Sentences with phrase «taking lives every year»

While we grapple continually with how to stop more suicides (close to 3,700 Canadians take their lives each year, according to Health Canada), we must always ask ourselves if the suicides of eight soldiers within three months could have been avoided.

Drunk driving is responsible for taking lives every year.

Not exact matches

Elkins is originally from the San Francisco Bay area but took the digital nomad route a few years ago and now lives in Tel Aviv.

Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

They took what amounted to a year abroad, during which they traveled the world (while working remotely) to see what their expenses would be like and to test whether they would be happy living the vagabond life in retirement.

If you want to take things up a notch because you're awesome and you made a New Year's resolution to live life to the fullest, you can also get the fries served Supreme for $ 2.49 or Bell Grande for $ 3.49.

It took most of the year, but now I am able to leave the business in the capable hands of my employees and get some balance in my life.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

Branson's oldest child, 36 - year - old Holly, has taken those lessons and applied them to both her career and her personal life.

In 1980, it took the typical Canadian aged 25 to 34 five years to save a 20 percent down payment on a house; now it's 12 years, or 15 if you live in Toronto, and 23 if Vancouver is home.

The year after a baby is born is, also «a unique time,» and a chance to take care of yourself and your family during a period of a mind - bending life changes.

«We knew we wanted to take off, see the world a little bit, live on board and sail for a couple of years,» he said.

He was a well - oiled machine that simply thought nothing bad could ever happen to him and for 15 years nothing did!This pro was in for the shock of his life when one day he took a few shortcuts and caused a massive explosion nearly ending his own life.

Typically, what happens is you take a really nominal base salary and you get a bunch of equity that would get liquid and realized in years 5, 6, or 7 of a company's life cycle.

When their funds ran dry after two years, they returned to work — Jason as an IT project manager and Julie as a marketing manager — and quickly devised a plan to take their lives on the road full time.

He borrowed another $ 35,000 and a sewing machine from his mom, and got to work making his first product — a process that took two years, while he lived with his dad in Sausalito and Jill moved to Santa Monica.

Former life: During all five years of college Guerra was a maintenance mechanic at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, Calif. «Basically, I unplugged toilets and took hair out of the strainers in 581 bathrooms.

If 2015 was the year that brands and advertisers embraced online video, then 2016 will see the medium take the next step as live streaming takes off.

To find out where you could live by the 50/30/20 plan on $ 50,000 or less a year — that's take - home pay, not pre-tax income — GOBankingRates examined the following monthly expenses for a single person in 270 cities:

So, while you get ready to reconnect with family, and even set your New Year's resolutions, try to first take a moment to see what's already worth appreciating in your life.

«The stress took years off my life, but when you get that kind of responsibility, it's hard not to feel ownership.»

It means if your investments take a big hit as you are nearing retirement or in the early years of retirement, your losses can be much more devastating than if they had occurred earlier in your life.

As important as the difference to the world, that difference — if you act according to your values, as Thoreau did by living nearly alone for two years, for going to jail to oppose slavery, for self - financing his risky book venture, for resiliently taking on his next book — makes a difference to you, yourself.

We need to take a fresh look at what's really going to matter and make a difference in the lives of this year's graduates.

Nowadays, the average 65 - year old can look forward to about 21 more years of a healthy life, and members of this demographic segment are taking full advantage of this time in their lives, applying their wisdom and experience toward new ventures and ideas.

And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.

Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins will take home $ 23.9 million this year, yet he still lives in his parent's basement with his wife during the summer.

Ten years after «Night of the Living Dead,» Romero made «Dawn of the Dead,» where human survivors take refuge from the undead in a mall and then turn on each other as the zombies stumble around the shopping complex.

At the time, the former investment banker was making noise about taking the world's largest economy off life support, which helped market bulls roar into the new year.

If humans have any hope of living forever, we should probably take a hint from the dozens of other animals on Earth that far outpace our measly 71 years.

But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware, software, and life sciences, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months.

«When we look at our budget on a yearly basis, we're much more mindful of «Oh yeah, I pay my life insurance premiums yearly» or «We take a family vacation every year and it's X amount of dollars.»»

Two years in the making, Woodle says he created the ballooning hoodie — which takes three seconds to inflate by mouth — as part of a quest to «elevate the small aspects of life,» your weary brainpan included.

In fact, it can bring on a whole host of health problems and even take years off your life.

But the first thing I recommend you do when you receive a windfall is to take a «money break» and not increase your standard of living for at least a year.

«You don't want to take all risk off the table, because some people are living in retirement for 30 years.»

The company's PFS predicts a minimum 20 year mine life at Barrambie, with a payback of capital costs taking approximately 4 years.

In approaching the New Year, focus on how you can optimize your business to take full advantage of tools that can make your life easier and your more business more successful with the solid foundation built in 2014.

With one eye on my life outside the business and the other on my changing role in it, I came up with the long - term goal of eventually being able to take off four months every year.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey took part in demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, live - tweeting updates from the protests of the police shooting of 18 - year - old Michael Brown.

As he has since 2014, Warren Buffett offered $ 1 million every year for life to the person who could correctly predict the outcomes of all games through the Sweet 16 (this year the prize rose to $ 2 million if a Nebraska team took home the trophy).

On the one - year anniversary of his presidency, «Saturday Night Live» took on recent reports that President Donald Trump had a brief affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.

But he never thought it would take seven years to see his life story come to life on the big screen.

Another way we keep our employees engaged is by inviting them to take part in company events, like the Virgin Mobile Live Freefest, a free music festival we hold every year to raise money (through donations) for homeless young people.

«I gave more than 20 years of my life to CKE, and Mr. Puzder took a company that I loved and turned it into a business that makes money by stealing from its workers,» Laura McDonald, a former Carl's Jr. general manager, said in a recent forum hosted by Senate Democrats.

However, Rodela was also known for having taken in a 12 - year - old Cambodian orphan his unit had found living alone.

Even though we had the software live and running within eBay for three years before we spun it out, it still took us months to get customers on board, build a team, raise money and scale revenue.

«Make 2015 the year you champion your life and take control,» he adds.

Today, we have a much clearer view of where technology will take us over the next few years, and how it will continue to significantly alter our lives.