Sentences with phrase «in a bad neighborhood because»

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Of course youcould do far worse things in north Vallejo in the 1990s, especially in theSabathias» neighborhood, known as the Crest, where you could cruise up GatewayDrive to get drugs, and bleary - eyed men banged on the windows of passing cars.But Mare Island hadn't yet been shut down, and the Crest felt more hardworkingthan crime - ridden because the men hadn't gone away.

Nearly 80 percent of the blocks in and around the neighborhood regularly flood because of a lack of storm sewers, which made the Sandy - caused destruction in the area worse, Schumer said.

Cops doled out fewer tickets to bad drivers in Williamsburg's Hasidic neighborhoods because the de Blasio administration covets their votes and needs to keep them happy, a source said.

«It's not fair because when these schools were bad, Eva Moskowitz came in and picked up the neighborhood.»

Of course he hasn't — but he makes believe he has because he needs the $ 30,000 James is paying him so he can move his wife and daughter out of the bad neighborhood they live in.

I just hope that the they don't let the quality of the school inhibit their own efforts to be good teachers, because an incredible teacher can change lives even in a bad neighborhood or a poor school system.

Few people will give their own school a low grade because that would mean the same thing as saying they live in a bad neighborhood.

When students in our poorest neighborhoods receive a substandard education, it's not because hordes of «bad teachers» are being protected at their expense.

«For too long, too many kids have been forced to attend very bad schools, or schools that aren't a good fit for them, just because those happened to be the only schools in their neighborhoods,» said Kyle Olson, executive officer of National School Choice Week.

Because of this particular issue, which has gotten worse since I published my first novel in 2012, in the form of getting two plug - in keyboards for my computers and a typing speed somewhere in the neighborhood of the amount of novels you have published, I consider myself lucky if I can churn out 250 - 300 words per sitting at my computer.

Whether that's because of the type of neighborhood in which you live, or because of your lifestyle, or just because of bad luck doesn't matter.

At this point you will have to make an evaluation as to whether or not this family will follow instructions, or will you have an unhappy puppy returned to you in a month or two because no one wants to assume the responsibility or, much worse, will you hear that the puppy was allowed to roam the neighborhood and has been hit by a car?

Kotick remarked in an issue of Game Informer that the friendly neighborhood hero hasn't been given its dues in the past gaming installments by pointing out that «they were poorly rated because they were bad games.»

Whether that's because of the type of neighborhood in which you live, or because of your lifestyle, or just because of bad luck doesn't matter.

Last year, Amazon was getting some seriously bad PR because it was not making same - day deliveries in lower - income and minority neighborhoods.

The worst thing you can do is let down your guard because you think you're in a nice neighborhood; some criminals target higher - end areas where they can find more valuable items.

I struggle because I have lived in a rough neighborhood and hated seeing slumlords buy dumpy homes and put bad renters in them.

My research suggests that most Turkey companies buy some junky foreclosure for pennies in a B -(or worse) neighborhood, do a poor quality rehab project (because hey, after all, it only has to look good to the out - of - state buyer, who'll likely never know that the drywall is from China and is spewing fumes, along with the cheap laminate which offgases enough formaldehyde to start your own chemical factory...) and THEN the Turkey co. says, wow - all I have to do is price this over retail and promise easy returns, and some out of state buyer will fall for it.