Sentences with phrase «war hero who»

Join Little Ray - our war hero who is determined to bring down the master of the menacing army of ruthless minions.

In Thursday's opener, Olivia and her crew come to the aid of a decorated war hero who has been named as the lead suspect in a murder case.

Ryan Phillippe stars as Brandon King, a decorated war hero who, upon returning home from his final tour of duty in Iraq, is surprised to discover that he's just been stop - lossed.

Desperate for answers, he teams up with Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt)-- a celebrated war hero who acquired the same powers before eventually losing them — to track down the alien hive and put an end to the war.

Fiennes makes his directorial debut with a modern - day retelling of the Shakespearean story of a Roman war hero who loses his power and must eam up with his enemy to lead an attack on those who betrayed him.

A moving portrait of an unorthodox war hero who contributed considerably to the effort without ever wielding a weapon against the enemy.

Cage's first step toward an answer is meeting Rita (Emily Blunt), a celebrated war hero who admits she not only knows his story, she's lived it.

When he accidentally kills a suspect — a former war hero who has already been framed for murder by smarmy crime boss Tommy Scalise (Gary Merrill)-- and covers up the crime, Mark's unstable moral high ground gives way.

Denzel Washington stars as Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins, a decorated war hero who returns home to the segregation of post-war America.

Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins, a decorated war hero who returns home to the segregation of post-war America.

Lewis plays Lieutenant Colonel Charles Doughty - Wylie, an unhappily married English war hero who engages in a turbulent affair with Gertrude Bell.

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Will is a war hero who has three months left to serve, and is assigned to the job.

Although McCain spoke at the Conservative conference in 2006 and Brown praised Obama's policies publicly, he may get on well with this war hero who entered elected office in 1983, the same year as Brown.

It has gone from near - barren to bustling under the leadership of supervisor Jim Hobson, the former gang leader - turned - Vietnam War hero who organized this year's banquet just as he did for 11 years at his former park district post, Kiwanis Playground on the Far North Side.

The movie gives the impression, that Mel Gibson has used his hiatus wisely and Andrew Garfield turns from a likeable, but ordinary guy into a war hero whos story should have been told a long time ago.

In addition to opening his bar only every Friday for much of its existence, he allows patrons to make their own drinks, recites Shakespeare and Beckett, greets the very occasional new patrons of his bar as close friends, sings, paints, kayaks in New York Harbor, and tells captivating stories of life in wartime Red Hook among the mobsters and war heroes who frequented what was once his grandfather's bar before it became his father's, and then his.

Not exact matches

Among them there are certainly people who still consider war criminals as heroes,» Stojanovic said.

Next week Merkel will for the first time speak at Gamescom, Europe's biggest computer games trade show that's expected to draw about 350,000 visitors, many of them teenagers who attend dressed like their favorite digital heroes — from Star Wars stormtroopers to Manga heroines and fantasy game sorcerers.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

BREAKING: DC area man with five draft deferments who mocked tortured war hero John McCain for being captured says he believes he would confront an active shooter — with an AR - 15 assault weapon — unarmed.

Though it is easy to tell whence Loeb's confusion comes from, reading his description of Broadwell, who - far from the tabloid-esque accounts of a spoiled «prom queen» - comes off, indeed, as a very unlikely «other woman» for the closest thing America has to a modern day war hero.

He is stripped of his last illusions when a female acquaintance denounces the men who thought war would make them heroes:

Christian Isolationism ran so strong that in 1941, just before the war started, there was a propaganda film made to counter it about a religious contientious objector who became a war hero — «Sergeant York.»

To him, they are heroes who've chosen love over war.

Maybe not the Superman kind of hero or the war veteran kind, but to the stranded motorist, to the struggling mother who can't pay her grocery bill, he's a hero of the best kind.

Do not be put off by Eris's association with war for not all wars are evil, some have given rise to many heroes who otherwise would not have realized their full potential had they not been pushed to their limits.

During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket.

It is no coincidence that Lazare Carnot, the member of the Committee of Public Safety who was the architect of the French victory in the Revolutionary wars, was one of de Gaulle's heroes.

If Britain's heroes were people who lived in sixties terraces, people who don't know all six verses of the national anthem, people who had opposed Apartheid in the 80s, and the Iraq war in the noughties, maybe a society with that kind of a hero would be a decent one?

The name is in honor of Israel Putnam, who was a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

Only two other Albany County residents are known to have received the Medal of Honor: Parker F. Dunn of Albany, who was killed in action in World War I, and Peter Dallesandro of Watervliet, a World War II hero.

The governor who led others to lay wreaths in honour of the country's war heroes said, «It is pertinent to remember gallant solders that have put down their lives to sustain the unity of our dear country.

Just ask the former world champion USA Volleyball team member, the double - amputee war hero or the reindeer farmer who won House races last cycle.

«Charlie Rangel is a dedicated public servant who has served the nation and the people of New York with distinction, both as a war hero and longstanding member of Congress.

Women are more attracted to war heroes than regular soldiers or men who display heroic traits in other fields, such as in sports or natural disaster work, according to new research from the University of Southampton and partners in Europe.

It was the unelected and standoffish lawyer, not the popular war hero, who thus dictated U.S. policy.

A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify.

In Wings of War, you can become one of the high - flying heroes who rule the skies.

In a rare break from the Cold War origins Lee tended to give his heroes, the X-Men were not people who had been bombarded by fallout or bitten by a radioactive trout; they were «mutants,» people born with psychic talents or the ability to shoot red power beams from their eyes, not Homo sapiens but homo superior.

What makes Captain America: Civil War such a terrific accomplishment is the way it takes what could have been the most crass and overcrowded story to adapt as a film and instead transforms it into an examination of just who these heroes are and what impact they've had on the world around them, and vice versa.

As the nasty old piece of work who runs Panem quickly intervening realizes (as played with terrific levels of sour venom by a terrifying Donald Sutherland), simply killing our heroes would the make martyrs of them, and possibly kick off a full - blown civil war he «s trying to avoid.

The next is hero General Rollan (Jean Marais) who has just taken the position of War Secretary and many want to be President of the Republic.

Satire about a bumbling Iranian immigrant who wins the green card lottery and moves to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming an American hero and unwittingly becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

The true story of a stray dog, who becomes a World War I hero and remains the most decorated dog in American history, is realized as an animated film with the voices of Helena Bonham Carter, Logan Lerman and Gérard Depardieu.

The setup: Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton are estranged brothers Tom and Brendan Conlon — one a war hero and the other a teacher — who are both desperate to win a mixed martial arts tournament.

Not simply concerned with billionaire arms dealer - turned - metallic hero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Justin Theroux's story features a bevy of superheroic figures outfitted with deadly artillery, from Stark pal Lt. Colonel Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle, taking over for Terrence Howard) decked out in his own silvery weaponized War Machine suit, to a straggly haired, heavily tattooed Russian genius named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) who mimics Stark's tech to create an outfit equipped with energy - beam whips, to a horde of gigantic drones programmed to kill.

Ben Kingsley is in talks to play the famous war hero Mazer Rackham, who stopped the last invasion by the buggers.