Sentences with phrase «many odd twists»

An odd twist for some, perhaps, but Paul's logic demands it: If these creatures await God's coming freedom, then they are — in their own way — recipients of the same eschatological hope as humans, and that eschatological hope grants them a certain dignity we must respect.

In an odd twist, Sharpe may have done Parker a favor by running against him this fall, as his candidacy has caused two special prosecutors to be appointed in the senator's assault case, pushing the whole mess still further off into the future.

Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards, the man best known for running (through an odd twist of fate / NYS Election Law) as Carl Paladino's No. 2 in 2010, is now trying to change Albany from the outside, urging his local Legislature to reject the «sham» 2 percent property tax cap champhioned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Though it has barely started, the Brooklyn district attorney's race has become a very crowded contest with an odd twist: Its central figure, and the man most likely to shape its themes and contours, is no longer alive: the late DA, Ken Thompson, who died of cancer last year.

In an odd twist, CodeSmart counted former Governor David Paterson as an adviser although Lynch said he wasn't involved in the stock manipulation.

The Powell family saga has many odd twists and symmetries, like the fact that Assemblyman Powell is now, for the second time in his career, trying to take back from Charles B. Rangel the congressional seat Mr. Rangel wrested from his father, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., in 1970.

In an odd twist, Boughton won the Republican primary for lieutenant governor, even as Fedele lost the gubernatorial primary.

In an odd twist, the DeWitt home was purchased by Joan O'Donnell Dadey, the wife of Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey - one of Maffei's most vocal critics.

But, even in the U.S., there were some people who got very concerned that — there were a few hurricanes that — around that time that took some sort of odd twists.

Here the rocks reveal an odd twist in the story — eventual regeneration of the greenhouse.

In an odd twist of PR fate, McDonald's employee guidelines recently told employees to avoid eating foods high in fat, sugar, and salt.

In an odd twist on love at first sight, when Julianne saw Jim's profile, she knew it was meant to be — for Jim and Erin.

This is a pretty common dating website so don't expect any odd twists.

In an odd twist of fate he's been using «Michael Finkel, reporter for the New York Times» as an alias.

But in an odd twist of movie - making fate, neither of the ponytailed twins lifts this film above wait - for - video status.

Though deceptive advertising is nothing new in movies, the DVD cover art of Coming & Going takes the practice far, keeping the wheelchair out of the picture (save for the title logo's odd twist on the familiar handicap symbol), portraying the leads as young and hip in their jeans and tall boots respectively, and, most egregiously, placing a chihuahua poodle hybrid that features in a single 1 - minute scene front, center, and large.

Even thought there are a couple of other excellent comedy options out there this season, The Other Guys will surely bring an odd twist of hilarity to your summer vacation.

In an odd twist of casting, four of the leading characters are played by Brits: David Oyelowo as MLK, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon Johnson, Tim Roth as George Wallace and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King.

For years, Ken Russell made a name for himself as a journeyman director on British television, but in an odd twist, James Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman signed him for his theatrical film directorial debut.

In an odd twist of adaptation, his audience is Martel himself (Rafe Spall), arriving at Pi's door at the urging of one of the survivor's relatives, and whose inquiries prompt the film's inevitable flashbacks.

Doug's best friend is foul - mouthed Ryan (co-writer Jay Baruchel), who, in an odd twist, essentially fulfills the Stifler role.

On the narrow, undulating serpentine coast route, this two - ton sedan seemed to shrink to the size of a sports car as it dug in and spit out hairpins, switchbacks and any other odd twist the road threw at it.

Then an odd twist of fate sent him to Thunder Point, where he made a good friend in the first hour he was there.

In an odd twist, Trivedi is currently participating in the reality show Bigg Boss, the Indian counterpart of Big Brother.

Let an odd twist or turn you read or hear about kick - start your imagination.

In an exceedingly odd twist, Morningstar describes it as having «average» returns, a fact belied by, well, all available evidence.

In an odd twist of government logic (is there really such a thing?)

In an odd twist, she was voted best celebrity cat owner that year by «Cat Magazine».

In an odd twist, the Everyday Preferred is getting a lower signup bonus of just 15,000 points.

In an odd twist of faith, topbonus the reward program is continuing its zombie - like existence: majority owned by Etihad and also in insolvency, they continue to look for a buyer of the program.

Daisy is the princess for some reason, though in a really odd twist of fate, they hook Daisy up with Luigi in the end, something that Nintendo wouldn't do for another eight years.

For me Bioshock had a great story throughout and subsequent ending, especially with the odd twist and various layers added through audio tapes etc..

Asa takes a cold hard look at all the heavy hitters in the new Virtual Reality game and assesses which company is doing right (and wrong) by gamers and whether Microsoft, in an odd twist, are the ones for the gamers.

The plot was rife with profits, funky names and odd twists.

Being able to give my troops commands to enable various areas of the board seemed like just the kind of odd twist that would make the game unique.

Jack Thompson has publicly offered to help publisher EA buy - out his rival, Take - Two, in an odd twist of fate.

In an odd twist on market economics, Europe's ex-communist states are starting to exploit a new market.

Chief among those deniers is David Schnare, who in an odd twist serves as the pro bono director of the group's Center for Environmental Stewardship.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission wouldn't proceed with a similar complaints against the magazine (neither would the Canadian Human Rights Commission), but in an odd twist, while the Ontario commission's press release said it wasn't within its jurisdiction to deal with the contents of magazine articles, it cast judgment anyway, saying it «strongly condemns the Islamophobic portrayal of Muslims, Arabs, South Asians and indeed any racialized community in the media, such as the Maclean's article and others like them, as being inconsistent

In an odd twist, though the laws themselves contain a great deal of superfluous and deliberately difficult language that gets codified into required documents, notices, and signs, the government itself has made great strides in creating easy - to - follow explanations of key laws and rights.

The odd twist in this story is that he was convicted under a law that was enacted in the face of widespread financial misconduct and often only applies to the destruction of information recording instances of corporate crime.

What Lenovo has attempted with the Tab 4 8 Plus is a mix of the two, throwing in the odd twist of personality with a classic, understated tone.

Gays and lesbians have been creating parenting partnerships for years, but recently, numerous social networks have sprung up to match prospective parent to prospective parent, hetero and / or gay — a decidedly odd twist to online dating sites.

«We want to be educational, covering local and national real estate issues, but we also go for odd twists here and there,» Ronding says.

Not exact matches

We are all children of God, anti-Mormons try to use this to make it look like Mormons somehow worship Satan or something odd... that only shows the twisted anti-Mormon thinking, not the Biblical thinking.

It always seems so odd to bend over and twist so much to keep loaded words when we have ordinary words that everyone can use like «Let's All Pull Together!»

I usually braid and then twist mine into a round... sometimes it stays, but more often it pops and we have a very odd shaped loaf.

You can look at it as a few decisions get away from you, a few twists in a game, the odd scratch of luck.

However the odd event still had one more twist to come.

And he claimed «Trotsky entryists» were «twisting arms» of young activists and said contact with his boss is often limited to «the odd text, usually about family stuff».