Sentences with phrase «national hero who»

It is named after I Gusti Ngurah Rai, an Indonesian National Hero who died in a puputan (fight to the death) against the Dutch at Marga during the Indonesian Revolution in 1946.

It is named after I Gusti Ngurah Rai, an Indonesian national hero who died in a puputan (fight to the death) against the Dutch at Marga during the Indonesian Revolution in 1946.

It commemorates the Jamaican national hero who championed a back - to - Africa movement for blacks in the U.S.

Crawford, who once raced a giraffe and a zebra on television (beat the giraffe, lost to the zebra), had won the 200 - meter gold on a surreal Thursday night, when the start of his race was delayed four minutes by Greek fans chanting the name of Konstantinos Kenteris, the 2000 Olympic champion and national hero who withdrew from the Games after missing a drug test, and Hel - las!

Not exact matches

Warren Buffett, a stock picker who does beat the market, is a national hero.

On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «White Rose» group at Munich University (Hans and Sophie School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great Catholic, John Henry Newman) and the youth group at St Ludwig's Church in the same city who combined opposition to National Socialism with devout Catholicism and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.

I want him to be free not only to pursue his own happiness, but to love God and his neighbors in the radical way of that rebel from Nazareth who saved the world not as a national hero, but as a crucified enemy of the state.

Resurrecting the old gods and heroes, promising national regeneration through «the fire magic of music,» Wagner the mythmaker enthralled Nietzsche, who thought seriously about becoming a full - time promoter for Wagner's proposed music festival at Bayreuth.

We hailed in as a Hero at Spurs and now it feels like we have a keeper who played in nationals before coming... COME ON!

After short - handed but resilient Notre Dame made a run to the Final Four, it was Arike Ogunbowale who was the hero not once, but twice to deliver the Irish their first national championship since 2001.

Under Smith's divining eye, with Pollard in the irons, The Biscuit grew into the runningest machine in America, a rolling road show from coast to coast, ultimately a national hero as popular as FDR, a blue - collar bay with a working - stiff jockey and this weird trainer who talked to horses with his hands.

The United left - back, who has found game time hard to come by at Old Trafford this season, almost became a national hero when he struck a fierce right - footed half volley onto the post after the Azzurri went behind during their World Cup qualifier against Sweden last night.

If you really want to improve school meals, here are 10 effective ways to support the hard - working school nutrition HEROES who are reshaping local and national food systems, teaching kids about where food comes from, and feeding millions of children their best meals of the day — every day — in thousands of schools across our country.

That's the breathless announcement from One World Birth, the same clowns who nominated Lisa Barrett, a one woman birth - crime wave, as a «National Birth Hero.»

Many of our Olympic boxing heroes will tell how it was their local club and its coaches that saved them from a life of gangs, crime, and drugs, and clubs from Fitzroy Lodge in London to the National Smelting Company Boxing Club in my constituency are full of young men and women who have found their salvation in boxing.

If Britain's heroes were people who lived in sixties terraces, people who don't know all six verses of the national anthem, people who had opposed Apartheid in the 80s, and the Iraq war in the noughties, maybe a society with that kind of a hero would be a decent one?

The Roll Call of Heroes ceremony took place as part of National Police Week, proclaimed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 as a dedication to those members of law enforcement who died in the line of duty.

GRACIE MANSION — Mayor Bill de Blasio, who supporters describe as a «national hero» among progressives, has dipped his his toe into presidential politics with a push to make income inequality a central issue of the 2016 national elections.

In his words, «Today's occasion reminds us of the need to appreciate the noble contributions of our fallen heroes who paid the supreme sacrifice to maintain national and international peace and security.

The president - elect, who is a national sporting hero, defeated 21 other presidential candidates in the October 10 general elections with 38.4 per cent of the total votes cast.

National Telecommunicators Week is dedicated to the men and women who serve as public safety telecommunicators and brings celebration, honor and publicity focused on the otherwise unsung hero on the other end of the line.

Mark - Viverito, who has been one of López Rivera's strongest supporters, made reference to a recently published op - ed piece by him in which he said he's «bestowing» the National Freedom Hero designation granted him by the parade's organizers to others.

Other speakers at the briefing included award - winning conservationist Jim Toomey, who created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, filmmaker Jon Bowermaster, an award - winning writer and filmmaker recently named one of a dozen Ocean Heroes by the National Geographic Society, and Luke Creswell, who co-directed the award - winning large - format films Wild Ocean and The Last Reef: Cities Beneath The Sea.

Director Oliver Stone leaves little mystery as to his sympathies, portraying Edward Snowden broadly as a hero, an opinion shared by millions who feel the former National Security Agency contractor's leaked information cast much needed sunlight on the surveillance state.

Disney loves a good inspirational story, and «Queen of Katwe» certainly fits the bill with its fascinating tale of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, who rose from poverty to become a chess champion and national hero.

Especially for a film where our two heroes are revealed to be borderline psychotics who have found their true calling in national service.

From childhood pranks hacking NASA and National Defense computer systems to exposing the dirty laundry of banks and governments around the world, he has become a hero to those seeking transparency and valuing privacy and a villain to those who believe security also means some secrets are worth keeping.

Shot in a gorgeous black - and - white, «The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki» is an introspective, biographical drama directed by Juho Kuosmanen about the Finnish boxer Olli Maki, who was pointed to become a national hero in 1962 when... Continue reading →

It's like this: Clouseau is brought in by the French chief of police (Kevin Kline: De-Lovely, who also looks embarrassed to be here) on a case of national import because the chief knows Clouseau will fail, at which point the chief will step in and take over and look like a hero.

To the relief of comedy enthusiasts everywhere, in A Futile and Stupid Gesture (now available on Netflix), comedy legend and unsung hero, Doug Kenney, the man who co-founded the ground - breakingly irreverent National Lampoon magazine with his best friend, Henry Beard, «the oldest man who was ever a teenager», is imagined with great admiration and comedic inheritance by one of this era's funniest, most visionary voices, David Wain.

Since launching the essay contest during National School Choice Week in January, more than 300 Michigan charter school students have shared their stories with us about who their heroes are.

Paladin's Odyssey — $ 11.99 by Bruce Fottler Joseph Paladin is a national hero, but is he really the person who many hold in high esteem?

This year breaks precedence with the award going to The Shadow Hero (Macmillan / First Second) by Gene Luen Yang «a writer who has made his name in the graphic novel industry, where he wrote and illustrated the first ever graphic novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award [Boxers and Saints]-- and the first ever graphic novel to win the Printz Award [American Born Chinese].»

Each contestant has a charity partner who may be a rescue, local or national animal organization; American Humane will donate $ 2,500 to the charity partner of the winning finalist in each category, and the 2017 American Hero Dog will win an additional $ 5,000 for their charity partner.

The annual national competition searches out and recognizes America's Hero Dogs — often ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, whether it's saving lives on the battlefield, lending sight or hearing to a human companion, or simply the tail - wagging welcome a pet owner relishes at the end of a hard day.

March 23 is National Puppy Day, and I'm observing it by honoring the passing of a hero who fought for dogs in puppy mills.

Among them is Albert Agarunov, a national hero, who the Jewish community, made up most of «Mountain Jews», are proud to call one of their own.

Fort Santiago, the headquarters of Spanish occupation, is now a small museum attributed to the national hero José Rizal, who was incarcerated there prior to his execution.

It is worth stopping at the shrine of Jose Rizal, a national hero of the Philippines, who was imprisoned here before his execution in 1896.

Liberation Maiden, by Suda 51 (No More Heroes), is a 3D shooting game in which you play as the freshly elected president of «New Japan»: a high - school girl who uses her giant transforming flying robot to blow up any national threats.

REGINA Gallery is presenting an exhibition dedicated to Stas Volyazlovsky, an artist who worked in the style of «chanson - art», a poet of national marginalia, a hero of our time... REGINA was in...

REGINA Gallery is presenting an exhibition dedicated to Stas Volyazlovsky, an artist who worked in the style of «chanson - art», a poet of national marginalia, a hero of our time...

Solo exhibitions of her work include LINDER at Stuart Shave / Modern Art (November 2007), Let me go where my pictures go at dépendance gallery in Brussels (2006), The Lives of Women Dreaming at the British Council, Prague (2004) and We who are her hero in Galerie LH, Paris (2006), and her work has been featured in group exhibitions such as Destroy: Punk Graphic Design in Britain, Royal Festival Hall, London (1998), DEAD, the Roundhouse, London (2001), Glamour, British Council, Prague (2003), Plunder, Dundee Contemporary Arts (2003), Audio, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva (2006), Replay — sphere punk, Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble (2006) and Dereconstruction, Barbara Gladstone, New York (2006).

A National Weather Service forecaster who was called a hero of 2012's Superstorm Sandy tweeted an apology for the errant forecast.