Sentences with phrase «figure side of the tracks»

The 2014 Jaguar XF starts at a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of right about $ 48,000 and stretches into the 6 - figure side of the tracks for a loaded XFR - S.

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The prairie in December is brutal and indifferent, but that sated Christmas I was sixteen — with presents back home spilling off the sofa, the annual racecar - track looped in a figure - 8 beneath the tree, too many new books and boxes of candy, the mothball odor of the Christmas linen and the cloying scent of the juniper branches — I perceived, in some confused adolescent's way, the spirit's harrowing side.

He said the figures showed the British government was «on track in reducing the deficit» and added, referring to the situation in Greece: «On a day like this, in a week like this, for the other side to be saying we abandon our credible deficit reduction plan shows how out of touch they are with what is going on in the world today.»

Add to this an irreparably broken home (with both divorce and dysfunction), lack of education, an abusive spouse, minimum wage income, and the defiant attitude that comes from growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, and it's easy to see why Harding was thought of as figure skating's bad girl long before Kerrigan's knee was bashed.

Lady Bird is going through a lot of the typical teenage problems: boys, best friends, figuring out who she is, and trying to pretend she isn't from the wrong side of the tracks.

That was the launch into British national consciousness of Mad Tracey from Margate, a hard - drinking bohemian from the wrong side of the tracks who became at once a hate figure and sacred monster.

The latter point is posited on rational acting by political figures on both sides of the aisle whose track record gives us little confidence.