Sentences with phrase «who built a house for»

[k] 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.

With Dame Helen Mirren playing the lead role as Sarah Winchester, we'll hopefully get an exciting portrayal of a woman who built a house for ghosts.

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Modeled after a high - topped work shoe, it was built in 1948 by shoe salesman Mahlon Haines, who intended it to be a guest house for elderly couples.

«We have a housing shortage, and a large group of people who don't want more housing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit hhousing shortage, and a large group of people who don't want more housing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit hhousing — often people who already have secure housing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit hhousing, and who get richer if there is a shortage,» says Daniel Oleksiuk, a member of Abundant Housing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit hHousing Vancouver, an organization that advocates for changing zoning practices to build more multi-unit housinghousing.

That movement creates competition for homebuyers who may be looking to build sweat - equity on their own, but it also provides improvements to the housing stock for buyers who don't have time or cash to improve a home themselves.

The first house of the area was built in 1872 by S.S. Rogers, who was known for her generosity of liberally distributing water to the bypassers.

Mainly focusing on competitors limits the potential drastically, makes the tool specifically suitable for in - house SEO specialists who spend a day or so a month building links.

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Too bad they didn't build a rehab center for drug - addicts, or a safe - house for prostitutes who need protection from pimps.

The requirement to practice religion only in registered places of worship creates a Catch - 22 for Russian Protestants, who are often blocked by the state from obtaining property on which to build those houses of worship, Pentecostal Union deputy bishop Konstantin Bendas told Forum 18.

Ordinary faces belong to the great multitude: a young girl at Columbine high school; the man who used retirement funds to pay for a mission trip to Haiti to build a house; the corporation accountant who reported the manipulation of numbers; countless others.

The Messenger Muhammad illustrated the unity of divine messages by saying that all the apostles are builders of one house, the earlier apostles laying the foundation for the later ones who build upon their foundation.

I may not have caused my disease, but the people who many years ago buried toxic waste on empty land, land on which my house was later built, greedy people who did not want to pay for proper disposal of the waste, were responsible for my disease.

About a year ago, I met a man who is pastor of a church in my area that together made the decision to completely stop having meetings in their building and use it instead for housing and feeding the needy.

Who decide to maybe house some of their poorer congregants than build a Monument to their ability to raise funds for attention getting.

Viewing Jesus as a country peasant who combined marginal farming with village carpentry, Legrand suggests that Jesus» work must have been in building houses which involved very little wood work since house construction those days was little dependent on wood.24 Therefore, additional farm work was inevitable for the sake of subsistence.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

I use to make fun of Ricky Martin, until I went to Thailand and saw the acres and acres of houses he built with his own money for those who lost homes due to the tsunami.

Johnson, out of his own liberal roots, spoke boldly of building the Great Society, but the streets of this land were increasingly unsafe even for the president, who more and more found himself to be a virtual prisoner in the White House.

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing, and does not give him his wages;... Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness?

, but never actually meeting or learning the names of the people who we were building the house for!

They also cared for their comrades on death row: in one instance a prisoner «so much... love [d] the man who was about to die» that he «scaled the fence that enclosed the death - row exercise yard and reached the roof of a nearby building before he was stopped on his way to the death house,» where he «had intended to disable the [electric] chair's generator.»

We seek for strength, for peace, for a path through the forest, but Christians are people who maybe more than for anything else seek for Christ, and from the shabbiest little jerry - built meeting house in the middle of nowhere to the greatest cathedrals, all churches everywhere were erected by people like us in the wild hope that in them, if nowhere else, the one we seek might finally somehow be found.

In January of 2012, actor and musician Gary Sinise asked Temecula City Council if he and his Lt. Dan Band could play a benefit concert at City Hall to help his foundation (Gary Sinise Foundation) contribute to building a house for a wounded veteran who wanted to move to Temecula.

My husband got it for Christmas, it's awesome and details how distilleries work with shelters to rescue formerly feral kitties who never quite calm down enough to be indoor house pets, but don't mind being mice janitors in a large building.

His goal is to one day be able to earn enough money to build a house in Jimma for tourists who want free lodging and food in exchange for teaching the local population a skill, be it piano or English.

If localpromoters have their way a new, bigger, noisier airport will be built acrossthis valley to permit an even greater influx of people; and after that, morehotels to house the travelers, more restaurants to feed them, more rental cars, more gas stations, more subdivisions for those who wish to stay.

A man who has built a church and three houses — with an elementary school, a playground, a ball field and more houses to come — for the impoverished people of Manoguayabo, his hometown in the Dominican.

I feel we have a kid who could do the role just as well, M - Niles has played at RB, RM and CM... Built like a brick sh*t house and fast... Even if the Ox suffers one of his injuries then we would still have a viable backup in a homegrown youth product, perfect for me.

Walking on these bare wood floors with bare feet feels heavenly, and for some reason (even though I imagine they have been painted for so very long) makes me feel all that closer to the original state of the house, the wood and trees that it is built of, and the hardworking hands of the very people who built it.

She also joined community volunteers in Fayetteville to build a new home for Barbara Marshall, a Navy veteran who established Steps - N - Stages Jubilee House to shelter and counsel homeless female veterans.

I will never forget being in Africa and stopping to see a young boy on the side of the road who was breaking up rocks for people who were building their concrete houses.

Hockhalter, who has lived in her house for 23 years, and her neighbors are particularly opposed to the baseball diamond for players 16 years old to adults, slated to be built behind her back yard.

For the kids who love to build houses, and more houses, and MORE houses.

As Chair of the Council's Housing and Buildings Committee, I am thrilled that the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) has for the first time in its history voted to freeze rent for 1.2 million rent stabilized tenants,» said Williams, who represents the 45th Council District in Brooklyn.

«I want to thank HELP USA, SAGE, and our partners in government for their collaboration in providing desperately needed affordable housing for our seniors who helped to build this city.»

Currently it mandates developers who build in rezoned areas of the city pick from one of three options for affordable housing: 25 percent of their units rented to those making, on average, 60 percent of the Area Median Income, 30 percent at 80 percent of the AMI or 30 percent at 120 percent.

It's not the first time Cuomo has used party resources to build himself up, which is becoming an increasing point of frustration for progressives within state party ranks who want Democratic resources focused on campaigns to re-take the state Senate and the House of Representatives.

«Toledano hired contractors who are not using best practices for construction, so there have been layers of dust in my building and apartment, so much that I was told by my doctor to wear a dust mask in my own house.»

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

A bill to repeal the vacancy allowance has languished in the State Assembly for years, but some see an opening to inject the issue into negotiations over the renewal of a tax exemption for developers who build affordable housing.

In contrast there are other facilities that house less than 300 inmates, do not own their power plants, do not own their actual buildings (that's right the State leases them for tens of millions of dollars yearly with taxpayers money) on prime NYC real estate and are falling down around the people who work there.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development never followed up to see whether developers who got discounts on city land in exchange for building...

A high - rise residential building that had been slated for Sherman Ave. and Broadway as part of the first individual project proposed under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing plan was brought down by community advocates who protested throughout the summer and ultimately prevailed with City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

The messy end of session also includes agreements on short extenders — one additional year for mayoral control of the New York City schools, and a six month extension of a tax break for real estate developers who build some affordable housing.

Shettima, who also said he can not but praise Tinubu for finding time to come over to Maiduguri on a two - day visit during which he inaugurated 432 houses, 13 primary and junior secondary schools and a fully furnished estate with 26 apartments of five sets of three - storey buildings for medical doctors, recalled that he succeeded in taking control of the Borno APC in 2015 largely because Tinubu refused to support the game plan of a wealthy tyrant.

Seventh Ward Alderman Patrick O'Reilly, who was elected after the zoning issue had been resolved and lobbied unsuccessfully for a revote, recited a litany of underfunded city departments and argued that bringing more low - income housing into the city, rather than building up the tax base, would further drain resources.

That's why this past month Erie County, through our Department of Environment and Planning and with assistance procured by Congressman Brian Higgins, built three new homes for the Lackawanna Housing Development Agency to be rented to families who qualified under low income guidelines.

I admire the mayor for making a full commitment to building affordable housing, but we can not build our way out of this,» said Frank Castillo, a building service worker who spoke on behalf of Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.