Sentences with phrase «odds against families»

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Somehow, against all odds, Pete seems to be the character who has found the most redemption, having stitched his family back together.

It will be found, here and there, in pockets of social life — within families and communities that still, against all odds, embody and enact a moral vision.

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Yet school and Sunday school, neighborhood and family and parish are the institutions which even today, against all odds, do much to shape the individual in society.

The against - all - odds victory captured the imagination of the assembled crowd, which included the Watts, an Irish race horse loving family who had built a thriving whiskey distillery.

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I am so proud of my family for overcoming the overwhelming odds against us, and I am so grateful for AP for giving us the great tools to do so.

His This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood (Bantam Press # 16.99) is essentially a story of a remarkable woman, his mother, who fought against massive odds to bring up her children, and his sister who succeeded in keeping a parentless family together.

The Working Families Party has come out against a ban on horse - drawn carriages, putting the group at odds with a signature campaign promise of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Against the odds, a young boy and his family found a small colony of Jambato harlequins, securing the survival of the species and funds for the boy's education.

Costigan is the force of good against the odds, the son of an honest man from a dishonest family in a milieu immersed in crime.

The Fighter is the inspirational, true story of these two brothers who, against all the odds, come together to train for a historic title bout that will unite their fractured family, redeem their pasts and, at last, give their hard - luck town what it's been waiting for: pride.

But when Sam (Brian Geraghty), a young handsome stranger rolls into town, he becomes entrenched in the family while he and Amy, against all odds, begin to create a life they never thought possible.

The horror of it all aside, A Quiet Place is first and foremost a family story, a tale of survival, resilience and the will to stay together against all odds.

It's heavy on the slapstick, but against all odds, a sentimental Christmas streak does shine through, even though Kevin doesn't seem all that upset that his Paris - bound family has accidentally left him behind for the holidays.

Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.

While Max and Annie figure out the key to extended domestic bliss (hint: heteronormative monogamy and family building), Brooks faces a life - or - death predicament only Max, Annie, and their gamer friends can resolve against insurmountable odds.

I'd also like to compare it to dramas like TV's The Walking Dead or War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise in how a father has to fight for his family's survival in an almost apocalyptic environment against all odds and with his fellow humans being a bigger threat than just the situation itself.

Here's a plot summary of the upcoming series: after crash - landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fight against all odds to survive and escape, but they're surrounded by hidden dangers.

It flutters in the middle, displaying everything you expect (the big, loud Italian - American family; the against - all - odds resurgence; the training montage) with little of the raw rush normally associated with films about the brutal sport.

By focusing on the harrowing and inspiring true story of one family caught up in the chaos and desolation, he has made an extraordinarily gut - wrenching, intense story of survival against all odds.

Working with a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), Emmerich's other proclivities are evident, including a life or death scenario that threatens the fabric of society, a quest to prove worth against the odds, the reuniting of a fractured family, and the triumph of American values when the stakes are heightened.

It's also an odds - against family drama, one that will leave you with a great big smile on your face when you walk away from the theater.

By changing every aspect of a poor child's life — schools, families, neighborhoods — he believes that the Harlem Children's Zone can give youngsters the resources they need to succeed when all odds are against them.

This is one family's story of success against the odds, of navigating the journey from working - class to middle - class status.

While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds — and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey.

Inspired by a true story, and set against the backdrop of a country in transition, The Scavenger's Daughters is a sweeping present day saga of triumph in the face of hardship, and the unbreakable bonds of family against all odds.

A memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world.

Follow Mary Ann Graves and her family as they travel across the country in a tale of survival against all odds.

The touching story of a rural family struggling to stick together against all odds, and of a young boy's battle against self - blame for his family's flaws.

But if I have to pick one, I would choose the first chapter about Tammy, the girl who came from a dysfunctional family, started with nothing, but against all odds came out on the top.

Magee's Blue # 3 tells the touching story of a rural family struggling to stick together against all odds, and of a young boy's battle against self - blame for his family's flaws.

Against all odds, Adele must escape from the Pen and find her family, while being hunted by a deranged, killing machine named Rivet, who works for the President.

After such a long time — and against all odds — his family had found him.

Humanism and Technology, The Human Figure in Industrial Society, 600 Seoul International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, December 16, 1994 — January 14, 1995 (Catalogue) Prints and Process, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, October 1994 Democratic Vistas: 150 Years of American Art from Regional Collections, University Art Museum, University at Albany, New York, September 24 — November 13, 1994 (Catalogue) Master Prints from the Collection of The Butler Institute of American Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, September 9 — October 19, 1994 Visible Means of Support, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, June — November 1994 Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art, The Ueno Royal Museum and the Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan, June 9 — July 30, 1994 A Floor in a Building in Brooklyn, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, June 9 — July 30, 1994 (Curated by Chuck Close) The Assertive Image: Artists of the Eighties, Selections from the Eli Broad Family Foundation, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, June 6 — October 9, 1994 From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 29 — November 27, 1994 (Catalogue) Facing the Past: Nineteenth — Century Portrait from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Confronting the Present, The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, May 27 — June 24, 1994 Inaugural Group Exhibition, Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, New York, May 14 — June 13, 1994 30 YEARS ---- Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich's Curatorial History 1964 — 1994, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, May 15 — September 17, 1994 (Catalogue) Face - Off: The Portrait in Recent Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 9 — October 30, 1994.

For instance someone in the age group of 25 - 30 with a 5 lakh medical cover can add a 10 - 15 lakh critical illness insurance cover to protect himself / his family against all odds.

He said that, despite the odds against their marriage, children of divorce are often more motivated to make marriage work in order to «redeem what they've lost» in the divorce of their parents, namely stability and the chance at a conventional family home.

The stars represent us as women who guide our families, shine brightly, survive against the odds and are strong in our determination to keep our families safe.

These ideas are also the foundation of my community work for marriage in The Family Formation Project, where we work with urban unmarried couples who have a child and a desire to make their relationships work against great odds.

Harrington and colleagues15 tested a brief family intervention for adolescents (total n = 149) against standard aftercare and found no significant effect on repetition (odds ratio 1.02; 95 % CI 0.41 to 2.5; P = 0.97).