Sentences with phrase «of desperate families»

I'd just spent the entire morning watching news footage of desperate families trapped on their rooftops awaiting rescue, so I couldn't help but bristle at what he said.

Story tells of desperate family man Craig Daniels (Pat Healy) who wakes up one morning to find an eviction notice on his apartment door; to discover the garage he works at is now doing some convenient «downsizing;» to come to the realization he has no realistic way of solving either issue.

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Families in these countries are desperate to send their children away from the killing fields of gang violence.

Why is our provincial government unable to meet the needs of people and families desperate to find help when it comes to opioid addiction?

The ethical obligation to limit the size of families arises from desperate human necessity.

Many well - meaning friends and family members are desperate to get clergy in to absolve a comatose and dying loved one of his / her «sins».

I give thanks to liberties given me yet I can see the steadfastly bitterness of Life's insolvencies in many countries born and most desperate families who dare to live out for wants of just another bowl's food.

In a culture where people are desperate to find satisfying personal relationships, a congregation can be a light shining in the wilderness of modern family life.

Had he all of a sudden become so desperate to provide for his family that he had to resort to stealing?

All the while, some residents, including the family of Tom Repchic, fear nothing is going to turn this desperate situation around.

Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

Or, when a family was in a desperate financial situation, sometimes they would sell one of their family members into slavery, and then — hopefully — when they got enough money, they would buy back their family member (Lev 25:39 - 55).

But instead of spending this extra $ 100 on myself and family, I could also find a thousand ways to spend it to benefit some person, family, or group that has a desperate need for food, clothes, shelter, or medical care.

In Stage 2, the effort will be to hide the problem from the outside world, coupled with desperate efforts on the part of the family to control the alcoholic's drinking by any and all means.

Gay persons in our society frequently have been told by their families that they do not belong to them, by the church that they are desperate sinners because of their sexual orientation, by the medical profession that they are sick, and by the law that they are criminals.

Usually slave recruiters, under the guise of a trusted friend or family member, take advantage of those already at risk: young women or girls desperate for any viable opportunity.

Instructions or presentations of the family, clan, or city are explained and justified by tales — «charter myths» in Malinowski's term — or knowledge about religious ritual, authoritative and absolutely serious ritual, and about the gods involved, is expressed and passed on in the form of such tales; then there are the hopes and fears connected with the course of nature, the seasons, and the activities of food supply; there is the desperate experience of disease.

I am in desperate need of a great resource such as this cookbook to keep my family in good health!

Barcelona — ambassadors for Spanish independence and freedom will be desperate for a victory over Real Madrid who are seen as the seat of establishment in the Spanish royal family.

They are currently looking for an American who has, «a tough, but loving, philosophy to caring for children» and the «ability to determine the roots of highly emotional relationship problems within families in desperate need for help.»

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, the story goes that on a family vacation, this Mompreneuer was desperate to soothe her newborn son, who would fuss whenever his pacifier went missing.

Did your child enter adolescence with a sudden cloud of distance, brooding, sullen behavior, and a desperate need to be as far away from your family as possible?

For adoptive families it is a drink of water that helps slake a desperate thirst for resources that are both honest and practical.

Single parents struggling with children on their own, grandparents exhausted from trying to hold families together, fathers desperate to maintain contact with kids who've been moved miles away: these make our society an unhappier place and blight the life chances of children.

He advised parents, guardians and families of FUOYE students to prevail on their wards to shun this Greek gift and avoid being used by desperate politicians.

Teachout is a Catherine wheel of ideas — in the course of the day we talked about anti-trust, fracking, the desperate need for broadband in rural communities, the way Big Ag gobbles up subsidies meant for family farmers, and the «chickenization» of production that puts all the economic risk and environmental damage on farmers as firms like Tyson keep squeezing the market.

Whether it's the young mothers who formed the Focus E15 campaign in Newham to protest against local families being shipped out of the area, or the residents of Cressingham Gardens in Lambeth who have fought tirelessly to stop the demolition of their much loved homes, social housing tenants across the capital have been speaking out about the desperate situations they've found themselves in.

On August 14, a mudslide killed more than 400 people in the mountain town of Regent on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, sweeping away homes and leaving residents desperate for news of missing family members.

«Across America, working families are in desperate need of tax reform that increases take - home pay, creates jobs, and strengthens our economy,» said AAN Executive Director Corry Bliss.

While out and about in Stratford I have seen some desperate situations - a working family of seven crammed into a tiny two bedroom terraced house, for example.»

Mark - Viverito referenced the poor condition the park was once in, and said the completion of the project was long overdue for a community in desperate need of family play spaces.

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Following the release of the results, his office was deluged with thousands of emails and phone calls from desperate patients and families.

Your contribution will support the manifestation of this dream, not only for us, but for desperate individuals and families who are searching for the choice to be actively engaged in their healing process.

Such are the lyrics of Broadway's famous musical Fiddler on the Roof, about Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his desperate attempts to maintain his Jewish traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives.

There are plenty of hot cougars and milfs who are desperate to show their skills around sex and physical pleasure and when they have finished looking after their home, kids and family, they want someone who can take care of them and meet their secret desires and fantasies.

Loneliness can have you feeling desperate for someone to be a part of your life and giving you a sense of family.

Synopsis: A desperate Somali father becomes a pirate in order to feed his family, but experience an intense crisis of conscience in this thought - provoking drama.

In the first, a rabid mob hijacks the family minivan, a confrontation that peaks with the shot of a desperate hand clawing away at a bloodied bullet hole on the windshield.

Cast as a man whose desperate attempt to escape the monotony of suburban life includes a bundle of large helium balloons and a lightweight deck chair, Ifans charmed Australian audiences in the family - friendly effort.

Down in a tunnel, Socha comes across several Jewish families, who have burrowed through the floor of a house — desperate people smart enough to know that if they stay aboveground they will never survive.

Inspired by the frightening true - life tale of a family that moved into a converted funeral home and subsequently fell under supernatural attack, director Peter Cornwell's The Haunting in Connecticut follows the quest of a desperate mother to free her family from the grip of an evil beyond human comprehension.

Synopsis: Amidst the shadows and secrets of Communist Hungary, one family's desperate escape plan goes terribly wrong.

In this episode, meet a woman who has programmed her dead friend into a chat bot so he can live on forever; a Japanese family who has adopted a childlike AI robot as a member of their tribe; and a desperate mom turning to spyware to track her teenager's every move.

In episode 302, examining the hysteria whipped up by the media and politicians to «save» the traditional family structure, a desperate effort to perpetuate a fraudulent concept of mother, father, two kids, a dog and a picket fence.

WHAT: When a divorced father (Chris Pine) desperate to provide for his two sons learns that the bank is going to foreclose on his family's ranch, he teams up with his ex-con brother (Ben Foster) to pull off a series of robberies at the bank's various branches across Texas.

Infantile regression the rule of the day in a climate increasingly desperate to shoehorn its post-modern anti-narratives into comfortable family fare, it's interesting to consider that the original was already seen as something of a throwback to Depression - era family values at the time of its release.

Krasinski and Blunt pull off fiercely expressive performances as young parents desperate to keep their family safe at all costs, and Blunt in particular has a deft way of combining horror, grief, and love into one masterful expression as Evelyn watches helplessly while her family fights for their lives.

Jason Biggs stars as Guy, an out - of - work expectant father desperate to find a job to support his growing family.

SING stars Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an eternally optimistic koala who puts on the world's greatest singing competition to save his crumbling theater; Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, an overworked and underappreciated mother of 25 piglets desperate to unleash her inner diva; Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a punk rock porcupine with a beautiful voice behind her prickly exterior; Taron Egerton as Johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family's felonies; as well as Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly, and Grammy Award - nominated Tori Kelly.