Sentences with phrase «as opening a present»

This is the same as opening a present, examining it, and then asking for a gift receipt because they believe it doesn't quite fit.

I think my favorite Christmas memory is just the happy look on my Dad's face as I opened my presents.

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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.»

Not only is social media powerful in that it can open up the eyes of potential customers across different platforms that you may never have thought of using before, but it can also help to cultivate a following that is loyal to your present - day products as well as remaining actively interested in your future endeavors.

China president Xi Jinping is expected to present «the most authoritative interpretation» on China's 40 years of economic reforms and opening up as part of h's keynote speech, as well as announce the establishment of free - trade ports in Chinese provinces potentially including Hainan.

China presents a major opportunity for global insurers as the rapidly growing economy opens up amid low insurance penetration rates, said Manulife's president and CEO.

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.

Some companies, such as pet supply retailer PETCO, have monthly, quarterly or annual open vendor days, where prospective vendors can schedule appointments for a 30 - minute meeting to present their merchandise.

They then conducted a series of experiments that measured how open to being wrong the volunteers were and how it affected their estimation of people with opposing views, as well as how accurately they'd understood the arguments they'd been presented with.

County and municipal officials presented two sites that they believe could serve as viable locations for the e-commerce giant: the sprawling Chester City waterfront and nearly 1 million square feet of open and redevelopable land in Middletown Township, seven miles away.

As the event opened, the panellists were presented with five global risk scenarios: uncontrolled city growth, lack of fresh water, extreme weather, continued fossil fuel lock - in and rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Therefore, a representative will call you, after you have opened an account with this broker, and present the options you have as a binary options trader with the company.

As soon as you're prepared to open a real - money broker account, you will be presented with four different account types to select froAs soon as you're prepared to open a real - money broker account, you will be presented with four different account types to select froas you're prepared to open a real - money broker account, you will be presented with four different account types to select from.

Upon opening a trade by choosing «high» or «low», the trader is presented with a real - time graphic tick chart automatically which allows him / her to follow the trade's progress, the time left to the end, the entry price, current price, as well as the payout which is displayed either in percentage or in dollar amount.

The paper hypothesize that the change occurred because the Federal Open Market Committee switched from using the federal funds rate as an operating instrument to using it to implement monetary policy and presents evidence from a variety of sources supporting the hypothesis.

According to the Federal Court's recent decision in Taseko Mines Ltd v Canada (Environment), «a project of such magnitude as the one considered in the present case [an open - pit gold and copper mine in British Columbia] will likely have impacts in areas of both provincial and federal responsibility.»

Over recent weeks, China's state - run news media has condemned the Trump administration's protectionist steps and presented China as the innocent defender of open trade.

Nothing goes up forever and it is important to remain flexible and open - minded as conditions change and new evidence presents itself.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

And as was pointed out, God can review all history of everyone, past or future, their entire lives at any time... yours included... you're an open book, everyone is... past, present and future.

That is regardless of what is ever presented, as to be open to «debate».

Don't some scholars suggest Mark presents Jesus as God in these very opening few verses in his gospel?

Why I Am a Catholic presents the encyclical as the «great break» between most Catholics and the Vatican, for it opened the way for «qualified and loyal theologians» to dissent from church teaching and emboldened the laity to follow their consciences.

(CNN)- For my husband and me, the crown jewel of success as parents is the shrieks and wanton joy that come when our children open presents on Christmas morning.

Dasein «has a past» not by being located at the expanding edge of a field of «facts» with which it entertains «relations» (prehensions), which makes the past external and the present related to it in a time - like way (i.e., as «coming after» it, in sequence with it), but by itself ecstatically opening the very «having - been - ness» (Gewesenheit.

In inviting people to open themselves to God and join with us in a movement to realize God's purposes, we would present our gospel as at the cutting edge of critical thought, not as an intellectual backwater.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

To break categorically with the present evil aeon is to cut the ground from under one's feet, to open oneself physically to death by breaking with the power structure of an evil society, and to open oneself spiritually to death by renouncing self - seeking as a motivation and giving oneself radically to the needs of one's neighbour, as one's real freedom and love.

Thus we have every reason to take seriously, as the tradition has plainly not done, the hypothesis (at present merely that) of open dimensions of value, even for the perfect one.

This was sometimes presented in news outlets as opening up the Girl Scouts to atheists.

Finally, as Blake envisioned, it is the human body of Christ who negated the God who is present in the memory of the past, and only when the Christian has wholly been delivered from remembrance and recollection will he be open to the Word that is fully incarnate in the present.

I think a lot of it has to do with how you present your ideas and if you try to have an open mind as much as you can muster and if you show respect for the other person.

Luke 2:22 - 23 Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, «Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord»),

Finally, it is as agents that we are most concerned with the modalities of time: the given past, the present in which we act, and the open future for which our present actions might make a difference.

In the present global marketization, as we have indicated in the above, ONE should be understood in a new way, in a dynamic way and in an open - ended way.

It is present as the content of all scripture (it does not matter where scripture is opened under Luther's left hand) and it is the (pictorially literal) undergirding for the sacraments depicted in the surmounting triptych.

Arguably, he is presented as a sort of a polar opposite to the healthy vulnerable sensitive type, the type open to the ministrations of therapeutic psychology and the charms of gentle singer - songwriters.

On Christmas morning, there are very few joys that are as great as seeing your loved ones open that very special Christmas present that they have been hoping for, that one that makes them smile from head to toe.

«The abyss has opened,» writes Buber in an historical present that strongly suggests the real present as well.

Almost as a by - product of this belief, they found themselves open to the present work of God in their lives.

By intensifying every present occasion as fully as possible and staying open to what God can and will do freely with it for the future, we contribute to a hopeful future, one that God can effect to the degree our present actions allow.

Life as will to power lives in the present and looks forward to the future, that empty, open horizon which it can creatively fashion through its own overcomings (TSZ 160).

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

Given Whitehead's general principle of reciprocity (of the interconnectedness of all things) we are more than justified in concluding that nature possesses structures analogous to those which we find present in mind (though the exact nature of those structures must remain open to particular investigation, that is, they must be discovered through specialized modes of inquiry such as those of the special sciences).

Bradley R. Smith of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) has sought to gain legitimacy for deniers in precisely this way, presenting «Holocaust revisionists» as an unjustly persecuted group of dissenters who simply want to get a fair hearing.

Even when the present reflections give an answer or at least sketch one, they are intended as an introduction to the new set of problems which are only gradually opening out before theology.

The Human Genome Project, not long ago completed at a cost of $ 3 billion, was often presented by its promoters as opening the way to discovering the ultimate genetic causes of all diseases, thus setting the stage for their cure.

I believe there is a particular need at the present to focus attention on utopian dreaming as a way of shaking us loose from obsolete ways of thinking and opening us up to those ideas, attitudes, and values that are appropriate for the future.

I would suggest, however, that theology needs to be more open to various modes of the future than Dr. Altizer's system allows: both to the impact of the future as presented in a corpus of Christian tradition under the theme of «hope,» and to the future as it presents itself to our secular world.

When we view prayer as a conversation with a God who is always present, it opens up a whole new realm of freedom in prayer.