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We have to tell our daughters and our colleagues, we have to tell ourselves to believe we got the A, to reach for the promotion, to sit at the table, and we have to do it in a world where, for them, there are sacrifices they will make for that, even though for their brothers, there are not.
And this is maybe what explains why, for 30 years, he continued to make false papers at the expense of all kinds of sacrifices.
I'd like to talk about those sacrifices, because there were many.
There were obviously financial sacrifices because he always refused to be paid.
Then there were the emotional sacrifices: How can one live with a woman while having so many secrets?
I asked him whether, considering the sacrifices he had to make, he ever had any regrets.
Now, the last thing I wanted to do was leave New York, and my dream job, but I thought you made sacrifices for your soulmate, so I agreed, and I quit my job, and Conor and I left Manhattan together.
The UAW, who represented the workers, said they would offer unprecedented concessions, sacrifices to just keep those jobs in Greenville.
With these sacrifices, Greece did avoid bankruptcy and the eurozone avoided a collapse.
So this brother, he sacrifices the joys of his life and the happiness of his sisters at the altar of so-called honor.
And they said, "Well, we can take you there, but you can't go inside because that's the sacred altar, where we do sacrifices every year to keep up those annual cycles of fertility for the fields."
But in those 15 seconds, he made me question everything we did, all the sacrifices.
She learns the Fasti, the calendar of sacred rituals and she watches while the senior priestesses conduct sacrifices.
When she performs sacrifices, she focuses intently on the task.
Climate advocates have long been encouraging their fellow citizens to make short-term sacrifices now for benefits that accrue to other people in other countries 30 or 40 years in the future.
And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.
So I was talking about the necessity to showcase our stories, because when I think about the sacrifices that were made for us, it helped me keep going.
That room represented the sacrifices of generations gone by who, by poverty or by policy, couldn't afford a curio of collectibles let alone a middle class house to put them in.
With each person I filmed, I saw how their minds and hearts can be influenced by the propaganda, and how their willingness to make sacrifices for the greater good can be twisted into something very dark and tragic.
We've made immense sacrifices to act locally ... and while individual localized efforts will continue to be important, they cannot stand up to the onslaught of climate change.
We're not unafraid of the consequences or the sacrifices that we have to make by speaking truth to power.
I'm here as a future-oriented person who went over the top, who did all these sacrifices because teachers intervened, and made me future oriented.
And I believe that what will be built at Ground Zero will be meaningful, will be inspiring, will tell other generations of the sacrifices, of the meaning of this event.
When I first became a father about 5.5 years ago, I was prepared for many of the sacrifices I'd have to make.
It is a lot easier to recreate what is going on in the present than a strange world like that of Eternia in He-man or an ancient world with cults and strange pyramids, sacrifices and strange creatures that hug you to death.
A totally pathetic attempt at movie about sacrifices of Australian Soldiers during the New Guinea Campaign.
Now after the five minutes of boobs and butt cheeks has ended we are presented with a scene on campus at an all girls college; the girls themselves (about eight in all) are in an archaeological class, where they discuss virgin sacrifices and ancient mounds.
An Italian soldier and a Greek girl fall in love but the times are hard and they have a lot of sacrifices to make.
This film is certainly about the daughter, but if you look close at the dreams and sacrifices that Mom makes you come to understand that she changes in step with her daughter.
This film contain a love sub-plot that does make sense because it helps us to understand that both civilians and soldiers made great sacrifices to preserve democracy.
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