Sentences with phrase «at a function held»

A number of you were here last August at a function held to welcome me into the role of Social Justice Commissioner.

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And hype around the ZenFone 3, which Asus showcased at the event, is largely centered on the fact its battery can last up to 42 days (the iPhone 6 holds a charge for about a day and a half with moderate use), and function as a charger for other devices.

«The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and continue to function.»

Prior to founding of The Value Alliance, Ms. Bloxham devoted nearly twenty years of her professional career in financial services posts encompassing the banking, investments and insurance sectors, holding executive positions at Prudential Financial Services and at Bank One (now merged into JPMorganChase), where she managed strategic, financial, operations, technology, and compliance functions and at KPMG where she ran a global practice.

The functions of all of our employees are expected to reside at SSE Holdings.

«The test of a first - rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.»

He has held various positions in the supervision, market surveillance and investigation functions at SEBI.

Like a first - rate intelligence, cooperative federalism is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Either one recognises the priority of reason, of creative Reason that is at the beginning of all things and is the principle of all things — the priority of reason is also the priority of freedom -, or one holds the priority of the irrational, inasmuch as everything that functions on our earth and in our lives would be only accidental, marginal, an irrational result — reason would be a product of irrationality.

«He is a man of convicted compassion and courteous candor who — as a function of his own deeply held Christian beliefs — will work tirelessly for people of all faiths and none,» said Chris Seiple, president emeritus at the Institute for Global Engagement.

There is usually an annual function held at each of the tombs of the saints, sometimes accompanied by fairs.

One side of a familiy not showing up at a family function just because the event is held in the wrong church or because the other side has the wrong take of the same damn religion.

«The test of first - rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.»

Accordingly, such intelligent agents are able to have dual - function experiences that at once cause their beliefs and provide the reasons for holding them.

Wolf Blass will be the wine of choice in hospitality suites and functions at all RLWC2017 fixtures played across the co-hosts, and available at official events held throughout the 5 - week tournament period.

These Awards are the pinnacle of our yearly celebrations and are an opportunity to acknowledge our clients at a special award ceremony held at the AGM dinner function every November.

Best of all, instead of functioning exactly like a traditional teeter totter, this toy can hold up to three toddlers at once for safe group play!

It was held in the garden, cocktails at the Museum, dinner near the pool, party in a function room.

Park District Director Ronald Dodd said the kitchen is needed for functions to be held at the center and for cooking classes for juveniles identical to those conducted at the Inwood Center on the city «s west side.

It can hold a baby as small as 4 lbs., so it really does function as a safe stroller at any age.

They hold court at family functions and friend gatherings, telling everyone — willing and unwilling listeners alike — how different things would be if those kids were their kids.

Raising a reader early on also teaches your child basic functions of how to hold a book, open and shut it, look at it from front to back and «read» the pictures.

Tatchell, whose presence at Downing Street functions has been repeatedly vetoed in recent years, said a coalition of gay rights groups would hold a protest outside Downing Street in early September as part of a new campaign called Love Russia, Hate Homophobia.

At 12:30 p.m., local elected officials, NYSEG ratepayers, and anti-fracking climate activists hold a press briefing on the proposal to keep the Cayuga Power plant functioning by converting it to natural gas, state Capitol, 3rd floor (outside LCA offices), Albany.

«The machine is not functioning in any capacity,» Mr Osborne said at a # 100 - a-ticket Labour fundraising event held on Tuesday.

The appearance by Gov. Cuomo's top aide at a function being held by the lobbying firm that's been implicated in the Buffalo Billion investigation has been postponed.

Calls for campaign finance improvements, election reform, and changes to the structure and functions of community boards dominated the fourth borough hearing of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Charter Revision Commission, held Monday night at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

A report from SAGE released this week — the commission held a meeting at the Capitol in the Blue Room — notes that the authorities and agency basically serve the same function already.

Each Board holds a monthly full membership meeting, and applicants are encouraged to attend at least two such monthly meetings to understand how the Boards function.

The ballot - qualified Peace & Freedom Party of California will hold its state convention, which also functions as a presidential nominating convention this year, on August 4 - 5 at the Vermont Square United Methodist Church, 4410 S. Budlong Ave., Los Angeles.

And the air pressure altitude hold function will keep the drone hovering at just the right height for ideal shots.

This quadcopter drone towers at the top of our list, due to its high definition camera, altitude hold function, and up to 328 feet of flying distance.

The air pressure altitude hold function will keep the drone hovering at just the right height for ideal shots.

The altitude hold function makes it possible for you to release the throttle while the drone hovers at its current height.

As he continues, I find myself reminded of F. Scott Fitzgerald's proposition in The Crack - Up, that «the test of a first - rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.»

«Social phobia can be so debilitating that it interferes with an individual's ability to function or to hold a job,» says Mario Miniati, M.D., a psychiatrist at the University of Pisa, Italy.

So he invented a fudge factor, called lambda, that could function mathematically to hold the universe at a standstill.

In marked contrast to the widely held notion that the insulin - producing pancreatic beta cell loses function with wear and tear, the researchers now show that mouse and human beta cells are fully functional at advanced age.

Still, some researchers held out hope that the drug would at least improve cognitive function, as suggested by a few smaller studies.

Though it's not yet clear whether these trends hold for all plant eaters, that they exist at all means that ecologists need to keep them in mind as they figure out the dynamics of how ecosystems function.

Today, at the 43rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, Kazunori Ikebe, from Osaka University, Japan, will present a research study titled «Cognitive Function and Oral Perception in Independently - living Octogenarians.»

The little computer challenges that the draft candidates had to solve measure some of the brain's most crucial functions, such as its ability to hold several pieces of information at once.

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that the test of a first - rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

By holding some of the vesicles back, the protein essentially performs a regulatory function, ensuring that neither too many, nor too few, are passed forward at any given moment.

Executive function requires good working memory to hold several pieces of information in the brain at once.

(1988) containing the papers presented at a meeting organized by the two of us and held in Rome and in the Convent of Santa Teresa (Caprarola) where the structure - function relationships and the physiopathology of cytochrome oxidase were discussed in depth.

At this point, the individual is still able to function, hold a job and continue a pretty normal life.

When you have a hormonal problem, your liver's function is compromised and can't work as efficiently at removing these toxins, so your body holds on to fat - soluble toxins.

She laughs at his jokes, holds onto his arm at high - profile functions and makes him look successful just by the virtue of being there.

That Ahn implies the parallel, yet resists belaboring it, is a function of the film's careful construction, always holding fulfillment at arm's length.