Sentences with phrase «war stories from»

Gockenbach chronicled his life lessons, with a side order of war stories from competing in tournament qualifiers, Senior Majors, and Q - Schools, in his book Inside, Outside and On The Ropes.

Two war stories from my own experience practicing law illustrate the importance of confidence and enthusiasm when networking.

These books offer analysis, commentary, and war stories from finance insiders about the trading and investment world.

MuckRock regularly shares interesting war stories from the FOIA front.

Bainbridge thoughtfully balances old war stories from the star names with archive footage and interviews that provide a substantial historical context that stretches from the shocking slaughter of ghost dancers at the Battle of Wounded Knee to the legacy of genocide, oppression and violence that has shaped Native American lives.

We lament the state of politics, she counsels me on my latest career crisis, or recounts literal war stories from her time as a conflict journalist.

Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this critically acclaimed, brilliantly unconventional war story from Oscar - winning director Sam Mendes.

While the setting might be quite similar, it's refreshing to see a Star Wars story from the other side.

Not exact matches

«A lady who escaped from North Korea and applied and one artist [a painter] still living in Syria in war were stories that stood out, because these women live or lived in danger and still longed for the same things we all do,» she adds.

You can read our full story from 2015 with Bettany here and follow along with our «Avengers: Infinity War» coverage here.

From the government making up an enemy attack to justify war to «mind control» experiments, some stories are hard to believe until declassified documents or investigations prove they actually happened.

According to an excerpt from «Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump» by Yahoo News investigative journalist Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones reporter David Corn, Trump had eagerly hoped Putin would attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant that Trump hosted in the Russian capital.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

From ancient cave paintings in Spain, to the war chronicles of Julius Caesar, stories — whether written, visual, or verbal — have long been used to show, tell, and convince.

Plans were also afoot for the 2017 release of Disney Infinity 4.0, complete with a long - awaited story mode that would have intertwined the adventures of characters from the series» disparate Star Wars, Marvel and Disney universes.

Plans were also afoot for a story mode that would have intertwined the adventures of characters from the series» disparate Star Wars, Marvel and Disney universes.

But at best the story can seem frivolous, and at worst it can feel like a distraction from the damage done by Trump's policy decisions (like, most recently, appointing a man who has called for war with both North Korea and Iran as national security adviser).

But the horror stories you hear — where aid just helps a dictator build new palaces — mostly come from a time when aid was designed to win allies for the Cold War rather than to improve people's lives.

one unprovable story, being told its wrong from people believing another unprovable story... let the Wars commence!

But none of this has stopped crusading «Christian» nations down to the present from using the Joshua stories and other support they seem to find in the Bible for an unending stream of war and slaughter.

«From the beginning,» Scahill writes, «these contractors have been a major hidden story of the war, almost uncovered in the mainstream media and absolutely central to maintaining the U.S. occupation of Iraq.»

Most do not want to return to a time when fathers owned their daughters and sold them to the highest bidder (Exodus 21:7; Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 — 10), when multiple wives and concubines were a part of everyday life (even for men of God like Abraham, Jacob, and David), when women were forbidden from owning property, when foreign virgins could be captured as spoils of war (Judges 21), when a woman's lack of virginity could get her executed (Deuteronomy 22:11, Leviticus), when the stories of brave women like Tamar and Dinah and Esther and Vashti and Leah and Rachel emerge from contexts of oppression.

Super-busy week for me, can't possibly keep up with rapidly changing Egypt developments, but signs suggest a civil war in the making: From a Guardian story, we learn that Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Alexandria and Mansoura were ransacked and in the case of latter, set on fire, prompting....

In response to this gruesome story, the «Guest,» who had left Galicia before the war, offers a literary anecdote about one of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492.

These range from stories of the saints, to concerns of people today, to a look at his own personal experience as a child and with L'Arche, all the way to broader comment on resistance to the Nazis, the war in Rwanda, and the conflict in present day Israel and Palestine, and he sees in the Gospel many touchstones for our modern lives.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

It is derived from Tiger Nuts, a treat that the founders of this company ate as a treat when they were kids after World War 2 when candy was rationed (You can find their full story here), which aren't a nut at all, they are a tuber, like a potato.

Gary Hirshberg, the co-founder and chairman of dairy company Stonyfield Farm and a highly influential figure in the organic food movement, shares war stories ranging from the company's pastoral beginnings, to its decade - long struggle for financing, and on to its eventual sale, mining them for wisdom that will resonate with any food and beverage professional.

Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.

This quiet story of an elderly preacher's coming to terms with his life and the lives of his fathers - from the Civil War to the twentieth century - is told with such intimacy that it can be painful in its beauty.

Alexander had one of the more tragic baseball stories, coming back from World War I with shrapnel in his ear, worsened epilepsy, and crippling alcoholism.

Knowing of my interest in crime fiction and detective stories my late father - in - law, John Thynne — who had supported Arsenal from before the war — was always talking about a film made in 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium Mystery.

Since we first posted these odds, four horses have withdrawn from the field: Carpe Diem (+1600), Divining Rod (+2000), Conquest Curlinate (+3000) and War Story (+3000).

Gamblers come equipped with war stories of losing money and winning money, stories you expect to hear from older, harder men.

Quilo is a boy's name and comes from the Greek mythological story of the Trojan War, in which he was the hero filled with «manly beauty and valor.»

Energy courses through a prologue telling the story — often of glorious defeat — of the demands for democracy from below from the English Civil War to 1848.

With sixty action - packed stories of courageous soldiers, sailors and airmen from a range of global conflicts including the Indian Mutiny of 1857 — 58, the Second Anglo - Boer War of 1899 — 1902 and the First and Second World Wars, this book is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and a worthy tribute to the servicemen who earned the Victoria Cross.

We've been meeting monthly (since last October) to network, share war stories, swap schemes, schmooze, spread resumes, invest, find investment, collect resumes, reconnect with pals from «back in the day» and just relax.

Gibson even went as far as not - so - subtly tweeting out a link to the story which included a photo from his Iraq war service.

Faithfully adapted from British comic writer Alan Moore's extraordinarily successful comic series of the same name, the story imagines an America where superheroes won the Vietnam war for the US but were eventually outlawed following public riots.

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Graham Allen, now chair of the Commons» political and constitutional reform committee, recalls: «As we know from efforts to recall parliament before the Iraq war (which started this whole bloody story) MPs can not recall parliament, neither can the Speaker.

Sergeant Ted Wilkinson shared his story from serving in the Vietnam war with Congresswoman Kathy Hochul Thursday.

The story of Army hero Charles N. DeGlopper reads like a Hollywood script: A small town boy joins the Army in World War II and gives his life to save his platoon, stepping out into the open to fight the Germans alone and stopping them from taking control of a strategic bridge in the Normandy campaign.

They have both received their honorable discharge from this life, but I know my folks would have appreciated some of the stories in Mary Roach's new book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.

Silverman tells his students «war stories» from his broad experience in industry.

Nyunt, a malariologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMD) in Baltimore, is visiting Sa - ka - pin to assess the extent of one of the biggest problems facing an ambitious campaign to wipe out malaria from the Mekong region (see feature story on How drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region): the number of people infected with malaria who have no symptoms.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

Look at the forums and message boards: They're filled with posts from people about to start these programs, dreading the initial phase and wondering if they'll be able to hack it (and with people telling war stories about how they survived it... or tried it and failed).