Sentences with phrase «uprooted american»

[12] Perhaps Driggs» finest plant form is «Cabbage» of 1927 (private collection), which depicts an uprooted American cabbage swirling in space.

The upset of the day came when Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden uprooted American Mardy Fish, 6 - 3, 6 - 4.

Not exact matches

Even as I fight using reason, faith, the American Psychiatric Association, my mom, his friends, therapists and every piece of rational data out there, I have yet to fully uproot his convinced culpability.

The bit about «mutant social growths» being «unceremoniously uprooted» comes from Stuart Dowty, an American automobile worker who had visited China in 1972.

I had considered Russell Banks's Continental Drift, the story of a frustrated, priapic New Hampshire boiler repairman whose life disintegrates when he uproots his family to chase the American dream to Florida.

Dialectically, the very emptiness of the American present stands witness to its integral relation to a vanished past; just as the almost inevitable tendency of the European thinker to exist in the past demonstrates all too convincingly his refusal of an uprooted present.

And their strategy, as an intellectual party, includes two lines of attack: to uproot the Shea / Guilday / McAvoy / Ellis standard account, and to replace it with a telling of the tale more congenial to their own current ecclesiastical concerns, which involve the catalogue of «progressive» causes flogged weekly in the National Catholic Reporter — disentangling the American church from «Rome» (meaning, from the program of Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger), «women's rights» in the Church, the «democratization» of Catholicism, and so forth.

But the victory could be fleeting: Senate Republicans still have no agreement on a repeal bill that they can ultimately pass to uproot the law that has provided health insurance to millions of Americans.

Western organizations must step up their efforts, he says, to connect scholars with several dozen European and North American universities that have pledged to host at least one uprooted academic.

Heineman's film focuses primarily on the high - risk activities of two men on either side of the U.S. - Mexico border: American Tim «Nailer» Foley of the paramilitary group Arizona Border Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to control.

[18] Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People, 2nd ed.

School choice by its very nature uproots its customers from their communities, increasing the proportion of Americans without any stake in what's going on in public schools, the schools that will always serve the children most in need of attention.

In this sequel to Tasting the Sky (2007), a memoir and winner of the Arab American Book Award, Barakat moves beyond her early school years during the Six - Day War and its uprooting aftermath.

Chloe Parker has just been uprooted to a tiny American compound in Saudi Arabia.

Today's review is from Matthew Harrison Tedford, who offers an assessment of the exhibition at Galería de la Raza in San Francisco: «At a time when the U.S. political system is failing to address immigration and when millions of American families risk being uprooted, Carving Through Borders offered a much - needed platform for conversation.»

Uprooted from Cuba as a child, and brought to Miami via Spain in 1983, Andres Conde, an expressionist painter with pop tendencies, mitigates the feeling of displacement by merging images from popular American culture with historic examples of Cuban iconography.

«During a time when record numbers of migrants are uprooting themselves in search of a better life, Lawrence's timeless tale and its universal themes of struggle and freedom continue to strike a chord not only in our American experience but also in the international experience of migration around the world.»