Sentences with phrase «turn old standbys»

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus: As leading city governments across the country consider how to approach the Internet age, they're taking the concept of «adaptive reuse» to a new frontier by thinking of new ways to turn old standbys like payphones or disused rail tunnels into new pieces of digital infrastructure.

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It turns out, that old standby willpower is a terrible tool for forming new habits.

Kline beefs up the role with some expert physical comedy — he even wrings some laughs out of that old telephone bit in which the speaker doesn't realize his listener is in the room — but Virginia Madsen can't do anything with the portentous dialogue of the Dangerous Woman, another Keillor standby, who in this context turns out to be the angel of death.

No question, companies still turn to the old standbys for those bet - the - farm cases.

I turned to my old standby... my Inbox.