Sentences with phrase «with yeomen»

This story outline could have produced yet another tired historical epic with yeomen dashing around on horses, quaffing ale and eating burnt sheep with both hands, while their betters practiced the minuet.

With the yeoman aid of director Judd Apatow, he develops his faux - newsman routine into a much different comic persona that may launch him into the big leagues.

Not exact matches

In fact, Lincoln had difficulty with the aristocratic Jefferson on many accounts, and in private he not only scorned Jefferson's views of the ideal yeoman farmer but also condemned Jefferson's hypocrisy regarding slaves, a hypocrisy that implied Jefferson's use of the word equality in the Declaration need not be taken literally as applying to all men.

An economy that rested on the sturdy backs of Jeffersonian yeomen synced with the Hebraic system of land tenure.

Read Scott Martin continues doing yeoman's work over at his political Ad of the Day site, and with Indiana and North Carolina in mind, take a look at how Obama's been pushing voter turnout.

Someone with a 10,000 acre estate can engage in agricultural strategies that benefit from economies of scale in a way that a yeoman with 40 acres and a mule can not.

«I think what we have seen over the last 10 years with chiefs Krokoff and Cox is a yeoman's attempt at public policing and people have embraced the attempt,» said McLaughlin.

These young scientists — who have received their PhD — do the yeoman's work in our 19 laboratories and spark groundbreaking interdisciplinary research with their colleagues.

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Ioan Gruffudd makes a yeoman's effort as Wilberforce in a challenging role which calls for him to portray, empathetically, a determined character somehow simultaneously imbued with an endearing humility offset by a God - ordained self - righteousness.

He does a yeoman's job in the role, smoothly dispatching his targets while never breaking a sweat or rumpling his Italian black wool suit; coolly arranging his weapons with a precision that bespeaks an equally enhanced OCD condition.

Budnik does yeoman work in a challenging part, neither sinking into generic drear nor reaching for specious histrionics, and the surrounding ensemble likewise succeeds in putting us in touch with a community spirit.

Robert proved a reliable entertainer, performing yeoman work on everything from the iambs of Shakespeare with Ian McKellen in «Richard III,» to the curse - words of Quentin Tarantino with Tom Sizemore in «Natural Born Killers.»

I will not dwell upon the matter overlong, but will tell as speedily as may be of how that stout fellow, Robin Hood, died as he had lived, not at court as Earl of Huntingdon, but with bow in hand, his heart in the greenwood, and he himself a right yeoman.»

David Archer of the University of Chicago has again done yeoman's service by posting a detailed look at this paper on Realclimate (along with last Monday's methane paper, discussed here, providing a new and higher estimate of emissions of this gas across the United States).

You are doing yeoman work on this thread, and with your work, and that was just a transient exasperation.

«They were doing yeoman's work trying to keep everyone engaged, talking with each other,» he said.

Powered by a mere Pentium M processor, it still is up to any office task I throw at it and does a yeoman's job with heftier programs such as Photoshop.