Sentences with phrase «by a big house like»

Despite all the excitement about self - publishing these days — and I'm a big proponent — many writers still dream of being published by a big house like St. Martin's Press or a prestigious literary publisher like Algonquin or Bloomsbury.

Not exact matches

In the mad scramble for loan creation during the final phase of the Housing Bubble, the government created an environment of essentially free money by allowing the big agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (or Phony and Fraudie, as I often affectionately refer to them), to securitize loans to the bottom of the barrel risks with crazy terms like no money down and incredibly low «teaser» interest rates.

TMAF's profile got a big boost when Burch and others from the group were part of a contingent headed by the American Trucking Associations that visited the White House last spring and invited President Donald Trump to climb up inside a cab to see what today's truck looks like.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

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.

Aerospace and Defense With Trump in the White House and both houses of Congress being controlled by Republicans, it's no surprise to see big aerospace companies like Boeing up over 50 % YTD.

Bigger Thomas stands on a Chicago street corner watching airplanes flown by white men racing against the sun and «Goddamn» he says, the bitterness bubbling up like blood, remembering a million indignities, the terrible, rat - infested house, the humiliation of home - relief, the intense, aimless, ugly bickering, hating it; hatred smolders through these pages like sulphur fire.

What can not be verified is stuff like Jonah being swallowed by a big fish yet the ideogram for Nineveh is the «house of the fish».

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.

A fort in progress inspired by Andy Goldsworthy - we had one like it at our old house that got really big and looked kind of like a beehive.

«Sir Mark and Carol Thatcher would like to express their appreciation for the great honour accorded to their mother by the announcement this afternoon by the Speaker of the House of Commons that Big Ben and the Great Clock will fall silent during Wednesday's funeral,» they said in a statement.

«His campaign is patronising London's communities by trying to scare them with the threat of a non-existent jewellery tax, rather than focusing on the big issues like housing, transport and policing.»

Not only were half a dozen Democrats dissuaded by Schumer and the White House from running against her, but big - name Republicans like George Pataki and Rudy Giuliani declined the opportunity as well.

The 2008 housing market crash was no joke, which is why it might come as a surprise that «The Big Short» was directed by the same man responsible for goofball comedies like «Anchorman» and «Talladega Nights.»

At a big house party, obnoxious host Lou, who dresses like Siegfried & Roy, gets shot in the penis by an unidentified assailant.

Domhnall Gleeson is Caleb, the geeky coder working for a software giant called Bluebook (like Google, but bigger and more important); imagine Caleb's excitement and fear when he wins an in - house competition to spend a week alone with the firm's reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress of solitude on a private island — it looks like the one where they built Jurassic Park.

N.C. Rep. Craig Horn, an influential budget writer from Union County who chairs the House education appropriations committee, isn't sure he likes the current salary scale for teachers, the one adopted by lawmakers two years ago that nixes annual raises for teachers in favor of a multi-tiered approach with bigger pay bumps every five years.

While most authors (like me) secretly want to be published by one of the big, well - known publishing houses, there are so many reasons why it's a good idea to self - publish — nine to be exact (but that's only because I was restricted by the cats.)

It should look like it was produced by a big New York publishing house, yet many self - published authors make the mistake of cutting corners and skipping over critical steps in the publishing process.

I am in a quandary; as a self - published indie writer, like many of us denied by Big House publishers who do not want to take chances, I am in search of reviewers.

You can also self - publish with either the hope of making a success outright or, like a startup venture, the hope of doing well enough to be noticed by a big house and picked up.

What about the first time you navigated across a street or passed by that one neighbor's house with the big, snarling dog who decided you looked like a threat and chased you down?

I developed this approach after buying a number of very popular books at high prices from the big publishing houses and feeling it was like The Emperor's New Clothes — the books were horrible by standards of literature, but had impossibly great reviews.

If you are published by an independent publisher that has an agreement with one of the big houses to distribute the books or a deal with a company like IPG or NBN, there will be salespeople representing your book in the field.

Big companies like Random House have lists they work by.

You may not aim to distribute to libraries but if you want your book to look exactly like those published by the Big 5 publishing houses, you'll want a CIP block on your copyright page.

Assuming that you can't pay your debts in full by selling assets like your house or investments, the biggest eligibility consideration is tied to the amount of your debt.

All tours and activities, like the Big Five Game Reserve - Hluhluwe / Imfolosi, a cruise on the Estuary to see the hippos and crocodiles and the abundance of bird life, drives to Cape Vidal to discover the marine world whilst snorkelling and spending time on our wide, unspoilt beaches, Whale - and Turtle watching in season, deep sea fishing, horse riding and many more, are arranged for you by the guest house.

The staff at Summerhill looked after every need - including one guest who liked to rise early but always had his breakfast ready thanks to Jackie... one guest who unfortunately had an ear infection but was quickly remedies thanks to some homeopathic remedies by Nordia... Karin who looked after every ounce of the house... Stephlan who welcomed us with a big smile and helped us totally relax... and Delroy the man who made every thing run as smoothly as possible - They were all amazing and we hope to cross paths again!

The Van Abbe is one of the biggest modern art museums in the Netherlands and houses works by famous artists like Picasso, Kandinsky and Warhol.

- character creation lets you choose skin color, face, eye color and haircut - later in the game you can get glasses, pants, shoes and other stuff - start off by meeting Tom Nook and his posse of Happy Home employees - this includes Lyle the Otter and Digby the Dog, who give advice and help to keep the game moving forward - Lottie the Otter is Lyle's niece and handles the front desk in the game - she welcomes you every time you boot up the game and tells you what to do next - gameplay starts off with placing furniture, but quickly evolves into something more - place a house on the world map and cycle through seasons to see what you like - house can modified with different roofs, doors, colors and more - every animal unlocks new furniture for you to use - completing a lot of requests is vital to getting a lot of content - characters will react to everything that you place and remove in the house - three pieces of furniture must be in or outside of the house and these need to implemented into the final design - if you don't follow this rule, your animal customer will not approve - add wallpaper, carpets, lamps, signs, music covers, paintings and much more - by completing special objectives in the office, which you pay for with Play Coins, you can even expand the feature set - set background sounds, choose curtains, change up furniture, display fossils and get a bigger variety of fish and paintings.

The house behind Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and classic adventure games like Grim Fandango had been all but shuttered by the time it closed anyway, working on one last big game in an effort to stay a going concern: Star Wars 1313.

In London, as well as Science, his organisational hub, he also owns a big chunk of Newport Street in Lambeth, which is currently being turned into a new gallery that will open in 2014 and house his extensive collection of contemporary art by the likes of Bacon, Koons, Murakami, Richard Prince, Sarah Lucas and even Banksy — «We do these collaborations with my spots.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

That's been the trajectory for a long time, but it has been accelerated by some big sales at some auction houses like Christie's, and also by some institutional interest.

Reselling pricier, better - known pieces by the likes of Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol yields bigger dollar returns, sometimes in the tens of millions, as auction houses break records at postwar and contemporary sales.

Conditioned to want more and more, many have succumbed to the American Dream spoon - fed to us by advertising agencies, but by redefining what is meant by «more,» people like Adam Money and Cynthia Aimo are reserving less for big houses and more for their own bigger dreams of the future.

«My in - house career started pretty much by accident when the Welsh Office asked law students like myself at Cardiff University to act as paralegals during the North Wales Child Abuse Tribunal, its biggest - ever tribunal case.

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For years there have been numerous attempts by big media houses like Wired and others to find out who Satoshi Nakamoto is but all those efforts have gone in vain.

Alexa works with dozens of IoT products and platforms, including Nest, SmartThings, Haiku Home by the entertainingly - named Big Ass Solutions, Hue lights, Wink, Vivint, and more, bypassing the app and letting you control the house like you're in Star Trek.

For years I baked every single week (but rarely ate any of it or I would have been as big as a house — lol): things like light fluffy German tortes, and fabulous pound cake, and Dutch buttercakes, and always had my Christmas baking done by the end of August, and my jams and marmalade waiting to be part of the baking that was served for dinner EVERY night of my married life for nearly 30 years.

Fully 10 % of new condominiums being built in central Toronto were going to foreign buyers, according to a survey released in April by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC); veterans of the city's rough - and - tumble real estate market believe the vast majority are mainland Chinese investors 10 % doesn't seem like a big number and we're told that Chinese buyers are only interested in luxury priced properties.

Use this app to help you stay organized for an upcoming open house, by helping you manage to - do lists to stay on top of things like home staging appointments, handyman visits like as you prep for the big day.

My understanding is that usually these houses are smaller, like one I'm doing now, an 1100 sq ft 3 bed ranch, where the only non-bedroom or kitchen room is the living room, which is probably 10» by 15» in size, not very big if you want to have the whole family over for instance.

There are a zillion reasons why this works for us but a few are: 1 - it allows us to actually be together - there is no hiding out in a room alone (so we do institute a «quiet hour» during the day so we all can find some solitude) 2 - it's absolutely counter culture to have bigger and better but we enjoy that we make the most out of what we have and use our savings to have «experiences» rather than things 3 - it allows us to make updates and changes to the house bc we aren't spending a lot on heating, cooling, furnishing etc. 4 - it staves materialism and consumerism to a degree 5 - it's easier to work room by room like you are doing bc it isn't overwhelming time wise or financially.

The house, named Sundew Cottage, had been recently renovated and decorated by my sweet friend, Jane Coslick and the whole place felt like a great big breath of fresh -LSB-...]

And it appears I should be showing him I am displeased with being treated like a sex object / my house becoming one big toilet by either a) cutting his balls off; or b) going right up to him, taking one step backwards and turning my back pointedly.

My house looks like that on a fairly regular — no, a daily — basis... the dust bunnies in my house carry machetes, they're so big and mean... and in just two days, I'm hosting a baby shower that will be «catered» by Costco.