Sentences with phrase «way in a new land»

When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land.

While private colleges are often seen as bastion of privilege, Augustana was founded to help the children of immigrants make their way in a new land.

Not exact matches

He said Gao, a business partner of his since 2007, told him the money had come from a land sale to the Chinese government to make way for a new airport in Beijing.

«You and I could land in New York on the same day, get the same internship right out of the gate, and our careers will not look alike in any way, fifteen years down the line.

Klaus Deininger, the lead economist with the World Bank's Development Research Group, recently argued that while emerging technologies, including blockchain, offer important new ways to record land ownership, they should not be viewed as a cure - all to land rights woes in jurisdictions with weak institutions.

Gavin decided to pursue environmental law while working on a small family farm, an experience which changed his perspective on the world and began connecting him to the land in new ways.

Same story when trained the Q - aida and Tali - ban to fight the so - vi - et troops who were considered non religious or infidels at that time and it was the pr - opa - ganda that was used to recruit islamic worriers from all over the Islamic world until they were driven out of afghani lands and until there was no use from them the plot was made to eliminate their presence and to pave the way for a new invasion by the west for those areas with out any fight but seems it did not work out as was hoped for and that's why their troops are deep down in the...!?

More important, he was a radical, a man who left behind the land and presumably also the ways of his fathers in search of something new.

Burge, who teaches New Testament at Wheaton College in Illinois, underwent a radical theological conversion on the way to writing Whose Land?

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

And yet eternity is not like a new world, so that one who had lived in time according to the ways of the time world and of the press of busyness, if he were to make a happy landing in eternity itself, could now try his luck in adopting the customs and practices of eternity.

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

Based in New York City, with offices located in major markets and key countries producing tropical commodities, and a global network of partners, the Rainforest Alliance works with over a million producers whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest timber and host travelers.

«The people overseeing this work are working with the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office to help establish new ways to inform, involve and collaborate with local land and water managers and members of the community who share an interest in environmental water,» he said.

When bigger teams threatened to quit as a result of the cap, the plans were scrapped and the new entrants were left in a rich man's no - mans - land with no way of competing.

In an era when safety concerns are paramount and many households are eschewing the use of a land line, equipping even young children with mobile devices can feel more like a necessity than a luxury — but this new way of life has come with steep costs.

Some of the first land acquisitions made by the new Park District included the dedication of Memorial Park by the Village (originally donated to the Village in 1883 by Dr. John Best as the site for a soldier's memorial) and leasing the railroad parks along the Chicago and Northwestern right of way.

In two new studies published online this week in the Journal of Athletic Training, lead author Marc Norcross of Oregon State University documents how women who were asked to undergo a series of jumping exercises landed more often than men in a way associated with elevated risk of ACL injurieIn two new studies published online this week in the Journal of Athletic Training, lead author Marc Norcross of Oregon State University documents how women who were asked to undergo a series of jumping exercises landed more often than men in a way associated with elevated risk of ACL injuriein the Journal of Athletic Training, lead author Marc Norcross of Oregon State University documents how women who were asked to undergo a series of jumping exercises landed more often than men in a way associated with elevated risk of ACL injuriein a way associated with elevated risk of ACL injuries.

NEW LENOX — A compromise reached by New Lenox Elementary School District 122 and homeowners in the Cherry Hill subdivision paved the way Tuesday night for the school district to gain village land on the siNEW LENOX — A compromise reached by New Lenox Elementary School District 122 and homeowners in the Cherry Hill subdivision paved the way Tuesday night for the school district to gain village land on the siNew Lenox Elementary School District 122 and homeowners in the Cherry Hill subdivision paved the way Tuesday night for the school district to gain village land on the site.

Without the grandstand and track, Waffner and Mahoney said, you would open up about 70 acres of land - roughly a quarter of space available at the fairgrounds - to develop in a new way.

«After a long and drawn out budget negotiation, I was very pleased to see an on - time budget that removed the PILOT, which would have changed the way the state would pay taxes on forever wild lands in New York,» said state Assemblyman Dan Stec (R - Queensbury).

The environmental group Protect the Adirondacks filed an ethics complaint regarding what it contends was «illegal advocacy and lobbying» by the state DC in support of a 2013 constitutional amendment that cleared the way for a land - swap deal between New York and an Essex County mining operation.

He also says that the two parties can work together on housing including the idea of building new towns on agricultural land, one of the most credible ways of sharply increasing housebuilding in the south east.

Earlier today, Governor Paterson was joined by Stockbridge - Munsee President Kim Vele and other stakeholders in Madison County to sign the Stockbridge - Munsee Land Claim Settlement Agreement, which cleared the way for this compact and settled a longstanding land claim impacting thousands of acres in Central New YLand Claim Settlement Agreement, which cleared the way for this compact and settled a longstanding land claim impacting thousands of acres in Central New Yland claim impacting thousands of acres in Central New York.

Shiflett, who landed at KU following a 28 - year career at DuPont working in process and product development, sees the project as a way to engage undergraduate students on his research team where «they can invent new products.»

To characterize as hesitant what has gone on in the way of wetland loss and land - making in Greater New York is, at best, a gross distortion of the historical record.

The Dutch took some tentative steps into the floodplain of the East River back in the 17th century, but it was the English who invented a whole new form of property — land underwater — that allowed building to go forward in harm's way.

But, Jacob said, the significance of the study is that it shows a new way for scientists to estimate total water loss during times of drought, which would be more difficult to estimate without being able to detect how much the land is being uplifted in dry years.

«Our new simulation strategy paves the way for better understanding of the water and carbon cycles in the Amazon,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the feedback between land and atmosphere.

Landing humans on Mars is a completely achievable feat with current technology — if you are okay with the idea of a one - way ticket, points out physicist and Scientific American columnist Lawrence Krauss in an op - ed in yesterday's New York Times.

Some carbon removal technology is controversial because some methods involve planting new forests and forcing large - scale changes in the way land is used, possibly displacing people and the farms they rely on to grow their food.

Clearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin — Madison researchers show in a study today (April 2, 2015) that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four - year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands.

It was an honor to represent my home town in this way and it landed me a magazine feature, a spot as a panelist on marathon nutrition, and some inspiring new running / blogging buddies:

A hapless charmer named Slevin (Josh Hartnett) lands in the wrong place at the wrong time: After a bummer of a breakup with his girlfriend, he decamps to a friend's New York City apartment, only to get mugged on the way.

Awash in bold colors, bright patterns and ebullient kids, director Ava DuVernay's new take on A Wrinkle in Time dazzles its way across time and space even if it doesn't quite stick the landing.

The fourth friend, Alan (Zach Galifianakis) is painted as a slightly disturbed loner / social misfit who latches onto his new buddies in an unhealthy way, as well as saying and doing increasingly odd things; he's apparently aiming for laughs, but these antics land sickeningly, with silence.

The more striking resemblance is with Kingdom of Heaven — in the hero's stature, the fact that he is subject of his journey, his rise to notoriety in unexpectedly fateful ways, his attachment to new lands for which he sacrifices to defend and make prosper, the closer historical and geographical setting, and some resemblance in the romance.

Strutt (Lithgow) brags about killing big game in Africa, relocating birds in the way of a new land development and his many hotels, spread all over the world.

Carrey's performance strikes new notes of bitterness both apt for a character who's grown surly in the way of people who don't progress for one reason or another, and «meta» - feeling, given that the actor's essentially landed back at square one after decades of struggling to branch out, though it's important to note that Carrey himself instigated the project and that, whatever frustrations he may have about typecasting, he attacks the role with gusto.

Two - time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett let out a laugh as she made her way through the bustling JFK Airport terminal after landing in New York on Tuesday morning.

Good mood: Two - time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett let out a laugh as she made her way through the bustling JFK Airport terminal after landing in New York on Tuesday morning

In the way that French New Wave filmmaker Jacques Demy made the locales of «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» and «The Young Girls of Rochefort» into workaday natural settings that were also vividly colored backdrops for sudden bursts of music, the Los Angeles of «La La Land» doesn't spare us the traffic jams, but it also allows its characters to open the back of a stalled truck to reveal a jazz combo.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Teen Fantasy Series Sequel Finds Its Way to DVD Despite the fact that all of the principal cast members returned, New Moon pales in comparison to Twilight, which landed on this critic's Annual Top Ten List for 2009.

It isn't long before our hero winds up getting pulled through a wormhole which dumps them ten years into the future, erasing their memories along the way and landing them in a new village under constant siege and buckling under internal pressure.

Some movies capture imagined lands and dream logic in special and unique ways, and Guy Maddin «s new film The Forbidden Room is the weirdest dream movie of the year.

Puzzle & Dragons invites players to stalk their way through the treacherous lands of Monster Hunter in an all - new dungeon fea... [Read More]

Set in the reservation world of upstate New York — «Frozen River» country — «Crooked Arrows» packs platititudes about heritage, pride and stewardship of the land into a standard - issue underdogs - rally - their - way - into - the - big - game tale.

As players brawl their way through various playing areas based on the many locations in the land of Hyrule they'll gain new weapons and items for crafting as well as a ton of rupees.

About the Green Stasr, actually, they are camouflaged Star Medals, and not your objective that ends the levels after you explored and travel a bit around the stages before you got it like in SM64 / SMS / SMG1 / 2 formula and then, as I said, since it's not construct in the same way as these games, it's maybe not a «great culmination» of them, but an improvement over the new formula and new franchise introduced in 3D Land (which they explained that more or less was a new franchise in 3D Land Iwata Ask).

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