Sentences with phrase «spend weeks running»

Are you convinced that life insurance is important for you, but don't want to spend weeks running around comparing rates and providers?

If learning to wash her hands means a messy bathroom for a few days, or if getting dressed on her own means she spends a week running around in an old pink turtleneck, a bright red skirt, blue jeans, and flip flops, go with the flow.

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Consumers have spent the past few weeks running around and worrying about everyone else, so letting consumers know it's time to focus on themselves will be a nice change of pace.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

And the more time the business owners spent running their businesses, the more they loathed the task — 58 percent of business owners working 60 or more hours a week said that bookkeeping was particularly draining.

With her husband, who spent years teaching people how to run automotive businesses through Sears, she developed Glacken University, a seven - week webinar training program for new Shaklee recruits.

The program, which ran this summer, brought in people with a core aptitude for programming, then spent six weeks «teaching them something to see if we could get them up to a level where we actually might want to hire them,» Bahat says.

Earlier comments by international lenders that Greece must shrink its public sector spending to avoid running out of money within weeks did not dampen the sudden enthusiasm for stocks over here.

This «all loving» god spends his time running the Universe and spying on the approximately 7 billion human beings on planet Earth 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

This «all loving» god spends his time running the Universe and observing the approximately 7 billion human beings on planet Earth, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Last week I spent 48 hours in Lisbon and 36 hours in Helsinki doing back to back interviews, talks, signings, blogger events and just doing a lot of shining and sparkling, as well as running all over London doing a million and one things.

Once upon a time, precious weekends were spent running countless errands, braving long checkout lines at the grocery store, and stocking the pantry for the week ahead.

I know it may seem like a lot of money that we spent this past week, but in the long run, we are going to save so much money by purchasing large quantities in bulk.

I was there meeting up with three of my closest friends in the entire world and we spent the week, eating, drinking, tanning, swimming, and just running around.

While in town for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Robertson spent a week guest - baking at the carb haven Tivoli Rd., run by Brit Michael James.

I took the week off to do my last - minute running around, making sorrel, baking cakes, doing some light housework, spent a day out of town... the family was quite busy.

I had spent about a week running up to the grocery store for my older brother who was very ill.

He works 40 hours a week at the Bridgestone / Firestone tire plant up the road in Bloomington, Ill., and spends the balance of his time running the Sean Riggins Foundation for Substance Free Schools.

m. on Tuesday night of last week, leaving Bears running back Thomas Jones anddefensive end Adewale Ogunleye, who were guests at the event, few options as tohow to spend the rest of the night.

This is doing very funny things to the English press, who have spent the last week or so running stories like:

Nevertheless, it was a run out for Bruce's men, one they would rather forget but a run out nonetheless, which is more than Blackpool have achieved of late having spent most of the previous three weeks training indoors.

Making preparations in these last four weeks will mean that you can spend more time being calmly excited than running around like a headless chicken, trying to accomplish everything at the very last minute before the contractions hit.

We've trialed using Pinterest to get other people to curate homepage themes with our Facebook «Folksy Finds» competition (there's one running this week actually with # 100 to spend at Fred Aldous as a prize).

Do you REALLY want to spend the last weeks of your pregnancy running around to 7 different stores trying to return all those receiving blankets?

During the week before you return to work, do a dry run of spending time away from your baby, pumping and having someone else give your baby a bottle.

There are no school runs for a couple of weeks, it is time to wind down, kick the nine - «til - five in the shins, crack open a bottle of wine and spend the time... tackling the never - ending pit of dirty clothes, in an attempt to reach the allusive abyss that is the bottom of the laundry basket.

If we ran out of spending money, we had to wait for the next week.

Week 6: The 3 A's Your Son Will Love Receiving I find, on busy days, that the more time I spend «maintaining chaos» in the home — laundry, sweeping, cooking, tidying etc. and the less time I spend with my son, the more he begins to run wild and play up.

We kept running into each other at student government meetings, the cafeteria, and then friends intervened to keep bringing us together, and eventually — although really, probably only a few weeks — we were «dating,» spending more and more time together.

She spends, on average, a week and a half out of every month in China running the factory along with family members who live there and operate the company on a daily / weekly / yearly basis.

I had spent the last 2 weeks walking in the dry sand in the hot July afternoon, running up and down the stairs, jamming liquids into my vagina, eating weird foods and cursing people out.

The group this week spent $ 22,201 on a mail campaign boosting Democratic state Senate candidate Shelley Mayer, who is running in a key district in Westchester County.

As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.

And Mayor Byron W. Brown, running for re-election with only nominal competition in the general election, was suddenly back on television, spending a total of $ 106,500 in little more than two weeks on ads, campaign literature and a get - out - the - vote effort for himself and his fellow Democrats running for countywide office.

Sunder, Staines isn't the only one at this game - Iain Dale is trumpeting the virtues of Cleggameron, after having spent a week in the run - up running the most vitriolic anti-LibDem stories.

I asked Paladino during a CapTon interview last week whether he would indeed end up spending all the $ 10 million of his own money he said at the outset of this campaign that he would be willing to invest in his first — and he insists only — statewide run.

That amount covers ads running through September 9, the day of the Democratic primary in which Mr. Cuomo snagged only 60 percent of the vote thanks to upstart challenger Zephyr Teachout, and includes some $ 296,000 spent the week of September 8.

House leaders predicted last week that the spending plan could come as early as Monday, though there were signs the timeline might slip again even though the stopgap government funding measure passed on Dec. 11 runs out at the end of Wednesday.

It doesn't include big spending by the New York State Democratic Committee — the state party, which Ms. Teachout unsuccessfully tried to stop from running pro-Cuomo ads — which has dropped just under $ 5 million on air time in the gubernatorial race across the state, according to the figures, including more than $ 368,000 the week of the primary and almost $ 459,000 this week.

Milk spent five weeks on the Board of Permit Appeals before Moscone was forced to fire him when he announced he would run for the California State Assembly.

Echoing the sentiments of Tony Benn when he quit parliament «to spend more time on politics», Purnell and a member of his constituency party will spend next week relearning the tools of their trade at a five day community organising course run by the UK's largest community organisation, London Citizens.

The Republicans, meanwhile, declined to say exactly how much they were spending but said their advertisement would run for roughly two weeks on cable television stations on Long Island, in the lower Hudson Valley, central New York and several counties upstate.

In the week before the referendum, Vote Leave donated money to two other Leave groups — # 625,000 to BeLeave, run by fashion student Darren Grimes, and # 100,000 to Veterans for Britain, who both then spent this money with AggregateIQ.

In a hallway near the courtroom where he's spent the last five weeks listening to lawyers, witnesses and a judge talk about him, Percoco, who led both of Cuomo's successful gubernatorial runs, was asked if he believed his trial could politically harm Cuomo.

Within the three weeks that she's been running leading up to the recent filing deadline, she raised $ 94,624 and spent just $ 570.

In recent weeks, Channel 4 News has been investigating the Conservative Party's spending in the run...

Last month, the American Action Network, a conservative 501 (c) 4 run by former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, announced it would spend $ 600,000 to try to oust Maloney during the final weeks of the campaign.

Wilson, who has told some Republican leaders he's prepared to spend $ 10 million of his own money if he runs, said he expects to make a final decision whether to get in the race within the next few weeks.

In response to a reporter's question, he said Democrats, including New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, would be «justified» if they threatened to shut down the government when the temporary spending measure runs out at the end of the week, if the tax bill passes.

The opposition, which also include pro and anti abortion rights groups, second amendment advocates and the state's Conservative Party, spent over one million dollars running ads and distributing lawn signs in the weeks leading up to the vote.