Sentences with phrase «years hunkered»

In place of making expeditions to the South Pole and Greenland, her old stomping grounds, she spent chunks of the last five years hunkered in gray buildings in Beijing, New Delhi, Marrakech and Paris running meeting after meeting of experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Today, she's called on to appear at more events than ever before, while raising the family she and her husband started after she'd spent years hunkered down in the cutthroat real estate world.

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What's next — should be be buying a year's worth of water, food, power generators etc. in order to hunker down on Wednesday if the NDP come out on top?

Yum It is that time of year when all I want to do is hunker in my house and not leave again until spring starts to show.

With the new baby, we had a good excuse to hunker down and stay home this year and let everyone come to us.

As questions go unanswered, and writers and fans on both side hunker down even further behind their personal defenses, it just gets uglier — and more tiresome — each year.

I remember choosing it well over a year ago and thinking that it was just what we should all be doing this time of year as we come in and hunker down, catching our breath from the busy seasons before.

FEMA is already hunkering down for a years - long recovery effort in Texas after Hurricane Harvey, its chief said Sunday.

Fond memories of Stanley denying the oncoming and devastating Hurricane years back and cracking wise at the Shandaken parade the day before making funof those who were afradi and going home to hunker down... Good ole boys club.

«Ten years from now... there's an increased chance that the U.S. or NATO would get hit by something,» Hunker said.

Two years later, Dante II spent five days semiautonomously gathering data in the crater of Mount Spurr in Alaska, while controllers hunkered down 31 miles away.

You see it thrown around all sorts of ways this time of year as people hunker down with a new set of healthy habits.

The Equinox marks the beginning of the rest of the year: three months to hunker down, focus on what you want to create, make and do, and start to see the results.

I'm extremely thrilled to start a new chapter (I've been hunkering down on applications), but I'm also sad to leave this one behind — as the past four years have become a huge factor in shaping who I am.

Since then, I've been prepping for a few big work trips and am going to hunker down in work for the next week — until heading to NYC on Friday to celebrate Johnny's birthday, a delayed Valentine's Day, and our three year anniversary!

One night in their Italian villa, 17 - year - old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) hunkers down on the sofa with his parents, (Amira Casar and Michael Stuhlbarg), and Mom reads aloud a passage from what we're told is a «16th - century French romance.»

For all of those hunkered snug in the cold and goin» crazy down by the lake after a year of anticipation over the third season of the FX anthology series Fargo — inspired, of course, by the Coen Brothers dark comedy of the same name, not to mention a buffet - filled bevy of narrative and thematic homages that span across their entire filmography — here's a home baked slice of warm comfort: the official trailer for the long - awaited return has finally been released.

Before the end of the almost 10 - year drought about a quarter of a million people had left the Great Plains, often journeying West (such as the Joads family in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath), but at least two - thirds hunkered down and stayed put, and it is their stories that Egan records.

In 1932, the same year Lizzie Hawkins turns 12, the Great Depression has hunkered down in Bittersweet, Alabama.

Abbey's been hunkered down for the past 6 years now, with the Gallaghers firmly in control with over 73 % of the company.

Both dogs hunkered down with Head, her 23 - year - old son and a third dog, Max, in and around a bathtub in their home that was obliterated by the tornado.

Even though it's close to time where we hunker down with our PC / consoles for the winter months, I always look forward to closing out the summer each year with Wizard World.

The recently - released «Frozen Wilds» DLC also got a soundtrack release, so if you found yourself hunkering down with protagonist Aloy for some robo - dino hunting this year, you've got plenty of music to help you relive those memories.

If I recall correctly, it's been at least a couple of years since I hunkered down with anything from Ubisoft's Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon franchises.

Each year the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) puts the GGJ together, inviting professionals and hobbyists alike to hunker down and create a game in 48 hours.

In fact, I can easily see myself hunkering down with this mode for years to come.

The search is on after a year of hunkering down and belt tightening to put the fiscally troubled institution on firm ground.

The first such workshop, which I wrote about last year, saw 40 students, engineers, farmers, professors and others from 18 countries hunker down in groups to devise simple, affordable ways to clean water, chill produce, generate electricity, and solve other problems facing the world's poorest communities.

Many hit the road during this time of year to avoid the peak - season crowds and save more than a few bucks on flight and hotels, while others hunker down at home to avoid the risk of getting rained out — or worse, having to evacuate, in the event of an emergency.

If you've been following my quiz series, then you know ScienceOfRelationship's very own Dr. Benjamin Le and colleagues hunkered down some years ago to crunch numbers on over thirty - thousand dating folks in the U.S., Europe, and Canada.1 When the calculation smoke had cleared, they had something pretty special: a shiny, ranked list of relationship factors that make a difference in whether a couple stays together or breaks up in the future.

British Columbia brokers have hunkered down now for over five years in the belief it is bound to get better.

«This spring home - buying season should be a coming - out party for Millennials, many of whom are finally ready to make a purchase after hunkering down for years in their parents» basements or expensive apartments.

On average, Brits are preparing to hunker down, and improve their existing homes instead, saying that they believe they will stay in their current property for the next eight years.

This time of year calls for hunkering down with a good box set — am I right?