Sentences with phrase «most violent times»

The gathering outside the 165th Street and Edgecombe Avenue entrance of the park, the site of the shooting Monday, demanded that the city stops the Uptown community from slipping back into «one of the most violent times in the city of New York.»

He didn't smite down the wicked during the most violent times during history.

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«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

One of the reasons that most religions some time in their history do despicable things is precisely because they stop reasoning and chock it up to this mysterious violent / uncaring god.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

These authors understood, as John Bunyan put it in «Saved By Grace,» that «sick - bed temptations are oft - times the most violent, because then the devil plays his last game with us.»

Sure, let's start banning religion - we can start with Christianity, the most hate filled, historically violent religion of all time.

He spent SO much time in The Crucifixion of the Warrior God (most of volume 1) defending the idea that the crucifixion of Jesus should be our guiding lens through which to read the entire Old Testament, including the violent portions of the Old Testament.

Since Islam does everything with force, hence this couple is following rule of force... Islam is truly the most violent and backwards and close - minded religion in the world that never grew with time and it's still good for the desert nomads.

The left - handed slugger was a six - time All - Star who averaged 35 home runs from 2006 - 13 and was one of the most feared hitters in the game thanks to the power packed into his beautiful, violent swing.

This past weekend, the MInnesota State High School League took an unprecedented step of changing the rules mid-season, by stiffening the penalties on three of the most violent and dangerous infractions in hockey: checking from behind, boarding and contact to the head will now result in an automatic five - minute «major» against the offending player resulting in ejection and forcing his team to play short - handed for five minutes, regardless of how many times it is scored upon during the ensuing power play.

We are very kind, respectable, loving and honest people.Im a good mother, have a trying at times but great son who respects me and understands im his mother not his bff, And in my opinion the problem is ppl who do nt understand why god wants us to correct our children by not sparingthe rod... sure, some moms do nt wan na be the bad guy and «spank» bc god forbid their kid grows up to be violent - yet today most of society refuses to spank - and yet today we live in a world filled with so much murder, stealing, and crimes that i honestly believe if they had parents following gods word and disciplining like they did back in the day when older generations knew what they were doing we would live in a better world.

I found that every time I did a TV or radio interview my phone afterwards would be full of the most explicit personal criticism, using violent and insulting language.

The storm is a monster: 5,000 miles across — big enough to engulf North America — and rising 45 miles above the eye, five times higher than any terrestrial storm, with a top wind speed of 350 miles per hour, faster than the most violent twister ever to plow through Tornado Alley.

The waves are concentric ripples caused by violent events in the Universe that squeeze and stretch the fabric of space time but most are so weak they can not be detected.

These so - called hyper - luminous starburst galaxies are exceedingly rare at this epoch of cosmic history — near the time when galaxies first formed — and may represent one of the most - extreme examples of violent star formation ever observed.

He found that men who had had two or more convictions for misdemeanor violence were 15 times as likely as those with no criminal history to be charged with the most violent crimes.

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space - time generated by some of the most violent events in the universe, such as the merging of two black holes.

When coming to age, these massive stars explode in a most violent detonation which flashes up at a luminosity of up to 10 billion times that of the sun, called supernova (of type II, or Ib or Ic), and ejecting the very greatest part of the stellar matter in a violently expanding shell.

He is one of the toughest and most violent British criminals who's been serving time since 1974, often confined to isolation.

Not as violent as most shows that are on at this time.

Falling in love with a man who (deep down) is just as violent a cruel as she is, their relationship finds a way of working out, most of the time.

While film festival favorites like Birdman and Inherent Vice are gathering all the buzz, J.C. Chandor's upcoming crime film A Most Violent Year has been quietly biding its time until a release date was announced.

Based on true story that inspired the 1970s horror classic The Exorcist, Diaries tells of a young woman, fresh out of rehab and looking to make amends, who discovers her family's horrifying connection to the most famous exorcism of all time may be the cause behind her brother's increasingly violent behavior.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

A Most Violent Year Director: JC Chandor Running time: 125 minutes Rating: R Moody crime drama starring Oscar Isaac as a business owner trying to keep on the right side of law, despite mounting pressure all around him.

Its existence provoked strange thoughts in our heads — just what are the most violent action films of all time?

One of the most violent movies of all time, this film by acclaimed director Takashi Miike follows two violent men living in a depraved world of rape and violence — the stylish yet sadistic Kakihara (Thor's Tadanobu Asano) and the emotionally unstable killing machine Ichi (Nao Omori).

For the SAG Awards, «St. Vincent» actress Naomi Watts made the cut for this category, but «A Most Violent Year» actress Jessica Chastain earned the nomination this time.

But amid the drear, the director James Marsh (Man on Wire) has fashioned the most psychologically intricate and exciting film of the year so far and the first in a long time to restore the violent bequest of the Troubles to the cinematic primacy we associate with the likes of Cal or The Crying Game.

It got snubbed by Oscar, so perhaps the third time is the charm with the highly anticipated crime drama «A Most Violent Year,» later this year.

Fiercely affecting, the film is a poignant and thought provoking reminder of the artifice inherent in being forced to live one's life in public and also a reminder that there was a time that Jackie, one of the most famous women in the world, had to assume the role for the nation of grieving widow and do it with dignity, poise and grace while all the while having to struggle to privately deal with the violent dissolution of her own inner and outer reality.

Rodriguez's career is one of the most prominent and curious dichotomies in Hollywood, as he manages to make both super violent action flicks (Machete, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) and family adventures (the Spy Kids series), employing several of the same actors in both.

B The Birth of a Nation Available on DVD and Blu - ray Largely considered one of the most controversial films of all time, D.W. Griffith's monumental 1915 film about the Civil War and violent racism in America has been newly mastered in HD from its original 35 mm elements.

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR By Gary Murray Starring Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain and Albert Brooks Written and directed by J.C. Chandor Running time 125...

A Most Violent Year: This gem is a film about the merits versus moral compromise of the American dream, and a slow boil drama that keeps you on edge for its full 125 minute running time because there is absolutely no guessing what is coming next.

And in that time, the leading lady has amassed a large body of work, including notable performances in Mama, A Most Violent Year and the blockbuster hit Interstellar.

The violent, sensational story of the rise and fall of a gangster, Scarface has been produced as a movie a couple times before, most memorably in director Brian De Palma's 1983 iteration starring Pacino at the height of his powers.

Because most of the time we get rape scenes that are pretty highly sexualized; it's rare that they are focused on what a painful and violent act it is.

This made him one of the wealthiest, most powerful, and most violent criminals of all - time (Fortune magazine named him one of the ten richest people on earth).

This was dirty and lonely and violent, and probably a more accurate depiction of the experience that most people had during this time.

Time and time again, studies have shown that people who commit violent acts against animals will likely and most often times do, go onto commit violent acts against humanTime and time again, studies have shown that people who commit violent acts against animals will likely and most often times do, go onto commit violent acts against humantime again, studies have shown that people who commit violent acts against animals will likely and most often times do, go onto commit violent acts against humanity.

Recounting his many crazy and death - defying experiences as a freelance correspondent for The Guardian and The Independent, Andrew Mueller's fearless circumnavigation of some of the world's most violent and politically shady places including Kosovo, Palestine, Libya, Sarajevo, Afghanistan and Iraq — as he grapples with «possibly the most maddening mystery of our time» — could have easily become a non-PC, jaded, samey «trouble tourism» recount.

Dale wrote it at a time when Russian and Ukraine were at their most violent.

On the flipside that can also change completely and sometimes for the worse certain IPs like how comic book heroes can be fun sometimes, silly at others, serious in some cases and nonsensically violent most of the times.

Solve brutal crimes, plots and conspiracies inspired by real crimes from 1947 Los Angeles, one of the most corrupt and violent times in L.A. history.

While most of the time Monster is friendly and can help you solve puzzles, he has one big problem — he is addicted to eating frogs which, though delicious, turn him into an enraged, violent beast.

Still a young man at the time of the Armory exhibition, his Paysage No. 1 eschews the violent chromatism of most Post-Impressionist work without sacrificing its ethereal otherness.

The most violent game show of all time.

Most of us had violent arguments with him all the time that we were in school.