Sentences with phrase «panhandling for»

Therefore, for those who are dependant on panhandling for survival, there are only a few places left to engage in such activities.

It doesn't feel entirely sincere, but it's grounded by its mostly intact script and largely admirable performances, which are best when they aren't panhandling for Oscars.

I am a broken man, like an addict in the street, panhandling for dirty grounds.

He told me that his name is Eugene, that he's been panhandling for 30 years, and that he brings in as much as $ 200 a day.

Bury gold - painted rocks or gold nuggets in the sand and have them panhandle for the gold.

In a spoof video, O'Malley, the former Democratic governor of Maryland, went down to New York's finance mecca with his guitar and panhandled for a few dollars.

Soon afterward Katz introduced WOOF, short for «Wonderful Opportunities for Occupants and Fidos,» which offered recently homeless participants a small weekly stipend to keep pets «as long as they promise not to panhandle for extra cash,» Knight summarized.

The Texas panhandle for instance is ideal and just a tenth of it can produce all the liquid fuel the United States currently consumes at yield / acre currently achieved in pilot plants.

Not exact matches

The NOAA advisory also notes the potential for hazards including tornadoes in south - central Louisiana and the western Florida panhandle, and extensive rain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

Unfallible, Getting a paycheck for doing your job is not panhandling, nor is that trickle - down economics, that's called employment.

My mama tells the story that when I was a gangly four - year - old kid, they hauled my kid brother and sister and I, down to a panhandle town named Hereford, Texas, for a handful of months, and my dad sharecropped cotton with this farmer west of town.

The type of alcoholic who makes his living by panhandling has an inner contempt for those he exploits.

Great Western Distributing has been providing refreshments to the panhandle of Texas for more than 60 years, and the family owned company has no plans to make way for competing conglomerates.

St. Patrick's Day was only a big holiday for me when we lived in the FL panhandle because my best friend was (I mean, she still is) Irish and we celebrated 4 SPDs together in a row.

For his part, Rosenblatt has pointed to the help the organization provides to individuals like Julio Wharton, 53, who BRC outreach staffers met panhandling on a Chelsea block last winter.

The third - floor music hall at Saratoga Springs City Hall was filled for the Public Safety forum on the issue of aggressive panhandling.

It is not a crime to panhandle in New York City, nor is it illegal for women to go bare - chested.

Elected officials, perhaps sensitive of the gender dynamics at play — after all, the male Naked Cowboy has worked shirtless in Times Square for years without much pushback — have repeatedly tried to tie the issue less to nudity and more to aggressive panhandling.

Florida: As Democrat Gwen Graham works to oust GOP Rep. Steve Southerland II, the vulnerable incumbent could benefit from GOP Gov. Rick Scott working to turn out the vote in the panhandle's 2nd District — a key area for Scott's re-election too (gubernatorial race rating: Tossup).

For example, the southeastern United States supports about 90 percent of all the brown pelicans in the U.S., with the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle comprising around 40 percent of that habitat, Hunter says.

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

Assisted colonization has already been used for plant species, such as Torreya taxifolia, an endangered conifer native to the Florida panhandle.

Farmers in the Great Plains of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and the panhandle of Texas produce about one - sixth of the world's grain, and water for these crops comes from the High Plains Aquifer — often known as the Ogallala Aquifer — the single greatest source of groundwater in North America.

The Houston - based company has already sent out field crews to prepare for construction of one of its lines — it will bring wind energy up to 720 miles from Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle to Tennessee and Arkansas and then on to other nearby states.

And the rest of the state would starve if not for the eastern panhandle.

Gere actually panhandled on the streets of New York for the film, and it received mostly good reviews when it premiered in Toronto in 2014.

The three join a group of harvesters in the Texas panhandle, working for a wealthy Farmer (Sam Shepard).

The problem is that the precocious adolescent is smart enough to understand that she and her panhandling dad urgently need someone to lean on, despite the fact that he is too proud to approach his parents for help.

Another utterly captivating John Sayles ensemble piece with an incredible sense of a particular place and its personality, «Sunshine State» manifests the winds of change and uncertainty blowing mightily over a humble island township off the Florida panhandle that has been targeted for ravenous resort development.

Principal photography took place that year in the plains of Alberta, Canada (standing in for the Texas panhandle shortly before World War I), and the movie that emerged in 1978, after two years of editing, did away almost all of it.

One teacher resorted to panhandling to pay for school supplies.

With government backing, WOOF, Wonderful Opportunities for Occupants and Fidos, will pair residents in supportive housing who agree not to panhandle with adolescent puppies from shelters who are in need of more socialization in order to be permanently adopted.

This destination, located between Pensacola and Panama City on the Florida panhandle, is known for an active lifestyle.

My desire for them, especially heading into the Playstation and Playstation 2 days, consumed me to a point where I was akin to that fellow panhandling in the streets for just a bit of change.

He asked the man how much he would typically make panhandling over the next several hours and offered to pay him that amount to sit for a portrait.

This project actually made it possible for wind - generated electricity to move from wind farms in West Texas and the panhandle to larger population centers, such as San Antonio and Dallas.

For example, in just the past year, AFF has developed a pilot Landscape Management Plan that is being tested in the panhandle of Florida.

For example: which would be worse: (1) Category 4 Katrina hitting landfall just east of New Orleans, (2) a Category 5 Katrina never making landfall, (3) a Category 5 Katrina hitting the FL panhandle or (4) a Category 5 Katrina hitting southern TX?

«The Safe Streets Act criminalizes very innocuous panhandling — the kind of panhandling that has been going on in cities for years,» said Peter Rosenthal, one of the lawyers working on the challenge.

He has been in private practice in the panhandle of Florida for 23 years.

``... If the money spent attacking street people was instead spent on providing for them, there would be much less panhandling.»

Furthermore, many of the people in this situation have no other options for employment and turn to panhandling to survive.

For example, prison could be removed as a penalty, fines could be lowered, and less stringent limits could be placed on those who engage in soliciting and panhandling as a means of survival.

The best beach vacations for families can be found along Florida's panhandle.

Found in the panhandle of Florida, Pensacola is a popular destination for family vacations and spring breakers.

We have made arrangements for our dog to stay with friends over the weekend so Dug can hang out at our house, but on Monday we will have to take him to the humane society — unless there is someone out there in the Nebraska panhandle who wants to adopt him...

I am sooo ready to decorate for spring but the 1st of March could see hot and windy or snow here in the panhandle.