Sentences with word «passel»

We know sea levels are going up, polar ice is melting, glaciers are retreating, and of a whole passel of other problems.

Despite her glittering portraits of unflappable, seductive black women - often decked out in passels of crystals and rhinestones - Thomas makes more than just eye candy.

He used the Van Passel Brothers composition without their approval.

On Monday, Democratic conference leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said no one had reached out to gauge the level of support for whatever passel of bills is considered in exchange for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's assent to a pay hike for lawmakers.

Lawmakers are considering a salary increase for themselves as well as an unknown passel of other issues that Cuomo has dubbed «the people's business.»

Passel also noted that many illegal immigrants who overstayed temporary visas have higher education levels that enable them to work in office or technical jobs.

Multiple legislative sources said the emerging passel of bills would include a three - year pilot program to publicly finance campaigns for the state Supreme Court.

(A passel of ex-White House aides have already given such treatment to Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D - N.Y.).

Like the novel, Jackson's film opens tidily in the Shire, where Bilbo's home is casually invaded by the uninvited passel of dwarves, who proceed to demolish his larder.

The Mr Nile Experiment is going to rubbing shoulders with a veritable passel of great webcomics in what sounds like an interesting sampling of our ever - growing scene.

With our raft in pieces at the bottom of what, in all honestly, looks to be no more than a pond, we bump into the island's caretaker Passel, a sinister man who advises us «Nosy Rogues» to get swimming as there are no rafts to be found around here!

But Michael Jackson's hit song «You Are Not Alone», written by singer - songwriter R Kelly, was banned from Belgian airwaves after the same court held that it was a tad too similar to an earlier song by Belgian songwriters Eddy and Danny van Passel.

Other notable happenings inlcude a whole passel of Final Fantasy games...

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There are whole passels of pastors who project the same tendencies as politicians, who are under the hynotic state of their» leaders», whom they MUST obey or be directed to the back seat area and made to;» SHUT UP ``.

According to one indicator, U.S. border apprehensions of Mexicans have fallen sharply, to just 230,000 in fiscal year 2014 — a level not seen since 1971 (Krogstad and Passel, 2014).

I interviewed a passel of them about when it started, why — and what it means for the future of today's crop of companies.

Just today, a passel of tech figures published a letter saying so.

Now the Senate is entertaining — although certainly not entertained by — a passel of proposals, ranging from what is tantamount to sending them all back to what is blanket amnesty in all but name.

And so you had a slew of Dominics, a passel of Anthonys, a clutch of Patricks, a synonym for «buncha» Peters, Pauls, and Marys.

The passel of boys used a swear word to describe what they did to me.

Familiar discontents vaguely felt turn into more focused anxieties, and then, all of a sudden it seems, a passel of scholars arrives at a similar analysis of what has gone so thoroughly wrong — and some similar ideas of....

Every day lawyers, reporters, victim organizations, and a passel of disgruntled priests became more and more explicit; they were set on bringing down Cardinal Law, they would settle for nothing less than blood.

During his U.S. visit he was hosted by five governors and a lieutenant governor, a passel of universities and social - change groups, and — with fine ecumenical sense — the heads of several large corporations.

I also picked up a passel of potatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut squashes, and two cute little pumpkins to put on the mantle.

In the street outside, a passel of dusky, grinning moppets jived in wild circles singing, «Sugar in the mornin», Sugar in the evenin», Sugar at suppertime...»

The decade's not yet half - passed, but it has already produced a passel of memorable photographs.

The New York Cityenvirons have a passel of swell clubs, and Philadelphia is home to old - linegolfing tradition, but only Chicago can call itself Golftown U.S.A. ¬ ∂ The 366member clubs in the Chicago District Golf Association are a mix made to matchthe sensibilities of the heartland golfer.

She passes the press pen, where at least eight television cameras and a passel of reporters and photographers are corralled, and spots a reporter for a local community newspaper getting ready to take a happy snap with his pocket camera.

Give any U.S. attorney a year and 10 FBI agents and he or she can probably come back from the state capital with a passel of indictments.

Flanagan leads a conference of 32 members in the 63 - seat chamber, and several upstate members stated publicly that they did not want to return to the Capitol and were uninterested in the passel of goods that Cuomo was pushing to assent to a pay hike.

Then, at the Capitol, he said was «personally happy and very proud» with what was accomplished, and called the passel of agreements «robust and extensive.»

Cloud shadows sweep across copses and hedgerows, and all around you the bucolic landscape is punctured only by... a passel of volcanoes.

Their underlying software is still, in essence, a passel of if / then statements.

We've got a passel of nifty iPod accessories, including a waterproof case for disco swimming, plus a robot mop, a professional - grade plant press and a meticulously crafted replica of the HMS Beagle.

The reasons are as numerous as the passel of pills on the market: anxiety, depression, chronic illness, restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea, everyday exhaustion... the list goes on and on.

Ever wake up to a passel of problems — not of your making?

With the recent sageuk glut, a passel of melodramas one - after - another,.

Fiona's maternity is celebrated when a passel of princesses throw her a baby shower.

This would be her passel of mostly anonymous children and a coterie of other contesters, the Affadaisies, organized by Dortha (Laura Dern) and including an always beaming lady in an iron lung painted happy - yellow (such irony, while perverse, gives the movie an occasional welcome edge).

He returns home to find that the «flower generation» has degenerated into a passel of selfish, irresponsible, muddled - headed jerks.

Hard bodies, blue water, and a passel of music video moments strung together into the running time of a motion picture is what INTO THE BLUE is all about.

with a passel of special features, beginning with «Ghost Story Genesis» (40 mins., HD), a new interview with Peter Straub, who recites long passages from the source material for some reason, namechecks John Fowles and Henry James, and ends on a passive - aggressive note by saying he was very pleased indeed to cash all the checks written to him for the sale of his property.

The German filmmaker is currently celebrating a long overdue retrospective of his work at MOMA, which will lead to a passel of new Criterion Collection releases of his films later this year, and his Oscar - nominated doc «The Salt Of The Earth» (his best work in some time) comes out in theaters via Sony Pictures Classics later this month.