Sentences with phrase «not slumming»

When not slumming in the streets, he's duking it out in the squalid East End as a bare - chested combatant in scenes resembling outtakes from «Fight Club.»

That makes Félicité one of the experiences I craved most from this edition of the NYFF: something like a Dardenne brothers movie, but with a driving beat, a goofy love story, and the interpolation of some mysterious, blue - tinted images of orchestral performances and forest settings to remind me that Félicité's mental world isn't all slums and soggy francs.

The interior isn't as upscale as a GTI's or a Mini's, but it isn't a slum, either.

I'm not a slum lord, but If I made my houses «up to code» it would cost me thousands of dollars that I would never recuperate.

My biggest success over the years came from buying GROUPS (5 - 8 houses) of older homes on a single parcel, in older, blue collar parts of town (not slums).

Not exact matches

Beshara, now the co-founder and CEO of group payments startup Tilt, was six days post-graduation and newly arrived at his not - for - profit microfinance job in Capetown, South Africa, when his boss gave him a new assignment in the surrounding slums.

In other words, a housing slum and modest decline and not a significant correction or crash lies ahead.

- Pope to Mass of millions: Get out of church — What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil — Massive crowd attends prayer service with pope — Why millennials are leaving the church — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near site pope

It is not as though that means that some Iron Age sky - god dreamed up in a Palestinean slum about 3,000 years ago exists.

This, of course, is an allusion to something C. S. Lewis wrote about in The Weight of Glory about us being content to make mud pies in the slum because we can not imagine what is meant by a holiday at the sea.

Clearly, I meant give money to the slum he was visiting and was presumably born / from, not give billions to the struggling country of Brazil.

«I say: You are not alone; the church is with you, the pope is with you bring me your young children,» Francis told residents of the notorious Varginha favela, or slum.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Even Chaplin's recently bestowed knighthood — however much deserved and belatedly granted — sat rather awkwardly on a figure whose greatness lay in his portrayal of a tough but tender little tramp who stood at the bottom of the social order, if not quite outside of it, and who in real life had come from the slums of London.

But if it is a supplementary image to the clinical image, then it can be a potent reminder that the pastor goes into the highways, byways, new housing developments, and slums to find and assist with needs, and does not merely call when needs are already known or wait until people call upon him.

I agree that the lavish building in the middle of a slum is probably NOT the right message, but the issue of sacrifically tithing is Biblical no matter our income.

King once wrote that «any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them... is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.»

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

He makes it clear he wanted a slum parish, not Joe's suburban congregation.

It is he, not Bill, who ends up with the slum parish.

I don't know enough about evangelical culture to speak for them en masse but I do know many evangelicals who work in slums, garbage dumps and to stop human trafficking to say that it's not always true that only the pretty things are redemptive.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist, observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like conditions — all of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).

Since the plantation does not need all the farmers who have been evicted, others go to growing slums surrounding the cities.

Slum dwellers are not likely to be as happy as the villagers.

Of course one should not forget the millions of poor whites, not only in Appalachia but in the city slums, who are Anglo - Saxon and Protestant and get few rewards of any kind.

«I say: You are not alone; the church is with you; the pope is with you,» Francis told residents of the notorious Varginha favela, or slum.

It's not easy to make the Church at Brook Hills, Alabama's second - largest congregation, look like a slum.

He's not the one who turned Detroit into a third world slum.

When you walk through a slum it is not the sickness that gives you the compassion for the people it is the human desperation.

In cold reality, no one is qualified; but God, whose ways are not our ways, seems to choose those least qualified, people who well may have come from slums and battlefields and insane asylums.

And if we really are striving to find God — the God who is not locked up in some sterile sanctuary — we are likely to encounter him while «on mission» in a hospital, a slum, a prison or a counseling center.

He's not the one that's taken every major city they are a majority in and turned them into slums.

She spends much of her time working on stabilizing rural areas so that agribusiness doesn't push waves of people to settle in the slums on the edge of Dhaka.

Sorry, The USA is not any more special in God's eyes than the slums of Calcutta.

Do you think Mourinho blundered by not buying Alexis and ending up having to slum it with a poor man's Alexis in Cuadrado??

He couldn't win the title in the season when manure, chavsky, mancity and liverpool were in the slums.

In comparison to previous product family, there is a pinch guard that not only prevents the little fingers from jamming, slumming when a kid shuts the door hard, but also can be put high enough that a kid can't reach it.

(Montessori methods were originally developed for preschoolers in the Italian slums and not only help youngsters learn to read, write and do math in easy, hands - on ways, but also foster independence, orderly thinking, responsibility and satisfaction in self - initiated learning.)

Kiberia slum, Nairobi, Kenya - a densely populated area that was not well served with basic services such as health facilities, adequate safe water and sanitation services.

I don't know if we're classed as being in a high - risk area, the slums of Birmingham, let's just push a leaflet through the door.

FreshDirect was awarded $ 140 million in subsidies without any public input, without any community assessment process, and I think they just figured «this is a slum, this is a ghetto, this is a place where they've been beaten down so much that they're not even gonna notice.»

But the capital city's agency is not the only one suspected of misusing public money meant to combat blight and slums.

A nonprofit works to get information about the lack of health, water and sanitation services into the hands not just of the government but of slum residents as well

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

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Predictive models suggest the ongoing Zika epidemic may run out of steam after two or three more seasons, but these models do not consider how urban slums and their highly mobile populations affect the disease's dynamics, according to the study.

Those living in city slums unrecognised by law must not be forgotten as local governments try to adapt to a warmer world

They're not just for the gym or slumming in sweatpants anymore (which are fine of course!).