Sentences with phrase «empty houses as»

The other day I found myself once again cleaning off the table and relishing in an empty house as the children were at school.

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-- Oilsands work camps were being pressed into service Tuesday to house evacuees as a raging wildfire emptied the city of Fort McMurray.

Everyone from President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and even Texas Governor Greg Abbott have shared the same empty sentiment without offering any real, concrete solutions to a problem that claims nearly 12,000 lives every year — and injures twice as many.

The report focuses on a concept called the «Missing Middle» which refers to people who are currently priced out of Greater Vancouver's housing market, such as new families, middle - income earners, seniors, and empty - nesters.

And all of these buyouts are voluntary, so this version of strategic retreat can end up instead as an awkward patchwork of houses and empty lots.

More of those that are selling are choosing the luxury condominium market in downtown Toronto, following a trend of baby - boomers and empty nesters opting to downsize from luxury houses to luxury condominiums in prime neighbourhoods such as Yorkville and the Annex, Alexander said.

I have a keen sense that this quiet house that seems so empty is really full of power and life as never before, and that this is also true of the world at Easter, 1989.

, I realized devouring most of my subject wasn't nearly as bad as that one time I tore through the house looking for chocolate and, when I came up empty handed, ripped open a package (that was intended for a friend) and ate the chocolate that was inside.

It feels so good knowing you are coming home to that as many just come home to an empty house.

I do know that my house has never felt so lonely as it did last night, when — with Pete and the kids still in town — I returned alone to an empty house.

Gause is one of 25 «Grandma, Please» volunteers, who will be honored Monday in a 10 a.m. awards ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Started 10 years ago as a service for senior citizens by the Uptown Center Hull House Association and supported by the Chicago Community Trust, the program handles at least 800 calls a month from youngsters who come home after school to an empty house and want to talk to a groHouse Association and supported by the Chicago Community Trust, the program handles at least 800 calls a month from youngsters who come home after school to an empty house and want to talk to a grohouse and want to talk to a grownup.

For millions of American parents, fear hangs heavy as they issue instructions they hope will protect their latchkey children who come home from school to an empty house because the parents are working.

Some schools have on - site programs as well to avoid kids going home to an empty house until parents get off work.

If Governor Cuomo goes to DC as a Dem with hat in hand, the House will send him back... with an empty hat!

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Wednesday is releasing a trio of social media ads knocking three Republican House members from New York, casting them as empty chairs at town halls in their districts.

The OECD has argued for the introduction of a property tax in the UK (as well as in a number of other countries) to lessen the attractiveness of housing as an investment and discourage people from leaving properties empty.

Rep. Brian Higgins encountered anger and frustration from some Commodore Perry public housing tenants when he held a press conference there to tout his idea of renovating rows of empty, rundown apartments into low - and moderate - income units — and perhaps some market - rate housing, as well.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

Hounslow council wrote to the Keens two weeks ago, threatening to seize the four - storey house as an «abandoned dwelling» after it was left empty for months.

Rodriguez is sponsoring a package of bills with Public Advocate Letitia James and Councilman Jumaane Williams — known as the «Housing Not Warehousing Act» — intended to keep track of empty units and hold landlords accountable to register these empty lots.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, a swath of empty property south of Delancey Street, will get 450 affordable housing units as part of a major redevelopment project — and those units will remain affordable forever, city officials announced Tuesday.

I have a 3 month old lab puppy that likes to pick up his bowls and run around the house with them as soon as they're empty.

While it's one of the more solemn activities you'll find in Amsterdam, millions line up each year to take a quiet walk through the now empty series of rooms that housed Anne Frank, her family, and her red diary for over two years during WWII as they hid from Nazi invasion.

I specifically remember having a shiny pink purse that smelled like plastic and housed all of my essentials as a five year old, which lets face it, probably means it was empty!

For instance, both Lara Croft and Batman show their wealth through their mansions, but they also reveal how lonely they are as we discover that their massive houses are mostly filled with silent, empty rooms.

There's a scene in Bryan Bertino's film «The Strangers» that handily encapsulates the film's nervy brand of terror, one so good and simple that it served as the film's poster image when the 2008 feature first hit theaters: it's Liv Tyler, standing alone in her kitchen, looking out into what seems to be — what should be — an empty house.

As the Y chromosome corner of the kids» love triangle, the angel - faced Eddie Redmayne uses his Cambridge choir tenor to great effect, bringing the house down, everyone in a teary heap in the basement, during the show's most affectingly written song, the mournful «Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.»

This item is called Empty Lamp and looks as though it would house a genie.

He rattled around in half - empty houses with his young family as destiny closed in around him like a tide - pool at ebb.

A completely nonsensical film.There is fine art house film making and there is just empty meaningless monotony.The film has very little going for it as most scenes fall flat and towards the end the drivel increases further still

The Witch's woodland farmhouse setting also counted as one of many backdrops of dread, pinning in the year's unluckiest of movie heroes: the quiet, empty spaces of a Manhattan mansion, where the young caretaker of Mickey Keating's Repulsion homage Darling comes violently unglued; the London haunted house of James Wan's bigger, sillier The Conjuring 2, a spring - loaded funhouse ride of a movie; and the claustrophobic underground bunker of 10 Cloverfield Lane, which proved less a sequel to its blockbuster «cousin» than a feature - length Twilight Zone episode.

Carol's midcentury modern house is tidy, tasteful and otherwise empty; a few old pictures afford a glimpse of her former life as a singer in a band and her husband, dead these 20 years.

Upon its initial release, it played in a handful of Los Angeles cinemas to mostly empty houses, but after time it resurfaced at the city's popular arthouse theater, Laemmle 5, as a midnight favorite.

Ted Levine stars in The Mangler as the prototypical down - on - his - luck detective, marking days off the calendar until such time that he can sit around his empty house drinking and watching television like the hero of King's «Grey Matter» — the last good short story in Night Shift yet to earn a cinematic treatment.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

In one moment, Eilis and Tony are two tiny figures engulfed in a sea of rippling green grass — a vast wide shot as they survey the empty house plots around them.

Imagine my consternation then as we sat in our now empty house waiting on a diagnosis and fix, with nothing but a pair of camp chairs and an air mattress to offer comfort to me, my girlfriend, our dog, and three cats.

The cluster is a three pod unit that houses a tachometer, a speedometer and a multi-function display that lets you toggle through data like average fuel economy, distance to empty and instantaneous average as well.

But then too, from what multiple sources tell me the traditional houses strike me as not so much friends as that casual acquaintance who always shows up empty handed to eat your food, drink your beer, and «borrow» a few bucks that somehow never get paid back.

In places like rural Cleveland, where houses in neighborhoods that were just barely winning over crime as it was, now have 10 of 20 houses empty and just can't win the fight anymore.

Point out that if the house was sold by your lender they would be likely to get a much lower price as the property would be empty and could fall into disrepair.

As people returned to work, the housing market stabilized and empty houses sold and were reoccupied.

For two months the house sat empty as Theresa prepped the two apartments and tried to find suitable tenants.

I've been researching different high interest savings account options after emptying the majority of our savings account to use as a downpayment on our new house.

Parents are often referred to as empty nesters when their last child leaves the house.

Always leave a Boston with lots of activities when leaving the house, as a bored Boston can wreak havoc on an empty home.

Other common stress and anxiety triggers include moving, travel, disruptions to routine or the familiar environment (as with renovations or new furniture), unpleasant noises (maybe there's construction across the street), the loss or addition of a human or animal family member, separation anxiety when the house is empty for prolonged periods, and seeing cats or prey animals outside but being unable to get to them.

Empty the vacuum bag immediately after vacuuming into a tightly sealed trash bag, and get that trash bag out of the house as soon as possible.

You must get an appropriate housing at an affordable cost, which is not too heavy for you to empty its bedding every week or every fortnight, is big enough and ensures a non-escapable route as hamsters are known as «escape artists».

As doggy / human communication goes, this is usually worth listening to as it often means they need to go outside, their water dish is empty, the house is on fire — you know, anything that they want you to deal with now, not in a few minuteAs doggy / human communication goes, this is usually worth listening to as it often means they need to go outside, their water dish is empty, the house is on fire — you know, anything that they want you to deal with now, not in a few minuteas it often means they need to go outside, their water dish is empty, the house is on fire — you know, anything that they want you to deal with now, not in a few minutes.