Malcolm Gladwell wrote a column about how real activists lay down shoe leather ringing doorbells.
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Figueroa said he began ringing doorbells, eventually finding the man and his sister – who ordered the Uber.
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She broke free and went from one house to another, ringing doorbells in search of help, Spencer said.
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If you were trick-or-treating, you were part of the millions of people out ringing doorbells this Halloween!
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"They were ringing doorbells, telling people, 'We want to buy your house,'" Toms River's mayor, Thomas F. Kelaher, said.
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A location team does a certain amount of "cold-scouting," like ringing doorbells and pushing fliers through mail slots.
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People often complained about children honking automobile horns, ringing doorbells, and otherwise taking advantage of buttons that looked fun to press.
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The fuel inspections are done annually and fire fighters try to alert the residents by knocking on doors and ringing doorbells.
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Jack Nicas, who covers Apple for the New York Times, relies on some old-school tech to cover high-tech, including screenshots, burner phones, call-recording apps — and ringing doorbells.
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Cruz has been working hard in South Carolina, with staunch conservatives making phone calls, ringing doorbells, collaring people and preaching the Cruz mantra of trying to look different than Trump.
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More people might have died if not for a woman who smelled the fire and started knocking on doors and ringing doorbells to wake people up, Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago said.
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He summoned Pak at around 5 AM to escort Gilbert back to Jersey City, where she lived, but for some still-mysterious reason Gilbert called the police and fled, ringing doorbells in the creeping dawn, begging someone—anyone—for help.
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In the most recent case, a mystery woman was captured by home security cameras in Texas repeatedly ringing doorbells in the middle of the night with what appeared to be shackles hanging from her wrist, leading to a nationwide effort to track her down.
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Rejecting the nascent women's-liberation movement, she nevertheless blamed sexism for the G.O.P.'s failure to fully embrace its most strenuous conservatives: The Republican Party is carried on the shoulders of the women who do the work in the precincts, ringing doorbells, distributing literature, and doing all the tiresome, repetitious campaign tasks.
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A resident of the town remembered her as "a very lovely little old lady" who "trudged up and down the streets of Altadena ringing doorbells. ... Her house-to-house canvassing was not to sell books, but to gather information to write a book." Ives died in November 1944. Her home in Altadena is now included on local historical tours.
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Addison Sims of Seattle!'), Cooper Union--these have become innocent archaisms. At the turn of the century, book agents roamed the country ringing doorbells and selling sets of 'standard authors' (Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot) encyclopedias and multi-volume historical works. The book-agent has vanished; people read for amusement, not instruction, and authors are no longer 'standard' or sold in sets.
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She was born as Anne Levy on February 10, 1930, in Manhattan, the daughter of Leon R. Levy, a prominent architect who designed the New York Coliseum. Her first involvement in politics was ringing doorbells for Harry S. Truman as a history major at Skidmore College. She married ophthalmologist Richard Wexler two weeks after her 1951 graduation. As a housewife in Westport, Connecticut, she described herself as having "all the Jewish princess stuff — a lovely home, a full-time maid, lots of vacations" before she started becoming involved in politics.
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Egging is sometimes associated with certain events and holidays. In parts of the UK and the United States, October 30 is referred to as "Mischief Night", when teenagers rub soap bars on car windows, spray paint graffiti, yell profanity, throw eggs at houses, adorn trees with toilet paper, and run away after ringing doorbells. In Brazil it is common to throw eggs at someone on their birthday, with or without their consent, as a friendly prank. Usually, flour is also poured on the person's head after the eggs, with the idea of "a cake being made on their heads".
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