Sentences with phrase «lifted out of the history»

In a scene lifted out of the history books, she doses her children with a sleeping draught, then, when they are unconscious, she crushes cyanide pills between their teeth.

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Lula leaves office on Dec. 31, his legacy as a transformative figure in Brazilian history all but assured thanks to massive social programs like the Bolsa Familia that have lifted millions out of poverty, the securing of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, and a rapidly growing economy that's expected to become the world's fifth largest in the next six years and pay for it all.

As the OECD has pointed out, most of these people were lifted out of poverty by the globalization and expansion of trade since the end of the Second World War, the largest shift out of poverty in human history.

How is justice to be done to the theological concern which lifts the revelation behind the mythology out of the general history of religion?

In fairness I don't think he meant it in a development context - he'd be clearly wrong since the Washington Consensus is long dead and overwhelming evidence from Stiglitz, Ha - Joon Chang, Oxfam and others show that no country in history has lifted its people out of poverty without an active state, the infant industry arguments etc..

One reads with a shiver sentences lifted out of various case histories: «large and ragged tonsils... she was tube - fed five times daily... he vomited all food from birth through the third month... he suffered from repeated colds and otitis media...»

THE BAD: some horribly trite jokes liberally lifted from The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and other older and oft - used sources, film - flubs galore (the girl who falls into bed under the covers, several darts hitting a car when only one flew out the window, the monster's position changing while on the table, etc.), the Inspector Kemp (Mars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Frau Blucher (Leachman, The Last Picture Show) characters, and Madeleine Kahn's (High Anxiety, History of the World Part I) singing.

That kind of faith in a car is rare to come by, and it's something that will lift the F - Type R out of the realm of being another mere sports car, and into the history books.

Their economic success is remarkable, and they have surely lifted more people out of poverty faster than any country in history.

Rio De Janeiro — The United Nation's biggest conference in history began in earnest in Brazil on Monday, with representatives from around the world looking to craft a plan to help lift billions of people out of poverty without exhausting the planet.

At least, is seems to me, capitalism would still have a valid theory behind it, and — looking around and comparing same to the record of the alternatives so far hit upon — at least some history of indeed producing wide swaths of incredible wealth and affluence that has at least lifted its poor out of desperate want.

You tell me how good that executive resume is going to turn out when the writer won't even take the time to lift the phone to discuss the nuances of your work history, flesh out your accomplishments, and discuss the nuts and bolts of a personal marketing campaign.