Sentences with phrase «gave him a fresh start after»

Tuck, a no - nonsense widower with a rifle, took Dawson in and gave him a fresh start after the youngster ran away from home.

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Given the long odds of success, how do you maintain your passion for a fresh start and better habits once as you head back to your normal routine after the holidays?

Starting this blog and having a space to come to week after week gave me fresh strength and a new me emerged.

This latest report seemingly opens that discussion back up, and coupled with a long awaited change to replace Wenger and given Vieira's standing with the supporters after being such an influential leader for them on the pitch during his playing days, this could be a very popular decision to spark a fresh start at Arsenal.

Smith's run of good luck at the box office ran into a few potholes after Wild Wild West bombed and The Legend of Bagger Vance fizzled, but Michael Mann gave the star's career a fresh start, handing him his biggest role to date.

After his father dies in a drunk driving accident and his younger brother (Wyatt Smith) earns a scholarship at a prestigious tennis academy in Florida, Jake follows the family down to Orlando where he's given the chance at a fresh start.

Administrators decided to give Moton Elementary School a «fresh start» after it has received D grades from the state the past two years.

It can also give you the fresh start you need to rebuild your finances and get your life back after closing your business.

The provisions of the Bankruptcy Code are designed to protect debtors from creditor harassment and give individuals a fresh start, to recover and rebuild after a financial crisis.

I'm looking forward to grabbing this new release soon and giving the game a fresh play over a decade after starting my very first town in 2005.

After starting out thinking I'd be playing a traditional SHMUP, I came out feeling like I had played Star Fox with an extra dimension, been challenged by bosses reminiscent of Shadow of the Colossus, given fresh challenges to old levels like Super Mario 64, all while feeling like I should be pumping quarters into a classic arcade machine.

After all, bankruptcy wipes clean most or all the client's debts, giving our client a «fresh start».

Employers and workers are free to amend these rights with a written employment agreement; however, if that agreement is entered into after the employee starts work the employer must provide fresh «consideration» in exchange for the employee giving up their implied rights.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.