Sentences with word «recount»

Based on a true story as recounted in Eric Lomax's 1995 autobiography of the same name, The Railway Man relates of how British Army signal officer Lomax (Firth, The King's Speech) survived adverse conditions in a Japanese POW encampment in Thailand during World War II, including grueling cruelty and torture, and the PTSD would affect his outlook and demeanor nearly 40 years later.

It is more science fiction than horror, less interested in chills than in recounting how this future world's various governments and societies fail to cope with a virus that turns the recently dead into mindless cannibalistic creatures that in turn infect the living.

The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred.

In recent months, he invited public - sector unions to become his partners, even sending their leaders copies of «The Man Who Saved New York,» a biography of former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, which recounts how Mr. Carey, a Democrat, teamed up with labor leaders in similar fashion in the 1970s.

Bartke is known for recounting stories of the bluegill and bass beauties that he's caught.

«Afterward, in recounting what they were told at their closed - door meetings, one team owner made an exaggerated «zip - the - lip» gesture.»

He was typically self - effacing when recounting how he won the part.

Hajia Fati who also recounted how herself and one Hajia Buoya, a self - acclaimed aide to the former upper east regional chairman of the NPP, Adams Mahama were coached to lie about his death, laying all the blame at the doorsteps of Mr. Afoko and his family.She further went on to say that the two of them were promised various trips outside Ghana with the flagbearer and his running mate if they performed their sponsored tasks to perfection.

As the Cadillac press kit lays it out after recounting highlights of the on - again, off - again forty - eight - year history of the Seville nameplate, «The Seville name and design remained in place until now.

Post's book recounts how at one time a single person, Jon Postel, then a graduate student at UCLA, stood at the center of the labyrinth.

Despite the breadth of experiences recounted from cooking under the master French chef Paul Bocuse (Daniel Boulud) to deep - frying at the snack bar of the local swim club (Tom Colicchio) cooks of every ability level will recognize the one constant throughout: passion for good food.

In other words, Arizona is not a «live and let lousy live» charter school state, and our state assessments and the National Assessments of Education Progress prove it, as recounted here by Dr. Matt Ladner.

Peter Berg's powerhouse film recounts what happened in the Afghan mountains in 2005 when four Navy SEALs, including Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg), were attacked by the Taliban.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN)- While the official hand recount in Minnesota's tight U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken has ended, a stack of about 1,500 challenged ballots means the announcement of a winner is still at least a few days away.

As Meredith recounts with both humor and horror, some of the nonwhite families in the school responded to the lunchroom volunteer proposal with, «How do we know who is coming into the school?

I won't recount all that was said, from the names you could guess: Vice President of the Maldives (we're low - lying, doing a lot to go carbon neutral, why aren't rich nations doing more — which is true), the anti-fracking people (fracking is bad — which is true), Colin Beavan (rah rah rah), musicians (we play music, woo hoo).

I can't recount just how much the sensor managed to fail at recognizing my fingerprint.

The story will add to the existing 12 Doctors, 12 Stories anthology, which recounts tales for each of the previous twelve Doctors as they adventure through time and space.

Once the war begins, though, the screenplay goes into a mode of simply recounting events.

The state Assembly plans to take up a bill that would only allow those who lost by a certain margin to request recounts in Wisconsin.

The footnotes alone — in which Williams recounts many personal anecdotes and reveals strong opinions on many matters — are worth the price of the set.

While recounting tales of his epic writing sessions with fellow Monty Python collaborator Graham Chapman, Cleese remembered a time he had lost the work he had done on a sketch.

In one of his books, Peter Lynch recounts at length that the mathematical stuff he learnt in MBA - School were hindrances rather than helps, and that «the arts / philosophy side» (or words to that effect) of his education have stood him in much better stead.

In other words, the three states where recounts have been requested wouldn't appear to carry a major risk of undetected irregularities or problems with the voting equipment or processes.

In an anecdote later recounted by his son David, Lasker claimed that his teacher Hofmann couldn't tell the difference between fine painting and hastily - drawn charcoal scribbles.

In this, high - class reproduction of spasmodically excellent pictures, is matched by banal and almost unreadable text, written by a series of authors recounting in breathless first person some of their oceanographic exploits.

The outcome of the election was not known for more than a month after the balloting ended because of the extended process of counting and then recounting Florida's presidential ballots.

The history recounted here is perhaps too well known to require documentation.

My two sons, now 46 and 51, often recount for others their memories of Mom «dragging» them to the fabric store.

Rather than write a lengthy post that sums up all that's been going on in my life for the past few years, I will simply start blogging again — perhaps flashing back here and there, but also just recounting life as it currently is and writing, as always, about the things that matter to me.

As H. recounted experiences from that trip, he choked up a little bit and there was not a dry eye.

«So many people recount stories of falling into eBay selling.

Gee, now Republicans demand recounts even before the election is over?

The 27 - year - old woman recounted how she left a nearby bar in a cab early Sunday morning only to stop at a taco stand at the intersection of North, Damen and Milwaukee Avenues.

If you thought the Brexit vote was scary, check out the full page newspaper ad that recently appeared in The New York Times recounting all the horrors in the present tense, as if they were still unfolding: The vote «topples» the British government, «crushes» the pound and «wipes away» billions in stock market wealth.

The argument is all the more bitter for EPA supporters because its proponent is Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe: a liberal hero for his court victories against big tobacco and other businesses accused of wrongdoing, the man who represented Al Gore in his ill - fated Florida recount battle, and a personal mentor to Obama when he was a student at Harvard.

Don't get me wrong, the author does recount some rather stomach - churning incidents, but these are relayed in a way as to allow readers a certain level of detachment.

... run a test batch of ballots through it (voting machine)(Source: step 6.2 of Wisconsin's official vote recount manual, courtesy of Bobson's answer here).

The scriptures to which the bhakti poets so frequently refer affirm the hierarchy, yet they also recount efforts of God to cut through the hierarchy and sometimes even to reverse human and divine roles.

Simply recounting events, which newbie fiction authors tend to consider a «plot», is unsatisfying to readers, because you're only telling half of the story.

Summary: Karen recounts several memories with her beloved Siberian Husky, Sergei.

Film Review by Kam Williams Inspirational Biopic Recounts Jesse Owens» Triumphs at 1936 Berlin Olympics Jesse Owens (Stephan James) is famous for winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics staged in Berlin.