Sentences with phrase «settle on a boring»

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Maybe it's that today's younger workers more commonly want to try out a series of jobs before settling on a single career trajectory, or that older workers have been at it long enough to be bored and jaded.

**** this post contains a few spoilers for the new Anne series so stop reading if you don't want to know *** When our eldest daughter was born, I did a very poor job of pretending we were not settled on a...

When our eldest daughter was born, I did a very poor job of pretending we were not settled on a name.

Likewise, Astrue has been expediting some of those 10,000 baby boomers now retiring daily, which includes any American born on or after January 1, 1946, the inevitable effect of hundreds of thousands of military men and women settling down and having families after being discharged from the service.

We should not be surprised, therefore, to find that the two Gospels which tell us of Jesus» birth in Bethlehem offer quite different explanations: Matthew leaves us to understand that Joseph and Mary resided in Bethlehem when Jesus was born; that they remained there after his birth until just before Herod's murder of the infants, when they escaped to Egypt; that it was their intention to resume their residence in Bethlehem upon their return to Palestine, but fear of the new king of Judea led them to push on beyond their former home and to settle finally in Nazareth of Galilee.

I have given up on settling the question of the resurrection, whether Jesus was born of a virgin, whether he made blind men see and the lame walk.

The powerful forward, who was born in Germany, says he has settled in well on Merseyside but outlined the many added benefits of the Toffees» training camp in Dubai ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash at Watford.

Having a new born is hard enough, settling into something new for you and the baby, but social media can pt pressure on to new or parents already.

Everything leading up to the Cross pointed to the Cross, everything was settled on the Cross, and on the Cross in the outstretched arms of Jesus grace was born.

It's okay if you haven't settled on a name before your baby is born.

Whilst many parents have already chosen a name long before their baby was born or even in some cases conceived, others choose and change many times before settling on a name or names they love.

Born on the Upper East Side, the Yale and University of Pennsylvania graduate lived in Brooklyn and Midtown before settling back in the 76th Assembly District in 2009 with his wife Courtney, who is expecting their first child.

It is somewhat aimed at my friend Tory Bear, who seemed to get a bit riled by his considered and settled view now being more prominently on the record.

«If President Buhari could acknowledge that he had been working with a trimmed cabinet to avoid waste, one wonders the improvement that he has brought to bear on the country's economy to warrant his new decision to expand the Federal Executive Council to bring in more supporters of the APC and settle the party members with other federal appointments.»

The multiple award winning artiste, disclosed in an interview that in contrast to the perceptions of his fans as a charismatic, he was born and bred in the Church of Pentecost right through his Sunday school days at Ahensan in the Ashanti region, to his talent discovery days in Kumasi high school, then to the frontline ministrations at Kumasi P.I.W.C and eventually as the music director of several choirs both on and off KNUST campus during his university days before settling with Kaneshie P.I.W.C where he currently worships after relocating to Accra.

Using two different force sensors to measure opposing forces inside dividing Drosophila cells, Maresca and colleagues at UMass Amherst have proposed that kinetochore fibers exert hundreds of piconewtons of poleward - directed force on kinetochores, settling the matter of how much force is brought to bear.

But as bears vie to be first on the scene, they will eventually arrive during the critical period when birds are just settling in, usually in early June, Prop predicts.

Genetic research on living bears suggested that they settled their modern ranges in successive waves of migration.

«It wouldn't settle the question, but it would certainly have a strong bearing on the issue of free will,» says Hardy.

Thoughts on Yoga, Connection, and Fulfilling your Dharma - The dust had barely settled from Burning Man when Yoga Loft was born.

A Chic Weather Proof Boots or Booties ~ Rain boots are born out of necessity, of course, but in this modern world we can't settle on functionality only!

Morgan Freeman's mollycoddled and on meds, suffering the indignity of being infantlised by an idiot son, Kevin Kline's got a great wife but a boring life and is subsequently sexually dysfunctional and depressed, Robert De Niro's a widower whose only human contact is a soup making neighbour, while Michael Douglas, in a set up that must have presented the actor with the greatest challenge of his career, plays a rich old pervert who's eschewed commitment most of his adult life but is now about to settle for a woman less than half his age.

Count Yorga, Vampire (Twilight Time, Blu - ray), directed by Bob Kelljan, stars Robert Quarry as the elegant vampire Count Yorga, who settles into 1970s Los Angeles to prey on bored housewives.

Born in Australia, Doyle studied Chinese art history at the University of Maryland, became a sailor, and settled in Taiwan, where he became an apprentice to Chen Kun - hou, the cinematographer on Hou Hsiao - hsien's early films.

Mottola's film, written by Michael LeSieur, finds a settled yet bored couple discovering that their new suburban neighbours might be more than they appear on first glimpse.

This adaptation of John Ridley's Stray Dogs does boil down to a thriller premise: Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) on the way to Vegas to settle a debt with some stolen money, has his radiator hose blow up on him in the backwater — make that backdesert — town of Superior, Arizona, where he becomes part of a murderous triangle with sultry, bored housewife Grace McKenna (Jennifer Lopez) and her wealthy husband Jake (Nick Nolte).

As a segment, sporty front - drive cars tend to bear some of these characteristics, but competitors from the Forte Koup to the Volkswagen Golf do a better job damping out the worst disruptions and settling in on the highway.

On city streets and boring freeways, the Scirocco R settled into easy - driving transportation, the DSG's regular drive mode dialing back the touchy throttle.

Test drove a Highlander (nice car, but boring) and a Pilot (surprisely uncomfortable seats) and settled on this cool car and Nissan's reputation for dependability.

Yet Shannon defines life on her own terms, refusing to settle down, and never stops longing to uncover her roots - especially the stubborn question of why her mother would abandon her on the day she was born.

She was born in South Australia and moved with her family numerous times before settling, finally, on Tamborine Mountain.

Dervla Murphy was born on 28 November 1931 of parents whose families were both settled in Dublin as far back as can be traced.

Born into a poor family in Wilkes - Barre, Pennsylvania, Kline was educated in a school for fatherless boys — his father having committed suicide in 1917 — and went on to study painting in Boston and then in London.He returned to the States after marrying, made «jazz murals» and found employment as a graphic artist for the WPA during the Depression, settling in downtown New York City in 1939, quite down on his luck.

Joan Waltemath, born in 1953, grew up on the Great Plains where her German ancestors settled in the late 19th century.

Born in Bosnia and Hercegovina in 1983, Ruznic immigrated to the United States with her family in 1995, settling on the West Coast where she eventually went on to study at the University of California, Berkley, later receiving an MFA from the California College of Arts.

Born Irving Noachowitz in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1906 (when the capital city was called Vilna and fell under Russia's control), Irving Norman emigrated to the United States in 1923, settling first on New York's Lower East Side and then upstate in Monticello, where he trained as a barber.

Born on the austere prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1912, Martin led a somewhat itinerant life that took her from the art hubs of New York and Taos, N.M., to the less settled corners of the Pacific Northwest.

For further information on the artist: Born in 1965, Pascal Dombis graduated with a Bachelor in Engineering from Insa University in Lyon, France before settling on pursuing an artistic career.

Before settling on a career as an artist, the London - born painter contemplated becoming an optician instead.

The crash - and - burn»90s found the Barbados - born painter nursing his wounded career in various remote locations, eventually settling on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Born in 1965, Dombis graduated with a Bachelor in Engineering from Insa University in Lyon, France before settling on pursuing an artistic career.

Born in Germany in 1970, Reyle briefly toyed with music and landscape design early in his career before settling on painting and sculpture.

Born near the Baltic, he settled permanently in Dresden, where he focused exclusively on the spiritual connections and significance of landscape, being inspired by the haunted silence of the forest, as well as the effect of light (sunrise, dusk, moonlight) and the seasons.

6:42 p.m. Updated There's an amusing Twitter chat under way via the hashtag #WSJscience, all centered on a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Robert Bryce of the Manhattan Institute that makes a big deal of the utterly boring fact that climate science is not settled — as if it ever was.

@PeterMasiar The only question that isn't settled is whether «natural born citizen» was originally intended to mean only someone born on U.S. soil or anyone who was a U.S. citizen from birth.

While it is theoretically possible for native title disputes to be settled quickly and cooperatively, the combination of procedural and evidential complexity, high stakes, multiple parties, uncertainty of outcome, and a winner - take - all approach means that most cases are heavily litigated, go on for years, cost a fortune in legal and other costs — and often result in crushing disappointment, since claimants bear the onus of proof in difficult circumstances.»

In order to solve this problem, we seem to have settled on the most boring closing imaginable «Best.»

Fortunately, the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) settles the matter a bit by granting citizenship to all people born on American soil — with exemptions for foreign diplomats.