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They had sacrificed a lot to give me five years of higher education.
And such skeptics can find comfort in the fourth kind of immortality story, and that is legacy, the idea that you can live on through the echo you leave in the world, like the great Greek warrior Achilles, who sacrificed his life fighting at Troy so that he might win immortal fame.
It is rather what is swallowed up and sacrificed in the name of the god of love, or rather in the name of seduction capital.
We know that they allowed their people to be sacrificed so they could protect their own interests, or worse, they sacrificed their people to protect their own interests.
Those athletes had sacrificed everything to compete in the games.
So for Dr. Khan and for all of those who sacrificed their lives on the front lines in this fight with us always, let us be in this fight with them always.
They were won by people who fought for them and who sacrificed for them.
I deeply appreciate the fact that I am standing on the shoulders of those who have sacrificed even their lives to open the doors that I have walked through.
Letters from his rural home only add to his distress when he realizes how much his mother and sister have sacrificed for his success.
Nanahuatl replied that just as he had sacrificed himself to become Lord Sun, he now needed the nourishing blood of the other gods in order to move through the sky.
And when you've got that, you've pretty much sacrificed any hope of making lots of money.
After Mr. Spock sacrificed himself to save the starship Enterprise at the end of Star Trek II, Captain Kirk and his core team were determined to hunt through the universe to search for Spock, even though they could see only very little chance in finding him alive.
Jane (Camille Keaton), the only female of the group, is to be sacrificed.
Granted that the plot is that John Weston (John Wayne) is sent by Marshall George Higgins (George Hayes) to participate in a fixed rodeo (say "Ro-DAY-oh"), but character development and interaction are sacrificed.
It's pacing is sacrificed to a uniform texture of dialog.
The storyline is ludicrous, but some things must be sacrificed when the story has to revolve around girl-on-girl sex scenes.
O.K, I can buy that the woman in the film is a reincarnation of a virgin that was sacrificed to an Aztec God.
Most American directors would have sacrificed small animals to line up the kind of talent on the soundtrack of Demons 2. For another, well, two words: Asia Argento.
This viewer is tired of seeing animals sacrificed for the plot of a movie.
Understandable...but sometimes it's nice to see people who have sacrificed their whole lives to only get to a mediocre unhappy time in their lives - to finally find the true meaning of happiness and are able to live it out for the rest of their days.
The producers and actors sacrificed a lot of 'out of pocket' expenses to make "Posse", just so that the story could be told.
Uzumaki is a visually astounding film however I felt as if some of the story line may have been sacrificed.
As is the Disney tradition, quality is sacrificed in the name of a quick cash-in; this is a lazy retread with Moranis accidentally shrinking himself and a few relatives so they can repeat all the best scenes from the original movie.
In pondering the reason for existence of Downey's character's significant screen-time in the movie, I decided that either the director had liked his character and unnecessarily increased his screen-time (unlikley, as the director didn't change anything else about the script he actually needed to) or that his character was going to be sacrificed on the altar of bad plotting.
But enough of that.. domestic animals are being sacrificed, old ladies are having eyeballs torn out and the orchestra won't shut up during any scene, even the quiet ones.
Not to mention the character 9 was a idiot the whole time he got everyone killed. 1 was right the whole time, if he sacrificed 9 then non of this would have happened.
I was sacrificed my sleeps for this film and soon it turned out that this film couldn't make me satisfy.
They even sacrificed their life in several instances.
I sincerely hope they come out with this movie on DVD someday as a tribute to the courage of Al Schmid and all the other marines who sacrificed so much for us in World War Two.
the joy of seeing your most beloved is unparalleled and anything can be sacrificed.
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