Sentences with phrase «who gets rain»

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According to Julie Rains of OPEN Forum, some of the tell - tale signs of an unhealthy company culture include playing favorites, a lack of constructive feedback and criticism, small issues that get repeated over and over again, employees who are defensive and frequent bending of the rules.

«I was going to bed every night and praying to the good Lord that we would get just one rain on the crop,» said Smith, who hopes to earn several thousand dollars for each acre - foot of water he can sell.

Later in the year, when rain returned to Brazil and coffee prices started to fall, some producers who had gotten used to higher prices, held back their crop, hoping to sell later.

Hurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it gets better.

yeah, we get a bunch of Southerns who can't find any racists to mingle with and they go nuts when they realize that it really does rain that much here.

Neither do I, but I get the feeling that Rain is just parroting the Pope, who he decries on a regular basis.

10:11); He rained down fire from heaven and burned up the enemy soldiers who came to get Elijah (2 King 1:9 - 15); He killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers who were attacking Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:35); He blinded the false prophet Bar - Jesus, who stood against the teaching of Paul (Acts 13:9 - 11).

I wonder whether those who are getting too much rain ever ask them to go where they are needed?

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

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!

Here an eternal divine order prevails, here it does not rain both upon the just and upon the unjust, here the sun does not shine both upon the good and upon the evil, here it holds good that only he who works gets the bread, only he who was in anguish finds repose, only he who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved, only he who draws the knife gets Isaac.

Thank you to every single person who braved the rain in Hollywood just to say hi to a Canadian blogger they didn't really know at all and get a signature in my little yellow book.

To the person who wrote the article and all the people that commented against God not being the one who shows us through the wind and the rain that He is all powerful, I am praying that you get enlightened and that His son Jesus Christ reveals Himself to you to know Him and accept Him as your Lord and Saviour.

There's bird crap raining all over us from the white doves they've released — the older athletes who've been in other Olympics are ready for it, they've got newspapers over their heads, but I don't know anything.

Yes — I don't really understand AFCON — not only is it held at least twice as often as other big international sporting events, and sometimes more, if they decide they want to change the schedule, to not interfere with something else (not the players club obligations, who pay their wages, perish the thought), but it is always held at the peak of the league season, as they say it maybe raining in summer, which I also don't get, as it rains here all the time — I'm sure there are parts of Africa which have reasonable weather during the summer — it's a big continent — South Africa must be fairly clement at that time.

I hope we keep wenger give the man a long term contract you must want some unloyal cheapskate whos been fired at 5 clubs and successful at 1 or 2 for a few years when the club spent big cause they got a new manager and after a couple years got fired beacause those spendy players got old and that manager did nothing we have the most loyal consistent winning manager in europe and if the linesman did nt make incorrect call we woould of been 1 - 0 up and mkhitaryan played poor balls in the rain which we always play bad in amd are you suffering short term memory loss we beat tottenham 2 - 0 at home so we still won the derby on aggregate this season again thanks to mr.wenger i mean where to people come out woth these low iq thoughts and mostly you have to fire three new managers before you get a couple good seasons then start the circus again people should be embarrassed wenger to stay

It's makes me both sad and angry that a player of Eddie's abilty has had his career so adversely affected by a low life thug... a player who having arrived on the heels of TH's departure had much to prove, who as each game went by began to show his ability, class and his incisiveness in front of goal... one of the quotes that still rings clear after his 2 goals against the bolton thugs on that memorable rain soaked night in the Carling Cup was «He just doesn't miss does he», and it was getting to the stage where everyone who watches prem football, was sitting up and taking notice of this small, shy, brilliant striker — as each game went by his confidence and stature were growing, you could see him blossoming in front of the supporters...... and he was beginning to form a real strike partnership with Bendtner who also seemed to becoming more of a pivotal player with Eddie in the side....

No changes at the break for either side and it's the visitors who get the game restarted in the rain...

Open your eyes to the beauty around youOpen your mind to the wonders of lifeOpen your heartto those who love youand always be true to yourself - Donna Davis EAT THAT PIECE OF CAKE, GET YOU HAIR WET, LOVE SOMEONE, DANCE IN THOSE MUDDY PUDDLES, DANCE ON THE RAIN, TELL SOMEONE OFF, DRAW A PICTURE WITH CRAYONS LIKE...

But at least when we drive all this way, we know we're not going to get rained on,» said David Leppla, who traveled from Cedarville, N.J., to sell his and wife Melaine Guernsey - Leppla's stunning glass vases, bowls and sculptures.

I have a 21 month old and we live in the Pacific Northwest and it rain very often and I have 2 older boys who play outdoor sports, So with this cover I don't have to worry that my son is getting soaked!

It attracted some rare species of birds that I have gotten to see thanks to our little one who encourages me to spend time outside with her, rain or shine.

I want to thank everyone who carried and signed petitions over the past month especially those campaign workers who braved the heat, humidity and rain to get the job done.»

It has a waterproof scorecard holder so you won't lose track of who's winning, even if you get rained on.

Victor Murphy, who manages the National Weather Service's Southern Region Climate Services Program, said Arkansas could get 2 or more inches of rain over the next five days, leading to significant drought relief there — and even a short - term risk of flooding.

David Stevenson, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and one of the theorists who originally proposed the mechanism of helium rain, said in an email that it's always good to get experimental confirmation of a theory.

Such a wide network of real - time rain gauges could lead to improved weather forecasts, says Hagit Messer - Yaron, who led the study: «Out of better measurements, you can get better models.»

And it's not a frivolous question because we think a lot about things like cloud seeding, obviously, for the sake of farmers who they may want to be trying to get more rain for their crops.

If the person is happy with what they've got going on then who am I to rain on their parade.

For those of you who are living somewhere that's either getting colder, or (sadly) failing to get warmer, perhaps we can look at this top as an ode to warmer weather, sort of like a rain dance equivalent for a hot summer day!

I have a sad reality to confess (especially to any younguns out there who dream of becoming a marine biologist so they can spend their days sunbathing and swimming with dolphins): Although I hate to rain on the Awesome Job Fantasy Parade, most of the time we sad seafarers are in the lab looking down a microscope at once beach - dwelling things, or writing papers about that one time last year we got to go to the beach and do field work, or we're writing grants to fund the time we want to go to the beach next year.

However, Seattleites are warm people who will make you forget about the rain, if you get to know them.

I am a fun loving very unorthodox person who loves life, loves music, loves to travel, loves rain, loves to drive, very focused on life.i got very liberal attitude towards life, as it says i...

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

In the lead categories, it's hard for me to get overly excited about someone who, to steal Pauline Kael's immortal description of Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, «hump [s] one note on a piano for two hours,» even when that note rings magnificently true.

It didn't get much further than that, though, and eventually five releases overtook it: Twins, Big, Coming to America, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and» 88's Best Picture winner and box office champ, Rain Man.

But when Welles was too busy (read: «not broke enough») to come slip into the nefarious narrator's loafers, Curtiz went and got Claude Rains to play the part of a diabolical mastermind, who ends up staging his own set of sordid activities when his beautiful, thought dead niece (Joan Caulfield) reappears in his life, along with a rather curious gentleman (Michael North) claiming to be the husband she doesn't remember marrying.

She played Alicia Huberman, the alcoholic daughter of a man who committed suicide after being tagged as a World War II traitor, leading an American secret agent (Cary Grant) to use her to get close to Alexander Sebastian, (Claude Rains) the head of a Nazi group hiding in Brazil.

With such an engaging pair, it's hard not to get caught up in it all — who needs Parliamentary tension when you've got pet dogs, moustaches, Paul Bettany, and kissing in the rain?

I have learned you can't be the gardener without the seeds (children), tools and soil (staff), and laughter (rain and sunshine), so I would try to get a feel for those things, said Fitzsimmons, who is principal at Memorial Elementary School in East Hampton, Connecticut.

High stakes tests may be a part of the world now, but Rains hopes with the right data, the district might be able to get help to the students who most need it.

My loaner was ready to go and it was comparable to my vehicle, when I returned to pick up my car it was raining and the young man (Sam) who retrieved it backed it into the service garage so I wouldn't get wet.

And for Mini purists who still object to the size, try taking a walk in the rain and enjoy the feeling of getting wet.

Among openDemocracy's articles on African politics and conflicts: Gillian Slovo, «Making history: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission» (5 December 2002) Katharine Houreld, «The cost of peace in Ivory Coast» (15 February 2006) Patricia Daniel, «Mali: everyone's favourite destination» (11 May 2006) Gilles Yabi, «Guinea: a state of suspension» (28 February 2007) Angelique Haugerud, «Kenya: spaces of hope» (23 January 2008) Anna Husarska, «Kenya's displaced people: a photo - essay» (5 February 2008) Lyndall Stein, «Ethiopia: the tears and the rains» (23 July 2008) Emmanuelle Bernard, «Guinea - Bissau: drug boom, lost hope» (13 September 2008) Lara Pawson, «Angola's elections: the politics of no change» (23 September 2008) Elleke Boehmer, «Beyond the icon: Nelson Mandela in his 90th year» (12 November 2008) Gérard Prunier, «The eastern DR Congo: dynamics of conflict» (17 November 2008) John Makumbe, «Zimbabwe: wrong way, right way» (2 February 2009) Gérard Prunier, «The Kenya we want» (3 February 2009) Gérard Prunier, «Somalia: beyond the quagmire» (25 February 2009) Roger Southall, «South Africa's election: a tainted victory» (7 April 2009) I advised the macadamia nut - farmers to form a cooperative and work together to get to the bottom of what had happened - find out who owned the macadamia trees; create a register; then determine who was selling macadamia nuts even though they had no trees growing on their own land.

The animal companions we bring into our homes are kept safe from predators who might eat them, they get to eat every single day (and often multiple times a day), they rarely have to tolerate rain, snow, or extreme heat, and they receive immediate veterinary care as soon as they start to sniffle.

It'd bring a whole new meaning to «the sword that seals the darkness» when it's shading you on a sunny day, and anyone who's played Breath of the Wild knows how risky rain can get.

2010's Sonic The Hedgehog 4 was the closest they had come, but as the over-nostalgic praise rained down from the media, anybody who had played the original games felt disappointed from the get - go at the shoddy physics and a momentum system that was a million miles away from feeling right.

Rain only has a minimal effect on the way your car handles (although it does make the road surface look a bit like a sea lion's back) but for those wondering if Horizon 2 is too «My First Forza» for them, put the steering in simulation mode, turn off traction control and ABS, and you've got a racing game that's perfectly pitched for those who don't want to powerslide round every corner at 120mph but also like a bit of a challenge.

Let's say I've got a friend who thinks he can bring rain with a song - and - dance and is willing to bet he can make it rain tomoorw.

Residents who were not among the 26,000 people who ran today's marathon in the rain, will get a chance to learn more about the proposed Wilshire Boulevard subway extension at the second round of community meetings for this last planning phase of the project.