Until Dad. a constant, dependable, working, providing presence of strength and good humor.
He was a constant, dependable, working, providing presence of strength and good humor, perfectly paired with a smart, strong, faith-driven Doris Day of a wife.
He was dressed in gray pants, a sports jacket, and an oxford shirt, and, if his plans for France were radical or impertinent, they were indeed filtered through the pointedly soothing persona of a man who represents all that is constant and dependable in French life.
I am proud that I gave up my own professional ambitions for the humble satisfaction of providing home cooked meals, a warm and loving environment, and a constant and dependable presence to my family.
But if the price of such techniques comes down and the cost of pollution goes up, clean coal could be competitive.Nuclear power, in theory, is a source of cheap, dependable, constant electricity.
Theirs is a rich vein of observational writing where dependable constants like Grannie Island, the Post Office, and the island itself form both fore- and background to one small girl's life; one small girl blessed (perhaps overly so at times) with an extended family and community.
I'm starting to see how Mike Royko came to deride the good-government types as "goo-goos," either naive political newcomers or supremely cynical feeders on Chicago's dependable cycle of constant corruption and temporary consternation.
For all the dependable standbys, however, there is another constant at the giants among these parks, and that is the need never to stay the same.
Starting at a depth of about 1.5 metres (5 feet) below the surface, the temperature is a constant 52 °F (11 °C which makes the earth itself a dependable source of climate control.
The set-piece was dependable, the driven line-out a constant menace.
Although the community-accumulated tool set for the molecular analysis of Neurospora is extensive, two components are missing: (1) dependable reference genes whose level of expression are relatively constant across light/dark cycles and as a function of time of day and (2) a catalog of primers specifically designed for real-time PCR (RT-PCR).
