Sentences with phrase «people living down»

Were the glacial lakes at the foot of Everest, and elsewhere in the Himalaya, to breach their moraines, it could have catastrophic consequences for the sherpa people living down the valley.

There are also some health implications for burning coal — it's not that great for people living down wind.

I used to believe there was a whole in floor under my bed and people lived down there and if I wasn't careful they would pull me down there.

Not exact matches

«So it's a convenient trope, but I think it's one that can lead you down a path where only the people who live in that space get to make policy on that space.

Numerous people, still young and filled with hope, had to lay down their lives here - their mortal remains decomposing somewhere, in between trenches, in mass graves, at cemeteries...

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jeffrey Shinabarger, author of Yes or No: How Your Everyday Decisions Will Forever Change Your Life and founder of Plywood People, a nonprofit in Atlanta that «leads a community of startups doing good.»

But, these films are fantasy, and the problem is that we live in a time when the real people we once looked up to are continually letting us down.

We can cut down the waste of a person's life to try a medicine just because it was tried on average statistics over a very large number of people.

But the company's flagship perk is «mass career customization,» a program that allows people to «dial up» or «dial down,» depending on life circumstances, whether they're fresh out of school or a harried new parent.

Soon, people slid down an emergency chute, inflated life vests and climbed into a raft.

«People want to slow down in later life and, while some welcome the chance to stay economically active, many may not.

For each city, we included the annual after - tax income needed to live comfortably and how a 50/30/20 plan would break down monthly for a single person.

A lazy person knows there's lots of life and fun to be experienced, so finding the shortcuts through the slough just makes a lot more sense than dragging your feet down a long road.

Toxic people bring you down and you can't flourish with them in your life.

In her latest book The Four Tendencies, she breaks people down into, you guessed it, four tendencies that describe how we respond to obligations (both outer and inner) and that can actually help you live better and reach your goals.

I believe people have the best breakthroughs in life when they are forced to break down, at least that's what happened to me.

Even more intriguing, people over 60 had better life satisfaction than people 55 and up predicted they would feel five years down the line.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

In addition to mandatory unplugging for a few days, the program provides tools and resources to help people slow down and be more present in their lives.

Sit down with the person and talk about the issues as you see them, and try to work through a way to resolve them and move on with your life.

«The people who are hungry are usually pursing lots of things... they really come down to creating an even more extraordinary life... I define an extraordinary life as life on your terms... the more you live life on your terms the more fulfilled you are.»

«People live at Fownders and we're developing an entire Fownders district right down the street here in Newark — a production studio, an art gallery — so much is happening.

«My overall vision for the internet is that it's locally owned, it serves the people who connect to it, and that the people who connect to it own it, or know the owner who lives down the street.»

When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be sacrificed for the job as evidenced by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.

Many people in the world's largest cities already live in tiny apartments, and one way to save on costs for a space similar to Hill's is to cut down on the number of alternatives needed, says Lloyd Alter, managing editor of Treehugger.

«When I sit down with new retirees, we look at whether they need life insurance at all and how much their policy costs,» he said, explaining that many people don't understand that their premiums may rise.

I wanted to be one of those people who live for the rush and never slow down, so I adopted (or rather didn't resist) that lifestyle.

Startup pressure is a product that needs to launch today because it was originally supposed to launch three months ago, and if it doesn't launch today you're going to fire a whole lot of people who sacrificed and turned down more - secure ways to make a living because they believed in you.

Since you do most of the selling live on the webinar, a sales page can slow people down rather than boost your sales.

Fears of a still jittery job market have convinced a lot of people to keep their heads down, put up with whatever their managers ask of them and continue to be able to pay their mortgages, especially if they live in pricey Silicon Valley.

As millions of people were unwrapping their fancy new iPhone Xes on Christmas morning, thousands of users with older phones were signing on to class action lawsuits following reports that the company was purposefully slowing down older handsets to save battery life.

If hounding every person you've ever cared about into adopting encryption tools like PGP sounded like fun, you'll love living in a van down by the river with no internet access.1

Some people have already traveled the world as part of the job and can not stand one more minute waiting in an airport, while others have been tied down to their jobs all of their lives and can't wait to pack.

In the past year, Beijing has shut down a handful of popular live - streaming apps, passed a law that forces foreign companies to store data in China, closed trading on its largest Bitcoin exchanges, and cut access to tools that help people access Facebook, Google, and other blocked services.

President Trump came down hard against anti-Semitism and threats of violence against the Jewish people on a day honoring those who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

Someone who should never have had access to any weapon — let alone an assault weapon capable of mowing people down — was able to walk onto a campus, kill at least 17 people and irrevocably change the lives of many, many more.

How often do you sit down with a real, live person at your business's bank?

Three weeks after Hurricane Irma crashed into Florida leaving behind widespread devastation, the American Red Cross and a large team of partners continue to work around the clock to provide shelter, food and comfort to people whose lives have been turned upside down.

«We really are saving folks an incredible amount of money down here, in addition to all the intangible benefits of being available to help a person process through some of the most difficult trauma of many of their lives,» Adkins said via email.

Five weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused the largest flooding event in U.S. history, the American Red Cross continues to provide shelter, food, relief supplies and other support to help people whose lives were turned upside down.

Ya know what I would find interesting is how many people would attend an «aetheist concert» Come on down people, I'll tell ya all about what idiots you have been for your entire life.

«And by putting familiar hymns to new music often people slow down and think about what they are actually singing... the meaning takes on fresh life for them.»

Some people exist in a world so unlike our own that it's difficult to imagine them being bogged down with the concerns we have — concerns like breathing or living.

«Though we already pay # 11 billion a year to subsidise a low - wage economy because employers are not paying people enough to live on, volunteers up and down the country are providing a further # 30 million a year in «free» labour to ensure that our fellow citizens in low paid work, on zero hour contracts, or relying on a broken benefits system have enough to eat.

Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.

Perhaps new people live there Who think the street name quaint, and watch the dogwood petals shiver Down like flakes of paint.

It also seems quite hard to swallow that a person could spend his or her life helping the poor, counseling the down and out, building homes for Habitat for Humanity, giving millions to charitable causes, assisting those with disabilities and mental health issues, and without a sincere acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, be doomed to eternal condemnation and suffering, no getting out early for good behavior.

Any life - changing moment can knock a person down.

They talk about their families because that is what really matters in a person's life... that is thier true legacy and their only real immortality... most people, I am fairly sure, know deep down that god is a fairy tale, a cushion, and that death is truly the end... what this very excellent young woman heard from these dying people makes perfect sense... death is a time to end the bs and look at and reflect upon what was real and important in that individual's life

Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;