Sentences with phrase «act as a bench»

Style it with a throw pillow and blanket to act as a bench, or add a tray and coffee table books to establish it as a cocktail table in your living space.

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The Federal Reserve Act set staggered terms for the Federal Reserve Board members (selected by local business and financial leaders, not Washington politicians) so that the President could not «pack the bench» as Jackson had done in 1833 by removing Secretary Duane in favor of Taney.

Leave fruit and vegetables on the bench — this means that they're in eye sight so it will act as a daily reminder to eat as snacks and with your meals.

I should also make it clear that I don't befriend all homeless people, just the ones I pass on a regular basis because I feel like it's my duty as a human to extend any act of kindness I can — whether it's a big ass grin or a cup of coffee or an hour long conversation on aforementioned bench in the dead of winter — to the people who appear in my life more days than not.

Chris Trew, who founded the New Movement improv theater and acts as a self - appointed team ombudsman from his seat behind the visitors» bench, saw it for the first time when it popped into his Twitter feed.

He keeps the bench warm for the players and then gives them a breather while running around the court acting as a decoy.

If Cech came then either he ousts DO from his first X1 slot and DO gets relegated to whence he came or Cech acts as back - up — but why the hell would he move sideways to be benched at another London team.

With Gabriel now seamlessly bedded in we have a top quality cb on the bench and when debuchy returns chambers will act as 4th cb.

When Jose Mourinho dropped Iker Casillas to the Real Madrid bench it was seen as an act of political grandstanding, as Mourinho being Mourinho.

That proved De Bruyne's final act as he signalled to the bench moments later but there were no obvious signs of discomfort as he was replaced by Ilkay Gundogan.

She concedes that squaring her business life and role as a peer is a difficult balancing act, but relishes the «curiosity and appetite for knowledge» on the red benches.

Most act as fodder for the front bench who mop up their ideas, say thanks and wave them goodbye.

Mr Straw, who acted as home secretary, foreign secretary and justice secretary during his time in office, announced well before the leadership result that he would be stepping down from the front bench.

Then, a still - principled Mr Cable (at least in his own mind) could return to the back benches and, while earning pots of money, he would act as a rallying point for disgruntled Lib Dems both at Westminster and in the country.

«After 13 years of a Labour Government, this is quite simply a disgrace and should act as a constant reminder to those on the Labour Benches, who have already begun looking back on their time in government as some sort of golden age in which poverty and inequality were abolished.

Beyond the lab bench, I acted as editor - in - chief for a graduate student - run blog Science Buffs and co-organized several science and science communication symposiums, including the upcoming ComSciCon Rocky Mountain West.

Beyond the lab bench, she acted as editor - in - chief for a graduate student - run blog Science Buffs and co-organized several science and science communication symposiums, including the upcoming ComSciCon Rocky Mountain West.

Conclusion «The Mumbai bench of Income - tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in this case held that US federal tax and state tax paid in respect of income earned overseas are not deductible as expenditure incurred for earning income under section 37 of the Income - tax Act, 1961 (the Act).

Materials that previously acted as plinths and platforms for her artworks have been reconfigured into stand - alone pieces including tables, chairs, benches, a desk, and a freestanding partition wall.

The structure can act as a bus shelter, a cover for benches in the park, or a number of other locations where both an awning and a bit of fresh water are welcome.»

Thus, for example, in the present case the president of the Queen's Bench Division observed: «Courts and Tribunals acting judicially are generally required to give reasons for their decisions, and further normally required to publish them for the proper public administration of justice so as to comply with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.»

This judge purports to act as a citizen, while carrying the mantle of the bench.

That alleviated concerns, or hamstrung objections, to Roberts, whereupon he was confirmed and promptly took his place on the bench as a reliable member of the conservative wing of the court (with a few exceptions, the most notable one being the swing vote affirming the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act).

4 The following persons are excluded from serving as jurors: (a) members of the Privy Council, the Senate and the House of Commons of Canada; (b) members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the Executive Council; (c) members of the council of a municipality or members of a board of trustees of a school district or school division; (d) judges of the Provincial Court, justices of the Court of Appeal and Court of Queen's Bench and justices of the peace, whether retired or not; (e) barristers and solicitors, whether or not they are practising, and students ‑ at ‑ law; (f) medical examiners under the Fatality Inquiries Act; (g) officers and employees of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta; (h) persons who (i) have been convicted of a criminal offence for which a pardon has not been granted, or (ii) are currently charged with a criminal offence; (i) witnesses summoned to attend before the Legislative Assembly or a committee of the Legislative Assembly during the period that their attendance is required; (j) persons confined in an institution; (k) persons engaged in the administration of justice, including (i) members and employees of any police service, (ii) probation officers, (iii) employees of the Department of Justice, and (iv) employees of the Department of Justice of Canada or the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada.

The Crown claimed in the Court of Queen's Bench that on the coming into force of the Constitution Act 1867 as amended by the Manitoba Act 1870, that the inhabitants of Manitoba other than Indians, became Canadian citizens.

This session is a refresher course on the Court of Queen's Bench Act and Rules as well as the underlying jurisprudence for the awarding and fixing of costs in Manitoba.

And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.

And they could not mediate while on the bench — judicial ethics prohibit a sitting judge from acting as a mediator or an arbitrator.

We would keep the table pulled up to the bench so it could act as the fourth seat (although the bench would actually hold two or three people for when we add the leaves to make the table oval.)

Whether you want a skirted bench or a bench with armrests, they are a choice that is seldom implemented into a dining room — it is guaranteed to individualize your interior, and act as an excellent accent piece.

The decking acts as built - in bench seating, and the tree provides shade on sunny days.