Sentences with phrase «painful histories in»

Speaking to an audience of party activists here, O'Malley called the police - custody death of Freddie Gray part of «a painful history in our country, a legacy that we continue to work on and work through and seek to overcome every day.»

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The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

«I find the current moment in history rather painful,» he said.

«It's the end of a very painful and sad chapter in the history of a young nation, in which a dictator, as he became old, surrendered his court to a gang of thieves around his wife,» he said.

Given Jeremy's history, David's conversational game plan — easing in, then when that didn't work, the painful - but - quick bombshell — was doomed.

Partial debt forgiveness has been a formal part of nearly every sovereign default or debt restructuring in modern history, although usually not until there has been a long and painful period of angry posturing and one or more partial restructurings.

For millions of young adults who make up the largest and best - educated generation in American history, coming of age in the wake of the Great Recession has been particularly painful.

One can certainly detect, for instance, a growing skepticism toward «modernity» in the form of master narratives and instrumental reason, possibly because Latin America has so often had a painful experience of these narratives and the exercise of such reason — experiencing them from the «reverse side of history,» to use Gutiérrez's apt phrase.

Our sometimes tranquil circumstances can easily cause us to repress the memory of the millions of people both today and in the past who have been displaced, slaughtered and eventually forgotten throughout human history's painful transitions.

Some small pieces of it, it is true, may be painful, or may show human nature in a pathetic light, but it will be mainly pleasant, because the best fruits of religious experience are the best things that history has to show.

Describing what it's been like to be a Christian in the past year in Egypt, Archbishop Angealos said: «It's in a very painful time, it's the first time in our contemporary history we've seen bombings of churches - we've had three churches bombed in this last year, we've had churches attacked, people killed by gunfire attacks on worshipers as they were leaving, Christians attacked just for being christian, in their homes, in their shops and on the street.

I added that middle part about convincing others, because in my career as a computer systems builder, I often remembered painful experiences and their causes, wanting to avoid future repeats... but was often not able to do so, because others either could not understand the level of complexity involved enough to want to avoid the pain, or because they were not involved in that past history and therefore could not remember it.

God has never used anyone in the Bible, or in history, without first taking them through some extremely painful and difficult times.

Dortmund have their own Wembley pain to soothe as they return to the stadium that played host to the most painful defeat in the club's history.

As an Arsenal fan, it is painful to see the greatest manager in the club's history losing control of the team and looking lost as to how to get the best out of his players.

It is nevertheless disappointing, though, and I hope it is not a sign of things to come and merely the first of many similarly painful selection decisions in the run - up to the most important sporting event in the history of British athletics.

It never made sense to me that after thousands and thousands of years of human history and survival that all of a sudden in the last 100 years, childbirth is «too dangerous» and «too painful» to do naturally.

On the other hand, breastfeeding has a painful meaning in my family history since my mother died of breast cancer 16 years ago.

The long - awaited promise to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice has been fulfilled and with it a painful chapter in America's history and particularly, the history of Lower Manhattan, has finally been closed.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a statement «it's extraordinary that Harriet Tubman, a civil rights icon and New Yorker, will get her rightful place on the $ 20 bill so that future generations of Americans will learn her story and the integral role she played during a painful time in our nation's history»

According to the statement, «In a Tuesday telephone call from London, President Buhari told President Koroma that the hearts of Nigerians are with the people of Sierra Leone at this tragic and painful period in the history of the countrIn a Tuesday telephone call from London, President Buhari told President Koroma that the hearts of Nigerians are with the people of Sierra Leone at this tragic and painful period in the history of the countrin the history of the country.

If he fails, he will be the most accomplished loser in British political history — a fact which will make defeat more painful still.

For many Conservatives, the book will make painful reading, reminding them of what happened since their party abruptly ceased to be the most effective electoral machine in the history of democracy on Black Wednesday in 1992.

The United Kingdom has a painful history of animal rights extremism that has included break - ins at laboratories, fire bombs, and the violent intimidation of researchers, animal breeders, building contractors working on laboratories, and companies that transport animals.

In fact, it can be painful for some people, especially those with a history of trauma, to focus inward because it may feel dark and scary in therIn fact, it can be painful for some people, especially those with a history of trauma, to focus inward because it may feel dark and scary in therin there.

Although rejection is always painful, remaining open and positive about the future ensures that the experience can be a small footnote in a long and successful relationship history.

I was not one of A Beautiful Mind's historical accuracy Nazis, who used the film's marginalization of the real John Nash as a way to bash the film (for my money, it was the horrid screenplay and direction that made it such a painful film to watch, not its artistic rewriting of history), though the erasing of Turing in Enigma is rather distressing.

IRAN»S PAINFUL HISTORY THROUGH THE EARS & EYES OF A TEENAGER IN PERSEPOLIS Persepolis is a coming - of - age biopic based on a four - volume graphic book (subtitled The Story of a Childhood) that is portrayed on the screen through animation.

America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil will strip the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation as history's most brutal serial killers are exposed.

In its long, painful development history, Akira has attracted the likes of Steve Kloves, Keanu Reeves, Albert Hughes, Jaume Collet - Serra, Dane DeHaan, Michael Pitt and Ruairi Robinson.

And as major family events like births, marriages and funerals tend to unveil, there's a lot history to discuss, catch up with and reconcile, and over the next few weeks it will all come out in mostly painful and harsh showdowns.

The news was a painful blow to the oldest high school in a district with a proud history that includes graduating a future president, Harry S. Truman.

There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.

This new resource brings educators primary sources and first - person accounts about a painful period in Canadian history, when about 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families and stripped of their language, culture, and traditions.

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That measure, overwhelmingly approved, sparked one of the most politically - charged campaigns in California history that was characterized by a painful subtext of wedge issues from race to immigration and poverty.

This novel is at times painful, but it is also a satisfying love story set against the backdrop of one of the most difficult times in human history.»

Weintraub's account of the 1946 baseball season uncovers a fascinating chapter in the sport's history, but the larger story of the country's sometimes painful transition to peacetime gives the book its staying power.

Beddor spent five years writing The Looking Glass Wars, the shocking literary exposé that revealed how Lewis Carroll, author of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,» had willfully misrepresented the story of seven - year - old Alyss Heart, betraying the exiled princess of Wonderland by turning her painful history into a fairytale, when, in fact, it is a dark and dangerous depiction of familial treachery, thwarted love, and the despotic domination of imagination.

In measured, evocative prose, he weaves into the story of the stranger his own painful history and the dark secrets the villagers have fiercely kept hidden.

And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history.

Even though Beatty's novel is uniquely American, steeped in the painful history and ongoing discord that characterize race relations here, perhaps this universality is part of what the Man Booker Prize judges recognized and rightly rewarded.

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To commemorate the second - longest bull market in history, Bob and Andy re-live some of the painful investing moments along the way.

The aggressive display is the result of fear, imminent danger, the perception of danger, or a history of scary / painful events in a repeat location.

Edward Goldman talks about the painful national histories explored by museums in Montgomery and Moscow.

How can they be shown in public life without behaving like painful reiterations of a violent and oppressive history?

Presented on the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, Flash Back - November 22, 1963 investigates the lasting impact of a painful episode in American history at the same time that it explores the power of the media through art w...

A single work by Simmons is capable of evoking a multiplicity of meanings, simultaneously referencing a buried episode in the painful history of race relations in the United States and the artist's own childhood memories, for example.

The photographs of Selena Salfen's series Exposure In Vivo confront the effects that untreated war - related trauma have had on three generations of her family by depicting reconstructions of painful episodes in her relatives» historieIn Vivo confront the effects that untreated war - related trauma have had on three generations of her family by depicting reconstructions of painful episodes in her relatives» historiein her relatives» histories.