Sentences with phrase «nearing the end of my life in»

But I am growing old and nearing the end of my life in a situation rapidly approaching disaster.

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The islands» only inhabitants live in the small town of Sanikiluaq, near the upper end of the middle island.

Near the end of his life, he declared: «If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to happen to the stock market.»

The current tunnel is nearing the end of its service life and does not meet modern seismic standards, which could be catastrophic in the event of a significant earthquake.

If I had freaked out every time someone has said «The end is near» during the course of my life, I probably would have had to check in to the Rubber Room Suites by now.

Bernice had left the church in profound humiliation when, as a little girl, one of the more prominent ladies in the congregation insulted her in the local general store, but near the end of her life she had reconnected with the church of her childhood.

Near the end of the sixteenth century, the English Puritan Richard Rogers wrote that studying his diary was necessary «that I may so observe my heart that I may see my life in frame from time to time.»

Jefferson was beyond bankrupt near the end of his life and in debt for the better part of it.

Yes, near the end, in the last month of her life, I said all the things I wished I had said all along.

Near the end of Jesus» life, he did for them what only the lowest servant in a house would do, and only then because they were ordered to.

Near the end of his life, Bonhoeffer taught that God is not God at the price of emptying me of my humanity; humanity does not consist in letting oneself be sucked dry by a divine vampire!

Among Lewis's most powerful writings are three that came very near the end of his life — Till We Have Faces, The Four Loves and A Grief Observed (each influenced in important ways by his having come to know and eventually to marry Joy David - man Gresham).

If Dunne is reckoning correctly, the age when people take death seriously as a personal reality, a point that today occurs before midlife, was near the end of the average life span for people in the ancient world.

Near the end of his life, Ted Kennedy came to believe that healthcare workers should be shielded from involvement in practices contrary to the Catholic faith.

It was a tragic but in the end richly productive life of a great genius who near the end of his life came fairly close to what I consider the central religious truths.

The great cultures of the ancient world lay at the two ends, Babylonia near where the sweep of the Zagros Mountains terminates its length of eastern bulwark and barrier to the Semitic world, and Egypt nestling among her brooding deserts at the northeast corner of Africa in the perennial delight of her sunny clime and her life - giving river.

Writing near the end of his life, he wrote that «the old argument from design in....

Do we think that only matter is the near end of him and that all the God there is is simply physical, or do we think that in spiritual life at its best we have touched the near end of Deity, and that when we start with that and think out through that as far as we can go, we are thinking most truly about him?

Near the end of his life Frei reflected that his personal stake in Lindbeck's argument was very deep, and he exhorted Lindbeck not to back down from his truth claims about the truth status of Christian language.

There are a lot of good reasons to make banana bread: You have a pile of sad bananas in your fruit bowl that are near the end of their life expectancy; You like things that are undeniably delicious and go very well together with peanut butter, Nutella or condensed milk; It's cold outside and you need something [Continue Reading...]

Near where I live is a market where fruit / veg are sold in # 1 bowls, and I get so carried away and end up with lots of bowls and then way too much produce for just two people (especially as Mr B is not a big fruit eater).

Buffalo Bills cornerback Nickell Robey said the pass interference call near the end of Sunday's game against the Jacksonville Jaguars was the «worst call I've ever been a part of in my life.»

Near the end of February, as he lived in seclusion at Heisser's house, Thompson got a call from an angry Kohnke: «Get down to my office as soon as you can!»

Lollar was a good - sized, at his present 6» 3» and 195 pounds, and successful pitcher by the end of his sophomore year at Mineral Area College, a juco near his home in Farmington, Mo. (He's no relation to Sherm Lollar, the former major league catcher who also lived in Missouri.)

The ride was not as rough as expected, although at the end of it the Dancer got up on his hind legs and pranced lightly off the track in a near - vertical posture, as if trying to live up to his name.

Yes, he brings glitz and money to the tail - end of the campaign, but no where near the actual experience and abilities that some of the other candidates - all of whom have actually lived in the district for years - have earned from years in the trenches of local politics.

In the 1970s, astronomer Jill Tarter pointed out that the term also referred to a dark, cooling star near the end of its life.

Because older wells typically produce less gas as they near the end of their life cycle, liquid unloadings happen more often in those wells than in newer wells.

Conrad, speaking from the audience at the press conference, said that her late husband had become very interested in commercial spaceflight near the end of his life.

Polaris is a «Cepheid variable,» a giant star near the end of its life that varies in brightness as it shrinks and swells.

Even NASA's gravity - sensing GRACE satellites, which have provided stunning ice mass data since their launch in 2002, are nearing the end of their planned life.

The web in the right photo was built by a 188 - days - old spider nearing the end of its life, and its web design is far more irregular and shows numerous gaps.

The authors call for the development of clinical guidelines to support physicians in their effort to reduce potentially futile drug treatments near the end of life.

A new study led by Keiichi Ohnaka, a researcher at Catholic University of the North in Chile, sought to understand how the distant red supergiant star Antares manages to expel so much matter off its surface as it nears the end of its life and nears its finale as a spectacular supernova.

They found that more physician assistants performed unsupervised medical procedures and saw a marked increase in invasive treatment of nonthreatening diseases on people near the end of life.

As the year nears it's tumbling end, it's natural to think about your love lives in 2016, how they've changed, whether you've met someone new or were on a merry - go - round of serial dates.

The film is modest, unpretentious in its intelligent character study of a high school senior facing the near - adulthood pressures of the end of high school and living in a poor family.

As Ebert neared the end of his life, following a long battle with cancer that robbed him of his voice and part of his jaw, his fervor came through more than ever in his written words.

«Metropolitan» follows the life of members of the urban haute bourgeoise, a pair of love - starved upper - class men dealing with anti-American sentiment in «Barcelona,» and in «The Last Days of Disco,» two young women juggling day jobs in publishing while dancing their nights away near the end of the nightclub era.

Through a near - accident that put him in the news as a stalker, Owen ends up getting involved in the lives of an future - star actor named Hayden Field (Hallisay) and his hot girlfriend Lisa Mancini (Hilton).

Near the end of his life Italian horror maestro Mario Bava confessed to the magazine L'espresso, «In my entire career, I made only big bullshits, no doubt about that... I'm just a craftsman.

In a dystopian near - future, single people are considered unfit to live as humans; once a relationship ends, the uncoupled get 45 days to find new partners, with those who fail getting turned into the animals of their choice.

Longtime comedy partners Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair co-created the show and co-star as old friends who are reunited in their hometown right after each of them suffers a life - changing event — one a divorce while nearing the end of her pregnancy and the other the loss of a high - paying job.

In a 1933 article, Rebecca West (suffragette, journalist, and, near the end of her life, one of the «witnesses» in Warren Beatty's «Reds»), referred to Pankhurst as a «reed of steel.&raquIn a 1933 article, Rebecca West (suffragette, journalist, and, near the end of her life, one of the «witnesses» in Warren Beatty's «Reds»), referred to Pankhurst as a «reed of steel.&raquin Warren Beatty's «Reds»), referred to Pankhurst as a «reed of steel.»

Released near the end of 1985 locally and the spring of 1987 in the US, My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund in its native tongue) would earn Hallström Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (the latter shared with three co-writers), two categories rarely recognizing foreign films.

The ultra-violence is on show here with many gruesome moments such as beating an elephant warrior to near the end of its life as you pin him down and stab away whilst avoiding his dying attempts to push you off, culminating in Kratos carving is head open and brains falling out.

The Happy Prince Rupert Everett directs and stars in this biopic of Oscar Wilde near the end of his life, as controversy, exile, and excess drive him to the brink.

In truth, as a comedy, it's standard sitcom, and the broadly stereotypical characters are far beneath the talent of the stars, but the story does gain a bit of traction in the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to bIn truth, as a comedy, it's standard sitcom, and the broadly stereotypical characters are far beneath the talent of the stars, but the story does gain a bit of traction in the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to bin the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to bin which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to be.

Reaching the end of an extended summer vacation in Greece, the couple may also be nearing the end of their time together, as the compulsively truthful Celine keeps upending their cozy life, trying so persistently to figure out what she really wants that she forces even complacent Jesse to do some soul - searching.

Two key world cinema titles of 2017 are responses to the refugee crisis: Aki Kaurismäki's The Other Side of Hope, in which a Syrian refugee attempts to settle in Finland, and Michael Haneke's Happy End, about a bourgeois family that lives in a mansion near the Calais jungle.