Sentences with phrase «by on the back roads»

It's a hard, crushing story about people scraping by on the back roads of life, showcasing an America that is often forgotten about, especially on screen.

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Asked about China's «Belt and Road Initiative,» he said developing countries need to take a careful look at projects backed by the program and avoid taking on unsustainable debt.

Shaikh had to scale down the comfort level for his employees on the road by choosing less expensive hotels and only subsidizing breakfast, instead of three daily meals, but he says employees understand the cut backs.

What I've noticed about Chickfila that I respect: always clean, give back to the community by providing many people an entry level job (they always seem like they have an extra 3 - 4 workers that most companies that don't care about keeping tables clean and ketchup full would eliminate), and if you order correctly you can get a fairly nutritious meal while on the road.

On my drive home that morning, the following song was running through my head, by Nichole Nordeman: If I had the chance To go back again Take a different road, bear a lighter load Tell an easy story

In this parable, an at - risk Jewish man — having been mugged and beaten and left vulnerable to further abuse on the side of the road — is rescued, escorted to safety and loved back to life by his religious opposite, a Samaritan.

I wonder, if any of them ever saw an actual roadrunner dead on the side of the road, how many of them wouldn't automatically reject the idea that it was just hit by a car for some bipedal coyote dropping an anvil while flying overhead with an ACME rocket strapped to his back?

It's like assuming that every dead roadrunner in the middle of the road must have been hit on the head by an anvil dropped by a coyote riding with an ACME rocket strapped to his back.

I had also planned to blog on Monday after we got back; surrounded by luggage, empty snack containers, and the magna - doodle that keeps our kids busy in the back seat on road trips.

My little farm stand, tucked away on this windy road, surrounded by Amish farms has this wonderful little gem I found probably two or so years ago and I keep going back for more... it's smoked honey.

But we like them best bought by the cardboard pint from the back of a minivan on the side of the road, and devoured by the handful on our way to the beach.

As for myself, depending on the time of day you're reading this I'm either having a yummy mid morning breakfast with another close blogger friend of mine; Sommer from A Spicy Perspective, I'm on the road heading back to Charlotte and enjoying a quiet drive with me, myself, and I, or I'm already in Charlotte dealing with my own personal «return to the real world» grindstone of laundry and a house that's been inhabited by my husband and three wild animals boys alone in the house all weekend.

A Utah School of Medicine study cited in an ESPN TrueHoop report by Tom Haberstroh found that back - to - back games on the road yield 3.5 times more in - game injuries than those played at home.

was a long shot, especially w giving up the cheap goal late in the first match, but 70 % pocession, 17 shots to 3, was domination by the better side, hope we did not spend to much gas from the tank, but 2 - 0 on road, good match, back to EPL and FA cup

There were also big upsets by Florida and Oregon on the road, as well as Kansas coming back to knock...

Nearly 8 out of 10 bets are confident that Geno Smith and West Virginia will bounce back to take down the 5 - 2 Scarlet Knights by at least 8 points on the road.

The Black Cats have been backed by stellar support on the road in recent weeks, but little compares to the wall of noise that greets the players when they exit the tunnel at the Stadium of Light.

Los Blancos currently trail league leaders Barcelona by six points after 13 games, with their 4 - 0 home defeat to their rivals on November 21 setting them back and seemingly signalling the end of the road for Benitez.

The player himself must have heard of all this as well, because this week he posted a picture of himself looking happy as he got back to some gym work on the road to his return to the Arsenal team, as reported by The Mirror.

Afterward, the Merrill High football team always needed a police escort by its bus to help make sure it back on the road back to Pine Bluff, Williams added.

They have won four of their last five and perhaps most impressively of all, after they suffered a bit of a cruel home defeat against Arsenal last weekend, they snapped back immediately by going out on the road and taking a midweek win at Bournemouth.

We're here to get the show back on the road and we can only do that by staying united.

In the 78th minute, Nouhou failed to hustle back after an attacking run took him downfield and was caught on a counter by SKC right back Jimmy Medranda, who fed Graham Zusi in behind Seattle's back line for a goal that cost the Sounders two points on the road.

Fans will be boosted by the fact that Vertonghen refuses to talk about the side being unlucky on the road to defeat in some games, which shows that the centre - back believes that the actions of the team contribute fully to the final outcome of the match.

With an exciting attacking partnership, pacy wingers and a desire to impose themselves on the opposition, the Whites were roared forward by a crowd who turned up at Elland Road expecting to win, and backing the side from the off.

Ian Holloway has done a tremendous job at the Blackpool helm and the proof really is in the pudding: The Tangerines sit side - by - side with one of the country's most prestigious clubs and on Wednesday, when they finally get the opportunity to host the mighty Liverpool at the smallest venue in the Premier League, Bloomfield Road, they have the unbelievable opportunity to complete what would be an historic league double over the Reds following their 2 - 1 triumph back at Anfield last October — arguably the result of the entire season thus far.

-- Manchester United bounced back from successive league defeats to beat Bolton 3 - 0 at Old Trafford, although they were emphatically beaten 3 - 0 by Newcastle in their last league game on the road.

Away from St James» Park, this season in the Premier League Newcastle have gone W3 D2 L6 but they have won their last two on the road, beating West Ham and Stoke back to back by one goal margins.

Three matches went by at Bloomdfield Road before the Tangerines Tango's their fans with an historic first Premier League victory on home soil, beating West Brom, with the aid of several pieces of good fortune, 2 - 1 back at the very beginning of November.

Somewhere on a red dirt road flanked by corrugated tin lean - tos painted blue / green like a sea that is nowhere to be found, by waxy green leaves of false banana trees and round huts the same color as the ground, miles every day she walks in rubber flip flops toward the well and back again, red kerchief over her braids, carrying a burden of water, dreaming a shared dream.

The five point harness assures kids safety by avoiding them to fall back and front when they are strolled on the bumpy roads.

Assemblyman Walter Mosley called it a «road to Damascus» moment: Raised on football, he's now backing legislation that would ban tackling in organized youth football by those younger than 14.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth, unemployment rose by 80,000 in three months and the IFS warned that living standards were dropping like one of those animated bombs in the Road Runner cartoon.

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Cuomo has repeatedly angered the left wing of his Democratic Party by supporting Republican candidates, backing charter schools, and routinely making middle - of - the - road compromises on various issues.

Records show there are $ 5,768 in delinquent back taxes and $ 3,035 in late taxes for the current year on 488 Brattle Road, the Syracuse home where he lives and which is owned by his wife.

«We could have really used Operation Safe Cam back in November of 2014, when 16 - year - old Ryan Fischer was killed by a hit - and - run motorist on Krueger Road in Wheatfield,» Undersheriff Michael J. Filicetti said.

EPRI assumes that by 2030, 10 million plug - in vehicles will be on the road, and smart grid technologies will permit plug - in vehicles not only to take recharging power from the grid, but to feed power back in from their batteries to help meet sudden changes in electricity demand.

On our road trip back to Los Angeles we made a mandatory stop at Salvation Mountain by Leonard Knight.

Having made it up the steep dirt bank without killing ourselves or being accosted by police, we then off - roaded it down another steep bank, in order to find our way back on the more orthodox trail up the hillside!

-RRB- gets a flat tire on a deserted road and is driven back to his secluded clifftop house by the supposedly liberal

But it's fortunate that the relationship is sound, because before her SUV is back on the road, Deanna is blindsided by an abrupt sayonara from her husband, Dan (Matt Walsh).

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

The heroes within all of those films were a group of ghost hunting demonologists led by psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye, «Ouija») and accompanied by tech specialists Specs (Whannell, «The Bye Bye Man») and Tucker (Angus Sampson, «Mad Max: Fury Road») who managed to bring the right spirits back and send the evil spirits away from the Lambert family on more than one occasion.

When it's being funny, Zombieland knows where it's heading, and everyone performs their part well (the sisters are ballsily played by Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin who, last seen stealing the show out on the road in Little Miss Sunshine, must have got back in the car and thought she'd been cast in Groundhog Day.)

Shot in» Scope by Nichols's regular DP Adam Stone, the film acutely catches the drabness of Texan back roads and the grubbiness of cheap wood on motel room walls; in this sense, it has more of a»70s feel than any kind of»80s Spielbergian glossiness.

Reitman, back serving double - duty on Up in the Air as director and co-screenwriter (adapting with Sheldon Turner a novel by Walter Kirn which, for those of you heaping praise on my review of The Road, I have never read), brings many of those sentiments to the film and the result is impressive on all fronts.

This year's Best Picture Oscar victor Scott Rudin is back again, by the way, with «Revolutionary Road,» recently inherited by Paramount Vantage and probably one of the true «frontrunners» this far out that we could put our finger on.

We've certainly waited a while to get any substantial word on «The Road,» not least since it got pushed back by an entire year to ease the pressure of post-production.

I especially liked a line where David declares that by the time his father manages to get his driver's license back he won't be on the road.