Sentences with phrase «as dumping ground»

My boys and husband tend to use that as a dumping ground for everything: book bags, keys, phones, papers, etc..

It is where I do laundry and because it is out of sight, I frequently use it as a dumping ground when I frantically clean before company comes.

«Its four drawers and two shelves work as a dumping ground for keys in the hallway or as handy living room storage.

It is just too easy to forget what is in there or use it as a dumping ground for junk.

Avoid using your bedroom as a dumping ground for clothing and stuff.

Don't use social media as a dumping ground for your problems.

All links should be relevant, and your cover letter shouldn't be used as a dumping ground for everything you've ever created!

As I recall, it was Willard Bascom, an engineer - turned - oceanographer who coined the slogan,» The solution to pollution is dilution» back in the early»70s to justify using the ocean as a dumping ground.

Mafia Has Used Somalia As Dumping Ground for 20 Years Here's the broader connection here: Since the 1990s the Mafia have been known to dump toxic waste in the waters off Somalia — where the utter lack of government means it costs one - tenth that of dumping in Europe.

I would suggest if people are using your back yard as a dumping ground there is a system already put in place to facilitate your own regulation of that problem.

Government has a place as some will use «my back yard» as their dumping ground as evidenced by the need for regulation such as the Clean air and Clean water acts.

«This is the outcome we get if we continue down this path of burning a lot of fossil fuel and using the atmosphere as a dumping ground for excess CO2 when we make energy,» Ault said.

For a long time, many Asian countries, especially China, have served as a dumping ground for electronic waste from around the world, but with the rise in e-waste from within these countries as well, the problem is becoming much worse.

If we are to live on this planet for the long haul without transforming it into what seems like an entirely different planet, we will need to come to the understanding that we can no longer use the atmosphere as a dumping ground for the waste products of modern industrial civilization.

It's that simple, and they don't deserve a free pass for using it as a dumping ground for minigame collections.

There's the «ingest» tab where all the food and drink stuff is located and the miscellanea tab, which serves as a dumping ground for unrelated — yet somehow interesting — stuff like our Top 100 English novels of the 20th century, state highpoints, and peakbagging lists.

The pet food industry was born as a dumping ground for waste products for large corporations.

Your donations help people and pets like the Smith family (name changed to protect their identity), whose yard, sad to say, is often used as a dumping ground for unwanted pets.

Jane Friedman says, «Never use a blog as a dumping ground for material that's already been written» and I agree with that to a point.

Another way a popular author could make money at it would be to use a streaming service as the dumping ground for out of print or old material that doesn't sell anymore.

Many superminis will be used as two - seaters, in effect, with the rear cabin being used as a dumping ground for shopping more regularly than as a space for passengers.

The policy of the government is for public charter schools where the only role of the Title 1 poverty public schools is as the dumping ground for those students who create problems in the public charter schools.

The site was formerly a derelict area used as a dumping ground during a recent building project and was out of bounds for safety and draining reasons.

If this trend continues, Netflix could wind up as a dumping ground for films deemed not good enough for the big screen.

Once nominally intended to be the section for promising up - and - comers and new discoveries, for some years now the section has been doing double duty as a dumping ground for filmmakers on their way down, not quite ready (or too challenging) for prime - time, or in a holding pattern pending another invitation to the main event.

It's been said that depression is highest after the holidays, and that's certainly the case at the box office, where the earliest months of the year traditionally serve as a dumping ground for the movies that the major studios didn't have the time or intestinal fortitude to release during the rest of the year.

I find John Crowhurst's letter proposing Australia's outback as a dumping ground for the world's nuclear waste offensive (30 November,...

The scientists stressed the need for more study of the conditions at the bottom of the ice sheet because of a proposal published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1973 to use the ice sheet as a dumping ground for radioactive waste.

Suffolk County is moving forward with a million - dollar plan to restore seven acres of land at Indian Island County Park in Riverhead that once served as a dumping ground for the county's dredging projects.

My dining room table always ends up as the dumping ground for laundry and inevitably, a... Read More

It's fairly common knowledge that the USDA uses our schools as a dumping ground, so I'm not surprised by the menu choices.

Rather, the typical Goodwill, Salvation Army, or Savers often serves as a dumping ground for American consumers eager to clean out their closets — in order to make room for more stuff, of course.

Not exact matches

«Other» can end up as a bit of a dumping ground so we'd like to avoid it if at all possible!

Meanwhile, the village found it still had use for the site as a topsoil dumping ground and did not cease dumping until June 1 of this year.

One of the most shocking and hard - to - understand roles of being a mom is the dumping ground you become for their emotions, and many other things as well.

«The Adirondack Park is home to some of the world's most pristine forest lands, which powers its tourism economy, and we will not stand by and allow it to be used as a commercial dumping ground,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.

According to the report, the Warrior Transition Battalion was seen as a «dumping ground» rather than a place to help soldiers heal.

The site was a vacant lot and former illegal dumping ground, but now serves as one of the southern links along the Bronx River Greenway, a collection of waterfront parks along the Bronx River.

On a more typical day, however, the remote - controlled loaders dump ore loads into an underground mill, where the chunks of rock are ground down into fine silt that is mixed with water and pumped to the surface as a slurry.

As soon as you dump them on the ground, they'll diAs soon as you dump them on the ground, they'll dias you dump them on the ground, they'll die.

► A penguin slams into a cooler (the penguin is unharmed), the man pushing the cooler dumps the contents (ice and water) on the ground, six penguins slide down a multi-story ramp, and as they slide men women leap to get out of the way, a man almost leaps over the side of the ramp but is caught by a woman, a man is hit in the leg by a penguin and people generally leap to get out of the way moments before the penguins hit them; the penguins slide off a statue and through the air, crashing into an orchestra pit (the penguins are unharmed) ► On multiple occasions we see a penguin biting people, including biting a man's foot and snapping at a man's hand.

As many of you may know, January is typically the dumping ground for horror films.

The latest horror genre debut in the dump ground known as January.

USA Today Character actor Joseph Ruskin (Prizzi's Honor, The Magnificent Seven) has passed away The Wire as we move into the dumping ground of each film year (that'd be new January releases, not platformed holdovers) Joe Reid looks back at ten January releases that didn't suck Vanity Fair funny Proust questionnaire with T Bone Burnett whose latest movie music work I can't stop listening to.

As the actor establishes their character — the beginning Winslow Boy is sort of a rapid, pre-Christmas ground situation exposition dump; Mamet keeps it moving through dialogue speed, repetition, Barbara Tulliver's editing, and especially Benoît Delhomme's photography.

But their old - fashioned hucksterism, a throwback to the summer season as an exploitation dumping ground, has a strain of honesty to it.

Striped of its international cinema release by Paramount Studios due to worries that it was too cerebral for audiences, Annihilation (based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer) comes to Netflix on more of a positive wave of critical reaction than the two sci - fi streaming flicks before it, two films which have done a great detriment to Netflix's standing as a major film studio competitor, only enforcing the notion that the streaming service is becoming a dumping ground for doomed movies.

Formally, the film feels very much in the tradition of latter - day Iranian new - wave humanism, but tempered with a slightly more detached tone (Mortezai's dynamic but controlled camerawork — kudos to cinematographer Klemens Hufnagel — often favors behind - the - subject shots, following Ramasan as he stomps through the scrubby forest / dumping ground near the flats, or crosses the busy, noisy playground to bring his sisters home).

On the one hand, many observers have described CTE as a «dumping ground» for lower - achieving or unmotivated students.

Is this the same alternative high school that served for years, in one administrator's words, as a «dumping ground» and «school of last resort» for students who weren't making the grade in traditional high schools?