Sentences with phrase «in town spending»

Case in point: the endless shots of parents in town spending quality time with loving children, while Sue has to have spatially and emotionally distant conversations with her son by phone or Skype.

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Aged 14, he had won a fundraising competition run by charity World Vision and traveled from his home town of Melbourne, Australia to spend time in Manila to learn about international development.

After the Philippines trip, Evans spent an academic year at Woodstock, an international boarding school near Dehradun, a town close to the Himalayan foothills in India.

While growing up, Jake and his younger sister, Caroline Danehy, spent many summers in the small town of Fair Harbor on Fire Island.

I experienced this from the other side during the two years I spent at Conde Nast Portfolio, when the great Graydon Carter made it his mission to render Vanity Fair's new sister title irrelevant by publishing the best longform business journalism in town, even if that meant hiring away Portfolio's writers, like Michael Lewis.

He earlier spent more than six years in jail over the 1991 massacre of some 260 people in the Croatian town of Vukovar.

In his paper «Mega-Events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies,» he writes: «A local resident who goes to an All - Star Game when it is in town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the gamIn his paper «Mega-Events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies,» he writes: «A local resident who goes to an All - Star Game when it is in town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the gamin town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the gamin the absence of the game.

Not only are they plentiful in college towns across the U.S., they've got serious spending chops.

Echoing the sentiments she shared last week on their daytime talk show, Ripa gave her co - host / friend a proverbial pat on the back, saying, «Mark came in town for 12 hours and this is how we're spending it.

«Any mature industry has to think about the fact that there's a new sheriff in town with new values, new spending habits,» Jeff Fromm, an expert in marketing to American Millennials, told Bloomberg.

Then she laughs, not so much at the joke but at herself and that period of her life — the weeks she spent meditating alone in Rishikesh, India, the temple town along the banks of the Ganges that the Beatles once visited and made famous.

Anyone who has spent a day in Mountain View, Calif., in the past few years has probably spotted a Lexus SUV driving around town that is equipped with Google self - driving tech spinning on its roof.

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.

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

In Phnom Penh, a basic rental can cost less than $ 200 a month, but expect to spend upwards of $ 350 for a good option in the center of towIn Phnom Penh, a basic rental can cost less than $ 200 a month, but expect to spend upwards of $ 350 for a good option in the center of towin the center of town.

Nate lives in the small town of Grande Prairie, Alberta (population: 68,000)-- a four - hour connecting flight from Vancouver — and we'd spent our entire relationship dealing with the toll the long distance was taking on our hearts and bank accounts.

There's a new Microsoft in town, and the company has spent the past and a half year embedding itself into the worldwide venture capital ecosystem.

You can spend your life travelling to meet beautiful people or you can live and die in the town where you were born.

A good deal of daily life was spent engaged in rituals to fend off withes and every Sunday morning, most of the town gathered together in a ceremony related to witchcraft.

A town finds a certain level in its spending and almost everyone clusters around the mean so that no one has to feel bad if bad luck comes.

So in the spirit of my love language, I spent a few hours creating the perfect Monkey Town Mixfor my readers that includes 46 meticulously chosen songs that correspond with various chapters in Evolving in Monkey Town.

The community I call Corinth, 1 the town in which I spent my sabbatical year, has changed during the last thirty years from a rural, rather backward county seat town into a satellite community for a large metropolitan area.

Never mind that I'm living in a town where the population is 127 people, and I barely have time to work at my job, and spend time with my wife and kids, and take care of the house, and write a blog post every now and then.

Here are a few of the stories I have heard from homeless people in my town as I spent Easter Sunday among them:

I grew in a town where the big local church spent huge amounts on «foreign missions», but would not assist with any services for the poor across town or in nearby rural areas.

We spent some quality time with family and friends in my home town, where Paloma took a few classes and got a chance to polish up...

My sister B was in town for the long weekend and we decided to spend her first day in town shopping all day.

I have spent most of my years living in surburbia, or out in the country, or a small city that doesn't really feel much like a city at all — more like a few towns connected by miles and miles of country roads and freeways.

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend the day with a community health worker in my home town.

We spent the day shopping out of town on Saturday but beyond that we spent the majority of our time at home, outside in the yard.

She was in town a few weeks ago, and I always look forward to spending time with her.

California Food Summers: As a child, I spent summers at the ranch house of my grandparents (Bessie and Jim) in the grasslands of California's Central Valley (near the little town of Snelling).

I know what some of you are thinking, «why would you ever spend a week in a little town in Idaho?!»

When she's not developing recipes in the kitchen, she spends her days searching for the best French cuisine her town has to offer, cheering on her husband's hockey team and enjoying life as a new mom.

Like I mentioned in my post on Friday, we spend this weekend at my language teacher's home town.

But they're in every small town in America, practically, and have a ton of media money to spend.

Those cats reminded about my late grandma and her county town in Russia where i spent so many happy summers.

I spent Memorial Day weekend in Texas with my family, my best friend from college is in town, and I am turning 32 on Monday!

We flip flop back and forth spending a week in each other's town and luckily I'm up this time!

Myself I'm going to spend some time leading up to Christmas in my home town with my parents and then travel to London to spend actual Christmas with Rob's family there.

After visiting the Sangre de Cristo Mountains while my not - so - little brother was in town last week, we decided to spend this week in Telluride, where we're currently nestled within the San Juan Mountains with a hike of one of its tallest checked off of our list.

When we are in town, we spend Sundays in a hot kitchen with jars of tomato on the counter and glasses fogged from the steam.

My parents were the children of small town Midwestern teachers and farmers who spent most of their formative years in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin.

She has spent over 20 years in wine industry sales, and has resided in old - town Napa for the last 20 years.

«Not only will the locals love it, but Bennigan's will attract a lot of transient business off the interstate that will now stop and spend their money in our town.

Abujebel spent his teenage years wandering on foot between villages in Ethiopia and Kenya, working as a doctor in a neighboring town, as a cook in a mining village, and as a fruit - cart vendor in a Kenyan refugee camp.

I've spent the last 10 years living down the road from the largest farmers» market in the state and have watched as the restaurant scene in this unassuming college town continues to flourish.

Or if you'd like to be right in town, spend the night at the historic Paso Robles Inn.

Estela is where you go for some of the most delicious cutting - edge food in town, served with wines that will satisfy quirky naturalists and big - spending bankers alike (which pretty much sums up the crowd in its mix of downtowners and the downtown - curious).

An accountant by training, he'd spent the past 33 years climbing through the ranks of Smithfield Foods, the nation's largest pork company and the largest employer in Smithfield, Virginia, a pastoral town of 8,200.