Sentences with phrase «hunker said»

«Ten years from now... there's an increased chance that the U.S. or NATO would get hit by something,» Hunker said.

«Al - Qaida is as powerful as they are because of cyber,» Hunker said, noting that prior to the Internet, a group like al - Qaida might have stayed a small, local terrorist organization.

Not exact matches

But it's best to hunker down in your blast shelter if you're unsure whether it's safe to move, he said.

«There's a mentality of hunker down and hold onto cash,» Francois Chadwick, national tax leader at the KPMG Venture Capital Practice, says in the report.

«We are hunkered down and it is very windy... the wind is a major threat,» said Garfield Burford, the director of news at ABS TV and Radio on the island of Antigua, south of Barbuda.

That said, if you can hunker down and start saving for retirement at an early age, it makes things easier.

That many still have a «muscle memory» of the crisis is a good thing, she said, but at the same time, the pervasiveness of skepticism that is still causing many to hunker down and stay away from the markets is doing them a disservice.

This is to say nothing of the declining social trust that Robert Putnam has identified as a side effect of increasing diversity, the «turtle» effect that makes citizens «hunker down,» an unforeseen consequence that Tocqueville would have grasped immediately.

«I think the more similar people in churches and small groups are, the more safe and hunkered - down they become,» Pickerell says.

«We are following the guidance of our officials and hunkering down in order to remain safe while they focus on those in the most immediate danger,» said Andrew Doyle, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.

I said hunkered.

«From our perspective, it's an even greater reason for us to hunker down and say, «This is our family.

Two months later, following the end of recruiting season, he and his offensive assistants — including Brandon, whom he'd hired from Colorado, and Mullen, whom he'd made his quarterbacks coach — hunkered down for three weeks of closed - door brainstorming sessions in «a little staff room that dripped when it rained,» says Meyer.

FEMA is already hunkering down for a years - long recovery effort in Texas after Hurricane Harvey, its chief said Sunday.

By late afternoon, lawmakers began making plans to hunker down, including reserving hotel rooms, with many strolling the hallways of the Capitol saying they weren't sure how long they would remain.

And the easy thing in a way would have been to say after the Glasgow East byelection [last week, in which Labour lost its 25th safest seat] we'll all just go away and hunker down.

But «one day we saw an adolescent orang - utan called Sif wade into deep water, hunker down and then lunge forward making simple paddling movements with her arms and legs», says Russon.

Jeffrey Hunker, a Pittsburgh - based cybersecurity consultant who worked for the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton as senior director for critical infrastructure, said the problem is compounded by the fact that the appropriate response to a cyberattack hasn't yet been worked out.

It will be interesting to see «whether the tables are going to turn [and if] employers will become more competitive for talent,» or if, instead, they'll hunker down and say,» «If you want to have a good job, you have to do what we do.»»

In the wild, C. elegans worms in the quest for food alternate between an exploratory behavior called roaming and a less active behavior called dwelling, where the worms essentially «hunker down and eat,» Bargmann says.

Q: Okay, lets say that shes decided to hunker down.

All of this is to say I may not be posting much because I'm feeling the need to really hunker down with myself and stop feeling so loud.

But in schools where there has not been much cultivation of leaders, there is often a hunkering down and just saying, «Well, there's leadership over [t] here and there's teaching over here.»

Inside the 2016 Civic's interior is much larger and since the seating position has been lowered, it feels more hunkered down than say a Corolla or Sentra.

«The big hunker is dead and not coming back,» said Mike Jackson, CEO and chairman of Fort Lauderdale - based AutoNation.

But it's also fair to say the more open the road the better the SVR likes it, able to hunker down in sweepers and flow, using its prodigious grip and booming engine to best effect.

One editor, comparing the crossover with a first - generation MDX parked in his garage, said the new one «looks edgier and hunkered down, and I like it very much overall.

«The HST gives the Range Rover Sport an especially impressive stance, hunkered down tight to the road,» says Land Rover design director, Geoff Upex.

All through that night into the gray light of dawn and on until the shadows disappeared in the midday sun, the three of them hunkered down in the living room, the old man sniveling and stuttering and saying things like Jesus, I wish I still had my gun, I ought to just go ahead and kill myself, and Mike — who would not even got into the garage, who point - blank refused — trying to force the reality of the situation into some less horrible shape.

It'll all be said and done on Nintendo's official Twitch channel when it hits, so if you have a block of time, hunker down and watch some Nintendo characters beat each other up.

Moore said he wanted to restrict the final questions to «the people in the back who haven't gotten the chance to speak» before hunkering down to sign books for a line of about 200 patrons.

«This hybrid model is exciting because it gives us a chance to do new things and not just hunker down,» Dr. Bharucha said.

«This crisis has just hit the West, so people in the East are hunkering down, wondering when the tsunami is going to hit them,» he says.

In the past week, one of the people said, Mr. Zuckerberg has spent significant time hunkered down with a small group of engineers to discuss how to make Facebook's users more secure, with more control of their data.

«The theme going forward is that REITs are going to hunker down and find revenue from other sources and prove themselves by posting a strong performance,» says Mark Zeisloft, a vice president and retail REIT analyst with RREEF Real Estate Securities in Chicago.

«The market is very strong for first - time home buyers, and in Scarborough, 75 per cent of the homes are priced at less than $ 250,000,» says Alex. «There's an expression that you are either busy born or busy dying — and our case, we had to decide if we should expand to handle demand, or just hunker down.

On average, Brits are preparing to hunker down, and improve their existing homes instead, saying that they believe they will stay in their current property for the next eight years.