Sentences with phrase «first house several»

My DIY disaster — When we bought our very first house several years ago, we decided that we had to immediately paint the master bedroom walls that the previous owners had painted a Barney purple.

Not exact matches

First, on Jan. 31, 2017, Trump fired Sally Yates, acting attorney general, after she informed the White House several times that then National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had lied about his contacts with Russians.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, frustrated by what they see as GOP inaction and with an eye on midterm elections, on Tuesday held the first of what they hope to be several interviews with witnesses who have not been interrogated in the Republican - led Russia investigations.

In contrast to the relatively gentle first Senate hearing on Tuesday, House lawmakers were more pointed with their questions on Wednesday, with several of them interrupting Zuckerberg when they felt he was giving evasive answers.

Staff of the House Oversight Committee met for several hours with Pruitt's former security chief, Pasquale «Nino» Perrotta, who oversaw much of EPA's spending on perks such as first - class flights, a $ 43,000 soundproof booth and round - the - clock bodyguards.

First, while it was true that no gay or lesbian couple had requested married - student housing on campus (this event being prior to Obergefell v. Hodges, but after some states had begun issuing marriage licenses to such couples), several couples had already chosen not to apply to live in married - student housing because the policies at the time didn't support such a thing.

This is my first trip to the city, which is home to several major Christian publishing houses including my publisher Zondervan.

The first several months after leaving church as we knew it, the thing that seemed like a priority to us was finding something else to get involved in such as a small group or house church.

Reports from several house - church consultations in the early «70s revealed that significant issues for the larger church were first felt and identified in the house groups.

I first tried it at my sister's house several years ago.

Several early enrollee freshman saw their first career live Big House action on Saturday during the spring game.

Stacy and Figueras - Dotti also were irked at several U.S. Ryder Cup team members who, after being invited by Clinton to stop off at the White House on their way to England for this week's matches, at first said they wouldn't go; they relented and visited the President on Monday.

She now has several books to her name including Secret Keeper, First Daughter: White House Rules, First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover, Rickshaw Girl, Monsoon Summer and The Not - So - Star - Spangled Life of Sunita Sen.

I had a distinct image of what he would be doing in the first months of his life, of how he would recline in a lined wicker basket such as the kind I never owned, woven and biblical — a Moses basket, it was called in several of the catalogues of baby items that had begun to crowd my house.

I gave birth to my 4th child at home in April, my best friend gave birth to her first born in my house last month, we got a dozen more chickens and hatched a few of our own this summer, we went to Story Land and to Lake Winnipesaukee on vacation, built a large wooden swingset, landscaped our backyard, and did several other home projects!

What essential supplies will Mom need in the first few weeks: maternity pads, several pairs of underwear, comfortable pajamas, water bottles around the house, healthy snacks, magazines, etc..?

He was first Commissioner for Education in the old Rivers state and also served as Commissioner for Lands and Housing He had several honours to his credit.

Buried away in the Financial Times's (#) story this morning about a «joint appearance on the eve of the Budget» that David Cameron and Nick Clegg will apparently make - to «make several announcements, including shared equity schemes, social housing and support for first - time buyers» - was the following detail:

As Hillary Clinton opened up double - digit leads in several national polls, it became possible to imagine Democratic control of both houses of Congress — and with it, actual legislative gains on progressive priorities for the first time since 2010.

Since he first took office in 2011, Cuomo has several times decried the use of the same LLC loophole that allows New York City's largest office landlord to house his campaign staff free of charge.

De Blasio has delivered on several of his big first term promises — expanding prekindergarten, raising the city's minimum wage, and building new affordable - housing units.

That includes Reed, Rep. Chris Collins — another big Trump backer who has seen his status rise quickly since he was the first House Republican to endorse the president - elect during the campaign — and several others.

It's no more surprising to see in this recent times under current NDC administration, more teachers and other government workers been empowered to own properties like houses, lands, private and commercial cars, motor bikes, electric gadgets and several other properties with their «never satisfying» income UNLIKE some eight years and beyond ago under the NPP administration where a newly trained and posted teacher was unable to buy a brand new 21» inch sanyo TV from Melcom with his first monthly income.

De Blasio, who has said his administration continues to put plans in place to decrease the population in Rikers Island and install several reforms at the jail, said the speaker's plan, first laid out during her State of the City address last week, lacked detail and reasonable options for housing the approximately 10,000 inmates currently detained at the troubled jail.

Espaillat, the first formerly undocumented immigrant elected to the House, assailed several other Trump's proposed appointees: Breitbart News co-founder Stephen Bannon for chief political strategist; Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General; Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; fast food magnate Andrew Puzder as Secretary of Labor.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — First lady Michelle Obama's favorability rating among Americans tops that of several major political players who have called or might someday seek to call the White House home — including her husband and his two predecessors, former first lady Hillary Clinton, three vice presidents, and a number of potential Republican presidential hopeFirst lady Michelle Obama's favorability rating among Americans tops that of several major political players who have called or might someday seek to call the White House home — including her husband and his two predecessors, former first lady Hillary Clinton, three vice presidents, and a number of potential Republican presidential hopefirst lady Hillary Clinton, three vice presidents, and a number of potential Republican presidential hopefuls.

Although elections to the US House of Representatives use a first - past - the - post voting system, the constitution requires that seats be «apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers» — that is, divvied up proportionally.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones — the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Ohio — died yesterday evening in a Cleveland hospital, according to several news reports.

That's the first official answer from lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to President Donald Trump's request to make deep budget cuts at several key science funding agencies.

First author Ipek Kulahci spent several years studying ring - tailed lemurs housed at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina and the St. Catherines Island Lemur Program in Georgia.

The amendment was one of just a few passed yesterday evening as the House science committee deliberated over the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, a controversial bill that would reauthorize the National Science Foundation (NSF) and several other science agencies.

It took a lot of wrestling with my confidence and self - esteem, but after several years of experimentation in college, then several more years wasted trying to achieve a «polished, professional look» for my first job, I finally decided to bin my box of goodies and start leaving the house barefaced.

We only have 3 more events of the season, we used our shower for the first time on the 23rd, the paint is one the wall, all the dust has been cleaned from every surface on the house, we actually made a meal in our kitchen on Christmas Day & put our feet up to enjoy a glass of wine (ok, several, hehehehe) in our cozy living room.

DID N'T LIKE: Thorin's attitude, the rudeness of the dwarves when they first entered the house, Bilbo's leaving on his own (Gandalf didn't come back for him), Radagast the Brown (too goofy, I always pictured a more St. Francis - like character), the way the scene at the end - with Gandalf and the dwarves up in the trees, was totally ruined, and the loss of Bilbo's progression as a character (did he really kill several creatures all ready?

You could make an argument for several movies given new life by the witching hour — Donnie Darko, Showgirls, and Troll 2 leap immediately to mind, and Road House seems to be gaining momentum — but Tommy Wiseau's The Room may be the first true successor to the Rocky Horror throne.

But Toy Story's release came just months after Disney sent theaters its in - house production of the summer, Pocahontas, which many chart as the first of several disappointments to stem from Disney Feature Animation.

And so Leonardo DiCaprio was on set yesterday filming in several costumes, first at the house, in pyjamas, and then at night with Dame Judi Dench and Armie Hammer, who plays his lover, all dressed up for a black tie affair.

With a new Republican Governor and control of the House for the first time in 118 years, G.O.P. lawmakers approved a budget bill that slashes over $ 32 million by gutting 22 education - improvement programs, including several signature programs from the Democratic administration of Mr. Riley.

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has agreed to testify before the House education committee about charges of mismanagement and conflict of interest in the Reading First program, in a follow - up to a contentious April 20 hearing featuring several former and current federal officials and consultants.

The California district opened a school last summer, and two more are under construction, yet more than half the students are housed in relocatable classrooms, and several schools have first - and second - graders on «staggered» schedules - some attend morning sessions and some attend afternoon sessions.

For example, she helped form the first international, interracial adoption agency, Welcome House, founded the East and West Association (having adopted several children herself), and worked with both the Urban League and the NAACP.

When I first started writing about literary houses several years ago, I had no idea my journey would end up here, moving Dickens» furniture, rummaging through his cupboards and forging a personal connection with literary history.

Samsung made several bold decisions in their new Galaxy S6, and the first was to go with their in - house 64 - bit Exynos 7420 octa - core processor.

The author acquaints readers with several such denizens in the first few chapters before introducing a fascinating newcomer to the area: Clair, an alluring and mysterious woman Ben encounters squatting in the model home for an abandoned housing development in the middle of nowhere.

After noteworthy success with several romance imprints of major publishing houses, Andre became one of the first writers to publisher her own ebook titles immediately following the launch of Barnes & Noble's digital imprint, PubIt!

The publisher plans a «heavy push» into print - on - demand via Amazon, including several books of Charles Schulz's non-Peanuts cartoons, «Miss Caroline,» a book of cartoons about a girl in the White House, first published in 1963; and «Jack Ooze,» a new comic by Men in Black creator Lowell Cunningham.

Incidentally, she first published several books through traditional houses (both fiction and nonfiction), but self - published her most recent book.

While we've now done well over 100 projects and have stopped documenting each of them in gory detail, what you'll find below is the first several years of our journey — from our very first house through our 50th.

For several years before we bought our first home — a four - bedroom, two - storey house that we plan to raise our growing family in — we saved money using the first - time Home Buyer's Plan.

The first of several market bubbles to burst in this first decade of the 21st century, which has paved the way for subsequent housing and credit bubbles.