Sentences with phrase «own life preserver»

«To say this is a voluntary program is like throwing a life preserver to someone drowning in a lake,» he added.

When someone is drowning, you throw them a life preserver, you don't throw them a nine - part DVD series on the history of swimming.»

I cling to the sacraments like a drowning man clinging to a life preserver, headed over the falls.

It's a life preserver, if you will, against the shifting sands.

A life preserver for those that can't cope with the nasty complicated changing world.

I watched a conversation on the net between a great atheist and a crazy lady who told him that we are all born flawed and with sin and god threw us a life preserver (Jesus).

I want to dive into a vat of that caramel and have one of these cookies thrown at me to be used as a life preserver!!

Add pieces of red licorice to resemble stripes on a life preserver ring.

So your cupcakes are like a life preserver — now I CAN HAVE Boston Cream Pie and actually eat it without any guilt — thanks ever so much this recipe and for all of the content of your wonderful website.

All others who root for the team will be considered overdog - loving, Eveready - chucking, bandwagon - hopping, fair - weather, brownnose, pucker - lipped human goiters and be required to turn in their pinstriped underwear or be tossed into the East River with only Chuck Knoblauch to throw them a life preserver.)

Drop him in the middle of the ocean without a life preserver, and Harden will find a way to exaggerate contact and get to the line.

Submersed to the noggin and completely relaxed, one tends to lean forward in a Wet Vest — as opposed to life preservers, which make the wearer lean backward.

Pavel has denied that the marriage was one of convenience, but it had all the earmarks of a green - card special, a life preserver that would let Bure stay in the U.S. even if he didn't sign with the Canucks.

Practice water safety: teach your child to swim, do not let your child play around any water (lake, pool, ocean, etc.) without adult supervision (even if he is a good swimmer), always wear a life preserver or safety vest when on a boat, and childproof the pool by enclosing it in a fence with a self - closing, self - latching door.

Always have rescue equipment (such as a shepherd hook or life preserver).

With an easy - to - squeeze shape for little hands, each of the four friendly characters floats on its own life preserver.

Please note that this flotation swimsuit is not a life preserver and should only be used with adult supervision.

Learn CPR and be sure there are life preservers, life jackets, a telephone, and a shepherd's crook poolside.

This sling is not a life preserver or flotation device and should not be used as such.

Many of us have a routine at home that we cling to like a life preserver.

Economic development officials see these as more than just life preservers, but rather transformative projects designed to reshape the upstate economy by «clustering» industries around one another with the hope that one day they can stand on their own when paired with workforce development efforts.

And Leonardo loved water: He developed plans for floating snowshoes, a breathing device for underwater exploration, a life preserver, and a diving bell that could attack ships from below.

Although the program is not a perfect solution — the fit isn't always right, interns must keep one eye out for their next job, and their short tenure limits the type of work that can be done — it offers a life preserver to recent graduates floundering in a suddenly troubled job market.

So when I was called handsome or intelligent, I clung to those compliments as life preservers.

It's not that I didn't appreciate those bygone moments: my sons in puffy life preservers leaping off a dock, my mother as a teenager in her cuffed jeans.

For those seeking a one - way ticket out of the 75 % (or at least a life preserver until the next great opportunity arrives), I offer these suggestions:

In addition, it contains «life preservers,» which include anti-aging and detoxifying fruits like amla and apricot, as well as two adaptogens.

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For the trunk of the tree, I couldn't find a Stripe Rite in the perfect shade of coral, red or brown, so I cleaned up the brush that I used for the leaves and dipped it in my China Glaze Life Preserver from the China Glaze Spring 2011 Anchors Away collection.

Then, you use a rubber ducky life preserver — which you can likely find on sale right now since summer is officially over — and add white balloons for bubbles.

I need to give a quick shout out to Savvy Southern Style blog for featuring my DIY Life Preserver last week - thank you!!

Tommy, though a loser, has a gift for turning everyone he encounters into an instant life preserver; he bobs and weaves through a mangy community of boozers, misfits, and Lawn Guyland lifers.

But when the couple's life takes a turn for the worse, and Kumail's Pakistani heritage pressurizes the situation with demands of arranged marriage, Nanjiani's fans will cling to the jokes like a life preserver.

The sense of period is very convincing exceptâ $» perverselyâ $» in its resurrection of two stock characters of the distant past: the mystically avuncular old Negro (Clarence Muse) with his pipe and fringe of white hair, and the relentlessly villainous Arab (Dogmi Larbi, The Man Who Would Be Kingâ $ ™ s blowhard chieftain Ootah) â $» this one actually steals the kidâ $ ™ s life preserver when the ship is sinking; he also steals sugar from the horse!

In case, you missed the significance of that date, the conversation ends with the shot of a life preserver confirming that the two indeed are aboard the Titanic and about to die.

A young magazine editor (a radiant Radha Mitchell) could be a life preserver, professionally and emotionally.

But maybe if he watched again, he might finally realize that it is Miss Stubbs — not Paris — who is the real life preserver provided by Scherfig & Hornby.

But as soon as principals lead the creation of that shared vision and use their administrative authority to insist that all faculty use the available technology to support teaching and learning, those teacher leaders start to look like life preservers.

Included: Tips for finding that full - time job and «life preservers to rescue sinking subs.»

As students set out on summer adventures, send their parents a much - needed «life preserver» — a list of 25 activities to share and enjoy with their children.

Twenty - Five Activities to Keep Kids» Brains Active in the Hot Summer Sun As students set out on summer adventures, send their parents a much - needed «life preserver» — a list of 25 activities to share and enjoy with their children.

To paraphrase one teacher: When you're drowning and someone is about to throw you a life preserver, you don't refuse because you're not sure the preserver floats.

As students set out on summer adventures, send their parents a much - needed «life preserver» — a list of 25 activities to share and enjoy.

Third graders who do not demonstrate proficiency on the state assessment or the portfolio tests will be given one final life preserver in the form of summer reading camps that will run three hours a day for six weeks.

The top tray can be used for storing lighter items like radios, ropes, and axes, while the deeper bottom tray can be used for larger things like an oxygen tank or life preservers.

Sadly, I should have remembered a life preserver.

The button looks like a life preserver and is located where you set your Wi - Fi and Bluetooth options.

I only wish the Book Launch Toolkit had been around to throw me a life preserver.

If they keep up making those ridiculous decisions regarding their content and price tags, they will find themselves looking for life preservers before this year is out.

Your a life preserver my friend and please no how much we appreciate all that you give back to the literary world.