Broken Promised Land — Barry Jean Ancelet & Sam Broussard
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" The third, and final, Ahmed calls "the Promised Land.
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" He had looked out and "seen the promised land.
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"Arrived in the promised land 2 days ago," he wrote.
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"Athletics can lead us to the promised land," she said.
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Promised Land, a vintage store, opened five months ago nearby.
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How can I take these guys to the promised land?
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The original settlers' "promised land and chosen people" narrative endures.
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It's a great juxtaposition with calling Texas the Promised Land.
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"And now onto the Promised Land — Colusa County!" he wrote.
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Callimachi: Right, so to you, this is the promised land?
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After 0003 he started calling the area the Promised Land.
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ON A CLEAR day, they can make out the promised land.
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Most of our ideas don't make it to the promised land.
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And it's got the sickest title, Manchild in the Promised Land.
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But is it the promised land that they had hoped for?
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Finally it was time for our jet to the Promised Land.
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Whether Los Angeles was the Promised Land, it was certainly milder.
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The Second Coming never came and the Promised Land remained elusive.
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"People think they are coming to the promised land," he said.
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King's Promised Land doesn't sound boring when compared to today's headlines.
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"I always dreamt about coming to America, the 'promised land,'" he said.
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THEIR PROMISED LAND: My Grandparents in Love and War, by Ian Buruma.
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Atlanta is the promised land of hip-hop and R&B, right?
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Yet the path to the promised land won't be an easy one.
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By all indications, he was leading his followers to the promised land.
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Just before it got to the promised land, he fell face forward.
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CreditCreditIan Wright Chuck Berry's 215 classic "Promised Land" is all about motion.
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Hinkie did not survive to reach the promised land with his team.
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It's harder for many today to believe this is a promised land.
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You don't get to the promised land without winning games like that.
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It was where everything would be O.K. It was our promised land.
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It's called Manchild in the Promised Land, by, I think, Claude Brown.
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"Jews existed here even before Moses went to the promised land," he says.
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Europhiles must find a new face to lead them to the promised land.
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In Promised Land, unlike in the other places, women can now chase, too.
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THEIR PROMISED LAND My Grandparents in Love and War By Ian Buruma Illustrated.
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The Find X is another step closer towards the all-screen promised land.
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To reach my promised land on time, I swore I'd drive all night.
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But he knew that he would not live to see the Promised Land.
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Moses is a stammering leader whom God prevented from entering the Promised Land.
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Even now, no one in Gheens or Choupic seemed to have heard about the chase in Promised Land, and no one in Promised Land, where it took place in midafternoon, seemed to know about the chases in Gheens or Choupic.
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English. England was their safe haven, their Promised Land, so why not make it
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"We are going to the promised land," Garcia said, motioning to his fellow travelers.
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IN A MORE agricultural era, America's West and Midwest seemed like the promised land.
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Opinion In Hungary and Poland, the liberal West used to be the promised land.
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Trump's version of the Promised Land is as markedly different as it is uplifting.
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Or consider "Promised Land," the story of a man escaping the South for California.
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In Podhoretz's case, the promised land was a big apartment on West End Avenue.
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But, she said, "That still does not mean we have reached the Promised Land."
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At the Governor's School, teachers held up New York's Juilliard as the promised land.
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With "Half-Promised Land," published in 1986, Mr. Lux began turning away from surrealism.
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No, nothing really changed and you didn't lead us to any new promised land.
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AwesomenessTV shows them (and their investors) the way to the promised land of M&A.
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The new continent has been a promised land; the old one a museum or graveyard.
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This is kind of the promised land for a lot of people around the world.
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"That was our biggest event was the whip," said Emily Johnson, 68, of Promised Land.
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I'd never known that Buffalo, a wintry steel town, had been my grandma's promised land.
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SlingTV is supposed to be the promised land for cordcutters who want to be legit.
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He created a frosty Alaskan promised land for the Jews in The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
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It was no promised land, it was as oppressive as the world I'd left behind.
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It was truly her promised land – her dream – and I'd brought bad blood into it.
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The area is an angler's Promised Land, brimming with trout, bass and pike year round.
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Jim Jones sent more than 900 souls to the Promised Land with poisoned Flavor Aid.
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The boy who was destined to guide the Astros to the promised land finally had.
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This outline for a path toward a modern day promised land was more than rhetoric.
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Yet I also recognize that we don't really live in a post-racial promised land.
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Our ancestors left oppression, crossed a wilderness and are trying to build a promised land.
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But most of these attempts haven't yet lead to the promised land: A web without passwords.
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And a mere ten yards from the promised land, the figures are 74%, 22%, and 2%.
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Visages, Villages and Promised Land premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19 and 20.
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But there's just one problem: to enjoy the promised land, you have to have a membership.
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Obama was not a civil rights leader taking his people to the Promised Land, Lee says.
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There were two key differences between the South of "Promised Land" and the South we experienced.
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Americans are the people who escaped oppression, crossed a wilderness and are building a promised land.
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Their actions ensure that there is promised love in the Bible as well as promised land.
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A country once viewed as the promised land now seems for many to be dangerously inhospitable.
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Together, at last, we can begin our journey to Martin Luther King Jr.'s promised land.
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Unfortunately, the current path of energy storage innovation may not lead directly to the promised land.
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That full-screen promised land is within sight, but that last little cutout isn't gone quite yet.
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He was the older brother of Robert Laxalt, author of "Sweet Promised Land" (1957) and other books.
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But in reality, we've quietly been floating further and further from that promised land King dreamed about.
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That was long enough to reach the critical threshold, the promised land of all TV shows: syndication.
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When not in the state capital Olympia, he lives here at his 2000,230-acre Promised Land Ranch.
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If yours has reached that promised land of independence, financially and otherwise, you know what I mean.
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Most of the migrants were hoping to get to what they saw as the promised land, Germany.
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Arbitration is the first promised land that players reach as they accumulate service time in the majors.
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In a word, Icaria is truly a second promised land, an Eden, and Elysium, a new earthly paradise.
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We have difficult days ahead, he warned, but we as a people will get to the promised land.
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This morning, reports emerged that the elderly lobster had died during his journey to the Maine promised land.
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The promised land remains a faraway dream, but reggae's soul continues to thrive, pure and rebellious as ever.
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But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.
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His books include the prizewinning "The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America" (1991).
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The promised land was a glass box aerie filled with Justin Bieber-branded T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats.
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Bits Online video — and especially live video — has become a promised land for a bevy of internet companies.
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Hong Kong/London (CNN Business)For decades, China was the promised land for American, European and Japanese carmakers.
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Yet it is two other resources that truly make China a promised land for AI. One is research talent.
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Vince McMahon is not pro wrestling's benign grandfather, shepherding the next generation through WWE doors to the promised land.
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The only problem is that this virtual promised land isn't as ready as gamers would like it to be.
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The promised land of green pastures, endless and fast data requests and deep penetration of user data is over.
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Two films that just debuted at the Cannes Film Festival — Faces Places and Promised Land — take that dictum seriously.
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"There are no solutions; there's no promised land we're going to find ourselves at," Disney said of the discussion.
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During a 1977 road trip together, Springsteen wrote his song, "The Promised Land," after their encounter with a storm.
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Moses understood that it would take a new generation, un-wrecked by the past, to claim the promised land.
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And he said, I might not get there with you, but we will make it to the promised land.
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The thought that their Promised Land is war-ravaged Libya tells you how desperate are the conditions they're leaving.
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That leaves at least eight teams looking for a new head coach to lead them to the promised land.
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Jen, whose previous novels include "Mona in the Promised Land" and "World and Town," is a wonderfully gifted writer.
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We believe that Fiji is the promised land hidden in the Bible, beautiful and pristine land blessed by God.
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Kate Clifford Larson is the author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero.
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Here they focus their lens on aspiring Europeans who are dying in their quest to reach the promised land.
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He can still lead his followers to the Promised Land, even if that does not mean the White House. Sen.
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Yet in spite of the obstacles that loom ahead of us, I still believe we can reach that promised land.
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But its critics claim that under the influence of Mr Uribe it is dragging its feet on promised land reform.
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Just because a VC chooses to invest in a company does not mean that startup has reached the promised land.
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For two glorious weekends out of the year, Southern California's Indio desert becomes the Promised Land at Coachella Music Festival.
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People talked about it in religious terms, as if his ascension meant we were getting closer to the promised land.
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Dr. King said, the Lord allowed me to go to the mountaintop and to look over into the promised land.
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Grand Coulee's original project name was the Planned Promised Land — a Pacific Northwest Eden for all those Dust Bowl refugees.
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And stories about the Promised Land, as this bold, compassionate, genre-hopping novel reminds us, have always traded in impossibility.
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"The promised land is before us, not behind us," he said, while encouraging them to inspire, not browbeat, their people.
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But it is now clear that the dynamics of the market will not inexorably lead us to the promised land.
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As a family they would go on protests, and Ruga remembered how people would speak of Azania, the promised land.
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Moses shared common hardships with his countrymen in Egypt and eventually led them physically from slavery to the Promised Land.
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When they reach the haunted promised land of California, however, their hope and optimism quickly wither to ash and dust.
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As one senior foreign executive puts it, "we can see the promised land but we can't get anywhere close to it".
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But for Cramer, there's a more complicated hurdle that "we need to jump to reach the bullish promised land," he said.
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"He sells himself as the white 'bwana' who can lead them to the promised land," said another former colleague of his.
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These were going to change the way we communicate, to shepherd the tech world into the promised land of good phones.
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And just a trickle of foreign fighters have been able to reach the "promised land" in the last year than previously.
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I would like to correct several points made in your article on business in Iran ("The over-promised land", April 223rd).
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Getting good grades is also a way of resisting racism — though studiousness alone may not get us to the Promised Land.
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"We all rise up and we march to the hallowed ground and we bring our manufacturers home to the promised land."
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But even as I begin to doubt that my Pittsburgh was the Promised Land, I remain guided and inspired by it.
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MONTREAL — After fleeing to Montreal from Long Island, Marlise Beauville felt, she said, as if she had reached the Promised Land.
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Given all that, the way Southern transplants talk about life in a promised land of upwardly mobile black people is appealing.
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" Or, as Garza put it, "The model of the black preacher leading people to the promised land isn't working right now.
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In Promised Land you knew never to mess around with a certain Mardi Gras named Pokey, as he was capable of anything.
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Elizabeth Dwoskin reports that a content moderator got fired after posting lyrics from "Factory" and "The Promised Land" on an internal forum.
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Hans: I escaped a butthole of a town in Sweden to try my luck in the promised land of Berlin in 21.
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But when they finally reach the promised land, they'll have a common set of enemies (apart from each other) waiting for them.
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So yes, blacks have seen the Obama-Clinton-Democratic Party version of the Promised Land and they should want their vote back.
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Every generation of American women hopes to enter the promised land of true equality, but, as Jill discovers, the odds aren't great.
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They can spend their final years in het Beloofde Varkensland (Promised Land of Pigs), a nonprofit organization set up by Dafne Westerhof.
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The title of Mr. Holt's newly released debut album, "The Mecca," nods to the idea that New York is jazz's promised land.
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Fear and flight, death and despair, oppression in Egypt and the perilous journey across the Sinai Desert to reach the Promised Land.
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It was the story of leaving the oppressions of the Old World, venturing into a wilderness and creating a new promised land.
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The magazines landed with force in cities far from California, where they were passed around with reverence, like dispatches from a promised land.
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Why else would you partner with Taco Bell to create the promised land of trash food, the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
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"Kevin [Johnson, CEO] with Roz [Brewer, the chief operating officer] and our leadership team will lead us to the promised land," Schultz said.
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After the service, we went back to Aunt Karen's house to celebrate what we called Michael's homegoing, his passage to the promised land.
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The thing about truly sad teams is that they bring you within inches of the promised land and snatch it away from you.
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How does the album's narrative—about a post-apocalyptic world in which Texas is the Promised Land—holds up after 15 years later?
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Each year, Jewish people celebrate the story of Moses freeing the nation of Israel from slavery and leading them to the Promised Land.
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Over that time, quarterbacks like Chad Hutchinson, Quincy Carter and Jon Kitna have failed to lead the team back to the promised land.
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Inspired by the rock 'n' roll pioneer's song "Promised Land," he set out on a tour of the South, and then headed west.
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What he would not have known when he stitched this scene is that behind the vision of the promised land, further tragedy awaited.
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FDR would spend the next six months not leading the masses toward "the promised land," but trapped in a fruitless battle with Congress.
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At the heart of the Soviet vision there were always those burning eyes gazing intently, and with total confidence, toward the promised land.
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The promised land The word "Azania" was used by Arab sailors up until the 10th century to denote an ancient east African society.
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His opponent's official proposals promised land rights for traditional communities and land titles for indigenous people and quilombolas, though further details were not provided.
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Take a journey with me, and by the end of this article I think you will be convinced that the promised land is possible.
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And as alluring as "cost plus" sounds, if you can't ever get to the promised land it might as well not exist at all.
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After renting a car in Arkansas, the family headed to Eagle Rock, Missouri, and visited the Promised Land Zoo, where the emu encounter occurred.
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Gary Harris, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and Cody Zeller are fine players, but they aren't leading any version of Team USA to the promised land.
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New government data on Thursday morning show that Trump, too, has failed to reach the 3 percent promised land, according to one major metric.
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Their exodus from a war-torn country is no journey of deliverance to a promised land but an exchange of one hell for another.
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"To get to the promised land, where we get something useful, [quantum computers] will have to be run by a third party," he says.
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I grew up in Sydney and the first time I came here I found my place, my people, I had found the Promised Land.
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But I left the Beaumont sadly aware that the rancorous past, not a hopeful future, rules for now in the much-too-promised land.
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The underlying truth of a Covenantal Regime is that you have to close off choice if you want to get to the promised land.
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Matt Damon in a fracking drama ("Promised Land," a 2012 Participant effort) has a hard time competing with "Avengers: Infinity War" in 3-D.
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On the journey to the promised land, "Joshua says to the people of Israel: choose this day whom you are going to serve," Pruitt said.
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And if you're feeling anxious during foreplay, intercourse, oral play, or other sexual activities, reaching that promised land becomes harder, making it feel almost unreachable.
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All we know is that we're hurting, and we desperately want two things: someone to blame, and someone to lead us to the Promised Land.
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The exodus picked up in the new century, when Lithuanians became eligible to work normally in the EU. For many, Britain is the promised land.
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But the end of the road (or in the case of Exodus, the track), there's a promised land for those who managed to make it.
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But you can pretend you're in the promised land by cracking open a Cucapá, grilling up some oysters, and piling them with cheese and pork.
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Pacaraima's mayor promised land to grow crops and materials to make Warao craft work, she said, and she wants the Warao children to learn Portuguese.
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For Canadians, American Netflix is a promised land of content that we can only dream about watching, thanks to the company's patchwork of licensing agreements.
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If we believe it's good for us, and join the flocks and go along with it, well, we too can live in the Promised Land.
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With his trade policies, as with pretty much everything else, his backward-looking, intellectually bankrupt agenda will take us very far from the promised land.
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The Road to the Promised Land or 'Abilene' For more than 240 years, our country has conquered difficult challenges with the odds stacked against us.
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Staffed by former Atari employees and with a big hit on its hands, Worlds of Wonder tried to ride Teddy Ruxpin to the promised land.
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It's silly, but it works: my children all feel, viscerally, as if they have left Egypt, that their lives are unfolding in the promised land.
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Obama took the Democrats to the edge of the Promised Land; the next Democratic president may be able to bring them across the river Jordan.
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There is also a great chance that the Super Bowl could be a trailblazer that takes TV advertising all the way to the Promised Land.
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Within the show, persecuted refugees seek to flee the tyranny of their theocratic society by escaping across the border -- only here, the promised land is Canada.
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The football stadium is often characterized in Hollywood and sports commentary as a promised land where racial differences among players, fans, and coaches are rendered irrelevant.
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But as a golf cart drove me through the front gates of the Promised Land (the moniker of Oprah's majestic Santa Barbara estate), I was nervous.
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Belgium is known as the promised land of fries, and there, they're traditionally served in a paper cone with a generous dollop of mayonnaise on top.
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Young Jakelin celebrated her birthday with her father as they made the nearly 33,000-mile trek that took them to the edges of the promised land.
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Although heralded as the promised land of journalism with more than 80,000 print publications and around 1503 news channels, India's trajectory on press freedom is worrisome.
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Who other than Simeone – chief of the tribe, leader of the pack, general of the people's army – could guide Atlético to the promised land in Milan?
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"I've seen the promised land," Dr. King said to an overflow crowd at the Mason Temple of the Church of God in Christ on April 3.
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"People come here and realize that this is not the Promised Land and that they could be deported back to Haiti," he said in an interview.
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Forty thousand ended up flooding through the doors of the caliphate to join ISIS, to join this community and to help build this Islamic promised land.
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The last were to be first and the first last; suffering was extolled; living fully in the Promised Land meant eschewing the pleasures of this one.
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One was historical and ideological: Russian revolutionaries claimed to be the founders of the promised land prophesied by Karl Marx, a 19th-century Prussian-born philosopher.
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We still haven't seen that system, and it's hard to imagine it, but someone went up the mountain and looked out, and saw the promised land.
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"Investors are happy to ignore the economic backdrop and hope that the promised land is somewhat better across the valley of this economic downturn," Jennings added.
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"I have seen the promised land," we heard him say, as we all sat and looked at the empty pulpit where he actually delivered that speech.
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It would be more fair to say that people have different visions of the promised land that lies on the other side of an oppressive status quo.
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The Economic Freedom Front (EFF), led by the charismatic and often controversial Julius Malema, pushed a far-left agenda and promised land and jobs for the poor.
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A decade after taking control of a political party in crisis and on the wane, Mitch McConnell somehow, someway, brought the Republican Party to the promised land.
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In other words, if Bernie Sanders is standing on a rock, it may point to the Promised Land of socialist Scandinavia, but it sits on ancient soil.
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Or at least this is what the current narrative would like you to think about how Apple is positioned in the race to the AI promised land.
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In eastern Odisha state, authorities have promised land titles to 200,000 households in urban slums and those on city outskirts, as well as loans to build homes.
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Girling believed it was her mission to lead the Children of God to the Promised Land, which turned out to be the New Forest, in southern England.
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Just as Moses couldn't enter the promised land because he had broken faith with God, much of the current House leadership has broken faith with its voters.
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Morgan Freeman is going to make you WANT to get stuck in a horrible traffic jam -- because his magnificent voice will lead you to the promised land!
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"Their Promised Land" is about love and loyalty, to family and to country, even when that country fails to reward that devotion as fully as it should.
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He, a politician of color, hope and change was supposed to point Black America, if not towards the Promised Land, than at least in the right direction.
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In his final speech, delivered the night before he died, King considered his mortality: he knew, he said, that he might not get to the Promised Land.
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Centuries before that, the Jewish people wandered the desert, fleeing oppression in Egypt, and in search of the promised land and a better life for their families.
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After a month in high-security conditions, I was finally on my way to the promised land: a medium-security institution somewhere out in the English countryside.
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Candidates Sinema and Garcia very much reflect the coalition of ethnic minorities and professional women that Democrats believe will carry them to the electoral promised land nationally.
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Cellphone pressed tightly to his ear, Backman spent most of the morning helping arrange the deal, finally congratulating Niese for crossing back over to the promised land.
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In 1994, it was crystal clear that Mr. Gingrich, as the architect of the Republican revolution, would be speaker after delivering his party to the promised land.
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With its 2000,21 islands strung across the Equator, many with their own unique plants and animals, separated by relatively short distances, Indonesia is a naturalist's promised land.
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Beyond it lie the Santa Susana Mountains and, farther still, the Los Padres National Forest, a three-thousand-square-mile wilderness that Sikich calls the Promised Land.
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The Puritans arrived at Plymouth and were pursued by King George III; the ancient Hebrews were led to the "Promised Land" and chased by the Egyptian Pharaoh.
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How is the world of 2.5 million viewers each week and never reaching the promised land of 2 million WWE Network subscribers better than what could be?
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Brazil is one of the favorites to lift the World Cup trophy — and Neymar is the key man who may lead the Seleção to the promised land.
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The problem is that the young progressives the party is counting on to deliver them to the promised land are, as Sanders has shown, really quite left-wing.
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"The Promised Land" is a mad scramble, divided in two like a diptych, and presided over by baboon, seated cross-legged and sexually exposed on an open broadsheet.
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For Tjie, the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg was the promised land, evidence that being poor and black was no longer a barrier to success in South Africa.
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Some were true believers in the promised land; others just wanted their tezzies in hand so they could flip them before the cryptomania ran out of lesser fools.
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Tickets to its four tasting sessions sold out in an instant; the most diehard connoisseurs invested in pink wristbands that gave access to the promised land all weekend.
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The cyclical companies with managers who pruned and cut and tucked and nipped their way through the wilderness, and they finally, at long last, reached the promised land.
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It was a different ethnic ghetto before the great migration of black people who came from the south, and all over the place, looking for the promised land.
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Thanksgiving, the holiday of the Pilgrims who marked the first anniversary of their arrival in the promised land and celebrated their triumph over the hurdles of early emigration.
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And we are the followers of Moses, who also put values first as he steered his people through a wilderness toward a promised land he would never enter.
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After the show, Ms. Wiggins told me she'd spent 12 years in New York before finding Cincinnati's promised land of meaty leads for black actresses and Equity pay.
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So did "His Promised Land," a gripping memoir sold there based on an interview with Parker, which revealed a man who seemed never to shrink from a challenge.
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"It has been an odyssey to get here, but we've arrived to this promised land," said Rayna García Sasi, 43, who traveled from the jungle town of Pucallpa.
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One phrase, "The Promised Land" is rendered in run-on capital letters, in what appears to be Fraktur, a once-common font in countries including Germany and Denmark.
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While the promised land of permanently elevated testosterone may appear wonderful in the ads, the actual link between testosterone and muscle growth is not as straightforward as many claim.
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This region of the country isn't very friendly to Republicans, and Trump won't carry it in November, but for the purposes of a GOP primary it's his promised land.
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There's even an informal street sign by that name, along with a "David Cameron Street," and a "Queen Elizabeth II Street," not-so-subtle nods to their Promised Land.
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It will also require the cooperation of state tourism officials who, at least so far, have failed to embrace the vision of Colorado as the Promised Land of pot.
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It's there that this doomsday fantasy reaches a frothing, hysterical climax and offers deliverance of a kind, once again with a savior right from a promised land called Hollywood.
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When still in his late teens, he began the cross-continent trek to the promised land of South Africa, eventually setting up a small shop in a remote township.
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The lush, green turf is the pitch invader's promised land, the hallowed earth which – if only for a moment – makes a galavanting hero of even the most mundane spectator.
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"We have, for centuries, sought to either find or create a promised land where we would be untroubled by the criminal horrors of our American existence," Carvell Wallace writes.
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"I am very bullish on the deal but the bridge to get to the promised land is a little messy and the stock is reacting to that," he said.
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But having finally reached what they once saw as the "promised land" -- via Turkey and a perilous and costly voyage across the Mediterranean -- they have found no hope, only heartbreak.
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It looks like we found the promised land where we just essentially money doesn't cost anything and you can print lots of money and have full employment and no inflation.
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Fifty years after 1967, the road ahead is at best uncertain, waiting perhaps for leaders to rise to the challenge of resolving the problem of the (much too) promised land.
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It could yet prove a Moses company, never reaching its promised land—it might end up like Hoover, lending its name to a new product category without actually dominating it.
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But on this most fundamental question — about the potential to transform the economy, to blow past trade-offs and constraints — the economics profession can't follow him to the promised land.
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King's work remains unfinished, but the democracy-building work continues — with lawyers and activists working hand in hand to reach the promised land that King saw but couldn't yet enter.
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We've got some difficult days ahead...I just want to do God's will...I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.
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For escapees on the way to their promised land, this strait between two countries was more than a mark of sovereignty, but an affirmation of humanity, somewhere in the distance.
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But his statements showcase a new theme among Tesla bulls: The company has no limits and is being guided to a financial promised land by the greatest visionary since Thomas Edison.
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I was 13 years old when people began attacking me and the work that I was doing, but I too still firmly believe that we will get to that promised land.
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And as I drove away from Promised Land that night, I smiled as I imagined looking back at my 22-year-old self to tell her: Girl, you gon' be okay.
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The Easter egg–hunting egghead viewer imagines, as the Man in Black does, that they are getting closer and closer to the great reveal, the promised land of meaning and resolution.
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After 58 years wondering in the international wilderness, thirsty for the nourishing waters of a major tournament, Wales will reach their promised land this summer when they play at Euro 2016.
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PEOPLE spoke with Kate Larson, author of the 2004 biography Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero, to uncover five lesser known facts about Tubman. 1.
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Trumpism, by contrast, seemed more focused on Trump, specifically, being the one to deliver the promised land ("I alone can fix it," as he famously said in the 2016 Republican convention).
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Welcome to the Promised Land of Dreadful Optics, where Hamas employs a deliberate strategy of inciting a disproportionate loss of Palestinian life in a bid to garner sympathy and demonize Israel.
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They shared an affection for the Rhône Valley, which had become Parker's promised land of winemaking, and Grahm's effort to make a California kind of Rhône wine brought them into concert.
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Until the slowdown in China's economy, Asia was seen as a promised land for western exchanges wanting to tap the region's growth and realise a dream of becoming truly global platforms.
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For "Promised Land," a 143 box here, Phung Vo — the artist's father, a skilled calligrapher and frequent collaborator — repeatedly wrote the work's title in a Fraktur-like font on its interior.
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Mr. Berry wrote "Promised Land" in prison, after police busted him for inviting a 26-year-old girl he had met on the road to work at his St. Louis nightclub.
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The story Americans told about themselves was a biblical story — an exodus story of various diverse peoples leaving oppression, crossing a wilderness and joining together to help create a promised land.
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Ake is the Moses of this scenario, leading people to the Promised Land, and it's there that he can finally reunite with his wife, with whom he shared his happiest memories.
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They felt that they were witnessing both the start of something—the bustle of a newborn town, in a promised land—and an elegy for a past that was irretrievably lost.
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King imagines taking a panoramic view of human history and argues that the present is the crucial point, the point at which a Promised Land has become visible on the horizon.
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With a variety of attractions — including the Promised Land Zoo, a dinosaur museum, water sports and more than 40 music venues — the city of 11,500 residents hosts millions of visitors each year.
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That it will provide people in countries like Guatemala a real glimpse into the promised land, a look inside our detention centers and the corporate greed and institutionalized xenophobia that fuel them.
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Her 65-acre estate, named the Promised Land, endured minimal damage compared to many other properties in the area that were lifted off their foundations or completely destroyed by the natural disaster.
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Like America's own manifest destiny, now that Roy has won the Wild West, he must finally head to the promised land of California, as he planned to do so many years ago.
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Indeed, even Kasich himself may not yet see the promised land of the White House -- he'll have to show more broad geographic and demographic appeal for such a possibility to seem real.
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In fact, some prominent American libertarians, associated with the journal Liberty, went so far as to argue that a genuine free-market economy was the only path to the socialist promised land.
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Winfrey already owns two properties in the area: She purchased the first, nicknamed the "Promised Land," for $50 million in 2001, and the other, nicknamed "Seamair Farm," for $29 million in 2015.
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Turned back within sight of the Promised Land, the refugees were transferred to prison ships and returned to Germany, where they were interned in fenced compounds reminiscent of the Nazi concentration camps.
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But he has one huge advantage: the rich 17th-century records of the original Providence Island Company, which tried to found a Promised Land South to rival the famous one in Massachusetts.
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He did it in two earlier books, "The Promised Land," his 1991 account of the great black migration, and "The Big Test," about the SAT and meritocracy, which was published in 1999.
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My last hope is M&S, which according to dumpster diving Facebook groups is the promised land of food waste: full of red pepper hummus and beef bourguignon dine in for two meals.
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This belief is deeply rooted in a Judeo-Christian conception of history, one in which we are all trying to reach the Promised Land, which some have conflated with the United States itself.
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The dream of a player exploding baseball as we know it by dominating the basepaths with pure vertical hops still lives, but we have not arrived at that promised land on this day.
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Tarki stressed that successful consultants don&apost just focus on picking the right projects and industries, but also on aligning themselves with an existing partner who can take them to the promised land.
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Mr. Shavit's book "My Promised Land" was being hailed as a groundbreaking work in its depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and most everyone in the Jewish world wanted to hear from him.
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For the past month, the caravan of Central American migrants trekking toward the U.S. border have been sustained by an unwavering faith that God will open the doors to the American promised land.
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" In 2015, he stood outside of the offices of the Food and Drug Administration, flanked by a number of distinguished researchers on aging, and likened the plan to a journey to "the promised land.
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" Thibault added, "Overall, the company is taking baby steps to arrive at the promised land, but [Elon] Musk has made quite a few promises along the way — to which he should be held accountable.
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It also didn't stop me, the player who had been trapped looking out of Artyom's eyes for a couple dozen hours, from cinematically seeing his wife and his friends weeping in the Promised Land.
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In the film Babylon's closing scene, the dreadlocked antihero Blue sings this prayer over heavy beats, calling for a return to the promised land as the dense crowd bounces up and down in trance.
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"His personal background and locker room language are off-putting to Mormons," David Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame University and author of Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics, tells me.
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In 21964, Huntington's former student Francis Fukuyama explained that the end of history had brought humanity to a "Promised Land of liberal democracy," which offered an unbeatable combination of economic prosperity and political recognition.
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While the Afghan government has promised them plots of land, that is unlikely to come about any time soon; internally displaced refugees already have been waiting for years for promised land grants to materialize.
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My problems here do not seem universal by any means: Kotaku's Gita Jackson seems to be getting along swimmingly with the touch controls, but I don't know how she got to that promised land.
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The idea of Canada as the promised land for embattled Americans — the land of the free, only freer — started among the people for whom America wasn't the land of the free to begin with.
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The children remind me of the ISIS social media posts of 2014, when recruiters beckoned young Muslim women in the West to a promised land where skin color, race, and tribe did not matter.
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"Norman" traces fault lines, more cultural and temperamental than ideological or religious, between the members of the diaspora (or at least the New York wing of it) and their cousins in the Promised Land.
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Its inhabitants are presented here like a community of oppressed but aspiring people, raising families and praying for the Promised Land, though even the working men with families can't resist the lure of gambling.
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" Pruitt cited a Bible verse from the Book of Joshua, in which Joshua led the people of Israel to the Promised Land, but asked them to choose between worshipping God or their "false gods.
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But while we wait for a better promised land, Democrats can meet a basic promise to restore fairness to America's workers by getting America's wealthy to pay more so its workers can pay less.
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" Pruitt cited a Bible verse from the book of Joshua, in which Joshua led the people of Israel to the promised land but asked them to choose between worshipping God or their "false gods.
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The first time D. J. Soto strapped on an Oculus Rift and stepped into virtual reality, he felt like the ancient prophets must have felt—arriving in the promised land that would fulfill his destiny.
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Many of the Afghans, Sudanese and Iraqis in the camp resist such a move because it takes them farther from their promised land, England, where they see more attractive social benefits and opportunities for work.
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The Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient's 65-acre estate, named the Promised Land, endured minimal damage compared to many other properties in the area that were lifted off their foundations or completely destroyed.
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Although St. Louis inched closer to the Promised Land with a 227-23 triumph in Game 22 on Saturday afternoon in Dallas, forward Alex Steen cautioned his club that it shouldn't look too far ahead.
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Manchild in the Promised Land is about growing up in 1940s, 50s Harlem, the beginning of the big boom of heroin there, and much of what the black community and this kid went through weekly.
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Back in the nineties and early noughties, Italy was still the promised land as far as world football was concerned, with conventional wisdom dictating that clubs didn't come bigger than Juventus, Inter and AC Milan.
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Our president would do well to ask how we failed Mr. Saipov rather than how we can magically ferret out those who resort to violence when the promised land is not the land they imagined.
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" He would not presume to lead his followers into the "promised land," even if it was in his power to do so, "because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.
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It begins during the War of 1812, when British soldiers promised land and freedom to a small group of West African slaves along the Eastern Seaboard if they would take up arms against their masters.
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After much lamenting and comparing our base urges, the poem ends on an intimate note, almost like a bored lover's parting words: When you do reach your promised land, Do write us an occasional letter.
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It represented the state I was in myself: a wandering state of mind, looking for ghosts, mine and others'; looking for my words, my promised land, my house built stone by stone throughout my life.
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Underlying the narrative is a bitter sense of irony: This black Moses is no agent of deliverance; he's just another lost soul wandering the streets of a hardscrabble town, with no promised land in sight.
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Though the Funky 4 + 1 never made it back to the mainstream promised land, the voyage hip-hop took from uptown to downtown was the first of many steps it would take toward pop-culture domination.
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And, lo, the new Promised Land: competitive authoritarianism, a form of European single-party rule that retains a veneer of democracy while skewing the contest sufficiently to ensure it is likely to yield only one result.
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The Mets, then, will begin the season finally deploying the core rotation of the five hard-throwers they once dreamed would lead them to the promised land: Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz, Syndergaard and Wheeler.
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As a product of assimilated Jews, my mother always told me that America is the promised land for Jews, because it basically just got out of their way and allowed them to assimilate and then succeed.
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It wasn't the first time the water story had been reimagined: Mary Austin's 1917 novel The Ford had shifted the setting to Northern California, while Cedric Belfrage's Promised Land (1939) used it to make political points.
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Even if Oprah has no plans to move from The Promised Land to the White House, as Refinery29 has noted before, there are plenty of black women who are running for office that could use our support.
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Their grandson, the journalist and scholar Ian Buruma, begins "Their Promised Land" with an evocation of a family Christmas in the 1950s, "a daylong feast of Edwardian gluttony," punctuated by elaborate present-giving and loud, competitive conversations.
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Palmer Luckey, Jack McCauley, and their fellow Oculus founders developed the headset and transformed the VR industry into what it is today because they were enthusiastic gamers ready to drag the world into the virtual promised land.
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Visually, the definition starts (or ends) with this: Imran Chaudhri, user interface designer, iPhone pioneerThe iPhone is a stepping stone on the journey to the promised land of computing; the promise of ease, universality, trust and joy.
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For his latest series, "Ha Aretz"—Aramaic for "The Promised Land"—the Spanish photographer decided to journey through the six countries that now constitute the world described in the Scriptures: Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria.
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That Thomas Jefferson was also a slaveholder should remind us that the story of human progress is hardly the magnificent, linear journey toward the promised land of peace and justice that we often believe it to be.
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Consider our victimized brothers and sisters, the handcuffed and hunted of Mesoamerica: the Oaxacans and the Guatemalans, and the Hondurans and the many others who cross the sands of the Sonoran Desert to reach the Promised Land.
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Bridgewater was once an ascending star who was expected to lead the Vikings to the promised land and, when his knee exploded before the 2016 season, Bradford was the quarterback Minnesota traded two draft picks to acquire.
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And so I argue all the time that the pathway to that promised land may be exclusive as opposed to inclusive, and I know that scares the bejesus out of people when you say that in America.
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After Truman defeated Dewey, in 21973, Farrington wanted the G.O.P. to find its strongman: How thankful we would have been if a leader had appeared to show us the path to the promised land of our hope.
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The obsession for land, the need to be on the move and to conquer, the utmost importance of the individual, the idea of the promised land and of being a chosen people all come from the Old Testament.
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Ms. Berrin wrote that she had wanted to interview Mr. Shavit about his book, "My Promised Land," when he visited Los Angeles in February 2014, and he suggested that they meet in his hotel lobby at 10 p.m.
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Her wealth of experience and excellent fitness, not to mention the laser-like focus she has brought to each of her first six matches in New York, could be enough to finally carry Williams to the Promised Land.
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History isn't a march to the promised land Americans largely subscribe to the "Whig view" of history: the belief that our liberal values enshrined in the Constitution are powering us forward to an ever-freer and ever-richer future.
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The concept of Moses in the Bible is leading the people to the promised land, and I feel like a big part of what I'm doing is for my family and for my community to help break certain barriers.
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But we also approximated the frantic rock 'n' roll motion of "Promised Land," spending roughly 63 hours apiece in six of the eight cities the poor boy visits in the song: Norfolk; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Atlanta; Birmingham, Ala.
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Narrating his journey in an amalgam of strange and grotesque voices, he disguises himself, dodges confused #TeamEdward fans, and almost eats his phone out of pure desperation following the hot dog man, but does he make it to the promised land?
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Britain is sold as the promised land to many Vietnamese - who travel thousands of miles by foot, boat and lorry over many months - with northern France still a common gateway despite a crackdown on migrants and smugglers around its Calais port.
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Young men dressed in costumes and masks — calling themselves the Mardi Gras — roll down the main drag brandishing switches of peach or willow (the whip of choice in Gheens), bamboo (Promised Land), or broken fishing poles and golf club shafts (Choupic).
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Like many, I delighted in the suggestion that there was, at last, a solution to my years of disordered eating, and that by following a simple set of instructions, I would finally reach the promised land of good health and wellbeing.
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This growth in funding has allowed European leagues to flourish, so that America is no longer the promised land for aspiring youngsters (as it was for the two teen-aged girls in "Bend It Like Beckham", a British film from 216).
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"If you're buying anything but the majors, you might be buying the stocks of companies that may not make it to the promised land, especially because Schlumberger is not calling for any sort of dramatic recovery in oil prices," Cramer said.
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He says the Britons he sold underwear to are more savvy than the press or politicians realise, boosting his confidence that they will stick with what they know and not vote for some promised-land depicted by the 'out' campaign.
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In 20 years at the helm of his news network, Mr. Ailes helped lead the movement he is so closely associated with to a sociopolitical promised land, in a year in which Fox News had some of its highest ratings ever.
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This civic religion was based on a moral premise — that all men are created equal — and pointed toward a vision of a promised land — a place where your family or country of origin would have no bearing on your opportunities.
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King Cyrus, who is credited with allowing Jews to return to Jerusalem from exile in the Babylonian empire, represents the possibility that a nonbelieving leader and state could be used by God to reunite the chosen people and the promised land.
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Just a short drive away from Downtown Los Angeles, Montebello has long attracted government employees and other white-collar workers eager to buy modest single-family homes — a kind of "promised land" for those looking to get out of the city.
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Talking as if the political dynamics of the 1960s and '70s still lived, they would arrive to argue that their record and their ideas reflected the perfect blend of ideological purity and electability to carry the movement into the promised land.
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The game is called "promised land top ten," and you get the feeling that Moses and Kitch, the main characters in Antoinette Nwandu's blazingly theatrical play "Pass Over," have been at it forever, whiling away time and tamping down dread.
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Bradford, who was white, interviewed Tubman, but "she was used to writing about Peter the Great, Columbus, these great white men," Kate Clifford Larson, author of the Tubman biography "Bound for the Promised Land" and an adviser on the film, said.
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Later on, the chorus shifted readily into jubilee mode for the spiritual "Leavin' for the Promised Land," an ensemble led by Bess, now with Porgy, who, at least for a while, has been accepted by the other women of Catfish Row.
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In practice, as Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall explains in "Promised Land, Crusader State," the United States has oscillated between serving as a beacon to inspire peoples struggling for emancipation and donning the messianic mantle of a redeemer nation.
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You have to set up conditions that encourage people to put in the money and have the stamina to last through all of the wrong, blind alleys and failed pursuits that you're going to do before you actually get to the promised land.
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In showing that there is no promised land, "Samson and Delilah" laid bare the pervasive inequalities between indigenous and non-indigenous people in Australia—where almost half of indigenous men and over a third of women die before the age of 45.
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The end of War for the Planet of the Apes clearly echoes Deuteronomy 34, in which Moses, having freed the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt and led them through 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, finally reaches the Promised Land.
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As the blog Feminist Mormon Housewives explained, Mormons view the US itself as "a promised land" and the Constitution as divine — so an intrusion by the federal government on this land or the Constitution is seen as an affront to their faith.
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In a confessional moment, I might have admitted that I wasn't a particularly good "intubator"; the few times I had tried, the textbook vision of the vocal cords, glistening tantalizingly beyond the epiglottis, like some V-shaped promised land, had somehow evaded me.
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In this journey to investing promised land, each team is allowed three investments from a pre-determined list of 60 stocks and commodities, spanning everything from tech heavyweights to bitcoin, and even some of the most beaten down names in the market.
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Three million years later, when he meets the last scion of Frankenstein's line, Lister discovers that his dream has been passed down through generations of Cat evolution as a Messianic promise of a promised land: Cloister shall return to lead us to Fuchal.
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The song doesn't entirely add up — it veers between self-help and political resistance — but lines like "The face of liberty's starting to crack" and "The promised land is there for those who need it most" couldn't have had a better backdrop.
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"Promised Land" may be loosely based on Mr. Berry's own history, although in 1987, when he received his Hollywood star, mugged for cameras and did the duckwalk, he did not mention any trip through the South on trains and buses to get there.
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Mr. Teshome, a devout Christian (most Ethiopians are Christian, either Ethiopian Orthodox or Protestant), talked a bit about Ethiopia and its role in the Bible, and how many Ethiopians view the country — one of the world's oldest Christian nations — as the promised land.
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Early in July — little more than a month after the club had secured entry to the Premier League's promised land, and with little more than a month to go until it made its debut — Huddersfield revealed its jerseys for the season ahead.
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When the Pittsburgh killer shouted "all Jews must die," he was merely echoing a command uttered in a different tongue by Amalek, the villain who stalked the weakest of the ancient Israelites in the desert on their way to the Promised Land.
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In 1881, this sentiment set off a great wave of pogroms in Russia, which, in turn, gave rise to Zionism, the effort to get the Jews out of harm's way by relocating them to what was said to be their promised land, Palestine.
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My vision of the maximally free, anarcho-capitalist society seemed to me an indispensable guiding light, a compass by which to steer a course through the rugged landscape of real-world politics toward the promised land — the ideally good and morally well-ordered society.
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The big picture: The explanations for all this stillness vary, but the most compelling are perhaps the simplest: people have dug in because there appears to be nowhere to go — no "promised land" of relatively high wages on which they can build greater dreams.
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Some years ago, when China and a few other places in East Asia were the promised land of cheap manufacturing, a famous "cost and keiretsu killer" is reported to have said that it was still more profitable for him to produce cars in Japan.
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Arabic for "the Castle of the Jews," the name is said to be a reference to the castle-like appearance of a nearby Greek Orthodox monastery and to Jewish belief, which holds that this is where Joshua led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
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Especially when he says, with a voice drenched in 13 long years of movement work for the people (from Montgomery to Memphis), with a fatigue created by many death threats and sleepless nights, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.
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" I also hope they'll believe that he later wrote three equally titanic songs: "Almost Grown" and "You Never Can Tell," in which his patented American teenager goes out on his own and gets married, and the sub rosa celebration of the Freedom Rides "Promised Land.
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We found that Iran is not quite the Promised land businesspeople have been hoping for, that Theranos seems not to be able to do as much with One drop of blood as once thought and that Helicopter money is not as promising as some think.
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Reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and Claude Brown's Harlem memoir, "Manchild in the Promised Land," I was discovering a New York very far from the exclusive restaurants I expected to make a career in—closer, in a way, to the basement at the Fort.
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But Fiver is right — the culprit is humans, who gas and excavate the colony to make way for a housing development — and the mild-mannered Hazel leads a small group on a postapocalyptic exodus to a distant hill, the promised land Fiver has envisioned.
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I love "Promised Land" because it's not just about one Johnny B. Goode, but all of them, Americans everywhere on a shared spiritual journey, hitting the road when they're feeling stuck, experiencing all the cathartic guitar solos, trying to outrace their inevitable second thoughts.
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She takes for granted that her readers know something about the landmark events of early Mormonism, including the mob attacks on Mormon communities in Missouri and Illinois, Smith's murder and Brigham Young's ascendancy, and the dismal wagon train journey to the promised land of Utah.
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Square Feet When Ashley Zegiestowsky, a computer sciences major at Butler University, was hunting for a technology job during her senior year, she took a close look at Silicon Valley, the promised land for young engineers eager to be part of the next big thing.
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There is something quintessentially American about feeling compelled — whether it be by the lyrics of a song ("Promised Land" by Chuck Berry), or by the journey of another writer — to jump on a bus (or a train or a car) and ride across the country.
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Today their middle-class equivalents would likely be making the same migration in reverse (or at the very least lighting out for rural, Trumpier parts of the West Coast, as a Californian uncle of mine did), having been priced out of what was once their promised land.
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Few places could be further from the promised land than current-day Libya, where tens of thousands are detained indefinitely, spend years working for arbitrary sums or without pay altogether, and are at constant risk of being kidnapped, sold, and auctioned from one militia to another.
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Forty years after singer Peter Tosh's immortal call to action, Canada's about two weeks deep into the promised land of legal weed, and aside from a few hiccups—rogue dispensaries courting police raids, national cannabis shortages, and mass mail delivery delays—it's been everything we've dreamed of.
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Among the key economic promises that Trump made at the very start of his administration was that his policy of aggressive tax cuts and economic deregulation would lead the US economy into the promised land of sustainable economic growth of between 3 and 4 percent a year.
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However, in order to get to their Promised Land, anything that doesn't fit into the brave new machine-world must first be cut to size in the Digitalists' bed of Procrustes, the world of 0s and 1s, streamlining all life into dead and sterile bits and bites.
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Thus hopes rise every two years, for either the World Cup or the European Championship, that this will indeed be the year that the English Messiah, or at least some 22st century version of Bobby Moore, will lead the Three Lions back to the Promised Land.
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Not only did it bring us closer to the bezel-less promised land than ever before, it still left enough room up top for front cams and an iris scanner without needing a notch, it also sported a clever virtual home button in place of the old fingerprint reader.
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Acting alongside George Clooney in Clooney's 2008 football screwball comedy Leatherheads and Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's 2012 fracking drama Promised Land, Krasinski's played variations on the beloved golden boy as secret villain, and in weaponizing his aw-shucks air, managed to be more intriguing than the stars.
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So, when Brady took Patterson to the promised land ... the WR/RB went straight to his favorite bling beast, Al the Jeweler, to whip up a custom "TB12" chain for his QB. We're told the piece is made with hundreds of diamonds and set Patterson back thousands of dollars.
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We are soon to wander through a three-week football desert before reaching the promised land of Euro 220, not an oasis in sight as we stumble over the rough sands of season reviews and Harry Redknapp columns demanding Wes Morgan be called up to the England squad.
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The production, mounted during Mr. Orban's re-election campaign, relocated the action to a hangar-like space full of homeless people searching for a promised land — reminding some of the refugee crisis that overwhelmed the Budapest train station in 2015, and of Mr. Orban's strong anti-immigration stance.
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And of course, the reason that it should have been sobering is because it was like, wait, if people were saying this a hundred years ago, and we're still saying it today, then something happened in those intervening hundred years where we didn't get to the promised land.
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From the grassy banks of the Rio Grande to the cactus-studded expanse of the Chihuahuan Desert to the oak-and-juniper-carpeted Chisos Mountains, Big Bend is a dream for photographers, a paradise for birders (more than 663 species), the promised land for amateur (and professional) geologists.
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Quin Monson, a professor of political science at BYU and co-author of Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics, says that while the church has maintained its conservative theological stance, it is offering a kinder and gentler approach on hot-button social issues like LGBTQ rights.
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His comrades, including Maurice (Karin Konoval), the orangutan so tender of heart that he should really be running an orphanage for abandoned humans, urge Caesar to lead his loyal apes to a promised land, away from strife, but he spurns that perfectly sensible suggestion for the sake of revenge.
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Here the city contains its multitudes: It's a place rich with living history and lousy with self-centered 26-year-olds; a gentrified husk of its former self and yet still the promised land for countless newcomers from near and far; lonely and cacophonous, utterly predictable and endlessly surprising.
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Coming in 1972, on the heels of the civil rights movement, the reality of a still ongoing struggle for justice and equality and the wounds suffered by everyone in the room are woven throughout the songs about going home, about Jesus being a friend in times of need, about the Promised Land.
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As I welcome Elijah this April, I will be hoping that Don and I garner the strength to open another door next year — not in our spacious country home, rich in the memories of Seders past, but in the promised land of a one-story, in-town apartment we can manage to negotiate.
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In this sense, and also in the canny and sometimes moving choices of inspirational figures in the balconies, I suspect the speech was effective, that it might help lift Trump temporarily upward from his mean of 38 percent approval toward the "we're holding the House by our fingernails" promised land of 44 percent.
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Just ahead of Mr. Springsteen's 19703th birthday on Monday, music fans crammed to the ocean's edge as rock, folk, blues pop and punk artists issued a loud, extensive anthem for Asbury Park — a proclamation that this city that was once a promised land for music had reclaimed its status as a destination.
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Washington sits just outside the Promised Land after snapping a four-game skid with an 8-3 triumph over Miami on Wednesday, while the second-place New York Mets benefited from a walk-off three-run homer in the 13th inning to prevent manager Dusty Baker's club from inching closer to the title.
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"His personal background and locker room language are off-putting to Mormons," David Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame University and author of Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics, told me in early September (before Trump even used the phrase "locker room banter" as an excuse for his lewd comments).
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"Don't you tell me what I can't do," Harriet says defiantly, well aware of the ordeal that awaits her if she's captured on one of those trips, which prompt real-time mythologizing of "Moses," the mysterious figure leading slaves to the promised land, who some plantation owners assumed to be a white man wearing blackface.
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But there is another Mardi Gras rite that has remained mostly obscure, hanging on in just a few isolated pockets, including here in Choupic (pronounced shoe-pick); in a tiny Cajun community called Gheens (pronounced Gains) about 35 miles away; and, a hundred miles to the west, in a black Creole community called Promised Land.
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The Black American idea of exodus from oppression and deliverance to the promised land, viewed in terms of time, can seem as time usually seems: linear, from point A to point B. But the relentless recurrence of racist violence and oppression throughout all periods of American history suggests another way of seeing time: as circular.
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While the ARPANET's originating crew of graduate students may not have consciously seen their efforts as intertwined with a landscape defined by evangelism, speculation, and the so-called pioneer spirit, much of tech today is animated by the same ethos underlying California's many turns as promised land of plenty–for better and for worse.
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And what my freedom gave me on the far side of the plains were mountains that salt flats led away from to my promised land of Raymond Chandler, the total marine darkness between each little beach town on Highway 101 before the sullen phosphorus of the cruise
ship casino three miles beyond the harbor.
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Those themes were powerfully explored in two moving nonfiction road movies: Visages, Villages, which enters the lives of ordinary people in France, and Promised Land, which traces the history of America in the 20th century through the life of Elvis Presley, concluding that the latest American political turmoil has been a long time coming.
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The topic here is assimilation, or not, as experienced by the generation of Caribbean immigrants who settled in Britain after World War II. Beginning in the midst of a Jamaican hurricane, the production chronicles the personal and political tempests that ensue once these travelers arrive in a new country that is far from the promised land they hoped for.
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Today's young tech moguls — like Facebook's $60 billion man, Mark Zuckerberg — are not only among the richest people in the world, they are also Beyoncé-level stars in the eyes of the starry-eyed postgraduates who flock to tech's promised land, hoping, like the characters in HBO's "Silicon Valley," to carve out their slice of the future.
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In addition to Winfrey's new island retreat, she also owns a home in Montecito, California, which she nicknamed "The Promised Land;" a $29 million equestrian ranch with views of Santa Ynez Mountains, also in Montecito; 1,000 acres in Hawaii; and both a $14 million home and a 60-acre property in Mountain Village, Colorado near Telluride.
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How else can you explain the rabid support of Trump by white Evangelicals and the surge of mourning for the recently passed Billy Graham who preached the word as a modern-day salesman selling faith, penance, and the promised land as incentives for good behavior, so long as your behavior did not inconvenience an American dream built off of Indigenous and black genocide.
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It never occurred to me as a kid, but of course The Ten Commandments was airing on Easter because the holiday usually coincides with the celebration of Passover: The story of the children of Israel being led out of slavery in Egypt and into freedom in the Promised Land is celebrated during Passover, and that's the story of The Ten Commandments.
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The group teaches its members that Israel is the promised land and that its members should migrate to Israel..." The memo goes on to say that some adherents of the Black Hebrews "have resorted to a wide variety of criminal activities... These activities include massive credit card fraud, internal bank frauds, a multimillion-dollar theft of airline tickets and numerous check frauds.
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Vicarious, whose investors include Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, is a prominent example of the entrepreneurial pursuit of new paths in A.I. "Deep learning has given us a glimpse of the promised land, but we need to invest in other approaches," said Dileep George, an A.I. expert and co-founder of Vicarious, which is based in Union City, Calif.
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The Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Statue of Liberty are all bisected by a looming dark line that you eventually realize is a strut from some fence or enclosure that puts us in the position as viewers of those, who like slaves, are enabled to see the promised land of freedom but are prevented from fully becoming part of this nation.
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In her rich and technical account COMPETITION IN THE PROMISED LAND: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University, $29.95), the economist Leah Platt Boustan employs the tools of her trade — resourceful matching of data sets, rigorous modeling of labor phenomena, sweeping use of census figures — to analyze the demographics and economics of the Great Migration as a whole.
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Today, O'Brien discussed the documentary and the broader issues it raised while onstage as part of TechCrunch Disrupt NY. She said she's encouraged by the way the conversation has changed in the years since Black in America: The New Promised Land — Silicon Valley first aired, particularly the fact that tech companies are now releasing diversity reports revealing details about the race and gender breakdowns of their workforces.
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The Exodus story has six acts: first, a life of slavery and oppression, then the revolt against tyranny, then the difficult flight through the howling wilderness, then the infighting and misbehavior amid the stresses of that ordeal, then the handing down of a new covenant, a new law, and then finally the arrival into a new promised land and the project of building a new Jerusalem.
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In "The Promised Land", he used place to make sly allusions to the Freedom Riders' journeys through the south in the cause of civil rights: We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown,Rollin' out of Georgia stateWe had motor trouble it turned into a struggle,Half way 'cross Alabam,And that 'hound broke down and left us all strandedIn downtown Birmingham His doleful songs were some of his best.
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Upon reaching the promised land of Miami during Art Week, Dripped On The Road culminated in a final burst of public art commissions throughout Wynwood and Southern Miami, as well as a final exhibition at FU Gallery, where the artists showcased the work they made throughout the residency as well as "road relics" from places in which they stopped, from shooting range bullets to banners from a trip to Medieval Times.
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Razing the tawdry, unsafe and unhealthy camp in Calais was overdue and necessary, and the thousands of people — including hundreds of unaccompanied youths — who had somehow reached the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in the largely false hope of reaching Britain, the promised land for so many refugees, will now have a chance at least to live in a degree of safety while they try to get permission to stay in France.
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His dozens of movies range across the strange and sublime and terrible and wonderful terrain of human experience: lyrical documentaries like Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World; absurdist fables like Stroszek, the story of a mentally challenged ex-con, an old man and a prostitute who leave Germany for the promised land of rural Wisconsin; and epics like Fitzcarroldo, for which Herzog famously--infamously--orchestrated the pulling of a ship over a mountain in Peru.
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