Sentences with phrase «live in abandoned buildings»

They live in abandoned buildings and in the mines and in a Smoke and Flame Factory, which you will recall from my Little Movie Glossary is a factory - like location of uncertain purpose which generates a lot of smoke and flames.

One old lady who lived in an abandoned building actually had toenails that were 12 inches long and an inch thick, supposedly they are still part of a museum exhibit.

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«I lived in an abandoned building in lower Manhattan.

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If one has built a career, a home and family in a given community, the real world cost of outwardly contradicting the behavioural patterns of that community is too high for those unwilling to abandon not just the supernatural tenets and reliigious rites, but everything they've built in their lives up to that point.

Too many of the most favored and powerful have abandoned the Puritan ideal of the «city built on a hill» (language to which Ronald Reagan once appealed) and aspire to living in a mansion behind walls, where they can act out the anarchic fantasy of doing what pleases them.

I saw in all this, as people abandoned a dying building for a new and living one, as they established a new place for themselves and their children, a symbol of resurrection.

Once you can convince someone that you are the sole holder of the God's truth then it is easy to get them to sell all their belongings, abandon their families, participate in a jihad, a crusade, an inquisition, wipe out all the Philistine men, women and children, commit polygamy, refuse life saving blood transfusions, fly into buildings, relegate women to broodmare status, etc..

Wheatfield Town Supervisor Bob Cliffe said: «This grant will be a big help in bringing several manufacturing jobs here to Wheatfield, giving a jump start to Jacobs Ladder and bringing life back to an otherwise abandoned building.

As Councilman Ellis pushed plans and initiatives to deal with abandoned buildings, address lack of diversity in the fire department, and create public access TV, and introduced a measure requiring city department heads to live in the city.

The Metropolitan police say that most buildings that squatters live in have been abandoned or are otherwise empty, but still such sensible actions, to use an empty usually industrial building to sleep in, are deemed criminal.

That order came as cops in Brooklyn broke up an encampment of about a dozen people living in front of an abandoned building.

And how is your property going to benefit from an abandoned building nearby, which is likely to be vandalized, suffer graffiti, and all manner of defacement the longer it sits vacant because the minority decided to be bully obstructionists and live in some kind of retro delusion??!! Pfff.

After all, with lives on the line, Cohen acknowledged, pressure could quickly build to abandon an abstract policy, especially if it didn't have buy - in from patients.

► Several scenes show a rural area in which homes, schools and a factory appear bombed out; we see broken bricks, debris and thick dust and all buildings appear abandoned, except a farmhouse where a young woman lives alone.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Wanting to join the priesthood, but not having much religious faith, I abandoned the idea, destining myself to live on the secular fringes of what was considered at the time the normal world (where the men no longer were required to wear fedoras, but where sterile office cubicles in some cold stone building became the bleak destiny of so many of my contemporaries).

Children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations or similar settings.

So to prove to him that there is a meaning to life, they set out to build a heap of meaning in an abandoned sawmill.

Although it may seem like these lives are somehow simple and serene, she shows that they are plagued with the same worries that keep all of us up at night - the safety and well - being of our families, the desire for self - fulfillment and, on a larger scale, the impact we have on our environment... Further, Badkhen is fully willing to do hard work - she blisters her hands pulling nets, bakes in the sun while helping to build a boat and expends emotional energy consoling abandoned wives in the community; clearly she is not afraid to fully immerse herself.

The good news is that the number of homeless veterans has fallen by nearly 35 % since 2009, and the number of «unsheltered homeless» (those living in the streets, cars, abandoned buildings, etc.) has declined by 57 percent.

Many of the cats live under or in abandoned / foreclosed buildings and continue to breed year round due to the warm South Florida weather.

While the rest of us will most likely spend the apocalypse cowering in an abandoned supermarket clutching onto our last tin of beans for dear life, he'll be out building a hospital out of corrugated iron, simultaneously killing zombies in the face.

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).

An artist with two urban planning degrees, he transforms abandoned buildings into cultural spaces in Omaha, St. Louis and Chicago, where he lives and works.

She creates the figures life - size using acrylics and aerosol on paper, then pasting the figures onto billboards or in suitable places including abandoned buildings, doorways, under a bridge or in the subway, creating a new context and history for the characters before they eventually disappear and are forgotten again.

However, staged in the Treme Market Branch — a vandalized, abandoned bank building in the Treme neighborhood — Simmons's «Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark» is an interactive sculpture involving live music performances by professionals (such as the rapper Beans, who will inaugurate the work on Oct. 25) and amateurs alike.

He lives in a building that we continually abandon; the building is uninhabited»

Why did she abandon the cushy SVP role she'd built for herself running a $ 50 million division that she'd created from scratch in favor of starting her own company, Sustainable Life Media, in 2006?

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

Though I live in a flat without a roof, I subscribed to 7,5 M2 of solar panels they're building on an abandoned site.

Homeless is defined as: an individual who is living outdoors, on the street, in an abandoned / condemned building, or in a shelter that provides temporary living accommodations.

Near where I live, it's easy to find abandoned buildings in the mountains or the National Park.

Abandoned and unused buildings also have an adverse effect on quality of life for people in the area.