Sentences with phrase «lifeboats for»

When the legislative limit on new charter - school openings arrives, New York's next mayor will have to lobby the Albany legislature hard for permission to expand these lifeboats for the city's poorest kids.

& # 9660 Enbridge Canada's largest oil pipeline company sailed through the recession like a lifeboat for scared investors as it kept hiking its profits and dividends.

sleep training can be a lifeboat for some as a tool to help get you through it.

«The government is seeing this as part of school improvement rather than a lifeboat for a few bright children,» said development director Tim Emmett.

No kidding and Hillary was more like an anchor instead of a lifeboat for those swimming around her.

Mesophotic coral ecosystems — A lifeboat for coral reefs?

Obama now wants NASA to develop a stripped - down version of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle — which was part of Constellation — as a lifeboat for the international space station.

He also named a lifeboat for his biggest donor.

One of director Alfred Hitchcock's (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) more experimental films puts all of the action within the confines of a lifeboat for the duration, becoming what some claim is the smallest set ever used for a major motion picture release.

It is a lifeboat for kids who don't fit into their public school system.

«This (scholarship) program is not a lifeboat for Catholic schools.

It didn't happen when Amazon launched KDP, if anything, that was a lifeboat for authors (more channels are always better).

We can't say we think much of the name, but Hearst Corporation's new Skiff electronic content distribution service will likely be seen as a lifeboat for beleaguered publishers.

There's enough room in the lifeboat for all animals.

We're going to do our best to support our games and sail with them into this bright new 64 - bit future, but unfortunately there's not enough room on the lifeboat for everyone, and some of our apps are destined to sink into the briny depths of oblivion.

The real reason I feel it necessary to write about him (and a lot of my Dot Earth commentators and a heap of angry scientists thought I shouldn't have) is that he's been kind of an intellectual lifeboat for a lot of doubtful, disengaged or disinformed people out there.

I care not for how I am judged — I'm quitting the debate after what I learned at AGU and heading off to build my lifeboat for my family — but such fast and loose reporting can seriously damage the reputation of AGU, as can easily be seen my Mr. Mosher's quick, opportunistic, and sickly calculated disinformation displayed by his posting of my face with the caption of «The new AGU» by it.

Not exact matches

The Manhattan Yellow Pages, for instance, still lists Lifeboat Associates under «Marine Equipment & Supplies.»

I'd jumped the evangelical ship, the said, for nothing but a capsizing lifeboat.

I suggested that perhaps the lifeboats on the Titanic point to a more general sense that the stronger in a dangerous situation are morally compelled to protect the weaker in a dangerous situation, and that mothers can be awfully protective of their children after all, and that a man who (for whatever reason) might be weaker than a woman in a given situation should not feel like less of a man if she protects him.

Responding to Garrett Hardin's «lifeboat ethics,» for instance, such people would say it is better to take everyone on board and to let the boat sink rather than for those in the lifeboat to dehumanize themselves by keeping others out.

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

Taylor survived the dunking by donning an Abercombie & Fitch duck - hunting suit that he had bought to meet just such an emergency and, except for the fact that the damn zipper snagged, he passed a comfortable 12 hours adrift in a lifeboat before being rescued by a passing freighter.

Even if your baby is clinging to your breast like it's the last lifeboat off a sinking ship, wailing for another nursing session and, over-all, making you feel like total crap about weaning, know that your decision to wean, even if the only reason is «I really don't want to nurse anymore, I'm done» is still the best decision.

My leaving my husband was not retribution for any fault of his, but rather — and I believe this in every core of my being — that we each have the right to choose what ships to go down with versus when to get into a lifeboat and save ourselves emotionally.

«We would be at sea in a lifeboat with no food, no water and no land in sight,» said one veteran Democratic operative who has worked on presidential campaigns, and who, like most people interviewed for this story, asked for anonymity to speak candidly about the former first lady.

Militant communists saw this as their lifeboat and future base for violent action.

At the moment the coalition is floating in Darling's stimulus lifeboat - when the cuts really bite in the autumn and the private sector doesn't deliver the 2.7 M new jobs, the 300 Bn of new investment and incrase exports by a third whilst unemploment heads for 5m, LibDem MPs will see the writing on the wall and feel the ire of their constituents and party members.

For a collection of articles from 1912 on the Titanic disaster, including editorials, an overview of the ship and safety issues, a plan for carrying more lifeboats, and the science of icebergs, see www.ScientificAmerican.com/apr2012 / titaFor a collection of articles from 1912 on the Titanic disaster, including editorials, an overview of the ship and safety issues, a plan for carrying more lifeboats, and the science of icebergs, see www.ScientificAmerican.com/apr2012 / titafor carrying more lifeboats, and the science of icebergs, see www.ScientificAmerican.com/apr2012 / titanic

The technical methods for cramming enough lifeboats on a ship to save every soul on board were fairly easy to conceive.

I was on another ship and we were the first to arrive and witness both the passengers who float [ing] in their lifeboats and then the sinking of this 40 - year - old ship, which gave everyone caution because, of course, it suggests that, you know, there but for the grace of someone go I.

But the main reason for dispensing with lifeboats may have been to provide plenty of room for luxurious sundecks and sumptuous parlors for the pleasure of the well - to - do passengers.

Early designs for the Titanic did in fact call for 64 lifeboats, but by the time the ship was launched, the company had whittled that complement down to 20.

Furthermore, the lifeboats that got away stayed away until after the ship had filled with enough water for her stern to soar into the heavens and the hull to split into two gigantic pieces before plunging two miles down to the ocean floor.

The deck crew was told to prepare to swing out the lifeboats; the doctor was told to alert all his staff; and the chefs were told to make a large batch of hot soup for the frozen passengers.

Other distinguished passengers included President William Howard Taft's military attaché Archibald Butt; Mr. and Mrs. John B. Thayer, a senior vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and their teenage son Jack; and Mrs. Margaret Brown of Denver, Colo., who was to gain fame as the Unsinkable Molly Brown for taking command of a lifeboat.

Complicating matters was that none of the passengers had yet practiced lifeboat drills, which were scheduled for the next morning during the first full day at sea.

Just 45 minutes later it was listing at an angle too steep for lifeboats to be lowered from its port side.

«Status has its obvious rewards in a modern, stratified society — if you were on the sinking Titanic in 1912 and you were high status, then it was more likely there was a place for you on one of the lifeboats,» said Michael Gurven, professor of anthropology at UCSB and senior author of the paper.

Soyuz also serves as the only «lifeboat» for the ISS crews to return them to Earth in an emergency.

NASA will be dependent on Soyuz for some years to come, however, and will need another waiver from the Iran - North Korea - Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA) to buy crew transportation and lifeboat services from Russia after mid-2016.

When you're really eager to get out of a bad situation, it can be tempting to jump for the first lifeboat you see.

The comfy Lifeboat Tee is boxy and fabulous, a perfect top over the M'leggings, one of our favorite pieces for layering.

Cronyn would remain beholden to Hitchcock for the rest of his career: He acted in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) and worked several times thereafter on the director's TV series; he adapted the stage play Rope and the novel Under Capricorn for Hitchcock's filmizations; and he sprang to the late director's defense when a dubious biography of Hitchcock was published in the mid-1980s.

Three of his nominations came for movies that leaned toward the conventional — David O. Selznick's gothic woman's movie «Rebecca,» psychological drama «Spellbound,» and big - star ensemble «Lifeboat.»

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The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

But when things don't go as planned for the desperate hijackers, Muse takes Phillips hostage and escapes on the ship's lifeboat, leading to a tense standoff between the Somali pirates and the U.S. Navy.

Though a classic by today's standards, and one of Hitchcock's many great films, at the time of its release Lifeboat suffered its share of controversy, primarily for making the Nazi a somewhat likeable character.

Years later, when an earthquake ruins their home and kills the male, the grandson of the bears leaves for London in a lifeboat on a cargo boat with nothing but a hat and a can - do attitude and what can only be described as a shit - ton of marmalade, seeking asylum in the house of any Londoners who might take him in.