Sentences with phrase «who hold down»

The people who hold down these six Valentine's Day jobs are experts in making romance happen.

He also understands many people who hold down corporate jobs actually love their lifestyle, but it just wasn't the one for him.

I can only marvel at parents who hold down a job such as mine while also keeping a child safe, well nourished and happy through the vulnerable early years.

Take Daniel Reis, who holds down video - editing jobs at PBS and Criterion, for example.

Such is the power of incumbency — especially for a Democratic incumbent in a Democrat - dominated state who holds a down - ballot office that not many people have heard of, much less care about.

May must now decide whether to replace her longstanding ally with an individual who holds down the same two roles as Green, who was first secretary of state and Cabinet Office minister.

This remake — which should be more truthfully called «Overbored» — recruits Hawn - ish Anna Faris as Kate, a blue - collar type and single mother of three sweet daughters who holds down two jobs while studying to get a nursing degree and is in the midst of a financial crisis.

Emily Browning stars as Lucy, a university student who holds down half a dozen jobs to simply pay the rent and survive (jobs include prostitution, waitressing, and some kind of experimental medical lab rat).

An Orkney sheep farmer who holds down a total of 20 jobs has been dubbed Britain's hardest - working man.

Artist Matt Tackett, who holds down a day job installing artworks for an auction house, is showing a 10 - foot - tall, red - white - and - blue banner with the text, «We Finance Lottery Tickets.»

Shoving your 4.0 GPA at Yale in the face of your boss who held down a 3.2 at CSUN isn't going to endear you to them.

Not exact matches

However, for 99 % of the people in business who need to hold the attention of the crowd, I'd cut that down to seven minutes.

May 2 - Xerox Corp said its CEO and several board members will step down to settle a suit brought by activist shareholders who had opposed a $ 6.1 billion deal with Japan's Fujifilm Holdings.

Bitcoin's down today, but with its recent rebound in value, holders — even the enthusiasts who want to bypass banks — could find it hard to resist the potential to hold onto their Bitcoin in hopes of seeing substantial cash returns.

To a large extent, society pats men on the back for holding down big jobs, but grimaces at women who do the same, implying that they're lousy parents.

Though his compensation rose in 2009, the man who put organic on the mainstream map held down his pay, handing over his gains to the Global Animal Partnership, an animal welfare nonprofit.

Only days before his ouster, Bannon reaffirmed, in an interview with a left - leaning political journal, his long - held conviction that the U.S. is locked in an «economic war» with China, and boasted of plotting behind the scenes to take down White House rivals who lacked the courage to join his call to arms.

Our first annual survey ranking the reputations of Canada's top companies shows who held up in down times.

So is a guy who today competes at nearly the highest level of his sport... yet when he first drove on a big track, he had to hold his leg down to keep himself from lifting off the gas pedal.

If the Republicans, who are holding out for concessions on the health care law — the Affordable Care Act — in exchange for a budget vote, back down or are blamed for a shutdown, they would have even less ability to push their wishes by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, analysts at DBS in Singapore wrote Tuesday.

Markets for ether, the cryptocurrency linked to the ethereum distributed computing platform, were rocked yesterday by a huge flash crash that saw prices fall from over $ 365 down to as low as 10 cents on one exchange before bouncing back shortly afterwards — an event that is mildly worrying for anyone concerned about cryptocurrency volatility, but has had devastating consequences for some professional traders who have seen their holdings wiped out.

A shadowbox held a picture of each person who was murdered, an image of an eagle with its head down that represented the school's mascot and a border of tiny silver angels.

Down south, the Obama administration is in a dangerous game of chicken with Republican congressional leaders, who are cynically holding the US economy hostage in order to impose a radical agenda of spending cuts.

«Whether a self - styled seat - of - the - pants day trader or the kind of investor who intends to buy and hold forever, you're operating at a distinct disadvantage if you lack the skills to break a company down into its financial nuts and bolts.

The Italian government holds the largest stake in Enel, and it is trading at what we think is an unreasonable discount to the European utility sector.3 The company has a new CEO, nominated by Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has been given a mandate to clean up the corporate structure, drive down costs and drive up earnings.

US taxpayers, who bailed out the automaker in 2009, will be left holding about a 43 % stake, down from 61 %.

YOU: As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

yeah your right, his stance on equality sure makes me want to vote for an out of touch bully who thinks holding people down and cutting off their hair is «just a prank»,.

We're talking about love relationships not the titillation of nerve endings As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

I cherish the ones who hold me accountable without holding me down.

Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

Christianity itself has become a principality and holds thousands captive, Before anyone comments on me calling todays Christianity a principality, (a demonic stronghold) let me just make a request that those who do answer are those who live as the followers of the way did in biblical times, that is, meeting every day, considering nothing they owned as their own, laying their lives down for the gospel (and not getting paid to do so) and having signs and wonders accompany them when they speak of the Lord.

Using those quotes from Carrey and Higgins, preachers can hold up the likes of Hoffman as examples of the failures of the fame and fortune dream; and point to the only role model who won't let you down.

When I was a boy in Kentucky, I sometimes went down to the court house on Saturday night to watch the Holy Rollers, who held their meetings in one of the large court rooms.

Tears quietly streamed down his face as he watched himself recount his work as a hospital chaplain in Brooklyn, the day he held the shiny bald head of a man named Albert who looked into his eyes, said, «Don't be afraid,» and died.

Alice said: There are no biblical rules as to how to deal with bloggers and the motley crew who visit here can't be held to biblical standards since half of them look at the Bible as a few steps down from the Sunday comics.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

Jesus, who was nailed on the cross after feeding five thousand other people from out of his ass, walking on water, bringing back a boy they KNEW was dead because he was rotting and shouting down every single saduccee and pharisee for praising their white - washed selves and holding salvation from the masses, who never took money for himself, who historically KNOWINGLY gave his life for the rest of humanity,... «did it for the good economic standing?»

Although we have cracked down on drunken driving and in general want to hold people who commit crimes while under the influence of alcohol culpable, we are not accustomed to holding such persons culpable for their ignorance beyond the particular offense.

Many here prove to have alot more to learn and not only get held back as the rest graduate but get pulled back a grade or step down a rung because heaven is when we are so intune with gods creation and god that we are one and you cant be one with someone whos not at your level.

Many children born into unstable families will never encounter role models who have prospered by obtaining an education, holding down a job, and delaying childbirth until marriage.

One home was headed by my sophisticated, East Coast - born, feminist mother; the other by my down - to - earth, Idaho - bred father, who held fast to his traditionalist views.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

Without such development of doctrine, those of us who hold the Bible dear can be forced into closing down all dialogue with modern thought.

You need to go down to the police station and file a se #ual assault report on the man who is holding you down and forcing his pen!s up your a $ $.

I would much rather spend my days on a sinking ship with those who love me, knowing that no matter what the future holds, I tried my hardest to lift people up and not slam them down.

A leering old villain in a frock, who spent decades conspiring behind closed doors for the position he now holds; a man who believes he is infallible and acts the part; a man whose preaching of scientific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence: in short, exactly the right man for the job.

At the Easter Vigil, the priest blesses the water in the baptismal font, lowering the lighted Pascal candle into it three times while saying: «May the power of the Holy Spirit, O Lord we pray, come down through your Son into the fullness of this font...» He then holds the candle in the water while continuing ``... so that all who have been buried with Christ by baptism and death may rise again to life with him.»

I've gotten to know a few people in my life who hold similar views, needless to say they they're perfect no matter how bad they act, they love to complain about everyone else and how everything is other peoples fault instead of taking responsibility for something... They tend to be depressed deep down also... quite fascinating actually.

Reporters and journalists who hold one political party to a different standard and try to tear republicans down are terrible people.