Sentences with phrase «violent encounters with»

Death was not a thing unknown to the town's first hearty residents, but they seemed to have badly misjudged how much of it there'd be, how much ground would be needed to accommodate those lost to harsh winters, violent encounters with savages and all manner of illness.

The other was the Kamba, a crop - farming group that rarely has violent encounters with elephants.

It is still early in Zedekiah's reign when Jeremiah has his violent encounter with the prophet Hananiah (ch.

The district attorney with jurisdiction over the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, Andrew Wylie, said that his office was reviewing the case of an inmate, Leonard Strickland, who died there in 2010 after a violent encounter with prison guards.

That's the conclusion from a computer simulation of the solar system's evolution, which suggests the fifth giant was hurled into interstellar space some 4 billion years ago, after a violent encounter with Jupiter.

A man gives her his coat and tries to help her out, but eventually a violent encounter with another man brings her true nature to light.

A violent encounter with a heckler lands him in prison, followed by 100 hours of community service.

Jeanne, a doctor, is recovering from a violent encounter with the disgruntled husband of a patient, while Francois is dealing with the imminent death of his ailing grandmother.

History and adventure are smoothly entwined in this accessible narrative of the 1820s whaling voyage whose disastrous, violent encounter with a sperm whale inspired Moby Dick.

Philbrick's accessible narrative of the tragic 1820s whaling voyage whose central disaster was the violent encounter with a sperm whale engages readers with descriptions of Nantucket's unusual commercial, religious, and social characteristics, the class and racial aspects of Nantucket whaling, and other issues raised by the Essex's final whale hunt.

First - person games can offer so much more than the cliché violent encounter with aliens, orcs or other creatures of the night.

Facts of the Case At 9:47 p.m. on Aug. 31, 2009, former Ontario attorney general and CEO of Invest Toronto Michael Bryant, driving home after dinner with his wife, had a violent encounter with a younger man on a bicycle, Darcy «Allan» Sheppard.

Contact a Maryland dog bite lawyer if you have sustained a personal injury due to a violent encounter with a dog.

Sadly, my frontal lady garden has never regained its luxuriant titian curls after that first violent encounter with hot wax.

Not exact matches

In Dallas and Baltimore, police departments have partnered with Socrata to monitor and report data on violent encounters between officers and the public.

Though he provides a vivid account of Pascal and Jansenism to illustrate the divisions within seventeenth century French Catholicism and emphasizes the violent opposition encountered by Catholic reformers like Charles Borromeo and John of the Cross, Eire's treatment of the divisions within Catholic reform in general is less vividly realized than his treatment of the corresponding tensions with Protestantism, though Catholic reform could be every bit as fiercely contested and divided.

The Group I encounter at the Stadion Pasienky was 42 minutes old when Swedish referee Martin Strombergsson was forced to suspend proceedings with the game goalless as violent exchanges took place in the stands.

At the end of January, Mayor Bill de Blasio said a senior NYPD official will handle city encounters with ICE moving forward and maintained the city only cooperates with ICE for incidents involving immigrants who've committed one of 170 serious or violent offenses.

She also drew a direct line between the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, Walter Scott in Charleston, and Tamir Rice in Cleveland — all unarmed black men killed in encounters with police — and Freddie Gray, the man whose mysterious death spurred the violent riots in Baltimore.

«We've seen violent encounters between males from Tampa Bay versus males from Sarasota Bay, with no females present,» Wells says.

After violent encounters last year, another group of previously isolated Korubo recently made contact with local settlers and government officials.

«We can also say that, as with violent encounters between different peoples, on one of those violent meetings the loser — the Neanderthal — was eaten by the winner,» he says.

Reliving a disturbing or traumatic event — a violent encounter, the sudden death of a loved one — is a hallmark of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which shares some features with anxiety disorders.

Violence includes verbal and physical threats, the monstrous personification of a house, encounters with the dead and dying, bullying, scary moments, situations of peril, depictions of violent video games and guns, as well as explosions.

It isn't long before Kick - Ass encounters actual competent heroes, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage, Astro Boy) and his sidekick / daughter Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) who are in the midst of their own violent war with crime lord Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong, Sherlock Holmes).

The relationship between these two old fighters with a shared violent past recedes into the background of the largely episodic narrative; among the twisted reflections they encounter are a grieving frontierswoman (Rosamund Pike) and a condemned murderer (Ben Foster) who relishes underlining the film's themes.

But the longer they stay waiting for Harry's call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor (Jordan Prentice) shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloë (Clémence Poésy), who may have some dark secrets of her own.

Even the final instalment in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Bill Condon, 2012), teased audience's ever longing expectation of a violent vampiric encounter with its prophetic vision of a battle between the Volturi and the Cullens.

The book, with the decidedly un-PG title «Cum For Bigfoot,» is just the first of 16 fiction ebooks that Wade (a pen name) has written about the legendary beast sometimes known as Sasquatch, each detailing a series of graphic and often violent sexual encounters between the apelike creature and his female human lovers.

Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts «normal» — not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification — we are overjoyed with his potential.

Pausing at the opera house's steps, exhausted from the late night backstage encounters with singers and musicians reluctant to discuss Maestro Wellauer's violent death, Commissario Guido Brunetti delays the night's last unrevealing interview with opera director Santore to linger over his city's history and beauty.

Peter's life changes forever when a colleague encounters the notorious, international drug baron - the Powder Man - with violent consequences.

Peter's life changes forever when a colleague encounters the notorious, international drug baron — the Powder Man — with violent consequences.

- reincarnated monsters are monsters who have lived long and whose appearance has changed - they are a rare encounter, and thus may also drop rare items - reincarnated monsters pictured in the magazine include the violent panda, golden cone, heart knight, and cactus gold - there are quests that task players with defeating reincarnated monsters

While delving into the dangerous mansion — as well as other places connected to the plantation property, such as a bizarre and noxious greenhouse — you'll encounter grisly creatures and numerous members of the twisted Baker family, all of whom are more than willing to end your expedition with violent haste.

With Black Lives Matter protests in response to the conference, and continued news stories of violent encounters between police and citizens, the conversation of de-escalating law enforcement...

For example, if you provide financial services to the public, your workers may be exposed to violent encounters associated with theft, burglary, or robbery.