Sentences with phrase «of old western»

The M1 Irons is reminiscent of an old western six shooter, and as it can drop people in just one pull of the trigger, this gun certainly packs a punch.

Straight out of an old Western film is Canyonlands, located in Moab, Utah — a dramatic desert landscape, where the Colorado River has snaked its way through the Earth with jaw - dropping results.

The trim little town of Tesota, Texas, looks like some modern amusement - park idea of an old Western town.

2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West»...

Then there's The Train Robbers, with Budd Boetticher's long - time writer Burt Kennedy taking the hyphenate reins on what washes out as a frickin» godawful artifact of the old western style that wasn't any fresher back when Kennedy was minting classics with Ranown.

2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender.

«One can imagine the enormous power he wielded as the governor of the old Western State comprising Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ekiti and Ondo states.

He said the positive impacts of the deceased while serving as Governor of old western state would be forever remembered by the generations yet unborn.

The Federal University, Oye Ekiti, has been renamed after the late military governor of the old Western Region, General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.)

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has declared Friday a work - free day in the state in honour of the former Military Governor of the old Western Region, the late General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.).

The whole of Ekiti stood still at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, Ado - Ekiti, on Friday to celebrate the late former Military Governor of the Old Western Region, Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.).

The Vice President referred to the tax innovation of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo as Premier of the old Western region which enabled the administration to raise money for huge infrastructure, agriculture and free education.

Before you knew it, an excited, beaming, dancing company was pumping fists and flashing «V» (for victory) signs, with their two fore - fingers, a sign original to Winston Churchill, Britain's World War 2 hero; but popularized in these climes by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, first premier of the old Western Region.

Educators and other representatives of culture vigorously defend these traditions against any criticisms by what remains of the older Western culture of civility, order, and restraint.

If you've got $ 60 and 4 hours to kill you'd get more entertainment from a couple of old westerns on Blu - ray with your favorite snacks and drinks, or some other game.

Why emulate the pacing of old Westerns, but not their epic scope?

Not exact matches

Clearly he concluded most of those five MLCs backed the Barnett - led Liberals who, in good old - fashioned socialist style, opposed Western Power being split, most especially its generating and sales divisions, as Carnegie recommended.

The town of Buckskin Joe in Colorado was built with structures from old mining towns, and became the setting for many Hollywood westerns.

Sadleirs Logistics, a subsidiary of Western Australia's oldest family - owned business, has won a contract to supply mainland transport services to Chevron's operations in the Pilbara for an undisclosed sum.

From Irish backpacker to managing a national construction services business in just six years, 30 year old Declan White's Monford Group was named the 2014 Telstra Western Australia business of the year.

WA's oldest university, the University of Western Australia, is benchmarking itself against «the rest of the world» on all fronts, vice-chancellor Deryck Schreuder says.

Barbara Grogan, the 50 - year - old CEO of Western Industrial Contractors Inc., a $ 10 - million contracting business based in Denver, begs to differ.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to shift the course of the 7 - year - old civil war.

The two left New York in 1980, spending an academic year in Philadelphia before settling in Western Massachusetts in 1981 — and founding Accurate Writing & More with an initial marketing cost of $ 12 and a total start - up under $ 200 (most of it for a 13 - year - old IBM Selectric typewriter).

It's unacceptable,» adds the 90 - year - old farmer from San Cristóbal, on the western state of Táchira, bordering Colombia.

The two left New York in 1980, spending a year in Philadelphia before settling in Western Massachusetts in 1981 — and founding Accurate Writing & More with an initial marketing cost of $ 12 and a total start - up under $ 200 (most of it for a 13 - year - old IBM Selectric typewriter).

The thirty two properties within the Marble Bar paleoplacer gold project cover an area of approximately 1,251 square km in the Nullagine embayment and 554 square km in the Marble Bar subbasin underlain by 2.74 billion year old siliciclastic sedimentary and volcanic rocks belonging to the Fortescue Group, the basal part of the Hamersley Basin located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Oh yeah, when Noah (being well over 500 years old) has his ship run aground on top of Ararat, how exactly does he then get all the marsupials back to Australia, all the grizzlies back to Western North America, all the polar bears back to the North Pole, all the anacondas back to South America, all the emperor penguins back to Antarctica, etc, etc, etc?

Old Testament Prophecy: «The western kings of Tarshish and the islands will bring him tribute.

But a lot of these are even more old - fashioned Christians than the Catholics, and fundamentalist Protestant western Christians either don't know about them, or don't care.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

Because, as Walker Percy once wrote, «the noxious particles and the sadness of the old dying Western world, and him thinking: «Jesus, is this it?

Then we started to make plans for a driving tour of the western coastlines for our fifteenth but Margaret will only be a year old by then and likely still nursing so we'll see.

It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.

The historic churches, shrines, monasteries, hospitals, homes and other holdings; the priceless art and libraries, not to mention the intellectual capital and value of political connection and influence of a 200 year old organization that essentially built western civilization.

Religions of today, at least the Western ones I am most familiar with, seem to hold on to the old stories without understanding their original dynamic value and rather look to them for creating rules and reconstructing an ever more implausible history.

By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted in the East, [18][19] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which corresponds to January in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.

wow what a way to make lots of money in one night.lol People should read the true inscriptions that are thousands of years old which tells the truth,» the seven tablets of creation» western christianity is a JOKE and a bunch of lies.

Damascus, a great trading center on the western border of the Fertile Crescent, is a very ancient city — perhaps the oldest anywhere in the world which still exists — while Antioch is famous for the fact that here the followers of Christ were first called Christians.

Having something of the style and flavor of the Old Testament, it claims to be the story of what happened when God's people came to the Western Hemisphere.

It saddens and frightens me that I have to watch the western world controlled, to a large extent, by a group of people that actually believe that an invisible person, for many an old man, actually controls and creates existence.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

Among his writings are the following: Christian Apologetics in a World Community (InterVarsity Press 1983); Let the Earth Rejoice: A Biblical Theology of Holistic Mission (Crossway 1983); Christian Art in Asia, (Rodop Amsterdam 1979, distributed by Humanities Press); Themes in Old Testament Theology, (InterVarsity Press 1979); Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture (Western Baptist Press 1975; and Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation (Eerdmans 1971).

The original canon of Western Civilization was the collection of documents known to Christians as the Old and New Testaments.

Even now initiates are preparing for their winter dancing rituals in the centuries - old secret Seyouwin societies that flourish on the western coasts of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

Those who think that thinking about the Cold War is old hat will not appreciate Revel's searing indictment of Western intellectuals who, had they had their way, would have sold out democracy to Communist totalitarianism.

It is something that has never dropped out of the memory of the oldest surviving society in the western world.

For a millennium, most Western theologians were ignorant of Greek, not to mention Hebrew, and premodern interpreters knew little about the historical contexts of both Old and New Testaments.