Sentences with phrase «about a dozen families»

Of the 12,587 Syrian refugees admitted under the ramped - up refugee program during the last fiscal year, a mere 0.5 percent were Christians, equivalent to about a dozen families.

About a dozen families, meanwhile, are coming from distances near and far.

1) Question: I am flying across the country and I am seated at the back of the plane completely surrounded by about a dozen families with very loud and very young children.

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The couple had 12 children, two of whom wrote a book about their family's life called «Cheaper by the Dozen.»

On Sunday, they hosted about a dozen Republican senators and their families for a dinner, and other administration officials have been mounting a full - court lobbying press on Capitol Hill.

Jennifer and Andy Taylor did it, along with about two dozen friends, family members and volunteers.

About two dozen Americans, T - shirts emblazoned with Family Radio's May 21 doomsday message, breakfasted beside me every day for a week before heading out onto Sydney streets, presumably to tell Australians that the world as they knew it was ending in about six wAbout two dozen Americans, T - shirts emblazoned with Family Radio's May 21 doomsday message, breakfasted beside me every day for a week before heading out onto Sydney streets, presumably to tell Australians that the world as they knew it was ending in about six wabout six weeks.

Yet he set aside time to take a personal interest in his friends, always inquiring about my family («All those children: How many, a dozen or so?»

Instantly a family debate breaks out about the moral implications of enjoying the work of a man accused of dozens of horrific sexual assaults.

The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.

This recipe makes about three dozen small cookies - enough to feed family as well as company or to portion into homemade gift baskets.

But in the third round McCauley, about to be defeated in front of a dozen family members who were watching him fight for the first time, saw an opening: Watkins briefly lowered his hands, McCauley unleashed a left hook and a straight right that dropped him, and the ref stopped the fight with less than a minute remaining.

More than 500 families have two students attending Downers Grove North or Downers Grove South and about three dozen families have at least three children in the district, officials said.

The circumstances that put Puntillo and about two dozen other families on Burdette Court in a property tax bind can be traced to a 26 - year - old map - making quirk.

Dozens of families met at the event which allowed potential adoptive families to learn more about the adoption process and allowed them to meet experienced parents who have already been through the adoption process.

Most of your friends are not going to post about the frustrating mom days when their youngest attempted to flush an entire pack of baby wipes down the toilet while their oldest took a dozen eggs outside to see if he could fry up some lunch on the hood of the brand new family car.

November is National Adoption Month, so here are a dozen children's books about adoptive families with queer parents!

Janet Larango shared the family's story with The Buffalo News following reports about another Buffalo area priest, the Rev. Norbert Orsolits, who admitted to sexually abusing «probably dozens» of teenage boys.

This mechanism has come to light in a group of about a dozen asteroids, called the Koronis family, between Mars and Jupiter.

Widespread pertussis vaccine use at a Florida preschool failed to keep the disease away from about three dozen students, staff and family members

Pilot whales live in multigenerational family units of about two to four dozen individuals, says Joana Augusto at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Dozens, even hundreds of times — and each time, a baby learns more about trust and about the family she is now part of.

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Might sound like a weird topic, but having experienced home birth ourselves and interviewed dozens and dozens of moms and families who have chosen it as well (some who've also had experiences giving birth in a hospital), it's easy to see why we wanted to talk about the elements of giving birth at home which we really appreciate.

Instead, this film is about the Baker family (Baker's dozen... get it?)

called the family Christmas movie get trotted out toward the end of almost every year, and for every good one, there are about a half - dozen that will make you wish the holiday never existed.

While the above link will already take you to dozens of new hi - res photos, this morning a new and improved still was released from Stake Land director Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are, his remake of Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau's picture about a family of cannibals that's been moved from its original setting of Mexico City, to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State.

(Stellet Licht) Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Mennonite Faces Crisis of Faith in Visually - Arresting Morality Play Johan (Cornelio Wall) is a devoutly - religious family man who lives close to the land with his wife, Esther (Miriam Toews), and their big brood of about a half - dozen children in a sparsely - populated desert region of Northern Mexico.

A mawkish drama about a wealthy patriarch (Richard Jenkins) who gathers his family around his Manhattan hospital bed to witness his decision to go off life support after fighting cancer for the past dozen years.

Cheaper by the Dozen was originally a popular selling non-fiction story about a large clan, authored by two of the children from the famous family.

Since then, McIntosh has taken on the comedy / drama «Manson Family Vacation» and has about half a dozen projects currently in the works.

Zhao, who is Chinese - American, told Variety that she used a tiny crew of about half a dozen friends and family to shoot «The Rider,» which charts the frustrated dreams of a South Dakota rodeo rider, played by real - life cowboy Brady Jandreau.

American Horror Story: The Complete First Season Rated TV - MA Available on DVD and Blu - ray I sat down to watch two, maybe three episodes of this new FX horror series on a rainy Saturday and thirteen hours later, upon finishing it, I couldn't believe how engaged I was with this innovative mini-series about a family living in a house known for dozens of grizzly murders that took place over the last century.

Mr. Serrano moved his family to the suburb of Whittier, but remained upset enough about the incident to file, the following year, the landmark court challenge that spurred similar litigation seeking school - finance reform in two dozen other states.

Instead, state control and grossly inadequate state funding have led to dozens of neighborhood school closures, deep cuts in programs and services in District schools, and the disenfranchisement of families, whose concerns about their children's education were ignored by the SRC.

They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.

After being a loyal customer for two decades and owning four (my family has owned about a dozen Hyundai's) you can bet I'll take my business somewhere else.

I cried about a dozen times, because it was a complete revelation for so many areas in my own life, how I have neglected family, neglected the importance of literacy and most importantly forgotten the importance of charity and philanthropy!

In fact, over the last few weeks, in our Investing and Personal Finance Facebook group, about a dozen people have asked or mentioned getting a will and trust setup for their family.

About a dozen other local animal welfare agencies and numerous foster families stepped up to give each dog a warm place to sleep.

All but about a dozen pups already had a new home, a family.

While large travel booking sites provide dozens of travel «deals,» few are really for families and those that are provide limited information about the vacation experience.

That said, Deluxe fixed most of what I didn't like about the original Mario Kart 8, and has provided me and my family with dozens of hours of entertainment.

Looking to their contemporaries and racing movies for inspiration, Need for Speed Payback tries to tell a revenge story we've seen almost a half - dozen times already — it's just missing Vin Diesel giving some stupid speech about family.

A tightly curated exhibition featuring about a dozen works — paintings, drawings, prints, and a sculpture — by John Biggers, who was born in Gastonia, N.C. Shown, «Family Arc,» 1992 (lithograph).

Jokes «about» climate change can in fact be «about» any of the dozens of subjects — family disputes over energy bills, travel and tourism, or changing consumer habits — that are directly impacted by climate change.

What average person wondered about freedom of speech or respect for his employer before the opportunity arose to broadcast angry thoughts to dozens of friends and family members in an instant?

It pains me to write these words about Facebook, because the platform has enabled me to reconnect and stay in touch with dozens of true friends and family members that I had fallen out of touch with over years of widespread travel and study abroad.

The skills that are needed are the same that the couple will need to create a healthy marriage — to communicate effectively, to maintain reasonable expectations of each other, to share in decision - making and to learn how to set goals together.Once married, couples will be deciding about children, about financials, about where and how to live, about each other's family's involvement and dozens of other daily decisions.