Sentences with phrase «of crack houses»

Before he became a habitué of crack houses, Dicky was himself a contender who fought memorably against Sugar Ray Leonard.

When Audrey later descends to junkie town, venturing down Seattle's mean alleys (actually, Vancouver's) to find the relapsed Jerry among the rude and ragged derelicts (the usually discreet score can't resist some threatening chords here), she tempts him out of a crack house by proffering chocolate bars and ice cream.

Coming across the young Chiron (Alex Hibbert) seeking refuge from school bullies in the boarded - up belly of a crack house, Juan takes the boy in and teaches him how to be proud and take hold of his destiny, despite pressing unkindness from all sides.

Not exact matches

The author, Catherine Jheon, recounted the «nightmare» renovation she and her husband undertook, sinking hundreds of thousands dollars into a «crack house» purchased almost on impulse, with seemingly little to no concern for the low - income tenants who were evicted in the process.

Case in point: In a 2005 in - house security test, a California credit union's IT team used a tool that cracked about 80 percent of employee passwords within 30 seconds.

Gamers are famous for so losing track of time and becoming so immersed that they forget to eat, sleep or go to work — just the same as a heroin addict camped in a crack house.

Late last month, the White House said it would crack down on that behavior, outlining a series of actions aimed at punishing China for its trade barriers.

«It's 2018 and I'm a woman, so you can not shut me up, unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $ 130,000,» she cracked at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents» Association on Saturday night.

With more than 1,000 Protestant house churches meeting in Moscow alone, cracking down to the letter of the law will not be easy.

He sees the idea of «safe injection rooms» as little better than crack houses.

Mosques are simply crack houses for dispensing the drugs of hate and horror from the passages in the koran that demand male Muslim control of the world by any method.

Dynamite blasts needed to splinter rock strata are so strong they crack the foundations and walls of houses.

science «It's a bit like learning the secrets of the family that lived in your house in the 1800s by examining dust particles they left behind in cracks in the floorboards»

Let's all start making Halloween crack a new tradition; since we all know that we will have bags of «candy corn» around the house with nothing to do with it.

I followed the Joy of Cooking recipe for peanut brittle using a large can of Planters, brought it to just under crack stage (I was running out of time and had to leave the house), so I poured it into a Pyrex dish and put it outside in the cold.

The omnibus spending bill just passed in the House directs the FDA to strengthen and enforce dairy standards of identity in a bid to crack down on plant - based «imitators,» claim milk producers.

The slightest crack or chip renders a clay target useless, and whole cases of clays are frequently damaged in shipping or handling before they ever reach the trap or skeet house.

Another friend here was in really awful pain with cracked nipples and everything and had a whole tin of vegan formula in the house but did not use it and continues to breastfeed her one year old to this day.

It is your job to wake up at the ass crack of dawn every day.ALWAYS crap your pants AFTER leaving the house.

Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).

Carolyn McLaughlin, the president of the Albany Common Council and the Albany County Democratic Committee chair, seconded the nomination by noting Schumer's work on behalf of Henry Johnson, a World War I veteran, and in cracking down on oil trains that run next to Albany's public housing.

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.housing for all New Yorkers.»

Ms. Gillibrand's potential problems stem from a number of positions she held while in the House, including her support of gun rights and for cracking down on so - called sanctuary cities like New York that do not enforce all immigration laws.

«Airbnb has flouted the laws that protect affordable housing for years, and now with new legislation to further crack down on the proliferation of illegal short - term rentals, I urge Governor Cuomo to send a strong message that New York prioritizes hard working New York families by signing this bill into law,» Van Bramer said.

Long Island Republican Rep. Peter King said he has signed on with the Obama administration's campaign to crack down on criminal and terrorist use of shell corporations and met today to discuss it with other lawmakers and national security officials in the White House Situation Room.

especially perhaps the 2nd line... and the line «Before we all go under»... Rows of houses, all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out This machine will, will not communicate These thoughts and the strain I am under Be a world child, form a circle Before we all go under And fade out again and fade out again Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see its beady eyes All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out again Immerse your soul in love IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE

The U.S. Senate voted 62 - 37 to confirm Kirstjen Nielsen as the secretary of homeland security, elevating a top White House aide and former agency official to oversee the department central to Trump's plan to crack down on illegal immigration and beef up border security.

Years of low investment in social housing, lack of regulation of the Private Rented Sector, and the insecurity of shorthold tenancies has created a system where those who are struggling can fall too easily through the cracks.

While PDP had taken all of sixteen years before Dr Ekwueme's «baby» (as he called the PDP in 1998) died of swallowing its own lies, the APC developed cracks right from the day the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives were elected by members of the National Assembly.

On December 8, 2011, opponents filed suit, alleging that the newly drawn state House map violated the Voting Rights Act and the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution by «targeting African - American incumbents for pairing, and «cracking» the Latino community of southwest Detroit.»

«This was particularly busy time — often with multiple events in a day — when the governor was negotiating a landmark end - of - session package in Albany to fight heroin addiction and breast cancer, crack down on zombie homes and release much - need money to build supportive housing for the homeless,» Azzopardi stated.

Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, signals cracks in the coalition as he tells Channel 4 News housing benefit cuts will not get through parliament.

Before Leadsom spoke, the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, put the onus on May and the other party leaders, rather than House of Commons authorities, to crack down on sexual harassment.

Trillium Health is one of the organizations involved, and its housing specialist, Javier Elias, says there are a number of homeless people in the region who have slipped through cracks in the system for various reasons.

These legislators blocked legislative approval for an initiative to crack down on dangerous illegal housing — much of it owned by Haredim.

The protesters the Observer spoke to proposed remedies ranging from the end of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton's «broken windows» strategy of cracking down on small quality of life violations to the complete abolition of the police force to the public seizure and conversion of derelict properties to housing for the homeless.

A new 2,100 - square - meter building outside Frankfurt, Germany, houses a series of chambers that can simulate a hot, humid day or temperatures so frigid that metals crack, and every punishing weather scenario in between.

Lentini was particularly struck by the presence of tiny cracks, or crazing, in the window glass in a dozen houses around the periphery, where the firemen had been able to reach with their hoses.

We had dinner at John Ellis's house and he cracked open a bottle of champagne.

Regardless of what any other designer is doing - this, at a time where the Vetements effect is a crack that's still spidering out to several design houses - Sarah Burton continues to do «McQueen», and the thing about that is, no matter what feels zeitgeist - y, it still works and it still feels up - to - the - minute relevant.

Since I didn't want to be finding glitter in every crack and crevice around the house for the next however many years, I decided that another layer of Mod Podge would be needed.

John Watson, whose wife Mary is now visibly pregnant, finds an unkempt Sherlock Holmes living in a crack house under the influence of drugs.

The man doing the evicting in these glimpses, though, is Dennis, who takes a job with Rick in order to try to get his house back (Garfield, whose performance is solid throughout, is especially strong in these scenes, with cracks of empathy showing in his attempts to maintain a veneer of cold - hearted professionalism).

While Glover plays with the house's bells and whistles inside and Jasmine texts away in her bedroom, Shaun is confronted outside by an intruder (Mark Furze), but when she fends him off, she runs to the backyard door of the house to discover her children are being held hostage by three more burglars, Eddie (Billy Burke), Sam (Levi Meaden) and Duncan (Richard Cabral), who came to crack open a safe that holds $ 4 million.

DJ - Kicks is essentially a peak - time mix of house and techno that would be devastating if played at any club, standing still and not cracking a smile would be basically impossible.

His travels take him to the house of the girl's and eventually to Hollywood where he must crack through the underbelly of the film industry and talk to some underground porn producers.

But instead, the Academy was won over by an intimate portrait of a young, gay black man in a poor Miami housing project whose mother (brilliantly played by Naomie Harris) is a crack addict.

The Accenture Gala is the European premiere of TRUMBO, directed by Jay Roach and starring Bryan Cranston in a cracking performance as Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947.

Street Dreams — which takes its name from one of the rapper's breakout songs — follows the story of a Nas - like figure as he navigates New York's Queensbridge housing projects, dealing crack to survive,...

Shifting focus to a different set of families each season, the show will expose the American Dream to be an illusion as it holds up a fun - house mirror to the cracks beneath a community's seemingly happy surface.