Sentences with phrase «by returning home»

This is in contrast to dogs, who were over 4 times more likely to be returned to their owner by a call or visit to a shelter than by returning home on their own.

At the end of Library of Souls, the third book in the Miss Peregrine series, Jacob completed his journey by returning home to Florida.

Wisconsin follows the aforementioned road contest versus Nebraska by returning home to face a stout Illinois team that should compete in 2012.

They cope by surrounding themselves with others who are at the same level, or by depending on those who are more functional, or by returning home.

Not exact matches

The firm, First State Superannuation, returned the favor by sending the police to his home and threatening to sue him.

Yet before the holiday distractions take hold, donors use this time of the year to remember the sacrifices made by the men and women serving in the U.S. military, and to support causes that help them when they return home.

You can even launch it and then retrieve the drone by hand without having to land it (using an automatic return to home option).

Lest we forget, James» first job upon returning home was as program manager for Blue Startups, a venture accelerator bankrolled by Henk Rogers, the man who developed the video game Tetris.

Returning home, he was struck by how much things had changed.

In particular, the letter notes the risk implied by having 500,000 athletes and tourists visit Rio and then return home, potentially spreading Zika to every corner of the globe.

The area is surrounded by soldiers who told us to return to our homes,» he said.

A survey conducted by the Center for Research and Public Policy found that the biggest concerns among veterans when returning home are applying military training to the workplace, job placement, and career counseling.

SmartThings, which makes a connected home hub and is owned by Samsung, didn't return requests for comment.

Harvard and Duke University professor Vivek Wadwha, himself an immigrant entrepreneur from India, warned in a Congressional hearing, «The U.S. is giving an unintentional gift to China and India by causing highly educated and skilled workers, frustrated by long waits for visas, to return home.»

Personal luxury goods sales reached a «fresh record high» of $ 262 billion, according to Bain & Company, boosted by «a return of Chinese buying both at home and abroad.»

«These customers want to know when they can come back to their homes,» said Brown, referring to homeowners who evacuated Florida and were checking on when they could return home by calling FPL or through its website and mobile app.

The HRC considered the fact that, despite credit write - downs in its home equity loan portfolio and a Visa - related litigation expense accrual, the Company's business performance for 2007 was strong, as exemplified by one of the highest returns on equity and returns on assets in our Peer Group.

New home building shows continued strengths, and should pick up by late spring when builders see a return of demand.

«We are not able to disclose anything,» Neely said.Egner did not return a call by The Tyee's deadline.The Vancouver Island Health Authority's regional licensing manager, Kim Macdonald, says there is no data to compare the quality of care at homes where support staff jobs have been contracted out with that where it hasn't.

Hicks had been contemplating leaving the White House for several weeks and told friends that she was relieved to finally announce her move... She felt three years was a long time to work in the whirlwind of the Trump orbit, with crises occurring by the day and sometimes by the hour, and was eager to try something new and return home to her family in Connecticut.

Confidence is returning to the homes market in Cyprus, helped by overseas investor interest in its «Golden Visa», planned easing of capital controls and action to overcome other market issues

Since 2012, helped by mortgage rates, U.S. home values have climbed more than 30 % nationwide, returning to last decade's pre-downturn levels.

Easing lending standards to return credit scores to pre-bubble levels would boost home sales by around 450,000 units and new single - family home construction by around 275,000 units, according to estimates from Zandi.

Instead, Unison hopes to earn a return by sharing in the profit when your client sells their home — up to 30 years in the future — or your client can keep their home and buy us out anytime after 3 years.

One of the leading organizations responding to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey, in the immediate phase of emergency response, All Hands has multiple teams on the ground assessing devastated regions to identify where assistance is most needed, and clearing trees and debris so families can return to their homes.

Roy Middleton was returning home from work on Saturday and swung by his car to grab some cigarettes when a neighbor who didn't recognize him called the police to report a burglary.

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When life is rough, people often want to go home: when my life is rough, I return home by way of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels since that is where I lived for most of my childhood and adolescence.

Persecuted Christians on Indonesia's Ambon island face desperate conditions and the world is largely ignoring their plight, said two Americans who recently returned from a visit to the island.As many as 500,000 Christians have been driven from their homes and more than 2,500 have been killed by Muslim «jihad» warriors who have publicly declared they will push all Christians off the island or kill them.Christians are fleeing into the mountains, flooding into refugee camps and clogging ports to wait for the few ships ferrying refugees off the island.

One by one, producers called to cancel our appearances, and while families across the Northeast crammed as much as they could into suitcases, praying their homes would be there when they returned, I cried like a baby over a single bad review.

He's developing an argument about the significance of the doctrine of the resurrection by discussing the logical consequence of denying it (verses 12 - 19), going on a very typical Pauline digression almost as if he's overcome by joy at the positive truth and has to triumphantly proclaim it (verses 20 - 28) then finally returning to drive home the practical point again (verses 29 - 35).

Glooskap, the mightiest warrior of all, returns home after a lengthy period of conquests, only to be defeated by the mighty Wasis, a creature on the floor of his home.

Relying on intelligence dossiers prepared meticulously by his UDR commanders, he prepared intensively, making several dry runs by following the bread delivery van in which Hackett would ultimately die; he blocked out the reality that the target might be a family man with a pregnant wife and child awaiting his return home from work; he avoided reading the papers or listening to TV reports over the next days, because the stories tend to make a real human being out of what had to be thought of only as «the target.»

Norman, upon returning home to Australia, was ostracized by the Australian community and shunned by the Australian Olympic Committee.

So again if our own nation is starting to side with the enemy by way of comprimising all the great moral standards our fearless leaders lived to die for, its no wonder our soldiers that have returned home are going nuts and have nothing to live for.

Jesus» response to his parents is not fully understood by them, but he obeys, and returns home.

She was previously kidnapped by Islamist extremists in 2012, and returned to her home in Timbuktu despite the Swiss government warning her not to do so.

Returning was easy: I walked into the rectory office, explained that we were moved by the «Catholics Come Home» campaign and would like to return.

I typed «stay - at - home daughter» into Google, and found my way to a review of the documentary «Return of the Daughters,» a film I'd seen and that was exalted by most of the women I knew.

When I began serving a mission for the Church in Philadelphia many years ago, I had a testimony of the Spirit of God that what I was doing was the right thing and when I returned home from Philadelphia, Christ made himself known to my by showing me a vision of him in his glory in Philadelphia.

By 1931, although he had enjoyed his stay in America, he was ready to return home and begin his period of lecturing at the University of Berlin.

They were too use to being picked up by their church buses and driven right up to the doors to vote, and returned home before their soaps came on.

When he hears of the murder he returns home, learns who the murderer really was, and becomes more and more oppressed by his own guilt in the months before the trial.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

I would finish it by the end of my return trip home, and would then give it to my mother to read — it appealed to this French aristocrat, too.

This musical structure, which is to be found in thousands of popular songs (like George Gershwin's «I Got Rhythm»), consists of the statement of a melody in a home key, followed by a move away from that key, and then a return to the melody in the home key.

The theme of displacement from home and subsequent return has been rehearsed in the literature, drama and music of many cultures not directly affected by the Christian story of salvation.

But when I contemplate the homes, cars, boats and airplanes owned by the rich, it always seems that, no matter what is said about «fair return,» their return was far out of proportion to that of the people who invested their bodies in lifelong labor.

One missionary from Asia, who has seen some Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims leading exemplary lives inwardly sustained by conscious fellowship with the Divine, says that, returning home and reporting the facts, he has found some Christians very much upset.

It was usually The Lord's Prayer («Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name...») followed by asking God to watch and guide me through my day until I returned to the safety of my home that evening.