Sentences with phrase «of shattered families»

It is a huge desire of most people Dating and Courtship God's Way by David C. Pack Countless millions of shattered families began with wrong dating habits.

Dolores holds the burdens of a shattered family over huge spans of time and boldly stands in the way of those who want to destroy her to protect those who matter most.

Barkley is the youngest member of a shattered family.

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«My family is obviously psychologically and physically shattered by the betrayals and the criminality of what has happened over the past five years,» Boyle told The Star.

At the age of 7 my naïve world was shattered and my family was destroyed.

The family of Alfie Evans said they have been left «shattered» by his death, as more than 1,000 supporters gathered to release balloons in his memory.

Also, by training national guard and reserve forces, the United States has adequately prepared its troops for a possible future invasion while avoiding a controversial draft that would shatter the indifference of many college students and their families.

Child sex abuse is a taboo topic for some parents [and churches]-- CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/29/…/sexual-abuse-talking-to-kids-parents/ CNN Apr 30, 2014 — Child sexual abuse is a taboo topic in some families, but experts insist that parents must empower kids to speak up about inappropriate... until a guest speaker stood up to talk, shattering the banality of the.....

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

It has provided a convenient excuse for childish atheism and shattered many aspects of human community and family life.

When the peace of an individual, family, or community is shattered, everyone suffers.

While none of Garvey's immediate family were «taken» in the mysterious event known mostly as the «Sudden Departure» (or by the date of its occurrence, October 14th), his home has nevertheless been shattered by its aftermath.

Out of the bubble that is American life, we sat with dying men and women, held newly orphaned babies in our arms, and cried with shattered family members.

It will be healed when man discovers that his loves in sex, family, nation, work and art participate in the working of a reality which lends final significance to his broken efforts and which in forgiveness and mercy can restore his shattered spirit.

But has anyone addressed how shattered a family becomes because of the riipple effect of the abuse?

Then there was Smith's encounter with a bus full of refugees, lost children from war - ravaged countries and shattered families, forged into a soccer team and made to feel that they mattered by a Muslim woman on the outskirts of Atlanta.

If you're getting up several times a night for night feeds your sleep is constantly interrupted, your mind shattered yet your days are spent successfully meeting the multitude of needs of your baby and family.

Their hearts were shattered but they knew they wanted to keep expanding their family; they just needed a bit of healing time.

Emeritus Professor Peter Moss Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London Professor Margaret O'Brien Co-director, Centre for Research on the Child and Family, University of East Anglia Professor Michael Lamb Professor of psychology, fellow and director of studies, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University Professor Tina Miller Professor of sociology, Oxford Brookes University Adrienne Burgess Joint chief executive, Fatherhood Institute Susanna Abse Chief executive, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships Rebecca Asher Author, Shattered Duncan Fisher Author, Baby's Here: Who Does What?

On behalf of our community and the Buffalo Board of Education, we extend our condolences to the unfortunate victims, the families, and the entire community that has been shattered by this unthinkable act of violence.

Jensen's death was followed by the death of his third cousin Margretha, along with a string of macabre news articles about this undiagnosed genetic condition that had been shattering families in the Faroes for decades.

My thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims and their families, and the entire country that had their casual Friday evening shattered by the horrible acts of violence.

This is a bloodstained Old West, as shown in the opening moments when a band of Cherokee outlaws butcher a settler family, leaving only the mother (Pike) as a picture of shattered, keening grief.

As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family's life in ever - more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long - forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss.

When Leslie and her school friends take a trip to her family s isolated estate they are planning a quiet weekend, but the peace is shattered by the arrival of two criminals.

Structured around the fracturing of two family units, one irreparably shattered, one holding firm despite intense pressure, it imagines life as a steady succession of denials, duty waging a futile struggle against desire.

WHAT: Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is a dedicated family man and successful construction foreman, but on the eve of the biggest job of his career, he receives a phone call triggering a series of events that threaten to shatter his seemingly perfect life.

However, any hope of that is shattered when a military captain (Doug Dearth) and the base chaplain (Doug James) show up unannounced on the doorstep with the message no family ever wants to hear.

1/2 The dumb rap against the gifted Wes Anderson is that his comedies (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic) all hit on similar themes of broken dreams and shattered families.

This visual meditation on nature, death and tradition paints a shattering portrait of a family overcoming extraordinary circumstances to honor a final request.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize - winning Philip Roth novel, AMERICAN PASTORAL follows an all American family across several decades, as their idyllic existence is shattered by social and political turmoil that will change the fabric of American culture forever.

Enrico is clearly a personal filmmaker — he returns obsessively to themes of time and memory, images of families and homes shattered in the most terrible, irreparable ways — but all his films after Au coeur de la vie... and Zita fail of deftness and suggestibility as visual experiences, being all but indistinguishable from the hackwork of other commercial French filmmakers typified at their best by the «Tradition of Quality» boys.

The path to reconciling Miguel with his family history twists and turns, leading, among other things, to the shattering of idols and the realization that the darkness of avarice can hide within the glamor of the performing arts.

But after the sudden death of Michael's wife, the Banks family is shattered — even enthusiastic aunt Jane (Emily Mortimer), now a fervent union organizer, and long - time housemaid Ellen (Julie Walters) can't help lift spirits — and so in time, the once - blossoming home is on the verge of foreclosure.

But her image of her perfect family is shattered when she discovers long - buried secrets that threaten to destroy the very foundation of her life.

The film is a shattering experience — for actors and audience — as we are dragged into the abyss of slavery through the documented real life experience of a free black man in upstate NY who was kidnapped from his family in the middle of his life, and enslaved in the south.

In many ways this is more of a drama about shattered trust and the devastation that follows when the foundation of family is destroyed.

In the aftermath of the earth - shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris and Four must go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago and venture into the unknown, leaving the only city and family they have ever known as they fight to survive.

After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight - knit working - class family shattered by temptation.

Several decades after the Sexual Revolution swept across the United States (and around the world) during the late 1960s, it's all too easy to gloss over just how earth - shattering a change the movement for greater feminine freedom made in the lives of so many women and their families, and to women's roles in society.

Developed by actor Jamie Bell, Violet is a shy teenager living in the Isle of Wight who dreams of pop stardom as an escape from her small town and shattered family life.

Undertaking to make World Trade Center just five years after the shattering events of 11th September 2001, Oliver Stone has angered many who feel it is too early to dramatise that time, and yet he has succeeded in making an effective film that, instead of focussing on the big picture, details the impact of that day on two young families.

As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family's life in ever - more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss.

Even the corniest old gag is enriched by Andersson's unblinking gaze and densely detailed shots: when a joker at a family banquet insists on performing that old parlor trick of yanking the tablecloth out from under the dishes, he not only shatters a huge collection of crystal and china but also reveals a vintage table inlaid with swastikas.

His family shattered, Leo eventually finds his place with a tightly knit group of high school friends, and the novel follows the intersections and complications of their lives through adulthood.

The Father of All Things is an angry, heartfelt, deeply personal, sometimes darkly funny book that explores the war that shattered Bissell's father and in turn ruptured their family.

Their new home is rougher and more rustic than they expected — and a single night of tragedy shatters the family when the native Maori stage an uprising, kidnapping Margaret and her children.

This superb story of love and war begins with the shattering of the kingdom of Burma and the igniting of a great and passionate love, and it goes on to tell the story of a people, a fortune, and a family and its fate.

She is not far away, part of a new family, one she never chose - and her mind has been shattered... When a bartender leaves the resort late one night, and Bo and Cal discover her battered body in the snow, it's the first sign that danger lurks in the mountains that surround them.

The emotional heart of the story lies with one rower, Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not for glory, but to regain his shattered self - regard and to find a place he can call home.