Sentences with phrase «few sticks of»

Bungalows and thatch and rattan jobs, in a varying state of repair (or disrepair — a step broke as we walked into one), with large sunken bathrooms at rear, soft mattresses and a few sticks of furniture.

Even a few sticks of gum or similarly small amount of other xylitol containing products can stimulates a dog's pancreas to release the hormone insulin.

But did you know that just a few sticks of sugar - free gum could cause liver failure in your dog?

Add some hemp seeds, a few sticks of carrot, a few pieces of mango, and a few leafs of cilantro and, basil.

I'll bet you have a few sticks of sidewalk chalk stashed away somewhere (or more likely, a whole bucket of the stuff).

I wanted to use the last few sticks of rhubarb leftover in the fridge.

My wife puts a few sticks of Cinnamon and a small handful of dates with the thinly sliced ginger root to boil.

Not exact matches

Rather than boring old colours or basic designs, anyone wanting something more interesting could simply stick their fingers into one of these inkjet - printer - like devices for a few seconds.

Keeping Millennials, while also enticing their elders to stick around, takes «a few steps that are very basic, but that busy managers often lose sight of,» notes Courtney.

Neighbor's algorithm calculates a suggested rent amount based on the size, safety of the location, and the «amenities» available (smoke detectors, security cameras, and lockable doors, to name a few), and then gives the host the option to stick to the suggested range or go outside of it.

But AI as of today is far from perfect: You'll have to stick with this technology for more than the first few rounds.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Yet while Peters» concept of calories has managed to stick around for 100 years, few have heard her name.

«If you do get stuck in an uncomfortably hot environment, taking a few slow, deep diaphragmatic breaths with a long exhale is always going to be the quickest way to engage the «tending - and - befriending» mechanisms of your parasympathetic vagus system [aka the better angels of your nature],» he writes.

Before Tom Hanks became an Oscar - winning actor, he was stuck in the comedy bubble and this is one of the few that is memorable.

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

But in fact, Jeff Wald, co-founder of Work Market and one of the smartest people I've met on this subject, says the freelance share of the workforce has remained stuck at about 34 % for the last few years, and is likely to stay there for the indefinite future.

After a few days of this, the action begins to stick.

Because of the Power Stick's small size it only packs in a 750mAh battery, but that» still enough to get in a few extra calls.

«But we're lucky that the «Mud Dragon» got stuck in the muck, because its skeleton is one of the best examples of a dinosaur that was flourishing during those final few million years before the asteroid came down and changed the world in an instant.»

With an estimated net worth of $ 77 billion, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates can certainly afford all the music he pleases, but what few songs would he want if he was stuck on a desert island?

For just the next five days, schedule — and stick to — a few longer blocks of focused time to get important work done.

As long as you're prepared ahead of time and stick to a few guidelines, live tweeting can be a great avenue for attracting new users or customers, or at the very least, increasing your social media following and social shares.

A few Fed policymakers worry the U.S. economy, which has delivered strong job gains but worryingly weak rates of inflation, could be stuck on a low growth path that requires low rates for years as well as new policy tools.

Heck, even Steve Jobs, who in some ways has become the epitome of the micromanager, really stuck with just a few things he cared about, like the design and look - and - feel of the products.

There are actually a few things you can do that will make taking responsibility easier... making you the one out of 10 who can actually make — and stick to — positive changes.

In our case, we were blessed by a lot of people who stuck by us through the moments when, frankly, we had lost our way a few years ago.

Stick to a card per slide — licence, office pass and a few pieces of plastic.

«South Park» got an excellent video game adaptation a few years ago in «South Park: The Stick of Truth.»

One aspect of the Manhattan's office leasing market was stuck in the summer doldrums last month, as landlords put far fewer square feet on the market compared with the yearly average.

I might live in the sticks of rural New Hampshire, but I had heard of these scams, so I decided to play along with a few.

If you feel as if you've been stuck at a traffic light these past few years, just waiting to put your foot on the accelerator, you can breathe a sigh of relief because the light may have just turned green.

Monero has been trading similarly to ETC in the last few days, being stuck below the short - term declining trendline and a volatility compression pattern following the strong moves of the last week.

In addition to a lack of alternatives, the U.S. stock market is strong because it has remained relatively stable over the past few years, which encourages investors to stick around, says Tim Courtney, CIO of Exencial Wealth Advisors in Oklahoma City.

Harper is sticking to his guns, but he's one of the few.

One of the ironies and unintended consequences of the credit crisis is that, while fewer large brokerages remain, those that stuck around are raking in easy money from the large institutions that now have limited choice when executing trades.

Still, a few BlackBerry users say they're sticking with the device, mainly because of the BlackBerry's efficient, physical keyboard.

As observed by hockey player, Sean Collins, although there is a plethora of factories dedicated to making hockey sticks in China, there are few resellers, and his China - based team relies on China - made equipment imported from abroad.

For every resolution hater out there that says many fail to stick to their resolutions after just a few weeks, there is someone who believes in the power of a promise.

With the meeting just days away, everybody is playing ball and sticking to the script, and the odds of an agreement have improved markedly compared to a few weeks ago.

«Do we want to stick with the old credit, which leaves fewer and fewer people behind, and helps one time in your life, or do we go with the tax cuts that provide about $ 2,000 a year, and the new family credit that helps you with your child every year of their life?»

Since so few other people take care to mind the concrete details of EQUAL treatment, it's usually left to those of us who would continually get the short end of the stick to point these things out.

And if we could stick to our discipline for a few more weeks until then, he would like us to read Familiaris Consortio, the 1981 papal exhortation of St. John Paul II, our «pre-Cana,» as it were.

, avoids discussion of many moral sticking points of the next few millennia (even though he knew in advance they'd be sticking points and could have provided clearer guidance), and then makes one of the central points of the entire story — and his entire reason for being here really — a personal sacrifice that is so va.gue that no one can even explain how or what was, in fact, sacrificed.

We stuck a few carols on the jukebox, cracked open the mince pies and set out to bring you the most shamelessly Christmassy issue of the mag we could....

First, an organization can be formed which raises millions of dollars and throws money at the faceless masses, hoping against hope that some of it «sticks» and a few people are helped.

Advice includes: managing finances, coping with heartbreak (massive redecoration of your house / loud singalongs with the radio / shopping for a well - deserved new outfit / baking a delicious cake and sharing it with friends - and those are just a few of the ideas listed), and solving domestic challenges when alone (water pipes, windows that stick, machines that won't work).

Just when you think those days were just a part of the weirdest gold digger test (that is: send a few winged reptiles and see if your boo thang will stick around long enough for the good stuff) guess what happens on days six and seven: even bigger birds!

Many ambitious students complete graduate school and find themselves stuck in heaps of debt with few job prospects.

The first few moments I dimly recall, the thermometer being stuck into my mouth, the gray band being wrapped around my arm to take blood pressure, and the series of annoying questions being asked about my health insurance policy (which I thankfully reassured myself, even in that debilitated state, would very soon be a thing of the past).