Sentences with phrase «from hunkering»

Updated, 12:30 p.m. Acting at Haiti's request, the United States is deploying an aircraft carrier and other vessels to help out as the battered impoverished nation moves from hunkering down to digging out (Navy Times).

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According to The New York Times, research shows that you're more likely to reach the top of an organization if you've had a variety of roles, from finance to marketing, rather than hunkered down and built expertise in just one department where you felt comfortable.
New images beamed down from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact scars from the two tungsten counter-weights and the cruise stage, which broke apart and landed about 50 miles from where Curiosity hunkered down at its landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on Aug. 5.
That many still have a «muscle memory» of the crisis is a good thing, she said, but at the same time, the pervasiveness of skepticism that is still causing many to hunker down and stay away from the markets is doing them a disservice.
The dismaying truth is that far from taking the lead, Koop quickly discerned that the media were generally siding with the parents in their decision to let the child die and it seems that he shrewdly decided to hunker down in his foxhole.
Most pastors believe the best way to keep Christian - Muslim relations calm is to maintain a low profile in terms of evangelism and gripes, to hunker down, protect the real estate from vultures without and within the community, maintain good relations with the Muslim power brokers and hope that the Christian poor will remain faithful.
Not surprisingly, such a barrage from the redoubtable Schindler caused West to hunker down.
While the rest of the gang relaxed on the porch, I hunkered down on her living room sofa, fully embracing my food - nerd standing and indulged in a few issues from the late 90s.
Along the way, he was fired from an externship at Lucques in Los Angeles, honed basic culinary skills at a community kitchen in Berkeley, and hunkered down at San Francisco's Flour + Water, where he spent six months only making pasta.
«From our perspective, it's an even greater reason for us to hunker down and say, «This is our family.
They managed to pull away from previous # 1 and Undefeated Team Lalez in the 2nd Half of their dynamic main event and mostly because they just hunkered down and did the little things right on Sunday Night.
Two months later, following the end of recruiting season, he and his offensive assistants — including Brandon, whom he'd hired from Colorado, and Mullen, whom he'd made his quarterbacks coach — hunkered down for three weeks of closed - door brainstorming sessions in «a little staff room that dripped when it rained,» says Meyer.
Fit: College football fans already hunkered down for two long months of defending Jackson from Draft Twitter couldn't be too upset with this outcome for the 2016 Heisman winner.
While some pinheads work the street corners and mountainsides, others will hunker down in either of the Games» two planned pin - swapping centers: one next to the athletes» village, the other downtown, just 50 yards from Olympic Plaza, where each night the Olympic medals will be awarded.
And after all this talk of busy days, I know that we have snow coming tomorrow and I'm excited about a quiet day at home - with my older kiddos and Steve likely home from school / work and all of us together for a hunkered down snow day.
I remember choosing it well over a year ago and thinking that it was just what we should all be doing this time of year as we come in and hunker down, catching our breath from the busy seasons before.
'' Excerpt taken from Potty Training For Dummies Being dressed to promote easy potty moves goes a long way toward making your kiddo hunker down and become a top cadet.
Instead, hunker down and soak up whatever information you can find from as many sources as possible and try to keep a positive outlook.
She acquired her stubbornness from me, so we hunkered down and waited until she was willing to go.
Hunkered down in the courthouse cafeteria with his father and several other family members an hour before the verdict, Adam Skelos described how he got a text from his wife, Ann Marie, as he left court Thursday: «Call me.
In Albany on Monday, the governor remained behind closed doors and members of the legislative majorities hunkered down in conference meetings to receive updates from their leaders.
«Ten years from now... there's an increased chance that the U.S. or NATO would get hit by something,» Hunker said.
As the slugs hunker in ambush, the unsuspecting bird (order Strigiformes) lands and suddenly finds itself upside - down and swinging like a pendulum from the buttered perch, talons gripping in astonishment.
Every evening at dusk, a snowy owl emerged from the old gun emplacement where it hunkered down during the day and flew off over the ocean.
Typically you get all the D you need from the sun, but if you're forced to hunker down, it may become an issue.
I love hunkering down and watching every snow report from all over the city, taking a walk outside with the pupster, sledding, eating snow cream, having my husband trapped at home and all to myself for a couple days.
, and I am hunkered down working from home trying to stay out of the wind, cold, and rain.
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Hunker down out of the cold, order something from their fantastic wine list, and make your date last late into the night.
Since a coming blizzard forces a cartoonish cross-section of nomadic, lying vermin to hunker down at Minnie's Haberdashery, a staging post near Red Rock, Wyoming, it's likely that further inspiration came from Delmer Daves's 3.10 to Yuma and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, among other Westerns that milk the tension in waiting.
Cast members learned how to work with bees, collecting runaway swarms from trees and extracting honey from the combs; the most affecting sequence finds Gelsomina and her father hunkered down together beneath a tarp in the rain, using their bodies to keep the lids from blowing off boxed hives in a windstorm, because there are too few stones in the area to hold them down.
Instead of actually fulfilling the oh - my - God - this - is - awesome momentum set up right from the opening sequence (a delightful 5 minute short film in its own right) by hunkering down and making the story, ultimately, work, he relies almost entirely on smoke and mirrors: throwing whiz - bang - eveything - but - the - kitchen - sink - razzle - dazzle to keep us distracted.
The erotic fascination underlying all this is constantly visible in the way that Piñeiro and DP Fernando Lockett film faces, often in long gliding takes that move seamlessly from wide shot to close - up — see the radio studio scenes in The Princess of France and the extended scene in Viola in which the camera hunkers down between three characters talking in a car at very close quarters.
One night in their Italian villa, 17 - year - old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) hunkers down on the sofa with his parents, (Amira Casar and Michael Stuhlbarg), and Mom reads aloud a passage from what we're told is a «16th - century French romance.»
Aside from the cinematography, which places the audience in a respective characters» point - of - view from time - to - time, you kind of just hunker down and prepare for a generic and / or fundamental 98 minute 3D animation.
Hunkering down for a quiet night at home, the family's plan to ignore the mayhem is dashed when their daughter rescues a stranger (Max Burkholder) from a murderous mob.
Sitting idle, its wingless form looks clean, simple and attractive; activate the track - only Race mode and it hunkers down 50 mm, arches barely clearing the tyres, and its vast spoiler rises from the rear deck.
From that perspective, the hunkered - down BMW looks sinister and menacing.
The two aero bubbles on the bonnet are so low and aggressively raked that you really have to hunker down unnaturally low if you're going to gain any benefit from them, and the engine noise disappears in the wind above about 45mph.
Even when you hit the button to tighten the suspension, and the Macan hunkers down on the asphalt and carves the curves near - flat, there's none of the kidney - bruising ride you'd expect from something this sporty.
Driving's Jil McIntosh writes, «Even when you hit the button to tighten the suspension, and the Macan hunkers down on the asphalt and carves the curves near - flat, there's none of the kidney - bruising ride you'd expect from something this sporty.»
With its 362 - horsepower turbocharged V6, even the base GLE450 AMG Coupe can sprint from 0 - 60 mph in 5.6 seconds, fleet for a hunkering quasi-SUV weighing nearly 5,000 pounds.
Apart from lessening roll in corners, this also gives the car a more hunkered down and purposeful look.
From the side, the Stinger's profile has real legs — it stretches out over a long wheelbase and terminates in a hunkered - down fastback shape that features full - band taillights and quad exhaust tips.
Thanks to the wide track the GLC looks hunkered down and sporty from the rear.
The Range Rover hunkers down in Dynamic mode, ready to fire all 550 ponies from the F - TYPE R - sourced 5.0 - liter supercharged V8.
The result of the extra power and new suspension makes the S5 a serious corner carver, able to hunker down and practically rip shreds from the road.
From there, the GT S shows off its throttle adjustability, its rear - end pivoting to the pressure from your right foot before hunkering down to make most of the inherent traction the AMG's transaxle layout proviFrom there, the GT S shows off its throttle adjustability, its rear - end pivoting to the pressure from your right foot before hunkering down to make most of the inherent traction the AMG's transaxle layout provifrom your right foot before hunkering down to make most of the inherent traction the AMG's transaxle layout provides.
Not an army, or a gathering of many, as I'd learn was the case with his kind, but just one, one beastman like no other, separated from the rest of his kind, Keeyaw of the lank figure and mournful mustaches, low, groveling, hunkered over from the weight of his implements and the white, colorless beard that hung from his face in a way he had no control over.
It conjures the image of magenta and orange leaves falling from trees, and the landscape preparing to take stock for a season, quietly hunkering down, stripping itself of the old, and getting ready for the new.
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