Sentences with phrase «on a whim in»

Few people will imagine buying Necker Island on a whim in their twenties like the Virgin boss did, but most of us can picture buying a van or investing in property.

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes:: I picked this one up on a whim in the library and I'm so glad I did.

I am amazed that the little food blog I started on a whim in September of 2008 has survived (and thrived!)

I decided to make them on a whim in December so obviously didn't have any heart sprinkles on hand, nor did any of the local stores I checked.

Two: Nuby Teethe - eez The Teethe - eez was one of the first teethers we picked up on a whim in Target.

Her line started on a whim in late 2012

Mr Clegg said: «I do not believe that, just on a whim in a leadership contest, one should abandon the idea that Britain should play a role not only in disarming itself but disarming the world.»

I would go out and spend money on a whim in the hope that it would give me a buzz, make me feel a bit more alive inside.

I ordered these on a whim in the Bordeaux color when there was a sale even though I didn't really «need» them.

I grabbed this top on a whim in Vegas after seeing a girl in the changing room in it.

I own my own home and have the ability to make changes on a whim in any way I desire.

I was devouring all of the shelter magazines and reading other design blogs and I really just wanted a creative outlet to share my own options about the things I loved, so I started the blog on a whim in January of 2008.

This Federation has been touched by the events of the first film and seems willing to surrender its principles on a whim in exchange for feigned safety.

Character agendas have to change on a whim in service of franchise building.

Nothing is as it seems in Layers of Fear: Legacy - the environment changes on a whim in real time, making you afraid of every dark corner, each dimly lit corridor or even turning back.

The ongoing project — Photographs Rendered in Play - Doh — began on a whim in 2013 and quickly became an internet smash as Macnair shared her plasticine portrayals on social media.

It was taken during a reconnaissance trip that we made on a whim in advance of submitting the proposal.

Blogging seemed so much simpler when I started mine on a whim in 2008.

Homeowners Jim and Lauren Wolf (he's a city planner, historian and author; she's the executive director of a not - for - profit organization) purchased the 700 - square - foot space on a whim in 2005, and for the next 10 years, the New Westminster, B.C., couple spent vacations lovingly updating and expanding the cabin to suit their family, which includes 16 - year - old son Griffin, Felix the Jack Russell terrier and Loonie, «a fat and fussy ginger tomcat.»

Especially those of you like me who love so many different things and head off on a whim in all directions.

Not exact matches

«This decision wasn't made on a whim,» Nest co-founder and chief executive Tony Fadell wrote in a separate blog post.

In a 1942 issue of Vogue, a columnist wrote: «Weddings nowadays hang not on the bride's whim, but on the decision of the grooms commanding officer.

But she applied on a whim to Facebook's FB University for Business program in 2015 after a recruiter visited her school.

«This decision wasn't made on a whim — Google has been in the mix in some way or another for about three years of our almost four - year history,» Fadell explains in a blog post.

In a letter published on the eve of Google's IPO, the company explained the phrase to mean its search results were «unbiased and objective,» not subject to influence by advertisers or the whims of Google's own engineers.

In order to have true financial security, the numbers on your statements must be locked in and not subject to the whims of the market or economIn order to have true financial security, the numbers on your statements must be locked in and not subject to the whims of the market or economin and not subject to the whims of the market or economy.

Alston and Hallie Lomax had taken computer science classes on a whim and fallen in love with the subject.

In a similar vein to the point above, nothing is more disastrous for a conversion rate optimization plan than deviating from it on a whim.

Trump is a man prone to emotional outbursts with little knowledge about public policy issues; it was easy to spin worst - case scenarios in which he might put the country in danger on a whim.

«Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy,» Justice William O. Douglas wrote.171 Decentralizing this power would ensure that «the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice, the political prejudice, the emotional stability of a few self - appointed men.»

With our system, you don't have to worry about the whims of a single individual or that they'll wake up in a bad mood and decide to sell everything in your account because they're panicked over something they saw on TV.

Physical pleasure is fleeting, but even a lifetime of cheesecakes and other pleasures don't measure up to the long - term, rich and complex emotional reward of something I work for, like muscle definition on my abs, or being able to swim across the Hudson River on a whim, or to come in second in a footrace for the fun of it.

Somehow this is akin to the culture in many companies where you have a new program every quarter based on the whims of the Chief Executive.

Basically the fact that we are living on a celestial ant - farm, subject to the whims of a capricious, celestial dictator, seems to take all of the fun out of aspiring to do more in life.

But you see, in forming the question # 4 to David, the artist didn't have permission, but drew on the wall at his / her whim.

Something has to give, preferably before every business in the country is sued into oblivion for failing to cater to every single individual whim on the planet.

On a whim, I picked out a little red maple leaf, surrounded by the words «Made in Canada» and walked...

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

On a whim, I picked out a little red maple leaf, surrounded by the words «Made in Canada» and an...

My dear, read for your self and before you throw such statements, attempt to tackle the points I made throughout this form on merit basis, not whims and desires (or ignorance as is the case in your comment).

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro Carambula, the director of the Rome office of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews «that the banning of bullfighting in Spain... even as [the government promotes] abortion, represents a triumph of newly invented moral values based on arbitrary «progressive» whims and social fads.»

Every American is implicated in the environmental crisis — there are plenty of other indulgences we could point at in our own lives, from living in oversized houses to boarding jets on a whim.

In my personal experience in «churches» of which I have been a part, however, values and mission have been almost obliterated by the focus on money, property, staff, pandering to the whims of those who give the money, catering to those in power in the organization and so oIn my personal experience in «churches» of which I have been a part, however, values and mission have been almost obliterated by the focus on money, property, staff, pandering to the whims of those who give the money, catering to those in power in the organization and so oin «churches» of which I have been a part, however, values and mission have been almost obliterated by the focus on money, property, staff, pandering to the whims of those who give the money, catering to those in power in the organization and so oin power in the organization and so oin the organization and so on.

Fingers being cut off for offenses and people being tortured or imprisoned on the whims of others can be a way of life in war - torn countries that are governed by various opposing leaders of the Islamic faith.

That flesh with which I had lain in comradely embrace [was] destroyable, on such short notice, by a whim known as divine?

Major decisions in Persia are made not after prayer and fasting, but on whims, in response to petty personal sleights, by the of casting lots.

On a whim, I turned on Andrew Peterson's song «Dancing in the Minefields» and, without words, we turned to each other, held on and danceOn a whim, I turned on Andrew Peterson's song «Dancing in the Minefields» and, without words, we turned to each other, held on and danceon Andrew Peterson's song «Dancing in the Minefields» and, without words, we turned to each other, held on and danceon and danced.

As transhumanism becomes more prevalent, as the sexual revolution identifies more perversions as «rights,» as technocracy overtakes ethical reasoning and truth is more frequently confused with power, believers will find themselves ever more frequently in the position of explaining that some realities are not contingent on the prevailing ethos of culture, or on our judgments, or on the fleeting whims of self - definition.

On a whim, I picked out a little red maple leaf, surrounded by the words «Made in Canada» and an hour later, I walked out with my then - nationalism inked on my hiOn a whim, I picked out a little red maple leaf, surrounded by the words «Made in Canada» and an hour later, I walked out with my then - nationalism inked on my hion my hip.

But on a whim, last Easter, we showed up and somehow I kept showing up and God kept showing up and now it sort of feels like a miracle, like something sacred has happened in my life.