Sentences with phrase «past painful history»

In our case at least, with our past painful history, we're ditching all debts — outside of planning to pay only half in cash for our house someday.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Usually a counselor will take a history from both parties, to better understand what current events might trigger painful past memories.