Sentences with phrase «as conduit from»

«Shape Shifter» looks at the expressive power of West and Central African textile, its ability to transfer magic and act as conduit from gods and ancestry to the dark days of slavery.

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Tillerson's nomination as Washington's chief diplomat and the primary conduit between the US and foreign governments has drawn criticism from those worried about his connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The goal of yield maintenance is to allow the conduit lender to reinvest the money returned from the borrower, plus a penalty fee, into bonds or other investments and receive the same cash flow as if the loan hadn't been paid off early.

It and other dark money groups can serve as conduits for anonymous donations from corporations and other wealthy special interests to flood elections, making it particularly dangerous to democracy.

It is an established fact that my belly - button (and ONLY my belly - button) serves as a conduit through both space and time, and that it is used regularly by midgets and dwarfs from all faiths, including (but not limited to) Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam.

A passageway, as one would guess, is a conduit to the next thing: a way to allow movement from one place, condition or stage to the next.

Since May, Cuomo's state Democratic Committee has served as the conduit for all things anti-Astorino: His fight with the Department of Housing and Urban Development over affordable housing, his conservative stance on abortion and a lawsuit filed against him stemming from the obscure battles within the Independence Party in Westchester County.

Some of their placards read: «Support Anti-Corruption Crusade, Probe Executive Looting in Ekiti», «We Don't Want a Criminal as our Governor in Ekiti», «Fayose Stole N750 million from Ado - Ifaki Road Account,» Grids Associates, Fayose's Conduit Pipe», «Fayose's Wife is a Fake Prophetess, where is Ekiti's N100 million», «What Happened to Ekiti Airport Fund», «Fayose Must Go», «Access Bank is Aiding Fraud in Ekiti», Fayose is a Disgrace to Ekiti People», among others.

Colleagues from New York and beyond use him as a conduit to deal with the White House.

Ms Harman stands alone as the only Cabinet minister to have accepted funds from a conduit of Mr Abrahams, having accepted # 5,000 to clear her debts from her deputy leadership campaign.

In this context, MPs of the kind Corbyn and McDonnell were can have a legitimate and sometimes useful role as a conduit to bring those outside in from the cold.

Mr. Pan, according to the charges, sought to send the money to Mr. Liu's campaign by using 20 straw donors — people who are recorded in campaign finance documents as giving to a candidate but actually serve as conduits for money from an unseen large donor, the person said.

The President Mahama / Opuni tenure used export duty payments from COCOBOD as a conduit to syphon funds for activities not related to cocoa.

For over one hundred years, scientists have debated the question of the origins of the lymphatic system — a parallel system to the blood vessels that serves as a conduit for everything from immune cells to fat molecules to cancer cells.

The physical connection between mother and fetus is provided by the placenta, an organ, built of cells from both the mother and fetus, which serves as a conduit for the exchange of nutrients, gasses, and wastes.

Among the examples she cites is research from applied mathematics that led to the founding of Akamai, a firm that has provided a content delivery network to firms ranging from Apple to Google, and represents «the invisible conduits of the Internet,» as Hockfield puts it.

«Conventionally, lymphatic vessels are regarded mainly as passive conduits through which tumor cells spread from the primary tumor and eventually metastasize,» he said.

But Jackson says that the contamination may have come not from the fracking but from the wells themselves, which can serve as a conduit between geological formations if not properly sealed.

«Our study shows that alpha - synuclein is able to travel quite far through the body, passing from one neuron to another and using long nerve fibers as conduits,» Di Monte says.

During catheter ablation, which typically takes four to five hours, cardiologists thread a catheter, or long thin tube, up through a blood vessel from the groin to the heart and use it as a conduit to send radiofrequency energy to cauterize the misfiring cells.

For her part, Kidman carves a striking presence out of the non-stop fireworks, acting both as a conduit for the audience's sense of astonishment at the proceedings and the capable, multi-lingual scientist who manages not only the technical details of the crisis — she's graduated from building the bombs to defusing them — but Devoe's hair - trigger temper as well (at one point she calls him «a talented soldier with sloppy impulse control»).

Though the connection was emphasized in marketing, Annabelle carries just a single concept over from the 2013 hit, that of a doll being used as a conduit for evil.

Employing admirable restraint while focusing on the crack team of Boston reporters who exposed the pedophilic crimes being committed by members of the clergy, this riveting film ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit.

A movie that ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit, Spotlight is especially admirable in its restraint, not only in its approach to unsettling material but also in the relatively muted acting by all concerned.

This feeling was roused ever - so - slightly by a Gotham Awards news recap: «We just felt very lucky that we came across this beautiful story» went the Granik quote in a brief Times dispatch from the ceremony — on its face a gracious thing to say, but something that can also be seen as an attempt by the director to distance herself from the material, as if she were only the conduit through which the real essence of the backwoods locations passed, and not a force active in shaping the way in which they were depicted.

By the time of Camelot's release, the once - surefire Broadway - to - film musical conduit had frayed to the point of snapping, as the hip youth market soaked up new flavours from Europe and older audiences turned away from cinema altogether.

Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made films involving the distortion of sex and the idea of sex being the conduit for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?

AMISOM troops have been implicated in sexual exploitation as with December 2012 following «media reports of shops on the AMISOM base» being used as conduit for «exploitative sex» the then AMISOM force commander «ordered the closure of the shops» and further «banned Somalia women from the camp base» (Ibid).

In previous occasion where AMISOM troops have been implicated in sexual exploitation as with December 2012 following «media reports of shops on the AMISOM base» being used as conduit for «exploitative sex» the then AMISOM force commander «ordered the closure of the shops» and further «banned Somalia women from the camp base» (Ibid).

Almost any college or university in South Carolina has the authority to approve public funds for charter schools, serving as a conduit for money from the state — and taking a 2 percent cut off the top of the payouts.

Rather than serve as a conduit for flowing district policy to school principals, who are then expected to act on those centralized decisions, Ms. Allen and her team in the 20,000 - student district help principals learn how to best exercise autonomy in their schools, from making staffing decisions to figuring out instructional priorities to determining if there's enough money in the school's budget to buy a van for after - school activities.

ALEC gets 98 percent of its funding from corporations and sources like the Koch family foundations, and it acts as a conduit for special interest influence in state legislatures.

It would make more sense for Amazon to strip out uneccessary hardware and features from its tablet to make it as cheap as possible — especially since it will serve as a conduit to Amazon's own media services.

These «guides» served as conduits to the immense, sunny, happy land where the spirits of the dead wandered aimlessly waiting for a summons from the loved ones they had left behind.

Under the department's proposed remedy, Apple will be prohibited from again serving as a conduit of information among the conspiring publishers or from retaliating against publishers for refusing to sell e-books on agency terms.

The goal of yield maintenance is to allow the conduit lender to reinvest the money returned from the borrower, plus a penalty fee, into bonds or other investments and receive the same cash flow as if the loan hadn't been paid off early.

It should be noted that the ECN / STP does not execute trades but rather acts as the conduit for transmitting the trade orders from the trader to the dealing desk where the trader took the price from.

The primary role of the breed health coordinators would be to act as the «conduit» for the collection and transfer of information to / from the Kennel Club and the breed clubs, and their members.

Both atria are relatively thin - walled chambers that receive blood from the veins, act as a conduit for the blood to pass into the ventricles, and actively push blood into the ventricles to ensure they are adequate filled.

And thousands of blood vessels, from the large and powerful aorta to the tiniest capillaries, serve as the conduits for blood as it travels throughout the body.

We can still serve as a conduit through which our readers, perhaps strapped to their 9 - 5 office desks or saddled with too much debt to venture out, can experience and learn from the places we are able to visit.

You arrive at the Tiers to declare an Edict, a powerful conditional spell that requires a conduit such as yourself, with effects ranging from massive earthquakes, permanent nightfall, erupting volcanoes or in the case of the Edict you just unknowingly declared: killing everyone in the Tiers unless Kyros's army takes the rebel stronghold within a little more than a week's time.

As someone who worked on the original cutscenes that we used to announce this character before, I'm pretty excited that my first PlayStation.Blog post revolves around the return of my favorite conduit from inFAMOUS Second Son: Abigail «Fetch» Walker.

Developer Sucker Punch has decided to take the «good» ending from inFamous 2 as canon for Second Son which means Cole is dead and the Conduits have not risen up as some supreme force.

The booth, which is decked out from top to bottom with The Conduit, is fully realized in render form, as a preview of what will actually be shown on the floor.

All out brawls from behind the wheel of a motorcycle make up a majority of the gameplay, but also act as a conduit for the game's incredibly cinematic story and explorative drives around a massive city.

From there the story moves at a brisk pace, covering ground fast as Delsin takes the fight to the DUP while also searching Seattle, the first real city to be used in the series, for the other escaped Conduits to up his powers.

For those works that act as conduits to our emotions, artists have provided an outlet for every sentiment — from relishing in our memories of and love for our mothers (Ono's My Mommy Is Beautiful, 2004) to releasing pent - up aggression and frustrations (Marina Abramovic's dangerous Rhythm 0 of 1974, or David Belt's Glassphemy!

With a title as broad as «I Really Miss You Until You're Here» from White Conduit Projects» latest exhibition, it is easy to be intrigued about what might be included in the show, and what themes the artists, and indeed curator, might be addressing.

Whereas certain strands of Minimalism or Conceptual art have used painting to demonstrate complicated formal concerns, Scully uses himself as a conduit for paint to express fundamental truths: «The power of a painting,» he said in 2003, «has to come from the inside out, not the outside in.