Sentences with phrase «old fighting for»

Not exact matches

«Joe stood for everything that was meant to be good: fighting evil, doing what's right for people,» said Alan Hassenfeld, the 65 - year - old former CEO for Pawtucket, R.I. - based Hasbro Inc., whose father, Merrill, oversaw G.I. Joe's development in 1963.

And that's an old plot, updated by French and German leaders who are fighting for political survival against nationalists and populists.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

As Adam Liptak has explained, these older media companies financed many of the major free speech fights of the 20th century; they saw paying for litigation as part of their business model, and as a public duty.

For Larian, that fight has largely centred on a crowdfunding campaign he launched on Mar. 21 in hopes of raising $ 1 billion to salvage the business» 70 - year - old U.S. operations.

It's time for the old guard to take the fight to them.

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

The topics were old standards: The pro-business, yuppie - ish, Clintonian Dems and the more economically lefty, antiwar types are in a fight for the party's soul; the Bush White House is manipulating the media; the «pageant - size fantasy» of certain starry - eyed Dems is of a last - minute Hillary run.

Some of us are new to this fight, but across America there are people, young and old, who have been fighting for gun safety and an end to gun violence of all kinds.

Shelby Speno said her 13 - year - old son wrote President Donald Trump for help in curbing gun violence, but got back a letter that had the president vowing to fight for gun rights.

Many couples fight about money — and those disagreements may increase and intensify as you get older, particularly when it comes to saving and planning for retirement.

In the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and staffers — including her 14 - year - old daughter Alyssa — Lori Alhadeff has become a leading advocate in the fight for school safety.

He was clear that wars (and by logical extension, public infrastructure and old - age pensions) always are paid for by the generation that fights the wars, builds the infrastructure or creates the output on which welfare - income transfer payments are spent.

Sounds like you're fighting the same old battles that we in the old - line mainstream churches have fought for centuries!

In «The Crime of the Communist,» the urbane, worldly master of an Oxford college tells Father Brown that he prefers the old adage «For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; he can't be wrong whose life is in the right.»

Christianity is way older and has fought evolution for so long, funny how all the sudden they want to jump on the bandwagon.

You are idiots for calling him on the carpet, instead you should be getting the federal government out of the poverty fighting business, The war on poverty is over 44 years old and for all intents and purposes all it did was create an out of control bureaucracy that needs to be taken apart and labeled a bad idea for future generations.

The fight for religious liberty is the age - old contest between the King and the Church, between Caesar and the Truth.

The old Taylor Swift might be dead, but at least she wore a crown, and at least her subjects knew she fought for something.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

I have said that conservatism is 5 % people who game the system (like the slave holders of old) and 95 % useful idiots those who fight for them but have no interest in the outcome (used by the system — manipulated)!

Our fatigued bodies crave stimulant and, if there is no real fight on, our bodies persuade our minds to imagine one so that the glands may discharge the old fluid which used so swiftly to prepare our fathers for a fight.

What about the 7 - year - old boy who was brainwashed into fighting or the teenager whose father volunteered him for a suicide mission?

Kill not the old man who can not fight, nor young children nor women; and steal not the spoils of war, but put your spoils together; and quarrel not amongst yourselves, but be good to one another, for God loveth the doer of good.35

The greatest men of faith have always had to work their way out of old concepts, truthfully dealing with their doubts, and winning through at last to convictions honestly their own because they had to fight for them.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

To add insult to injury, he also testified that his 9 year old son was present, and the man said he felt he needed to show his young son that he was willing to fight for his Prophet...

They have already lost fights in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights after Mr Justice Hayden ruled that doctors could stop providing life - support treatment for the 23 - month old.

If the value at stake would be noble and right in every era, no matter how old (or dead) you are, then fight for it.

In a world longing for peace and tolerance, such fighting talk seemed out of place; it would make for a quieter life if we appeared content to listen to all nations, to offer sympathetic and constructive echoes of whatever they happened to be saying already, to play down that old imperialistic claim that Christ is with us in special, unique, and necessary fashion.

hi there my name is gypsy i have a 6 and half year old daughter can't have gluten or dairy seems to react once taken out of her diet improved but test negative for celiac now i have been sick for the past 4 years supposedly with fibromyalgia and 2 yr after that ross river now i wonder after reading ur posts if maybe i should get tested myself still awaiting see specialist and most doctors just push me aside seems like a fighting battle.

How Billionaire Bill Koch Fights Fake Wine Maybe it goes back to my childhood, Koch says by telephone from his ranch outside Paonia, Colorado, pausing to say goodbye to his 8 - year - old daughter as she leaves for school.

As a kid I lived for the weekends when my parents would surprise us with a pack of the mini boxes of cereals, and always fought (successfully — oldest kid here) for the Froot Loops, Corn Pops, Frosted Flakes, or Apple Jacks.

Chunky chicken leek soup with the goodness of fresh garlic, spinach & just a dash of coconut oil is an old fashioned remedy for fighting off a cold or the flu.

The coveted insides (the yummy soft rolls) were fought over by the older generations, and there were certainly none left for us young - uns!

These findings support the folk reputation that goji are effective for fighting infertility and old age.

Is it me or does that look clearly unbalanced, especially when you consider that of the 11 fighting for 5, 3 of those players are 19 year olds.

Full Text: «Hail to the Redskins» «Hail Victory» «Fight For Old DC» spaced around the band on three different panels.

Thats just polite talk, many here think UNTD will be fighting for EPL, i think they will fight for top 4, you just can buy 5, 6 players and expect to win something, they will sell Di Maria, thats big loss to them, and De Gea isnt safe either, cohesion of players is big part esspecialy in midfield, they bought new mid, to work they will need time, and time in EPL means no title, Chelsea and Arsenal have the biggest chance to win it, City squad is getting older and less motivated for EPL, and i think Pelegrini isnt on level of Wenger and Mourinho

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FFS what is wrong with our club... Turned down by a 29 year old one season wonder who is happy in Halifax now going for a 29 year old has been who couldn't make an impression on the Venezuelan defence... We need two quality attackers to challenge... If the frog gives a sh @@ about this club he would be splashing at least 80 m to give us a fighting chance upfront next season... But no we are going to be hearing about ze uneraldid qwolatis of Olivier and my reezpect for ze litl how u say wipit...

A Michigan helmet and a pair of Jordans are probably among the more curious gifts he's gotten: a helmet for a sport he's shown no interest in and a pair of extremely expensive sneakers for an 80 - year - old man who's made a life out of fighting for the poor and income equality.

Great majors, a new No. 1, LPGA dominance, an old school fight for the money title and the rediscovery of a vintage track too tough to die made 2011 a terrific year in golf

Tocco, Liston's old trainer from the early St. Louis days, prepared him for the fight against the man known as the Bayonne Bleeder.

Stunned by this event and inspired by the courageous fight for life of former teammate Lou Gehrig (he died in midseason at age 37), the Yankees played with much of their old fervor, winning 101 games and finishing 17 ahead of the second - place Red Sox.

He's at the best team in a less demanding league, at Arsenal there's a massive fight to be had for the title and I'm not convinced 33 year old Ibra could handle it physically.

Both were hot after the master's 32 - year - old blood, and it didn't help that Moses had been fighting off a low - grade infection for 10 days.

But now the 19 year - old is getting fit and ready again to fight for his first team place and show that his early promise was no fluke.

he should remain patient cause soon Debuchy will leave, look at his age he's getting old... I love Jenks a lot and be it in our jersey or not, we all know he's been impressive this season, he should stay on loan fr another season then come back to fight for his place....