Sentences with phrase «who keeps the house»

I have friends who have 1 or two kids who keep their houses immaculate, and still somehow manage time to do things like cook dinner and occasionally even watch a movie — where as I feel like I am swimming in one of those machines with the water current where you never actually GO anywhere?

They may not have wanted us as bosses or even coworkers (back in the day and, in some places, even now), but they certainly wanted us, even if for nothing more than «pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen» — as the mother of their children and the person who kept the house in order.

Disentangling emotions and expectations to a more platonic relationship can be tricky yet not having to fight over who keeps the house or how much time each parent gets with the kids, combined with keeping the household intact for something larger than yourself (your kids) can make the experience much more manageable than divorce.

He's our loyal guard dog who keeps the house safe.

«White van man» is a long - used symbol of the working class British man: the craftsmen, tradesman, plumbers, builders, electricians and countless other vital workers who keep our houses, offices and factories in good order.

And for those who keep house, less dust!!»

Therefore, whether or not there was abandonment, had no bearing on who kept the house or property.

Alimony, child custody, child support, and a fair division of community assets (like who keeps the house or how your checking and savings accounts are divided) are matters that a divorce lawyer is trained to help determine.

For that, they credit their agent, Diane Brooks, CRS ®, GRI, of F.C. Tucker, who kept the house on her radar and sprung into action when she found out the first buyer couldn't secure financing.

Not exact matches

«The human - computer speech interface is the next big thing,» says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who says Alexa and similar systems were integrated with just about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks, cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list goes on and on.

Nicole Wong, who previously served as the White House's deputy chief technology officer, said tech companies would be reluctant to create a database of jihadists videos, even if it could be kept current enough to be relevant, for fear that repressive governments would demand such set - ups to pre-screen any content they do not like.

Carlotta Gall writes that she also learned from sources that Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, had kept bin Laden prisoner since 2006 and that the CIA learned about his location from a Pakistani informer who sold the information for $ 25 million — not, as the White House claimed, by tracking bin Laden's couriers.

Despite Spicer's attempts to mollify the press in his Monday briefing, anyone who wants to keep reporting on the president and his administration — whether it's from inside the White House or outside it — needs to be aware that the core tendency of the new team in Washington is to attack the press whenever possible, in order to increase the mistrust that Americans have towards it.

«They have tended to keep all the of the right people in house,» says one person who has advised the group.

Morales himself, who until 1990 drew only enough money to keep his family clothed and fed, controls expenditures by paying employees a cut of profits on top of a base salary; barters for goods and services; and prepares Tomkats» advertising in - house to qualify for an agency's 15 % discount on media buys.

The first Bush would get up at 4 a.m., go running, be in the office by 6 a.m. and stay up until 2 a.m. «He was a horror,» said a former White House nurse who had to try to keep up with him.

If you can't pay off the house before you retire, consider downsizing, he adds: «If you have a big house — particularly if it's older — who needs the expense of keeping it up?»

The White House has not publicly ruled out the executive order option in part to keep pressure on the Pentagon to move prisoners who have been cleared for release to other countries, one of the sources said.

«There are the people who just want to keep doing what they are doing, and their concern is that the new regulations will make what has always worked suddenly become legally ambiguous,» says Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Funders Club, an online venture capital firm that has been invited to comment on the changes by the White House, the Treasury and several D.C. think tanks.

Another early morning in Vancouver, BC and a meeting starts with a full house of equity crowdfunding industry participants including entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, securities regulators, government, tech and finance executives who want to make sure this city keeps its crown as the entrepreneur and tech startup capital of Canada.

Caregivers and Aides perform a critical role in helping those who are not chronically ill, yet need assistance with daily activities like bathing, house keeping, personal hygiene, using the toilet, running errands, cooking, etc..

In a break from the House plan, which kept the top marginal income tax rate at the current 39.6 percent, the Senate bill would slightly lower it to 38.5 percent — a win for advocates of supply - side economic theory who argue that a lower top rate will grow the economy.

We don't know why Trump decided to fire Flynn (the stated reason that he «lied to Mike Pence» doesn't pass the laugh test), whether he was told of the domestic abuse allegations against then - White House staff secretary Rob Porter, what's on the Apprentice outtake footage that producer Mark Burnett is keeping locked up, why exactly Trump handed some choice Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister, who financed the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, or any of a dozen other major questions about Trump.

If that keeps up, it would be good news for those economists and market watchers who believe that too many condos are going up in the country's most populous city (in the last year the central bank has highlighted the potential risks that the rising supply of condos poses to Canada's housing market and broader economy).

«People who work to stop violence agree: women need better paying jobs, more affordable housing and child care, so they can keep themselves and their children safe and secure.

For those who perceive journalists as arrogant and condescending with no self - awareness whatsoever, the White House Correspondents» Association Dinner has long been the gift that keeps on giving.

Additionally, we have massive in - house support from Nancy Corrie, our Chief Financial Officer, and Beth Spyratos, our Office Manager, who help keep the train on the tracks on a daily basis.

(BTW, the keeping inherited house vacant for decades is not as uncommon as one would think — anyone out there who can come up with a workable solution to converting probate and inherited family property into rentals could have an amazing business).

Would you keep quiet if some unrelated person stands in front of your house and makes derogatory comments about the members of your family, your kids, etc (who are important to you)?

For thus says the LORD: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths... I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

I'm much older now and fully understand that bullies are everywhere and they will either make or break you but we who are targeted by pimps and wicked house mothers must keep ourselves deep in the blood of Jesus and put on the whole armor of God for this battle is not our but it's the Lord.

And why is your god such an ass that he's going to keep his «truth» from anyone that doesn't already believe in him, effectively screwing over anyone who was born into a non-christian house.

[22] Pollard also stole classified documents related to China on behalf of his wife, who used the information to advance her personal business interests and kept them around the house, where they were discovered by investigating authorities when Pollard's espionage activity came to light.

Listen, if I sat around on my salvation the way she does, who'd keep this house together?»

There was an aunt who, alone among the many relatives, had a reputation for selfishness, and who had kept a grown - up son as handy - man around the house but was finally persuaded by another aunt to let the son go to Labrador to take part in a philanthropic project there.

In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubines.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Could not money used to keep dysfunctional bodies alive be better used to feed, clothe, house, educate people who are alive» and want to live creatively?

He and his father, Gerrit, who is haunted by the secret he has kept for many years, share the same house but live separately.

What if I had a fantasy of what a good wife was: someone who cooks me three meals a day, provides sex 3.5 times a week, keeps the house spotless and respects everything I say without question?

For thus says the LORD, «To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant, To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.

A number of outstanding scientists, including the Russian physicist Kapitsa who was for years kept under house arrest by Stalin, have refused to work on anything connected with atomic weapons.

A «dégénéré supérieur» is simply a man of sensibility in many directions, who finds more difficulty than is common in keeping his spiritual house in order and running his furrow straight, because his feelings and impulses are too keen and too discrepant mutually.

He did kind of stink, and I'd noticed he was scratching a little, and I do have a horror of fleas in the house, but all that isn't really sufficient to explain why I find myself suddenly wet to the knees and keeping company with two thoroughly soaked short people, not to mention a wet dog who now smells like Pine - Sol — the flea shampoo was marked «Mountain Fresh,» or something like that.

Somebody around should be an expert in group dynamics» in order to reach a compromise between those who want the house kept at a cool and ecologically sane 68 degrees and those who insist on a warm, cozy 72 degrees.

About midday following, came Ulrich von Pappenheim, Master of the Imperial Cavalry, along with the Herald, to warn Luther to be ready to appear before the Emperor at 4 p.m. Returning at that hour, the Herald took Luther out by the garden and through into the next house occupied by the Count Palatine and then by back streets to the audience chamber, to try to avoid the crowds who kept gathering in the hope of catching a glimpse of the famous man, some sitting on the roofs to gain their purpose.

When Rachel's working to finish a writing project by deadline, who's supporting her by keeping the house clean and the laundry done?

Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

4 For thus says the Lord: «To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, 5 I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

6 «And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant — 7 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.»