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Set against the backdrop of the Cold War early 1980s prior to the perestroika years of the later 80s, Vladimir Ivanov ( Robin Williams ), a saxophonist with the Moscow circus, lives in a crowded apartment with his extended family.
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In the context of the passage, they seem to equate to something like “ east and west .” There is a passage in Ezekiel, however, where God says to the prophet, " Set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
Following the original roots of modern graffiti as a political force came another game title, Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure ( 2006 ), featuring a story line involving fighting against a corrupt city and its oppression of free speech, as in the Jet Set Radio series.
Set against that is a strong culture of motor sport enthusiasm ( pinaccled in the TT, but there are a huge number of events throughout the year ) and the better locals are well used to traversing country roads at speeds illegal in roads of such low quality anywhere else on earth.
Set against her long red hair, the effect is striking.
* The odds against there being no Set in 12 cards when playing a game of Set start off at 30: 1 for the first round.
* The odds against there being no Set in 15 cards when playing a game are 88: 1.
Set — whom Plutarch, using Greek names for many of the Egyptian deities, refers to as " Typhon "— conspires against Osiris with seventy-three other people.
In some sources, Set justifies further attacks on Horus as punishment for the young god's violence against his mother.
Released in 1988, this was Binoche's first English language role and was a worldwide success with critics and audiences alike Set against the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968, the film tells the story of the relationships a Czech surgeon, Tomas ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), has with his wife Tereza and his lover Sabina ( Lena Olin ).
Initially, in that system, the Moon had been seen to be the eye of Horus, the sky god, which had been semi-blinded ( thus darker ) in a fight against Set, the other eye being the Sun.
Set against this, the purges of the Red Army leadership, in which Molotov participated, weakened the Soviet Union's defence capacity and contributed to the military disasters of 1941 and 1942, which were mostly caused by unreadiness for war.
Horus fought battles against Set, until he finally achieved victory and became the ruler of Egypt.
Ptolemy's policy was to find a deity that should win the reverence alike of both groups, despite the curses of the Egyptian priests against the gods of the previous foreign rulers ( i. e. Set who was lauded by the Hyksos ).
Set in Venetian Slovenia, the novel, published under a pseudonym in the Yugoslav town of Ljubljana, described the efforts of a local Roman Catholic priest to preserve the use of Slovene language in church against the policies of the Italian Fascist regime.
Set against a backdrop of political tension, power struggles, war, and hardship, the main characters confront personal drama such as conflict in love, conflict between family members, conflict with God, and conflict in friendship, as well as conflicted loyalties between family, self, king and country.
Set against the economic boom from oil revenue it became apparent that the Land Reforms did not make life better for the rural population: according to Amid, ".. only a small group of rural people experienced increasing improvements in their welfare and poverty remained the lot of the majority ".
Set against his footballing achievements was a poor disciplinary record throughout his career, including a conviction for assault on a fan in 1995.
Set in the Wild West during the nineteenth century, the movie was a sex comedy that starred Divine as Rosie Velez, a promiscuous woman who works as a singer in saloons and competes for the love of Abel Wood ( Tab Hunter ) against another woman.
Set in Baltimore during the 1960s, Hairspray revolved around self-proclaimed " pleasantly plump " teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local television show and rallies against racial segregation.
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese man.
Soon after, Rémy became embroiled in the X-Men's fight against an alien invasion of Earth led by the interdimensional warlord Khan, after trying to assemble the " Madripoor Set ," a group of seven gems.
* Set: three or four players who play against the opposing teams set
Set around 155 F. E., The Merchant Princes takes places against the backdrop of a powerful Foundation, which has subjugated the neighboring Four Kingdoms and expanded its commercial and technological empire throughout numerous stellar systems.
Set and backdrop
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it follows two French Hussar officers, D ' Hubert and Feraud ( Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel ) whose quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter extended feud spanning fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop.
Set against the backdrop of a fierce Indian war, the tale focuses on a love triangle between three Pilgrims: Miles Standish, Priscilla Mullens, and John Alden.
Set against a strongly evoked backdrop of place, Valmiki's Daughter charts Viveka's coming to terms with the hard understanding that love faces society's obstacles, and her knowledge of her certain survival.
Set against the backdrop of the Gulf War, the novel features several real-life characters central to the conflict.
Set against the backdrop of conflict between India and Pakistan, this star-crossed romance follows the unfortunate love story of an Indian Air Force Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, and a Pakistani woman hailing from a rich political family of Lahore, Zaara Haayat Khan, who are separated for over twenty years.
Set in 1964 Mississippi, playwright Stephen Sachs wove in themes of racial violence and miscegeny against the backdrop of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Along with Ponniyin Selvan, this is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written in Tamil. Set in 7th-century south India against the backdrop of various historical events and figures, the novel created widespread interest in Tamil history when it was being published in the 1940s.
Set in the late 15th century Sultanate of Malacca and the Javanese kingdom of Majapahit, against a backdrop of war and mysticism, the film is about the forbidden romance that blossomed between Gusti Putri, a Javanese Hindu princess, and Hang Tuah, the famed Malay Muslim warrior from Melaka.
Set in Spain and France against the backdrop of a terrorist insurgency, the film tells the story of an aging Frenchman who falls in love with a young woman who repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires.
Set against the backdrop of the Partry Mountains, the countryside of Ballintubber is rich in history and historical sites including Ballintubber Abbey, Mayo Abbey and the round tower at Aghagower.
Set with a backdrop of Mount Rainier, the fiberglass statue was erected in 1964 to memorialize the soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division.
Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 70s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes.
Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss's daughter, after getting her pregnant out of wedlock.
Set and Cold
Set in New York City, they detail his daily life, sexual experiences, high school basketball career, Cold War paranoia, the counter-culture movement, and, especially, his addiction to heroin, which began when he was 13.
Set in the 21st century, the board game begins with the premise that during the Cold War, nuclear terrorists destroyed much of the Middle East's supply of oil.
Set during the height of the Cold War, The Shoes of the Fisherman opens as protagonist Kiril Pavlovich Lakota ( Anthony Quinn ), the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv, is unexpectedly set free after twenty years in a Siberian labor camp by his former jailer, Piotr Ilyich Kamenev ( Laurence Olivier ), now the premier of the Soviet Union.
Set in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, it is regarded as an accurate depiction of army life in the early to mid 1990s, when the British Army was undergoing significant change.
Set in the present-day of 1988, the player was immersed in a Cold War era battlefield, flying missions against Iranian, Libyan, Soviet or Warsaw Pact opponents.
Set in Yorkshire and London in 1933, The 12. 30 from Croydon is about 35 year-old Charles Swinburn, the owner of a factory in Cold Pickerby, Yorkshire, in which electric motors are produced.
Another, chimeral, product is the " Cold Set Bound Fish Kebabs " made from alternating layers of salmon and cod which are " glued " together by transglutaminase.
* Innovation Product Library see page 18, " Cold Set Bound Fish Kebabs "
Set in the U. S. state of Georgia in the fictional town of Cold Sassy ( based on the real city Harmony Grove, now Commerce ) in 1906, it follows the life of a 14-year-old boy named Will Tweedy, and explores themes such as religion, death, and social taboos.
Set in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War, the novel tells the story of young Nicolas Whistler, a 24-year-old Londoner whose business trip to Prague goes horribly awry.
Set in an era " one hundred years from now ", Ocean is a science fiction story that tells the tale of Nathan Kane, a United Nations special weapons inspector, and his mission to Cold Harbor, a UN research station in orbit around Europa.
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