Sentences with phrase «began as a disaster»

After a few drinks, what began as a disaster turned into one of the best dates of their relationship.

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As we've written before, the public markets have been a disaster for startups since the recession began.

As the fiscal disasters in Greece and Ireland unfolded, and bond yields began drifting perilously upward, making it tougher to finance government borrowing, the eurozone rushed to calm nervous lenders.

Tax reform faces an uphill battle, with an already packed legislative calendar set to become even more crowded as lawmakers begin to address disaster relief for the Texas Gulf Coast.

Catholic charity CAFOD has been telling Premier that containing Ebola, treating the infected and raising awareness are the main priorities as the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) begins an appeal for West Africa.

This was the beginning of another disaster, as the kingdoms were drawn into the power struggles of the Near East.

so as i start preparing the ingredients for this garlic mashed cauliflower, i begin to have terrible flashbacks of that thanksgiving disaster.

Such advice came from Sir Alex Ferguson, whose abilities as a kingmaker, coupled with the David Moyes disaster, are beginning to look cursed.

Under the provisions of Section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. § § 5121 - 5207 (Stafford Act), and implemented by 44 CFR § § 206.36, I request that you declare an Expedited Major Disaster for the State of New York as a result of Hurricane Irene that began impacting the state on August 27, 2011 and continues.

As the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countrieAs the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countrieas it will in developing countries.

One hot topic in public health funding, he said, is the idea of working with the private insurance and reinsurance sectors to begin insuring against pandemics in the same way that these companies insure against natural disasters such as hurricanes.

In her last days at the Water Authority, Mulroy began to talk about the drought as a natural disaster — like a flood, which often garners federal aid money and a swift emergency response — just slower moving.

The disaster began for him, as for millions of other Japanese, at work.

Even as southeast Texas was still feeling the effects of Hurricane Harvey in late August, several ASCE members began making plans to gather data from the disaster that will make rebuilding more resilient.

As rescue crews evacuated the surviving residents to a hospital across the street, people began questioning whether sheltering in place during a disaster is wise.

Many of the lessons that Florida has learned since 1992 have parallels in the unfolding disaster in Texas, experts say, and what was already a trend toward factoring in environmental threats and climate change to land and property values looks certain to become the standard nationwide as Houston begins to mop up from the misery of Harvey.

No one believes Eric when he says he's seen a «monkey,» even as slapstick disasters begin to threaten the hotel's ranking — as you might imagine, a series of loud nothings erupts around badly - timed sight gags and head - slapper slapstick.

As a huge fan of Adam Sandler, it pains me to say that Jack and Jill is a disaster from beginning to end.

Well, in the case of one of its stars, Greg Sestero, he started at the beginning and told the story of the film's creation, as well as the start of his friendship with Wiseau, in his memoir The Disaster Artist.

Wiseau's film has many famous fans too, including Kristen Bell, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, Lizzy Caplan, and director J.J. Abrams, all of whom appear as themselves at the beginning of The Disaster Artist to speak about why they love The Room.

As Adam Scott points out at the beginning of The Disaster Artist, The Room is still talked about well after its debut over fourteen years ago.

When a series of terrifying natural disasters begin to plague Japan, including the inexplicable offshore sinking of a U.S. submarine, a mystic old man warns his nation that Godzilla has come back to destroy Japan as revenge for all the souls lost in the Pacific War.

«The Disaster Artist» somewhat chronicles the beginning of the friendship between Wiseau and Sestero, which led to the disasterpiece known as «The Room,» a film that's now shown at midnight screenings around the country and mocked much like the «Rocky Horror Picture Show.»

It becomes apparent that there's more than just a natural disaster in their midst, and soon the remaining men holing up in Franco's house — Rogen, Baruchel, Franco, Craig Robinson (Rapture - Palooza, Hot Tub Time Machine), Jonah Hill (Django Unchained, The Invention of Lying), and late party - crasher Danny McBride (Your Highness, Observe and Report)-- begin to talk about such things as the Rapture, Apocalypse, Judgment Day, and the End of the World.

This was also the film (along with another disaster, the live - action Beauty and the Beast remake) that has made me begin to question Emma Watson's acting abilities outside of Hogwarts, as her officious and exacting mannerisms have not held up to the scrutiny of time.

It began as a US Department Defence project called APRAnet, which intended to create a nationwide computer network being able to function under extreme circumstances, such as nuclear war or natural disaster.

There are also peer networks that can work really well for beginning teachers but again these meetings that we put together for these young people, or inexperienced teachers I guess, we need to have more experienced teachers that are acting as mentors but also that can steer those conversations more towards problem solving and critical discussions, rather than a venting of «what happened in my class last week», «what disaster occurred».

As flood waters recede and schools across the soggy Midwest reopen, state and local officials are beginning to face another casualty of the summer disaster — an eroded property - tax base.

As with most female disaster stories, hers begins with «There was this guy...» But it's a heart - wrenching tale that's also funny, and it has a Hollywood ending.

1 Vaqrin (first day of summer) 941 Midnight It began, as every disaster in his life began, with a calm.

As recovery efforts begin, AASL encourages schools to apply for one of two AASL disaster relief grants: the AASL Beyond Words Grant funded by the Dollar General... Read More»

What once began as a small shelter established by a compassionate group of volunteers has since grown to become the state's largest animal welfare and protection agency, as well as the state's designated responder for animals in distress during natural disasters.

Claudia Parducci's investigation of survivalist strategies as a rational reaction to a political climate of fear began in 2007 in response to rhetoric around the Iraq war, leading to her multi-pronged Survival Project, which includes a series of drawings titled Disaster Manual.

Steve McQueen is making a film about Grenfell Tower tragedy Turner Prize winning artist and film maker Steve McQueen is to begin working on a project intended as a tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster, reports the Sunday Times (#).

In 1963, Warhol began his series of Death and Disaster paintings that used images from magazines and newspapers as well as police and press photographs of suicides, car crashes, and accidents as source material.

Works such as Starling's that address the Anthropocene without leaning back on the clichéd shock imagery of disaster porn, planetary crisis, and dystopian tech - filled landscapes can begin to articulate, in quieter, more nuanced, and ultimately more effective modes, the racial politics, colonial histories, capitalist superstructures and Western notions of progress that underpin its entire existence.

Atlas comes alive through programming: Beginning in May 2016, the Queens Museum presents a series of public talks, walks, and urban adventures led by the essay writers from the book, artists, and other imaginative thinkers addressing topics including water and power, linguistic diversity in Queens, walking as an embodied act, the conjoined histories of environmental and financial disaster in Lower Manhattan, wilderness in the City, and Latino radio in NYC.

Recycling Warhol's car crash paintings from the Pop artist's «Death and Disaster» series, which in turn were appropriated from photographs of fatal accidents in newspapers, Turk swaps Warhol's American car with a white van, a symbol of a certain British white working class, now dying its own kind of slow death as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to diminish.

But alone in his office, following his computer model of the real tsunami, he began to understand, as few others in the world did at that moment, that this was no local disaster.

(12/20/2011) As the Philippines begins to bury more than a 1,000 disaster victims in mass graves, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has ordered an investigation into last weekend's flash flood and landslide, including looking at the role of illegal logging.

(Source: An Inconvenient Truth, p. 143) The constant urgent message is that Global Warming is happening now, and as the Arctic ice cap melts the climate disaster is beginning to unfold before our eyes.

Environmental disasters often begin as a narrow slice into the forest.

• Get designated ambulance ready by ensuring that it is in good working order at the beginning of each shift • Ascertain that assigned ambulance is fueled and any potential issues such as tire pressure of engine oil are kept at bay • Respond to situations such as medical emergencies, fires and natural disasters, by taking and following orders from the dispatcher • Ascertain that the ambulance is well - stocked and that all emergency equipment is in good working order • Map routes on the GPS to ensure that destination is reached in the least possible time • Drive ambulance with urgency, while remaining within the limits of traffic protocols, and attempt to reach the destination as quickly as possible • Assist EMTs in saving people from fires or rubble, and administer CPR and / or First aid as needed • Provide support in carrying patients to the ambulance and securing them in properly • Drive ambulances to hospitals and keep in constant contact with dispatchers to provide them with status reports

Whether it be a small crisis or a major disaster, a minor malady or a life changing event, bullying in hallways or terror int he streets, this session looks at how we as parents can use our wit and wisdom to nurture and enrich ourselves and our children as we navigate through the minor and major chaos in our lives Parenting through Crisis takes us further on the journey of integration, healing, and connection begun in Parenting with Wit and Wisdom.Type your paragraph here.

As home sales begin a slowdown in some areas, it's vital for you to view a falling market as an opportunity, not a disasteAs home sales begin a slowdown in some areas, it's vital for you to view a falling market as an opportunity, not a disasteas an opportunity, not a disaster.

«Cottage Square began as a way to build a neighborhood that showed the concepts we'd been talking about with planning and rebuilding after disasters,» says Tolar.