Sentences with phrase «as a collector for»

The latest is a confirmation that Benicio Del Toro will be reprising his role as The Collector for the upcoming epic crossover event film.

By chance, Craig has just run into an old high school pal, Vince (Ethan Embry), who works as a collector for a loan shark and is more than ready to cut corners — among other things — en route to a big score.

Outdoor units serve as the collector for air source heat pumps, including clockwise from above left, units from Mitsubishi and Panasonic (installed as part of Tipperary Energy Agency's SuperHomes retrofit scheme), CTC (an illustration showing the inner workings), and a Thermia unit outside Ireland's first certified passive house retrofit, in Salthill, Co..

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Over the last few years, Trump has cultivated an image as something of a connoisseur, giving interviews to international media about her favorite artists and sharing advice for beginner art collectors on her blog.

That relative lack of movement, as well as less contact with the roving germ collectors known as flight attendants, translated into a relatively lower risk of infection for those seated by the window.

In April the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector in San Francisco announced it had notified 37,000 people identified as drivers for transportation network companies, or TNCs, of a new effort to enforce the requirements.

All any self - declared «debt collector» has to do is to give the financing platform — which promises debt collectors a commission as high as 40 % of the whole loan if the recovery proves successful — their own photo and ID card number, and go through a weeklong wait for verification.

Elias has created art for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as his worldwide collector base.

How much a collector is willing to pay for such a medal is a different animal altogether, as is how much the medal's metal would be worth if it were melted down.

In June, Hagerty, the insurance company for collector cars and boats, bought Classics & Exotics (for an undisclosed sum), and officially relaunched it this week as DriveShare.

Wages considered were earned for services as varied as collector of customs at the Port of New York to royalties on books, as well as ownership of companies and yields from family estates.

This will be a free service that will provide a place for used cans and will pay dividends to the company through advertising as well as collecting money from selling the aluminum to material collectors.

The tax collector (a euphemism for taxpayers) suffers as investors across the economic spectrum borrow funds so as to leverage a higher return on equity.

But this was no obstacle to data collectors: while Kosinski always asked for the consent of Facebook users, many apps and online quizzes today require access to private data as a precondition for taking personality tests.

As one example, DelBello points out that huge nationwide institutions like banks service millions of loans through centralized computer systems, yet we need a separate tax assessor, tax collector, and various clerks and support staff for every town.

Unless you are an experienced collector specifically looking for rare gold coins, avoid dealers that promote numismatic coins as a good investment.

However, given that the consumers search for a sturdy value proposition is a common thread that runs through all market segments, expensive watches featuring bold and innovative themes continued to find buyers despite difficult economic conditions, while classic watches found demand as collector's items.

As a whole, it is the best solution for data transfers among the users, developers and data collectors.

As noted at the time, Align's item permits small businesses to send US dollars and for a collector to get euros, for instance.

The thing we're never told in school is that the people who come up with the most ideas start by being idea collectors and by viewing everything around them as an opportunity for a remix.

We see here that the rich Christian branches are not supporting for example this Coptic branch in Egypt working as Rubbish collectors and junk yards?

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

Now a new study from Cambridge University based on his writings suggests Saint Patrick was not brought to Ireland as a slave, as the legend has it, but that in fact he may actually have sold slaves his family owned to pay his way to Ireland - in order to avoid a job as a tax collector for the Roman empire.

The common people accepted as a matter of course the control of these political and religious groups, save for chronic grumblings against those who touched their pocketbooks most directly, the hated publicans or tax - collectors.

Further evidence for the existence of table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners» as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is the role played by communal meals in earliest Christianity (E. Lohmeyer, Lord of the Temple [ET by Stewart Todd of Kultus und Evangelism (1942); Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961], pp. 79ff, discusses the central role of table - fellowship in the ministry of Jesus, but he is particularly concerned with the development towards the Last Supper, which he sees as historical, rather than with the relationship between this table - fellowship and the cross, on the one hand, and the communal meals of early Christianity on the other.)

In those days, sinners fell into five basic categories: people who did dirty things for a living (such as pig farmers and tax collectors), people who did immoral things (such as liars and adulterers), people who did not keep the law up to the standards of the religious authorities (such as you and me), Samaritans and gentiles.

However, Pastor Johnson Sathyanathan, president of the Synod of Pentecostal Churches in Coimbatore told Morning Star India: «It is a well - planned conspiracy against the Christian community, as the Hindu extremists know that it is not easy to approach the collector's office for such permissions.

The methods of tax collecting in those days gave a good deal of opportunity for graft, and tax collectors as a group were generally disliked.

Of course, this is the great curse of the Internet as well — for not only can model - train collectors share their joint enthusiasm, but so can anti-Semites, child molesters, and gang members.

Matthew regards the parable as an illustration of the «last, first: first, last» principle, but we must assume that it was originally spoken in a context in which Jesus was being attacked for his attitude to «tax collectors and sinners», with all that this implied to many of his contemporaries.

Jesus could have been blaspheming, his exorcisms could be collusion with evil forces, and what his opponents, no doubt, regarded as the indiscriminate nature of both the forgiveness (including tax collectors and sinners) and the healings (Samaritan leper) could be an argument against these aspects of his ministry, but for faith both are a manifestation of the kingly activity of God.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

He is pictured as himself a story - teller in whose stories there is equally vivid harmonizing of contrasts: a father embracing a prodigal son, a tax collector praying for forgiveness; a heretic showing a compassion far surpassing that of the orthodox, an employer rewarding laggards with the same wages as those who have worked a full day.

For Peter's mother - in - law, it was release from a fever; for the tax collector, it was acceptance as a human being; for the 5,000 it was bread; for the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no moFor Peter's mother - in - law, it was release from a fever; for the tax collector, it was acceptance as a human being; for the 5,000 it was bread; for the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no mofor the tax collector, it was acceptance as a human being; for the 5,000 it was bread; for the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no mofor the 5,000 it was bread; for the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no mofor the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no more.

The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.

As Chinese collectors developed a taste for Bordeaux wines, soon they cornered the market on top vintages and newer production.

Conrad believes that Liston became deeply involved in a loan - sharking ring in Las Vegas, as a bill collector, and that he tried to muscle in for a bigger share of the action.

As usual, the Pro Bowl comes with a whole slew of limited jerseys available for collectors to purchase.

Then in 1938 one of them — a New Yorker who, possibly because of revenue collectors, preferred to be known as plain «Jack» — was more convincing: McKee was guaranteed one thousand dollars to dive for silver bars hidden in pitch on a Spanish galleon.

Pinheads, as even the collectors call themselves, have been known to offer as much as $ 6,000 for a single Burmese Olympic pin.

I sit at a small round table that serves as our eating space, homework station, clutter collector — a place for bills and paperwork and Olive's artwork.

And as a data collector by nature and training, I especially like the book's concluding feedback chart, which orders all the recipes in the book so you can keep track of recipes tried, any edits to presentation, and whether your baby / toddler did or did not like it (yay for rating scales!).

«The manner they are subsequently chased by debt collectors for the cost of this healthcare causes significant stress and risks forcing people into vulnerable situations, as the people around them become reluctant to host them.

The youth activists stormed the assembly to forcefully takeover as the new revenue collectors due to a change in government, indicating that they worked for the victory of the NPP and it was apt they are given jobs to also fend for their families.

Akin Fakorede is now a political brand for the APC as their chief collector of election result sheets.

Most banks have been sending these codes to tax collectors electronically and directly for many years but state law requires assessors to serve as a «middle - man» and continue spending countless hours on an unnecessary task.

As a collector and student of Hudson River impressed or branded bricks for over 30 year I was not aware of a Walsh brickyard having been located at Glasco, NY, in Ulster County.

If you're looking for a really unique The Walking Dead collectors item, check out this fun Michonne Wacky Wobbler figure, as portrayed by actor Danai Gurira.

They were as amazed by my enthusiasm for a long - dead collector of beetles, butterflies and birds as I was by their admission that, really, they had no idea who he was.

A favorite among shell collectors, the diminutive cone snail — larger specimens grow to be about 23 centimeters in length — is as renowned for its beautiful shell as it is for its potent venom.