Sentences with phrase «just hunker»

«The market is very strong for first - time home buyers, and in Scarborough, 75 per cent of the homes are priced at less than $ 250,000,» says Alex. «There's an expression that you are either busy born or busy dying — and our case, we had to decide if we should expand to handle demand, or just hunker down.

AND, on top of all that, if we lack relationship skills, self - awareness, and loving kindness toward ourselves, we usually just hunker down to the ups and downs of life, get really tired, and never notice how much is missing.

«This hybrid model is exciting because it gives us a chance to do new things and not just hunker down,» Dr. Bharucha said.

When attacking you they tend to just hunker down behind a box with their head visible enough for a opportunistic sniper to strike, only ever occasionally trying to actually flank you.

If you just put the cat in a bedroom without any private paths she'll just hunker down under the bed.

Just hunker down and cut down on spending so you can have extra cash to pay increase your monthly debt repayment amount.

Aside from the cinematography, which places the audience in a respective characters» point - of - view from time - to - time, you kind of just hunker down and prepare for a generic and / or fundamental 98 minute 3D animation.

Chicago winters make me want to just hunker down and cross my fingers and (cold) toes in hopes of spring, forgetting all of the fun that cold weather brings.

When it's winter sometimes I just hunker down and don't even worry about what I'm wearing.

Make sure growth is good, output is good, and if there are no concerns there, just hunker down, baby wear a bit more and ride the wave.

Chicago winters make me want to just hunker down and cross my fingers and (cold) toes in hopes of spring, forgetting all of the fun that cold weather brings.

I just hunker down all season and pretend it's not really happening.

After the workday, we're hungry to get out in the world and socialize, not just hunker in and space out in front of the television.

Don't just hunker down and get to work.

And I think people maybe [are] just hunkering down a little bit.»

As the largest company on our list, 7 - Eleven could have just hunkered down and comfortably weathered this recession, but the company has pursued an aggressive growth plan instead — taking advantage of lower real estate costs, encouraging independent convenience - store owners to convert to its system and selling off company - owned units to franchisees.

They managed to pull away from previous # 1 and Undefeated Team Lalez in the 2nd Half of their dynamic main event and mostly because they just hunkered down and did the little things right on Sunday Night.

The question was whether the bacteria were just hunkering down when faced with low levels of nutrients or were more actively defending themselves.

With the cruise control set, the engine just hunkers in and makes loads of gooey torque to keep the train a-rollin».

Rather than protesting at the entry speed, it just hunkered down and held its own very nicely.

She was equally unreceptive to his invitations to play — sometimes just hunkering down, and sometimes hissing, swatting him and trotting off indignantly.

There are certainly other aspects to my new found school success, like having a real passion and knowing what I want to study to just hunkering down and getting the work done.

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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.

According to The New York Times, research shows that you're more likely to reach the top of an organization if you've had a variety of roles, from finance to marketing, rather than hunkered down and built expertise in just one department where you felt comfortable.

Reiman believes this unstructured cogitation is just as important to a project's success as time spent hunkered down in client meetings.

It will be here just in time for what I call cooking season (when the kids» fall sports end and I can hunker down in the kitchen on the weekend).

As questions go unanswered, and writers and fans on both side hunker down even further behind their personal defenses, it just gets uglier — and more tiresome — each year.

While some pinheads work the street corners and mountainsides, others will hunker down in either of the Games» two planned pin - swapping centers: one next to the athletes» village, the other downtown, just 50 yards from Olympic Plaza, where each night the Olympic medals will be awarded.

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.

I remember choosing it well over a year ago and thinking that it was just what we should all be doing this time of year as we come in and hunker down, catching our breath from the busy seasons before.

The reality is that the world went on just fine without us as we hunkered down in our home and cared for our precious little ones.

We took the long, painfully drawn out approach with our first, and I'm thinking for the 2nd, we just need to hunker down and get it over with!

This email just arrived in the e.politics bunker, where we're currently hunkered down waiting for Hurricane Sandy, aka the Frankenstorm, to make DC very cold and very wet.

And the easy thing in a way would have been to say after the Glasgow East byelection [last week, in which Labour lost its 25th safest seat] we'll all just go away and hunker down.

As the protest proceeded in the Capitol hallways, Cuomo and legislative leaders hunkered down behind closed doors just yards away in an effort to hash out their 2014 - 15 budget, due for completion April 1.

So little can survive there that scientists have wondered whether snippets of DNA found in the soil are just part of the desiccated skeletons of long - dead microbes or traces of hunkered - down but still living colonies.

Hunkering down 24 November 2014 Yes, it can make sense to stay in the same lab for graduate school — just don't get complacent!

Just before the weekend, the moon hunkers down in Capricorn for two - plus days, syncing up with serious Saturn on Friday.

And if serving does not appeal in any capacity, or you are in a place where you need to hunker down and just heal, please consider checking out the entire Little House on the Prairie series to read.

But in schools where there has not been much cultivation of leaders, there is often a hunkering down and just saying, «Well, there's leadership over [t] here and there's teaching over here.»

Most hunker down just hoping for the storm to pass.

Essentially, this is the overboosted, hunkered - down variant of the W12 - powered Flying Spur, a four - door that is just as comfortable making an appearance at a Hollywood film debut as it is hammering down the autobahn at triple - digit speeds.

And the instant you hunker down in the welcoming driver's seat it's crystal clear that Porsche's meticulousness with mechanistic performance has leeched into not just intuitive technology, but the way it's presented.

It sat atop beefy twenty - inch, five - spoke black rims wrapped in 255 - width Michelins and appeared hunkered down, ready for just about anything.

Not an army, or a gathering of many, as I'd learn was the case with his kind, but just one, one beastman like no other, separated from the rest of his kind, Keeyaw of the lank figure and mournful mustaches, low, groveling, hunkered over from the weight of his implements and the white, colorless beard that hung from his face in a way he had no control over.

She is in her 60s, well past the typical coming of age age, and yet it is at this moment in time — just when her own wind is blowing and she, like the landscape, is hunkering down — that she reinvents herself; finds herself anew.

All through that night into the gray light of dawn and on until the shadows disappeared in the midday sun, the three of them hunkered down in the living room, the old man sniveling and stuttering and saying things like Jesus, I wish I still had my gun, I ought to just go ahead and kill myself, and Mike — who would not even got into the garage, who point - blank refused — trying to force the reality of the situation into some less horrible shape.

If you're just starting out, the process of simply hunkering down to complete one traditional length book can feel like climbing a mountain.

Today when I put a cardboard box out by the bin to be recycled, just in a short time one of the semi-feral cats that hangs around my house for food will be hunkered down in the box.

These cannery operations were not much to look at, just a motley assortment of buildings hunkered down over a forest of pilings, and laced together by narrow boardwalks.