Sentences with phrase «who lost their lands»

I have a portrait of an ancestor who lost his land to the Crown because he was a Catholic; there is a tradition of an earlier ancestor who lost his life.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

When these displaced farmers move to cities seeking work, they will find other peasants, indigenous people and artisanal fishing people who lost their lands for similar reasons.

Not exact matches

It's likely most people who are in financial trouble are aware of it, and usually long before landing in bankruptcy court or losing their home in foreclosure.

To many Canadians, emerging market investing is for risk - takers who can stomach losing a few bucks in unfamiliar lands.

A rendering by Richard Chenoweth of «Keys Cottages» that are being designed by the Florida Keys Community Land Trust to house people who lost their homes during Hurricane Irma.

Farmers who once lived and worked here are now refugees in Jordan or Lebanon they and their children are restless to return to land they have lost.

The event will be attended by thousands of victims from all walks of life - soldiers who lost limbs clearing landmines, mothers whose children were forcibly recruited by the rebels, never to be seen again and farmers driven off their land by right - wing paramilitary groups.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Let's not forget Maryland (Catholics), Pennsylvania (Quakers), and I can't help but add Georgia — a southern state and the only one at the time of its founding to prohibit slavery (Oglethorpe who had made his fortune in the slave trade felt bad about how he had made his money and paid off the debts of folks imprisoned for their debts and procured them land and gave them a new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so on.

Declaring that it would restore India to its long - lost international eminence, the BJP also acquired what Nussbaum calls «a powerful and wealthy US arm»: a generation of rich Indians who while living abroad seek to affirm their identities through the achievements of their ancestral land.

He prayed for those who had died at sea, comforted migrants staying at the center and laid a wreath in the water for those who lost their lives before reaching land.

I always thought the evangelicals here were the nuttiest (who literally believe we'll all just be driving down the road one day and some of us will get magically whisked away, and thinks people and dinosaurs coexisted like Land of the Lost), but apparently Crazy doesn't discriminate against any religion.

In it he found the great myths of the creation, the fall, the flood, the escape from Egypt, the promised land, the twelve tribes, the exile, the prophets, all full of Semitic poetry and wisdom, and great human stories, followed by the incomparable religious texts of the New Testament — «He who would save his life must lose it».

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

Land of 10's Chris Howard disagrees with Keeler; Michigan quarterback Dylan McCaffrey is the quarterback who has the most to gain or lose in the final two weeks of spring practice.

So, if your club is buying a developing or a mediocre goal scorer who just scored a bagful of goals in a league on the continent, be ready for disappointment as there is a high probability of him losing his touch as soon as he lands in England.

Our children deserve a land free from fear,» Martinez read from the statement from the Wang family, which went on to say, «Let us pray for all the people who lost their loved ones, including the family of the killer.»

A campaign against illegal mining by the current NPP government is gaining traction amid fears the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu, who is fronting the anti-illegal mining crusade, will lose steam because of the influential people involved in the practice.

Gerald Leibman, 74, who has owned Bronx properties that have landed on the public advocate's bad landlord list, lost $ 1.9 million to accused fraudster Hamlet Peralta, according to court documents.

His campaign message, in fact, lacks that razor - edge positivity from a leader ready to lead his people gallantly to the Promised Land, but smacks of an individual who just wants to realize his life - long ambition of becoming president: «I tried once, I lost narrowly.

Land's support is an early boost for Bouchard, who lost badly to Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) in 2006, because she hails from the Republican - rich western part of the state and has impeccable social conservative credentials.

Its economy was destroyed during the Civil War, and took further blows during the Reconstruction era at the hand of «carpetbaggers» from the North, particularly involving Northern banks providing financing to plantation owners who would pledge their land as collateral and often lost that land when they failed to repay the loans as agreed.

Even those who ascend to power due to a Prime Ministerial resignation, and lose, such as Alec Douglas Home, James Callaghan, or Gordon Brown can at least cling to the fact that they obtained the highest office in the land.

The chiefs are also accusing some government officials who they say are conspiring to have the Dagbon Traditional Council lose its lands.

Former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, the Republican who lost to new Democratic NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio last fall, has landed a new job as senior vice president, vice dean and chairman at NYU Langone, effective Jan. 6.

Another thing that is unclear, does the Locke's view then mean that someone who claimed ownership of land that was public and did NOT improve it in some way loses the rights to that land back to the public?

Theorectically, that's helpful to Grisanti, who very much needs the Conservative line, but lost his chance of landing it — in Long's eyes, anyway — when he crossed over to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage with the Democrats.

For ranchers who depend on wide expanses of open land for grazing, losing several thousand acres in a fast - burning range fire denies them use of that land not only for the rest of the year but also for up to three years after that, while the plants regrow.

MOTALA & MOSHA, THE ELEPHANTS Motala and Mosha are Asian elephants who lost their legs after stepping on land mines along the Thailand — Burma border.

But these pastors were moved by the human beings who were losing their homes and livelihood as the seas reclaimed their land.

«During the three years I studied [M. frigidum], I thought I'd lost it a number of times,» says Peter D. Franzmann of CSIRO Land and Water in Australia, who isolated the microbes from Ace Lake.

Any kiddo who adores getting lost in Lego land will feel proud sporting this watch.

Though it lost the foreign - language Oscar to In a Better World 65, this drama about two grown twins who piece together their mother's past after her death landed on several critic top ten lists at the end of last year.

Conversely, spirits like Hector — who hasn't received a Day of the Dead offering in a long time — are unable to cross the bridge into the land of the living during Dia de lost Muertos and risk disappearing from the afterlife for good.

«Tomorrowland» - May 22 George Clooney and Britt Robertson star in a sci - fi fantasy about a man and woman who must discover the secrets of a strange land lost in time and space.

Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts play a married couple, who along with their three sons, find themselves lost in a strange land in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

Naturally, a battle ensues, with the 25 - foot - tall giants, who want to reclaim the land they lost centuries ago.

The script for the film is being written by Chris Henchy, who also wrote the upcoming Will Ferrell movie Land of the Lost along with a couple episodes of the Mark Wahlberg - produced HBO show Entourage.

Inviting comparisons to the Lost Boys of Never Land and Fagin's pickpockets of Oliver Twist, the gang features such personalities as a girl in a pixie cut who's obsessed with Darth Vader and draws him as a tortured skeleton under that helmet and an always - shirtless guy notorious for whipping out his genitals.

In some cases the humor seems to have been lost in translation: scenes with Will Forte, who plays a socially awkward but well - meaning guy who offers the girls a ride in LA, just completely fail to land.

(PG - 13 for profanity and sexuality) Three - time Academy Award - winner James L. Brooks directs this romantic comedy in which a free - spirited 27 year - old (Reese Witherspoon) lands in a love triangle where she has troubled deciding between a major league baseball player (Owen Wilson) and a corporate executive (Paul Rudd) who's just lost his job.

The Hollywood icon didn't win Best Actress for «Florence Foster Jenkins», losing out to Emma Stone, who got the Oscar for «La La Land».

The land is threatened by the powerful Red Queen (Carter, Terminator: Salvation), whose vanity about her rather large head makes her take no pity about those who lose theirs when they cause her displeasure.

Last year, Moonlight's surprise win not only freaked out the pundits who had asserted with certainty beyond a reasonable doubt that La La Land could not lose, but in a sense it freaked out the Oscar strategists too.

Not every joke lands, and the movie begins to lose steam in the final act, but «Popstar» does just enough to keep you entertained with its cavalcade of musician cameos and a great lead performance by Samberg, who channels Derek Zoolander as the clueless, self - confident popstar.

(12/17) Three - time Academy Award - winner James L. Brooks directs this romantic comedy in which a free - spirited 27 year - old (Reese Witherspoon) lands in a love triangle where she has troubled deciding between a major league baseball player (Owen Wilson) and a corporate executive (Paul Rudd) who's just lost his job.

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The mismatched trio land in Ocean View with no more than a PO Box number to guide them in their investigation, but no sooner have they checked into their hotel than Jeff abandons the job to track down a long lost love interest who lives in the beach community.

The player who lands on the space containing the Orb gets attacked by Spiny Shells and loses ten coins, which are then given to the owner of that space.