Sentences with phrase «at conventions like»

I love puzzle games probably more than any other genre out there, and I'm always eager to see what new ways there are to boggle my mind at conventions like PAX East.

The subtle art of marketing an indie game at conventions like PAX East is harder than most people think.

BUT, here's what I fail to understand about publishers» fears about ebooks and libraries: they give away free books by the truckload to scores of reader / review blogs across the «net, they give away truckloads of books at conventions like RT and RWA, books are given away on GoodReads and Library Thing, and they are given away via Amazon's first reader program.

It's hard to distinguish these from self - pubbed titles, especially at conventions like the one I just attended.

Ever wonder how the giant displays at conventions like E3 get made?

The target of the misfit group's ire is Adam King (Clancy Brown), a Shatner-esque actor who starred in a space show and a cop drama but now fills his ego with regular appearances at conventions like this — and his wallet with outrageous fees for autographs and pictures.

Not exact matches

Economists and politicians will always be at loggerheads when it comes to job growth claims, with economists continually stating that the benefits are overstated and politicians will respond like William Shatner at a Star Trek convention.

For example, numerous retailers rely on a partnership with third - party delivery service ShopRunner for two - day delivery — and a shot at competing with Amazon Prime; Starbucks sticks cafes in Barnes & Noble; convention bureaus in places like Vegas and Orlando try to conduct a symphony of airlines, airport authorities, hotels, restaurants, and local transport providers.

While we're at it, would you be better off as an entrepreneur if your city held a one - off event like a convention, that millions will pay attention to, or a smaller scale, perennial event that will draw a passionate crowd?

In narrowing down the taste field at the gamer conventions, Mullin also began to sponsor individual gamers, gamer teams and gamer leagues, «kind of like NASCAR,» he says, and became the official snack supplier of the Cyber Games to boot.

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

Game company Looney Labs is winning customers against giants like Hasbro Games with the help of the Mad Lab Rabbits -500-plus fans who volunteer to work their tails off at trade shows, conventions and local appearances.

While the likes of Sony and Nintendo typically get most of the attention at the annual E3 video - game convention in Los Angeles, this year the industry was firmly focused on an outsider: Netflix.

It was a speech that sounded like it could have been given at any Republican convention, not just Trump's — which means it stood out for its discipline and coherency.

CNN: The GOP has a Muslim problem Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, political comedian and editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report, explains why the absence of a Muslim - American imam at the Republican National Convention «sends a message that these people are «others» and not truly Americans like the rest of us.»

«We worship an awesome God in the blue states,» he declared to huge applause in his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, catching the attention of young Christians like Joshua DuBois.

We looked like the chorus at a Hassidic hipster convention.

At this point the author turns once again to the deep conventions that ought to instruct our moral imaginations, such as prohibitions against murder, torture, slavery, and the like.

If they truly believed in it, you'd never see anything like opening prayers at the GOP convention (I assume the Democrats will do the same, so this isn't a knock against the right specifically), and you wouldn't have presidents and candidates kowtowing to «evangelical leaders» all the time, which to me is no different than a president or candidate consulting with the Pope, the only difference being the evangelical leaders are Americans.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

Thousands of industry professionals gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center, ranging from vendors making their debut to industry veterans like Follow Your Heart displaying their newest products and journalists looking to scope out the next big thing.

The bottles are at once beautiful and disturbing — they disrupt conventions and break taboos, just like the beer they hold within them.

Lovers of gingerbread houses, fairy tale princesses and kids who like to visit with Santa will be gathering at the 14th Annual Gingerbread Benefit, Thursday, Dec. 1, at The Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham.

At La Leche League conventions, Mrs. Lennon and her fellow founders were treated like «mini rock stars,» posing for photographs and signing autographs, her daughter said.

We would like to know more about these programs, so today at the School Nutrition Association convention (where 4,500 school district people are gathering), I'm announcing a national survey to gather baseline data on farm to school.

JOHNER RIEHL: I know that Cristina one of her co-workers, when they got married he actually took the wife's name and that became their family name like it's the obviously our convention here is to take the husband's surname, doesn't always happen, but so there are ways also and you have that moment of that magical moment in the hospital where I guess I don't know how it's done on a home birth like but I know at the hospital they bring you the form, there's the woman who works at the hospital or the man that works on the hospital that brings it to you and you have so much power in that moment like.

Even the hardest - working, highest - achieving kid must adhere to basic social conventions like not showing up for graduation ceremonies looking like a complete shlub — and if your kid doesn't realize that yet, it's time someone taught him about how to present himself appropriately, and the significance of donning a tie (or at least a nice shirt) for important occasions.»

Like many candidates in tight races, she is not in Tampa at the Republican National Convention this week.

I don't think Rick Lazio really wants to win this election, there is no enthusiasm or solutions in his tone, he sounds like a flat tire on the side of the road hanging out with a softball, and at this point he's talking in riddles, all I could say is we'll see what happens at the convention.

«Put it like this: All we want to get is 50 - plus - one and then everything else will take care of itself,» Levy said when asked to game out his chances here at the GOP convention.

Suffice to say that it looks like there will be a floor fight at the convention, and it very well could be every member for him and her self.

But the fight over the decision was a public one, and ended in a humiliation for the governor, who was forced to appear in a hostage - like video at the convention, in which he reluctantly acceded to the WFP's demands.

At the same time, a video shown at the Democratic convention last week featured prominent labor leaders from influential unions like 1199 SEIU and 32BJ endorsing CuomAt the same time, a video shown at the Democratic convention last week featured prominent labor leaders from influential unions like 1199 SEIU and 32BJ endorsing Cuomat the Democratic convention last week featured prominent labor leaders from influential unions like 1199 SEIU and 32BJ endorsing Cuomo.

Collins, like some candidates in close races, chose to stay home and focus on the local campaigning (Brooks, a Republican Monroe County Executive who is challenging Rep. Louise Slaughter this November, indicated that being a delegate at the convention can be a help, too).

In this current demented state the truth damned and the facts pardoned like Cheney from common sense or attendance at the National Republican Convention.

Others are not, like a price tag that has been floated at $ 350 million, a number erroneously generated when the cost of the 1967 convention was adjusted twice for inflation.

Opponents, however, worry about activists using a convention to advance political causes like gun control or chip away at protections for abortion.

Clinton spent the week in East Timor; Joe Biden was busy with his vice presidential duties; and Andrew Cuomo, who had a Gillibrand - like schedule at the convention in 2000, only made a brief cameo for the New York delegation on Thursday morning.

Looks like Western New York Republicans will have a pretty prominent role in the at the GOP National Convention next month.

Because it was a compromise struck at the Constitutional Convention between the large colonies like Virginia and New York, and the smaller colonies like Connecticut and Rhode Island that all states would get an equal say in the Senate to prevent the large states from forcing their policies on the Smaller states.

And it raises a question that many have asked privately at the convention - how will a 6 - feet -6-inches tall executive of a city and former police chief handle sliding into the role of designated No. 2, especially with a strong principle like Cuomo?

Former Assemblyman and senior fellow at the Demos foundation, Richard Brodsky, says if there is another convention, it won't be motivated by concern about legislative ethics, but by social issues that people care more about, like schools, and pension benefits.

In a video showed at the W.F.P. convention last night, Cuomo expressed support for a number of key progressive initiatives, like allowing municipalities to raise their minimum wage, an issue he balked at previously.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

When absence would be too conspicuous or odd, like at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Cuomo danced along a line of fulfilling obligations without letting himself slide into narratives of 2016 ambition.

Trump Jr. — who scored high marks for his stand - out appearance at the Republican National Convention last week — said he «had a good time up there» and found it «exciting to be able to have a platform like that to speak my voice.

Special elections for state seats — like the one Gov. Andrew Cuomo scheduled in Harlem for May 23 — do not have an open primary: instead, the county committee, a panel of party insiders, selects who gets to run on the ballot line at a formal nominating convention.

Alicandro, like Langworthy, would like to avoid a primary but he has not ruled it out if he's not selected at the convention.

Op - Ed by Tom DePrisco NYS law mandates voters be asked every twenty years, or at other times, if they would like a Constitutional Convention.

What does it look like behind the scenes at a national political convention?