Sentences with phrase «often walk a mile»

Goff grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he would often walk a mile and a half to his grandmother Mary's home.

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By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN (CNN)-- In religious studies courses, professors often try to get their students to see the world through Hindu eyes or to walk a few miles in the shoes of a Confucian.

Often, people of faith write off atheists as amoral misguided fools.This man on the other hand seems to be taking to heart the idea of walking a mile in their shoes.

At age 60, Rupp decided to walk 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago with an older friend, a retired priest (though they often ended up taking a bus).

What did it matter that often the believers had to walk ten miles each Sabbath?

@arsenal207 what does that have to do with anything wether or not fans go to the Emirates, I do but not often, but most of Arsenal supporters around the world don't have the privileged that we have in UK, I have read here in the past Arsenal supporters walking or traveling tens of miles to their nearest cafe to watch arsenal match on TV they walked in the midday sun in places like Central Africa, so are you suggesting they are not true supporters and have no right to comment??? And what of those supporters who pay shi!t loads of cable fees to watch their team, I say they are.

After matches there is often no public transport, while taxis refuse to travel to potential flashpoint areas, leaving match - going fans to walk miles to their accommodation in the dark.

Whether it's farmers or fishers suddenly being able to call around and shop around for the best prices for their crop or catch, or the ability of a rural laborer to avoid walking miles in (often fruitless) searches for available jobs, or the possibility, in some countries, to actually use phones as mobile bank accounts, the devices have proved useful in an astonishing number of ways.

After crossing the border, they sometimes walk 70 miles or more to reach a safe point of entry, often traveling without water and in temperatures that can reach 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

This is why hiking is often listed in calorie calculators as burning many more calories per mile than walking.

We have found the Indians very faithful in their covenant of peace with us; very loving and ready to pleasure us: we often go to them, and they come to us; some of us have been fifty miles by land in the country with them; the occasions and relations whereof you shall understand by our general and more full declaration of such things as are worth the noting, yea, it hath pleased God so to possess the Indians with a fear of us, and love unto us, that not only the greatest king amongst them called Massasoit, but also all the princes and peoples round about us, have either made suit unto us, or been glad of any occasion to make peace with us,... so that there is now great peace amongst the Indians themselves, which was not formerly, neither would have been but for us; and we for our parts walk as peaceably and safely in the wood, as in the highways in England, we entertain them familiarly in our houses, and they as friendly bestowing their venison on us.

In Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, the GirlUp nonprofit discovered that a huge barrier for girls going to school was the commute — often a 20 - mile walk round trip.

The esteemed academic, currently serving as president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, is flooded with memories of hot summer days walking the long miles between the school and his home (often barefoot to save his shoes), of early classroom lessons taught by a strict but caring teacher, of his beloved family members who reside here in great number.

Walking and biking provide critical first and last mile connections to transit, and are often relied upon as a primary mode of travel — particularly among those without access to cars, including many youth and low income individuals.

When we were on our firsts «2 Dogs 2,000 mile walk» from Austin to Boston I got asked often about why we didn't start on The West Coast since it's renown for its love of animals.

«Too often, attendees don't realize that while they might have a plan for who they want to see, if one exhibitor is in the 200 aisle, and another is in the 3000 aisle, they may have a half - mile or more of walking to do between those two booths.»

Dropped off at promising locations, the teams fanned out, walking, often running, several miles every day — dodging occasional charging bulls — to chase down dogs on flooded narrow lanes where hundreds of people and livestock live side by side.

We also walked for miles and miles along the endless, often empty, stretch of coral - white sand beach.

Maybe it has to do with starting our mornings with a 4 - mile walk around Wailea that often includes seeing a whale or two?

On excursions marked Moderate we often walked over 3 miles and did not have access to elevators except in rare exceptions.

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Holyrood Park, often called also the Queen's Park or King's Park is a 640 - acre royal park adjacent to Holyrood Palace, the royal residence in Edinburgh, and is located at about one mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle and in a few minutes» walk from Edinburgh Old Town.

Often called the «Caye (Island) You Can Walk To,» Placencia is connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land less than half a mile across but has more than 16 miles of golden sand beaches along the Caribbean.

Often called the caye (island) you can walk to, the peninsula is just half a mile wide but stretches 16 miles from north to south.

Unfortunately, with these allies comes one of The Last of Us» few drawbacks: The friendly AI isn't always reliable, and you'll often find that you're walking a mile ahead of your partners, as they've wandered behind or got stuck after a hectic encounter.

Where nearby water sources are lacking, children often have to walk several miles to fetch water for their families — leaving little time to attend school.

When I first saw Steve's checklist of walkable urbanism, I thought it was flawed because different people will walk different distances; my accountant is two miles away but I often walk it.