Sentences with phrase «story of small family»

However, it is the story of small family businesses falling victim to an aggressive banking fraud, and the ensuing fight for justice which has, understandably, gained widespread media attention.

Not exact matches

• The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill, the Greatest Self - Help Scammer of All Time (PaleoFuture) • How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer (Dealbook) • The Rockefeller Family Fund Takes on ExxonMobil (New York Review of Books) • Uber wants to take over public transit, one small town at a time (The Verge) see also Uber said it protects you from spying.

Called The End Is Now [here's our review], it tells the story of the Henderson family and what happens when their small town becomes the test market for the rapture — the spiritual event in which some Christians believe they will be taken up to heaven prior to Christ's second coming.

Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

After defying her traditional family and leaving her small fishing village to set out on the journey to Jerusalem with the disciples, Mary found herself at the centre of the founding story of Christianity.

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

Dawn from Small Footprint Family has a fun little story of how she created this smoothie.

«Because of my family's own immigration story — having started out very small with very little resources and growing into this giant in Asian foods — we've decided to let people in on the history and the story behind our company, and the fact that in the United States, you really can achieve your dream,» Quesada says.

The family - owned and operated AAA Four Diamond waterfront inn in historic Old Saybrook, Connecticut has recently opened two new Luxury Guesthouses, Three Stories and Tall Tales, both of which are high - end accommodations providing a unique space for smaller groups on the picturesque shores of the Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River.

«VOICE / CSEA is a moving story of a hard - fought, long - term grassroots campaign that transformed from a small gathering of people determined to unite for change, to a statewide movement making a difference for the child care providers, children and working families of our state,» said CSEA Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan.

I know this isn't the most romantic end to my story, but with the help of a few small family diamonds and a jeweler, we had a reasonably priced engagement ring made.

It's a tale of family connections, tragedies, and triumphs, and easily one of the most heartwarming stories to ever grace the small screen.

The movie is far better when it focuses on its intimate story of love between family and friends in a small town.

The family drama set in a small town in the hills of northern India, and tells the story of one man's love for his family and his unshakeable belief in himself.

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Gist: Set in a small West Virginia mining town in the foothills of Appalachia, the book tells the story of small - time drug dealer Cole Freeman (Trotter), who is driven to action and redemption in response to a set of unexpected circumstances that threaten to tear apart the close - knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everyone, and everything, he loves.

Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure «Big Miracle» tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter (John Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Drew Barrymore) who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.

The story take place in Brooklyn during the mid-1980s, where a small family known as the Berkmans are just on the verge of a permanent meltdown.

But Wang truly understands life in small - town Martin, Tennessee, where In the Family takes place, and his story of prejudice and injustice hits even harder for the fact that he finds so much good there as well.

Usually, it's his smaller, lightly experimental films which are his most satisfying — the time - lapse family saga of 2012's Everyday, his lopsided literary adaptation A Cock and Bull Story, or the blokey bants of The Trip and its sequels.

Despite it, the story feels like small potatoes in comparison to other war epics to grace the silver screen, more a personal quest to solve a mystery and redeem the family name, and along those lines, the film does work so long as you see it as a simple tale of valor.

The biggest movies this week — Don't Breathe and Mechanic: Resurrection — are both rated R, but there are still a couple of smaller films you could potentially take your kids to, including the story of Barack and Michelle Obama's first date and a dysfunctional family comedy.

Stone concentrates solely on the small personal stories, showing how the men coped with the injuries and fought off loss of hope, while their wives and families waited desperately for any news.

Whereas the first Purge focused on one yuppie family and their domestic squabbles in a gated community, The Purge: Anarchy creates a surprisingly smart and well - honed structure that allows for an anthology of smaller stories to be told within this larger world.

Based on the novel of the same name, this film is the story of the Burpos; a middle - class family from a small town in Nebraska.

Based on a true story told in a bestselling 2010 book, this film centers on the Burpos, a family of four from the small town of Imperial, Nebraska.

Comic drama based on a true story and starring Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee, a recently widowed father of two teenage children who decides to make a new start by selling the family home and buying a small urban zoo.

The film is very quiet, the small town atmosphere settling the nerves after an early act of violence that sets the tone for what is to come, but we are lulled into comfort as the story of this family man unfolds.

He practically bursts with startling facts — a family with a fairly typical credit card debt of $ 7,000, paying 20 percent interest, will spend $ 1,400 a year just to rent that money, without paying back a penny — and disturbing stories of people who bankrupted themselves through many seemingly small mistakes, like buying a newer car or eating out at Applebee's a little too often.

First Generation tells the story of four high school students - an inner city athlete, a small town waitress, a Samoan warrior dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers - who set out to break the cycle of poverty and bring hope to their families and communities by pursuing a college education.

Charter history is rife with stories about small - time crooks taking advantage of lax public oversight to steal dollars meant for education to enrich friends and family.

Incremental declines in total enrollment were just one part of the story: demographic shifts and the appeal of charter schools to African American families both contributed to half - empty buildings being clustered in a small number of neighborhoods.

Draw upon visual data and field experiences at local museums in order to write a story or draw a picture that explains the changes in family life that occurred when the family no longer had to hunt for food, could be supported on smaller amounts of land, and could acquire surplus food for storage and trading.

Veteran car run — London to Brighton, November 2003 / Nuvolari remembered — a nostalgic trip to Donnington / Connaughts that put Britain on the Grand Prix fast track — success at Syracuse — Part one / Small Ford development story from 1932 Model Y to 1959 — Eights and Tens / Pilgrimage to Hershey Show in October 2003 / Flaminio Bertoni unsung designer of Citroen's three landmark designs — Traction Avant, 2CV and DS19 / Cars with more than one engine / Bowler Bentleys — four Bentley that passed through his family — Part one / 12 Volt System — Workshop

In The Best We Could Do, I narrate the story of my family who fled from home in a small boat in the late»70s, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Set mostly in the American West, the stories feature small - town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children, and explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship.

But they don't know this yet... So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small - town Ohio.

Yet within the small haven of the beauty school, the line between teacher and student quickly blurred as these vibrant women shared with Rodriguez their stories and their hearts: the newlywed who faked her virginity on her wedding night, the twelve - year - old bride sold into marriage to pay her family's debts, the Taliban member's wife who pursued her training despite her husband's constant beatings.

Wonderfully written and full of profound observations about life, The Story of Arthur Truluv is a beautiful and moving novel of compassion in the face of loss, of the small acts that turn friends into family, and of the possibilities to achieve happiness at any age.

Four men in Archer's family become his heroes in this story of small - town life, family, and marriage.

When our family moved to a small farm in Idaho, I went from wrestling with the L.A. traffic to cleaning sheep feet and noses (a story all of its own).

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times science reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina.

There are a few small flaws: Emmy, for instance, seems awfully progressive for someone who has known nothing but her dour, religious family, and influential bestie Bev abruptly drops out of the story, but overall, the book is spectacular.»

-- Debbie Macomber, # 1 New York Times bestselling author on Ransom Canyon From the beloved and bestselling author of the Ransom Canyon and Harmony, Texas series comes a powerful, heartwarming story about generations of family and the ironclad bonds they forge When Jillian James lands in the small town Texas community of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay — except to find a few clues about the father who abandoned her and destroyed her faith in family.

In the following story, he looks beyond the realm of individual funds to look for which fund families, including some fascinating smaller entrants, get it right most consistently.

Situated just outside the town of Habarana, which itself is smack in the middle of the Cultural Triangle, the hotel is split into two, with a traditional hotel on one side of a small lake, and a village of two - story suites on the other (also home to a roaming extended family of monkeys that greeted me each morning when I stepped outside).

THE STORY OF LATITUDE 10 AS A BEACH RESORT IN SANTA TERESA, COSTA RICA When long time friends Bob Florsheim and Rick Hughes decided to buy a beachfront property in Santa Teresa, all they had in mind was building a small summer hang out for themselves, their families and their friends.

While taking Spanish school in Guatemala I stayed with the Bixcul - Pichilla family in their small two - story cinderblock home nestled at the bottom of Volcano San Pedro.