Sentences with phrase «who face down»

Independent research positions, he realized, only come to those who face down obstacles and get beyond them.

It's brave to go anyway, and women with those fears who face them down and go to where their babies have the best chance of coming through birth safely have my utmost respect.

Yet there is another scenario, which, many observers believe, is just as likely: that Putin, with about $ 465 billion in foreign cash and gold in Russia's Central Bank, could try to ride out sanctions, perhaps for years, and emerge even stronger (his approval ratings are above 80 %) as the Man Who Faced Down the West.

Ronan Farrow interviews Italian actress Asia Argento — one of the first to publicly charge Harvey Weinstein with assault, Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, who faced down Weinstein and Berlusconi, and Italian MP Laura Boldrini about the retro disgrace of post-Berlusconi Italy.

But is she following in the footsteps of Gove, or another cabinet minister who faced down vocal opposition (some would say vested interests) to their reform agenda?

Other sackings included Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, booed by teachers at their conference, and Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, who faced down lurid stories about his relationship with a dominatrix.

Chuck Greene wasn't the man who faced down the slow flood of zombies stumbling through the casinos of Fortune City.

The New York Times has a nice profile of Judge Ed Korman, the judge who faced down HHS in the Plan B case.

Not exact matches

Not long after, in 2007, 24 - year - old Maurice Pulley was gunned down after testifying against a man who had shot him in the face earlier that year.

Munoz, who took the helm at United in 2015 as part of an effort to improve customer relations, has faced calls to step down after referring to Dao as «disruptive and belligerent» in a statement following the incident.

Lee's son, known as Jamie, gave a eulogy, as did Lee's former boarding school roommate, Mike McBride — and Dimon, who last year faced down his own health crisis as he was treated for throat cancer.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

At the end of 2017, Steve Ells, who had been the face of the chain since he founded it nearly 25 years ago, said he would be stepping down from his post as CEO.

Parker's expectation for more multiple expansion (that is the ratio of stock price - to - earnings) flies in the face of of the bears who warn the already elevated multiples will contract bringing stock prices down with them.

So the firm let these employees go, replacing them with older advisers who were willing to sit down, look clients in the eye, and discuss matters face to face.

Take the example of one job candidate who sat down at the keyboard to answer the same series of 150 multiple - choice questions every prospective employee faces.

For instance, in 2015, the housecleaning start - up Homejoy publicly said that the four lawsuits it faced from workers who claimed they were misclassified as independent contractors were «the deciding factor» in the reason it shut down.

She faced down evil and oppression and now speaks boldly for those who are silenced.

For the political junkie wanting face time with controversial candidates, Tyee reporters delivered interviews with Elizabeth May, Tory campaign manager David Emerson and NDP Vancouver - Centre candidate Michael Byers (who explained why he turned down running with Stephane Dion's Liberals).

Fisher, who was addressing a New York audience for likely the last time before stepping down, again warned against delaying an interest rate hike in the face of weak inflation, according to Reuters.

Voters back debt reduction over tax cuts: More voters overall believe the government should pay down debt rather than cut income tax — except those who face higher cost of living pressures.

Those who hoped to see Ottawa slow down in the face of Donald Trump's backward - looking agenda will be disappointed: the Trudeau government still sees clean growth as an essential opportunity for Canada — and is willing to put some of its money where its mouth is.

I liken this to a scuba diver who goes down and he has about an hour's worth of air, and then he's got ta come back up again and either get another tank or refill his tank, so you're limited on how much air you can have if you're scuba diving, but in business, unless you have a scuba diving type business, you don't wan na have to keep having to refill your tank, and so that's the issue that I see faces a lot of entrepreneurs and startups, is the amount of time and energy it takes to raise money for your business.

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... But I wouldn't bother to tell you anyhow, because you and your kind have no eyes to see... If God Himself came down from Heaven, and stood before you, staring you in the face, you would not recognize Him... you're no different then those who were there and have seen His works, heard Him speak and do great miracles among them.

But we... with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God» 2Corinthians 3, Hebrews12)

When you are going to go on a journey, if somebody else who has been through it comes and talks to you they can give you an idea what you're going to face down the road.

The poll basically breaks white Americans down into three categories: white people who believe they face discrimination and have personally experienced it (NPR spoke with an individual who fell into this category, although he struggled to think of specific examples for some reason); white people who believe they face discrimination but have not personally experienced it (NPR also spoke with a man who fell into this group, who hastened to say he believed other racial and ethnic groups faced discrimination as well), and white people who don't believe they face any discrimination at all.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Tears had been streaming down his face, praising the god, who had heard their prayers.

Tears quietly streamed down his face as he watched himself recount his work as a hospital chaplain in Brooklyn, the day he held the shiny bald head of a man named Albert who looked into his eyes, said, «Don't be afraid,» and died.

Only if the heart forgives the one who betrayed the trust you gave, only when you turn and face and forgive the one who lied about you behind your back, only when you forgive the one who let you down and stood you up, forgive the one who shattered your reputation, shredded your trust, busted your dreams, broke your plans, and bruised your one boldly beating heart — only when your heart forgives — can your heart be forgiven — forgiven of being a lying, cheating, and thieving sinner, forgiven of what you thought you would never do, forgiven of what you don't what anyone to know that you have done.

May those who follow Jesus do the work of Jesus — breaking down the dividing walls speaking the truth in love meeting together in the face of disagreements.

Some men who work on Wallstreet want to pay me to let them force my face down on their privates until they visibly see me gagging and choking on their Penis.

Are you facing enemies who want to drag you down?

If they are brainwashed people who happen to be unintelligent, not a chance, might as well go try to tear down a brick wall with your face.

I can't keep a straight face for all these disgraced big shots who «find religion» to water down their dirty laundry for the sake of somehow staying on the gravy train.

When you idiots curse other religions; when you call others infidels who shoul dbe killed; when you decide that your religion is the one that all men must subscribe to or face dire consequences... if your allah is so powerful, have him come down and make his will the way it is.

When we face disappointment upon seeing others fall, it is because we are searching for someone who will not let us down.

Peter Whittle pointed out in the September Standpoint magazine that «If faced with a group of gang members playing music unbearably loud in the car next to them at traffic lights I personally know of nobody - nobody, from Daily Telegraph reader toGuardian reader - who would risk asking them to turn it down... but it's not just the gang culture.»

And those who are with him are stern against the infidels and merciful among themselves; Thou beholdest them bowing down and falling prostrate, seeking grace from Allah and His goodWill Mark of them is on their faces from the effect of prostration: such is their similitude in the Taurat.

Limbo, for example, was touted by pope after pope as a place where un-baptized babies who die go, until Pope Benedict XVI just eradicated it (or, more accurately, so watered it down as effectively eradicate it in a face saving way).

It is EXACTLY the situation that we face in our church right now, and as such has been very helpful in getting some of the leadership team who currently feel quite beaten down to laugh at the essential truth of the same situation, thus making it easier to work to change.

It is easy to sympathise with those who, faced with these realities, might look somehow to ameliorate or water down the demands of the Gospel.

Looking past that fact is spitting in the face of the millions of people who were tortured and killed by his orders, as well as the thousands of American and Ally soldiers who laid down their lives to stop him.

Five years before the times When celebrants who'd always turned their backs On those who served and poured and knelt and bowed Would face lay faces and the music of Guitars, I lit six wicks and watched white wax Melt down.

Save the spiritual puke for they altar boys, who may fall for it when the priests loosen the knots that are holding them face down on your sperm stained altars.

He's rather a God who simply wants us to trust him, in the face of uncertainty, by lovingly laying down our lives for him in response the way he has lovingly laid down his life for us.

They seem to imagine that they face problems with a noisy handful of «insubordinates» who can be put down by methods used in earlier generations, while the «majority of the faithful» submissively look upward to the «Holy Father» for signals as to what to think and do.

They would give me napkins to soak the blood from my face, they would help me call the police, they would track down the woman who punched me in the mouth, and one of them would even bring me ice as I recounted my story to a different man in uniform.