Sentences with phrase «times of family tragedy»

Where the pastor is the only person making calls in times of family tragedy, the only person sought for counsel in times of trouble, this can lead to a misuse of God - given gifts for ministry.

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As we focus on these issues and meeting the needs of our students and families during this difficult time, the rise in «fake news» related to this tragedy is reprehensible.

The profound tragedy of our times is that our democratic majorities are applying the same tactics as the totalitarian rulers of the past to destroy marriage and family.

I think Mr. Trump idea it is great but at the same time I think if all the people that live in the New York City area they can put 1 or 2 dollars each they can buy the block where, I hope not, they are going to built the islamic center, it is DISRESPECTFUL for all the families and friends of 9/11 tragedy.

People who believe that God's blessing is bestowed on the families of church members have a hard time responding to tragedy.

The time I had spent learning about the tragedies of strangers I could do nothing about was spent learning more about my local area and connecting with family — informing me about things I could do something about».

I am sure some of the victims family's who are left to grieve have found comfort in their belief's, so I think it's kind of mean to knock their beliefs in a time of tragedy.

While not particularly religious myself, I hope that one day, you are not in need of the comfort he offered the families of this unspeakable tragedy at any time in your life.

When a person or family is going through personal tragedy, they don't want to think about things that show the passing of time and that life is going on around them.

Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters at the scene, «We're here at the scene of an unspeakable tragedy in the middle of the holiday season, a time when families are together.»

However, the timing of the disclosure of individuals possessing pistol permits by The Journal News when families are reeling from the tragedies in -LSB-...]

The Black Lives Matter movement held a peaceful demonstration in Times Square, New York, to show solidarity in the wake of the tragedies that occurred this week and to stand with the families of Delrawn Small, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, three men shot dead by police

Sources said the Baru family are inconsolable of the tragedy that has happened within a short period of time.

During the same time, I had a tragedy in my family, as a result of which my aunt was diagnosed type 2 diabetes.

Of course, there's no movie if Katie successfully pulls David from entering the family life of crime and when the young man gives into his father's urges and begins collecting from the seedy businesses that used to populate Times Square, tragedy seems inevitablOf course, there's no movie if Katie successfully pulls David from entering the family life of crime and when the young man gives into his father's urges and begins collecting from the seedy businesses that used to populate Times Square, tragedy seems inevitablof crime and when the young man gives into his father's urges and begins collecting from the seedy businesses that used to populate Times Square, tragedy seems inevitable.

The story this time around finds the magical Mary (to be played this time by Emily Blunt) returning 25 years after she brightened the Banks family's lives to find that grown children Michael (Ben Whishaw) and Jane (Emily Mortimer) are having fresh issues involving tragedy and a serious lack of sparkle in depression - era London.

Director Kyle Henry, screenwriter Carlos Treviño and a wonderfully talented ensemble cast deliver a 21st century relationship time capsule of Rogers Park and some of the people who call it home — but this tightly scripted, dialogue - driven character study is also brimming with universal truths about the long - hidden but nevertheless permanent bruises of family tragedies, the changing and sometimes numbing nature of even a truly loving long - term relationship and the slow death of knowing one's dreams are almost certainly defunct.

He brings it back to grapple with a couple of tragedies that befall the family, nudging the film past the two - hour mark and into a sluggish custard of voiceover impressing on us the importance of living each day as if it were our last, and how all life is time travel, etc etc..

Based on New York Times journalist Diane Henriques's account of the Madoff affair, The Wizard of Lies is a toothless and psychologically simplistic tragedy about Bernie's impact on his immediate family, particularly wife Ruth (Michelle Pfeiffer), and sons Mark and Andrew (Alessandro Nivola and Nathan Darrow).

Synopsis: This Best Picture Academy Award Winner based on Noel Coward's classic play arrives on Blu - Ray for the first time... A British family's triumphs and tragedies unfold across the decades of the early twentieth century.

The filmmaker and her writing partner Nathan Gregorski were first inspired to write their film after reading a New York Times article that chronicled the fallout of publicized tragedies on the families of the perpetrators.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

Peter Hedges, who scored with a similar hit about a dysfunctional family who find unity through a tragedy in Pieces of April continues to generate warmth and laughs by creating three - dimensional characters that, like most families, are annoying but loving at the same time.

It's only fitting, then, that writer - director Oren Moverman (Rampart, Time Out of Mind) spends the remainder of this «stagey,» verbose film equating his quad of players to the powerful and morally corrupt kings and queens of ancient times desperately trying to salvage a crumbling empire in the wake of a broken and bleak family tragedy.

«As I spent time with several families in the camp, I was overwhelmed by both the tragedy of their situation and the hopeful resilience that they displayed.

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony, a moving new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.

- Booklist «Told from the point of view of more than a half - dozen characters, the vignettes that make up the narrative are generally powerful in isolation, but as a whole fail to develop into anything more than a series of snapshots of a family touched by time and tragedy.»

In the tradition of In the Time of the Butterflies and The Kite Runner, a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still a quiet street, disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there.

We Are Water by Wally Lamb: From the New York Times bestselling author of Shes Come Undone, a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy.

Dogs come into rescue for many reasons: some are abandoned, some have been abused, some have had the tragedy of losing their owners to illness or to death, some have had their families fall on hard times and be unable to afford to keep them, or have their owners move to another country and be unable to take them.

September 2, 2017 • Our occasional series on storytelling in video games continues with What Remains of Edith Finch, a complex, time - skipping family tragedy that'll leave you with scars — but trust us, it's worth it.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a time - hopping family tragedy that centers on a spooky old house.

The Times reports on how she has weathered the material setbacks, family tragedy and a series of formidable health challenges and re-callabrated her life with a new home in a new neighborhood and a fresh collection of works by emerging and established artists including Sanford Biggers, Iona Rozeal Brown, James Dicke Prize winner Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Simone Leigh, Kerry James Marshall, Kristine Mays and William Villalongo and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.

The scale and scope of the terrible tragedy in Lac Mégantic, Quebec is only begining to sink in, and my thoughts are certainly with the victims and their families at this time.

«He has a wealth of experience sitting as a family court judge and seeing the harm and the tragedy at times that comes as a result of protracted litigation,» she said.

This coverage can avoid an enormous logistical and financial burden for your family at a time of unexpected tragedy and grief.

Endowment plans serve the dual purpose of insurance and investment: they provide life insurance and also help the policyholder to save money over a period of time so that you receive a lump sum amount on maturation and a life cover to secure your family's future in the event of a tragedy.

Spouse and child - term riders allow you to add protection for your whole family, critical illness and disability income riders offer financial support in times of need, and an accidental death rider can bolster your death benefit in light of an unforeseen tragedy — that's just naming a few.

As we focus on these issues and meeting the needs of our students and families during this difficult time, the rise in «fake news» related to this tragedy is reprehensible.

Writing for Croakey about the inquest into the death of 11 - year - old Victorian boy Luke Batty, Dr Chris Atmore said this and other recent tragedies had pushed family violence onto an election campaign agenda «for the first time any of us can remember».

At this incredibly sad and sensitive time the IAS stands with our international family and sends condolences to the loved ones of those who have been lost to this tragedy.

Tragedies can lead to better times and often reveal that family members and friends are more important than work, observes Rich Rawlins, who suffered third - degree burns over 70 percent of his body in a 1987 plane crash.