Sentences with phrase «like most houses»

Like most houses of that era, it was drafty, poorly insulated and cost a fortune to heat and cool each year.

Not exact matches

With protesters and camera crews swarming in front of Mt. Gox's office and the price of Bitcoin in free fall, the usually unflappable Frenchman had been confined to a self - imposed house arrest, subsisting on the buttery pastries he liked to bake and reading the hate mail that flooded in from all corners of the Internet — most of it accusing him of stealing the money himself.

Students were asked which characters on Grey's Anatomy and House (the two major medical dramas at the time) they would most and least want to be like in their professional careers.

WASHINGTON — Two of President Donald Trump's most ardent supporters, YouTube personalities Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, who go by their stage names «Diamond & Silk,» are slated to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, where they plan on discussing allegations of censorship and suppression on social media platforms like Facebook.

Mullin notes that most of the major stories we associate with previous administrations, including blockbuster events like Watergate and the NSA spying scandal, came from outside the White House, and didn't have anything to do with the traditional press corps.

Though the President - elect will be coming into power with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, many of his most popular positions, like his hardline stances on trade and immigration, are not exactly popular with Congressional leadership.

Many of the most vulnerable seats House Republicans will have to defend in 2018 are in places like Orange County, California, or affluent suburban areas of New Jersey.

CPG is the perfect example: building a «house of brands» allows a company like Procter & Gamble to target demographic groups even as they leverage scale to invest in R&D, bring down the cost of products, and most importantly, dominate the distribution channel (i.e. retail shelf space).

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

Like most University students they found a house to rent with some friends and the five of them moved in.

Most went to states with cheaper housing like Texas, Arizona, and Nevada, according to the Los Angeles Times.

It seems like nothing at all will be done on the country's most urgent public health crisis, just as the White House did nothing about the severe flu outbreak over the winter or about the blackouts in Puerto Rico.

We are in for many more cycles of boom and bust in the overall economy and individual parts of the economy like housing, stocks, etc — however, most people will not realize this, until another boom or bust occurs.

But the most important thing for banks is the relationship between earnings and the economy — things like the UK housing market, consumer spending and so on.

The range of Chinese economic espionage, from simple household goods like wooden furniture and house paint to the most advanced high - tech products, is part of the explanation for China's rapid growth.

It already sells roughly a third of the 35 Open House products in its retail stores, and ideally would like to sell more of the most promising ones in the future.

Once you know what kind of house you can afford and what kind of commitment is required, you can compare it against other options, like renting, and make the decision that makes most sense for you.

Brands like Buffalo Wild Wings (this year's No. 1 winner), Old Chicago Taproom, and Twin Peaks Yard House have some of the most loyal customers, enticing visitors with a wide selection of bar offerings (and a focus on beer.)

Well, other than the real Manhattan where Fortune 500 and the world elites must have a presence there for whatever reason, most likely egoistic, or perhaps hangout of the world biggest tech lunatics such as the case of Silicon Valley, most cities in the states are actually ghettos — Detroit is one and Canadians have been buying up their rundown houses as if they're free (almost, going by Canadian standard) just when Americans are avoiding them like the plague.

Charles: Right, I think that's a huge demographic question that I haven't seen any really good statistics on because of course most of the boomers are still in their late 50s or 60s, early 70s and they're not yet to the point where the older generation like the boomer parents, the so - called silent generation, which has sold their houses or given them to their offspring, their adult children.

And with Bolton in the White House, Trump is going to be advised by a guy who never saw a war he didn't like (when observed from a safe distance, of course)... Let me be clear: Bolton's appointment is on par with most of Trump's personnel choices, which is to say that it's likely to be a disaster

If you are like most Americans, health care is expected to be one of your largest expenses in retirement, after housing and transportation costs.

Unfortunately, in most cases like this, the lender will have to sell the house at auction.

Like most metro areas in Texas, the real estate scene in Austin was relatively stable during the housing crisis that began around 2008.

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

You can, in the absence of even so much as a shred of evidence, simply not believe there are any gods, like most people will not believe Loch Ness houses a monster, or that the Tooth Fairy is real.

And so the most common debate in Nympha's house is about whether we can accommodate laws like these without compromising our identity.

For philistinism thinks it is in control of possibility, it thinks that when it has decoyed this prodigious elasticity into the field of probability or into the mad - house it holds it a prisoner; it carries possibility around like a prisoner in the cage of the probable, shows it off, imagines itself to be the master, does not take note that precisely thereby it has taken itself captive to be the slave of spiritlessness and to be the most pitiful of all things.

These movements - house churches, charismatic fellowships, «non-denominational» Christian communities and the like involve millions of the most enthusiastic

Most Relatable: Emerging Mummy with «In Which I Can Feel Like Sisyphus» «When I'm picking up for the eleventy - billionth time, when every one needs to eat and it seems like wejust ate, when we are wondering what to do with our one wild and precious life that sure isn't feeling very wild or precious right about now, when the laundry is piled unfolded and someone spills their full glass of milk on the floor I just washed and the bickering and noise enters its second hour and the house is too hot and there isn't much time for the things that I want to do on the day off, I feel like Sisyphus, futile, pushing a rock up a hill that will never summit.&raLike Sisyphus» «When I'm picking up for the eleventy - billionth time, when every one needs to eat and it seems like wejust ate, when we are wondering what to do with our one wild and precious life that sure isn't feeling very wild or precious right about now, when the laundry is piled unfolded and someone spills their full glass of milk on the floor I just washed and the bickering and noise enters its second hour and the house is too hot and there isn't much time for the things that I want to do on the day off, I feel like Sisyphus, futile, pushing a rock up a hill that will never summit.&ralike wejust ate, when we are wondering what to do with our one wild and precious life that sure isn't feeling very wild or precious right about now, when the laundry is piled unfolded and someone spills their full glass of milk on the floor I just washed and the bickering and noise enters its second hour and the house is too hot and there isn't much time for the things that I want to do on the day off, I feel like Sisyphus, futile, pushing a rock up a hill that will never summit.&ralike Sisyphus, futile, pushing a rock up a hill that will never summit.»

The latter, lay brothers, did most of the menial tasks, assisted by the novices; in a big community like that of the Augustinian house, these tasks might include such things as brewing beer — the Erfurt cloister was substantial, and sometimes they would be putting on a meal for as many as two hundred.

Also I would like to return the big house [the old Friary] to my Most Gracious Lord.

Most of the freer Asian countries at one time or another adopted policies penalizing large families or offering incentives to small families, whether through the tax code or through benefits like preferential housing and jobs.

One of the most popular baked goods in this house is brownies, It seems like I am always making them.

Wow - I made these, and just like my mom used to do when she made «us» toll house cookies, I ate most of them all by myself, right off the cookie sheet!

If your house stays on the warmer side most of the year (like 72 + degrees F), then shea butter might be a better option.

They are the dark chocolate people, the ones who eat the actual gingerbread of the gingerbread houses (rather than people like me and most kids who would rather pick off the candy and royal icing), and those who lean towards fruit and nut types of concoctions rather than a sticky - sweet nougat or caramel.

(Chicago, Ill.)-- The space which played a key role in Chicago's second wave of House music throughout the 90's, Red Dog nightclub, was once a venerable launching pad for deejays like Derrick Carter, DJ Sneak, Cajmere (aka Green Velvet), Mark Grant, DJ Heather, Johnny Fiasco, Spencer Kinsey, and more; DJs who have gone on to tour the world and most of them still do to this day.

Like most of the old house clubs, Red Dog's a kaleidoscope of races, ages and lifestyles...» Annex plans to pick up where Red Dog left off.

Most of these changes were based on just what we had around the house, like the cheese.

I also added a tbsp of cocoa powder and it tastes like a chocolate chai latte... mmm... And for for those with nut / coconut allergies, I mostly don't make this recipe including the nut / coconut butter (for the most part because I never have them in my house as I have either finished them off or am too lazy to go to the store...) and it still turns out great: P

i like mexican dishes because most of the time i have over half of the ingredients in the house already.

One thing I've noticed is that when there are clean and healthy snacks lying around the house, it's easier to ignore those junky foods that keep eyeballing me, and it's not like I can completely get rid of them because most of them aren't even mine.

Stocking your house with your favorite Sangiovese makes even the most impromptu pasta nights feel like you've been planning them for weeks.

While it's baking, your entire house will have the most amazing aroma, like the sweet scent of freshly baked goods at the bakery.

The Dwarf House isn't like most Chick - fil - A.

Apparently this is what the Waffle House is like most of the time.

Since we all grew up together, spending most of our days at each others» houses or going on outings or vacations together, Kentucky felt like it was pretty much halfway across the world.

In their place, we have a scratchy house cat that likes to be left alone, for the most part.