Sentences with phrase «nearly ended my life»

I hit rock bottom and nearly ended my life that night.

Having already suffered the crippling effects of polio, Kahlo sustains further injuries when a city bus accident nearly ends her life.

He can't forget the days that nearly ended his life, but somehow they took others instead.

However, his luck came to an end after he swallowed a wooden BBQ skewer, which disappeared in his body and nearly ended his life more than a year later.

Curtis» knack for snacking landed him in serious trouble after he swallowed a wooden BBQ skewer, which disappeared in his body and nearly ended his life more than a year later.

She started cooking up homemade dog dishes for her canine companion, Fenway, after he suffered an illness that nearly ended his life.

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He was a well - oiled machine that simply thought nothing bad could ever happen to him and for 15 years nothing did!This pro was in for the shock of his life when one day he took a few shortcuts and caused a massive explosion nearly ending his own life.

If I wasted all that time on all that stuff I wouldn't have accomplished nearly as much in my career, I would never have ended up as successful as I have, and my life wouldn't have been so fulfilling.

By the end of the semester, he'd raised another $ 5 million and was standing in front of the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, promising a world in which education was nearly free, available to poor people in the developing world, and better than anything that had come before it.

Borrower «A» (who used a 30 - year mortgage loan) ended up paying nearly three times as much in total interest over the life of the loan.

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

By comparison, nearly 20 percent of women born in the late 1950s are reaching the end of their reproductive lives without having had children.

She was a stay - at - home mother who launched a full - time career as a political activist and public speaker from nearly the day her first child was born, doing a neat end - run around the feminists who claimed to have invented the idea that a married woman could have a professional life.

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental concatenations of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can presume an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

A substantial life's work of Jeff and Kerrie Etheridge was dispersed to the far ends of the continent on Saturday, with nearly 200 Limousin females, 91 progeny and five bulls selling to a top price of $ 18,000 — twice.

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

This is the extremely paranoid world of «bat doctoring,» the dark and ridiculous subsection of one of our nation's most tame neighborhood sports, where some players spend upwards of four figures and literally risk lives to hit a ball kinda far and maybe, just maybe... win a cheap plastic trophy or nearly - unwearable T - shirt at the end of the season.

Imagine: Somewhere in the vast Pacific Ocean is eight square miles of volcanic ash where nearly 29,000 lives ended in just 36 days.

I dressed George in his material comfortable tracksuit which seems the obvious choice if you are in a play area but no no... my poor little child had the shock of his life as he went down his first big slide at record speed and very nearly ended up in the ball pool across the way.

We used to resist because occasionally a toy would get lost and that was (very nearly) the end of life as we knew it.

The Trump administration says it will end the temporary protected status that has allowed some 200,000 natives of El Salvador to live in the U.S. without fear of deportation for nearly 17 years.

It has been nearly three years since Kalief Browder tragically ended his own life after being caged, abused, and tortured on Rikers Island.

Trump's decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act helps fulfill a campaign promise, but it also risks harming some of the very people who helped him win the presidency, as nearly 70 percent of those benefiting from the so - called cost - sharing subsidies live in states he won last November.

«Nearly half of California nursing home residents complete end - of - life care orders: Grassroots outreach has helped to bring attention to the form, but a new study finds room for improvement.»

The end - Permian «mother of all mass extinctions» 252 million years ago nearly obliterated all complex life, while the extinction at the close of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago is famous because it wiped out all dinosaurs, apart from birds.

A survey at the end of this May showed nearly 400 crocs living in the park's gorge, down from at least 1,000 in 2008.

Science has not played nearly as prominent a role as it should in informing debates over the labeling of genetically modified foods, end of life care and energy policy, among many issues.

In the end the lifeboats of the Titanic left the ship with nearly 500 fewer lives than they could have saved.

NIH should retire most of the nearly 700 chimps it supports, end many research projects, and make sure that chimps still being studied are kept in proper living conditions, the panel's report says.

After nearly four years mapping the «hidden universe,» the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space has reached the end of its life, European Space Agency officials say.

According to UNAids, nearly 37 million people worldwide were living with HIV / AIDS at the end of 2016 so this potential breakthrough is promising.

On Sept. 15, the probe — which is nearly out of fuel — will end its life by plunging intentionally into Saturn's thick atmosphere.

It is likely that Paleolithic (the old stone age which began 2.6 million years ago and ended 10000 — 12000 y ago) or Holocene (10000 y ago to the present) hunter - gatherers living in coastal areas may have dipped food in seawater or used dried seawater salt in a manner similar to nearly all Polynesian societies at the time of European contact (53).

Even though planning and prep has taken over my life for nearly the past year and I bring it up every 5 seconds here, it hasn't really dawned on me that at the end of it I'm going to be going through my own wedding day.

Hustling never ends, in order to achieve success you have to bust your ass to get there... nothing in life is handed to you + if it is well I can assure you the experience isn't nearly as thrilling.

Unlike Kanye's high - end Yeezy line, which offers holey sweatshirts for nearly $ 3000 and cut - off terry shorts for over $ 400, the Life of Pablo buys are much more approachable in price.

Firmly in the «so bad it's good» category, this very bizarre film which was completed posthumously after Stanley Kubrick died and nearly killed off the careers of both Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, as well as spelling the end of their real life marriage.

Bruce Greenwood stars and is nearly unrecognizable as the caravan's undependable guide, Stephen Meek; and Michelle Williams is excellent once again in the role of Emily Tetherow, a lady who questions Meek's decision making and sees the advantages in being kind to their Native captive in offering food and assistance, when other members of their band would much prefer to end his life.

(Calif.) Approximately 44,000 school aged children in California will no longer be living in households considered low - income, according to the latest U.S. Census data, reflecting a positive shift since the recession ended nearly six years ago.

Combined with the 200 MB of free data you already automatically get every month with T - Mobile's previously announced «Free Data for Life» offer that comes to nearly 1.2 GB of free 4G LTE data every month through the end of 2014.

By the end of the first quarter of 2013, we'll be touching the lives of nearly 10,000 children across 32 schools and libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa, plus have 500,000 people a month reading on our mobile phone app.»

In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7

The war had ended nearly eight hundred years ago and life had gone on.

The novel spans nearly her entire life, through child - rearing, ruined marriages and many deaths, leading to an open - ended conclusion, as though to suggest the story of Puerto Rico has just begun.

The thought behind this is that once your term ends, your children are grown, your mortgage may be nearly paid off, and you're not far from retirement, so life insurance coverage is no longer a necessity.

Borrower «A» (who used a 30 - year mortgage loan) ended up paying nearly three times as much in total interest over the life of the loan.

The American Cancer Society combines an unyielding passion with nearly a century of experience to save lives and end suffering from cancer.

The Ohio SPCA Response Team ended with nearly 200 animals being freed from horrendous conditions that were far from life - sustaining.

This cycle recently ended for nearly 100 dogs living on a puppy mill in Tennessee thanks to the hard work of Animal Rescue Corps (ARC).