| Right now, it's telling me that I've enjoyed dropping out of the rat race over the festive period, savouring peace, relaxation and sleep. |
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| Malmesbury town councillor Judy Jones's book about escaping the rat race has been so successful her publishers are printing another edition. |
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| I love and cherish my public holidays because I need that time to recuperate and rejuvenate my mind and body from the rat race of life. |
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| The interior of Port Rand was a veritable rat race of peasants and merchant peddlers, who constantly roamed the streets. |
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| It's ironic that a brand born out of a beach-house fantasy of abandoning the rat race has served only to pleasantly complicate their lives. |
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| Is it a gamble then to shirk the pull of the rat race in favour of a life chasing the literary pot of gold? |
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| To those caught in today's rat race, one of the major killers is stress and its related problems. |
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| To be caught up in the rat race seems to mean that a compromise has to be made. |
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| Anyone who suggests I quit the rat race to open a jam making cooperative in rural Borneo can stop right now! |
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| You get time to think and reflect, that you don't have when you're involved in the rat race outside. |
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| By the time we see the benefits take effect, many of today's commuters will have quit the rat race for a more convenient life. |
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| A collectively created experimental piece about the mundane frustrations of the daily rat race is effectively staged, but tediously repetitive. |
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| I am in film industry not to be part of the rat race but to enjoy whatever I do. |
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| Eventually, Gideon makes his peace with his daughter, decides to quit the rat race, and disappears off into the sunset with Stella. |
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| A goldsmith jeweller who quit the rat race for the greener climes of South Lakeland says the future looks bright for his business. |
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| I am only 28 and yet I feel so sick of the rat race that I often find it difficult to turn up at my job in the mornings. |
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| Tired of the rat race of modern life, they found a deserted valley in a remote region of the world. |
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| The usual hurry to get to work, usual rush to beat the peak time traffic, and usual eagerness to be part of the rat race. |
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| Indeed, a few yearn to quit the rat race and lead a simpler life. |
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| Originally we came to the country to escape the rat race in Edinburgh. |
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| People want out of the rat race and want their euros to go further. |
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| With traditional office hours being eroded by the 24-hour society, more and more people seem to find themselves caught up in a rat race to get things done fast, and first. |
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| Learn to relax and enjoy quality time out of life's normal rat race. |
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| The report reveals how and where the chill of the economy and the rat race can be combated with social warmth. |
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| They don't let themselves get put off by the daily problems of the rat race. |
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| In today's rat race, where everyone is speeding from one job to the next, there is little opportunity to slow down and think about things. |
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| Since then, increasing urbanization and an intensifying work ethic have made North American families feel more and more that life is a rat race. |
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| For some people, Christmas is the festive season, but for others it's a rat race. |
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| Of course, as already mentioned, negotiations may deteriorate and turn into a rat race for the Community jackpot. |
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| What unites them is the search for a way out of the rat race of everyday life and the experience of reflection and self-discovery. |
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| We all want things, or think we do, and get caught up in the rat race, yet I think a lot of us wish we weren't this way and recognize that nobody can change it but us. |
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| This conception is utilised to justify the dismantling of the welfare state, ostracising those who can no longer keep abreast in the rat race of competition. |
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| You can of course force people to collaborate entirely within an economic rat race, by making their right to survival and their income depend entirely on their work performance. |
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| You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men. |
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| This also leads to a social rat race and to the evasion of social duties. |
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| A rug rat race emerges among these parents, driving up both admissions requirements and the time spent on childcare. |
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| It is basically the rat race, the little hamster on the wheel. |
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| We made good time to the Skeleton Domes area and squeezed up into the Rat Race to reach a series of traverses and climbs that came close to exceeding my confidence factor. |
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| During 2001 he also scored Evolution, I Am Sam, Just Visiting, and Rat Race. |
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