Sentences with phrase «time as a widow»

That said, the increase in men's longevity may have a silver lining for women, since they will spend less time as widows trying to support themselves on lower lifetime earnings.

We watch her later that night, shedding the iconic pink suit and washing the blood and brains from her hair; it's her first private time as a widow.

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In my head, I saw the bank as an evil entity, having no mercy for a hard - working, widowed mom who had come upon hard times.

As for the widow's mite, we have praised her devotion a zillion times, but none of us really wants a whole congregation full of generously self - sacrificing poor people, do we?

In those times being married as a teen and widowed was common.

Writing in the Sunday Times, he said: «In the Bible, the hardest - pressed of all poor people were summarised as «widows and orphans» for they were the group most at risk and with least support.

I can't help but wonder how many «widows and orphans «we could have helped in the time it has taken to list / type / think and read the above — shame on us as the body of Christ.

As a widowed parent to four children, a science teacher and a volunteer for church and 4 - H, she had little time to sit.

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

Sadly the church (as the religious in the times of Jesus) has those that like the status but neglect the «true religion» in the biblical case of looking after widows and orphans or caring for the abused.

We get to give to stop human trafficking, serve the elderly and widows... our lives are exciting and overflowing with the Joy that comes Ion following Jesus:) we worship with dance clapping sometimes everyone grabs an instrument to play, we draw or paint what the Holy Spirit leads us to, share dreams go over scrioture watch bible movies it's awesome and we love it, we get to write poems and devotions that we wouldn't have time for before in the four walls as we would b too busy in man's busyworks.

At the same time the Hellenized Jews of the Dispersion complained that the widows of their deceased brethren were not receiving as much attention as the natives.

During the next few years Horatio bounced back and forth between Europe and Argentina, married an Argentine widow with a couple of children, operated a Chrysler agency in Buenos Aires with a rich playboy pal, who is known on the international nightclub circuit as Macoco, and worked for a time in the Argentine embassy in The Netherlands.

However, life goes not the same way as we plan all the time and people lose their dear people; divorce, become widowed or simply fail to meet that special partner by the age of 50 and over.

As a widowed single, you may have spent at least some time dabbling in the free online dating sites offered today, and if you have you have probably found that these sites usually lead to dead ends, or pointless chatting with singles that end up not being good matches.

After you take the time to grieve your loss, you have to realize that you deserve to be happy and when you join a widows and widowers dating site, you have a built in support system, as well as the option to start seeing other widows or widowers.

Also, as been the case since our inception in 1997 we take the time to visually check every profile submitted making reasonably sure it is from a sincere, single, divorced, separated or widowed person seeking love, romance or friendship.

i am looking for someone who is happy and i preferably a S.D.A church person just the say as i am, I am a widow for many years and think its time for Mr..

For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men — in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together.

Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and written by Richard Alfieri (from his hit play of the same name), the movie introduces us to two lonely - hearts: Rowlands as a bored widow named Lily with time on her hands and no one to twirl her around the ballroom, and Cheyenne Jackson as Michael, a snippy gay dance teacher with attitude and arrogance to spare.

Time is both inescapable and irretrievable in Alain Resnais's boldly disorienting masterpiece, which stars Delphine Seyrig as a widow haunted by her memories of World War II.

As for the latest «Bond girls,» James spends quality time with the widow of a notorious criminal, played by the formidable Monica Bellucci, then becomes seriously involved with the daughter of an old antagonist, played by beautiful Léa Seydoux.

Something of a political fairy tale (as in Tsui's earlier films, it could easily open with «Once upon a time in China...»), the story is set in 687 A.D. as the emperor's widow (Carina Lau) is about to become the country's first female ruler.

Sadly one of these characters is not the one played by Pulp co-star Uma Thurman, as her role of a widowed record label owner is a far less interesting «girlfriend» part than Rene Russo's in the original film; as such, their rather protracted dance reunion isn't so much a highlight than a time - filler.

«Creed» also stars Tessa Thompson («Selma,» «Dear White People») as Bianca, a local singer - songwriter who becomes involved with Adonis; Phylicia Rashad (Lifetime's «Steel Magnolias») as Mary Anne Creed, Apollo's widow; and English pro boxer and former three - time ABA Heavyweight Champion Anthony Bellew as boxing champ «Pretty» Ricky Conlan.

The brightest is certainly Beckinsale, who normally turns in average performances in below average films, this time she shines as the widow looking for a new husband.

Kevin Kline is the life of this rather precious coming of age film as Henry Harrison, a former playwright and full time «extra man» (an escort to the wealthy society widows who like a man on their arm for social events) who rents out a room in his walkup to make ends meet.

Take some time to set the record straight: Few onscreen widows keep it together as strongly as Field's Texas matriarch, and the movie vibrates with stirring toughness.

A # 1 Indie Next pick which debuted at # 6 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list, the novel portrays three German war widows who have taken refuge in a Bavarian castle as the war ends.

Now it seems that the Windows 8 tablet will arrive just about the same time as the launch of the Widows 8 scheduled in the last week of October just two months away now.

The stories examine the universal issues we face at a time of loss, as well as the specific concerns of a young widow: support groups, in - laws, insurance money, dating, and remarriage.

Being underweight a country such as Japan in a smart beta index can be uncomfortable, but is not comparable to being outright short JGBs in the decades - old widow - maker trade favored at times by various hedge funds.

Funeral homes notify SSA routinely, and she would have likely qualified for the small one - time death benefit of $ 255, and probably informed that she was eligible at age 60 as a widow.

He lived in Berkeley in «the best of times,» according to his widow, Betty — a period of great cultural vibrancy in which he had many literary friends and shared lodgings with the poets William Braughton and Robert Duncan, as well as the writer and film critic Pauline Kael.

To be a sudden widow at age 50 was the most difficult time of my life and Protective Life Insurance made this process as simple as it possibly could have been.

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For example, the U.S. Administration on Aging found that over half of elderly poor women were not poor before their husband's death.174 Widowed women are at least three times as likely to live in poverty compared with married women of the same age.175

Higher parity was significantly associated with poor attendance outcomes (three or more siblings: OR = 2.65, 95 % CI 2.36 to 2.98), as was being unmarried at the time of the child's birth (never married: OR = 1.38, 95 % CI 1.27 to 1.50; separated, widowed or divorced: OR = 1.53, 95 % CI 1.25 to 1.88).