Sentences with phrase «shameful chapters»

In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history — an «Age of Neoslavery» that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.

Omerta review: Hansal Mehta's Omerta, starring Rajkummar Rao, is a surprisingly passion-less, rote incident - by - incident telling of the story of a man who is part of one of the most shameful chapters in India's terror history.

Yet they carry sinister echoes of one of the most shameful chapters in the history of science.

With the release of the cabinet papers on the 1984 miners» strike, one of the more shameful chapters of our history has once again been exposed — and it's time today's Tory ministers apologised for the sins of their fathers.

The loss of civil liberties by all people inn the name of a threat that barely registers is a shameful chapter in the history of the west and people like you are genuine culprits.

But these things pale beside the spectacle of that great journey to Poland, in which he gave the Poles, and through them many millions of the rest of us, an infusion of hope that we would see the end of a dark and shameful chapter in a shameful, shameful century.

Assemblyman Pichardo hailed the actions of D.A. Johnson and called the indictments of Hector Ramirez and his campaign manager for election fraud another shameful chapter in Bronx politics.

So far the critics are being kind to Quentin Tarantino's bloody Western - down - South, singing the praises of the film's stellar cast and its fierce yet disturbingly funny confrontation with the most shameful chapter of American history.

So many of the contemporary stories set during that more shameful chapter of America's past invent white role models who seem downright progressive by the standards of the day, and enlightened even by ours (à la Atticus Finch).

He firmly believes some of these tensions are connected to that shameful chapter of slavery in America.

In examining the Bisbee deportation of 1917 — a shameful chapter in America's labor history, when 1,300 striking miners were forced out of the town under threat of violence — he's found a subject that perfect matches his larger philosophical concerns and aesthetic tendencies.

«The Wolf of Wall Street» addresses America's recent financial collapse, «Captain Phillips» asks us to empathize with desperately poor Somali pirates and «Philomena» explores another shameful chapter for the Catholic Church.

«Samuel's endearing, immersive narration makes the novel a fascinating and unforgettable account of a brutal and shameful chapter in America's history.»

Another shameful chapter of history, tucked neatly away.

Not exact matches

Paul's whole conception of man — his creation in God's own image with the law of God written in his heart, his losing battle with a demonic enemy, the shameful captivity in which he is now held and the doom of death which awaits him — this whole conception, as well as the despair of one who awakes to the realities for which the conception stands, is expressed in the words with which Paul ends what we know as the seventh chapter of Romans:

After Jonah's blatant rebellion and shameful disobedience of chapter 1,

The book reinforces the need to confront these shameful and sad chapters to be sure that nothing like that ever happens again.

This personal bankruptcy story was posted on the internet in February of 2011 as comments in a bankruptcy discussion: «My wife and I are strongly considering Chapter 13 but don't see it as a shameful thing.

«We're confident that our rebooted remaster will finally close the book on this shameful, forgotten chapter in PC gaming history.»