Sentences with phrase «painful history of»

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.

Exploring the painful history of American race relations through large - scale silhouette installations, Walker's work transforms historical materials, literary sources and popular culture, challenging us to access buried emotions about our nation's past.

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.

I found the work deeply moving as it engages with the complex and painful history of Australia.

The OC homeless crisis's most influential figure, the painful history of Latina sterilization, the fight against food inequality

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.

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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.

«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.

If the situation deteriorates for a given issue, history has shown there is often a window of time when it is not particularly painful to switch out to a practically identical bond, with much better interest coverage, for nominal costs.

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.

The place might be full of people whose history is aggressive and painful but there is no sign of that here.

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.

That being said, individuals with a history of bowel discomfort (e.g. IBS) should probably avoid xanthan gum simply because it's going to give you that uncomfortable, bloat - y, painful feeling... but according to the current scientific literature, there is no evidence of chronic harm or cancer risk or anything like that.

We have two decades of them being weird (longer if you take the city's history into account), and I want to know which demolitions were the most painful.

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.

But today, despite the painful histories and continued hardships to which I was exposed, I experienced a day of hope.

Dr. Alper had a four - and - a-half-year-old patient with horrible anxiety, low muscle tone and anal fissures from a history of painful movements.

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.

This visit should include infant weight; physical examination, especially for jaundice and hydration; maternal history of breast problems (painful feedings, engorgement); infant elimination patterns (expect 3 — 5 urines and 3 — 4 stools per day by 3 — 5 days of age; 4 — 6 urines and 3 — 6 stools per day by 5 — 7 days of age); and a formal, observed evaluation of breastfeeding, including position, latch, and milk transfer.

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

But he worries about the effort to «wipe out» history, even if the memory of certain difficult or unsavory moments is painful.

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 country.

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.»

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.

«It's a tragic situation and it's painful that the history of AIDS is looking like its future, but that's actually where we are.

For women with a history of emotional eating and disordered eating, cleanses can spark periods of anorexia, bulimia, purging and a whole list of painful psychological issues.

Other signs of Estrogen Dominance include weight gain, irregular cycles, pre-menstrual headaches and breast tenderness, heavy and / or painful menstruation, and difficulty conceiving or history of miscarriages.

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 there.

CPPS can result from a variety of factors including traumatic injury such as car accidents or falls, injuries sustained during pregnancy or childbirth, a history of painful periods or endometriosis, a history of chronic urinary tract infections or yeast infections, interstitial cystitis (painful bladder syndrome), psychological trauma, or a history of physical or sexual abuse.

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 animatioOF 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 animatioof - age biopic based on a four - volume graphic book (subtitled The Story of a Childhood) that is portrayed on the screen through animatioof a Childhood) that is portrayed on the screen through animation.

This necessity for the fans of the series could be a painful journey into the history for others.

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.

It was also important to me as an African - American to write this because we've had a very painful history, and haven't passed our stories down, perhaps out of shame.

This painful history may account for the cult of honesty that sometimes makes life at Hyde feel like a free - floating session of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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.

In the unit's later lessons, students draw connections between this history and the present day, weighing questions like how to achieve justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities, how painful histories should be remembered, and how this history educates us about our responsibilities in the world today.

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.»

Unfortunately, the Holocaust is a part of our history and our past and it would be extremely wrong to forget reading books about this painful topic.

It is suffused with real, true history, the history of slavery and its aftermath, whose painful and horrific stories are essential for modern - day readers to continue to confront.