mexican province of Michoacán as they each, in turn, try — in their own words — to take back what is theirs.

Heineman captures incredible footage on the ground, getting in the middle of firefights and showing the intense pressure of living in the cartel wars on a daily basis, and at the same time observes Mireles» group getting poisoned by the same interests that ensure chaos reigns at the border.

The story takes place during the Day of the Dead, when according to Mexican tradition (at least as interpreted by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, who directed the screenplay written by Mr. Molina and Matthew Aldrich), the border controls between life and death relax and the departed are allowed temporary passage to the land of the living.

At a community action group comprised of Mexican immigrants, one woman explains of the terrible ordeal she and her daughters went through to get across the border, and her utter determination to make this new life for herself and her family speaks volumes about the significance of multi-cultural communities and building homes away from home.

Generally speaking, town tuitioning allows students who live in towns that don't have district public schools to receive their per - pupil education tax dollars to pay tuition at a neighboring town's public school or a private school of their choice — sometimes even across state lines for families who live close to state borders.

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.

Fabiola's dream of a better life with her aunt and cousins in America snags when her mother is detained at the U.S. border.

But the peril of the European War had meant Crosley crystal - receiver radio sets and quenched spark systems with an eight - hundred - mile range for all who lived and worked on the coastlines, and so, on Sunday, November 12, 1916, just below the Oregon border, at the St. George Reef Lighthouse, eight miles off the California coast, there began an explosion of radio, telephone, and telegraph operations unprecedented in American history.

Brownsville is a deceptively quiet border town where lives play out at an emotionally steady pace, but Casares» stories follow dreams that give people new directions.

SECOND PLACE: Mary McMyne lives in northern Michigan, where she is an assistant professor of English and fiction editor of Border Crossing at Lake Superior State University.

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