Sentences with phrase «hunkered at»

(These are the meteorology bloggers and shirt - sleeve guys hunkered at newsroom tables strewn with charts, not the nattily attired stand - up weather presenters.)

Hearing those questions, along with some more sophisticated ones, of course, can give you a sharp image of where the community is right now, a snapshot of both the potential and the problems of an workforce without credentials that hunkers at the National Kitchen Table to try to produce something salable.

Not exact matches

«There's a mentality of hunker down and hold onto cash,» Francois Chadwick, national tax leader at the KPMG Venture Capital Practice, says in the report.

Your old standby bar graphs and pie charts are just the tip of the iceberg — it's not uncommon now to see executives and professionals of all stripes working on visuals instead of hunkering down at the keyboard for a long session of pecking away in Word.

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.

Trump and Abe — And Their Respective Scandals — Are Hunkering Down at Mar - a-Lago.

Today, she's called on to appear at more events than ever before, while raising the family she and her husband started after she'd spent years hunkered down in the cutthroat real estate world.

Who knows how many of those hunkered down in Occupy Your Town protests keep up with the work of veteran Wall Street Journal wealth reporter Frank, but his new book skewers the so - called 1 %, or at least the «high - beta» portion of it.

«We are hunkered down and it is very windy... the wind is a major threat,» said Garfield Burford, the director of news at ABS TV and Radio on the island of Antigua, south of Barbuda.

That said, if you can hunker down and start saving for retirement at an early age, it makes things easier.

I also refuse to pay for internet access at hotels or the airport and hunker down in places that offer free Wi - Fi, like Starbucks or other cafes.

Maybe you need to hunker down at Starbucks for a week.

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.

He's the poor schmuck who at age 32 still hunkers down in Mom and Dad's basement because his post-graduate education only fetches him a position as PhD burger flipper at the Scottish restaurant chain which shall not be named.

Life at «Mainline Seminary» is a choreographed battleground with affinity groups hunkered down in the trenches.

I think of it hunkered down within itself at the mercy of outside events over which it has no control.

I got so anxious last night thinking about the fact that I haven't booked hardly any vendors, that Thomas and I hunkered down with a bottle of wine and spent our Friday night scrolling through Pinterest, emailing vendors, figuring out seating arrangements, and looking at wedding shoe inspiration.

Look for us hunkered down over CBD's Berkshire pork - head carnitas, a dish that represents the cooking at its best: funky, elevated nose - to - tail eating with a decidedly fresh feel.

Test kitchen manager Brad Leone and his fiancée were facing this predicament until they finally hunkered down and perfected an easy riff on chana saag, the curry and cumin - spiced chickpea and spinach stew on the menu at most Indian restaurants.

After being lured to this brick building in Pioneer Square by its outstanding cocktail program, we ended up ditching our dinner plans and hunkering down at the bar for a meal.

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.

The closeness continued at the highest levels of the game when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, NHL Players» Association director Bob Goodenow and International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel hunkered down last Thursday in a four - man bobsled for a trip down the Olympic course at slap - shot speed.

He'll position pupils at the foul line, instructing the shooter to balance on one leg before hunkering into their motion.

S.P.A.L. played physically, they hunkered down at the back and they really just did every single thing they needed to do to make sure that Juventus didn't really trouble Meret at all outside of one cross-shot that he easily parried away and out of trouble.

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.

In an ever moving and changing world, I have learned that I can get dizzy with it all, so I hunker down, kneel to the ground, I go towards the steady earth, at her center of gravity, is where I find my own.

Or instead hunker down in chairs at the Hoboken Democratic Party and the state Joint Committee on Ethics?

Lawmakers, who traveled to Albany ahead of the storm yesterday, will hunker down for a snow day today, and return to work at the state Capitol tomorrow.

At the time, he was hunkered down with his family in their San Juan apartment.

Fond memories of Stanley denying the oncoming and devastating Hurricane years back and cracking wise at the Shandaken parade the day before making funof those who were afradi and going home to hunker down... Good ole boys club.

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.

As the hurricane roared into Houston, Mary Robinson hunkered down at the University of Texas Health Science Center downtown.

But at this point I think it's much easier to make [the] case that durability needs to be our mantra or, you know, [that] instead of expansion that hunkering down is the metaphor for what we need to be doing now.

The Evidence Isn't There Back in 2014, dozens of leading periodontists — dentists who focus on the tissues surrounding your chompers — hunkered down for several days to evaluate at - home techniques for cleaning plaque between teeth.

While the word fight is defensive and has a kind of «hunker down and pull up the drawbridge» energy, the word healing has a positive connotation, so you will begin to look at the pattern through more optimistic eyes.

I'm off to a workout this morning and then I'm hunkering down behind the computer screen at a coffee shop.

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.

While we're hunkering down at home, I'd like to install the ceiling fan we purchased for our bedroom and the light fixture we bought for the office.

We'll be hunkering down to wait out the storm, but at least we'll be together.

Like most South Floridians, I'm stuck at home hunkered down in my little apartment (that's been through many hurricanes) waiting for this bad boy to arrive later tonight.

There's nothing quite like hunkering down at one of their iconic plastic tables, ordering a couple of ice - cold beers and watching the sun melt into the sea.

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.

Dinner at the Wolseley flowed into after - dinner drinks, before they hunkered down in the honesty bar of a smart Covent Garden hotel and helped themselves to copious amounts of gin.

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.

«The film follows a family whose road trip takes a turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park and after the power goes out they decide to hunker down for the night in a borrowed trailer.

Synopsis: «A family whose road trip takes a turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park and after the power goes out they decide to hunker down for the night in a borrowed trailer.

During its famous eponymous film fest, Toronto is the kind of place where one night you can watch Frances McDormand embrace Octavia Spencer and Guillermo Del Toro at a lavish fete, and then in the coming days, hunker down in theaters to be astounded by what the trio has put out.

It is Richard (Joel Edgerton, chiseled and hunkered - in) who is insistent at first on setting things right, then Mildred who proves the persistent one, seizing the baton when he starts to hang back, and whose eyes, no longer averted, are on the prize.

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.

That you're into 6th by about 35mph is at odds with the Golf's tight damping and hunkered - down stance.