Sentences with phrase «while facing a death»

Will is amazed by his mother's ability to continue her efforts to fund the library in Afghanistan even while facing a death sentence, until he realizes that «she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate.
ABC aired the first episode of The Fugitive in September 1963, dramatizing the saga of Dr. Richard Kimble, a fictional physician who escaped custody while facing the death penalty for the brutal murder of his wife.

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Others have talked openly about the enormous pressure they feel to maintain rigorous publishing schedules, even while facing personal challenges like illness, newborns, even death and divorce.
Precincts have started adopting or increasing their use of less - than - lethal force — including pepper spray and Tasers — in an effort to reduce injury and death while still giving police options when facing would - be assailants.
While an ILIT is an effective way to make sure that your life insurance death benefit is not taxable as part of your estate, there are a couple situations in which you may face a tax event:
While holding the interim position in 2007, Ms. Godkin faced a challenge from outgoing PC Youth President David McColl, who published an op - ed in the Calgary Herald predicting that «PC Alberta will continue its slow death march, to the beat of a rural drum and tired, stale policies.»
I was struck yesterday while I was preparing my cartoon on the death of Brennan Manning that he called Jesus «the human face of God».
Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.
Yes, and one of the reasons it has is because its most committed believers, while refusing to conform to the world's ways, have just as strongly refused to run away from evangelizing it» and this, even when faced with persecution or death, and when the odds seemed overwhelmingly against them.
The difference is you choose to hide from that fear with the promise of an after life while non-believers face that fear knowing death is all there is.
While many people I've known who are facing death make radical changes in order to die well, I occasionally meet some who change very little.
They tell us what separates us from him and from happiness is, first, self - seeking in all its forms; and, secondly, sensuality in all its forms; that these are the ways of darkness and death, which hide from us the face of God; while the path of the just is like a shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.»)
Then we do look, or we do taste, or we do touch, and once we do, we feel so guilty, we can't face God, we feel like death, and so we decide to just enjoy the sin while we're in it, but that only makes things worse on us in the long run, until eventually, we feel so filthy and disgusting, and get so angry at ourselves for the way we behaved, we come slinking back to God, begging and crying for forgiveness, and we confess our sin to our accountability group, and they forgive us, and tell us to try harder.
But Conrad Murrary is facing several years of jail time for letting one patient die a preventable death, while Lisa Barrett is nominated as a «hero» having presided over FIVE preventable deaths.
Because they still have poor head control and often experience flexion of the head while in a sitting position, infants younger than 1 month in sitting devices might be at increased risk of upper airway obstruction and oxygen desaturation.128, — , 132 In addition, there is increasing concern about injuries from falls resulting from car seats being placed on elevated surfaces.133, — , 137 An analysis of CPSC data revealed 15 suffocation deaths between 1990 and 1997 resulting from car seats overturning after being placed on a bed, mattress, or couch.136 The CPSC also warns about the suffocation hazard to infants, particularly those who are younger than 4 months, who are carried in infant sling carriers.138 When infant slings are used for carrying, it is important to ensure that the infant's head is up and above the fabric, the face is visible, and that the nose and mouth are clear of obstructions.
Most SIDS deaths occur while an infant is sleeping with face down.
While tributes flowed in for the off - duty ATF agent shot to death during last weekend's Seaford pharmacy robbery, the hold up allegedly committed by a pill - popping career criminal, newly sworn - in legislators listened Tuesday afternoon as Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone addressed the highest profile issues facing them.
«While Sen. Skelos has compassion for and is sympathetic to the plight of any individual facing such a serious illness that it could ultimately lead to their death, he has serious concerns about the potential dangers associated with this bill,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for Skelos (below left).
«In the six deaths this January, three of the infants died while in an adult's bed with two of those 3 babies found face down.
Worse, women of childbearing age who suffer from RHD face a double danger: They face increased risk of complications during pregnancy — including deathwhile also bearing a cultural burden and expectation that they'll become mothers.
While clomiphene is a first - line treatment used to induce ovulation in women with PCOS, it has downsides — namely that in a significant number of women it does not lead to improved ovulation or live births, and if it does induce ovulation, it frequently results in pregnancies with multiples who face much higher negative outcomes including death.
While the timing and magnitude of declines differed by region in Africa, with central Africa experiencing the worst levels, all regions of Africa are facing unsustainable levels of ivory poaching with the killing peak in 2011 equating to more than 40,000 elephant deaths.
«While no one can say that Dr. Wartman is cured, after facing certain death last fall, he is alive and doing well,» the story said.
While better medical care and timely management of heart attacks have decreased the number of early deaths, survivors face an increased risk of chronic heart failure as they develop even more scarring.
While we have the privilege of celebrating diversity on the fashion runway, let us not forget the people who are facing extreme brutality today in Russia, where LGBT teens have been ambushed by vigilante mobs and humiliated; Uganda, which has some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the whole of Africa; and Nigeria, the most homophobic place on earth, according to the Pew Research Center, where gay people are stoned to death; as well as countries like Afghanistan, Turkey and Iran, to name a few.
Plus, while Bradley takes care of a woman who has faced death, Ash gets shot by his date.
The 2018 Academy Award nominations also include another transgender entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category with the Chilean / German co-production, A Fantastic Woman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's death.
Synopsis: «Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student (Wolff) who comes across a supernatural notebook that gives him the ability to kill anyone by writing their name while picturing their face.
While Max and Annie figure out the key to extended domestic bliss (hint: heteronormative monogamy and family building), Brooks faces a life - or - death predicament only Max, Annie, and their gamer friends can resolve against insurmountable odds.
Morgan and Bernal embrace that bare - bones approach with physical performances that carry a surprising emotional weight; Bernal's panicked face, desperate to avoid death, is immediately engaging, while Morgan swaggers about like John Wayne in an anti-western, accompanied by a vicious dog.
The latter part of this assertion, however, is currently being challenged by some famous companies such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks and a good many familiar TV faces, while the unavoidability of death is a matter frequently evaded by euphemism and clouded by sentimentality.
Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows Light Turner (Nat Wolff) a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.
Sure enough, the creepy scene concludes with Katie literally frightened to death (we see her grotesquely disfigured face), while Becca is left insane.
They have some evil death stares while keeping a Pollyanna grin on their face at times.
Here we have Bilbo's tense encounter with Gollum (once again impeccably voiced and performed for motion - capture by Andy Serkis) in a standoff of riddles, where freedom or a gruesome death are the prizes on the line, while his companions face certain torture or death among a goblin horde.
Unlike here in the US where Amazon seems to be everyone's favorite whipping boy — while many of those same naysayers have turned Amazon into the empire that it is today — for it's massive growth and the blame for the death of brick - and - mortar bookstores, German critics are taking issue with Amazon's labor practices, many of which fly in the face of the way working citizens are used to doing business.
While an ILIT is an effective way to make sure that your life insurance death benefit is not taxable as part of your estate, there are a couple situations in which you may face a tax event:
So, if you had a $ 500,000 death benefit and your insurer capped the amount you could accelerate at «the lesser of $ 250,000 or 75 % of the policy's face value», you could request up to $ 250,000 while still living.
The Conservatives promise to increase the HBP limit from $ 25,000 to $ 35,000, while the Liberals pledge to relax HBP rules so it also becomes available to home buyers facing challenging circumstances — such as job relocation, the death of a spouse or divorce.
In the game's final world, you have to face - off against almost - invisible squids, constantly regenerating poisonous balls of death which leave a long - lasting guff of poison that both slows you down and damages at the same time and quick ships that can avoid you all while shooting devastating laser beams right into your ships precious hull.
While it may be a bit brief for some, facing down bosses in tough instant death battles is a great time.
He can also not fire while jumping, or fire on the move — things that, unfortunately, serve as more of then just a hindrance in later parts of the game, when enemies seek to flank you on two sides to deliver hot bullet death all over your face.
Much as Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds gives the audience the visceral satisfaction of witnessing Hitler's death by countless rounds to the face, Saul treats the viewer to a dopey Tex Avery - style Custer as he is scalped, his skull peeling like a piece of fruit to reveal his juicy red brain while idiosyncratically goofy Native Americans with potbellies and big noses — one with a pretty headdress of pink, orange, red, and yellow — circle U.S. cavalrymen and kill them in their own special ways.
While art historians were debating the death of the author, the art world was faced with a crisis in which its authors were actually dying.
Gentlemen, While I think that the total bull of CAGW will ultimately die a natural death in the face of growing facts and data to the contrary, the fact remains that should the worst happen and the CAGW cult truly gains power, we'll have to invent a whole new word to describe the outcome because genocide will be insufficient.
At the time, Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that civilization would end «within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind» while Paul Ehrlich warned that population would «inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,» and that therefore the death rate would increase «until at least 100 - 200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.»
The 0.5 % of deaths attributed to climate change amounted to around 150,000, while the causes of the remaining 42,157,155 deaths went largely undiscussed, principally because conventional wisdom informs that «climate change is the biggest threat facing mankind» and «climate change is worse for the poor».
While there were earlier reports that Derakhshan had been facing the death penalty, Western reaction to his sentencing has been predictable in its outrage.
However, a new study reveals that while deaths overall may be falling, it depends on your socioeconomic position as to whether you face a decreased risk of an auto fatality or whether you may actually face an increased risk of harm.
While recovering compensation in a wrongful death lawsuit won't bring your spouse, child, or close relative back, it will certainly help ease the financial burden you and your family may be facing.
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