Sentences with phrase «as a present from»

I received a bag of oats as a present from my sister last year (that sounds kind of funny, but I was thrilled!)

This recipes is from a Swedish cookbook I got as a present from my mother a few years ago.

I was a little upset getting a swing as a present from my in - laws... They claim it was a life saver for them when they had their kids.

Upon receiving the Cervantes Prize in 1979 («a generous blunder that I shamelessly accept,» he said), Borges commented in an interview that with the prize money — a million pesetas, to be shared with Spanish poet Gerardo Diego — he planned to buy the Espasa Calpe encyclopedia, which he eventually received as a present from the publishers.

(I got it as a present from my parents a year or so ago.)

When I was younger, I used to always see really cute jewelry being sold in little Japanese lifestyle shops and hope that one day I would receive them as presents from my boyfriend!

It is imperative, however, that the child fully understands the message of the fable as presented from the original point of view.

I am gonna have a chihuahua as a present from a friend i barely know anything about this breed and i want to be a good owner any advice on how to care for it properly?

The player and two of his or her best friends get three Pokemon as presents from Professor Juniper, and each has to choose one.

I just received a dog as a present from my girlfriend.

Happy Halloween everyone, as a present from Microsoft we have Facebook version 2.2 being rolled out.

Not exact matches

The top five winners from each market will present before a national panel of judges as Miller Lite Tap the Future finalists.

This pearl Cambridge Lover's Knot tiara was given to Princess Diana as a wedding present from the Queen.

The sapphires in these earrings are believed to have come from the strap of a watch given to Princess Diana as a wedding present from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, according to the Daily Mail.

«In a year from now, what we want is for this not only to be nationally present, but something that people see as a big part of their every day lives,» Elliott says.

Savannah Guthrie read a statement from NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack as an opening for the Today Show on Wednesday, stating, «while it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years he's been at NBC News, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.»

«So for one of my Christmas presents from Kanye, he gives me this little box with a Disney Mickey toy, Apple headphones, Netflix [and] Amazon gift cards and Adidas socks,» Kardashian says, as her camera pans over the box of gifts.

As colleagues past and present attest, he is also a tornado of activity: setting and meeting outrageous deadlines, pinballing from appointment to appointment, revering the on - time ship.

American Airlines requires passengers who want to travel with an emotional or mental health support animals to present a letter from a doctor that states the traveler needs the animal on board with them as well as what his or her emotional or mental disability is.

Spaniards are hoping for an earlier Christmas present Thursday as they could win a share of $ 2.4 billion from the world's biggest lottery.

Or as the APS puts it, «If one starts at the end goal, the assumption is that efforts were successful to get there, while moving from the present to the future doesn't necessarily assume success, and forces the goal setter to think through obstacles that might prevent it from happening.»

For the Phelans, who had long threatened to take the company private again, that presented an opportunity Though they ran into opposition from institutional investors who criticized the initial offer as too low, the Phelans won out after slightly sweetening the bid.

Although companies like Netscape and Google are almost always presented as radically innovative start - ups, out to change the world from day one, the fact is, they began as incremental improvements, executed at opportune moments.

But it had some additional ones to consider (median salaries presented as annual figures that seemed to differ a bit from the hourly multiplied by a 40 hour week and 52 - week year, but not by enough to quibble):

He argues that firms like the one he co-founded — PIMCO — as well as other large asset managers like BlackRock, now present the systemic risk that Dodd - Frank sought to transfer away from banks.

Poloz answered questions from MPs as he presented his economic outlook and envisioned a sequence of events that would lead the country on a path to further prosperity.

The beefed up protections should prevent hackers from creating counterfeit credit cards, but they are no defense against fraudulent «card not present» transactions, such as occur online.

Emerson's offer stems from its desire to be a leader in all areas of automation and to present a stronger competitive offering to industrial companies as European giants such as Siemens, ABB Automation Group and Schneider Electric become more aggressive in the field.

We present the companies that have generated the most trust among entrepreneurs as well as the lessons you can take from them.

He has also appeared as an expert on BBC One's hit daytime show «Cash in the Attic» and «Cash in the Celebrity Attic» and two series of presenting the ever popular BBC One's «Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is» before turning his attentions on TV back to his true field of expertise fakes, scams and forgeries with appearances on «Rogue Traders» and «Fake Britain» and Channel 5's «Live From Studio 5.»

As other boards use HP as a case study and learn from its trials, perhaps it's time for HP to also re-examine the board's level of involvement with the company's strategy — before the company presents their ideas to the publiAs other boards use HP as a case study and learn from its trials, perhaps it's time for HP to also re-examine the board's level of involvement with the company's strategy — before the company presents their ideas to the publias a case study and learn from its trials, perhaps it's time for HP to also re-examine the board's level of involvement with the company's strategy — before the company presents their ideas to the public.

When it comes to sales, most salespeople and entrepreneurs think of the task as one they can easily break down to its basic components: You meet people, you present your products and / or services; and, if they're interested, they'll buy from you.

Case in point: The concept of building a float to re-create the Ferris Bueller «Danke Schoen» scene (with Branson as Bueller) came from an ideation session trying to tie together Chicago - related and Virgin - appropriate themes; when the team presented the idea to Branson, he immediately agreed to participate, rather than micro-questioning and overworking the concept after it was presented to him.

She described compiling a list of round objects — from watermelons to beach balls to basketballs — to paint on her pregnant belly for a series of novelty photos to present to her husband as a gift.

The founder, CEO, or whoever else has final say should be present, as well as at least one expert from finance, marketing, customer support, tech, and design.

The incubator offers an open - floor design plan to spur collaboration, weekly networking sessions for treps and investors (with cerveza and snacks, of course), as well as a pitch night where the top concepts from students and alumni get presented in front of venture capitalists and others with deep pockets.

As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.

The Bank of Canada presents the results of its business survey as «balance of opinion,» subtracting the percentage of companies that expect less of something from the percentage that expect more.

And that has left Emotiv with a challenge every bit as big as conquering mind reading: figuring out how to present its breakthrough device to the world in a way that will transform it from a slightly scary gadget to the next must - have consumer technology.

From an early age, Asquith, who was born in Sussex but has spent most of his life in London, has been saving his money, starting with «hoarding cash and doing little jobs where I could» such as washing neighbourhood cars at age 12 to asking for money instead of presents at birthdays and Christmas.

Program spending by province is presented in the chart below, taken from Budget 2014 (Chart 1.15), which shows Ontario's expenditure of $ 8,453 per capita as being the lowest in Canada.

From the very first frame, Jobs (Michael Fassbender) is presented as a domineering boss, threatening an engineer to fix a glitch in the presentation or be publicly humiliated.

For those who like to send cards listing everything the family has done in the past year, now augmented reality cards from sites such as Blippar and iGreet let you show your favorite selfies along with animated trees and dynamic presents.

As it turned out, 18 minutes of sworn testimony from Redstone, presented in court Friday, was all it took to resolve the case — but not in Herzer's favor.

In Foursquare, for example, people can be noteworthy and attain badges within the system for doing such things as being the biggest regular at a certain place (What Norm and Cliff from «Cheers» would do with this...) and going to a venue in which a lot of Foursquare members of the opposite sex are present.

The non-GAAP measures presented here are: revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, income (loss) from operations, non-operating expenses and net income (loss)(including those amounts as a percentage of revenue), and net income (loss) per diluted share.

The reversal of $ 403 million of our valuation allowance is presented as a benefit from income taxes in our income statement.

Hyperloop One hasn't been in the news as much since they secured a new investment from Richard Branson's Virgin and changed their name, but now they are coming back into the spotlight with a deal presented as «historic».

During the final session of the 10,000 Small Businesses curriculum, participants will have the opportunity to present their growth plans and receive feedback from their business advisors and peers as they hone and prepare to implement their strategies.

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