Sentences with word «cramped»

This sandwich turns take - along food flaws — travel time, cramped packing quarters, moist ingredients — into assets.

It's been a most victorious year for egg - laying hens — at least, the ones who will be laying eggs in 2025 — the deadline set by most major supermarkets and leading fast food chains including McDonald's, to transition away from tiny and cramped battery cages, the egg industry norm for more than a half - century.

Most eggs are produced by hens raised in battery cages, which are so cramped they force the animals into unhealthy behaviors.

In 2008, the company began switching millions of eggs to cage - free eggs — those that do not come from hens kept in notoriously cramped battery cages.

Her stomach cramped a little throughout dinner, but she brushed it off, not realizing what she had eaten.

Often seen bucking the ocean with a basic propane grill (safer and more userfriendly than wood or charcoal in cramped spaces) lashed to their boats, these hard - working men and women are quick to serve up stories of salmon barbecue, with hefty sides of philosophy on the choicest species of fish, the best cut, the perfect marinade or sauce, and trademark techniques.

This often used term can simply mean that the hens are free to roam in a large barn / building... and those buildings are usually dark, cramped and dirty with no access to the outdoors.

Okay, it was huge by my now New York City standards, but up in the gorgeous Hudson Valley, it was pretty average, maybe even cramped.

Tragically, this has been the assumption of most Western people who have lived after the romantic rebellion against the Enlightenment, when poetry, the primary language of myth, retreated more and more into»» (the) paltry ego, (humanity's) often empty and always cramped ego..»

hmmm, kind of sounds like he's been looking at real estate — you know, that house is a bit small and we'll get cramped, but this one is so nice and big, light and airy!

The cardinal sat in the first of two rows of public seating behind his four lawyers in a cramped, wood - panelled courtroom in which reporters far outnumbered members of the public.

Members currently hold their prayer services in cramped quarters near a K - Mart store on Plainfield Road.

Relishing this, Sullivan concludes that the only sin is when we «withdraw from God's love,» something that happens apparently only when «Rome» hands down cramped admonitions and the guilt that accompanies them.

True, it is somewhat stuffy and cramped in this box but that makes me feel responsible.

After several days the son said to the mother, «I can't bear being so cramped, I want to stretch out».

I am drawn to these tales because they pull me out of the Christian ghetto and return me to the state where I once lived, where desperation reigns and buzzards circle the remains of cramped lives.

The cramped and cruel methods used in the modern food industry, for example, may cross the line of morally acceptable treatment of animals....

Out of the cramped sky of the upper - right - hand corner, irregular and broken lead strips serve to symbolize a halting emanation of angels (each with its name painted on celestial placards), down from the sky to the earth's surface.

And it is, as it had been a hundred years earlier, largely the work of clergy and religiously active lay educators, who find themselves opposed by church officials and some tendentious colleagues who give every sign of being intellectually cramped and authoritarian.

My favorite quote of the book comes from a passage where she relates going to a Christian tent revival meeting somewhere in Maine just to escape her cramped apartment on a Saturday night, and to her it â $ œsounds like the perfect entertainment for an atheist out on her own.â $ Hereâ $ ™ s the quote:

Born of a Virgin: Proving the Miracle from the Gospels by John Redford, St Paul's Publishing, 218pp, # 9.95 Despite its cramped narrowness the...

In 2015, half a million refugees have poured into Europe, with thousands dying at sea or in cramped smugglers»....

We need to ask why people were living in cramped poverty in inadequate housing on this vulnerable island?

If your room feels cramped, enlarge your inner space by pushing back the walls — give your spirit more room.!

Unfortunately, few private or governmental agencies have attempted to blend the institutionalized aged with the institutionalized young, despite numerous examples of success in families and compact social groups where cramped conditions or economic necessity pushes the two together.

Some 100 young men live in cramped conditions while their building is gradually being restored.

It contains ten cramped pages of small type listing the forms of government subsidy that flow to the affluent.

Living in cramped quarters (such as trailer parks) is one of the main causes of perverted behavior among christians.

It must have been cramped in reality, but it was big enough to play basketball, baseball, football, soccer, kickball and golf if you bent the rules enough.

If morality as proclaimed by various religions is denied a place at the policy table, then our nation will only be guided by those with a very cramped and limited moral view — which would have been a disaster for abolition and civil rights way back then — and would be no less a disaster today.

I have noticed in myself that whenever I get disconnected from my inner space, or allow it to become cramped or cluttered, my close relationships suffer, as do my teaching, counseling, and writing.

This motive can be compared with the longing that irresistibly pulls the town dweller away from his noisy, cramped quarters and toward the silent, high mountains... With this negative motive there goes a positive one.

No cramped and smothered life is happy.

Goodness which, however impeccable, makes life seem cramped, pinched, restrained and unhappy, is not real goodness.

For it opened a path out of the cramped world of my parents, for whom books were appreciated only for the information contained in them, and music was at best a background to other and more useful pursuits.

In 2015, half a million refugees have poured into Europe, with thousands dying at sea or in cramped smugglers» vans.

They are cramped by their connection with the situation in the past in which they arose.

Two days a month, I was in immense pain, spending hours cramped up in the fetal position, curled around a hot pack, or soaking in a scalding bath — trying to get some kind of relief.

Sitting in his cramped cubicle in the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, he says with quiet passion, «There is a great deal of missionary work that can be done right here in this country.

Nowadays, the annual Mass and Prayer Vigil for Life, held the night before the march in the vast basilica, has become such a crammed and cramped experience that youth groups who wish to attend must arrive four to six hours early if they want so much as merely a space to sit on the floor.

They were in a dilapidated fishing boat with limited provisions and almost no sanitation, sharing a cramped space with some 400 other Syrians.

Oz means the «darkness» in his memoir's title literally: a description of the Klausners» cramped, two - room basement apartment opens the book.

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

He took into account the audience's ability to perceive in the ultimate sense — by flinging aside his deity and becoming the Word, one of us, living in our cramped planet within the limitations of a human body.

Sometimes her spirit resists hearing excuses on behalf of the offender, but she finds that if she presses herself just a little to search them out and hear them, they are really not so humiliating to acknowledge, and it's an exhilarating experience to see love emerging from the storm, the devil cramped in the straitjacket of the Holy Spirit.

Many women have gone from leading ordinary lives to living in cramped, inadequate housing.

Along with The Mystic Valley Band, a group of session musicians, Oberst ventured into the Mexican desert to escape the weight of cramped studios, stifling studio - types and the city.

He yearned for the taste of a really great adulterer — a Renaissance libertine of character and spirit, capable of sinning heroically — instead of the cramped souls of the modern age, almost too insubstantial and pathetic to be worth damning.

I would just waste a lot of time learning about a cramped and retrograde 7th century bronze age belief system.

The songwriting becomes so expansive, in fact, that it conjures up two distinct images — one of a cramped studio filled to the brim with equipment, the other a vast field with polyphony scattered for miles.