Sentences with phrase «in town a family»

Last weekend when my family was in town a family friend recommended that we go to the Malibu Country Mart for lunch because we were in Malibu, naturally we had to go shopping after (we're a family of shoppaholics)!

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He recalled how he and his family got into town for the first time late at night, and because of something that went wrong in the move, they all went to a late showing at the theater to kill time.

When an acquaintance told me about how she flew 12 hours from Cape Town to Amsterdam without a partner, family, or friends, in economy, with three bouncing sons under 5 years old, I could only think: How do you do that?

Adopted as a young boy after getting lost and separated from his family in India, as a young man, Brierley used Google Maps to jog his memory, ultimately reuniting with his birth mother, who stayed in the same town where he was born.

I'm in a town basically on my own without any family or any close friends I can really connect with.

Mustaq Singh's family is near starvation, and he's heard that a rich man in town is hoarding food, waiting for the price to rise so he can make a huge profit.

And that happens to be the strong suit of Groupe Valentine, a 95 - store, family - run chain based in small - town Saint - Hyacinthe east of Montreal.

The customer had guests in town for a family event and one accepted the cake from the UPS driver and put it in the freezer without telling the hostess, Reutter explains.

On the other hand, I grew up as a straight white girl with a loving family in a town that appeared to be mostly other straight white people.

Yes, it is a problem in our own towns and cities, with our own teenagers — mostly girls — being trapped, repeatedly raped, kept away from their families and schools, and losing the chance to grow into the bright futures they deserve.

Noah Ready - Campbell, who grew up in a small mountain town in Vermont, and Calvin Young, a Chinese immigrant whose family settled in the Virginia when he was 2 years old, both landed scholarship admission to boarding school (Philips Exeter and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, respectively).

The police had tracked a package of clothes to a farmhouse on the outskirts of Corleone, the hilltop town that had inspired the fictional crime family name in «The Godfather.»

Across the town, small - business owners and their families benefit from a high quality of life; in 2009, Holland was designated the second - happiest city in America, according to a Gallup poll.

In Douma, site of the suspected gas attack, the last buses were due on Saturday to transport out rebels and their families who agreed to surrender the town, state TV reported.

A reporter for French radio France Info went to the town in Tunisia where Bouhlel grew up and spoke to his family, who told him that he had been an excellent pupil all through high school.

We were the only brown family in our town for quite a while.

That being said, building these up, in the beginning, may be as simple as finding families in your social circle who are going out of town this summer!

That said, our family's strongest tie to Dickinson is the countless hours my mother, Lucia Gurley, spent in service of the town and community over her 38 years as a resident.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

An Atlanta native, she and her family love living in town and spending time outdoors.

How can we go to a town hall anywhere in Canada and explain this choice to Canadians when there are so many other priorities that are pressing on hard - pressed Canadian families?

I often tell the story about my family in 1969, moving into Harrington Park, New Jersey, this relatively affluent town, as the first black family.

International Living Ecuador Highlands correspondent, Wendy DeChambeau, moved to the small town of Cotacachi with her family in 2011.

The city was founded in 1870 with only 16 families, but in a decade and a half it has grown into small town with its own distinct character.

The two talk business innovation, digital disruption, the family business, the way boards work, women in the C - Suite, and why Chicago is her kind of town.

Called The End Is Now [here's our review], it tells the story of the Henderson family and what happens when their small town becomes the test market for the rapture — the spiritual event in which some Christians believe they will be taken up to heaven prior to Christ's second coming.

When you die, I promise you: I will not make the decision to not embalm you I will not make the decision to not show you off to a room full of people surrounded by flowers for 2 days I will not make the decision to not parade you through town with traffic stopping pomp I won't bury you within 24 hours I WILL allow YOUR family to make those decisions for you in respect to what you wish for in your passing.

At my grandmother's small - town church, in the middle of families in their Sunday best and fidgeting kids in the pews, I didn't expect any huge revelations.

Between these extremes lies a more humane economic order: one in which, as Röpke put it, «wealth [is] widely dispersed, genuine communities, from the family upwards, form a background of moral support for the individual, and a healthy balance [exists] between town and country, industry and agriculture.»

The good life, the good society, was one in which all sorts of groups — families, clubs, co-operative societies, small towns run by boards of elders — lived the lives they wanted to live in a creative interaction governed by the spirit of living and letting live.

I remember several years ago when my family was moving from one town to another, another Christian in town called up my parents and said that they had a word from the Lord for them.

He and his family went through some difficult times financially and emotionally until he too secured another pastorate in another church in another town.

The letter was addressed to the pastor who briefly attended this small - town family gathered around the son's deathbed in, a city hospital:

In the United States, the thousands of deserted rural towns resulting from the replacement of family farming by agribusiness are one witness to this destruction.

In a smaller than small Vermont town, I was the shy new girl, the daughter of the visiting preacher; she was the bubbly, outgoing girl from the unchurched family.

But while searching the Internet this year for photos to help illustrate talks he gives to students on Holocaust awareness, the Louisville author made his most stunning discovery — a news photo showing his whole family aboard a truck crowded with refugees, arriving in a small French town.

As a young man in 1840, abandoning the upstate New York towns to which his family retreated after his father's bankruptcy and death, he visited Manhattan with his friend Eli Fly.

Following the fighting between ISIS and the Syrian army, at least 1,400 families fled the town to safer areas or took shelter in the government - controlled city of Homs, reports the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights.

When I was a teenager, my family moved to Dayton, Tennessee, a town famous for prosecuting and convicting a science professor for teaching evolution in 1925, and which sits right on the path of the old Trail of Tears.

She and her family have been attending a large, non-denominational church in town that is known for being highly welcoming of «seekers.»

I guess itʼs largely because I grew up in one, got married in one, raised a family in one, planted a church in one, and have the greatest friends, all in a small town.

Roger Williams, for example, for all his insistence on the separation of church and state, believed that such general religion was essential for what he called «government and order in families, towns, etc.» Such general religion is, he believed, «written in the hearts of all mankind, yea, even in pagans,» and consists in belief in God, in the afterlife, and in divine punishments.2 Benjamin Franklin for all his differences from Roger Williams believed essentially the same thing, as indicated in the quotation from his autobiography in my original article on civil religion.

Unfortunately, I have been «stripped, whipped, tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail» by my own family members for simply STATING that if I found out, or «heard a whisper of a finger being laid on my niece» who was going to stay with my abuser and his enabler, I «would go to the authorities and this time I would and legally could have him put in jail.»

There were several apparently well - to - do Jewish families in the small town of Pembroke, involved in clothing and furniture businesses, but none of us really knew them.

As The Washington Post notes, the family are some of the only African Americans in the rural town of Tenino, Wash..

We see the Riggins brothers (warriors with big hearts but no prudence or book learning from the very wrong side of town) saying «Texas forever» and staying around in Dillon as a family.

«They were eating the crumbs of the last slice of bread,» Project HOPE staffer Andrea Dunne - Sosa told Vox, describing a family in the coastal town of Loaiza.

When my family started writing letters to the editor to protest the drug sting, we were shunned by most of the white people in town.

Gods came to set the captive free.God is always in control he calls the shots not Satan he is in control his motives and purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for good and he always has a plan.It is spiritual lesson from a real life situation.I am jumping way ahead here but at the time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family when you read later because of his testimony the next time they visit years later to those towns many people are saved because of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to God be the glory.brentnz

Every time something goes bad in our life, our family, our town, our country, or our world, everybody starts pointing the finger at everybody else.