Sentences with phrase «adopted by a truck»

She was adopted by a truck driver and has a 3 year old fur - brother teaching her how to be a companion instead of a piece of property!

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The bill adopted by the county legislature says an average of 78 trucks per day visit the site.

New cars and trucks could improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent if existing technologies such as hybrids are adopted

The electricity sector can reduce emissions relatively easily by adopting renewables like solar and wind, while cars and trucks can't harness these zero - emissions energy sources without sophisticated and expensive energy storage technologies.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

These traits were eventually adopted by all compact - truck makers, but Toyota offered them first.

But worse, he has adopted our late Rocky's habit of waking one of us — me — at 4 — 5 am every morning simply because someone drives by in a loud truck around then and it his now his job to protect us from the noise.

The shelter was hoping to get more than 100 pets adopted by Saturday, lowering adoption fees and offering goody bags for adopters, food trucks and face painters.

Nevertheless, they were dedicated enough to spend their Saturdays arriving at the shelter before dawn, bathing and grooming the dogs and cats (since that job was rarely tackled by the shelter staff during the work week), loading them into portable cages, hoisting the cages into their cars and trucks, driving about 10 miles to the nearest shopping center, unloading the cages from the vehicles, calming the by - now terrified dogs and cats, and imploring the public for the next eight hours to please consider adopting one of these homeless creatures.