Sentences with phrase «on the hill»

One tweet later, one policy later, a complete reversal of what many of us on the Hill were told before the confirmation.»

Some folks on the Hill are calling on the SEC to take action.

President Trump has alienated most of the Republican mainstream, including the powerful GOP leaders on the Hill who collectively have a lot of experience with campaigns and elections and, in most cases, are more popular in their districts than is Trump himself.

To illustrate how commonplace this «cohabitation» is, Ambinder estimates that one - third of all married congressmen who have been on the Hill for over six years have had an affair.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is adamant that Congress should be held to «high standards» and set an example for the rest of the country in how women are treated in the workplace amid a flood of recent allegations of sexual harassment both on the Hill and across the country.

Rascoff: I still remember we were in this high - rise at 2 Union St., in downtown Seattle, and we're looking at Queen Anne, which is this neighborhood on a hill that looks at downtown on one side and Puget Sound on the other.

Among the small houses on a hill in Caracas, Venezuela, the massive Helicoide looks otherworldly — or, at the very least, out of place.

That has caused many condo owners, who might fill their beds only 20 % or 30 % of the time, to pull their units out of the rental pool — which has reduced the availability of accommodations, along with booking and property management business and visitor traffic on the hills and in the village.

Usually, schemes make use of a reservoir on a hill and another in a valley.

The house itself, meanwhile, was situated on a hill amid Portland's lush forests.

She's forgone flood insurance, because her home is on a hill and a mile away from the beach, she says.

Facebook shareholder Stephanie Link says she's looking to add to her Facebook position if the social - media giant falls following Zuckerberg's appearance on the Hill.

Werner told CNBC in a direct message on Twitter that her costume was definitely drawing attention on the Hill, where a police officer told her to remove her headscarf.

Sir Winston Churchill didn't just ask his countrymen to battle the Germans, he exhorted them to «fight them on the beaches... [and] fight them on the landing grounds...» Ronald Reagan was a master of this tactic too from his «Shining City on a Hill» to the Berlin Wall.

In cycling, I always thought I was better suited to climbing than riding hard on the flats or sprinting, but that's just because I liked to train on hills and mountains.

New features in the vehicles being tested in San Francisco include the ability to drive on hills, change lanes and share the road with bicycles.

Uber's self - driving cars will be tested on the hills of San Francisco on Wednesday, the company announced.

During the standoff, crowds gathered on a hill a few miles away from Mount Carmel to see what was happening.

Given that our esteemed lawmakers can't seem to agree on anything these days, the entrepreneurship organization is a long way from being able to guarantee that such a measure will ever pass, but on the Hill's Congressional Blog recently, Kauffman's policy director Jason Wiens and Dane Stangler, the organization's vice president of research and policy, did make a strong case regarding why it should.

Snowboarders download tips on how to pull off the latest moves on the hill.

Perched on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Pepperdine's picturesque campus is home to five graduate schools, two of which offer dynamic undergraduate programs: Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and the Graziadio School of Business and Management.

Goodman, whose 1998 The Mansion on the Hill is one of the definitive books on the pre-Napster music industry, recounts Edgar's rise through the ranks of the family business and his all - in bet on the music business just in time for its business model to be upended by MP3 file - sharing.

To a large degree, Labor's big budget repair plans have stalled, while newcomers on both sides of the aisle find their way around their house on the hill.

But officials on the Hill worry that Trump will blame them for any failure to pass a tax overhaul, so they're throwing the onus back on him to travel around the country and create urgency.

CNN reported on March 27 that Zuck had come to terms with the fact that he'd have to testify and the Facebook team began preparing for his day on the Hill.

Quebec NDP MP Romeo Saganash said he wanted to throw up after listening to two Catholic bishops at their news conference on the Hill on April 18 when they said the Catholic Church, as a...

They're the castle on the hill, lording it over the town below.

The government is to lend the «threatened neighbors» enough money so that credit customers of the financial «house on the hill» can to pay it the stipulated interest charges they owe.

Last month's EMS on the Hill event brought together emergency medical services practitioners from around to country to advocate for meaningful change in the industry.

«He spoke to pro-fiduciary groups and started his rounds on the Hill to hear the concerns of lawmakers directly.»

In my favorite spot, Bophut, one - bedroom apartments rent from around $ 456 a month; two - bedroom apartments and villas perched on the hills behind rent from $ 760 a month.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was back on the hill, using his usual talking points; the contrast with a Chinese news app, facing its own political pressure, was striking.

On Saturday the Senate approved their version of the tax bill in a narrow 51 - 49 vote after a lot of work on the hill.

Women working on the Hill, from senators to staffers, have been subject to sexual harassment for decades — even during hearings.

Ahead of his second day of testimony on the Hill, @Recode's @KaraSwisher says day one for Zuckerberg before a Senate panel was like getting «hit by soft, soft, soft, very nice cashmere pillows... the Senators were a joke» pic.twitter.com / 1xCHZXSOFb

Furthermore, no office is required to make those payments public, meaning that legislative staffers — including members of Congress — may have sexually harassed their colleagues and employees on the Hill, and done so with the knowledge that settlements to victims would stay secret.

But many women in the party still kept quiet about harassment, suggesting change on the Hill will need to be cultural as much as legal.)

Due to be passed in June, the new legislation would amend the Canada Labour Code mandating MPs and other employers on the Hill do «everything in their power» to prevent harassment and violence among staff.

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

It's hard to be the lone bull on the hill.

Prosecutors say that later that day Alfred Degiorgio, acting as the spotter on a hill overlooking the Caruana Galizia home, called to tell his brother, George Degiorgio, when Caruana Galizia left the house.

If Paul Volcker was there he would have been up on the hill kicking the shit out of them.

«There is a rising sense of panic, clearly, within the White House and as well on the Hill,» Schiff said Monday.

«That's something that insurance industry to needs to do right now — more advocacy on the Hill,» Deremo said.

I'm saying that we've set ourselves up to be this cultural joke when we ought to be a light on the hill.

Mormons believe the prophet Joseph received golden plates from an angel on a hill.

Jesus called out the religious leaders of his time and said that they would not enter the kingdom of heaven because they lived in palaces on hills while they devoured the houses of widows (in Luke).

«Unfortunately, the White House knew all along that there was no chance in reaching the bishops - Richard Doerflinger, John Carr and the Bishops Conference staff are far too cozy with right - wing politicians on the Hill to have any real negotiation,» says a senior Democratic official, referring to influential bishops conference staffers.

As Augustine argued in the City of God, the fall of the eternal city, or any city on a hill, does not mean the failure of history's purpose and humanity's flourishing.

There is a cricket on a hill in China playing the worlds smallest violin for you.