Sentences with phrase «than a house fire»

There is nothing more tragic than a house fire, especially a preventable one.

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The Deed: Chicago «Fires on Every Floor»: In this behind - the - scenes look, host Sean Conlon discusses the whirlwind that was Berta, a glamorous rookie flipper more prone to taking beach vacations than taking hold of her house flipping project, and all of the disasters her hands - off approach created.

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

He eventually got that job as White House Communications Director, only to be fired after less than a week.

Amid all the hubbub over Michael Wolff's slash - and - burn Fire and Fury, little mention (other than a heated denial on the floor of the House of Commons, from the notoriously truth - challenged former prime minister Tony Blair, and from the relevant British agency itself!)

I would rather risk being called an alarmist than deal with the consequences of being timid, just as I would rather alert my neighbors to the possibility of a fire based on seeing smoke than remain silent until flames engulf their entire house.

and relight old fires of hatred and pain, I would worry about the safety too of the good American Muslims, although it was radicals to have a Mosque where 3,000 were killed seems to me to rub salt in wounds for many, I don't really understand what happened to the plans of statues and tributes to those lost in 911, other than a money factor.It seems like this Mosque will be viewed as a Trojan horse, no religion would want a house of worship to be a reminder of hatred.it should be a place reminding the world of peace and love if it's a place of worship, and in that location it will not bring a feeling of peace.

Had to ration it (Once, when he, his parents, and Sandy borrowed our house for a couple of weeks during a fire evacuation, I later returned to find no less than 3 or 4 kinds of ice cream stuck away in my little freezer.)

He sees the Wave House, with its palm trees, fire rings and hammocks, as more than a place to catch waves and scope babes.

Fire - rated doors can hold off the spread of fire for at least 30 minutes, allowing more than enough time to evacuate the house and alert the relevant authoritFire - rated doors can hold off the spread of fire for at least 30 minutes, allowing more than enough time to evacuate the house and alert the relevant authoritfire for at least 30 minutes, allowing more than enough time to evacuate the house and alert the relevant authorities.

They treasure their relationship with us, and would no more damage that relationship — by lying to us, or defying us — than they would set fire to the house, and for the same reasons.

His White House has seen more firings, resignations, and reassignments in its first year than any other young administration in modern history.

More than half of the heating technicians in the New York City Housing Authority aren't certified by the city's fire department to do the work, according to a monitor at the agency appointed by de Blasio.

Two House Democrats this week fired technology staffers linked to an ongoing criminal investigation, more than a month after the couple in question was barred from House computer networks.

The longest - serving member of the House, Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, paid more than $ 27,000 in 2015 from his taxpayer - funded office budget to settle a complaint from a female staffer who said she was fired after refusing his sexual advances.

Claim: The International Development Secretary's constituency home was damaged in a house fire in 2007 after he spent more than # 30,000 on repairing it, according to the Telegraph.

More than half of the heating technicians in the New York City Housing Authority aren't certified by the city's fire department to do the work, according to a monitor at the agency appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The organization had come under fire from good - government advocates over its receipt of large donations from companies lobbying City Hall, including more than $ 1 million from real estate developers, some trying to influence the administration's zoning and housing policies.

Some of us buy fire insurance for our homes when the risk of a house fire is less than 1 %, for example.

Like a smouldering fire in the attic of a house... it will sooner than later erupt into BIG problem in a matter of years.

At a basic, subconscious level, men treat romance like a house fire, they think «it's better to risk a false alarm than to fail picking up on heat» which obviously isn't always ideal.

I grew up reading her syndicated column * sniffle * This link is a remembrance of her by Denis Ferrara who was a very close friend and collaborator on her column Esquire the ten best comedies of the year including Ingrid Goes West, Thor Ragnarok, Girls Trip, and Lady Bird Independent Firing Kevin Spacey from House of Cards might be more difficult than Netflix thought, legally speaking Awards Daily the case for Michelle Pfeiffer.

As demons lay waste to the outside world with fire and brimstone, what else is a group of actors trapped in a house going to do other than make a homemade trailer for a proposed sequel to a movie that the majority of them were in?

After more than a dozen years of crafting finely - honed, modestly - produced dramas such as Raise the Red Lantern and The Road Home, Zhang came under fire for abandoning the art house circuit to make Hero, starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu - Wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi and Donnie Yen.

Lionsgate UK will also release a global exclusive Deluxe Edition of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire only from Amazon.co.uk, which will include both The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on DVD and Blu - ray, the official soundtrack, exclusive art cards, over 130 Minutes of bonus content, plus more than 45 - minutes of all - exclusive content housed in premium Mockingjay packaging

The camera surveys them at a pace more akin to art - house than blockbuster filmmaking all the better to channel the fire that rises up in the young heroine who decides that she will indeed be the «mockingjay».

(Leo McCarey, 1958) Reel 30b01 — Positano (Pierre Clémenti, 1969) Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo, 2015) Rio das Mortes (R. W. Fassbinder, 1971) Rak ti Khon Kaen (Cemetery of Splendour, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015) Sag es mir Dienstag (Astrid Ofner, 2007) Shrimp Boat Log (2006 - 2010), So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come (2010), David Gatten Schwitzkasten (John Cook, 1978) Shift (1972 - 1974), Still (1969 - 1971), Ernie Gehr Sisters (1973), Raising Cain (1992), Brian de Palma Smorgasbord (Jerry Lewis, 1983) Spain (Beryl Sokoloff, 1962) Spin (Hannes Schüpbach, 2001) Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937) Still Light (1970/2001), Sotiros (1976-1978/1996), Robert Beavers Suspicion (1941), Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934) The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman, 1972) Outer Space (2000), The Exquisite Corpus (2015), Peter Tscherkassky The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943) The Thoughts That Once We Had (Thom Andersen, 2015) The Throw 1 (2006), Eye Eclipse (2007), Fried Egg (2008), The Initiate (2008), Fruit Polyhedron (2009), Hand, Smaller than Hand (2009), The Soup (2009), Cassowary (2010), Pot Smaller than Pot (2010), Spaghetti Tornado (2010), Benguelino putting a spell on the camera (2011), Bread, Tea and Bao Game (2011), Donkey (2011), Dream of a Ray Fish (2011), Getting into bed (2011), The horse of the prophet (2011), The Unparticled Man (2011), Under a Car (2011), Wave (2011), Wheels (2011), Darwin's Apple, Newton's Monkey (2012), Placing the Fisheye (2012), Those animals that, at a distance, resemble flies (2012), Triangles and Squares (2013), Water Mill (2012), Proboscis (2013), João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva Thorndon (1975), Napkins (1975), Aberhart's House (1976), Johana Margaret Paul Three Films from the Room (Peter Todd, 2015) Tortured Dust (Stan Brakhage, 1984) Trixi (Stephen Dwoskin, 1969) Twin Peaks (1990), Fire, Walk with Me (1992), David Lynch Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) Vivir para vivir (Laida Lertxundi, 2015) Yolanda and the Thief (1945), An American in Paris (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), The Cobweb (1955), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), The Sandpiper (1965), Vincente Minnelli Zanj Revolution (Tariq Teguia, 2013)

Kensington Aldridge Academy (KAA) has been closed since the fire at the 24 - storey housing block on June 12 in which it is thought more than 70 people died.

Incidentally, the SRS TruMedia audio coupled with the integrated speakers produced clearer, louder, and richer - sounding audio on the same Adele track I tried than on the Dolby Digital Plus - enhanced Kindle Fire HD; however, further testing will be needed in - house to determine just how the two tablets compare when Nook HD is actually shipping.

Guns were fired, in celebration rather than in anger; an effigy of British imperialism was burned, in both.5 Soon afterward, Nehru arrived at the Viceroy's House, a gated citadel at the end of Kingsway, New Delhi's two - mile processional avenue.

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The plastic housing feels more solid than before and the back has the same rubberised material as the Kindle Fire, adding warmth if little extra grip.

Within its 7.3 x 5 x 0.35 in (186 x 128 x 9 mm) housing beats a quad - core Snapdragon 800 processor running at 2.2 GHz, with 2 GB of RAM, either 16, 32 or 64 GB of storage and an Adreno 330 graphics engine that promises up to four times better performance than the previous Fire HD models.

Whether your neighbor walks away from the stove and causes one of the thousands of cooking fires that happen every year or whether maintenance isn't paying attention when they're fixing plumbing with a torch, fire is far more common in multifamily housing than it should be.

Uncertainty in housing markets and the economy are forcing financial institutions to mark mortgage securities at fire - sale prices, rather than their value if held to maturity, effectively creating a vicious circle of more write - downs that further depress asset values, Mr. Bernanke explained.

You may pay less for insurance if you buy a house close to a fire hydrant or in a community that has a professional rather than a volunteer fire department.

This is more than six times the number of deaths annually attributed to house fires and carbon monoxide poisoning combined.

The company says it hopes to lower the number of family pets who die every year in house fires, now estimated at more than 40,000.

The Fire Administration does not keep tally, but other groups have estimated that more than 500,000 pets are killed by house fires each year.

It is estimated that more than 40,000 family pets die every year in house fires.

Fewer than expected works addressed war, race and climate, but standouts were Teresita Fernández's Fire (America), Bob Maguire's searing photograph of bombed - out housing in Aleppo, William Kentridge's table sculpture of South Africa's oppressed, and Simon Denny's graph outlining the possibilities for borderless societies.

As I peered around in the darkness, people or artworks would suddenly appear, each a new cause for wonder, including a mirror - sided shack by Elliot Coon, seemingly set ablaze by a snaking pit of gas - fueled fire passing by it, AdrinaAdrina's astonishing four - poster bed made from a block of ice that was lit from within, and the pièce de résistance, a submersive environment by Homemade Parachutes, a New Orleans collective, in an old molasses factory that bore more than a passing resemblance to the horror - film classic House of Wax.

From ArtForum.com O Globo's Eduardo Fradkin reports that more than a thousand works by Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica (1937 — 1980) were destroyed Friday in a fire at the house of his brother, César Oiticica, in Rio de Janeiro.

«The houses are 7 meters in diameter, fire proof, earthquake and typhoon resistant, and using the modular building system can be constructed in less than a day.»

Rep. Blake is sponsoring House Bill 1123 which would bar counties / cities with fewer than 125k people from setting minimum dimensions for single - family home — unless needed for fire and safety reasons.

Some of us buy fire insurance for our homes when the risk of a house fire is less than 1 %, for example.

would people buy fire insurance if it costs 3 times more than the house?

Taking that analogy a bit further — would you take out a fire insurance policy if the premiums would cost far more than the value of your house, and that the payout would only be about 5 % of your house value?

During a May 5 campaign stop in Charleston, he told a fired - up crowd of 13,000 people he would make the state «better than ever before» if he wins the White House.

Note that the radiation exposure from living within 50 miles of a coal fired plant is much, much less than exposure from living in a brick or stone house.