Sentences with phrase «act as a staging»

Male bowerbirds build bowers — twig tunnels furnished with decorations — that are designed to entice females and act as a stage for courtship and copulation.

The hope is bringing back an iconic bookstore chain will draw more readers into the stores and hopefully act as a staging ground to consolidate the local physical book industry.

The artwork takes the form of a barge, covered in angular mirrors — a floating sculpture that acts as stage for performance, interaction and debate.

His cinematic aesthetic acts as a stage for an untold narrative, inviting the viewer to script their own drama going on behind the walls of these historic homes.

These can be self - sufficient, sci - fi - like narratives, or alternatively act as a stage for Lemsalu's own performances; sometimes the sculptures become part of her costumes.

The exhibition acts as staging ground upon which accompaniment emerges as a usable model of practice.

In this sense her work is informed by postcolonial theory, with the domestic setting acting as a stage where historical psycho - dramas play out.

Cllr Chowney emphasised that the festival would «not only act as a stage for works by established artists and performers» but also «create a spotlight for local community groups, schools and colleges.»

Successful history of acting as stage manager, developing effective emergency repair methods and meeting the specific needs of each artist.

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You see that Orphan Drug Act (and a confluence of other factors as well, both regulatory and economic) helped set the stage for the Wild West marketplace we have now, in which gun - slinging drug makers can charge into town and charge whatever the heck they want for their wares.

The Falcon Heavy is based around a core that is a single Falcon 9 with two additional Falcon 9 first stages acting as boosters.

Acting as a sort of Silicon Valley emissary to the Wall Street crowd, Bill Gurley, general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark, also took the stage later in the afternoon.

While you'll certainly reach a larger audience online, sometimes there are huge benefits from gaining a few loyal customers in the early stages of your start - up who will act as brand ambassadors for the rest of your company's life.

He continued working on Minuum through the University of Toronto Early Stage Technology (UTEST) program, which acts as a pre-incubator research space for budding entrepreneurs to develop their products.

Our customers have access to us, via social media as much as in real life and we are being watched to see how we act and if we live up to our «stage persona».

Wesley Clover acts as a serial Super Angel, starting companies by providing seed, early stage and follow - on financing.

By zeroing in on the stages acting as a bottleneck and identifying the root causes, your teams can take steps to prevent lead decay and close more deals.

Angels also often act as the primary sources of capital for early - stage «Seed» Venture Capital firms who in turn often act as the first institutional money source for startups.

It says in the early stages of the Iran / Iraq conflict, Donald Rumsfeld, acting as Ronald Reagan's special envoy, gave Saddam NSA satellite images of Iran's battlefield deployment and licenses that allowed Iraq unfettered access to America's arsenal of germ and chemical warfare.

Equity crowdfunding has taken off as an investment option in the last years following the passage of the JOBS Act, allowing average investors to get a stake in early - stage startups.

We can act as a partner to growth stage companies and through a hybrid approach assist in the later stages of funding need.

Managed by Yaletown Partners, Accelerate Fund II will continue to haven The A100 act as the operators of its industry committee.The investment focus for Accelerate Fund II will be on Alberta based companies and will look to invest in the growing emerging pool of excellent early - stage tech companies here.

At this stage, the level of debt does not seem likely to be acting as a major constraint on household spending.

We have a track record of acting boldly and backing founders from the earliest stages of company formation and with evergreen funds we can follow our investment with additional funding rounds as your business grows.

A federal judge on August 31 ruled that the March for Life, a secular organization that stages the annual January Roe v. Wade protest in Washington, is exempt from offering artificial contraception as required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare.

McCourt has spent most of his unpublished adult life living in the shadow of his brother Malachy, a New York celebrity known as a hard - drinking, Irish literary raconteur, a modernist stage - Irish act of the type perfected by Brendan Behan.

Taking once again the picture of a five act play, it is as if we are the actors on the stage, and the Holy Spirit is in the wings, whispering our lines to us and telling us where to go.

This response was continuous, although the resurrection marked the crisis in its development — the moment when loyalty to the person reached its climax and when faith in the meaning of the event as an act of God became for the first time clear and sure — but at every stage this response was a constituent and creative element in the event itself, and the event had not fully happened until this response of faith had been fully made.

We can expect of our elected officials (and ourselves) integrity — the idea that we can act as honorably in the locker room as we would from the stage of the political rally or the seat in the Oval Office — without requiring perfection.

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

The police arrested several faith leaders, including Claiborne, for staging a prayer vigil as an act of civil disobedience that culminated at the door of Senator Paul Ryan's office.

Even though Fascism remained ideologically eclectic and chaotic — Gentile's systematizations never had any organic connection with the movement — and in large measure it was simply the acting out on the national stage of some of the less pleasant aspects of the Italian underculture — the band of thugs tied to their leader in bonds of personal loyalty — it did develop an ideological style and became once in power, a church, as Jemolo describes it:

Treatment and Prevention campaigns: to «ensure that the NSW community acts to prevent cancer wherever possible, or detect it as a preventable stage.»

I used to think I hated that flour as it hogged the stage, acting like a diva and taking up the spotlight in any baked good I used it in.

Flanked to the left by the Ling Ling and to the right by the cage, the bar acts as the main stage, allowing guests to flirt with one another and the different areas of the restaurant.

Literally three top, top managers have made him key components in their systems on every world stage and you have the arrogance to say with 100 % confidence, and act as if anyone who disagrees with you is «in denial» or «clueless» that Mourinho or Pep wouldn't want him at Chelsea or Bayern??

Higuain had then been given permission to enter final stage talks with the North London club which were seemingly brief as Arsene Wenger had already met with the player's father Nicolas, who acts as his agent, to draw up the general terms of a deal during a meeting in Paris last month.

As Super Slav sat down to select his team and squad to face Romanian champions Astra Giurgiu, he was fully aware of the delicate balancing act needed to win the game and hence qualify for the Europa League group stage, whilst at the same time not compromising his team selection for the difficult away Premier League game at Manchester City on Sunday.

Saturday will be the first time that the Indoor Grand Prix has been staged in Glasgow after events in Birmingham and the meeting acts as the final leg of the new IAAF World Indoor Tour series, which has so far had stops in Karlsruhe, Boston and Stockholm.

April 7: Laugh along as Johnny Peers and more than a dozen dogs stage their hilarious slapstick comedy act (Natick)

Paul had hung up the phone with Margaret at this stage and come in to me looking somewhat worried as I'm sure I was acting strangely.

This one acts as a bassinet when your baby is in the newborn stage but can convert to a mini crib when they get older.

Thanks for sharing, I too struggled with the baby stage but kept it to myself for the most part because the looks or comments I got from other moms when I admitted it made me feel like I had three heads or they acted as if I had just said I didn't like my baby (which wasn't at all what I was saying!).

But what I want you to realize is that how we, as parents, act sets the stage for the whole show.

The dynamics of this stage of the conversations could be promising: Carper is acting as a go - between to centrists such as Sens. Snowe, Landrieu, Nelson and Lieberman, while Schumer is in constant contact with liberals like Sen. Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownHillicon Valley: Facebook, Google struggle to block terrorist content Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy in US Company exposed phone location data Apple starts paying back taxes to Ireland Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Senate Dems call for probe into why Trump has not issued Russia sanctions MORE (D - Ohio).

At the same time, McCain would not commit to appearing on the same campaign stage as Trump, a tacit acknowledgment of the balancing act the Arizona senator needs to perform as he faces re-election this fall.

As last year's election was called, the final stages of the Higher Education and Research Act were rushed through parliament.

Prior to Softbank Capital, Mr. Levy acted as Managing Partner of Seed Capital Partners, an early stage technology venture fund that he co-founded in 1999 with his partner Ron Schreiber.

The move by the peers, who guaranteed the bill would run out of time by voting to end the committee stage, prompted the Conservatives to accuse Labour and the Lib Dems of acting as «enemies of democracy».