Sentences with phrase «struggles in a new land»

Will we sit idly by as the sojourner struggles in a new land?

The immigrant's struggle in a new land may be a familiar story, but Tan's remarkable combination of fantasy and familiarity replaces words with strong yet subtle visual images to invest it with emotion, power, and freshness.

Not exact matches

The sequence of events is significant, not simply because it seems the natural order of things, but because in a new exodus Jesus recapitulates the journey of Israel: baptism (Red Sea), struggles in the desert (40 years) and good news (entry into the promised land).

For you too, as for all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit of prosperity, the demonism of greed, the hell of passion, the decay of faith, the long postponement, the fossil - like lethargy, the ceaseless need of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms, deaths, births, new projections and invigorations of ideas and men.1

Hale and his wife met in New York City, when Hale was a struggling actor doing «every job under the sun of temp work» until he started landing a few commercial gigs, including the famous Volkswagen ad where he danced to «Mr. Roboto.»

I long to Love, I long to offer grace, particularly to those struggling under their own new Laws, I long to worship, I'd rather write a better story than a point - by - point defense, and I long to really see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

He dreams of jobs in faraway lands (New Zealand for example) So, it's a big struggle --

Two years after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee and almost one year after Superstorm Sandy altered New York's land and seascapes, relief aid — from both private donors and government agencies — has been painfully slow in coming, as communities struggle to return to normal.

This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors» African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.

All too often, the beauty is sacrificed to allow for resource extraction — or waste disposal.This issue of Voices from the Earth provides some of the current examples of New Mexicans struggling to maintain the cultures, land, and communities in the face of various «development» or waste dumping projects.

Carrey's performance strikes new notes of bitterness both apt for a character who's grown surly in the way of people who don't progress for one reason or another, and «meta» - feeling, given that the actor's essentially landed back at square one after decades of struggling to branch out, though it's important to note that Carrey himself instigated the project and that, whatever frustrations he may have about typecasting, he attacks the role with gusto.

In a voice both perfectly American and utterly new, Ben Metcalf introduces the reader to Goochland County, Virginia — a land of stubborn soil, voracious insects, lackluster farms, and horrifying trees — and details one family's pitiful struggle to survive there.

In a land shrouded by mist and superstition, primitive tribes struggle to establish new civilizations, unaware that their world is about to change forever.

It's particularly easy if you are looking on the outskirts of town, especially in New Zealand where land is abundant and owners often struggle to maintain the property by themselves.

From the book «Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras» by Tanya M Kerssen: «Palm oil manufacturing generates three main kinds of waste: solid waste (fibers, shells and empty fruit bunches); liquid waste (generated in the oil extraction process); and air emissions (smoke from boilers and incinerators).

If you're still struggling to land a medical sales job in a new city after some time, you might want to take a leap of faith and move to the new location without a job.