Sentences with phrase «whose life changed»

But before all that, Chuck Wepner (Liev Schreiber) was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight when, in 1975, he was chosen to take on The Greatest in a highly publicized title match.

The novel's protagonist and narrator is twelve - year - old Hayat Shah, whose life changes when his beautiful, devout aunt, Mina, comes to stay with his family in suburban Milwaukee.

Ed tv casts Matthew McConaughey as Ed Pekurny, an affable everyman whose life changes dramatically after he's cast as the star of a 24 hour television program documenting his every move - with Ed's newfound notoriety increasing substantially after he begins dating his brother's girlfriend (Jenna Elfman's Shari).

The title refers to a children's TV show made for an audience of one — a boy named James, whose life changes after the show's abrupt end.

Frank (Elijah Wood) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, whose life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition.

The story follows a «bright, young» Yeti whose life changes when he discovers something that shouldn't exist — a human.

Bradley Cooper plays Eddie Morra, a would - be novelist whose life changes radically when he is introduced to NZT, an experimental, black - market pharmaceutical that allows him to remember everything he ever read or experienced, learn new languages in a day, master complex equations in a blink, mastermind Wall Street, and, presumably, decipher the plot of «Inception.»

Krystal: The opening night film, about a sheltered Southern boy whose life changes when he falls for a troubled older woman, has plenty of quirks, laughs and profound moments.

Smart, sexy, and pulsating with suspense, the series begins with Sarah (Maslany), a punk outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman, «Beth,» who looks just like her.

Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen play lifelong friends whose lives change after reading «Fifty Shades of Grey.»

Set in 1970s London, the coming - of - age drama follows a 14 - year - old boy (Daniel Huttlestone) whose life changes after he is introduced to legendary punk band.

Academy Award winner Charlize Theron stars as Marlo, an overworked mother whose life changes...

Charming children's comedy starring Jim Carrey as Tom Popper, a high - flying but glum and recently divorced businessman whose life changes in all sorts of ways when he inherits six penguins from his eccentric explorer father.

The film tells the story of two characters whose lives change when their widowed mother marries a bishop.

Much of the novel is concerned with people whose lives change in an instant; a decision or a chance meeting or a journey occurs and suddenly your life veers off on a new course.

Your novels span an incredible range of subjects, from, most recently, the final years of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and a marriage on the brink of collapse to a widow whose life changes in unexpected ways, a family whose daughter has gone missing, and the final day of a chain restaurant.

Combining street inspiration with stories from his own childhood, Kelman crafted the tale of Hari Opuku, the narrator of Pigeon English, whose life changes when he and his friend Dean decide to solve a crime.

«Monkey Warfare,» won the 2006 Special Jury Award at the Toronto Film Festival, tells the story of two Toronto residents whose lives change when they meet a young revolutionary.

Not exact matches

This CNBC original documentary takes viewers inside the story of Warren Buffett's extraordinary success and profiles some of the many people whose lives have been influenced, and even changed, by Buffett's investment advice and life lessons.

So on the days when it seems really too hard for me to keep going I think about all of the people whose lives have been changed by the work.

Or the story of someone who used the product and whose life was changed as a result.

Classes 4 Classes is a 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission is to teach every child in our nation that «our lives are not separate but rather completely connected, and that everyone has the power to take action and create positive change.»

They're «the dreamers, visionaries, megalomaniacs, and arrogant sons - of - bitches» whose businesses «change lives and do more to lift thousands out of poverty than most government programs or nongovernmental organizations.»

The New York Department of Finance sets a strong standard for what might constitute a life - changing problem for people whose information is involved in a cybersecurity breach (according to the new legislation the only two pieces of leak - able information that are still exempt: age and gender) as well as a company's ability to survive.

It is bestowed by others — people whose opinions, actions and lives have been positively changed because of your message or solutions.

Correspondent Becky Quick profiles Buffett and some of the many people whose lives have been influenced, and even changed, by his investment advice and life lessons.

It is instead a dense and compelling character study of an innovator whose determination to change the world with products led him to spurn many of the closest people in his life.

Tan, whose official Google title is «jolly good fellow (which nobody can deny)» has been teaching «Search Inside Yourself» for the past five years, and participants often report that it changed their lives — in fact one attendee reversed her decision to leave Google after taking it.

As an entrepreneur getting traction, whose life are you going to change?

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The vignettes of anonymous people whose lives are changed by the magical doors of migration are often touching.

I find it stupid for someone whose basic social level has not changed for 6000 yrs to call someone living 2000 yrs ago primitive.

The word that changed Augustine's life was a biblical command whose message it took no special hermeneutic sensitivity to hear: «Spend no more thought on nature and nature's appetites»» what could be clearer?

Ask the homeowner who has life savings tied up in a poorly insulated house and whose skills qualify her only to make energy - guzzling widgets what she thinks about the possibility of change.

He argued, in his inimitable style, for a «dead Constitution» — whose meaning is fixed until changed by formal amendment — over a «living Constitution» that a judge can manipulate into whatever shape he wishes.

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?

Hauerwas insists the first task of the church is to be a people, an ecclesia, called out from the world (the root meaning of ek - klesia), whose task is not first to change the world but to form a people who live in accordance with the nonviolent way of Jesus.

The grittiness of Lent, and the «intransigent historical claims» without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us that Christianity does not rest on myths or «narratives,» but on radically changed human lives whose effect on their times are historical fact.

These people, whose jobs it is to change the way we live and let us know how the universe, world, and humanity acually work, are the most valuable people on the planet.

The testimonies of friends whose lives were profoundly changed by suddenly trusting Christ to be Who He claimed to be brought me to my senses.

But as his thinking on the morality of abortion gradually changed, he began to see the fetus as a very important being whose life ought not to be ended except under extraordinary circumstances.

First comes the tweets, then the impassioned status updates, then a wave of inspired blog posts from the happy attendees whose lives have been changed by what they heard.

The poor whose hopes for a dignified life or even survival depend on such changes are considered enemies.

These critics should be prepared to answer some questions that might be raised by military personnel whose lives would be affected by a policy change.

Indeed let us consider the incalculable loss to all those whose lives would have been touched, even changed, but were not, by...

That, says Dr. Southgate, is because the issue is focused on HIV / AIDS, and she asks readers to consider the «incalculable loss» from the disease --» the loss to all those whose lives would have been touched, even changed, but were not, by books not read because they were never written, by paintings not seen because they were never painted, by performances never heard because the song was not sung.»

The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many - coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity,... That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things work and move.

Critical thinker, You study a little science and suddenly you feel you have it figured out, Your meaning of life and the after life is based on other men's hypotheses, Yet it makes such good sense to you that you make a life choice based on it, then you stand up and criticize a person whose made a life choice based on A holy Book written 2000 years ago, When it comes down to it how are you any different, Your choices based on science which changes daily and theirs on the prophets.

In moving hearts and changing lives, Francis is following in the footsteps of his predecessors, especially St. John Paul II, whose papacy was blessed with similar moments.

Here we have Jesus himself hand picking those first apostles whose lives would be changed for ever and who, through Jesus, would go on to change the face of the earth.