Sentences with phrase «than a bed of»

Anyone working in education knows that the daily working life of many teachers is more bed of nails than bed of roses but the profession will never get the recognition it deserves from the wider public as long as these messages are mainstream.

Not exact matches

Investors seem to be mesmerised by this number, which is more reminiscent of a tech business than a bed retailer.

Through this partnership, the two companies were able to sell more than $ 135 million worth of Westin Heavenly Beds.

-- Scott and Missy Tannen, founders of Boll & Branch, a New York - based company with a line of accessibly priced luxury bed linens that launched in January 2014 with first - year revenue topping $ 2 million and more than a $ 10 million run rate in its second year in business.

And I'll gladly suffer through all these pet peeves rather than return to the days when workout rooms were the size of walk - in closets, HBO cost extra, Wi - Fi was a novelty and the average hotel bed had the topography of a mountain range.

When assessing a patient's risk of burnout, Sabongui asks questions like: Are they more tired when they wake up than when they went to bed?

Studies show that someone laying in bed could have higher levels of stress than someone about to go bungee jumping.»

Most of us have to work to pay the bills, but what is it, other than money, that gets you out of bed in the morning?

People are disgusted by bed bugs, but less than half of travelers even know what one looks like, according to a new report.

My room, in general, is unusually cold, but I have eight pillows in my bed, and none of them feel anything other than room temperature.

Due to the special launch promotion, it currently costs $ 74, but even at its regular price of $ 89, the Pluto Pillow is more affordable than the luxury pillows offered by mattress - first brand Leesa or bedding - first brand Boll & Branch.

Other than the fact that it kicked my butt every day, one of my favorite things about the machine is that it's sooo simple to fold up and store away under a bed, in a closet... wherever!

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

And it takes a lot more than sitting at a computer while the children are nestled all snug in their beds and visions of thought leadership dance in your head.

«Of course, we could pay the same percentage and upgrade to a nice two - bed / two - bath, but we're more than happy with where we live today.»

Small - breed dogs typically weigh no more than 20 pounds at maturity, but they still deserve the same level of support that high - quality dog beds offer for larger dogs.

The only problem is... you absolutely hate getting out of bed any earlier than you have to.

Also, some are disappointed at the amount of heat generated (and Soft Heat's low - voltage technology does produce around 20 percent less heat than competing heated bedding products).

Marrying mostly among themselves, and at a high rate (in 1989, Helmreich reports, 83 percent of survivors were married, compared to 62 percent of American Jews in the same age group), they often resorted to what Helmreich calls «pragmatic marriages»» made more for a bed, a blanket, and security than for any grander dreams.

But when she went to bed at night, Sparks felt an absence of purpose: «My parents taught me to leave things better than I found them,» she remembers.

In the midst of one difficult season, I remember lying in bed less than a foot away from my husband and feeling as if we were on opposite sides of the Continental Divide.

Considering it was a Mormon missionary who befriended my Grandfather and talked him into to joining the church at 70 years old, and than stole a million dollars worth of real estate from him, something the family knew nothing about until he was on his death bed, because he was too ashamed to tell anybody that he lost the family property.

This style of living emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and offered men who were dislocated from family — usually immigrants or young workmen looking for opportunities in a new city — a supportive environment with more than just a room and bed.

At night I lined them up on my bed: fat flakes of mica, buckeyes bigger than shooter marbles, blue jay feathers, bird bones and — if I was lucky — a cicada shell, one...

There is no better time than at the end of a hard day, when otherwise one may go to bed to think of one's troubles and toss all night in restless agitation.

This need not take longer than a few seconds before one gets out of bed to start the hurried scramble of the day, but it is a very important orientation.

The youngest son of one large family I know bedded down in a (former) large cupboard, not much bigger than a single mattress in floor space.

A car and a home and a bed and a pantry with food seem more like needs than wants at first glance, but there are so many on earth — millions — who go without the most basic of needs being met.

But when the movie credits roll, we will either find ourselves in bed alone or with our less - than - perfect spouse sans the advantages of professional lighting, flattering camera angles or an original star - studded soundtrack playing in the background.

These days, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore's fictional marriage is more likely to be mocked for its separate beds than heralded for its portrait of a progressive marriage in the 1960s.

I love the last line «unless you are making a night of it with your cronies there is no reason why you should ever be in bed later than eleven.»

He should be sitting on a chair beside the bed, rather than standing, partly to show that he is not administering medicine but mainly to suggest that the nature of his ministry is through conversation, talking and listening, and other procedures like prayer and reading which also involve verbal means.

Powers knows that more clergy are lost to the golf course or a second round of drinks than are tempted by a parishioner's bed.

STONER»S PRAYER Now I pass out into sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep Grant no other stoner take My weed and bong before I wake Keep me safely in thy sight And grant no crackhead's thrill tonight And in the morning let me awake Breathing scents of wake «n bake God protect me in my dreams and make this better than it seems Grant the time may siwftly fly When myself shall be so high In a green grass weed bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes And the smell of bammer smoked by beans Take me back into the land Where the cops never take you out Where the weed won't burn my throat like sand; Where the scent of chronis blows Where the good Mary Jane grows; Take me back and I'll promise then Never to leave BC again... - Anonymous

According to most research, more than 50 percent of people who say «I do» will not be sleeping in the same bed eight years from now.

The code — which had to be obeyed if a picture was to receive the office's «seal of approval» — also forbade scenes in which a couple was in bed with more than two of their four feet off the floor.

More than 40 beds lined each side of a large open room.

Paul, I agree with your points, and similar points were made in the longer article, but I think these points support the idea of two men in one bed rather than undermine it.

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

(d) According to the plan, all existing state hospitals of more than one thousand beds should be gradually converted into centers for the care of chronically ill persons, both physically and mentally ill.

«Are we saying that every piece of military equipment is more important than bed nets, children's health and nutrition for low - income families?»

The government should be more concerned about military equipment than bed nets because providing for defense I emphasize defense) of the people of the US against those who would threaten our lives, liberty or property with force is one of it's primary roles; being a charity is not.

He's on my side of the bed and I'm on his, my ratty old t - shirt bearing the legend ORU Freshman Councilis a castoff from my politically - minded sister more than 10 years ago (because I was not the one in student government, oh,...

More often than not philosophers of nature take the abstractions of science and secondary perception as the bed - rock of their speculations.

Could it be that the two sides are more like each other than we care to admit??? LOL, why didn't they put the money they used to put up the billboard to prove without a shadow of a doubt that it is a myth and nothing in the bible actual happened since it's all about reason and science so we can put all the speculation to bed.

To be the only chaplain in a 170 - bed hospital filled with a great number of people who are quadraplegic; to try to help these people rediscover and / or redefine a life value and quality that they often feel has been lost; to grow to care greatly about these people; to do all these things and yet deep, deep inside, to feel that you would rather be dead than be quadraplegic — that's hard to admit.

Steve, Rather than concerning yourself with Not hearing the Word of God at the dry cleaners... or at the park... or at the grocery store... or at a rock concert... or at the movies... or lying in my bed..., Frankly it is my expressed opinion that if you are Not that is entirely your own fault, especially in bed, don't you Read the Word?

As one reader posted on the on «line bookstore, Amazon.com, «Ms. Walker is truly one of the most daring writers of the twentieth century... [but] I found the details of the lesbian lovemaking to be more than I ever wanted to know about lesbian relationships» and the assumption that my dead relatives spy on me in my bed quite revolting.

Part of this success is due to President George W. Bush's President's Malaria Initiative, which helped ensure that more than 1 million bed nets were distributed across the country, and leadership from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

The Global Fund, underway in more than 140 countries, has delivered 104 million insecticide treated bed nets and 108 million highly effective doses of malaria medicines, and has also protected millions of homes through indoor spraying.