Sentences with phrase «gave up their seat during»

Meanwhile, 106,723 people voluntarily gave up their seat during the same timeframe.

Not exact matches

During this time blacks had to give up there seats to whites when more whites got on the bus.

As for Samuels, he said during his campaign he'd give it a go in another two years when Town Council seats will be up again, but he'll do a better job getting on the ballot.

During a Monday Democratic National Convention breakfast meeting, a number of New York state delegates agreed that Lopez — the Brooklyn assemblyman accused of sexually harassing scores of female employees — should either give up his seat or submit to a vote of no confidence.

There is also a training biplane used by the Tuskegee airmen during World War II and a dress that dressmaker Rosa Parks was sewing on the day she refused to give up her seat after a day at work.

given how excited we've been by this car during the build - up to its launch and how impressed we've been from the passenger seat,

However, given how excited we've been by this car during the build - up to its launch and how impressed we've been from the passenger seat, I'm not sure that'll actually spoil much of anything for anyone who's been paying the slightest bit of attention to the motoring press over the past year.

And during that research, I found the subject of a subsequent book, Claudette Colvin, who, as a 15 - year - old, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman nine months before Rosa Parks became famous for the same act.

The skycouch allows family members sharing adjoining seats to fold up their armrests and pull out footrests, giving passengers more room to lie down during the flight.

Melissa... this is why I follow your blog... I have been doing the same thing in my house this year... after a couple of years of cancer and treatments I am in remission and re-evaluating our house and how we use it... last month saw a «cleaning out» if you will and a huge yard sale... now I am ready to rip up our carpets and get down the wood floors... my husband during all this has been quite accomodating — our kids are older and we definitely do nt use our house the same way any more... I sent our dining room table and buffet to the basement which gives us alot more space in our living area — we only used it on holidays anyway and now our dining room is an extension of our livingroom with more seating — thanks for explaining your reasoning so eloquently — I'm going to show my husband your post and maybe now he will understand what I am trying to achieve with our whole house overhaul!

Seat - back TVs (please take note US airlines) allowed me to watch Parental Guidance (appalling opening scenes but passable after that and made my eyes leak a bit), part of The Master (couldn't be bothered with the whole thing, gave up during the first auditing scene, was having trouble understanding Joaquin Phoenix drunk), and Hitchcock (fascinating to watch how he marketed Psycho, genius).