Sentences with phrase «as speaking role»

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Before performing her notable role as Selene in «Underworld,» Beckinsale studied French and Russian literature at Oxford University's New College, and she still fluently speaks French and Russian as well as German.

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin speaks with Starbucks outgoing CEO Howard Schultz about the last time that Schultz stepped down as CEO of the company before coming back to the role.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Soros explained how the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin can play important roles in immigration.

Family and friends speak for themselves, and may also serve as mentors or role models.

Jim Cramer spoke with Andrew Liveris on his role as head of Trump's advisory council and his company's upcoming merger with DuPont.

Besides her roles as a Partner at Leap Ventures and the founder and Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region, Fadel's presence is almost guaranteed at pretty much every startupcentric event worth its salt in the Middle East, where she can be seen doing everything from speaking on entrepreneurial paradigms to mentoring «treps on their fledgling business models.

Generally speaking, people who see themselves as strikers tend to enjoy prominent, public roles.

Speaking about the role of gender equity specifically, Coles said, «Men should want this as much as women.

If a candidate can share only platitudes about his or her preparation for something as important as a job interview, that speaks volumes about how this person will prepare for important tasks, meetings, roles, etc. when he or she actually has the job.

Speaking from my own experience growing up as a closeted gay man, male role models that acted like me and aspired to work in areas that interested me were few and far between.

In an interview with the Post at a «Bing Sutt» - style Starbucks café in Central, which pays homage to the traditional 1950s Hong Kong coffee shop decor, Wong spoke of her vision since stepping into her role as the Seattle - based company's first China operations chief executive late October.

Actor and writer Bob Odenkirk speaks to CNBC's Carl Quintanilla about his role in the new film «The Post» as the country's current conversation on journalism swirls.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

In addition to his own book, he regularly writes for the Huffington Post and the Financial Times, provides commentary for other news outlets, does television appearances, speaking engagements, consultations with politicians and everything else that comes from increasingly sharing a role as the «face» of the company with founder Bill Gross.

Weet - bix manufacturers Sanitarium have dropped Steve Smith as one of their ambassadors, saying «Weet - Bix ambassadors represent our brand values of trust and integrity, and they speak to everything that is good about being Australian» and that their relationship with Steve Smith could not continue as the role of the ««Weet - Bix Kid» is to inspire millions of Aussie kids to be the best they can be.»

Diess spoke for the first time in his new role as CEO at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Berlin after VW abruptly replaced Winterkorn's successor, Matthias Mueller, last month.

The soft - spoken and altruistic MLA from Calgary - Mountain View, David Swann, already served as leader from 2008 to 2011 and might be unlikely to step back into that role.

Those are the words I spoke as a trial judge in 1997 when I sentenced Bobby Bostic to a total of 241 years in prison for his role in two armed robberies he committed when he was just 16 years old.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

It seems as though the churches and political organizations have swapped roles: The churches speak more as political organizations, and governments and international bodies as churches.

He pointed out that «it isn't always easy today to speak about fatherhood and, not having adequate role models, it even becomes problematic to imagine God as a father.»

(Because of the nature of this magazine and my own role as a Christian theologian, I will speak only of the church in what follows.)

Though the pope doesn't speak for Protestant Christians, he holds an important role as one of the most public faces of Christianity, said Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

Football player Tim Tebow, speaking at an evangelical Father's Day event at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego on Sunday, on being received by the public as a Christian role model.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

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Heisel reported a study comparing Japanese and American children's TV programs, whose results revealed that there were even few older characters on the Japanese shows: 4 per cent of all speaking roles, as compared to 9 per cent for the U.S..

He is not tempted to speak as though Emergent is inventing the wheel, as many of his colleagues do, when it places women in leadership roles or advocates for social justice.

Although God does not speak to Qoheleth in His role as Redeemer, His creation when experienced playfully points us to its source, God the Creator — the Giver of life 39

As a mentor and role model for women students, Joan was a top candidate to speak at the first women's reunion at YDS.

Speaking about the move he said: «After six years as national director, and 13 years at YFC, I feel the time is right for me to move on from this role.

But you will let me speak personally and say that I do not see how ministry that presumes to honor the prophetic model, as at least in part determinative of the role, can be fulfilled without drawing intermittently but persistently the same essential charge.

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

Drawing on biblical and church tradition, he spoke of the roles of pastor, priest, prophet and king as historically normative for the Christian ministry.

He wrote, thought and especially spoke as a cultured Roman; he was a teacher of rhetoric and a leading candidate for high Roman honors in that role.

As we continue our discussion of Peter Rollins» How (Not) to Speak of God, I'd like to explore the role that doubt plays in the faith experience.

If ecumenism is understood as the quest for full visible unity, and if full visible unity is understood as what the Catholic Church means by «full communion,» then it is perhaps not quite accurate to speak of «the role» of the Catholic Church.

Speaking to Premier as the other party leaders prepared for Wednesday night's TV debate ahead of next week's vote, Theresa May once again outlined the role her Christian faith plays in her life, saying it is the same today as it was growing up in the vicarage where her father served.

It is used with ambiguity because he speaks decisively about God's Word but then rejects the role of Scripture as incapable of fulfilling the demands of the «being» aspect of revelation.

We could not have picked a «better» church to visit on our first Sunday, as the pastor was speaking that week — scratch that; he was shouting — about «biblical» gender roles, referencing stay - at - home dads as «abnormal» and it being against God's will for a wife to have a larger income than her husband.

Mrs May spoke warmly about the role of the Church in society and spoke of an elderly group in her own parish as just one example of the good Christians are doing across the country.

There are passages in which the dominant role in creation is apparently assigned to creativity, such as where God is spoken of as the accident or creature of creativity.

In the Gospel of Matthew, even as Jesus contests with the Jewish teachers of his day for authority to speak God's Word, he affirms their rabbinic role.

Regardless of whether your church allows women to preach and teach, does it speak respectfully of them, as full human beings made in the image of God, and with as much of a role to play in his mission as men?

He went on to talk of arrogant, moralistic sermons he had heard before he was ordained, preachers speaking as if their role granted them some moral perspicacity not granted to lesser mortals.

I have spoken as if this is purely women's work, and there is no doubt that they have played and must play the leadership role if a transformation of this kind is ever to occur.

An adviser to the bishops of the Anglican Communion, he has written and spoken widely on themes as diverse as the role of theology in the university, the spirituality of the L'Arche communities, and contemporary Irish poetry

The inspired writers introduced dramatic roles as a way of allowing the most significant characters of Scripture to manifest themselves and to speak, and so to progress the Biblical narrative from within.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.