Based on the Yuan dynasty play "Orphan of Zhao," the story centers on Chen Ying (Ge You), a humble court doctor who, at great personal cost, saves the life of the newborn heir to the throne when the child's family is massacred in a coup led by the deadeyed Gen. Tu Angu Wang Xue-qii).
This week, Georgia instituted a nearly identical law, with supporters saying it would foster greater personal responsibility and save money.
Hela, brandishing the threat to unleash Ragnarok on the family's homeland, doesn't just want to destroy the place — she wants to exterminate the people, and Heimdall is exerting himself, at great personal risk, to save them from her wrath.
Hela, brandishing the threat to unleash Ragnarok on the family's homeland, doesn't just want to destroy the place she wants to exterminate the people, and Heimdall is exerting himself, at great personal risk, to save them from her wrath.
But Mr. Nuciforo, the retired detective, suggested that the show held a greater personal appeal, that it could reconnect with an era when New York still needed the help of people like him to save the city from itself.
From the start, Keneally said, he was fascinated by the paradox of Schindler's character: the libertine who assumed great personal risk and expense to save Jewish lives.
The efforts of Fry and his colleagues their furious fight to save lives at great personal risk is a thrilling model of citizen action in an era of tyranny and turmoil.
If, however, the person is drowning 2 miles out and is surrounded by a school of hungry, man-eating sharks, then one cannot expect the solitary lifeguard to dive among the sharks to save the swimmer, even if that means the swimmer will certainly die and even if the lifeguard has a small chance of saving him or her (at great personal risk).
Sarah and her husband, heedless tourists out for a walk in the sand, are confronted in an instant with a choice: Save the girls at great personal cost or ignore them.
There was great personal cost.
