Sentences with phrase «mother flee»

In 1996, my mother fled to the U.S. with me and my sister, seeking political asylum.

At the age of 14, in 1950, his mother fled North Korea on foot, walked through live combat, reached the United States and proceeded to become, reportedly, the first Korean woman ever to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.

That year, my mother fled to China with my sister in search of food and money.

Her mother fled the abusive home, her father raped her and pimped her out as a prostitute.

Mr. Tran, his sister, and mother fled Vietnam in 1980, crammed with almost two hundred others in a fishing boat three meters long.

(His mother fled Brooklyn out of fear that another son was in danger of being killed.)

Then our mother fled.

Suzanne was born into poverty in rural France, before her mother fled the provinces, taking her to Montmartre.

A fearful single mother fleeing home to family and a sentient house to protect her daughter from a criminal and abusive ex husband, and seeking advice and training for the powers the little girl has begun to manifest.

In the last frame, a mother flees a burning house hopelessly holding her dead baby — an image that would recur in Picasso's painting Guernica that spring.

Not exact matches

Far more often, it is fathers fleeing their responsibilities, the mother never getting married or divorces.

Both my mother and father were born in North Korea and they share amazing stories of fleeing in the middle of the night because of the persecution due to the rise of communism.

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, «Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.»

He wants to use his success to help other Sudanese fulfill their dreams of playing basketball in the U.S.. Another priority is taking care of his mother, Lucia, who also fled the Sudan and now lives in Des Moines with five of Gai's eight siblings.

In 2015, Gypsy Rose Blanchard stabbed her mother to death, then fled the home they shared together.

Bonello was unlikely to have actually managed to get away with the girl in broad daylight, but if not for the mother he might have gotten away when he tried to flee.

I was able to take my children to work with me and breastfeed on the job without fleeing into a bathroom or private room, but that was largely because I was comfortable doing so and wanted to set a positive breastfeeding example for the other mothers attending my preschool / playgroup.

Among those who will meet with and be blessed by the Pope during his visit on Sept. 25th are day laborers from Westchester, immigrant mothers from Yonkers and East Harlem, unaccompanied youth fleeing persecution in Central America, and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

IN A TENT in one of the many primitive camps in Monguno, a formerly small town now bursting with tens of thousands of people who have fled Boko Haram, a mother sits with her baby on her lap while a health worker scribbles a brief case history.

Our heroine is Mary Moreton, a single mother who has fled an abusive relationship with her now - mute daughter George.

When icebreakers push through the sea ice on which Caspian seals nurse their young, mothers and pups flee and often get separated in the confusion

At two and a half years old, he met his father for the first time, after he, his mother, and sister were finally granted asylum to join him in Peoria, Illinois, where he had settled after fleeing Ethiopia during the communist revolution there.

The film sees Reese Witherspoon's juvenile delinquent being picked up by Kiefer Sutherland's child psychologist after fleeing from her home when her mother and step father are arrested.

Misunderstandings abound as the spoiled college student Sonny Drysdale attempts to woo Elly May, only to flee to his mother in the end.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

After Jenna's routine in the national figure skating finals proves less than stellar, the dejected young girl decides to escape her demanding mother by fleeing to Vancouver.

Once the Islamic Revolution gets underway, however, Marji and her liberal parents, Ebi (Simon Abkarian) and Tadji (Catherine Deneuve, Mastroianni's mother), are horrified by the developments, though too comfortable with life in their home country to think of diaspora, even as their friends and relatives flee for their lives.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

Counterposed scenes of Cornelia fleeing a ghastly Wiggles - style mother - and - baby music session (all her contemporaries have kids, so this is a rare social interaction) and grinding her way through a mofo - ing dance workout identify her as belonging in neither environment, Watts mining both comedy and pathos from her character's inability to move forward or backward; clowns to the left, jokers to the right, stuck in the middle with Josh.

Her mother was shot dead by soldiers in Myanmar while trying to flee to Bangladesh.

The story begins when Moll flees her own birthday party — especially her prissily monstrous mother (Geraldine James)-- and ends up on the beach at sunrise.

Big Boss flees the Mother Base as it's destroyed, leaving countless loyal bodies behind.

After the duo flee father / husband Christopher (Sean Bean) and a cop (Laurie Holden) and arrive at the titular town, mother and daughter are separated, instigating a maternal - instinct driven quest by Rose which involves descending into Hades, fleeing demons, and combating devout fanatics who, in their desire to avert the apocalypse by righteously burning supposed witches, have unleashed a plague of unholy, vengeful darkness.

Dorsa can see djinn (the word for ghosts in Islamic mythology) but her mother can not, and as other residents flee these djinn become increasingly malevolent.

It's senior year in 2002, and McPherson is getting ready to flee her NorCal home for college while juggling competing crushes (stars on the rise Timothee Chalamet and Lucas Hedges) and battling with her strong - willed mother (Laurie Metcalf).

On the night of her best friend's wedding, she discovers her father (Jeff Garlin) cheating on her mother and flees from the scene of the crime to encounter Annika (Chloe Grace Moretz), a young, fly - by - the - seat - of - her - pants teen - rager who asks if she'll buy her and her underaged posse some brewskis.

Cage is Sailor and Dern is Lula, who are fleeing from Lula's domineering mother, Marietta (Dern's real - life mother, Diana Ladd).

When young mother Rose (Radha Mitchell)-- desperate to find a cure for her daughter Sharon's bizarre illness — refuses to accept a medical recommendation of psychiatric institutionalization, she flees with Sharon and heads for SILENT HILL, the town that her daughter continuously names in her sleep.

During her day job as a house cleaner, she finds herself drawn to her client's daughter, Eva (Julia Sarah Stone), a teenager yearning to flee the clutches of her controlling mother.

Hudgens stars as Apple, a pierced, pregnant teenager who flees her volatile, drugged - out mother (a truly terrifying Rosario Dawson) and seeks sanctuary with the father she's never met (Brendan Fraser).

Alabed is a 7 - year - old girl who, with her mother, fled Syria.

Kerrar, his mother, and two of his six sisters soon fled to Syria and then on to Amman, Jordan.

«In a midnight escape more thrilling than the screenplay of any movie, my father, mother, and I fled to the airport, where friends arranged for us to be driven straight onto the tarmac, avoiding passport control and Bhutto's cronies in the immigration department,» she wrote.

«We lost everything in the war, so Papa fled to Canada, and my mother and I followed six months later.

We watched him toddle off into the horizon, leaving us to relax in relative peace, which in turn left us imagining what our mother might think of our decision to let him flee.

Karen Brown, angry and frightened after surviving a kidnap attempt, has a harsh choice — being eliminated by government enforcer Jeffery Renschman or fleeing to mysterious Roma Nova, her dead mother's homeland in Europe.

Flies are often a sign that there is also neglect - food not put away, garbage not picked up, bodies not discovered, and this town is neglected, Ellie was neglected (why didn't her mother take her when she fled?)

She is forced to flee with her mother and youngest sister in 1980, after Samuel Doe and his rebel soldiers staged a coup d'etat and assassinated President Tolbert; she would not return for twenty - three years.

Since he had to flee the town at a young age, he then lost this mother figure as well.

Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian - Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas.