Sentences with phrase «years bored to death»

Remember: In first year they frightened us to death; in second year they worked us to death, and in third year they bored us to death.

They accept the student wisdom that in first year they scare us to death, and second year they work us to death and in third year they bore us to death.

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Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

It is at once intellectually satisfying and spiritually enriching - a worthy meditation upon the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ; a meditation which should bear much fruit in the lives of the faithful for many years to come.

We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.

There were 4,016 years from the creation of the world to the death of Jesus Christ, and Abraham was born exactly in the middle of this period.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

With classic terminology but with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of times.

Right on the heels of the final release of Youcef Nadarkhani, a Church of Iran pastor who was imprisoned for three years, another Iranian - born pastor could face the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam.

Noah was born 126 years after Adam's death at age 930, which brings us to the year 1056.

They are maybe five years old, these three moppets, and I hear Their bus groaning a ways behind me, but they are totally into sculpting Little hills and ridges of leaves, and I can hear them giggling, and in one Minute the bus will hold out its arms and absorb them, and the parade is Starting to move in front of me, but for another perfect instant I can hear And see them skiffling and giggling, and smell the sharp savory death of The brilliant leaves, and see the shoulder of the mom or aunt or neighbor In the lee of the apartment building, where she is just lighting a cigarette, And we get these moments all day long, don't we, we get them all month And week and year all our lives, such a flood and flow of them, too many To count, too many to endure, they are too generous and savory and holy, We could not bear to see and savor and sing them all; we would go blinto move in front of me, but for another perfect instant I can hear And see them skiffling and giggling, and smell the sharp savory death of The brilliant leaves, and see the shoulder of the mom or aunt or neighbor In the lee of the apartment building, where she is just lighting a cigarette, And we get these moments all day long, don't we, we get them all month And week and year all our lives, such a flood and flow of them, too many To count, too many to endure, they are too generous and savory and holy, We could not bear to see and savor and sing them all; we would go blinTo count, too many to endure, they are too generous and savory and holy, We could not bear to see and savor and sing them all; we would go blinto endure, they are too generous and savory and holy, We could not bear to see and savor and sing them all; we would go blinto see and savor and sing them all; we would go blind.

The Indian - born author's book, «Joseph Anton,» describes the nine years he spent in hiding, after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced him to death in 1989, for basing a fictional character on the Prophet Muhammad in his novel «The Satanic Verses.»

This opposition by the Amalekites, at that time, is given as a reason, that the men, women, infants and sucklings, sheep and oxen, camels and asses, that were born four hundred years afterward, should be put to death; and to complete the horror, Samuel hewed Agag, the chief of the Amalekites, in pieces, as you would hew a stick of wood.

The Polish - born pope was fast - tracked to beatification and became «the blessed» John Paul II barely six years after his death, the fastest beatification in centuries.

The London - born toddler's mother, 26 - year - old Sindyann Regis, was jailed for 40 months for allowing the death of a child but had her sentence reduced to 28 months on appeal.

According to Matthew 2:1, Jesus was born «in the days of king Herod», and Herod's order for the killing of children at Bethlehem who were two years old or less (2:16) suggests that Matthew regards the birth as having taken place at least two years before Herod's death (4 BC.).

In absolute terms, South East Asia is the worst affected global region with 175,000 deaths a year attributed to food borne illnesses.56

Three coaches and one decade to the month after the death of Bear Bryant, Alabama won its 12th national title and its first in 13 years.

My husband left for a younger woman (25 years younger) and yes I was bored to death in our loveless sexless marriage.

There are only about 125,000 babies born each year in Belgium, according to Wikipedia, and maternal death rates in the first world are measured in deaths per hundred thousand.

Over the whole 14 years the risk of death during delivery or in the first four weeks of life in a baby of normal birth weight and without a lethal malformation was higher in those born to the small group of women who had booked for home delivery.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

More recently, he responded to last month's Westminster terror attack by saying «normal non-Mohammedans» should fear Islam and attacked the religion as a «death cult, born and steeped in 1,400 years of violence and bloodshed, that propagates itself by intimidation, violence and conquest.»

Nevertheless, the occasional death of animals in various European caves over several tens of thousands of years eventually led to enormous accumulations of bones and teeth from these large fur - bearing animals.

Dengue is a mosquito - borne viral infection that infects at least 100 million people every year around the world, with about 4 billion people at risk of the illness, which includes dengue hemorrhagic fever that can lead to spontaneous bleeding, organ failure and death.

A road map will be launched today that describes how the partners plan to cut deaths from the water - borne bacteria — now running at 95,000 a year — by 90 per cent by 2030.

Responsible for 95 percent of all seafood - borne deaths, according to an article published last year in the journal Microbial Ecology, the naturally - occurring bacteria historically has not been found in northern latitudes.

An ancient star a mere thousand light - years from Earth bears chemical elements that may have been forged by the death of a star that was both extremely massive and one of the first to arise after the big bang.

An estimated 25,000 Americans suffer from SMA and up to 1,000 babies each year are born with this deadly genetic malady that dooms them to suffering and premature death, usually before age 2.

About 12 million gallons were dumped over Vietnam during a 9 - year period, leading to 400,000 deaths & disfigurements and 500,000 babies born with birth defects.

If the risk of death related to weekend births was the same as for babies born on weekdays, there would be 770 fewer newborn deaths across England every year, the study authors estimated.

The trousers you have seen last year with the matching orange sweater.The yellow necklace is boring you to death by now.

Elvis» Father Vernon Elvis Presley was born on April 10, 1916 in Fulton, Mississippi to Jesse (1896 - 1973) and Minnie Mae Hood, «Grandma Dodger» Presley Sir Tom Jones is dating Elvis's ex Priscilla Presley a year after the death of his wife.

Melania Trump (/ m ə ˈ l ɑː n i ə /; born Melanija Knavs; [mɛˈlaːnija ˈknaːu̯s], Germanized to Melania Knauss; April 26, 1970) is the current A Texas father who discovered a man raping his five - year - old daughter and beat him to death with his bare hands will not be charged with homicide under

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If the ghosts of the thousands of poets who died a thousand years ago, seven hundred years ago, or four hundred years ago, and the spirit of those yet to be born — who, unlike the living, in the democracy of death amicably and tolerantly wander the streets of Tehran — see her large black eyes, they will liken them, as is customary of their poetry, to the sad eyes of a gazelle.

Add to that an angsty existential crisis born of selectively reading his sister's Philosophy 101 coursework, a botched break - in at an artisanal pig farm, and ten years of unresolved baggage stemming from his mother's death... and the question isn't so much whether Tom Grendel will win the day and get the girl, but whether he'll survive intact.

A young actress had jumped off the now fallen H to her death the year before I was born.

In this book, he documents a year spent in the South Bronx, in Mott Haven and its neighboring communities, visiting churches, schools, and hospitals and bearing witness to the misery and death he encountered there.

From major political events to celebrity deaths and everything in between, it is hard to call 2016 a «boring» or even «uninteresting» year by any measure.

The connection is made to the irrefutable, massive, negative impact puppy mills have on this country's pet population crisis and how our society deals with it — Millions of dogs are born in puppy mills every year, while, in the same period, millions are put to death in animal shelters across the country.

The last seven years have produced several high - impact, feature - length documentaries about the plight of animals, such as The Cove, Earthlings, Born to be Wild, Dealing Dogs, and Death on a Factory Farm.

An unknowable number of cats have been spared being born to be coyote food, being hit by cars, or suffering lingering deaths of diseases simply by spaying these four females, but a safe estimate covering only two litters in one year (Spring and Fall) of three female kittens each is about 45 new, unwanted cats, spared meaningless births and deaths.

Four years after Nitro's tragic death by starvation at a Youngstown, OH training facility, the bill that bears his name has yet to become law.

aspiring phil is the king of PR people right before E3 him and major nelson will talk a big game what we do know at this year's E3 sony will have: spiderman days gone the last of us 2 demo death stranding gameplay kingdom hearts 3 possibily a new title similar to dark souls / blood borne sucker punche's new IP (which has been in development for over 4 years) yakuza kiwame 2 we could get a trailer for shenmue 3 we could get a blockbuster announcement of another PS classic remake by bluepoint for ms to have a decent chance at a E3 where their brand could gain some momentum they have to bring their A + + + + + + game otherwise sony is going for the mortal kombat style finisher

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

I am bored with shooters, played them to death for many years.

Maurice Brooks was born in 1922 in Connecticut, spent his early years in Los Angeles, and then at age 8, moved to New York City following his father's death.

Opening: «Hedda Sterne: Machines 1947 - 1951» at Van Doren Waxter One of the few women in the New York School of artists and poets, a group of post-war American artists that included the Abstract Expressionist painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Hedda Sterne was a Romanian - born painter and sculptor who made work that ranged from surrealism to expressionism between the 1940s and her death at 100 years old in 2011.