Sentences with phrase «life hero who»

Become a larger than life hero who has been given ultimate power!

For example, I started writing about: the implementation of educational policy, when research at the time focused almost exclusively on the development of policy; the importance of qualitative methods, as a complement to quantitative methods that at the time ruled at the Ed School; the unheroic dimensions of leadership, when the focus was on the bigger - than - life hero who, like the Lone Ranger, rode into town with silver bullets.

This powerful and moving fictionalized account is about a real - life hero who sought to protect hundreds of Tutsis while putting himself at risk during the Rwandan genocide.

Meet Betty Anne Waters, the real life hero who spent years attending college and law school in order to free her wrongly convicted brother from prison:

Nevertheless, it's a genuinely moving story of a real life hero who lived with his demons, while also changing the lives of thousands of children.

Marvel Studios» producer Kevin Feige says, «We all know and love our iconic Super Heroes, but when it really counts, it's our real - life heroes who save the world every day by making it a better place for all of us.»

Director Clint Eastwood has cast the three real - life heroes who thwarted a terrorist's attack on a train in the upcoming drama The 15:17 To Paris.

Director Clint Eastwood casts the three real - life heroes who thwarted a terrorist's attack on a train in the upcoming drama 15:17 To Paris.

The trio were the real - life heroes who helped stop a terrorist attack on a train bound for Paris in 2015.

As an educator or a parent, it is important to teach children about the real life heroes who have fought to preserve our freedom.

Not exact matches

«My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place — police, firefighters, and members of our armed forces.»

It's the Hero's Journey told through the lives of normal people who rise to the occasion and demonstrate the simple bravery of saying yes.

Citing studies on the early lives of heroes who rescued people from the Holocaust and highly creative architects, Grant suggests parents «help children think about the consequences of their action for others,» rather than simply yelling «no!».

Hurricane Harvey flooded the homes of thousands in the Houston area — but it also revealed heroes like Wil Scott who didn't only help in the immediate crisis, but continue to volunteer, long after the waters receded, to help others rebuild their lives.

He was often recognized as an outstanding local hero in the first stop for thousands of Cuban refugees, an area that is now home to thousands of Central American immigrants who also seek a better life in the United States.

I want to thank all of you who protect this blessing — who do this work every day: The healthcare providers, doctors, nurses, technicians, receptionists, who put your lives on the line to care for others (you are heroes — in my eyes, you are saints); the escorts and the activists; the lobbyists and the clinic defenders; all of you.

In this day with all the hatred and mass killings going on, it is great to read of courageous heroes who would risk their own lives to save a stranger's.

Have they ever read about John the Baptist, our Old Testament hero spilling into the New, who lived in the austere desert his entire life shouting insanities?

(Hebrews 11:1) This is the quality of all the heroes of faith in the eleventh chapter: in one world they live as though another world were real; on one level of being they grasp the surety of a higher level; amid the transient they are convinced of the permanent; and so they endure, «as seeing him who is invisible.»

When a gentile convert stood in the baptistery on Easter's eve and, before descending naked into the waters, turned to the West to renounce the devil and the devil's ministers, he was rejecting, and in fact reviling, the gods in bondage to whom he had languished all his life; and when he turned to the East to confess Christ, he was entrusting himself to the invincible hero who had plundered hell of its captives, overthrown death, subdued the powers of the air, and been raised the Lord of history.

The pertinent question is: What does «kidvid» offer in the way of imitable heroes who face the kinds of ordinary obstacles with which real life confronts us?

As long ago as 1953 in his study of Heroes, Highbrows and the Popular Mind (Bobbs - Merrill), Leo Gurko discerned «signs of a movement away from [brawn and] egotism,» at least in the movies, to a new type of hero who was aware that the problems of life perhaps could not all be solved by a breezy manner, a gun, or a punch in the nose» (pp. 192 - 193).

King was an unlikely hero - a prince of the black church, a man of refined and elite tastes who dreamed of the quiet intellectual life of a professor.

Every culture and society has heroes — people who have lived a life imbued with a sense of value and contribution that far exceeds the status quo of «just living».

Will we find a home in our midst for leaders of faith movements — the Peter Cartwrights and Frances Willards of the 21st century — who inspire us by living out the two greatest moral lessons of life: «to hear» (which can produce «martyrs») and «to dare» (which can produce «heroes»)?

When we think of real heroes we think of David Livingstone, who so loved his hazardous explorations that he thought he had never made a sacrifice in his life.

Along with the Firefighters and Policeman who lost their lives that day, the Iron workers are also heroes for the enormous work they did.

What I know is this: Every great story involves an unlikely hero who discovers their strength and glory and finally lives into who they were created to be.

Heroes in every area of attainment are those who have given themselves without reservation for a cause they love more than life itself.

Today, more than fifty years after the Holocaust, many of us need to be reminded that Pope Pius XII saved more Jewish lives than any other person, including Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler» men who are often, and rightly, treated as heroes for their efforts.

There little babies in amniotic sacs float toward the hero, who must slay them because they will «jump on your back if you let them live,» according to the game book.

That instant he dies — for one who does not understand that the whole power of the spirit is required for dying, and that the hero always dies before he dies, that man will not get so very far with his conception of life.

Today was a moment to honor the thousands of lives lost and the many fallen heroes who gave their lives trying to save others, not an opportunity to needle a wound for sensationalism and profit.

But in Hacksaw Ridge the hero is not the man who takes life.

The hero is the man who saves lives.

Sharlene Azan, a staff reporter for the Toronto Star described Wonder Woman in a feature story in that paper, as the «hero of my adolescence,» who «helped me imagine myself out of a life where being a good girl meant being quite and obedient.»

Obi - Wan Kenobi is an amalgam of the ascetic monk of religious epics — dressed in Franciscan robes and living in a desert hermitage — and the John Wayne hero of EL Dorado, passing on gun - lore to the neophyte Luke, who is destined to carry on after he's gone.

As in Becket, the Roman Catholic saint emerged as a problematic hero, but the panel decided that it was a statement «about a man who cared more for honesty and integrity than for his life... and is therefore a profound statement of the possibilities of human existence under the pressure of faith to oneself and to God.»

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

He is instead «the Lord God of Hosts,» as Mother Abagail, his prophet in The Stand, might put it, intervening directly in the lives of his people and demanding that they conform those lives to his will — whether it's the chosen few who survive The Stand's superflu and end up shepherded west to Boulder, Colorado, to form a new Israel set against the Babylon of Las Vegas; or the motley heroes of Desperation, King's finest 1990s novel, who coalesce around a «God - bombed» eleven - year - old to battle a demon called Tak, accidentally let loose in the Nevada desert.

Referring to Trice as a «role model» and «inspiration» who symbolized the ideals of «devotion to the team, giving one's all,» Jischke declared, «He has become a hero — not so much for what he accomplished, because his life was cut short — but for what he represented.»

The Gunners hero, who has netted 12 goals and provided six assists, is in the form of his life.

He is one of my personal heroes, among those who made a difference in inspiring life lessons in my journey in life.

The new hero, Ray Wilkins (who had captained the side at just 18 years of age), had to be sold to Manchester United to help stabilise the team but with managers being changed at a rate akin to the modern game — three in four years — the Blues were set to begin life in the «80s in the second tier.

He lives in a pineapple under the sea and still he's teaching kids lessons that can actually save lives, so let's have a round of applause for SpongeBob Squarepants and the hero seventh grader who saved a classmate's life with the Heimlich maneuver this week.

I agree - it is not the pink, the barbie, the blue, the rescue hero that decides for your child who and what they will become, it is the expectations (please let their be expectations of greatness around every child) of the world they live in - most importantly starting at home.

Anyone who is willing to sacrifice, to go through life with courage and strength, anyone willing to slay personal dragons, can be a hero.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

The Heroes are nominated by peers and chosen by SNF to represent the many professionals who have dedicated their lives to serving the needs of school children and the community.

In Celtic mythology, there was a famous Irish hero who lived in the 3rd century, and his name was Finn Mac Cumhail.