Sentences with phrase «v day celebrations»

We've always stayed away from the big extravagant V day celebrations.

Not exact matches

If I got all four I'd put a line through the day as a celebration.

Since Trump took office last year, Kuwait has twice held its annual «National Day» celebration at his Washington hotel.

«But since several other embassies have also held their national day celebrations at the Trump hotel which were well attended — I decided — why not do it there, too.»

Once a celebration for China «s lonely hearts, Singles» Day has become a 24 - hour extravaganza that outsells Black Friday and Cyber Monday U.S. sales combined, and acts as a barometer forChina «s consumers.

For starters, it's football season, which means that we have a number of on - going promotions at our restaurant including a limited - time menu featuring game - day grub, a digital loyalty program and Super Bowl ticket giveaway, among a number of other NFL season festivities and celebrations.

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

And this Labor Day weekend, Kat Von D Beauty is offering some truly great promos for the celebration.

With just a day left «til the fireworks officially start in celebration of the 4th of July here in the U.S., we thought we'd offer...

The city also has an annual Wagon Days Parade, featuring original Lewis Ore Wagons, in celebration of the town's rich pioneer mining history.

In celebration of International Women's Day, KFC Malaysia has replaced the iconic Colonel as the face of the company with his wife, Claudia Sanders.

We're thrilled to say we have a day of celebration at The Tokener.

On what would have been her 15th birthday, family and friends of Alyssa Alhadeff, who died in the tragic Valentine's Day shootings in Parkland, gathered to remember her in two celebrations: first at the graveside unveiling of her headstone and then to play and laugh in her honor at a beach party.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat turned the annual May Day celebrations into a protest against Project Daphne and warned of «repercussions for people who have been caught lying to smear Malta's name».

If you have been involved in the bitcoin market, then chances are that you've heard of Bitcoin Pizza Day, a celebration of the time when Laszlo Hanyecz purchased two pizzas with 10,000 BTC, in order to prove that the digital currency can be used as a means of value.

April 1st Fool's day «In Florida, an atheist became incensed over the preparation for Easter and Passover holidays and decided to contact the local ACLU about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant celebrations afforded to Christians and Jews with all their holidays while the atheists had no holiday to celebrate.

As I've explained numerous times before, it's considered auspicious to give gifts of gold bullion and jewelry during the Hindu Festival of Lights, and in years past we've seen some price appreciation in the days and weeks leading up to the celebration.

Thus, on the first national celebration of Martin Luther King Day in 1986, Jesse Jackson decried the widespread focus on King's great, unifying «I Have a Dream» speech, and stressed instead King's opposition to the Vietnam War — an opposition, be it noted, that King came to only after long agonizing with his conscience, and that he always carefully distinguished from the position of the extremists within the anti-war movement.

My son Stephen and I spent an unusual, albeit unusually moving, Independence Day: We attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration of my friends Piotr and Teresa Malecki, which began with a Mass of thanksgiving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Cracow's Wawel Cathedral — the place where Piotr and Teresa had exchanged vows on July 4, 1964, kneeling before their old kayaking and hiking friend, the archbishop of Cracow (who, as Pope St. John Paul II, was canonized some two months before the Maleckis» jubilee.)

The reason for the celebration is twofold (both dating back to c. 165 BCE): the miraculous military victory of the small, ill - equipped Jewish army over the ruling Greek Syrians, who had banned the Jewish religion and desecrated the Temple; and the miracle of the small cruse of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple's menorah instead of just one.»

Jarvis had envisioned Mother's Day as «a holy day,» even - in a truly grandiloquent moment - as «a divine gift,» a Sabbath celebration of maternal affection and perseverance, «not as a holiday» at the disposal of various «trade vandals» and «trade pirates.&raqDay as «a holy day,» even - in a truly grandiloquent moment - as «a divine gift,» a Sabbath celebration of maternal affection and perseverance, «not as a holiday» at the disposal of various «trade vandals» and «trade pirates.&raqday,» even - in a truly grandiloquent moment - as «a divine gift,» a Sabbath celebration of maternal affection and perseverance, «not as a holiday» at the disposal of various «trade vandals» and «trade pirates.»

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

That irony notwithstanding, antiwar activist John McConnell, having seen the pictures taken by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders from the command module windows of Apollo VIII, created the «Earth Day flag» from one of those photos and in 1969 proposed a global holiday in celebration of the earth to a UNESCO conference being held in San Francisco.

Some have taken part in Earth Day celebrations or in walks to raise money for environmental causes.

Castro himself was rather upfront about the departing citizens: «Those that are leaving from Mariel are the scum of the country... who are welcome to leave Cuba if any country will have them,» he scoffed at a 1980 May Day celebration during the height of the migration.

And the first seven days had a celebration atmosphere about them.

Obama, not only refused to have a White House celebration of the National Day of Prayer, but instead feasted the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.

After the 40 days and nights you will come with Me into the skies above Jerusalem and we will leave from there to have a celebration, a banquet in My Father's house, a feast that has been planned before the worlds were made.»

And if you want to get real technical, the celebration on this particular day doesn't really have to do with Jesus either, it was a day the Pagans celebrated and the Christians changed what the celebration was about, so it's not 2000 years old either.

The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.

The Anglican Bishop of Peshawar, Rt Revd Humphrey Peters, told Premier: «There'll be three days mourning in the province... and then we have cancelled all our Christmas celebrations because it is very disturbing - very very disturbing.»

The country has declared that official Independence Day celebrations will not go ahead this year due to ongoing conflict, a food crisis that has seen 50 per cent of the population dependent on food aid, 2 million displaced internally and a further 1.9 million flee the country.

The celebration of St. Patrick's Day has, with the help of Hallmark and the local pub, become a monthlong event.

The official day of celebration this year is March 27, but regional celebrations have occurred over the past week.

Kwanzaa, most readers will recall, is a recently contrived African American seven - day celebration that runs from December 26 through January 1, and has been much criticized by blacks and others as a commercial gimmick designed to demonstrate that blacks can be as consumerist as anybody else.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Our message is to unite Christians in support of their celebration and for their reason; to celebrate of the birth of Jesus Christ, not the commercial circus that has been built up and around the most important day in Christianity.

In a presidential proclamation released today, President Obama has designated January 2010 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, culminating with the celebration of National Freedom Day on Feb. 1...

Celebrate the simple joy found in each day... it is unecessary to have a religious event to cause a celebration.

Jewish tradition has become firmly established that this miracle of oil, of God's divine providence, is the reason for this eight - day celebration since that time.

Though Tebow previously had agreed to speak during their celebration — along with David Jeremiah, Charles Billingsley, Jim Cymbala, Phil Wickham, the Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers, and Dr. James Dobson — he backed out the other day after a reporter for CBS sports gave Tebow an online shellacking for the decision to align himself with a pastor who condemns gays, Mormons, and Muslims to hell, and who associated President Obama with the Antichrist.

The fellowship was not only symbolized but also effected by the common meal, some kind or kiddush or «sanctification,» not now of the Sabbath but of the first day of the week, (Prof. E. F. Scott has advanced the view, in his recent work on The Nature of the Early Church (1941), that the Christian observance of Sunday resulted from the celebration of the common meal after the Jewish Sabbath observances were over.

Sister, the calendar year has more or less 365 days of feasts and celebrations for your entire polytheistic pantheon of angels and saints.

This day, Yom Kippur, has continued in annual celebration in Judaism.

So sorry about that, I know it does seem very expensive but hopefully it is ok as a celebration cake for special occasions, it is not a recipe we would make every day.

Creating this appetizer ahead of time is recommended (a day in advance is best), so you won't have to worry about prep work on the day of your celebration.

What I do know is that cowboy caviar has become a popular appetizer for parties, game day, and especially New Year's Eve celebrations.

Today for National Curried Chicken Day and in celebration of Sunday Supper, I have Curried Chicken Skewers to share.

This would be a perfectly pretty cake for your Mother's Day Celebration.

I would never have known this side of my son but for the sports day celebrations in their school.