hunkered-down

In fact, far from ignoring it in his distress and humiliation, he registers every detail -- the "hunkered-down hurriers," the bin-scavengers, the precise meaningless chatter of five teenage girls -- with a sorry sense that "it's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you."

Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

As for the abortion clinic, the atmosphere is more hunkered-down.

Stewart Nusbaumer: In The Abortion Trenches: 12th & Delaware Stewart Nusbaumer 2010

For the past years, many companies have been dealing with depressed markets and hunkered-down consumers.

2011 Will Be The Year Of M&A Hilary Kramer 2010

In fact, far from ignoring it in his distress and humiliation, he registers every detail--the "hunkered-down hurriers," the bin-scavengers, the precise meaningless chatter of five teenage girls--with a sorry sense that "it's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you."

Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

For the past years, many companies have been dealing with depressed markets and hunkered-down consumers.

2011 Will Be The Year Of M&A Hilary Kramer 2010

In fact, far from ignoring it in his distress and humiliation, he registers every detail -- the "hunkered-down hurriers," the bin-scavengers, the precise meaningless chatter of five teenage girls -- with a sorry sense that "it's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you."

Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham Sammy Perlmutter 2010

A hunkered-down Israel might reemerge as the city-state of Tel Aviv.

Paul Starobin: Five Roads to the Future -- Whose Century Will This Be? 2010

So now, less than three business days after Mr. Torres decided he was "nervous," about testifying (with the testimony being under oath), we have a major issue that needs to be addressed, and our primary witness had hunkered-down in the rocks.

David Isenberg: Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Where are we going?" 2010

So now, less than three business days after Mr. Torres decided he was "nervous," about testifying (with the testimony being under oath), we have a major issue that needs to be addressed, and our primary witness had hunkered-down in the rocks.

David Isenberg: Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Where are we going?" 2010

For the past years, many companies have been dealing with depressed markets and hunkered-down consumers.

2011 Will Be The Year Of M&A Hilary Kramer 2010