Sentences with phrase «out of the mire of»

That the movie never manages to elevate itself out of the mire of transparent and formulaic dramatic maneuvers is not — as is so often argued in defense of such stories — due to the fact the constraints of it being based on a true story but because of the limitations of an unimaginative screenplay.

Liz tries to pull Shaun out of the mire of his late 20s and into some semblance of responsible adulthood, but there are limits to her patience.

Not exact matches

A little welfare helps, because good people get caught in the mire and need the hope of getting out of it.

And maybe no one else will ever know the depth to which he went to pull me out of the mire, but I know.

I am about to create a mortal out of mire, (71) And when I have fashioned him and breathed into him of My Spirit, then fall down before him prostrate, (72) The angels fell down prostrate, every one, (73) Saving Iblis; he was scornful and became one of the disbelievers.

Now first, among police officers (and I think firefighters, paramedics, etc. too), you find that after a while, a few years on the job, they HAVE to find some sort of outlet, some relief, from the horror, tragedies, pain, and general muck, mire and filth they deal with day in and day out.

Some fell more deeply into the trap of imagining that pluralism could be written out of the script of history than others; some remained mired in that trap longer than others.

Speaking to BusinessDay from New York, where he is meeting with key US importers and distributors who handle the bulk of the 12 million cases a year the Griffith - based winery produces, Mr Casella hit out at recent reports, including one in The Wall Street Journal, that portrayed the business as mired in financial woes due to its first reported loss in 20 years and a breach of its debt covenants.

However, not content with bleeding our club (and others) dry by taking money out of its coffers, it appears that now that he has his sights on bringing our reputation into disrepute by the mire association with his name.

By the same token, there's still enough time for the Pelicans to jump out of the mire, thus making the pick owed to Sacramento that much worse.

Both Everton - chasing a Champions League spot — and Reading — struggling to get out of the relegation mire — had ample reason to approach this game with effervescent vigor.

And who, down the bottom, has got the safest path out of the mire?

In the Premier League's only midweek game, QPR will travel to Villa Park hoping to dump their opponents further into the relegation mire, whilst taking themselves — albeit temporarily — out of danger.

The Gunners are destined to be, once again, out of the Champions League at the same stage as usual and mired in a battle for a Top Four place, just as we were last season, the season before, and so on and son.....

But the threat, and very real possibility, of relegation to the Segunda may be just what the team needs to drag itself out of this footballing mire in which it finds itself.

I've simply stated the position he is playing in is not my cup of tea I prefer midfielders to have more in the locker, not really too hard to comprehend and it's not blinds fault he's being asked tp play the role he's playing in, on matic I've mentioned him twice on these blogs thats it in all my time commenting that's hardlybmr keep mentioning him and I reply to those calling him a defensive mid, I've merely pointed out he's got mire to his game than being a defensive midfielder, again not rocket science or hard to understand!

Kean is defiantly clinging onto power at Blackburn, still convinced that he is the right man to lead the club out of the relegation mire − not that avoiding the drop is his objective this season; the owners expect, demand even, European football.

Blackburn Rovers Preview: Is there a way out of the relegation mire for Steve Kean and his Blackburn side.

Lionel Messi has been a player reborn this season, leading the team and where necessary bailing them out of the mire.

If he believes that the state's tax structure is a job - killer and one of the chief reasons why upstate New York remains mired in a permanent recession, he ought to ask for broader tax cuts, including a decrease in the state's personal income tax rate, which tops out at nearly 9 percent (that does not include the additional tax burden placed on city residents, who pay up to 3.8 percent in personal income taxes.)

«Gaming options both in and out of New York have expanded exponentially, but regulation of this sector remains mired in the 1960s,» according to the budget briefing book released by the administration.

Gaming options both in and out of New York have expanded exponentially, but regulation of this sector remains mired in the 1960s.

That is the way out of the economic doldrums we are mired in.»

Cuomo said Schimminger and others like him remain mired in an old approach of doling out pork projects that never produced the pace of economic development now noted by his regional economic development councils in distressed cities like Buffalo.

Far from doing nothing effective to pull Britain's economy out of the mire, the measures taken by Brown and Alistair Darling, his Chancellor, were actually rather effective.

In 2008, when Quinn and the Council found themselves mired in a slush - fund scandal — she had quietly continued a bad - old - timey Council practice that allowed the speaker to consolidate power by doling out discretionary money to members in secret — she found an invaluable, unshakable source of support in Bloomberg and in the real - estate community.

Every path out of the current mire could easily prove to be a dead end.

Bogs, swamps and mires help keep 500 billion metric tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, so preserving peatlands is emerging as a new priority

And as Nestle pointed out in a 2007 article for Scientific American, «Nutrition advice seems endlessly mired in scientific argument, the self - interest of food companies and compromises by government regulators.»

While astronomers have been mired in plans for an exotic array of space - based telescopes, a small, creative team of scientists and engineers based at Princeton University has come out of intellectual left field with a new idea that could cut years from NASA's schedule and cost far less than anyone had believed possible.

Moods have momentum, so creating a habit of negativity reinforces those undesirable feelings, until you're mired in them and feel like you'll never get out.

And, just because some decisions in life can be hard, I chose not to get mired in trying to get it all worked out before I get on with the task of living... midcourse corrections are always an option.

Last year I was getting tripped up and mired in the mess of daily tasks like getting groceries, posting on Instagram, writing on the blog, and spreading my time between friends, family and Matt that I was stressing myself out.

This was, by most accounts, a pretty troubled production, mired by delays and reshoots and a complete overhauling of the film's third act, but they managed to wrestle a mostly compelling and credible (given the circumstances) picture out of all that chaos.

On the other hand, Sayles» feeling for politics and history, whilst assisting the complex portrayal of American experience — Passion Fish mires you in Dixie's former caste system — has made historical dramas like Matewan and Eight Men Out seem didactic to some.

Seemingly the director's most political film, what it embodies more than an overt condemnation of fascism is a near peerless use of space, light and shadow to mirror an architecture of the mind, wherein an Italian bureaucrat (Jean - Louis Trintignant) mired within Mussolini's fascist dictatorship must decide between playing by the rules or carving out his own identity.

Most of Armando Iannucci's work («Veep», «In The Loop») is an out and out laugh riot, usually depicting the act of trying to govern mired in institutional ineptitude the same way Terry Gilliam's Brazil was a magical fantasy story trying to happen in a world of bureaucrats and red tape.

Bonus: • Audio Commentary with Director Brett Ratner and Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson • Fact Track • Deleted Scenes • Lady Luck Short Film • «Jackie Chan's Hong Kong Introduction» • «Language Barrier» Featurette • «Kung Fu Choreography» Featurette • «Attaining International Stardom» Featurette • «Culture Clash: West Meets East» Featurette • «Making Magic Out of Mire» Featurette • «Fashion of Rush Hour 2» Featurette • «Evolution of a Scene» Featurettes • Visual Effects Scene Deconstructions • Trailers • Cast and Crew Filmographies • DVD - ROM Features

Brett Ratner is a little easier to take than usual in his screen - specific commentary with screenwriter (well, scenarist) Jeff Nathanson, but he's impossible in the included «Making Magic Out of Mire» (9 mins.)

In 2013, when one could just start to glimpse that some reforms might be going south, I mused, «Reformers have greeted with a surprising lack of interest the seemingly self - evident fact that the fruits of policy innovation depend as much on how policies are carried out as on whether they're carried out... Earlier reform efforts failed when their champions got mired in changing «professional practice» while ignoring policy.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

I too find that our national conversations about improving education become mired in political considerations and surface features of schools, rather than in figuring out how to improve instruction and social services for ALL students.

If you look at a lot of the aftermarket bumpers, every one that we studied anyway, the tow mounts really aren't up to the task of (pulling out) a diesel truck mired up to the frame in mud.

Corvette Racing carried out a driver - change in the next sequence of stops during the ninth hour and, with Gavin back behind the wheel, traffic mired the New Hudson - based team's progress and assisted an Aston Martin resurgence.

I don't think I even maxed it out, as I was mired in rush hour traffic, but just a jab of your foot produces a hell of a rush.

If you're an editor or proofreader who finds marketing your business overwhelming, here are 6 ideas to help you rethink your mindset and pull you out of the mire.

Developed nations are mired in debt and the consensus is that these large economies are in much deeper pits that are going to be much harder to dig out of.

Once you become mired in debt, the process can feed on itself, and it can be difficult to get out of it.

Infinity War has always been careful to fictionalise its modern - day settings, and while this could be viewed as a something of a cop out, it's also a smart way of providing realistic combat situations and equipment without becoming mired in politics.

On This American Life this weekend, Ira Glass tried to jog the climate conversation out of the «mire and muck» with an hourlong discussion of impacts and options related to human - driven global warming.