Sentence examples for reckoning of their from inspiring English sources

To others, the film was an overdue reckoning of their recent past.

May I ask them to make a reckoning of their aid to my sister, subtracting it from any bequest they eventually make her, so that overall, she and I receive equal amounts?

Since it's the nature of Ishiguro narrators to postpone a full reckoning of their place in the world, all we know in the early going is that we don't quite know what's going on.

He tries to make the banks more commercially minded, but not too much so: for example, a proper reckoning of their bad debts (now officially reckoned to be 8% of loans) would further weaken their already slender capital ratios.In the short term, one cause for concern is a squeeze on disposable income, which fell by 8% last year.

The group's follow-up Sam's Town delivered an ambitious, mythic reckoning of their Vegas home and of The Flowers family's move away to a tiny town in Utah to accomplish sobriety, healing, and stability.

Warren then shifts into what is considered more traditional foreign policy, with a broadside against our nation's endless wars, by laying out a devastating reckoning of their costs in American treasure and blood.

"Gravity" and "All Is Lost" don't force the same kind of reckoning on their protagonists (or their audiences), but they identify the same anxieties.

Could we learn more about our torture practices from the British, and see more of a reckoning on their part, than we have from our own government?

By his own reckoning, 52percentt of their first 623 surgeries yielded "good" results, 32percentt "fair," and 13percentt "poor". Three percent died during or after surgery.

Joel and Ethan Coen made their mark 24 years ago with the ruthless, low-budget noir thriller Blood Simple and followed it three years later with the comedy Raising Arizona, and by my reckoning five of their 13 films can be categorised as serious and eight as comic.

But some Democrats — perhaps anticipating a day of reckoning for their one-party state of Illinois, and nurturing their indissoluble marriage to government employee unions, some of which have helped reduce Puerto Rico to prostration — want to reward the San Juan government's self-indulgence.