Sentences with phrase «on abject»

Can Ron Howard, Tom Hanks and the team attract the sort of attention wasted on the abject failure that was The Da Vinci Code?

The storm of outrage among civil society organisations over the government's bill to stifle campaigning by voluntary bodies, pressure groups and charities for a year in advance of the next general election has eclipsed debate on the abject weakness of the same bill's proposals for a register of lobbyists.

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For him, it's either abject surrender on the opposition or it's war, and there doesn't seem to be any room for negotiation.»

But the kind of abject poverty that over one billion people endure — those living on $ 1 per day — wouldn't be tolerated by Jesus and should not exist today.

On the economic plane, we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

Having seen a little of the abject poverty of some people in India, on my return I quickly became involved in the work of Christian Aid and the beginnings of the World Development Movement, which campaigned on political matters relating to aid and trade.

Yet on returning to bed I was suddenly seized by blank terror; for perhaps ten minutes I trembled in abject fear.

Linking work to want - satisfaction places an unbounded demand on the worker, thus committing him to abject servitude.

How tragic to be a grown man who must cozy up to abject fantasy to find life here on Earth worth living.

We human beings generally comprehend power as a reality that is on a continuum between abject weakness and invincibility.

This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.

We can always count on the Religion section to demonstrate abject ignorance, not just in the comments, but also in the articles.

Too often Full Gospel leaders insist on total, abject loyalty and uncritical acceptance of whatever they say.

It would be easy to say the entire Arsenal team were inexplicably and unprofessionally abject against AS Monaco that all should be on this list but it would be too galling to completely eviscerate 14 players.

But because of how quiet Douglas Costa was on the right, and the abject failure of Rodrigo Betancur to give Juventus any attacking element from central midfield — that Pjanic suspension really hurt them here — Juve couldn't do anything to take advantage of

I don't think I will get thumbed down like this when abject Everton score 3 past us without reply on sunday

LVG has grown on me a very tiny bit since he came to the PL; from abject loathing to actually you can be quite amusing sometime.

The performance on Sunday was abject and woeful and for the first time in 67 years I feel ashamed of the team and the club.

Some of his stars performed better than others, but on the whole it was an abject display from the Red Devils.

I would put money on the eleven which won well on Thursday to beat the abject team which was fortunate to draw with Southhampton.The back three today were at best poor.

There have been a lot of retirements after England's abject failure in Brazil and Jack believes this team can improve on recent form in big tournaments.

Phil Neville has essentially said what we're all thinking after England's abject 1 - 0 win over Slovenia at Wembley on Thursday night.

Now I have no idea if that's really a fair assessment at all but it gives me pause on the notion of bringing him to Dallas...... especially after his abject failure in Buffalo.

A 2014 summer move from Torino to Atletico was an abject failure and he was shipped out on loan to AC Milan the following January before returning a year later and being shipped out yet again, this time to Genoa.

On the heels of yet another abject loss to Aston Villa, it's time to pay attention to some rumours about the status of the Leeds United Director of Football, Victor Orta.

As brilliant as the Tigers have been at home, they've been equally as abject on the road.

LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger faces the might of Manchester City for the second time in five days on Thursday as the Gunners seek salvation after an abject display in losing the League Cup final 3 - 0.

Embed from Getty Images Despite missing key players like Laurent Koscielny, Santi Cazorla, Danny Welbeck and the goal machine Alexis Sanchez, Arsenal were in fine form as they thrashed an abject Galatasaray side 4 - 1 in Istanbul on Tuesday night.

Mertesacker's positioning on the first goal was abject, while Sp * rs had enough chances to burn.

The hosts races into a two goal advantage inside twenty minutes thanks to strikes from Michu and Angel Rangel during an abject first - half QPR performance that saw the visitors fail to register a single shot on or off target.

In many ways, that sombre evening at Anfield when a Branislav Ivanovic - inspired Chelsea ran out 3 - 1 victors in the first leg of that quarterfinal was the start of a spectacular decline that has seen the club on the verge of administration, one sensational title challenge, one abject Champions League campaign and a whole lot of crests and troughs.

It might be pointless to ponder such what ifs, but such was the effectiveness of the Scottish international at that time, he could well have ensured United put up more of a fight than the abject surrender witnessed on that forlorn evening under the Italian stars.

The equation is that simple for Jürgen Klopp and his players after this emphatic victory over an abject West Ham United side, and it is hard to see Liverpool passing up the opportunity of a top - four finish on the evidence of this performance.

The parents were of course in an abject panic when they saw the train leave with their baby on it, but everything turned out OK in the end.

That's why the folks at the Cochrane Review owe the scientific community an abject apology for publishing a «study» on homebirth that amounts to a piece of garbage.

«I first came to the knowledge that the war on drugs was an abject failure when I was working as an intelligence officer at Mi5 in the 1990s.

George Canon, the Newcomb supervisor who rose from abject poverty to take a leading role in shaping policy in the Adirondack Park and was known as «Mr. Adirondack,» was laid to rest on Saturday.

We were given the opportunity to adopt the AV system in a 2011 referendum, yet it was decisively rejected, with 68 % of voters opting for No on a 42 % turnout, in part the result of the abject failure of electoral reform advocates to craft a convincing case in favour of change.

Osborne had taken a document full of abject doom and spent the entire week highlighting the specks of positivity he'd sprinkled on it.

The Government has made these proposals in abject disregard for public opinion on the issue.

Speaking on the success recorded so far, President Buhari described the scheme as an helping hand initiative designed to liberate the nation from abject poverty and hunger.

«If Labour wants to retain any credibility on defence whatsoever, it had better recognise the abject futility of what it's leadership is currently proposing and stick to the path of support for the submarine renewal programme.»

George Canon, the Newcomb supervisor who rose from abject poverty to take a leading role in shaping policy in the Adirondack Park, was laid to rest on Saturday.

Responding to the Autumn Statement, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said it placed on record the «abject failure of the last six wasted years» with growth and deficit targets slashed.

When it comes to abject and complete destruction, few things can compare to the impact black holes have on objects unfortunate enough to come within their reach.

Again, as in Dogville, set to David Bowie's «Young Americans,» it's a condensed, horrific view of American history: black - and - white stills of lynchings; color shots of abject poverty; smiling bigots and neo-Nazis; the Civil Rights clashes of the 1960s; stockpiles of firearms; the intact Twin Towers; young soldiers in Vietnam; Martin Luther King, Jr. in his coffin; the dead Malcolm X on a stretcher; and finally, a black man push - brooming the marble crags of the Lincoln Memorial.

While the movie continually teeters on the brink of abject corniness, it never quite topples off.

Based on the best selling autobiography by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is the story of young Frankie and his siblings being raised in abject poverty in the slums of Limerick.

It could be argued, of course, that any movie that exposes in its first two scenes its abject dependency on another movie released only nine months earlier has to be in some kind of trouble, but only if freshness rather than box - office success is the issue.

So completely amorphous and entirely unpredictable is this season, and so totally and incessantly drowned out by the abject hysteria of current world affairs, that focusing on potential nominees is at least a solid diversion from the horror of the daily news feed.