Sentences with phrase «sit in a house»

I sat in my house with an idea, a load of debt and a dream.

«I'd be afraid to sit in a house with people who don't believe,» he once remarked.

32 Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him.

hey the rest of us are out here loving life while you sit in your house like a scared, caged rat.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Most Rev Justin Welby, who sits in the House of Lords, renewed calls for a cross-party commission to negotiate Britain's departure from the European Union, as he said major decisions should be taken «off the political table».

«And the government is playing its part too by bringing forward legislation this week that will allow women bishops to sit in the House of Lords.»

And in another few years, the blink of an eye, I'll be sitting in a house, alone: the laundry will be done at last, the house will be clean — and it will stay clean, and the floors will be quiet, no one will be asking me for anything at all, my time will be my own, and I will feel the full weight of The Ache for which I've been holding vigil at last.

«And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.»

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.»

«If so, Lord Carey must forfeit his right to sit in the House of Lords.

old lady was sitting in her house — suddenly a shotgun blast blew open her back door — the attacker comes at her.

Even today, the Church of England remains the established church and twenty bishops sit in the House of Lords.

Three years ago this month, I was sat in a house with the rest of my NCT group, listening to a lady wax lyrical about the joys of boobs.

Suddenly they find themselves unnecessary and feel that they waste precious time sitting in the house.

It depends on how long your trash sits in the house.

Three years ago this month, I was sat in a house with the rest of my NCT group,...

I'm assuming that the rest of his treats will be designated to my husband, because that's what you do when you have a toddler and a sack of treats sitting in your house!

Will they be making dinner and putting your kids to bed, or will the kids already be asleep and the babysitter just has to sit in the house while you go out for the evening?

Jones will be keeping the City Hall job while she sits in the House of Lords, which is an unpaid position, although it does include a daily allowance.

«Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones,» observed Nancy Astor, the first woman to sit in the House of Commons.

Ashdown, who now sits in the House of Lords, preceded his article on the Lib Dem Voice website with a warning that he was grumpy and knew no other approach than «fix bayonets and charge» due to his army background.

NPP youth and sympathizers are not father Christmas because they are always happy to campaign for the Party and sit in the house desperately.

«The Rt Rev Michael Langrish, who sits in the House of Lords, said that his views represented those of a number of bishops who are concerned by the Government's apparent lack of support for family life.

Last year, Boris Johnson called for a «Dignitas - style euthanasia» plan to reduce the number of those sitting in the House of Lords and claimed the 790 - strong body was «out of control».

Although the monarch had for centuries been empowered to create hereditary peers, with rights to sit in the House of Lords, the Life Peerages Act 1958 had a profound impact on the honours system and parliament.

Responding to claims that the removal of the bishops would amount to disestablishment of the Church, Anne McGuire, Labour MP for Stirling, commented that «if the establishment of the Church of England depends on 12 bishops sitting in the House of Lords, it is in a worse state than the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks it is.»

Geoffrey Clifton - Brown - He is the second Geoffrey Clifton - Brown to have sat in the Commons, the first sitting in the House from 1945 — 50.

End by - election of hereditary peers to sit in House of Lords.

I am pleased to see that progress is being made to allow Members of Parliament to question Government Ministers who sit in the House of Lords, including Lord Mandelson.

Writing for the Conservative Home website, the Baroness, who now sits in the House of Lords, said that «authoritarian counter-terrorism strategies have undermined our values, yet not made us feel any safer».

Baroness Randerson become the first ever Welsh female Liberal peer to sit in the House of Lords.

Her two predecessors Viscountess St Davids and the 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, who had been ennobled in the first half of the 20th century, had died before women were allowed to sit in the House of Lords.

Sitting in the House of Commons public gallery, he received an acknowledgement from Speaker John Bercow.

MPs will today have an opportunity to vote whether to return to late - night sittings in the House of Commons.

Darling, who now sits in the House of Lords, said: «I went to be even more gloom filled but came out cheered up.

But who — other than some bloke sitting in the House of Lords who left front - line Labour politics two decades ago — does he mean by this «Reassurance Labour tendency»?

«Representatives of the Church of England will retain the right to sit in the House of Lords by virtue of their faith, denomination, gender and vocation.

The peer made clear he was ready to pay full UK tax if the law is changed to bar non-doms from membership of the upper house, saying: «I agree with this change and expect to be sitting in the House of Lords for many years to come.»

Lord Mandelson is the most powerful Cabinet minister in a generation to sit in the House of Lords whilst holding a position usually held by an MP in recent decades.

They must be forced to abandon their «principled» opposition to sitting in the House of Commons or they must abandon the UK taxpayers» allowances.

He now sits in the House of Lords.

Having been asked to sit in the House of Lords by David Cameron to bring the perspective of Muslim women to the party and parliament, she refused to shut up when the party found her opinions inconvenient.

In some situations, the label which MPs sit in the House of Commons under can change.

I am not the friendliest person in the world but you can't dwell and sit in the house and become a recluse.

Their depleted ranks mean the party's main economics spokesperson — Lady Kramer — sits in the House of Lords.

Highlights of the first of a series of all - night sitting in the House of Lords where peers debate government attempts to change the voting system.

It is understood that David Laws, the former education minister, Simon Hughes, the former justice minister, and former Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander have also decided to reject a chance to sit in the House of Lords.

«I don't think it's appropriate that he is sitting in the House of Lords if he hasn't offered that apology,» he said.

«Taking out the anticipated 5 Sinn Fein seats (their elected MPs do not sit in the House of Commons), the magic figure for the slimmest of majorities is 325 seats.»