Sentences with phrase «struggle over the fate»

Now a decadelong struggle over the fate of thousands of acres of public land on the Roan has come to a head, and just in time for the hotly contested race for Colorado's open U.S. Senate seat.

The others are «Last Days in the Desert» (May 13), from «Albert Nobbs» director Rodrigo Garcia, which stars Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and the Devil (yep, you read that right) in a struggle over the fate of an ordinary family; and writer / director James Napier Robertson's «The Dark Horse» (Apr. 1) a biopic of chess champion Genesis Potini.

Especially vivid are the diverse townsfolk who struggled over the fate of their hometown.

Not exact matches

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said the officials with the biggest influence over the short - term fate of the economy are in Europe, struggling with a debt crisis and in China, struggling with a slowdown.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

«All over the world the same struggle is going on and if we don't stand up and fight for the people of tolerance and moderation who want to live together, whatever their fate, then the people of hatred and sectarianism will triumph,» Mr Blair told troops in the south of the country.

Auteur Rodrigo Garcia (Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her; Mother and Child) imagines a struggle between Jesus Christ and the Devil over the fate of a family in a remote desert settlement.

When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him — but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life.

This is a question with implications for figuration in art as well as for the self, struggling in the world to exert control over motions, emotions and fate, as the abstract expressionists were during the early post-war period.