Sentences with phrase «public life down»

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It can be maddening to get up to speed on the local way of life, but if you can slow down and embrace all of the new - to - me scenarios, like convoluted street parking rules, compost and recycling programs, and endless public transportation delays (Hello, Bay Area Rapid Transit!)

When perceived failures of a successor, such as the phone hacking scandal, are very public, they can be very hard for the successor to live down.

Those kinds of personal attacks are meant to wear down and break a target — to push a public figure out of public life by bombarding them with a never - ending avalanche of smears and accusations.

This threatens to de-urbanize the economy and dismantle the public infrastructure that has kept down the cost of living and doing business since the Progressive Era.

In 2013, the Twitterati helped nudge Bitcoin into the public consciousness as both a controversial new investment and a punchline; kept investors informed as the Nasdaq suffered an unprecedented, hours - long meltdown; and posted live updates as legislators failed to reach a spending deal and shut down the federal government for 16 days.

Their self - destructive real estate bubble has loaded down their labor force with high debt service and housing costs, whilst their giveaway of public infrastructure to insiders (with no price regulation) has led to high basic living costs.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

Mike Pompeo has swapped the no - profile, cloak - and - dagger world of covert espionage for the life of a buttoned - down diplomat, representing the public face of the Trump administration's foreign policy.

At the hands of bureaucrats, bosses, and judges, Christian merchants, universities, schools, hospitals, charities, campus fellowships, students, public officials, employees, and citizens have been fired, fined, shut down, threatened with a loss of accreditation, and evicted for living out traditional convictions about marriage and sexuality.

Dimitri Cavalli, source of many WWAI items over the past few years and author of the Washington Examiner story from which these quotes are taken, explains the change this way: Back then, Lynn was defending progressive causes, but now that «the so - called Religious Right has eclipsed the influence of the Religious Left in American public life,» it's time to shut down religious influence.

One ear hears the imperative to active public life expressed in Amos: «Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever - flowing stream.»

And down all the centuries of Christian witness, there have been women saints and martyrs and mystics and missionaries, women in public life and women in families and women in politics and in teaching and in religious enclosure who have been central in the life of the Church.

Although arriving in his mid-sixties and living well into his eighties, when most men find it necessary to slow down, Theodore traveled extensively through the island, creating dioceses, consecrating bishops, and improving the education of the clergy and the public worship.

The anecdotes, sayings, parables, controversies coming down from the period of Jesus» public ministry are told and retold because they are anecdotes about and teaching given by the one who is to be «the judge of the living and the dead.»

In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

I'd like to suggest that, inter alia, it comes down to Ockham's Triumph: the de facto «establishment» in American public life of the notion that freedom is willfulness, and that willfulness can attach itself to any object, «so long as no one gets hurt» (which «no one» obviously does not include the aborted unborn and the euthanized, simply underscoring the confusions of the age).

The result is that traditional relationships between personal beliefs and life in the public square are rapidly breaking down.

And because a man is always tempted to live down to the average of his social group, a searching test of character is involved in one's relationship with this dead level of public opinion and practice.

If you planned to brake some one legs to end his career and wrote down on public, you're not just «bad boy» on field, you are truly a BAD person in life.

When it comes down to issues of life - long / world / public / infant health, I feel like we can't afford get entangled in the politics of politeness.

Parents who live in busy cities praise the stroller for how easy it is to get on and off the subway or other public transit, as well as carry up and down stairs.

«If we can shut down Indian Point under an agreement that enhances public safety and kickstarts investment into safer and more reliable renewable energy sources, that will be a major victory for the millions of New Yorkers who live in the region,» he said.

As Theos director Elizabeth Hunter notes, this «turns upside down the assumption that the young will be idealistic and hopeful about public life, while the old tend to be more disappointed and cynical».

Or to put it another way: declaring war on things, from drugs to porn to energy companies, almost always goes down well with the public — and continues to do so until the bills, whether counted in lives or taxes, wash up on their doorsteps.

But the IEA's new priorities — aggressively paying down public debt, cutting taxes on the better - off, leaving the EU, relaxing planning laws to promote housebuilding, paving over the railways and tackling the «cost of living crisis» through lower excise duties — can expect a more lukewarm response from the re-installed treasury team.

William J. Bratton, the commissioner of the New York Police Department and the most widely recognized face in American policing, will step down next month to take a job with a private advisory firm, ending a 45 - year career in public life that spanned the country, from Boston to Los Angeles, and that reshaped the image of what a police commander could be.

I'm going to sound all Henry Porter here, but it's not going to be long before we're all of us fair game on the basis that... well, you can find any excuse really to pry into someone's life under the arguments of «public interest» or «freedom of speech», and the principle extends further than the lives of celebrities right down to us at the bottom.

It is one of the issues that appears to still be «live» down at the Capitol, as opposed to public campaign financing and the Women's Equality Act, which Cuomo himself has admitted are unlikely to pass before lawmakers leave Albany for their summer vacations.

«My mission in public life which has always cantered on transforming the material conditions of our people has always revolved around these three imperatives — breaking the yoke of ignorance that keeps our people down; liberating them from ill - health and other limitations that restrain them from achieving their potentials; and breaking the stranglehold of poverty which keeps people from living full creative lives.

«At the end of the day I've got a lifetime of accomplishments that is being overlooked when people reduce my life and my career of public service down to soundbites, and a few sentences,» she said, adding, «What they overlook is the fact that I've got a reputation here and I encourage people to look at the editorials from when I was running for Congress.»

«If we can shut down Indian Point under an agreement that enhances public safety and kick - starts investment into safer and more reliable renewable energy sources, that will be a major victory for the millions of New Yorkers who live in the region.»

«It's where police officers lived in public housing, they build strong relationships with public housing residents and crime went down dramatically.»

Country singer Jason Aldean made his first public appearance since the Las Vegas shooting on «Saturday Night Live,» performing «I Won't Back Down» by the recently deceased singer Tom Petty.

They act horrified in public, but when it comes to the only person who might legitimately have a claim to being let down by Lord Sewel, their only instinct is to make their lives even worse.

Not even the host of the programme, Kwame Nkrumah Tikese, could calm down Owusu Bempah as he went ahead to throw more insults and threats on live public radio.

«Many pursue elected office as a life's work, but few embrace public service as a life's passion,» said Paterson, who is stepping down from the Democratic Committee's chairmanship at the end of the month.

«We'll look down the road at how much money does Live Nation make and does the public have a different attitude about whether we should be promoting,» Mahoney said.

It's title: «The Wall Separating Faith and Public Life Must be Torn Down.»

Cuomo says he respects Senators views, whether they are pro choice or pro life, but he says they owe it to the public and their constituents to hold an up or down vote.

The radioactive fallout from a nuclear power plant melt down or nuclear waste is life threatening and a public health catastrophe.

It is a difficult decision to stand down from public life, but with the introduction of fixed term parliaments, we now know that the next Parliamentary term is likely to run until 2020, and that is a commitment which is I believe is too lengthy for me to make.

The protesters the Observer spoke to proposed remedies ranging from the end of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton's «broken windows» strategy of cracking down on small quality of life violations to the complete abolition of the police force to the public seizure and conversion of derelict properties to housing for the homeless.

In its decision last week, the tribunal said: «Dr McBride's character mirrors the classic tragic character — the person of eminence in public life whose good deeds and interest in human welfare command respect and admiration, but who is brought down by a fatal flaw in character.»

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Other research, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that people who live through a divorce develop more chronic conditions — such as heart disease and diabetes — and mobility issues (like difficulty climbing stairs) down the road.

I'm going to give it a try,» or they can say, «Well, I think I'm going to wait for a few more trials, FDA approval,» and they can sit back, but more and more, the public are ready to evaluate science simultaneously and take these very common sense, very easy... Well, behavior is not an easy thing to change, but far easier than taking chemotherapy or disease modifying drugs that are going to shut down your immune system and give you life - threatening side effects, that could let you get your life back from an autoimmune condition, or a serious psychiatric problem, or a severe diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, things that are completely under their control.

i find that people who have either personal interests in the meat and dairy industry or who simply have a preference for eating meat and meat products because it tastes good and they feel they can not live without it are the ones determined to put down people like Dr. Campbell who's interest is for the good health of the public.

Sure we all experience tough times in life, but it is never advised to talk about it in public, considering nobody wants to date a downer or a depressed singleton.

The 34 - year - old actor plays General Hux in the new trilogy of the popular sci - fi franchise, but has said he almost turned down the role when it was offered to him because he was «worried» that being recognised in public would «get in the way» of his personal life.

Now the Bellas are seniors, trying to live down a public embarrassment by winning an international a capella championship.