Sentences with phrase «of our small town when»

One of my favourite funny memories of time spent in Germany is of a moment in the square of a small town when a chant went up from among the layabouts that decorate these public spaces: «Johnson!

My parents took in two teenage boys from the inner city of our small town when I was in high school, taking our family of 7 to a family of 9.

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When I visited in late August, we stopped by the city's only health clinic, a small concrete building in the center of town.

When former CN Rail CEO Paul Tellier told his staff that making a profit was necessary for the future survival of the firm, Amernic and Craig castigate him for ignoring the impact rail service cuts would have on small Canadian towns.

When Stais's mother passed away, he left the clang and clatter of L.A. and moved to a small town in Minnesota.

Ross LeBlanc — who grew up watching her mother stay up late to bake cake for patrons of her small - town Ontario fabric store — knows when a customer feels taken care of, that customer comes back, and no expansion of the brand would be successful without setting exceptional service standards.

A good friend of mine owns a small rental property near this one and he often hires me to answer phones and show units when he is out of town.

Model Bakery, a longtime fixture of Napa's Main Street in St. Helena, went from small - town gem to international sensation last spring when Oprah Winfrey told People magazine that her biggest luxury is having their English muffins flown in.

John Robert «Johnny» Boone was arrested a few days before Christmas when information led authorities to a small town outside of Montreal.

Noah Ready - Campbell, who grew up in a small mountain town in Vermont, and Calvin Young, a Chinese immigrant whose family settled in the Virginia when he was 2 years old, both landed scholarship admission to boarding school (Philips Exeter and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, respectively).

They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

That accident left 47 people dead and released millions of litres of oil into the air, water and soil when the runaway train crashed in the small Quebec town.

My interest in the intersection of money and meaning was formalized when I studied abroad in Madagascar, living in a small town on the southeast part of the island called Fort Dauphin.

What happens when you clash the small town quirks of Portland, Maine with centuries of Italian Tradition?

Called The End Is Now [here's our review], it tells the story of the Henderson family and what happens when their small town becomes the test market for the rapture — the spiritual event in which some Christians believe they will be taken up to heaven prior to Christ's second coming.

When I left my young worship - leading job in small town Ohio, I chased the love of my life to Chicago.

The four guys from the small town of Possum Kingdom, South Carolina, got big buzz when their debut album, Daylight, dropped on Atlantic Records last year.

ISIS militants massacred more than 200 civilians, according to a disturbing report, when they raided the small, mostly Kurdish town of Kobani on the Syrian border late last week.

When I was growing up in a small town in western Pennsylvania, I saw the idea of the servant leader lived out.

It will be Garrison Keillor in reverse, and there will be — I feel the pangs already — those moments of bittersweet nostalgia when I recall, with a longing almost palpable, the small town life I left behind in Manhattan.

Destruction of the two cities — God seeks out Abraham to intercede on their behalf (this dialog speaks volumes to the nature of God's judgment); even when ten righteous are not found, he intentionally spares Lot's family, and then at Lot's request spares a small town that would otherwise have been destroyed.

Production of S - Town began when a man reached out to This American Life bitterly complaining about his small Alabama tTown began when a man reached out to This American Life bitterly complaining about his small Alabama towntown.

Updike is most lyrical when describing his youth in the small eastern Pennsylvania town of Shillington, poignantly evoking the people and the places which served as his defining presences.

When the heroine of I Am Charlotte Simmons» a smart, beautiful, small - town girl» sits down to write her mother a letter about freshman life in «Dupont University,» it takes her hours to produce a «long, well - intentioned lie.»

Santa Fe When I was a child growing up in a small town in southern Illinois, my parents once took me to the central part of the state to see the capitol building and Abraham Lincoln's home in Springfield.

One hundred years ago, when the great majority of Americans lived in small towns or on farms, solidarity was....

David N. with «What Unity Means When You Have No Other Choice» «In our rural small town of Greenville, Ohio we don't have the luxury of leaving a church when we don't agree with its teachings in favor of going to the trendier church across tWhen You Have No Other Choice» «In our rural small town of Greenville, Ohio we don't have the luxury of leaving a church when we don't agree with its teachings in favor of going to the trendier church across twhen we don't agree with its teachings in favor of going to the trendier church across town.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

They are not at home in America, but they wish to be, and they write about people who are nostalgic for a time when smaller - town values, continuity, tradition and a sense of duty and public virtue presumably colored common life.

When, to this diversity of cultural conditioning and the resulting bliks among Christians, there are added the secular assumptions of the small town, the aspirations of the younger generation, and the mobility of the people, the diversity is even more obvious.

It's unlikely that you'll visit the culinary and literary backwater I call home, or even the rural retail suburbia I think of when «going into town» but I do hope you manage to fit a few small towns in your tour, just the same.

When Jonathan Jarrow, founder of Harbinger Coffee moved home to Fort Collins from Chicago in 2011, the Coloradan city was «still stuck in its small - town vibes.»

Pool's fate was delivered in May when an SPC representative walked onto his farm, near the small town of Invergordon, and told him he was out.

I was in Sicily for my holidays recently, we stopped in a small town near Mt.Etna and when getting our necessary espressos the gentleman in the bar gave us a taste of his almond milk.

They wound up building their own small facility on the outskirts of town, and when you see these pictures of the ice down at Key Arena for T'Birds games, you quickly realize why:

Which small towns punch well above their weight when it comes to nurturing soccer stars, and which areas lag well behind the rest of the country when it comes to producing top - flight talent?

But conflict arises when small town sheriff with adequate midriff (Jackie Gleason) fears this will result in severe shortage of GSCs in the south.

>> The other aspect of competitive - equity divisions that has the potential to be the most messy is when a school with a massive enrollment advantage gets to play another with small town style enrollment in a state final.

«When Burnley were relegated there was a large body of opinion that felt that this small town club was finished a football power by the Clarets have taken them little time in proving them wrong by bring First Division football back to Turf Moor.

It celebrates a time when the small charming town became Punxsutawney, Pa. in the filming of the movie «Groundhog Day» starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell.

I'm hardly a rabid anti-corporate activist, but when Nestle showed up in my small northern California town and tried to intimidate legal opponents of its proposed water bottling plant by subpoenaing their private financial records, I started investigating the company, and what I saw was not very encouraging.

this time we have got very «smart» and along with our family GP of 24 years (my daughter was a year old when he arrived in our small town and we have all been together ever since) I am going to be the midwife.

The volunteer tradition runs deep in the district, going back to the 1930s and «40s, when the community was a small town in need of recreational activities.

We pick up organic and local fruits when we are in smaller towns that enjoy a lower cost of living than our big city home town.

Saying that he is a «big believer in committees,» Zatz encouraged the reconstituted Town Board to be proactive about breaking itself down into smaller working groups to address specific tasks as needed, and also urged its members old and new not to get bogged down in endless rehashing of issues when consensus is not possible.

The hearing, «When Wal - Mart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and Communities: A Historical and Prospective View,» to take place Wednesday, was scheduled amid buzz of a Walmart opening within the five boroughs, possibly in Manhattan.

The worlds of fashion, media and policing collided this week at the Pierre, when LA - based real estate billionaire Rick Caruso, in town for the WWD CEO Summit, hosted a small reception for Bill Bratton.

When I started university I couldn't speak a word of English, coming from a small French - speaking town.»

In 1952, when her husband became head of the pharmacology department at the University of South Dakota, the family (which now included two young daughters) moved to the small college town of Vermillion in the southeast corner of the state.

When the first busloads of migrants from Syria and Iraq rolled into Germany 2 years ago, some small towns were overwhelmed.