Sentences with phrase «when lifeboat»

There's even some commentary about why they're on the sidelines, when Lifeboat still seems a lot more ambitious in its progressive presentation of reality than it turns out to be.

Not exact matches

My leaving my husband was not retribution for any fault of his, but rather — and I believe this in every core of my being — that we each have the right to choose what ships to go down with versus when to get into a lifeboat and save ourselves emotionally.

When it overwhelms them, your relationship is a lifeboat on a stormy sea.

At the moment the coalition is floating in Darling's stimulus lifeboat - when the cuts really bite in the autumn and the private sector doesn't deliver the 2.7 M new jobs, the 300 Bn of new investment and incrase exports by a third whilst unemploment heads for 5m, LibDem MPs will see the writing on the wall and feel the ire of their constituents and party members.

When you're really eager to get out of a bad situation, it can be tempting to jump for the first lifeboat you see.

Cronyn would remain beholden to Hitchcock for the rest of his career: He acted in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) and worked several times thereafter on the director's TV series; he adapted the stage play Rope and the novel Under Capricorn for Hitchcock's filmizations; and he sprang to the late director's defense when a dubious biography of Hitchcock was published in the mid-1980s.

When a band of four Somali pirates fails in its bid to take over the container ship, it flees in the ship's emergency lifeboat, taking the eponymous Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) as a hostage to ransom and drawing down the might of the U.S. Navy's anti-piracy task force operating around the Horn of Africa.

When Bernie and his crew of three head out to try and save the tankers crew of over thirty souls, their lifeboat has to get past what they call the «Bar.»

Word of the ongoing disaster reaches shore; That's when a crew of three men and their lifeboat set out to save the sailors.

But when things don't go as planned for the desperate hijackers, Muse takes Phillips hostage and escapes on the ship's lifeboat, leading to a tense standoff between the Somali pirates and the U.S. Navy.

When word of the disaster reaches the U.S. Coast Guard in Chatham, Massachusetts, Webber and three other men set out on a small lifeboat to save the stranded sailors.

TBS established itself as cable - channel - as - lifeboat when it offered Conan O'Brien safe harbor in their lineup after what I'll call «The Jay Leno Incident.»

Years later, when an earthquake ruins their home and kills the male, the grandson of the bears leaves for London in a lifeboat on a cargo boat with nothing but a hat and a can - do attitude and what can only be described as a shit - ton of marmalade, seeking asylum in the house of any Londoners who might take him in.

Everything Must Go isn't exactly a feel - good movie, but it speaks to the economic uncertainty of our time, which is only exacerbated when internal demons prevent a person from holding on to the nearest lifeboat.

During a two day programme of free learning outside the classroom within walking distance of the school involving the whole of Year 7 (350 pupils), pupils developed their resilience during activities such as a hike, team building skills when participating in den building and knowledge of a local charity when visiting the lifeboat station.

When the legislative limit on new charter - school openings arrives, New York's next mayor will have to lobby the Albany legislature hard for permission to expand these lifeboats for the city's poorest kids.

But when the ocean liner sinks, she's just one of 34 people in an overcrowded lifeboat.

It didn't happen when Amazon launched KDP, if anything, that was a lifeboat for authors (more channels are always better).

The media, as driven and owned by the banks would have «us» believe that this act is a mandatory lifeboat response having to do with managing risk and loss precipitated by natural disaster credit - card reliance (since our government was out partying during these events and cutting birthday cake) and the mortgage fiasco which in fact was created by the banks themselves when they threw billions of dollars at unqualified consumers around 2001 with knowledge of their poor risk and just to make a buck.

The most famous traverse of this frigid sea was made in 1916 by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five others in the adapted lifeboat James Caird when they left Elephant Island and reached South Georgia two weeks later.

So far, most newspapers in North America and Europe will not print any reportage about polar cities because such an idea is deemed to be scaremongering and doomsdayish, when in fact, it is neither: polar cities might serve as lifeboats, arks, for the human species, if worst comes to worst.

It makes it a bit easier for a rat to desert a ship when they can afford a comfortable lifeboat (or golden parachute.)

Life insurance, whether term or permanent, can be seen as a lifeboat that is there when when the flood comes.

Whole life insurance should be considered a cushion, or a lifeboat that provides ready cash for your family when they need it most.

Beckside started out as a fisherman's cottage 250 years ago when Staithes was one of the busiest fishing ports on England's east coast and was at one point the home of the lifeboat coxswain.