Sentences with phrase «war came to town»

She begins with her childhood, which was idyllic until war came to town and ripped apart her comfortable existence in a loving household.

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They must be aware though, with housing developments at a virtual standstill due to water license shortages and the town running out of options, Okotoks is «ground zero» for the coming water wars.

The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter of 3000 Jews, read it

Into town had come 700 coaches, 200 newsmen and half the population of Ohio to see two furious basketball teams that were bent on settling a national championship and their own civil war in what would long be remembered as the great grudge match of Louisville.

The Magnificent Dead takes place in the 1870s in the small Texas town of Rosewood where local rancher Jared Hamilton and his men have declared war on the town, using fear and death to prevent a new railroad line from coming through.

Released: April 14 Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham Director: Dash Shaw Why it's great: The scraggly sketch style of acclaimed graphic novelist Dash Shaw comes to life in a teenage dream comedy about a coastal town high school that cascades off a cliff, drifts out to sea, and provokes a student - body class war.

Some Came Running — Fine combination of Vincente Minnelli and James Jones, as Frank Sinatra plays a writer who returns to his small town after the war only to get himself into trouble along with Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine.

Looking to gain compensation for their part in helping Thorin and clan, the people of Lake - town and the Elves of Rivendale come to claim their relatively modest piece of the pie, only to get a cold shoulder and a threat of all out war.

Clips were also shown from the remake of POLTERGEIST starring Sam Rockwell (May 22), PAPER TOWNS (July 24) starring CinemaCon's Rising Stars award recipients, Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff, HITMAN AGENT 47 (Aug. 28) based on the popular video game, starring Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto and Hannah War, MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS (Sept. 18), VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN (Oct. 2) staring James MacAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, a new take on THE FANTASTIC FOUR (Aug. 7) starring CinemaCon Ensemble Award recipients Jamie Bell, Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Michael B. Jordan who came out to introduce the trailer.

Is the Star Wars trailer coming to your town this weekend?

You wouldn't expect little Ghost Town to have come from someone who's had a hand in the screenplays for such high - profile blockbusters as Jurassic Park, Spider - Man, War of the Worlds, and the latest Indiana Jones movie.

When Boli's parents disappear without a trace, the 13 - year - old enlists the help of an unlikely hero — a washed - up luchador in town for a traveling show — and together they come face - to - face with the horrors of today's narco wars.

As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty - year - old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer — his «Keltjin potatoes» are justifiably famous — has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir.

First, the brown, churning water - the circle of our river around us; inside that, the quilt squares of our fields, which were turned dirt, newly planted seeds, the bright green carpet of a field just beginning to come to life, fences mended or falling down into the soft new grass, humped haystacks, our cattle herd, our sheep herd, our goats, bare birch trees pointing straight into the heavens; and in the center, in the heart, our cobbled and dirt streets, our red - tiled and gray - shingled roofs radiating out from the town square with its statue of a long - dead war hero in the middle.

In the town of Martinsburg on the lower tip of the Valley, a seventeen - year - old rebel named Belle Boyd sat by the windows of her wood - frame home, waiting for the war to come to her.

Due to Segada's walls not yet being complete, they retreated to the town of Numantia when the Romans came knocking, a town that would cause the mighty Roman war machine a lot of headaches.

Arranged thematically from industrial to military sites, from ghosts towns to recreational sites, the book explains through extended captions the story of how each place came to be abandoned; whether it was natural or chemical disaster, war, economic collapse, or changing attitudes and tastes.