Ladder in sentence

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So he went to the Church of Nativity and brought back an old ladder that was so old that it could have seen Jesus being born.

BJ: This is Adrian and Thys Stander, who went on to actually design the cane system for the horse, and our next-door neighbor Katherine, riding on a ladder.

She is able to climb a ladder in the park, push her scooter or kick a ball across the grass.

We collected data on problems with social gradients, the kind of problems that are more common at the bottom of the social ladder.

As you move down the ladder of apartments, you see that they get worse and worse.

The first is what we called sinking skill ladder, and now I'm going to go back to where I started my conversation with you, which was about the flight of jobs.

Now, of course, when we first, as a multinational company, decide to outsource jobs to India in the R&D, what we are going to do is we are going to outsource the bottom rung of the ladder to India, the least sophisticated jobs, just like Tom Friedman would predict.

Now, what happens is, when you outsource the bottom rung of the ladder to India for innovation and for R&D work, at some stage in the very near future you are going to have to confront a problem, which is where does the next step of the ladder people come from within your company?

So you have two choices then: Either you bring the people from India into the developed world to take positions in the next step of the ladder — immigration — or you say, there's so many people in the bottom step of the ladder waiting to take the next position in India, why don't we move the next step to India?

So, if you outsource the least sophisticated jobs, at some stage, the next step of the ladder has to follow.

Do we have a venue ladder, which just means, can an artist starting out at a coffee house open mic see a clear path for how they'll grow from that 25-seat room to a hundred-seat room and so on?

The plutocracy may be a meritocracy, but increasingly you have to be born on the top rung of the ladder to even take part in that race.

Countries that were once like us, but decided to strive for development, do research, and catch up with those countries, such as Turkey, Malaysia and others, they carried their language with them as they were climbing the ladder, protected it like a diamond.

Or remember those big ladder fire trucks?

I worked and studied hard to move up the career ladder, eventually becoming a chief financial officer in Silicon Valley, a job I really enjoyed.

Men are still socialized to believe that they have to be breadwinners, that to derive their self-worth from how high they can climb over other men on a career ladder.

So when capital and investment become focused on the needs of people who are hanging to the bottom rungs of an economic ladder, that's when we start to see the internet truly become a job creator, an education enabler and in many other ways, a path forward.

Tell me those negative things, I'm going to turn them around, and I'm going to use them as a ladder to climb up to my goals.

You know, it's the businessman climbing up a ladder, and then the ladder moves, morphs into a stock market graph, and anything with dollar signs; that's always good.

Abuse trickles down from the top of the ladder to the bottom.

When I was 27 years old, I found myself in a rat-infested New York City loft, getting ready to hurl myself off a ladder.

And he finally gets enough strength together to climb up the ladder onto the roof, and all the pigeons, a la Red Balloon, are there waiting for him and they carry him off over the walls of the city.

If you knew that any injury could kill you, would you ride a motorcycle, bomb down a ski slope, climb a ladder to hang your Christmas lights, let your kid slide into home plate?

The two strands of DNA, the double-helix structure, are held together by rungs; it's like a twisted ladder.

I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that.

And I realized that so many people around us are climbing their way up this ladder that someone tells them to climb, and it ends up being leaned up against the wrong wall, or no wall at all.

They want somebody to go up a ladder and change a light bulb, or to be there when they come out of hospital.

I climb up, and there's this place, way in the back, that you climb up this wooden ladder.

Imagine a microscopic-sized ladder contained in the part of our brain that we'll label our subconscious.

Every time we interact with someone, that experience enters the ladder at the bottom.

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