Sentences with phrase «served as an escape»

If you're building a new habit that depends on a daily action, don't miss a day — it could serve as an escape route if you convince yourself it's not worth pursuing anymore.

«It looks like the temporary foreign worker program in many cases is serving as an escape valve for many employers,» who resort to imported labour rather than raise wages to attract Canadian candidates, he says.

We tend to frame addiction as substance abuse, but most anything that consumes our attention and energy or serves as an escape can be an addiction.

Large pores are open hair follicles that serve as the escape route for moisture, oil, and other toxins.

Funny, exhausting, polemical and poetic, it is a joyous assertion of Gomes» belief that storytelling serves as an escape from reality, and a way to confront and transcend even the most difficult of times.

These comics - inspired, effects - laden summer blockbusters are created to serve as an escape for international audiences.

Likewise, in «Finishing Touches,» Robert Maranto states, «The animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

For the animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

The colorful visuals, fun music, and unique gameplay served as an escape from modern life to a charming and simple way of living.

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As a working mom who is passionate about improving lives through flexible work options, her company serves the needs of remote workers, digital nomads and people who want more freedom, work / life balance or just want to escape the office!

Additionally, Google hopes the locations serve as a «break room» of sorts for shoppers looking to escape the holiday mall madness.

For the next two days, Ka, whose only goal is to stay alive long enough for the roads to clear so he can escape with Ipek, serves as the uneasy mediator between the secularists and the Islamists, who are led by a charismatic terrorist named Blue.

Bonhoeffer escaped military service by serving as a courier in the Intelligence Service, and thus was able to enjoy certain freedoms from the interference of the Gestapo.

We need to remember we serve a Savior who, as a child, escaped a culture of infant death and the mass slaughter of babies to become a man who welcomed children to Him and lauded their faith.

Inviting guests to a modern Southwestern retreat, the 109 spacious casitas and eight private homes at Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort & Spa serve as a tranquil escape set amongst the Camelback Mountains.

Bruso served as president of the board of directors with Kids Escaping Drugs, a group dedicated to combating teen addiction through treatment and education.

The sites announced Friday include an early black community along the Hudson Valley that served as a refuge for freed and escaped slaves, a commercial district in Utica with roots stretching back nearly 200 years, and a Catskills retreat that belonged to a 19th century businessman who made his money in soda fountains.

«I understand concerns about families, but those on the public payroll should be held accountable,» Gallivan said, pointing to former prison worker Joyce Mitchell — who is serving up to seven years for helping two convicted murderers escape last year — as an example.

In such applications, hypersonic technology could be important for the war on terror: According to Richard Hallion, who once served as the Air Force's historian and is a former senior adviser for «counterintelligence and special programs oversight,» hypersonics could result in a missile capable of reaching its quarry before it has a chance to escape.

«This way, the information that we are providing can serve as a warning so that possible cases of the plant's escape from gardens can be detected in a timely manner,» concludes the expert.

Salts have a cleansing effect, serving as a micro escape in stressful situations.

Our calming and restorative atmosphere serves as a sanctuary for our clients and a much needed escape from life's daily stresses.

The resistant starch escapes digestion and ends up in our large intestine, where it serves as food for beneficial stomach bacteria.

When your yoga practice becomes something you «have» to do or even when it serves as your only escape, take it as a sign you could show up for yourself a bit more.

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It's a pity, but it is often hard to find out what they are all about because the long distance relationship often serves for some as an escape from the everyday.

Guardians of the Galaxy is currently filming in London, and the city's Millennium Bridge is serving as a venue for an alien escape.

The 37 - year - old musician serves as the executive producer for the forthcoming series about a group of slaves planning their escape from a Georgia plantation.

Mickey and Ginny's relationship becomes even more complicated when her daughter, Carolina (Juno Temple) returns to Coney Island, a marked woman who's trying to escape from her gangster boyfriend and also falls for Mickey as their lives all intertwine with the amusement park serving as the setting.

The film leans a bit hard on voiceover narration and is far uglier and more depressive than the trilogy's bookends but perhaps serves as a necessary corrective to the other two films, suggesting as it does that there's no escaping one's own inner nature.

It's more sexually explicit than the AMC series, but the sex serves the story, which explores how the secret perversions of a murdered 1950s TV star haunt his son, a WWII veteran who uses alcohol as an escape from his PTSD.

We'll never know that if this movie were called The Cellar (the name of the original spec script) or No Escape (the name of Dan Trachtenberg's short film based in the Portal universe that may have served as the calling card that got him the gig, and there are quite a few parallels between the two projects) or any number of other names it would have been a more satisfying whole.

In addition to serving as an alternative to studio fare, SPC is positioning the feature as an escape from the onslaught of negative news.

Escape Dead Island will serve as the perfect primer for those eager to get their hands on Dead Island 2 in 2015.

However, the furnace in the title refers to the Carrie Furnace located in Braddock, Pennsylvania, where the Rust Belt serves more as a lead blanket, suffocating those who live there to the point where escape is rarely an option.

The sensational story served as fodder for lots of lurid newspaper headlines in Great Britain for much of 1977, until the accused jumped bail and escaped back to the States, never to be extradited or to face justice again.

Schools serving the poor, the disabled, and the educationally disadvantaged face a greater challenge, as they must make rapid progress from one year to the next to escape the «failed school» designation.

In fact, so long as teachers and schools who approach schooling with that kind of commitment are indeed serving children effectively, such a system will permit them to flourish and to escape so many of the procedures and requirements that can frustrate teachers today.

This cloud doesn't serve simply as a visual «smoke screen» that allows the octopus to escape unnoticed; it also interferes with predators» sense of smell — such as sharks, which can sniff small droplets of blood from hundreds of yards away.

One staff member at Jefferson said that she and many of her colleagues are troubled by DeVos's decades - long campaign to promote vouchers as a way to escape from public schools that work hard to serve all students.

Its swoopy looks stand out on the road, and Jeep's unique color and trim choices will serve it well, but the Trailhawk's go - anywhere ability doesn't mean as much compared to the excellent freeway manners of the Ford Escape or Hyundai Tucson.

The Escape, which was revealed in November at the Los Angeles Auto Show, will be the first Ford vehicle to offer standard Auto Start / Stop technology, available on both the 1.5 - liter EcoBoost ® engine and the 2.0 - liter twin - scroll turbocharged EcoBoost, and it will also serve as the launching pad for new SYNC ® Connect mobile access and driver assistance.

He had escaped and made his way to France, and after a short stint in the French Foreign Legion had returned to what he had learned well in the Czech Air Force, serving as a turret gunner on a hunter - bomber aircraft.

I think it is a coping mechanism that sometimes serves as a short - term fix (e.g. when someone needs help in the family business) and sometimes allows a rebellious female a mechanism for escape (like Nader).

For those who love to escape into their reading, this book will serve you well as it offers a true, unputdownable distraction from the reality of our more regular and everyday lives.

They serve as a prequel to the main story and follow a member of the Survey Corps who develops the 3D maneuver gear that would later become the signature method of fighting, and escaping, the Titans.

The North West Province, known also as the «platinum province» due the wealth of this underground metal, serves as a place to escape for Gauteng families in search of bushveld, tranquillity, sun and the outdoors.

Known for its famed Snow Summit and Bear Mountain resorts in the winter and its seven - mile lake in the summer, Big Bear serves as a year - round Southern California escape.

Designer lounge chairs face the front of the home on this ground level and lead out to a private patio which serves as a serene and romantic escape.

Kompong Chhnang offers an opportunity to break up any journey between the two or, being just a couple of hours» bus ride from Phnom Penh, can serve as an unusual getaway destination if you want to escape the capital for a few days.