Sentences with phrase «for days»

Even though the meeting is a major national event that is well - publicized — it has a dedicated website and has been trending topic for days on Chinese microblog Weibo — proceedings are shrouded in secrecy.

If the stated goal of tax reform is to make it fairer, then of course the taxation of Bill Morneau's company is a reasonable question, and of course it's simply weird when Morneau refuses, for days on end, to answer it.

If candidates are waiting around for days, weeks or even months to hear back, it can be frustrating to take the next step.

While the fire raged for days and consumed nearly 80,000 acres of land and destroyed more than 1,900 structures, including 66 commercial businesses in the area, Smith's three - person practice, Middletown Animal Hospital, was spared.

I've even taken this to the extreme a couple times and given up verbal communication for days while traveling.

That's not just because life is way too short for days filled with drudgery.

Are you in the middle of your life and feeling like things are far less joyful for you these days?

You may be young with energy for days, but you don't know everything.

Have you ever grabbed a McDonald's meal at the drive - thru, then noticed that your car smells like french fries for days?

Large parts of the metropolis were under water for days before government help arrived.

For those days that she wants to be the stylist, give her her own Drybar kit.

Don't let important emails sit in your inbox for days.

It's clearly a good idea for everyone to communicate when you're going to employees as well as possibly customers and key partners as far in advance as you can and to make every effort to lighten your schedule for the days you'll be away.

Adding to their fury is the spill from the Keystone pipeline just last week, which saw more than 200,000 barrels of oil spill from the pipeline in South Dakota, shuttering a large section of the conduit for days.

OPINION: Kalgoorlie has had a few wild rides over the years thanks to its reliance on two metals that can lurch from one extreme to another in a matter for days.

Users are still able to create fake accounts, send harassing tweets, criticize you over and over again, remain completely anonymous, and come up with a variety of unflattering slams against celebrities that are never caught by the filters and go completely ignored for days or weeks on end.

«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.

How do you find people who can focus relentlessly for days on end, without being distracted by the noise around them?

A former engineer's claims of sexism at Uber have rocked the company for days, leading to a teary apology from its CEO Travis Kalanick.

It can sit in his or her inbox for days.

About $ 50,000 worth of glass materials cooled and coagulated into an unusable mass that gummed up the works for days.

I couldn't chew solid food for days because my lips were so blistered.

«On March 23, 2013, 24 scientific study participants were injected with a dead strain of Escherichia coli, a bacteria that normally induces violent sickness for days on end.

The eclectic neighborhoods — which house a blend of historic landmarks and modern - day attractions — can keep you occupied for days.

I dealt with running out of clean drinking water for days on end (which is truly horrifying when you are actually without water); countless illnesses and protests that forced my team and I to be put on lockdown.

It was late February 2016 — still high season for Asian casinos, thanks to the Lunar New Year holiday — and Ding had been here for days.

This has been telegraphed for days and weeks,» Ross said.

Yellow - shirt protestors shut down Bangkok's airports for days in 2008.

You've been working for days — years, really.

Having an upfront start and stop date just makes it easier to wrap your head around doing something hard for that time frame, versus telling yourself you have to start a new thing and do it For All The Days Of Your Life.

I say this because I woke up Tuesday morning in San Francisco — a rarity for me these days — to full - page newspaper ads with a letter from Rubin announcing Essential's existence.

Many customers had been waiting outside the store to purchase the shoe for days, and the store was the only one in the region to have it for sale.

Confidence is a fragile thing, and a big loss can cause you to lose it for days, weeks, or even months.

But there are rumors that it was substance related and that he stayed awake for days before he died.

These are authoritarian pronouncements that he has been making for days now, and it's starting to haunt him.»

Stress tests had machines bending the bands in all sorts of terrible positions for days.

He often meets executives who go from 7 a.m. breakfast meetings to late - night dinners, for days on end.

If you obsess over the manuscript for days on end, without giving yourself time away, you won't do as good a job at revisions.

The decision comes, of course, in the wake of the massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida earlier this month that killed 17 people and sparked demonstrations and renewed debate that has raged for days.

Hutchins was a competitive swimmer and excelled at «Surf Life Saving» — lifeguarding as a sport, essentially — but he was now out of shape compared with a shirtless photo he'd recently seen from those days, which he described as «biceps for days.»

I've seen entrepreneurs work for days trying to come up with a fair offer for someone they'd love to have onboard - sweating the numbers, comparing the offer to the comp of other key players, checking with outside advisors, doing every bit of homework possible in order to get to their best proposal.They become heavily invested (financially, but even more psychologically) in the offer and the outcome because they believe it's fair to everyone and the absolute best they can do.

So many business owners are social, people - loving individuals, yet they isolate themselves for days at a time.

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Dawn Heller knows how lost people feel when they don't have their smartphone for days on end while it is being repaired.

On the flipside, Netflixing for days on end, hardcore gaming, staring at goats, or simply doing nothing at all could be preferred ways to pass the time.

This can irritate the cut and bother you for days.

Between contact sports and wrecking motorcycles and bicycles and other misadventures, I've seen stars, been knocked out, had headaches and nausea that lasted for days... and those were just the concussions I knew about.

There's something about a great quote that sticks in your mind for days, weeks, months or even years.

The next generation of parents will wish for the days of Instagram selfies when the virtual reality world takes hold.

If it grows large enough for both ends to connect to form a complete circle, then you have reached your set goal for the day.