Sentences with phrase «for old country»

Carved in stone Stone was a common building material for old country dwellings.

In roughly 1 mile take exit W2 W for Old Country Rd W toward Westbury.

Although I long for my old country (a nostalgia that comes with age) I do appreciate the attitude Canadians have towards their rights and freedoms.

Not exact matches

The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

But the programs are «not going to be for everyone,» she said, such as older workers nearing retirement age, a growing cohort in this country.

Despite some changes, the country has preserved much of its traditional Buddhist culture, a big draw for the tourists who come from around the world to explore its majestic mountains and centuries - old monasteries.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Veterans receive a complimentary Double Chocolate Fudge Coca - Cola ® Cake dessert to veterans and an opportunity for guests to make purchases that support Operation Homefront.

It's hard for a company that is already decades old to grow as fast as a fresh upstart, but this engineering firm with 14 offices across the country can keep pace.

Under the control of Disney veteran Daniel Battsek, Miramax continued to produce inexpensive but worthy titles like No Country For Old Men and The Queen for a whiFor Old Men and The Queen for a whifor a while.

«No Country for Old Men» faced some serious competition in the race for best picture («There Will Be Blood,» «Juno,» «Atonement,» «Michael Clayton»), but it still managed to triumph.

In its new office, just opened in January, the 14 - year - old LiquidAgents Healthcare, which places nurses for short - term contracts in hospitals around the country, boasts almost 29,000 square feet of open - plan office space.

And there's a good chance that the device, which offers old - school gaming for today's televisions, like Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, will be hard to find, based on early pre-orders.

Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.

The North American Free Trade Agreement is a 24 year old pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico that lowers tariffs and makes it easier for goods and services to flow across the three countries» borders.

(A fact for which, as an immigrant from the Old Country, I am grateful).

They are complaining about countries working with China which are not even the EU members — some of them merely looking for an associate status because a full membership is a drawn - out obstacles race at the mercy of centuries - old regional hatreds and rivalries.

«We actually looked to distillers and suppliers in several countries to partner with on making an old school Carta Blanca rum, like the ones that came from Cuba during Prohibition, There were distillers that make excellent rum and were willing to work with us, but didn't have the knowledge and capabilities for the style we wanted to create.»

The 90 - year - old country music venue uses millennial marketing techniques to capture followers for a new century.

Phelps took the blocks amid thunderous roars for him and the 30 - year - old Brazilian in the lane to his right, Rio - born Thiago Pereira, who was out to win the home country's first swimming medal of the Games.

The lowest rating ever for the Oscars before the 2018 edition was 2008's, hosted by Jon Stewart, which was seen by 31.8 million viewers (that year «No Country for Old Men» won best picture).

On the shale revolution, the report concedes that energy prices for U.S. businesses might well rise if Washington decides to lift an old prohibition to export natural gas to countries who haven't signed a free trade agreement with the U.S. (which includes Japan and China, among America's best potential customers.)

January 1952 saw the beginning of the country's first universal old age pension, Old Age Security, for people 70 years of age and ovold age pension, Old Age Security, for people 70 years of age and ovOld Age Security, for people 70 years of age and over.

Ms. Powell Jobs has become a leader in pushing for decade - old legislation known as the Dream Act, a measure that would provide legal status for immigrants who arrived in the country as young children.

A 27 - year - old man from Zaandam who caused a fatal accident on a country road last October has been jailed for three years and banned from driving for...

The chairman and co-founder of the Indian Angel Network (IAN), one of the largest and oldest angel groups in the country, says it is okay for entrepreneurs to fail as it indicates people have the confidence to take the plunge.

You never want to make too much out of one poll, and the sample size for individual countries are pretty small in this one, but still, I was struck by some of the results in this international poll of 11 and 12 year - olds, feature in this AM's KidsPost (frequent breakfast reading in our house).

The continuing political upheaval in Saudi Arabia can be viewed as a much - needed development for a young country run by corrupt old leaders.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

However, the crypto industry is growing stronger than ever and despite the old stigma that bitcoin is only used by cyber criminals and for money laundering, the industry is still booming in the country.

JetSetGo, an online marketplace for private jets, has acquired Indo Pacific Aviation Limited, the country's oldest non-scheduled...

The plan — a scaled - down version from a draft a year ago — is for a 55 - and - older community named The Lodge at Weston Hills, on the site of the Weston Hills Country Club, 2600 Country Club Way.

According to the highly - respected Tax Foundation, the oldest tax think tank in the country, an additional 1 percent growth in GDP would need to occur every year for the next 10 years to offset the cost of Trump's plan.

Ms. Drosos was group president for Global Beauty Care, a $ 6 billion business with 6,000 employees in 120 countries and 50 brands, including CoverGirl, Old Spice, Pantene and Olay, which grew from less than $ 200 million to more than $ 2.5 billion in sales under her leadership.

For comparison, consider the good old Forex which is regulated by the laws in various countries.

Stocks with operations in South Africa, including Old Mutual PLC, Evraz PLC, Anglo American and Mondi Plc, jumped as the departure of Zuma was seen to end political uncertainty and pave the way for an economic recovery in the country.

A chip - enabled credit card is also a good idea for customers living in the United States, as the country is in the middle of a switch from the old magnetic strip credit cards to this new technology.

Across the country last year, out of 330,000 EI claims waiting for processing, 200,000 of them were more than 29 days old.

«A march to get the entire country to unite under one cause — it is the ultimate show of prominence and support and just rage toward the things that have been happening in our country for so long,» Delaney Tarr, a 17 - year - old senior at Stoneman Douglas, told Vox last month.

It's not hard to imagine Joel and Ethan Coen, the innovative filmmakers who gave the world the comedic brutality in No Country for Old Men, Fargo and True Grit, growing up obsessed with reading Judges until the pages fell apart.

17 - year - old Austin Wierschke of Rhinelander, Wisconsin took home the top prize in Times Square yesterday for being the country's fastest texter.

Andrea Williams from the Christian Legal Centre, which has been supporting the 71 year old, told Premier: «Simply for holding a perfectly lawful view, a view that many people would hold up and down the country, this gentleman finds himself removed from public office.»

«For God and Country» is a VERY old idea.

Judges in India have called for a former Church of England vicar to stand trial over claims he sexually abused a 15 - year - old boy in the country twice.

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

I like a president who isn't afraid to learn as he gets older, and I like a president who believes in the bible and the «return of god,» for that's my belief as well, along with all Christians, which is the majority of this country, and the reason why this country is great.

In a country that prides itself on being the oldest constitutional democracy in the world, it seems inconceivable that we employ a decidedly undemocratic system for selecting our presidential nominees.

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

Perhaps the most elegant and stylish 81 - year - old in the room, the whole country ached with pride watching Mary Berry win a National Television Award for...

The situation for Christian communities in the country, many of which are hundreds of years old, has become even more dire since the arrival of ISIS.

One of Jarvis's favorite defenses of Mother's Day was a playful litany that she recited on the patriarchy of the American calendar: «Washington's Birthday is for the «Father of our Country»; Memorial Day for our «Heroic Fathers»; 4th of July for «Patriot Fathers»; Labor Day for «Laboring Fathers»; Thanksgiving Day for «Pilgrim Fathers»; and even New Year's Day is for «Old Father Time.»»