Sentences with phrase «abandoned houses for»

Overwhelmed by the cold snowdrifts and the calm silence as the wind howls, you search abandoned houses for any clues and supplies that may aid you while trying to stay as warm as possible.

Canadians make much of the fact that a lender, in all provinces except Alberta, can pursue people who abandon their houses for any outstanding amount owing.

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Covenant House New York is not only respected for providing loving care and vital services to homeless and abandoned youths, they also help transform the lives of these young kids by setting them on a path towards achieving success.

«Unfortunately, for the many vulnerable House Republicans that Paul Ryan is abandoning, his historically unpopular and failed policies will hang over their reelections like a dark cloud,» Law added.

The White House's disclosure about the case helped keep allegations about the president and the adult film actress in the national spotlight for a second day and marked the latest twist in the ongoing legal drama over Daniels» efforts to abandon a confidentiality agreement.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

Not all Christians will follow the lead of the new monastics to create intentional communities in abandoned places of empire, but those that do, such as the folks at Camden House in New Jersey, can teach the rest of us a lot — for example, about environmental racism.

The vision United Pursuit had for the Banks House pales in comparison to what they believe God is calling them to do next: Raise $ 100,000 in 30 days to purchase a 10,000 - square - foot abandoned warehouse in the heart of downtown Knoxville, and transform it into a hub for Christian community, creativity and worship.

In a borrowed «76 AMC Hornet, holding a fast - food chicken sandwich in one hand and balancing a cup of ice water in the other, I drive eight miles north from this Oregon university town to an abandoned air force base which now houses a modest, little - known alcohol treatment Center for American Indians.

Only two students turned up for classes at the abandoned farmhouse Townsend rented for housing the «school.»

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

He was arrested for the first time while buying crack at an abandoned house across town.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg announced today that the government will abandon its plans for reform of the House of Lords.

A former Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing, Alhaji Femi Okunnu has expressed sadness over the current status of the Federal Secretariat in Lagos and other abandoned and surplus assets of the Federal Government in the State, urging that the assets be returned to the State Government for effective and proper usage.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State who attended to the protesting groups at the Government House, said internally displaced camp (IDP) would be set up at Ukpabi - Nimbo very shortly to cater for those who abandoned their homes at the wake of the invasion.

But for Labour it is finally time to abandon the idea that its primary purpose is to secure majorities in the House of Commons and that it should do nothing to put that prize at risk.

Surrounded by children on the South Lawn of the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll festivities, President Donald Trump lashed out again about DACA, saying that Democrats had abandoned the undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and who have benefited from the program.

The meeting, on the tarmac at Albany International Airport, was the first time the two men crossed paths since the news broke that Mr. Obama had told Mr. Paterson that the White House had lost confidence in the governor's ability to win election next year and that he should abandon his campaign for the good of the Democratic Party.

[75] In August 2012, Clegg announced that attempts to reform the House of Lords would be abandoned due to opposition for the proposals by backbench Conservative MPs.

The deputy prime minister told MPs that abandoning Lords reforms has opened up space in the parliamentary programme for bills to provide # 40bn to guarantee infrastructure projects and # 10bn for new house building.

In doing so, staff members discovered numerous properties that appeared abandoned, however weren't identified as zombie houses through the Department of Financial Services (DFS) registry or bank - owned through the Office of the Assessor for the City of Mount Vernon.

The White House, constantly under fire from expected enemies on the right, has been frustrated by nightly attacks on cable news shows catering to the left, where Obama and top lieutenants like Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have been excoriated for abandoning the public option in healthcare reform; for not moving faster to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay; and for failing, so far, to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

Although the plans for the field house and other sports facilities have been abandoned, Mr. Astorino said Sustainable Playland Inc., a local organization that proposed the plan that included the field house, would continue to be involved in Playland's future, taking the newly focused role of fund - raising and preserving the park's history.

Similarly, Rep. Oghene Egoh said rather than shoot the proposal down, the House ought to commend Lagos state for taking steps to revamp the stadium that had been abandoned for years.

Runciman argued «For Labour it is finally time to abandon the idea that its primary purpose is to secure majorities in the House of Commons and that it should do nothing to put that prize at risk.

The audit said that the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development often delays or abandons development schedules for turning over the properties, and that «even when H.P.D. moved forward with planned development, it did not meet its stated timelines for nearly half of its projects.»

Hounslow council wrote to the Keens two weeks ago, threatening to seize the four - storey house as an «abandoned dwelling» after it was left empty for months.

The budget would also provide $ 750,000 for the Greater Syracuse Land Bank, a nonprofit organization that acquires abandoned and tax - delinquent houses and puts them to productive use by selling them for redevelopment, or demolishing them and repurposing the land.

The winner will vie for Florida's senate seat in a three - way race against Gov. Charlie Crist, who abandoned the Republican Party for an independent bid, and Republican Marco Rubio, the former Florida House Speaker.

Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudum Nwuche, has hailed Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike, for constructing the Edeoha - Ikata / Ochigba road abandoned by ex-governor of the...

After a controversial plan to turn an abandoned hospital in Troy over to a housing developer failed to clear the city council in June, the city took steps Thursday night to secure the building and borrow money for its demolition.

According to a new Reuters / Ipsos poll released Thursday, Republican former state House Speaker Marco Rubio holds a 40 to 26 percent lead among likely voters over Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running as an independent after abandoning his bid for the Republican Party's nomination earlier this year.

Dougherty, who is known for his attention to snow - covered sidewalks, abandoned houses and litter, said he would not seek a third term because the part - time position had turned into a full - time job.

The subsidies are for the Lighthouse Point project, which includes a hotel, 100 housing units, «an urban beach» and shops arranged in a faux streetscape to create «a charming old - world merchant village» on an abandoned Coast Guard parcel just south of the St. George Ferry terminal, according to its developers.

For years public housing residents in New York City felt abandoned.

A closer look revealed that the worker was faking results; the address of one interview site, for example, turned out to be an abandoned house.

It ended with Kim suggesting that people might have to start a housing aid group for hermit crabs if a more acidic ocean begins dissolving the abandoned shells they use as their homes.

Skirting areas likely to be seasonally occupied, the teams hunt for abandoned camps, documenting huts and houses, as well as discarded tools and weapons, food remains, and raw materials.

When you live alone, you never have to fight for space in the medicine cabinet, you can watch whatever you want on TV whenever you want, you can dance around your apartment or house with wild abandon, and you're free to eat an entire pint of ice cream for dinner in your underwear without being judged.

This passion project aims to show respect for the city of Detroit by reusing the abandoned house in a creative way, while also giving florists an innovative and unique opportunity to showcase their work.

And when I get invited out for a beer or to a friend's house for some good old - fashioned Mac and Cheese, my health and my body are perfectly positioned to dive into that experience with total abandon.

I think she is trying to make up for when she abandoned me at grandma's house for a whole week (she called it «vacation» but she totally abandoned me and my brothers to a week of sleeping in our crates instead of the bed).

Chloe and Danny made the mistake of visiting an abandoned house once home to a witch, that comes for you if you knock on the door.

Even when the film gears up for one of its many tonal shifts, from its Old Boy-esque hallway action set - piece in a lavish upmarket Georgian town house, to its intense abandoned warehouse finale with The Businessman (William Houston)-- who seemed to be channelling the foreboding gunslinger in Westworld, ensures the film has a wonderfully rich and engaging backdrop throughout.

Peck's film sets out to make use of the unfinished manuscript of Remember This House, Baldwin's late - career attempt to grapple with the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers, but it soon abandons this premise for the kind of emotional detours that give some of Baldwin's best work its freewheeling, capacious spirit.

After more than a dozen years of crafting finely - honed, modestly - produced dramas such as Raise the Red Lantern and The Road Home, Zhang came under fire for abandoning the art house circuit to make Hero, starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu - Wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi and Donnie Yen.

Like an impatient specter who simply can't accept that it has to wait until the curious teenagers cross the threshold of the spooky abandoned house before it starts murdering them, new Fox comedy Ghosted isn't waiting around for its network air date to reveal itself to the world.

-- S - VHS (Directed by Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans, Jason Eisener, Screenwriters: Simon Barrett, Jamie Nash, Timo Tjahjanto & Gareth Huw Evans, John Davies)- Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find another collection of mysterious VHS tapes.

Set entirely around the vicinity of the cheerfully purple Magic Castle motel, a semiurban wasteland of hotels, abandoned houses and oversized promotional mascots bordering the unapproachable dream of Disney World, Baker takes for his heroes a small group of children, led by Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), an amoral, loudmouth innocent trying to entertain herself over summer break.