Sentences with phrase «tumultuous days of»

You play Reza, a young photojournalist in Tehran, during the electric and tumultuous days of the Iranian revolution in 1979.

Trevor Noah, one of the comedy world's fastest - rising stars and host of The Daily Show, tells his wild coming - of - age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.

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This account of Trump's tumultuous first days in office comes from interviews with nearly a dozen senior White House officials and other Trump advisers and confidants, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations and moments.

Global markets have had a tumultuous start thus far in the first few trading days of 2016, with a number of factors affecting market sentiment, triggering global equity markets to sell off.

Although there was no tidy definition of the movement's leadership, it was understood that the movement had the power to certify what was legitimately liberal — remembering that in those tumultuous days liberalism routinely called itself radical.

When a good text comes home to him, «This,» he writes, «gave me good encouragement for the space of two or three hours»; or «This was a good day to me, I hope I shall not forget it»; or «The glory of these words was then so weighty on me that I was ready to swoon as I sat; yet not with grief and trouble, but with solid joy and peace»; or «This made a strange seizure on my spirit; it brought light with it, and commanded a silence in my heart of all those tumultuous thoughts that before did use, like masterless hell - hounds, to roar and bellow and make a hideous noise within me.

The fan finishes his tumultuous day reclining in hie easy chair sipping a cup of warm milk.

They don't oversee much of the club's day - to - day running, but remained patient with Van Gaal through the tumultuous months that ended 2015 on a sour note and their primary concern is that of Champions League football — for the financial benefits — with the duo not overly fussed about the brand of football employed at Old Trafford as long as it equates to results.

A tumultuous seven day period that began with a dire draw against Newcastle United and was followed by the transfer of the Arsenal captain to Barcelona, ended with a 2 - 0 loss to Liverpool in the Gunners» first home fixture of the new Barclay's Premier League season.

The early weeks of motherhood are tumultuous, and I was so confused and stressed that I couldn't keep my days straight.

But June 8, 2009 will go down as the start of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern state political history: the day two Democratic senators — Pedro Espada Jr. and Hiram Monserrate — defected to the GOP and threw state government into a month of chaos when no bills were considered and nobody really knew who was in charge.

Let's wrap up a tumultuous few days with something a little more enlightening than the average blog post — a Very Serious Look at the secret Pentagon history of using cats in warfare.

Just 68 days before he was to close the door on four tumultuous terms as Suffolk County district attorney, Thomas Spota was accused of one of the most dangerous crimes in our democracy, abusing the power of law enforcement.

In between came the most tumultuous, tortuous and unpredictable machinations of the modern political era: the departure of six cabinet ministers; the return to the Cabinet of Peter Hain and Tessa Jowell; three peers; four women, the lowest number since the days of John Major; and the survival, just, by the skin of his polished veneers of the Prime Minister.

A day after the Senate passed one of the latest budgets in modern history, Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson told Liz Benjamin Wednesday to put aside the tumultuous process in passing the spending plan and to focus on the results.

In the biggest political rope - a-dope of all time, after setting the bar as low as he could during 40 days of tumultuous terribleness and a chaotic campaign, Trump delivered a well - crafted, coherent and populist - yet - serious speech on Tuesday night.

Henig charts the tumultuous growth of this revolutionary procedure, from the research that led to the birth of the first test - tube baby in 1978 to present - day debates over cloning and genetic engineering.

«The sun began to be darkened by day and the moon by night, while the ocean was tumultuous with spray from the 24th of March in this year till the 24th of June in the following year... And, as the winter was a severe one, so much so that from the large and unwonted quantity of snow the birds perished... there was distress... among men... from the evil things» Zacharias of Mytilene (Chronicle, 9.19, 10.1)

Based on the true story of the couple's passionate and tumultuous love affair Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty and their fiery romance — often called «the marriage of the century» — was the most notorious, publicized and celebrated love affair of its day.

The Last Station tells the story of the final days of Leo Tolstoy, and the tumultuous relationship he has with his wife, the Countess Sofya.

Teacher Cathy Carinder is one of the few Watts teachers who remains from those tumultuous restructuring days.

Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967.

Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present - day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis.

Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment.

Day closes her Crossfire quintet with the final chapter in the tumultuous love story of the tortured Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell, two broken people who find strength in each other's love.

Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors.

As he dramatized the final days of the mercurial marriage of Leo and Sofia Tolstoy in The Last Station, Jay Parini imagines the less tumultuous, but perhaps unhappier marriage of Herman Melville and his wife, Lizzie, in his new novel, The Passages of H.M..

Needless to say, it has been a tumultuous few days since the announcement of the cessation of our sheltering services at the Cumberland County SPCA the end of the year.

Hungary's tumultuous history mixes with the bustling metropolis of modern day Budapest to create a truly unique experience for visitors.

This Petra two day tour will offer the ultimate experience in «the lost city of Petra», comprehensively guiding you through its fascinating and tumultuous past.

Discover the lush countryside and rolling hills of Northland on this 7 day journey through New Zealand's cultural core, taking a step back in time into the country's fascinating and tumultuous past.

On a sunny day last September at Porto, Portugal's Serralves Foundation, New Noveta — the collaborative performance project of artists Keira Fox and Ellen Freed — took over an expansive gallery space with one of their tumultuous, anxiety - fueled performances.

Watch 18 days of storm chasing condensed to 5 minutes of tumultuous, roiling, supernatural sky and storms.

By Sunday, the blaze spread to encroach upon homes as an all - time high of 33 C (91 F) was recorded in Visby, Gotland even as tumultuous and oddly dry storm clouds brought with them more than 47,000 thousand lightning strikes, shattering Sweden's all - time one - day lightning record and igniting numerous smaller fires throughout the nation.

Given the tumultuous events of the past few days, the receipt of yet another refusal to provide station data pursuant to an FOI request may seem a little uneventful.

And although trading in London and elsewhere in Europe rallied despite the close of a second tumultuous day in Asia on news of China cutting its main interest rate yesterday, it is clear that the impact of a decline in China's growth will continue to be felt across the world.