Sentences with phrase «town live as»

Frequently people new to town live as renters, leasing an apartment or townhouse while they are getting themselves established.

At its best, Real Time reminded me a little of Alexander Payne's wonderful Nebraska in the way it depicts small - town life as so unrelentingly ugly, banal, and tacky that it comes back around to being strangely beautiful.

Greenlaw employs throughout her talent for fascinating nautical description and her eye for the dramas of small - town life as she tells a story that is both hilarious and moving.

Not exact matches

Some people's ancestors wated their lives in a saloon as the town drunk or local prostitute.

As she and her husband struggle to find the best school for their daughter, «I worry about the experiences she'll have early in her life on the other side of town where the parks are picturesque and pristine and none of the other kids have beads and braids like her, and how that might impact her culturally.»

As the editor of Cracked put it in a very perceptive essay: «If you don't live in one of these small towns, you can't understand the hopelessness.

As Cerf mentioned, the notion of privacy is still quite different in smaller towns today, like the one he used to live in.

In 2001, having lost a job as a software engineer with a dot - com, Zander moved to Truckee, California, and set about trying to make a living in a town of 14,000 people.

Stewart's musings about Shanghai came as she was invited to town as part of a partnership with China's perhaps most famous company, the Alibaba Group (baba), which plunked her front and center at an exposition for kitchen goods Tuesday that it live - streamed on its platforms.

Across Ecuador, you'll find expats living comfortably on as little as $ 1,000 a month if they own their own home, and rentals also remain affordable — count on paying around $ 500 for a three - bedroom apartment in a city, with small - town rentals costing even less.

The gist of my column was this: Given that Starbucks became a corporate powerhouse by positioning itself as the world's living room, home office and town square, it needed to make sure that everyone equal access to the creature comforts it offers.

As Jim Gault says of the beach town where he lives, «A few single retired people live here on $ 1,200 a month and they rent a modest one - or two - bedroom room apartment for $ 400 to $ 600.

In recent years, Forbes Magazine named the town as the number one city in America in relation to cost of living.

It's also home to Oregon State University and is routinely recognized as one of the best college towns and places to live.

Valerie enjoys exploring and writing about historical sights, hill towns and cuisine, and puts her on - the - ground expat experience to work as International Living's Italy correspondent.

And whether you live in a big city, small town, or somewhere in between, we know you care about your community — as do we.

Moga's standard of living improved: More homes had electricity and telephones; more towns established primary, secondary, and high schools; and Moga had five times the number of doctors as neighboring regions.

So love and friendship continue for a man like him as a «townie,» and his fears about the coldness of town life turnout out to be prejudices.

Tens of thousands of Christians are fleeing for their lives in western Syria, as Islamic State attempts to capture their town.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

As it is, God is like the awesome boyfriend living in another town, that nobody has ever seen, but is claimed to have given wonderful gifts like jewelry and flowers that the lady in question could easily have bought for herself.

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

«I am really proud of the strong partnership between Hull City Council and Hull Minster and I am looking forward to seeing Trinity Square and the wider Old Town welcoming a whole host of new visitors as the area springs back to life.»

But I recognize that it would be a short - lived happiness as a used Civic, meaning one with a few bumps and bruises, will also transport me around town at a more affordable cost.

He roundly declared that such notorious evil cities as Sodom and Gomorrah would fare better in the judgment than towns which rejected the living truth when it was before their eyes.

I always end up feeling a bit left out when people write about God as present mostly in cities — after all, I live in a small town in western Canada.

And can we learn once again to be happy in traditional towns and cities — not only as a moral antidote to individualism, inequality and the misuse of environmental resources, and not only as an aesthetic antidote to suburban sprawl, but also for the sake of the genuine goods and pleasures (including both communal belonging and individual freedom) of traditional urban life?

Updike has repeatedly found his life's worth amid small - town security, safely «out of harm's way,» as he calls it.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free by education from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades for human emancipation and happiness.

The narrator tells the story of his life as a barber living in the mid-2Oth century in a tiny Kentucky town called Port William.

Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi were bonded laborers (seen by many as a modern form of slavery) at a brick - making kiln who lived in a small Punjab town named for the first Anglican missionary to Pakistan.

And thus began a journey which included a retreat in a desert, some work as a catechist, military service and then, back in Spain, an encounter with people living in a shanty town.

I currently live in Ontario, in Ottawa, in China town area, but adjacent to (what is referred to on the municipal tourism website as) the «gaybourhood».

Lilacs tipped with light purple blooms still grace the side streets of small towns throughout the American Midwest, but as Lauck recognizes in an elegiac epilogue, fewer and fewer people live there.

As someone who was raised in the Independent Fundamental Southern Baptist religion while living in two smallish towns (FWB, Fl. and then Hurley, Ms. (population 900ish) this hits so close to home.

Without any battle, he made him enter his town Babylon, sparing Babylon and calamity... Happily [the inhabitants] greeted him as a master through whose help they had come (again) to life from death (and) had all been spared damage and disaster, and they worshiped his (very) name.8

And of course, most congregations take it as unanimous in the New Testament that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born (contra Matthew), there was at Jesus» baptism a public announcement from heaven as to his divinity (contra Mark and Luke), Jesus was rejected in his home town because he was a familiar local figure (contra Luke), Peter was the foremost apostle (contra John), and Judas hanged himself (contra Luke, in Acts)

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

As a race war engulfs Cape Town, where Michael lives with his aging and critically ill mother, he makes plans, as best he can, to return her to her ancestral home so that she can die among her peoplAs a race war engulfs Cape Town, where Michael lives with his aging and critically ill mother, he makes plans, as best he can, to return her to her ancestral home so that she can die among her peoplas best he can, to return her to her ancestral home so that she can die among her people.

Then, because he does not want to return to Cape Town, and because he wishes to live apart from the world of history and war, he plants a few pumpkin and melon seeds, found in an abandoned farmhouse, and so begins his life as a cultivator.

We try to get to know our neighbors, whether they live on our block, three streets over, in the next neighborhood or across town because as followers of Jesus we try to unconditionally love everyone who crosses our path.

In early America several settlements, including as New Salem, the Shaker communities and the early Mormon towns, were based on views of the ideal life.

In some towns and cities, Christianity has completely disappeared as many have fled for their lives.

As a result of jealousies inspired by a TV story about Chassidic Jews living in a small midwest town with a meat packing facility, that was bringing jobs and money to the local businesses, all manner of radical groups, from PETA, to unionizers, to left - wing Jewish newspapers, and detestable bloggers descended like a ton of bricks.

To pass, as the Hebrews did, from nomadic wanderings to a settled residence, from the exclusive tending of herds to the culture of crops, from tents to villages and walled towns, involved a profound change in the life and thought of the people, and, not least of all, in their religion.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

All agree that he is writing in reaction to a modern Protestantism once comfortably ensconced in small towns (like Shillington, Pennsylvania, where Up - dike lived as a boy), but now caught up in the secularism of the expanding megalopolis.

A struggling New York artist living with his black mistress, Peter lacks the sense of vocation, the sense of place, that his father came to know as a small - town teacher.

As small towns, small firms, inner cities, in spite of and at times, in their own way, because of gentrification, decline, and suburban life styles become increasingly mobile, privatized, and fragmented, the loss of the sense of community is more acute.